Inspired Capital

Inspired Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2019 and headquartered in New York, New York. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, specifically targeting seed and Series A funding rounds. Inspired Capital focuses on tech-advantaged and capital-efficient businesses across various sectors, including business products, consumer services, healthcare, information technology, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The firm aims to support exceptional entrepreneurs and their innovative ideas, providing investments of up to 15 million dollars to help these startups grow and succeed. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Inspired Capital is committed to fostering the development of transformative companies in the United States, Canada, the Americas, and Africa.

Kamran Ali

Principal

Mark Batsiyan

Co-Founder, COO and GeneralPartner

Chris Brown

Principal

Lucy Deland

General Partner

Ming Fang

Technology Venture Partner

Jonathan Frankle

Venture Partner

Claire Pan

Senior Associate

Charlotte Ross

Partner

Annie Shapiro

Vice President, Platform

Alexa Tobel

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

43 past transactions

CarmaCare

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of subscription-based automotive repair application intended for wear and tear of vehicles. The company offers features such as emergency roadside assistance, rental car reimbursement, repair guarantee, and others, enabling users to save money yearly on repair bills.

Scythe

Series B in 2023
Scythe Robotics, Inc. is a company based in Longmont, Colorado, that specializes in the development of autonomous robots. Established in 2017, Scythe focuses on creating highly intelligent machines designed to operate in unstructured outdoor environments. Their robots are emission-free and utilize electric motors, which allows them to effectively handle tasks such as mowing without damaging sensitive turf. This technology enables clients to work efficiently while minimizing their environmental impact.

QA Wolf

Venture Round in 2022
QA Wolf is a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs. The company's browser testing platform includes features such as video and logs debugging, email alerts, test creation, code conversion, one-click test running, deployment, and test failures summary, allowing clients to debug programs in an efficient and convenient manner.

Canvas Medical

Series B in 2022
Canvas Medical, Inc. is a software developer focused on the healthcare industry, specifically catering to primary care practices. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, the company offers the Canvas Primary Care Platform, which enhances patient-centered teamwork and streamlines clinical workflows. This platform features an intuitive interface that includes unified notes and orders, autocomplete functionalities, micro templates, and actionable health maintenance notifications. It also supports proactive panel management and comprehensive chart searches, enabling healthcare professionals to reduce paperwork and efficiently manage patient data. By consolidating medical histories in one digital device, Canvas Medical aims to improve the overall quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery.

Finix

Venture Round in 2022
Finix Payments, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides a payment infrastructure platform designed to help businesses manage and monetize their payment processes effectively. Founded in 2015, Finix offers a range of services, including a payment facilitator platform that includes features such as tokenization, merchant onboarding, reporting, reconciliation, settlements, and chargeback management. The company enables businesses to avoid the complexities and costs associated with developing an in-house payment system. Additionally, through a partnership with Visa, Finix facilitates real-time push-to-card payments, enhancing the efficiency of disbursements. Finix's solutions aim to improve the payment experience for both businesses and their customers, recognizing the critical role that effective payment technology plays in driving revenue.

Continual

Series A in 2022
Continual is the easiest way to maintain predictions – from customer churn to inventory forecasts – in your data warehouse. It's built for modern data teams that want to leverage machine learning to drive revenue, streamline operations, and power innovative products and services without complex engineering.

Habi

Series C in 2022
Habi operates a proprietary pricing algorithm and platform to simplify the homeownership lifecycle throughout Latin America. The company provides middle-class customers buy and sell their homes more quickly and efficiently, without the uncertainty of traditional real estate transactions. Habi was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia.

Chief

Series B in 2022
Chief is a private membership network dedicated to empowering women leaders, specifically those at the senior level, such as rising vice presidents and CEOs. The organization aims to facilitate the advancement of women into the C-suite and foster connections across various industries. Chief provides a range of resources, including sessions with industry icons, workshops, and personalized coaching, to support its members' professional growth. Through candid discussions and peer group interactions, women leaders can gain valuable insights and build a robust support system, enabling them to effect meaningful change from positions of power.

