Kapor Capital

Kapor Capital is a venture capital firm based in Oakland, California, that specializes in investments in seed and early-stage companies. Established in 2009, it focuses on tech-driven startups that address critical social needs across various sectors, including education, health, fintech, and consumer finance. The firm is dedicated to supporting companies that prioritize diversity and aims to close gaps in access and opportunity through innovative solutions. Kapor Capital does not engage in philanthropic grants but seeks to generate positive social impact through its investments. The firm recognizes the transformative potential of startups and the role of diverse teams in fostering meaningful change within industries.

Adam Aguilera

Associate

Greg Bennett

Principal

Alex Chen

Principal

Brian Dixon

Managing Partner

Batul Joffrey

Associate

Mitchell Kapor

Founding Partner

Freada Kapor Klein

Founding Partner

Ulili Onovakpuri

Partner

Esther Tricoche

Investor

251 past transactions

Scene Health

Series B in 2023
Scene Health is a mobile health company that focuses on improving patient engagement and medication adherence through innovative technology. Utilizing a smartphone application, patients can video record themselves taking their medication, which allows healthcare providers to assess adherence and interact with patients via a secure web portal. The platform is designed to support various healthcare sectors, including public health departments, clinical trials, hospitals, and managed care organizations, particularly for patients with conditions such as tuberculosis, opioid use disorder, hepatitis C, and diabetes. Scene Health offers customizable reporting to care teams, providing insights from daily video submissions to enhance patient care. The platform is multilingual, functions offline, and has been shown in an NIH-funded study by Johns Hopkins to achieve an average medication adherence rate of 94 percent among participants. Founded in 2008 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, Scene Health continues to advance its mission of empowering patients through technology.

Blokable

Funding Round in 2023
Blokable, Inc. manufactures pre-fabricated steel frame modular housing units for developers in the United States. Its units are used for residential, retail, and mixed-use projects. Blokable, Inc. was formerly known as Bloakable, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Simple HealthKit

Series A in 2023
Simple HealthKit provides diagnostic healthcare services. They offer tests on covid, sexually transmitted diseases, and wellness tests. They provide services for education, retail, and providers.

Welcome

Series A in 2022
Welcome is a virtual events platform that allows its users to create end-to-end virtual experiences. There are so many things that can go wrong in a virtual event. Mishaps that reflect directly on the company and the brand. Welcome is the only virtual event platform designed to make the event feel like it was made by a Hollywood studio. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Joonko

Venture Round in 2022
Joonko Diversity Inc. operates a platform designed to address bias within organizations by utilizing user data. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, Joonko's solution enables users to integrate various SaaS platforms, providing real-time insights into workplace bias as it occurs. The platform assists talent leaders by facilitating the receipt of qualified applications from a diverse and vetted candidate pool, which has been pre-approved by other leading companies. This approach not only streamlines the hiring process but also promotes inclusivity within the workplace.

Kinly

Series A in 2022
Kinly is a diverse financial technology company dedicated to meeting the specific needs of African-Americans and their allies.

Cayaba Care

Series A in 2022
Cayaba Care is a maternal health company offering community-based clinical services via technology-enabled multidisciplinary care teams.

Promise

Series B in 2022
Promise Network Inc. is a technology company that has developed an application platform aimed at providing holistic support to individuals involved in the criminal justice system. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Promise offers a range of services designed to reduce recidivism and foster safer communities. The platform includes intake and assessment tools for evaluating risks and needs, ongoing support for communication and service coordination, and supervision features that ensure transparency and accountability. By working with county governments, Promise provides a cost-effective alternative to incarceration for arrestees who cannot afford bail. The tailored plans offered to participants encompass court-mandated conditions and connections to essential services such as drug treatment, housing, mental health support, and job training, ultimately helping individuals achieve their goals and improve long-term outcomes.

Bootup

Seed Round in 2022
Bootup creates a marketplace for tech talent. Bootup's goal is to build tools to help bridge the gap between those looking for economic upward mobility and technology companies looking for strategies to solve for the impending talent crisis. We are excited to support all of the individuals looking to break into tech, the educators fueling their growth, and the enterprises who power the industry.

Curve Health

Series A in 2022
Curve Health, Inc. operates as an online platform that delivers senior care facilities by combining telemedicine, smart billing, health information exchange, and predictive analytics. The platform enables the physicians to remotely care for patients. The company offers skilled nursing facilities to take care of patients in the facility; and emergency medical services. Curve Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

Career Karma

Series B in 2022
Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. Over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching. By offering free coaching and peer mentorship, Career Karma has grown to over 150,000 members from every background and profession. Through its directory of 9,000 boot camps and trade schools, career switchers discover training programs by comparing courses and reading student reviews. The Career Karma mobile app makes your decision even easier. In the app, you can connect with current students and alumni to find your ideal program and get prepared for admission.

Searchlight

Series A in 2021
Searchlight is a San Francisco-based company that has developed a modern platform for automated reference checks aimed at enhancing talent assessment. Founded by Kerry Wang and Anna Wang, the platform addresses the challenges candidates face in distinguishing themselves through their resumes by leveraging insights from individuals who have previously worked with them. Searchlight's technology combines reference data with predictive analysis to identify top performers, utilizing an algorithm that analyzes and summarizes feedback from references. By inviting references to share contextualized work experiences through a custom online link, the platform enables recruiters to better assess candidate-position compatibility, ultimately improving the recruitment process.

