LAUNCH

LAUNCH is a California-based organization that supports entrepreneurs and fosters innovation within the technology sector. Established in 2010, it encompasses multiple initiatives, including the LAUNCH Fund, which focuses on early-stage investments in technology-related companies. Additionally, LAUNCH operates an incubator designed to nurture startup development. Its flagship event, the LAUNCH Festival, attracts over 12,000 participants, including venture capitalists, angel investors, founders, and industry professionals, serving as a premier platform for startups to showcase their innovations. The organization also produces the podcast "This Week in Startups," which discusses trends and insights in the startup ecosystem. Through its various endeavors, LAUNCH aims to empower founders and promote the growth of emerging companies.

Jason Calacanis

Founder and CEO

Molly Wood

Managing Director and Co-Host of TWiST

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Monsha.AI

Convertible Note in 2025
Monsha helps teachers create educational materials such as lesson plans, academic content, presentations, and assessments. The company aims to be the go-to platform for content creation, delivery, and productivity enhancement for educators and institutions.

Doctours

Convertible Note in 2025
Doctours is a service specializing in facilitating hair transplant procedures. It guides individuals through the process, from initial consultation to post-procedure care, by connecting them with international clinics offering various hair restoration options. The company provides personalized support, assisting clients in selecting suitable clinics based on location, price, and specific needs, and manages travel and logistics. It also offers aftercare support to help clients maintain their results.

Backtick

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Backtick is an AI-powered bug tracker that helps teams track and solve problems.

Lumix Advertising

Convertible Note in 2025
Smart billboards for delivery bikers

CustomerIQ

Convertible Note in 2025
CustomerIQ is a technology company that provides a collaborative workspace for teams to centralize and analyze customer feedback. Its AI-driven platform automates the collection and organization of customer interactions from various sources like calls, support tickets, and CRM notes. By extracting insights, identifying themes, and quantifying feedback, CustomerIQ helps teams understand their customers better, identify opportunities, and make data-driven decisions to improve products and services.

Inferise

Convertible Note in 2025
Inferise offers an agentic AI platform orchestrated by sophisticated on-device models that automate personal workflows while ensuring privacy and eliminating cost-per-token charges. Inferise is a proud member of Founder University Cohort 9 and thrilled to work with the Launch Fund as we prepare to start beta testing in December 2024.

iTruckr

Convertible Note in 2025
iTruckr is a technology company specializing in AI-powered communication and logistics solutions for the trucking industry. Its platform automates messaging and dispatching across various communication channels, connecting stakeholders such as dispatchers, drivers, brokers, and warehouses. Designed for mid-sized fleets, iTruckr eliminates the need for additional apps and simplifies onboarding processes. By automating operational tasks, the platform reduces manual coordination, human errors, and operational delays, enabling trucking companies to scale efficiently without hiring additional staff. This results in optimized operations, improved driver satisfaction, and fewer delivery delays, ultimately enhancing profitability.

Agilepitch

Convertible Note in 2025
AI Sales Intellegence Platform for B2B Sales Teams

Amplium

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Amplium is a technology company specializing in an immersive video platform for Apple's Vision Pro. It enables filmmakers to upload and share 180° 3D videos in ultra-high 16K resolution, providing viewers with an unprecedented, immersive experience. The platform, founded by Hibiki Sato and Asahi Kobori, offers real-time color grading and an intuitive interface for customizing player settings. Amplium has secured pre-seed funding from investors such as The LAUNCH Fund and DG Incubation.

Actuality

Convertible Note in 2025
Actuality is a technology company specializing in streamlining the Request for Proposal (RFP) process for businesses in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. It leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR) technologies to automate RFP analysis, generate content, provide pricing recommendations, and facilitate team collaboration. By integrating with industry-standard tools such as Revit, Procore, and InDesign, Actuality helps AEC companies enhance proposal accuracy, reduce response times, and create visually compelling submissions, ultimately increasing their chances of winning contracts.

OpenTab POS

Convertible Note in 2025
OpenTab POS provides point of sale software designed for the restaurant and bar industry. The platform offers features such as predictive search, alternative payment types including digital wallets, and private label cards. It aims to streamline operations by integrating payments and POS functionalities on a single device. The software is created by business owners to meet the specific needs of the hospitality sector.

OpenTab

Pre Seed Round in 2025
OpenTab is a Columbus-based fintech startup transforming the bar and restaurant experience by eliminating the physical act of paying a tab. Through seamless integrations with leading point-of-sale systems, OpenTab enables guests to open, view, and close their tabs directly from their phone—creating a frictionless, country club style experience. By digitizing tab management, OpenTab empowers hospitality venues to reduce wait times, increase turnover, and deliver a better guest experience without changing existing workflows. OpenTab’s unique model also incentivizes restaurants to drive user adoption, creating a powerful flywheel of growth.

