Drip Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Drip Labs is a technology company that facilitates the creation, distribution, and monetization of digital content, such as art, music, and videos, on a Web3 content distribution network. It empowers creators by simplifying the process of minting, selling, and managing digital assets, while providing fans with unique ways to support and engage with their favorite artists.
StayTuned
Series A in 2023
StayTuned Digital, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in providing content delivery services for content creators and high-growth e-commerce brands, particularly those utilizing Shopify. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to enhance growth by facilitating platform integrations, executing content marketing strategies, and analyzing performance across various content types and channels. With a focus on supporting e-commerce brands, StayTuned aims to empower its clients to achieve accelerated growth in a competitive market.
Founded in 2021, Oyster is a New York-based AI software company specializing in insurance. It connects customers, agencies, and carriers through an integrated digital platform that autonomously operates across the insurance value chain.
treet
Venture Round in 2022
Treet operates a peer-to-peer resale marketplace designed to assist apparel brands in adopting circular economy practices and managing their secondhand market. By providing a platform where customers can buy and sell used items directly with one another, Treet creates additional revenue opportunities for brands while enhancing customer loyalty. The company oversees all logistics and support, allowing brands to focus on their core business while benefiting from the resale experience. This approach enables e-commerce brands to promote sustainability and take ownership of their secondhand sales, transforming used products into valuable offerings that feel new to consumers.
Bounty is a web platform facilitating TikTok creators to monetize their brand reviews and recommendations. It enables users to earn cashback based on views and interactions, benefiting advertisers by collecting user-generated content.
Promoted.ai
Seed Round in 2022
Promoted unifies organic search, promotions, and ads in one optimized system for marketplaces. They sort your marketplace search and promote the best listings at the top to increase revenue.
Flyp is a platform that uses artificial intelligence and workflow automation to monetize used goods by organizing a decentralized network of online resellers who sell items for consumers and businesses on marketplaces such as eBay, Poshmark, and Facebook. The system pairs inventory with the most suitable resellers using historical sales data, enabling individuals such as stay-at-home parents, students, and small entrepreneurs to turn discarded items into cash. Flyp provides a free automation suite that handles inventory and multi-channel sales, dramatically reducing manual effort and enabling thousands of daily transactions. The approach aims to reduce landfill waste from the fashion and consumer goods industry while creating income and jobs, supporting a circular economy and broader environmental and economic benefits.
Rabot
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rabot develops AI-driven platforms that enhance visibility and automation in packing operations and workflows for businesses. Its tools aim to minimize repetitive tasks, improve worker efficiency, and ensure accurate order fulfillment.
Darkstore
Series A in 2021
Darkstore's mission is to make all of the world’s products accessible all over the world. It has created a micro-fulfillment center network consisting of over 800 micro-fulfillment centers leveraging excess capacity in its partners locations and enables the largest last mile delivery network in the US for its customers to leverage and offer 1-hour delivery directly on their website. Darkstore's customers are Nike, Adidas, Disney, Asurion and 600 other merchants it has enabled through its FastAF app. Darkstore has raised $45m+ in venture capital to date from PivotNorth Capital, EQT Ventures, Village Global, R/GA Ventures, Jay & Phil McGraw "Dr. Phil", Gary Fritz, President of Expedia, Gokul Rajaram, Lead at DoorDash, Scott Belsky, Founder of Behance, Bob Greenberg, Founder of R/GA, James Tamplin, Founder of Firebase and Chris Varelas, NextDoor Board Member and Founder of Riverwood Capital.
Promoted.ai
Seed Round in 2021
Promoted unifies organic search, promotions, and ads in one optimized system for marketplaces. They sort your marketplace search and promote the best listings at the top to increase revenue.