TomoCredit

Series A in 2021
TomoCredit LLC, established in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, focuses on providing innovative credit solutions tailored for Millennials, particularly those with no credit history or credit score. The company manufactures electronic smart and credit cards that enable users to build credit and qualify for loans by utilizing a proprietary algorithm to analyze alternative data sources. In addition to its credit card offerings, TomoCredit has developed a mobile application that allows users to manage their accounts effectively. The founding team, composed of immigrant founders, aims to address the challenges faced by foreign nationals in accessing credit, drawing on their backgrounds from notable institutions such as Coinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund, and Google, as well as prestigious educational establishments like MIT and UC Berkeley.

Binti

Series B in 2021
Binti, Inc. operates a comprehensive online platform designed to assist parents in navigating the adoption process. Founded in 2013 and based in Oakland, California, the company addresses the significant barriers that prospective adoptive parents face, such as high costs and complex administrative requirements. Binti provides tools for completing home study paperwork and connects users to a network of reputable social workers and agencies for home visits. The platform also offers resources for international adoption and financing options. By streamlining the adoption journey, Binti aims to increase the number of qualified parents who can successfully adopt, ultimately working toward a vision where every child has a loving family.

Cayaba Care

Seed Round in 2021
Cayaba Care is a maternal health company offering community-based clinical services via technology-enabled multidisciplinary care teams.

Numerade

Series A in 2021
Numerade are singularly focused on creating exceptional video and interactive content experiences for education making the knowledge and skills of world class educators widely accessible and affordable to student audiences of all backgrounds. Numerade mission is to close the educational opportunity gap by unlocking and democratizing access to extraordinary educators and the content they have to offer.

Kai XR

Seed Round in 2021
Kai XR develops inclusive mixed reality spaces allowing children to explore, dream, and create. Its educational resources provide educators, parents, and life-long learners a path to become early adopters of mixed reality. Kai XR's videos send children on a field trip to a museum without the price of admission and never having to leave the classroom. The company will launch it’s new kid-friendly virtual reality platform to the public in Spring 2020.

Scene Health

Series A in 2021
Scene Health is a mobile health company that focuses on improving patient engagement and medication adherence through innovative technology. Utilizing a smartphone application, patients can video record themselves taking their medication, which allows healthcare providers to assess adherence and interact with patients via a secure web portal. The platform is designed to support various healthcare sectors, including public health departments, clinical trials, hospitals, and managed care organizations, particularly for patients with conditions such as tuberculosis, opioid use disorder, hepatitis C, and diabetes. Scene Health offers customizable reporting to care teams, providing insights from daily video submissions to enhance patient care. The platform is multilingual, functions offline, and has been shown in an NIH-funded study by Johns Hopkins to achieve an average medication adherence rate of 94 percent among participants. Founded in 2008 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, Scene Health continues to advance its mission of empowering patients through technology.

CareCar

Seed Round in 2021
B2B2C NEMT Marketplace Platform

Ethic

Series B in 2021
Ethic operates as a tech-driven asset manager that powers the creation of investment portfolios. It builds separately managed accounts (SMAs) optimized to track the market, align with one’s investment allocation, and outperform on a client’s chosen sustainability criteria. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

ChargerHelp!

Seed Round in 2021
ChargerHelp! operates at the intersection of clean technology and workforce development. ChargerHelp!'s app-based dispatch and deployment system solves the industry-wide problem of down electric vehicle charging stations by providing on-demand repairs and maintenance support from trained and supported local workforces. This capability, provided at scale, is essential to support the exponential growth in EV charging infrastructure over the next decade, and it dramatically improves efficiency, turnaround time, and network availability while reducing costs across the networks. With the ChargerHelp! service offering, partner EV charging network operators can meet new service level requirements and win new EVSE contracts to meet the exponential growth in charging demands. The ChargerHelp! app is launched, technicians are in the field in its first market, and they've secured contracts with several large EVSE networks.

Bitwise Industries

Series B in 2021
Bitwise Industries Inc. is a technology ecosystem company based in Fresno, California, founded in 2013. It aims to advance the local technology landscape by focusing on education, software development, and collaborative workspaces. Through its Geekwise Academy, Bitwise offers accelerated coding programs designed to equip individuals of all backgrounds with essential technology skills, particularly targeting marginalized groups. The company also operates Shift3 Technologies, a custom software development firm that pairs experienced professionals with entry-level programmers to create software solutions. Additionally, Bitwise provides physical spaces for technologists and technology companies, including collaborative work environments and tech venues, fostering a community for innovation and growth. New projects, such as Bitwise|41 and Bitwise State Center Warehouse, are currently under development to further enhance its offerings.

BlocPower

Series A in 2021
BlocPower is an energy technology startup based in Los Angeles, California, focused on providing solar power and energy efficiency solutions. The company aims to reduce energy bills for a diverse clientele, including churches, schools, small businesses, non-profits, and homeowners. By upgrading buildings to be smarter and more environmentally friendly, BlocPower addresses climate challenges while improving the overall health and efficiency of these spaces. The company's platform connects various stakeholders, such as governments, utilities, building owners, lenders, contractors, and providers of smart equipment, to facilitate the development of greener, healthier buildings.

Promise

Series A in 2021
Promise Network Inc. is a technology company that has developed an application platform aimed at providing holistic support to individuals involved in the criminal justice system. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Promise offers a range of services designed to reduce recidivism and foster safer communities. The platform includes intake and assessment tools for evaluating risks and needs, ongoing support for communication and service coordination, and supervision features that ensure transparency and accountability. By working with county governments, Promise provides a cost-effective alternative to incarceration for arrestees who cannot afford bail. The tailored plans offered to participants encompass court-mandated conditions and connections to essential services such as drug treatment, housing, mental health support, and job training, ultimately helping individuals achieve their goals and improve long-term outcomes.

