Impact Venture Capital

Impact Venture Capital is a first-time venture fund managed by seasoned general partners. The firm is headquartered in Northern California but has a global investment mandate. Impact Venture Capital works to invest alongside corporate venture groups in early stage information technology startups, with a focus on Telecom, Media, Civic Tech, Cyber Security, FinTech, and Data Analytics. Impact Venture Capital also manages the Entrepreneur’s Showcase Innovation Programs. These programs are designed to improve the local entrepreneurial ecosystem by igniting, accelerating, and capitalizing participating startups. These founders are building companies to address global challenges in the areas of clean energy, food and water, healthcare, and government. Dixon Doll (founder of DCM Partners and former chair of the NVCA), Eric Ball (former Treasurer of Oracle Corporation), and Jack Crawford (serial entrepreneur and founding partner of Velocity Venture Capital) serve as the firm’s General Partners. For more information, please visit: impactvc.com

Jonathan Carmel

Operating Partner

Yatish Mishra

Operating Partner

21 past transactions

TaskHuman

Series B in 2022
TaskHuman is a real-time digital coaching platform that offers 1-on-1 interactive sessions with live wellness coaches through video calls. With this platform, users can discover and connect with the world’s most comprehensive global network of coaches, instructors, and specialists covering over 1,000 aspects of one's well-being, such as physical fitness, mental well-being, spiritual, emotional, financial, career & leadership coaching, and more.

UMAMI Bioworks

Seed Round in 2022
UMAMI Bioworks is building the discovery and development platform for scalable production of cultivated seafood that keeps endangered, threatened, and protected (ETP) species in the ocean while providing consumers with sustainable seafood without compromises. Through systems engineering-led thinking, we will accelerate discovery and industrialization and enable local, price competitive, scale production of novel cell cultivation products with our automated, modular production system.

Cornami

Series C in 2022
CORMANI is a high performance computing (HPC) company that increases compute performance significantly, made possible by the development of its breakthrough and patented multi-core technology that efficiently uses heterogeneous cores in a highly concurrent, parallel manner. This technology will reduce the use of power sources and lower latency, while vastly increasing the compute performance of products and their ROI in a variety of markets, with the Company’s initial focus being Big Data.

Alef Aeronautics

Seed Round in 2021
Alef is a sustainable electric transportation company designing and developing a road-legal passenger vehicle capable of achieving vertical takeoff and forward flight. Alef’s goal is to enable faster, easier commutes and alleviate the burden of urban congestion thanks to proprietary technology that elevates their vehicle safely and quietly above everyday traffic. Alef Aeronautics was established in 2015 by Pavel Markin, Oleg Petrov, Jim Dukhovny, and Constantine Kisly in Santa Clara, California.

TaskHuman

Series A in 2021
TaskHuman is a real-time digital coaching platform that offers 1-on-1 interactive sessions with live wellness coaches through video calls. With this platform, users can discover and connect with the world’s most comprehensive global network of coaches, instructors, and specialists covering over 1,000 aspects of one's well-being, such as physical fitness, mental well-being, spiritual, emotional, financial, career & leadership coaching, and more.
Advanced Farm Technologies is a robotics company for the next frontier of farming. It offers strawberry harvesting services in the Oxnard, Santa Maria. and Watsonville areas. Its robots gently handle berries to avoid bruising and fruit damage. Advanced Farm Technologies was founded in Davis, California in 2017.

GigaIO

Series B in 2021
Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, GigaIO democratizes AI and HPC architectures by delivering the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). With its universal dynamic infrastructure fabric, FabreX™, and its innovative open architecture using industry-standard PCI Express/soon CXL technology, GigaIO breaks the constraints of the server box, liberating resources to shorten time to results. Data centers can scale up or scale out the performance of their systems, enabling their existing investment to flex as workloads and business change over time. For more information, contact info@gigaio.com or visit www.gigaio.com.

Aba

Venture Round in 2021
Aba develops products that reduce the burden of nursing care. Aba company has developed a device that can detect and record the excretion status of the care recipient, aiming to solve the mental and physical burden of the carer / care recipient by excretion sensing and pattern analysis.

Scaeva Technologies

Series A in 2020
From creators to consumers, Scaeva is redefining how people connect with audio, sound, and music for generations to come. Current sound creation and reproduction technologies are decades old. Most recently, the introduction of “spatial” or “3D” audio fails to deliver authentic spatial context. With its patented InSitu Sound (TM) technology, Scaeva is changing the foundations of sound and redefining how we listen, create and relate to content. SPATIAL CONTEXT IS CRITICAL for naturally immersive experiences. Without it VR, AR, music, home theater and gaming experiences are pale shadows of what they could be. Unlike 360, 3D, or binaural audio, InSitu Sound enables sound field shaping in any direction, at any depth, and doesn’t require specially recorded content to give listeners an immersive experience. InSitu Sound unlocks the acoustic context behind the source content, meaning you get the full depth of the audio experience the artist intended. The first Scaeva product has been in-market for over a year, with rave reviews. The Company is raising a Series A to ramp its commercialization growth. Investment differentiators include: * Multiple potential verticals * Series A proceeds devoted to growth, not mitigating burn * Multiple strategic exit scenarios

Syntegra

Seed Round in 2020
Syntegra applies state-of-the-art machine learning models to create validated, synthetic data derivatives of health care data that match all of the statistical properties of the underlying data, but guaranteed to contain none of the original data, and cleared of privacy issues. Healthcare systems and data aggregators are forced to impose ever greater barriers to clinical data access. Syntegra is unique in developing a very large, open-access data platform of high quality, patient-level real-world data, trained using modern machine learning methods on health system information. Users can leverage our platform to conduct analytics, building predictive models, generating synthetic control groups for clinical trials and more. Since training is done on data at rest, and only deep learning model parameters are sent from the Syntegra API to the Syntegra servers, there is no risk of identifiable personal information leaving our secure platform. To satisfy health system security teams and end-users, numerous methods of validation, leak-testing and benchmarking are applied to the data derivatives before they pierce the health system’s firewall. Syntegra’s solution is scalable, and usable across many types of data, from images to financial information to sensor streams, will be securely added to our data lake over time. The company is led by a team of extraordinary serial entrepreneurs and university faculty with deep knowledge in medicine and data science.