Kamino

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a financial platform designed to automate the company's accounts payable. The company's platform offers features such as automatic invoice capture, data extraction, approval workflows, and payment processing, all integrated into a single, cloud-based platform, enabling startups to streamline invoice processing, improve cash flow, and reduce errors.

Zaya Care

Seed Round in 2022
Zaya helps maternity care providers accept insurance thereby providing mothers with access to affordable quality care.

Rho

Series B in 2021
Rho Business Banking is a New York-based fintech startup that offers a digital banking platform tailored for high-growth companies and entrepreneurs. The platform integrates commercial banking, spend management, and growth capital into a unified service, enabling businesses to manage their financial operations effectively. Rho provides flexible checking accounts for everyday transactions and insured treasury management accounts for reserve capital. Its offerings include the ability to issue and control both physical and virtual corporate cards, allowing businesses to oversee spending across their teams. Through these services, Rho aims to accelerate growth for its clients by simplifying financial management and enhancing operational efficiency.

Nirvana Health

Seed Round in 2021
Nirvana Health, based in New York City and founded in 2020 by Kelvin Chan, provides an insurance intelligence platform designed to assist mental health care providers in managing complex insurance-related tasks. The company focuses on automating the processes involved in filing, managing, and following up on insurance claims, thereby allowing therapists to concentrate more on patient care. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Nirvana Health offers tools that facilitate coverage checks, client billing, payment plans, and reimbursement services, streamlining the financial management for providers. This comprehensive approach not only saves time and resources but also ensures that therapists can deliver reliable care without being hindered by administrative burdens.

Lean Financial

Seed Round in 2021
Lean Financial operates as a financial technology company.

Lean Financial

Seed Round in 2021
Lean Financial operates as a financial technology company.

Kalepa

Series A in 2021
Kalepa provides decision-support software specifically designed for commercial insurance underwriters. Its AI-driven platform, known as Copilot, enhances the underwriting process by analyzing vast amounts of structured and unstructured data, delivering insights and recommendations that allow underwriters to assess, select, and price risks more effectively. This technology empowers underwriters to focus on high-return opportunities, improving their efficiency and decision-making capabilities. By integrating both human expertise and artificial intelligence, Kalepa addresses critical challenges in the insurance industry, facilitating collaboration between insurers and businesses. This approach enables more accurate pricing and relevant coverage options for small and medium enterprises, ultimately streamlining the underwriting process.

CredCore Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2021
CredCore is a technology company that helps CFOs in North America manage complex large-scale debt lifecycle.

Orum

Series B in 2021
Orum is a financial technology company that provides a platform designed to facilitate real-time money movement and instant payment solutions. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, Orum leverages machine learning and proprietary data science to enhance financial transactions. Its flagship product, Foresight, is an automated programming interface that predicts fund availability and assesses transaction risks, allowing banks and financial institutions to move money instantaneously. By offering a single API integration, Orum enables businesses across various industries to embed its infrastructure, optimizing payment processes for speed, cost, and risk management. The company's innovative approach supports the development of new financial products while ensuring seamless transaction experiences.

Habi

Series B in 2021
Habi operates a proprietary pricing algorithm and platform to simplify the homeownership lifecycle throughout Latin America. The company provides middle-class customers buy and sell their homes more quickly and efficiently, without the uncertainty of traditional real estate transactions. Habi was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia.

Scythe

Series A in 2021
Scythe Robotics, Inc. is a company based in Longmont, Colorado, that specializes in the development of autonomous robots. Established in 2017, Scythe focuses on creating highly intelligent machines designed to operate in unstructured outdoor environments. Their robots are emission-free and utilize electric motors, which allows them to effectively handle tasks such as mowing without damaging sensitive turf. This technology enables clients to work efficiently while minimizing their environmental impact.