Driver Technologies

Venture Round in 2021
Driver is a hardware-free mobile app that allows users to video record their trip while receiving alerts when they are at risk of hitting another car or pedestrian, drifting out of their lane, falling asleep or getting too distracted - all for free. The app will also enable users to control their phone with their voice in order to enable safe consumption of original and partnership-based: entertainment, news, communications, traffic and augmented reality navigation.

Planet FWD

Seed Round in 2020
Planet FWD is a San Francisco-based company focused on producing snacks made from regenerative ingredients aimed at reducing carbon emissions in the food system. By sourcing from farmers who employ carbon-capturing practices, the company not only supports sustainable agriculture but also promotes the use of climate-friendly products. Additionally, Planet FWD operates a regenerative food platform that connects brands and consumers interested in creating and consuming environmentally responsible products. Its commitment to sustainability extends to using compostable packaging, further enabling consumers to minimize their carbon footprint.

Elation Health

Series C in 2020
Elation Health, Inc. develops a provider-centric electronic health records platform designed to enhance the physician-patient relationship. Founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, the company focuses on delivering clinical-first solutions that assist independent primary care practices in managing operations and minimizing administrative burdens. Its platform enables healthcare providers to effectively communicate with patients, who can also access a secure website to manage their health. With a commitment to empowering primary care clinicians, Elation Health supports over 14,000 clinicians in delivering personalized care to approximately 7 million Americans. The company, previously known as ElationEMR Inc., rebranded in August 2016 to reflect its broader focus on improving primary care quality.

Planet FWD

Seed Round in 2020
Planet FWD is a San Francisco-based company focused on producing snacks made from regenerative ingredients aimed at reducing carbon emissions in the food system. By sourcing from farmers who employ carbon-capturing practices, the company not only supports sustainable agriculture but also promotes the use of climate-friendly products. Additionally, Planet FWD operates a regenerative food platform that connects brands and consumers interested in creating and consuming environmentally responsible products. Its commitment to sustainability extends to using compostable packaging, further enabling consumers to minimize their carbon footprint.

Career Karma

Series A in 2020
Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. Over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching. By offering free coaching and peer mentorship, Career Karma has grown to over 150,000 members from every background and profession. Through its directory of 9,000 boot camps and trade schools, career switchers discover training programs by comparing courses and reading student reviews. The Career Karma mobile app makes your decision even easier. In the app, you can connect with current students and alumni to find your ideal program and get prepared for admission.

Aclima

Series B in 2020
Aclima Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks to measure and analyze air pollution and greenhouse gases. Established in 2007, Aclima combines advanced sensor technology, climate science, enterprise software, and machine learning to deliver hyperlocal air quality data at a block-by-block resolution. Its solutions generate real-time streaming data that allows for the creation of high-resolution maps of emissions, covering various pollutants such as CO2, methane, and particulate matter. Aclima's technology is aimed at commercial and government sectors, providing actionable insights that help communities and industries manage their environmental impact. Recognized as a 2017 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and featured in the 2018 Global Cleantech 100, Aclima's mission focuses on improving public health and planetary well-being through enhanced environmental intelligence.

Encantos

Seed Round in 2020
Encantos Media Studios is an entertainment and educational company based in Culver City, California, with additional offices in Los Angeles and New York. Founded in 2015, Encantos creates a diverse range of content, including apps, books, toys, and videos, aimed at empowering creatives to tell their stories. The company connects children with skilled storytellers through an online platform designed to teach essential 21st-century skills. Encantos has garnered recognition through numerous awards and accolades from prestigious organizations such as CNN, Forbes, and The New York Times, highlighting its commitment to quality educational content and innovation in children's media.

Welcome

Series A in 2020
Welcome is a virtual events platform that allows its users to create end-to-end virtual experiences. There are so many things that can go wrong in a virtual event. Mishaps that reflect directly on the company and the brand. Welcome is the only virtual event platform designed to make the event feel like it was made by a Hollywood studio. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Curve Health

Seed Round in 2020
Curve Health, Inc. operates as an online platform that delivers senior care facilities by combining telemedicine, smart billing, health information exchange, and predictive analytics. The platform enables the physicians to remotely care for patients. The company offers skilled nursing facilities to take care of patients in the facility; and emergency medical services. Curve Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

Curve Health

Seed Round in 2020
Curve Health, Inc. operates as an online platform that delivers senior care facilities by combining telemedicine, smart billing, health information exchange, and predictive analytics. The platform enables the physicians to remotely care for patients. The company offers skilled nursing facilities to take care of patients in the facility; and emergency medical services. Curve Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

Edlyft

Seed Round in 2020
Edlyft, founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California, is a paid support platform designed to assist college students and adult learners in computer science courses. The company connects students with inclusive mentors and provides online group tutoring, alongside resources to help navigate challenging subjects. Edlyft focuses on creating a supportive learning environment through a network of tutors and peer support, enhancing the educational experience for those studying computer science.

Zero Grocery

Seed Round in 2020
Zero Grocery Inc. is an online grocery retailer based in Redwood City, California, that specializes in a subscription-based delivery service focused on sustainability. Founded in 2019, the company aims to eliminate single-use plastics from the food supply chain by offering groceries in reusable packaging. This approach not only provides convenience for customers but also promotes a zero-waste lifestyle, aligning with growing consumer demand for environmentally friendly practices in grocery shopping.

PadSplit

Series A in 2020
PadSplit is an affordable housing tech startup that provides a house-sharing service for the workforce. It offers a platform that aligns incentives among residents, property owners, and communities to make affordable housing possible for the private market. The company uses shared living to make housing more affordable for low-income, empowering them to build savings and transform their lives. Atticus LeBlanc established the company in Atlanta, Georgia in 2017.