TaskHuman

Series A in 2020
TaskHuman is a real-time digital coaching platform that offers 1-on-1 interactive sessions with live wellness coaches through video calls. With this platform, users can discover and connect with the world’s most comprehensive global network of coaches, instructors, and specialists covering over 1,000 aspects of one's well-being, such as physical fitness, mental well-being, spiritual, emotional, financial, career & leadership coaching, and more.

ScoreData Corporation

Series A in 2020
ScoreData helps businesses leverage their data to dramatically improve the quality of their engagement with their customers. ScoreData's ScoreFast™platform allows business managers and data scientists to work together to deploy the most robust predictive applications. The applications have a unique self-learning capability, which obviates the need to rebuild the predictive applications as new data becomes available. Not only do the predictive applications learn over time, but they are also shown to be robust, and thus you have the lowest cost of ownership for predictive applications in the industry. Applications built with ScoreFast can be deployed across multiple touch-points such as in-store, mobile, web, kiosk, chatbots, or cloud-contact centers. ScoreData solutions have been used by some of the largest companies in the world.

Scaeva Technologies

Series A in 2020
From creators to consumers, Scaeva is redefining how people connect with audio, sound, and music for generations to come. Current sound creation and reproduction technologies are decades old. Most recently, the introduction of “spatial” or “3D” audio fails to deliver authentic spatial context. With its patented InSitu Sound (TM) technology, Scaeva is changing the foundations of sound and redefining how we listen, create and relate to content. SPATIAL CONTEXT IS CRITICAL for naturally immersive experiences. Without it VR, AR, music, home theater and gaming experiences are pale shadows of what they could be. Unlike 360, 3D, or binaural audio, InSitu Sound enables sound field shaping in any direction, at any depth, and doesn’t require specially recorded content to give listeners an immersive experience. InSitu Sound unlocks the acoustic context behind the source content, meaning you get the full depth of the audio experience the artist intended. The first Scaeva product has been in-market for over a year, with rave reviews. The Company is raising a Series A to ramp its commercialization growth. Investment differentiators include: * Multiple potential verticals * Series A proceeds devoted to growth, not mitigating burn * Multiple strategic exit scenarios

Infinadeck

Seed Round in 2019
The Infinadeck is the world's first commercially available omnidirectional treadmill designed to be integrated with virtual reality. This revolutionary device provides the missing link making it now possible to have a true Holodeck experience.

AWM Smart Shelf

Series A in 2019
AWM Smart Shelf reinvents the online experience for the in-store market place. The company's mission is to be the comprehensive solution that powers the digital retail transformation by reducing waste and carbon footprint, providing new revenue via on-shelf ad sales, improving operational efficiencies, and boosting margin and product sold. This is done through innovative hardware and software which utilize AI and computer vision to understand and interact with the retail environment in ways never before possible. Founded by Emad Mirgoli, Kevin B. Howard, and Kurtis S. Van Horn in 2016, AWM Smart Shelf is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California.

Chikaku

Series B in 2019
Chikaku is a service that automatically sends photos and videos taken with smartphones to your home TV without any hassle.
Advanced Farm Technologies is a robotics company for the next frontier of farming. It offers strawberry harvesting services in the Oxnard, Santa Maria. and Watsonville areas. Its robots gently handle berries to avoid bruising and fruit damage. Advanced Farm Technologies was founded in Davis, California in 2017.

Airlinq

Series A in 2019
Airlinq powers the next generation enterprise-grade cloud and edge platform to handle complex AI and IoT use cases around smart mobility and ecosystem monetization for automakers, mobile network operators, and consumers around the world. This highly scalable, globally available platform is ready to support millions of connected assets and vehicles with mission-critical latency, security, and reliability.

Pondera Solutions

Series A in 2017
Pondera Solutions was founded in 2011 with the singular focus of leveraging the power of cloud computing and advanced analytics to combat fraud, waste, and abuse in large government programs. Since that time, They have helped Their clients prevent and collect hundreds of millions of dollars in improper payments. Pondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse. Their system combines your program data with third party consumer and business data and then runs every business, beneficiary, and transaction through a series of procedural and prediction models.

Nightingale Security

Seed Round in 2016
Nightingale Security is a fully-autonomous drone solution with proprietary drone-infrastructure technology and a first mover advantage in aerial robotic security. Our business plans are bold and our commitment to success is unwavering. Through research, trial and error, and a blue-collar work ethic we created an amazing product and validated the business. Our healthy sales pipeline is filled with Fortune 500 clients excited about deploying our service and realizing the immediate and tangible benefits.

Cornami

Series B in 2016
CORMANI is a high performance computing (HPC) company that increases compute performance significantly, made possible by the development of its breakthrough and patented multi-core technology that efficiently uses heterogeneous cores in a highly concurrent, parallel manner. This technology will reduce the use of power sources and lower latency, while vastly increasing the compute performance of products and their ROI in a variety of markets, with the Company’s initial focus being Big Data.
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