Salted
Venture Round in 2021
Salted is a platform focused on developing and scaling healthier quick-service restaurant brands. The company operates an online cooking tutorial platform that offers subscription-based virtual cooking classes. Subscribers can access a variety of cooking video tutorials via the Internet, allowing aspiring chefs and individuals to learn cooking in an engaging and convenient manner. By providing this digital learning experience, Salted aims to promote better culinary practices without the traditional overhead costs associated with physical restaurant operations.
Singuli
Venture Round in 2021
Singuli is a software-as-a-service optimization platform for modern retail designed to replace spreadsheets and legacy tools in merchandise planning. The platform uses real-time data and machine learning to deliver demand forecasting and inventory optimization, improving margins and working capital utilization. It offers integration with existing systems, supports omnichannel readiness, and provides forecasting and data capabilities that reduce uncertainty in assortment and planning, enabling retailers to manage inventory more effectively.
Flyp is a platform that uses artificial intelligence and workflow automation to monetize used goods by organizing a decentralized network of online resellers who sell items for consumers and businesses on marketplaces such as eBay, Poshmark, and Facebook. The system pairs inventory with the most suitable resellers using historical sales data, enabling individuals such as stay-at-home parents, students, and small entrepreneurs to turn discarded items into cash. Flyp provides a free automation suite that handles inventory and multi-channel sales, dramatically reducing manual effort and enabling thousands of daily transactions. The approach aims to reduce landfill waste from the fashion and consumer goods industry while creating income and jobs, supporting a circular economy and broader environmental and economic benefits.
Treet operates a peer-to-peer resale marketplace designed to assist apparel brands in adopting circular economy practices and managing their secondhand market. By providing a platform where customers can buy and sell used items directly with one another, Treet creates additional revenue opportunities for brands while enhancing customer loyalty. The company oversees all logistics and support, allowing brands to focus on their core business while benefiting from the resale experience. This approach enables e-commerce brands to promote sustainability and take ownership of their secondhand sales, transforming used products into valuable offerings that feel new to consumers.
Queenly
Seed Round in 2021
Queenly is an online marketplace and search engine specializing in the formalwear industry, catering to a diverse community of dress enthusiasts. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California, Queenly has quickly established itself as a leader in the market, boasting the largest inventory of formal dresses in the United States, surpassing traditional retailers like Macy’s, Rent the Runway, and Nordstrom. The platform addresses the needs of underserved segments such as prom, pageant, quinceañera, and wedding dress markets, offering a solution for high-priced, low-usage inventory. Queenly's features include a custom search function and flexible purchasing options, allowing users to buy and sell dresses at negotiable prices, thus enhancing accessibility and convenience for both buyers and sellers.
Zing
Venture Round in 2021
Zing is shaping the next generation of suburban commerce, by bringing the experience and convenience of a big city block to the suburbs - premium cafes, juice shops, dynamic retail and more.
Leveraging a fully digital experience, big data and smart algorithms, Zing’s network of premium mobile cafes makes suburbia walkable, and provides novel ways for neighbors to connect - bringing the community together.
Zing was founded in 2021 by serial entrepreneur Avishai Shoham and renowned chef patissier Tomer Zilkha, with the goal of adding magic to the suburban experience.
Alloy Automation
Seed Round in 2021
Alloy Automation is a no-code platform that facilitates the creation and management of integrations for various software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Launched in 2019, Alloy enables businesses to efficiently connect sales, marketing, customer support, and messaging applications while automating complex workflows without the need for coding. This approach allows companies to streamline operations, reduce manual tasks, and focus on growth. Alloy's platform is utilized by notable clients, including Amazon and Gorgias, to expedite the deployment of user-facing integrations, offering a significant advantage over in-house development. The company has received substantial backing from prominent investors, including a16z and Y Combinator.
Shipped
Seed Round in 2021
Shipped is the first fully branded universal order center - a one-stop 360 customer experience enabling instant resolution of any order issue, all in one place.