Compaas

Seed Round in 2020
Compaas is a company that offers a Compensation Intelligence Platform designed to assist growing organizations in making informed decisions regarding employee compensation. Founded in 2017 by Lisa Dusseault and Bethanye Blount in San Francisco, the platform consolidates compensation data and provides analytics and strategy tools tailored for both startups and enterprise-level companies. By allowing users to forecast and observe real-time market trends, Compaas enables businesses to develop effective compensation strategies and manage their operating expenses more efficiently, ultimately enhancing communication with employees and minimizing potential errors in compensation management.

Bodyport

Series A in 2020
Bodyport Inc. manufactures sensor fitted weighing scales for cardiac patients. It offers Bodyport, a biomarker-driven virtual clinic for the prevention and management of heart disease. Its device measures blood pressure, heart rate, heart rate variability, arterial stiffness, and health assessment through a person’s feet. The company also provides online patient portal and educational materials. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Oula Health

Seed Round in 2020
Oula is redesigning maternity care from the ground up. Its modern maternity center combines the best of obstetrics and midwifery care to deliver a more evidence-based and personalized pregnancy experience. From its collaborative medical team, welcoming clinic, and remote care platform, we are setting a new standard for pregnancy that unifies modern medicine and human intuition. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Bridge Money

Seed Round in 2020
Bridge is a developer of a banking platform used to help achieve financial freedom. It aims to provide a path towards upward financial mobility for the millions of people left behind by the traditional banking system. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Planet FWD

Seed Round in 2020
Planet FWD is a San Francisco-based company focused on producing snacks made from regenerative ingredients aimed at reducing carbon emissions in the food system. By sourcing from farmers who employ carbon-capturing practices, the company not only supports sustainable agriculture but also promotes the use of climate-friendly products. Additionally, Planet FWD operates a regenerative food platform that connects brands and consumers interested in creating and consuming environmentally responsible products. Its commitment to sustainability extends to using compostable packaging, further enabling consumers to minimize their carbon footprint.

Encantos

Seed Round in 2020
Encantos Media Studios is an entertainment and educational company based in Culver City, California, with additional offices in Los Angeles and New York. Founded in 2015, Encantos creates a diverse range of content, including apps, books, toys, and videos, aimed at empowering creatives to tell their stories. The company connects children with skilled storytellers through an online platform designed to teach essential 21st-century skills. Encantos has garnered recognition through numerous awards and accolades from prestigious organizations such as CNN, Forbes, and The New York Times, highlighting its commitment to quality educational content and innovation in children's media.

Thalamus

Venture Round in 2019
Founded in December of 2013 and based in Santa Clara, California, Thalamus is the premiere, web-based, digital interviewing software specifically designed for application to graduate medical education (GME) training programs. Created by an anesthesiology residency applicant (now resident) and anesthesiology residency program director, Thalamus provides a comprehensive online interview reservation and travel experience via a real-time scheduling system – online and mobile. Whether on rounds in the hospital, studying for exams or traveling the country for interviews, residency and fellowship applicants may now instantaneously confirm their interview dates, take full control of their schedules and decrease their costs of travel. For program administrators, Thalamus streamlines communication by allowing applicants to self-schedule interviews, thereby eliminating unnecessary phone calls and emails. Thalamus handles all of the confirmations, cancellations, and rescheduling, so administrators can focus on the “personal touch” and optimize resident recruitment.

Joonko

Seed Round in 2019
Joonko Diversity Inc. operates a platform designed to address bias within organizations by utilizing user data. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, Joonko's solution enables users to integrate various SaaS platforms, providing real-time insights into workplace bias as it occurs. The platform assists talent leaders by facilitating the receipt of qualified applications from a diverse and vetted candidate pool, which has been pre-approved by other leading companies. This approach not only streamlines the hiring process but also promotes inclusivity within the workplace.

Saltbox

Seed Round in 2019
Saltbox, Inc. provides co-working and co-warehousing rental services. The company provides office spaces and private warehouse suites on rent to importers and exporters, distributors, and e-commerce operators. It also provides support services and facilities, including Wi-Fi, loading docks, warehouse equipment, mail services, a photography stage, conference rooms, enterprise security, temperature controlled environment, and common areas. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ginger

Series C in 2019
Ginger.io, Inc. operates a behavioral analytics platform that transforms mobile data into health insights, specifically focusing on mental healthcare. The platform provides users with instant access to evidence-based behavioral health coaching, therapy, and psychiatry through a smartphone application. This on-demand service connects behavioral health coaches, therapists, and psychiatrists to deliver personalized care around the clock. Users can collect and analyze both passive mobile sensor data and active patient-reported outcomes, allowing for the identification of behavioral patterns and novel findings. Ginger serves a diverse clientele, including researchers, physicians, healthcare providers, and millions of individuals through partnerships with leading employers and health plans. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Ginger is dedicated to enhancing mental health support.

Blokable

Series A in 2019
Blokable, Inc. manufactures pre-fabricated steel frame modular housing units for developers in the United States. Its units are used for residential, retail, and mixed-use projects. Blokable, Inc. was formerly known as Bloakable, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Ethic

Series A in 2019
Ethic operates as a tech-driven asset manager that powers the creation of investment portfolios. It builds separately managed accounts (SMAs) optimized to track the market, align with one’s investment allocation, and outperform on a client’s chosen sustainability criteria. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Career Karma

Seed Round in 2019
Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. Over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching. By offering free coaching and peer mentorship, Career Karma has grown to over 150,000 members from every background and profession. Through its directory of 9,000 boot camps and trade schools, career switchers discover training programs by comparing courses and reading student reviews. The Career Karma mobile app makes your decision even easier. In the app, you can connect with current students and alumni to find your ideal program and get prepared for admission.