Orum

Series A in 2021
Orum is a financial technology company that provides a platform designed to facilitate real-time money movement and instant payment solutions. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, Orum leverages machine learning and proprietary data science to enhance financial transactions. Its flagship product, Foresight, is an automated programming interface that predicts fund availability and assesses transaction risks, allowing banks and financial institutions to move money instantaneously. By offering a single API integration, Orum enables businesses across various industries to embed its infrastructure, optimizing payment processes for speed, cost, and risk management. The company's innovative approach supports the development of new financial products while ensuring seamless transaction experiences.

Canvas Medical

Series A in 2021
Canvas Medical, Inc. is a software developer focused on the healthcare industry, specifically catering to primary care practices. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, the company offers the Canvas Primary Care Platform, which enhances patient-centered teamwork and streamlines clinical workflows. This platform features an intuitive interface that includes unified notes and orders, autocomplete functionalities, micro templates, and actionable health maintenance notifications. It also supports proactive panel management and comprehensive chart searches, enabling healthcare professionals to reduce paperwork and efficiently manage patient data. By consolidating medical histories in one digital device, Canvas Medical aims to improve the overall quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery.

Creative Juice

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a financial network intended to help digital content creators grow their content with assistance from leading creators and financial partners. The company's platform provides creators with access to funds that help them support each other and invest in their peers' businesses and offers a hookup that lets creators connect their accounts to its tools to get information about business valuation and other related matters, enabling clients to get financial backing and also an estimate of their projected revenues and the value of their business so that they can make informed decisions about how to grow it.

Maple

Seed Round in 2021
Maple is a family tech application that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance the quality of family interactions. Co-founded in 2020 by Michael Perry and Mike Taylor, the platform enables parents to create personalized daily and weekly plans tailored to their specific needs. By allowing parents to list tasks and seek assistance from others, Maple helps users manage their family responsibilities more efficiently while fostering social connections. Over time, the app provides increasingly intelligent recommendations, ensuring that it adapts to the evolving demands of family life.

Public

Series D in 2021
Public is a social investing network that enables individuals to buy public stocks with any investment amount while fostering community engagement. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the platform incorporates social features that allow users to connect with friends, follow trading professionals, and share their trading experiences on a social feed. This approach aims to make the stock market more accessible and interactive, promoting a collaborative investing environment. Public's innovative application offers free trading on stocks and funds, enhancing user experience and encouraging participation in financial markets.

Public

Series D in 2021
Public is a social investing network that enables individuals to buy public stocks with any investment amount while fostering community engagement. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the platform incorporates social features that allow users to connect with friends, follow trading professionals, and share their trading experiences on a social feed. This approach aims to make the stock market more accessible and interactive, promoting a collaborative investing environment. Public's innovative application offers free trading on stocks and funds, enhancing user experience and encouraging participation in financial markets.

Rho

Series A in 2021
Rho Business Banking is a New York-based fintech startup that offers a digital banking platform tailored for high-growth companies and entrepreneurs. The platform integrates commercial banking, spend management, and growth capital into a unified service, enabling businesses to manage their financial operations effectively. Rho provides flexible checking accounts for everyday transactions and insured treasury management accounts for reserve capital. Its offerings include the ability to issue and control both physical and virtual corporate cards, allowing businesses to oversee spending across their teams. Through these services, Rho aims to accelerate growth for its clients by simplifying financial management and enhancing operational efficiency.

Scythe

Venture Round in 2020
Scythe Robotics, Inc. is a company based in Longmont, Colorado, that specializes in the development of autonomous robots. Established in 2017, Scythe focuses on creating highly intelligent machines designed to operate in unstructured outdoor environments. Their robots are emission-free and utilize electric motors, which allows them to effectively handle tasks such as mowing without damaging sensitive turf. This technology enables clients to work efficiently while minimizing their environmental impact.