Olive is dedicated to transforming online shopping into a more sustainable and hassle-free experience. The company operates a technology platform that focuses on eco-friendly delivery services, aiming to eliminate single-use packaging from e-commerce. By partnering with various retailers, Olive offers consolidated cardboard-free deliveries using secure, reusable shippers. This innovative approach not only enhances convenience for customers but also significantly reduces waste and carbon emissions associated with traditional online shopping. Returns are made straightforward through the Olive app, allowing users to request pickups with a single click and easily return items in the reusable packaging. Overall, Olive strives to create a marketplace that prioritizes sustainability while improving the online shopping experience.
Ravacan
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Ravacan is a software company that specializes in purchasing and procurement solutions for commodity and supply managers. Its platform provides a centralized tool for analyzing costs and managing suppliers, facilitating the identification of suitable suppliers and addressing supply chain disruptions. Additionally, Ravacan's software automates repetitive tasks, enhances demand forecasting, and aids in product costing and ROI calculations. By streamlining these processes, Ravacan enables global supply and commodity managers to reduce costs and improve productivity in their operations.
Promoted.ai
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Promoted unifies organic search, promotions, and ads in one optimized system for marketplaces. They sort your marketplace search and promote the best listings at the top to increase revenue.
Singuli
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Singuli is a software-as-a-service optimization platform for modern retail designed to replace spreadsheets and legacy tools in merchandise planning. The platform uses real-time data and machine learning to deliver demand forecasting and inventory optimization, improving margins and working capital utilization. It offers integration with existing systems, supports omnichannel readiness, and provides forecasting and data capabilities that reduce uncertainty in assortment and planning, enabling retailers to manage inventory more effectively.
Commerce.js
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Commerce.js is a developer of a modular eCommerce platform that focuses on simplifying and accelerating custom eCommerce development for developers and designers. The company offers headless, API-first backend tools that facilitate the creation of tailored online shopping experiences. By leveraging advanced technology, Commerce.js provides services that include headless architecture and seamless eCommerce software integration, allowing clients to maintain control over their brand narrative.
OTO Systems
Seed Round in 2019
OTO Systems Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing advanced software for real-time coaching of call center representatives during customer interactions. Founded in 2017 as a spin-off from SRI International, the company harnesses next-generation language processing voice technology to extract valuable insights from voice conversations. Its innovative platform combines words and intonation to enhance understanding and interaction quality. By leveraging artificial intelligence, OTO Systems enables businesses to provide hyper-personalized customer experiences at scale, recommending real-time actions for call center agents to improve engagement and effectiveness.
b8ta, Inc. is a retail company founded in 2015, originally known as Beta Retail, Inc. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and operates as a subsidiary of The Macerich Partnership, L.P. b8ta focuses on providing a unique retail experience that allows customers to discover, try, and learn about innovative technology products. The company employs a retail-as-a-service model that empowers product makers by giving them direct access to physical retail spaces. This approach facilitates a more interactive and engaging environment for customers, enabling them to experience new gadgets firsthand while supporting makers in showcasing their creations. By bridging the gap between makers and consumers, b8ta enhances the overall retail experience.
SelfMade, Inc. is a technology company based in New York that specializes in empowering individuals and brands to enhance their presence on social media through professional photo editing and strategic support. Founded in 2015, SelfMade operates a members-only app that utilizes artificial intelligence and proprietary technology to connect users with professional image editors and social media strategists. This platform allows users to transform their photos according to their brand identity and style, while also providing tools to develop growth strategies and manage posting schedules. By democratizing access to high-quality image editing and social media expertise, SelfMade enables clients to build compelling brands and expand their online following effectively and affordably.
Algopix
Seed Round in 2019
Algopix is an early-stage startup based in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, offering an end-to-end product market analysis platform for the global e-commerce industry. It provides brands, consumer packaged goods (CPGs), and marketplaces with real-time data-driven insights to optimize their online sales strategies. Algopix aggregates critical data points from global online marketplaces using proprietary algorithms, helping clients make informed decisions about pricing, promotions, and sourcing.