SV Academy

Series A in 2019
SVAcademy is a 15-month business development apprenticeship paid for by employers. SVAcademy’s team has started and sold SaaS companies to Oracle and HP, hired and trained more than 400 SaaS sales reps, conducted admissions at Harvard, and coached more than 100,000 students across the country.

AnswersNow

Seed Round in 2019
AnswersNow, Inc. develops a mobile platform for parents and caregivers of autistic children. Its platform provides educational resources, behavioral learning tools, and on-call expert support. Its platform supports step-by-step learning process of the child; as well as enables saving, storing, and monitoring the child's progress. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Richmond, Virginia.

Homeroom

Seed Round in 2019
Homeroom is an all encompassing after school enrichment platform that allows school organizers, parents and vendors to organize, book and manage classes happening on their school site. From simplified registration, to tools that support your management all season long, Homeroom is the administrative assistant you've always dreamed of.

PadSplit

Seed Round in 2019
PadSplit is an affordable housing tech startup that provides a house-sharing service for the workforce. It offers a platform that aligns incentives among residents, property owners, and communities to make affordable housing possible for the private market. The company uses shared living to make housing more affordable for low-income, empowering them to build savings and transform their lives. Atticus LeBlanc established the company in Atlanta, Georgia in 2017.

MakeSchool

Series B in 2019
MakeSchool is an educational organization that offers a degree program designed to foster a direct connection between education and employment for high school graduates. It operates both online and offline platforms, providing essential services such as instructional support, curriculum development, and admissions assistance. By partnering with established universities, MakeSchool aims to create innovative college programs that remain relevant in today's economy. The organization focuses on enhancing accessibility to higher education for students from diverse backgrounds, ultimately preparing them for careers as software developers or startup founders.

AJUA

Series A in 2019
mSurvey is a mobile survey platform driving decision-making for businesses across the continent of Africa and the Caribbean. mSurvey works with some well-known brands across the world; reducing churn, improving customer service, and increasing their Net Promoter Score. We solve the problem of customer service to market research with a technology and team that have deep local reach. We open up communication lines between our customers, their employees, and their customers.

Daivergent

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Daivergent Inc. is a technology platform dedicated to supporting individuals with autism by integrating them into the remote workforce. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company provides services such as data entry, data enrichment, quality assurance, data validation, and training data generation. By matching companies with skilled adults on the autism spectrum, Daivergent enables organizations across various sectors, including artificial intelligence and healthcare, to fulfill data requests effectively while promoting inclusivity. This approach not only leverages the unique talents of individuals with autism but also addresses the growing demand for quality data services in today's economy.

Encantos

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Encantos Media Studios is an entertainment and educational company based in Culver City, California, with additional offices in Los Angeles and New York. Founded in 2015, Encantos creates a diverse range of content, including apps, books, toys, and videos, aimed at empowering creatives to tell their stories. The company connects children with skilled storytellers through an online platform designed to teach essential 21st-century skills. Encantos has garnered recognition through numerous awards and accolades from prestigious organizations such as CNN, Forbes, and The New York Times, highlighting its commitment to quality educational content and innovation in children's media.

Regalii

Series A in 2018
Arcus Financial Intelligence, Inc. operates an API platform designed for banks and financial institutions, focusing on managing consumer bills and financial data. Founded in 2012 and based in New York, the company provides real-time bill management and payment services, allowing users to understand their financial obligations, including the number of bills, amounts owed, and due dates. Initially established as a cross-border bill payment provider under the name Regalii, the company shifted its focus in 2016 to enhance bill payment data services in the domestic market, introducing products such as xData and xChange. Arcus has established partnerships with notable fintech mobile payment applications, including Santander and Walmart, enabling accessible payment solutions through its multi-rail payment platform. The company has successfully raised significant funding over the years, attracting investments from prominent venture capital firms and Y Combinator.

Ethic

Venture Round in 2018
Ethic operates as a tech-driven asset manager that powers the creation of investment portfolios. It builds separately managed accounts (SMAs) optimized to track the market, align with one’s investment allocation, and outperform on a client’s chosen sustainability criteria. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Court Buddy

Series A in 2018
The Court Buddy Company, Inc. provides an online platform that matches clients with attorneys for legal services based on the clients' needs, the attorneys' expertise and experience, and the clients' and attorneys' location in the United States. It offers Court Buddy that enables lawyers to offer civil, criminal defense, and business legal services to clients. The company’s Court Buddy is an online legal marketplace service that matches and manages relationships between clients and experienced attorneys for personal and business legal matters, including court appearances. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Worklete

Series A in 2018
Worklete reduces musculoskeletal injuries in transportation, shipping and logistics companies by 53% on average, saving them millions of dollars a year in injury-related costs. Its mobile-ready platform builds safe habits over time, strengthening safety culture while improving operational efficiency. Founded in 2015, Worklete’s customers include Nestlé Waters, Penske Logistics, and Hub Group Trucking. Worklete is headquartered in San Francisco and has secured $8M in funding from Trinity Ventures, Launch Capital, RiverPark Ventures, and Kapor Capital. To learn more, visit http://worklete.com/.

Five to Nine

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Five to Nine is a culture engagement solution that aims to enhance workplace connectivity and inclusion through its online platform. The platform enables human resource administrators to manage and evaluate both virtual and in-person internal programs effectively. By integrating workflows and collecting event analytics and feedback, it allows organizations to measure employee participation and sentiment. This data-driven approach helps HR teams create communities of interest within the workplace, promoting a positive work culture and driving business outcomes. Five to Nine focuses on leveraging culture-building opportunities to foster a more inclusive environment where employees feel engaged and connected.