Saturn

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a calendar-based social software designed to connect communities around the calendar. The company's real-time calendar platform gives users an up-to-the-minute view of where they are in their day and their outstanding to-do's and helps them stay connected with their friends, classes, and groups and is currently rolling out in United States high schools, enabling users to be more engaged in their communities and spend more time with the people around them.

Kettle

Seed Round in 2020
Kettle Inc. is an innovative company based in Kensington, California, specializing in online risk analysis for the insurance industry. Founded in 2020, Kettle develops a machine-learning powered platform that utilizes deep learning algorithms to analyze over seven billion lines of satellite, weather, and ground truth data. By employing Swarm Neural Networks, the platform identifies patterns that enhance the accuracy of risk predictions related to climate change, thereby assisting insurers in managing catastrophic risks. Kettle's approach aims to improve underwriting processes and reduce loss ratios, enabling the sale of reinsurance to other insurers while effectively balancing risk in an evolving climate landscape.

Paytient

Venture Round in 2020
Paytient Technologies, Inc. is an innovative company that provides a financial platform designed to alleviate the burden of out-of-pocket healthcare expenses for employees. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, Paytient offers an employer-sponsored payment solution that allows employees to address medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, and veterinary bills. By utilizing the Paytient card, employees can pay these expenses upfront and then repay the amount through interest-free, payroll-deducted payment plans over a set number of pay periods. This approach helps to reduce financial anxiety associated with high-deductible health plans, enabling employees to access necessary care without the stress of immediate out-of-pocket costs.

Habi

Series A in 2020
Habi operates a proprietary pricing algorithm and platform to simplify the homeownership lifecycle throughout Latin America. The company provides middle-class customers buy and sell their homes more quickly and efficiently, without the uncertainty of traditional real estate transactions. Habi was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia.

Orum

Seed Round in 2020
Orum is a financial technology company that provides a platform designed to facilitate real-time money movement and instant payment solutions. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, Orum leverages machine learning and proprietary data science to enhance financial transactions. Its flagship product, Foresight, is an automated programming interface that predicts fund availability and assesses transaction risks, allowing banks and financial institutions to move money instantaneously. By offering a single API integration, Orum enables businesses across various industries to embed its infrastructure, optimizing payment processes for speed, cost, and risk management. The company's innovative approach supports the development of new financial products while ensuring seamless transaction experiences.

FleetOps

Seed Round in 2020
FleetOps is a freight marketplace based in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2014. The company has developed an application that connects freight from brokers and shippers, automating the allocation of loads to truck drivers. By leveraging data from telematics providers, FleetOps gathers extensive information on vehicle locations, typical routes, idle times, and driver behavior. This data is processed using AI and machine learning algorithms to identify the most suitable loads for each driver. Drivers interact with the system through a mobile application, which is required for compliance with electronic logging device regulations. In addition to facilitating load matching, FleetOps provides tailored analytics and key performance indicators specific to carrier trucking operations, enhancing efficiency and decision-making in logistics.

Chief

Venture Round in 2020
Chief is a private membership network dedicated to empowering women leaders, specifically those at the senior level, such as rising vice presidents and CEOs. The organization aims to facilitate the advancement of women into the C-suite and foster connections across various industries. Chief provides a range of resources, including sessions with industry icons, workshops, and personalized coaching, to support its members' professional growth. Through candid discussions and peer group interactions, women leaders can gain valuable insights and build a robust support system, enabling them to effect meaningful change from positions of power.

Finix

Series B in 2020
Finix Payments, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides a payment infrastructure platform designed to help businesses manage and monetize their payment processes effectively. Founded in 2015, Finix offers a range of services, including a payment facilitator platform that includes features such as tokenization, merchant onboarding, reporting, reconciliation, settlements, and chargeback management. The company enables businesses to avoid the complexities and costs associated with developing an in-house payment system. Additionally, through a partnership with Visa, Finix facilitates real-time push-to-card payments, enhancing the efficiency of disbursements. Finix's solutions aim to improve the payment experience for both businesses and their customers, recognizing the critical role that effective payment technology plays in driving revenue.