Swing Education

Series B in 2018
Swing Education, Inc. operates an online platform designed to assist K-12 schools in finding substitute teachers to cover staff absences. Established in 2015 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company addresses the challenge of filling substitute teacher positions, which significantly impacts both student learning and school operations. On average, U.S. students spend approximately 5% of the school year under the supervision of substitute teachers, equating to over six months throughout their K-12 education. The inability to fill these positions often forces teachers and administrators to rearrange their schedules, leading to additional logistical burdens. Swing's marketplace streamlines this process by providing schools with on-demand access to qualified substitute teachers, relieving them of the complexities associated with recruiting, screening, and scheduling.

Compaas

Seed Round in 2018
Compaas is a company that offers a Compensation Intelligence Platform designed to assist growing organizations in making informed decisions regarding employee compensation. Founded in 2017 by Lisa Dusseault and Bethanye Blount in San Francisco, the platform consolidates compensation data and provides analytics and strategy tools tailored for both startups and enterprise-level companies. By allowing users to forecast and observe real-time market trends, Compaas enables businesses to develop effective compensation strategies and manage their operating expenses more efficiently, ultimately enhancing communication with employees and minimizing potential errors in compensation management.

Aclima

Series A in 2018
Aclima Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks to measure and analyze air pollution and greenhouse gases. Established in 2007, Aclima combines advanced sensor technology, climate science, enterprise software, and machine learning to deliver hyperlocal air quality data at a block-by-block resolution. Its solutions generate real-time streaming data that allows for the creation of high-resolution maps of emissions, covering various pollutants such as CO2, methane, and particulate matter. Aclima's technology is aimed at commercial and government sectors, providing actionable insights that help communities and industries manage their environmental impact. Recognized as a 2017 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and featured in the 2018 Global Cleantech 100, Aclima's mission focuses on improving public health and planetary well-being through enhanced environmental intelligence.

Lend Street Financial

Series A in 2018
Lend Street Financial, Inc. specializes in consumer lending solutions aimed at individuals facing financial difficulties. The company assists clients in refinancing existing debt and offers negotiation services with creditors to secure discounts on their debts. This enables customers to reduce their overall financial burden while working towards rebuilding their credit. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Lend Street serves various states, including Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas, among others. By establishing partnerships within the financial sector, the company is able to provide valuable support to those seeking to regain control of their financial lives.

Selected

Seed Round in 2018
Selected helps teachers get jobs at schools they love. We match K-12 teachers with 1,200+ public and private independent urban schools throughout the Northeast US (including NYC, Newark, Philly, DC, and Boston) and Los Angeles. Selected is 100% free for teachers. Our mission is to improve teacher retention and hiring, especially in high need communities, through more purposeful matching.

Allovue

Series A in 2018
Allovue is a software platform that helps school districts create and plan budgets and monitor spending to make financial. The user-friendly software applications allow district officials, principals, and other school administrators to visualize, analyze, and optimize the impact of spending on outcomes in education. The company's flagship product, Balance, contains applications to analyze school budgets, track and forecast expenditures, identify trends over time, and plan for future capital investments. Allovue allows superintendents to easily communicate district budgets with their staff, board, and community leaders, ensuring that budgets are strategically aligned to district goals and priorities. It connects education, finance, and technology to meet the needs of education decision-makers.

AJUA

Series A in 2018
mSurvey is a mobile survey platform driving decision-making for businesses across the continent of Africa and the Caribbean. mSurvey works with some well-known brands across the world; reducing churn, improving customer service, and increasing their Net Promoter Score. We solve the problem of customer service to market research with a technology and team that have deep local reach. We open up communication lines between our customers, their employees, and their customers.

Vault

Seed Round in 2018
Vault is a technology company based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2013, that offers a comprehensive platform designed to simplify student loan management and support for both employers and employees. The company's services help organizations address the financial burden of student loan debt, enabling them to attract and retain talent through student loan repayment contributions. Vault's secure, web-based tool empowers employees to manage their student debt more effectively while also building their 401(k) savings. By providing relevant and flexible products, Vault aims to create pathways for financial freedom and enhance overall employee well-being. Formerly known as Student Loan Benefits, Inc., Vault has established itself as a leader in the student loan management sector.

BookNook

Seed Round in 2018
BookNook is combining technology and educational expertise to open the doors of literacy for students. They are a social enterprise with dual bottom line and a particular focus on supporting children in traditionally disenfranchised communities. Their founding team comes almost entirely from schools, nonprofits, social-good technology, and government. They believe that the best programs are designed by educators who have their roots in the classroom. Both their instructional strategy and their curriculum come from experienced educators who have seen first hand what works best for students. Their approach is grounded in multiple rigorous studies and they have assembled a team of nationally recognized experts who are both practitioners and researchers. They believe in scaling what works for students that technology is a great way to put proven instructional best practices in the hands of more and more people.

Edovo

Series A in 2018
Jail Education Solutions provides intuitive educational courses where inmates are rewarded for learning. With their unique tablet technology, we help unlock the potential of millions of incarcerated people. Edovo increases access to invaluable resources for individuals involved in the criminal justice system.

Promise

Seed Round in 2018
Promise Network Inc. is a technology company that has developed an application platform aimed at providing holistic support to individuals involved in the criminal justice system. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Promise offers a range of services designed to reduce recidivism and foster safer communities. The platform includes intake and assessment tools for evaluating risks and needs, ongoing support for communication and service coordination, and supervision features that ensure transparency and accountability. By working with county governments, Promise provides a cost-effective alternative to incarceration for arrestees who cannot afford bail. The tailored plans offered to participants encompass court-mandated conditions and connections to essential services such as drug treatment, housing, mental health support, and job training, ultimately helping individuals achieve their goals and improve long-term outcomes.

tEQuitable

Seed Round in 2018
tEQuitable Inc. operates a platform focused on addressing bias, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace. Founded in 2017 and based in Oakland, California, the company provides a confidential resource for employees to report workplace issues ranging from subtle biases to severe discrimination. Through its platform, tEQuitable offers professional guidance and actionable recommendations to employees while also delivering data and insights to organizations. This enables companies to identify and address systemic culture issues, ultimately fostering a safer, more inclusive, and equitable work environment for all employees.

Strive

Seed Round in 2018
Strive Talent Inc. operates a hiring platform designed to assist companies in making informed hiring decisions based on candidate competencies. The company employs a thorough selection process that includes cognitive assessments, work sample tests, and structured interviews, with hiring decisions guided by the candidates' scores and evaluations. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Strive also focuses on the development of emerging leaders through personalized management training. Their programs integrate classroom learning, community practice, and executive coaching, fostering self-discovery and skill enhancement for participants.

Loris

Seed Round in 2018
Loris helps the world’s fastest-growing companies create long-standing customer relationships by empowering them to have better conversations with their customers. We optimize lessons learned from the crisis space to enable companies to handle hard customer conversations with empathy. Our real-time agent coaching software uses machine learning to help enterprise care teams make customers happier and brands stand out in the crowd. Loris is headquartered in New York City and also has an office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

tEQuitable

Seed Round in 2018
tEQuitable Inc. operates a platform focused on addressing bias, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace. Founded in 2017 and based in Oakland, California, the company provides a confidential resource for employees to report workplace issues ranging from subtle biases to severe discrimination. Through its platform, tEQuitable offers professional guidance and actionable recommendations to employees while also delivering data and insights to organizations. This enables companies to identify and address systemic culture issues, ultimately fostering a safer, more inclusive, and equitable work environment for all employees.

EarnUp

Series A in 2017
EarnUp is a consumer-first fintech platform that intelligently automates loan payments for the more than 200 million Americans with debt. They help you put a few dollars aside for your loans when you can afford it – then they make your loan payments for you, allocating funds in the way that gets you out of debt faster. They are dedicated to giving control back to everyone who is frustrated managing their finances

EarnUp

Series A in 2017
EarnUp is a consumer-first fintech platform that intelligently automates loan payments for the more than 200 million Americans with debt. They help you put a few dollars aside for your loans when you can afford it – then they make your loan payments for you, allocating funds in the way that gets you out of debt faster. They are dedicated to giving control back to everyone who is frustrated managing their finances

Regalii

Series A in 2017
Arcus Financial Intelligence, Inc. operates an API platform designed for banks and financial institutions, focusing on managing consumer bills and financial data. Founded in 2012 and based in New York, the company provides real-time bill management and payment services, allowing users to understand their financial obligations, including the number of bills, amounts owed, and due dates. Initially established as a cross-border bill payment provider under the name Regalii, the company shifted its focus in 2016 to enhance bill payment data services in the domestic market, introducing products such as xData and xChange. Arcus has established partnerships with notable fintech mobile payment applications, including Santander and Walmart, enabling accessible payment solutions through its multi-rail payment platform. The company has successfully raised significant funding over the years, attracting investments from prominent venture capital firms and Y Combinator.

Blokable

Seed Round in 2017
Blokable, Inc. manufactures pre-fabricated steel frame modular housing units for developers in the United States. Its units are used for residential, retail, and mixed-use projects. Blokable, Inc. was formerly known as Bloakable, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Bloomlife

Series A in 2017
Bloomlife is a women’s health company solving the most significant yet underserved global challenges today in maternal health. We combine connected devices with data analytics to increase access to care, provide personalized feedback to moms, and help doctors earlier predict and manage pregnancy complications. At the center of our solution is a prenatal wearable that tracks critical health parameters of maternal and fetal health. By addressing modifiable risk factors, detecting abnormalities, and predicting adverse events Bloomlife aims to ensure every family gets a healthy start.

interviewing.io

Seed Round in 2017
Interviewing.io is an anonymous technical interviewing platform. Its interviewers have worked at Google, Udacity, Square, Twitch, Microsoft, and other recognized companies.

Jopwell

Series A in 2017
Jopwell, Inc. is a career platform that connects underrepresented minority professionals and students, specifically Black, Latino/Hispanic, and Native American individuals, with various companies to enhance their career prospects. Founded in 2015 by former Goldman Sachs employees Porter Braswell and Ryan Williams, Jopwell facilitates access to employment opportunities across diverse industries, including technology, finance, education, and healthcare. The platform serves as a valuable resource for both candidates and companies, offering a talent pipeline that helps organizations recruit from backgrounds historically underrepresented in top-tier firms. Jopwell aims to empower individuals at all stages of their careers while promoting diversity in the workplace. Based in New York City, the company has received recognition for its innovative approach to enhancing professional opportunities and fostering a more inclusive workforce.

Citizen

Series A in 2017
Citizen is a free mobile application that notifies its users with safety alerts and real-time incident updates. It is a powerful force for good that has already evacuated people from burning buildings, diverted school buses from nearby terrorist attacks, and, in one instance, led to the rescue of a one-year-old boy from a stolen car. It is a truly unique proposition that provides you with alerts from 911 data that until now has never been made available to the public. The alerts are accompanied by live stories, real-time updates, and user-generated content to provide you with the information you need so you know what’s happening around you rather than having to wonder why police are on your corner or there are helicopters above you. Today, over a million people across the United States have downloaded the app and use it to keep themselves, their families, and their friends safe. Emergency services and community activists alike hail the app as a ground-breaking development in personal and community safety. Over 1 million New Yorkers have citizens, and the app has seen similar growth, usage, and engagement in LA, SF, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The company was founded in 2017 and based in New York City, New York.