Finix

Series B in 2020
Finix Payments, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides a payment infrastructure platform designed to help businesses manage and monetize their payment processes effectively. Founded in 2015, Finix offers a range of services, including a payment facilitator platform that includes features such as tokenization, merchant onboarding, reporting, reconciliation, settlements, and chargeback management. The company enables businesses to avoid the complexities and costs associated with developing an in-house payment system. Additionally, through a partnership with Visa, Finix facilitates real-time push-to-card payments, enhancing the efficiency of disbursements. Finix's solutions aim to improve the payment experience for both businesses and their customers, recognizing the critical role that effective payment technology plays in driving revenue.

Dandy

Venture Round in 2020
Operator of the digital dental platform designed to modernize the dental lab process. The company offers a custom ordering and fulfillment platform that streamlines operations and lets owners view order progression all in one place, enabling users to book appointments in real-time and view their treatment plans making the entire process effortlessly digital from start to finish.

Rho

Seed Round in 2019
Rho Business Banking is a New York-based fintech startup that offers a digital banking platform tailored for high-growth companies and entrepreneurs. The platform integrates commercial banking, spend management, and growth capital into a unified service, enabling businesses to manage their financial operations effectively. Rho provides flexible checking accounts for everyday transactions and insured treasury management accounts for reserve capital. Its offerings include the ability to issue and control both physical and virtual corporate cards, allowing businesses to oversee spending across their teams. Through these services, Rho aims to accelerate growth for its clients by simplifying financial management and enhancing operational efficiency.

Umbrella

Seed Round in 2019
Umbrella, Inc. is a Brooklyn-based company that offers home maintenance services on a membership basis, catering primarily to senior citizens. Founded in 1995, the company provides a range of services designed to assist with everyday home chores and maintenance. These services include home repair, seasonal tasks, plumbing, and cleaning, along with specific tasks such as carpentry, light fixture changes, and air conditioner installation. Umbrella's task management platform connects seniors with community members who can perform small, temporary jobs, thereby enabling older adults to maintain their independence and continue living comfortably in their own homes.

Chief

Series A in 2019
Chief is a private membership network dedicated to empowering women leaders, specifically those at the senior level, such as rising vice presidents and CEOs. The organization aims to facilitate the advancement of women into the C-suite and foster connections across various industries. Chief provides a range of resources, including sessions with industry icons, workshops, and personalized coaching, to support its members' professional growth. Through candid discussions and peer group interactions, women leaders can gain valuable insights and build a robust support system, enabling them to effect meaningful change from positions of power.

Geneva

Seed Round in 2019
Geneva is an early-stage startup based in New York City that offers a comprehensive group chat application designed to facilitate community building. The app allows users to engage in real-time conversations through text, voice, and video, while also providing features such as private chat rooms, event invitations, and flexible polls. Users can create a dedicated space for their group, known as a Home, and set up various rooms for different discussion topics. With additional functionalities like configurable notifications, replies, reactions, and the ability to share photos and GIFs, Geneva enhances social interaction and feedback among its users. The company was founded by Justin Hauser.

Kindur

Series A in 2018
Kindur Services Inc., operating as Kindur, is a financial technology company based in New York that focuses on assisting baby boomers in their retirement transition. Established in 2016, Kindur offers a platform designed to enhance financial wellness for retirees and their families. The platform manages various aspects of retirement finances, including savings, pensions, and social security, tailored to different phases of retirement. Kindur provides straightforward digital advice to help users understand their financial situation, covering savings, insurance, social security, and healthcare costs. By offering tools such as a personalized retirement paycheck, Kindur aims to empower individuals to navigate retirement with confidence and prepare for unforeseen expenses.

Silvur

Seed Round in 2018
Silvur is a retirement planning app that helps baby boomers reach their retirement goals. It provides those entering their second and third acts of life with a no-fear retirement plan, giving users the ability to improve their financial fitness over time.
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.