Hustle

Series A in 2017
Hustle, Inc. operates a peer-to-peer text messaging platform that allows organizations to communicate effectively with their contacts through personal text messages. The platform serves various purposes, including event attendance, fundraising, admissions, recruiting, advocacy, and sales and marketing. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hustle provides an affordable and efficient solution for organizations to reach their target supporters and customers. By enabling two-way conversations, Hustle empowers its users to engage in genuine and personal dialogues with a large number of individuals, thus enhancing their outreach efforts.

Scene Health

Seed Round in 2017
Scene Health is a mobile health company that focuses on improving patient engagement and medication adherence through innovative technology. Utilizing a smartphone application, patients can video record themselves taking their medication, which allows healthcare providers to assess adherence and interact with patients via a secure web portal. The platform is designed to support various healthcare sectors, including public health departments, clinical trials, hospitals, and managed care organizations, particularly for patients with conditions such as tuberculosis, opioid use disorder, hepatitis C, and diabetes. Scene Health offers customizable reporting to care teams, providing insights from daily video submissions to enhance patient care. The platform is multilingual, functions offline, and has been shown in an NIH-funded study by Johns Hopkins to achieve an average medication adherence rate of 94 percent among participants. Founded in 2008 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, Scene Health continues to advance its mission of empowering patients through technology.

GroupRaise

Seed Round in 2017
Groupraise.com, Inc. is an online community that provides a way to organize restaurant fundraisers to support non-profit causes, including health, clean water, education, hunger, and social entrepreneurship. The company acts as a local community networking for restaurants to build relationships with community groups through fundraisers. Its community enables to list restaurants; start a campaign by posting dates, times, and the donation offered for local groups to host events; and groups request fundraisers through its online system. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Learners Guild

Venture Round in 2017
17 million young people in the United States are un(der)employed while the demand for technology related jobs exceeds the supply. At Learners Guild, we’re solving this problem by providing a software education fellowship with life-changing curriculum and community support. Our products are built upon the premise that life is a process of continuous learning, building, and perfecting pursuits of livelihood, community and purpose. Learners Guild, a California B-Corp following the principles of holocracy, is a network of guild-style professional schools that transform students into high-skilled workers in one year. We have a unique financing model that aligns student and institutional success, and allows us to profitably recruit & train the most ambitious students, regardless of financial background. Together, we can transform the trillion dollar higher education market and fix the gap for talented software developers in the coming connected device era.

Velano Vascular

Series B in 2017
Velano Vascular's technologies transform care by reducing the stress and anxiety related to blood draws during hospitalization. The company's needle-free device reduces pain and discomfort for patients, and enhances safety and efficiency for providers. Founded by a patient and a physician, Velano Vascular is backed by First Round Capital, Kapor Capital and White Owl Capital. The company’s collaborators include leading U.S. hospital systems and organizations innovating in patient-centered care.

Joonko

Venture Round in 2017
Joonko Diversity Inc. operates a platform designed to address bias within organizations by utilizing user data. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, Joonko's solution enables users to integrate various SaaS platforms, providing real-time insights into workplace bias as it occurs. The platform assists talent leaders by facilitating the receipt of qualified applications from a diverse and vetted candidate pool, which has been pre-approved by other leading companies. This approach not only streamlines the hiring process but also promotes inclusivity within the workplace.

Worklete

Venture Round in 2017
Worklete reduces musculoskeletal injuries in transportation, shipping and logistics companies by 53% on average, saving them millions of dollars a year in injury-related costs. Its mobile-ready platform builds safe habits over time, strengthening safety culture while improving operational efficiency. Founded in 2015, Worklete’s customers include Nestlé Waters, Penske Logistics, and Hub Group Trucking. Worklete is headquartered in San Francisco and has secured $8M in funding from Trinity Ventures, Launch Capital, RiverPark Ventures, and Kapor Capital. To learn more, visit http://worklete.com/.

AlwaysHired

Seed Round in 2017
AlwaysHired is a company that offers an immersive sales training program designed to help organizations identify and recruit top talent. By providing an online, instructor-led sales boot camp, AlwaysHired equips students with essential marketing skills needed in the technology sector. The program not only focuses on skill development but also features a job placement component, allowing participants to continue earning while they learn. This dual approach aims to prepare students for successful careers in sales, ultimately benefiting both the individuals and the companies that seek to hire them.

CodeHS

Seed Round in 2016
CodeHS, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 that offers an online platform for training in programming and computer science. The platform is designed to assist high schools in teaching a comprehensive curriculum focused on various topics, including JavaScript, graphics, animation, game design, data structures, HTML, and CSS. CodeHS provides free access to a curriculum suitable for students in grades 6 through 12, along with enhanced features for schools that opt for the professional version. These features include lesson plans, grading tools, progress tracking, and dedicated support, which collectively aim to improve the teaching and learning experience in computer science education.

True Link Financial

Venture Round in 2016
True Link Financial, Inc. is a financial services firm based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on serving individuals who are vulnerable, including people with disabilities and older adults. Founded in 2012, the company offers Visa prepaid cards designed to help families and professionals manage and protect the finances of their loved ones or clients. In addition to prepaid card services, True Link provides investment management solutions, including fiduciary accounts, and a comprehensive software platform that facilitates budgeting, disbursements, record keeping, and communication for conservators, guardians, and other fiduciaries. This suite of services aims to enhance the independence and quality of life for clients who may face financial risks.
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