Redii

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Redii operates a retirement savings platform tailored for international employees. It streamlines retirement benefits for multinational companies by offering seamless payroll integrations, ensuring global compliance, and managing contributions end-to-end. This enables businesses to provide secure and accessible retirement savings options for their global workforce.

TaxGPT

Seed Round in 2025
TaxGPT is a technology company that specializes in automating tax filing processes using artificial intelligence. It leverages AI and tax data to provide accurate insights and maximize tax deductions for clients. The company offers personal tax and finance-related advisory services, automatically filing taxes and helping clients make informed decisions.

Airfive

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Airfive is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven customer support solutions for small teams. It develops automated communication tools to streamline customer support operations, including smart email filtering, automated responses, and analytics. These features help clients manage customer interactions more efficiently and improve response times.

Vent Now

Convertible Note in 2025
A personal companion for emotional growth

Potions

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Marketing automation tool to help businesses create high-performing newsletters

Mastertech.ai

Convertible Note in 2025
Mastertech.ai is a technology company specializing in AI-driven diagnostics for the automotive industry. Its mission is to streamline and enhance the vehicle repair process for technicians and advisors. The company aggregates data from various sources, including OEM factory data and vehicle repair history, to provide accurate and timely diagnoses, assist in repairs, and ensure vehicle safety. By leveraging AI, Mastertech.ai aims to make auto repairs faster, easier, and more efficient, ultimately reducing costs and improving outcomes.

Recall

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Recall uses AI to build your own personal knowledge graph from the content you consume so you can safely forget everything and trust that Recall will resurface it when it's needed.

Shofeur

Convertible Note in 2024
Shofeur is a vertical SaaS-enabled marketplace that provides SMB private transportation companies a SaaS CRM that helps them manage their day-to-day operations. Simultaneously, Shofeur provides customers an "Airbnb/Uber-like" marketplace to make their trip experience flawless.

PaynPoint

Convertible Note in 2024
PaynPoint provides a platform called robots.nxt, designed to help website owners identify, manage, and monetize bot traffic. The service offers tools to detect bots often overlooked by standard analytics, assess the costs associated with serving them, and implement rules to control their access. Additionally, it enables site owners to generate revenue by requiring bots to pay for access. The platform emphasizes a straightforward setup process, allowing users to establish controls quickly. PaynPoint aims to assist businesses in optimizing their web traffic management strategies.​

Prosperous

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Prosperous AI is a technology company that specializes in streamlining sourcing and procurement processes for businesses. It offers an AI-powered platform that integrates with existing ERP systems, automating tasks such as supplier negotiations, material sourcing, and contract management. By leveraging real-time analytics and demand forecasting, the platform helps companies make data-driven decisions, reduce costs, and improve efficiency in their supply chain. Prosperous AI has gained significant traction in industries like Aerospace, Infrastructure, and Energy, enabling enterprises to optimize their procurement processes and make better-informed supply chain decisions.

Dephrase

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Dephrase is an AI Native SaaS app to enrich data collection and speed up qualification.

Final Boss Sour

Seed Round in 2024
Final Boss Sour is a snack company specializing in fruit-based, sour confectionery. Their products, inspired by retro gaming aesthetics, offer a healthier alternative to traditional sour treats. They use real fruit coated in a tangy blend to create intensely sour snacks, catering to gamers and consumers seeking bold flavors and a fun experience.

Querio

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Querio is a technology company specializing in data analysis and insights. It offers an AI-powered platform that enables businesses to connect, analyze, and visualize data with minimal technical effort. The platform provides automated query and visualization tools, as well as collaborative Jupyter notebooks, allowing users to explore data, create dashboards, and generate reports. It also ensures data privacy and security.

River Platform Company

Pre Seed Round in 2024
River is an in-person community event platform and social platform. We help huge, distributed communities get together IRL at a massive scale by letting the community step up to produce self-organized events. It's a completely new motion for how events happen. Tim Ferris celebrated his 10th anniversary of the podcast with 150+ meetups on River Superteam hosts a live monthly eco system call with 100+ IRL watch parties on River The All-In Podcast gets fans together in 50+ cities every 25 episodes on River This Week in Startups hosts Founder Fridays jam sessions in 30+ cities on River

Nerd Crawler

Convertible Note in 2024
Nerd Crawler is the auction marketplace for super fans to buy rare products from their favorite creators starting with comic book artists. Nerd Crawler's curated marketplace, proprietary auction technology that prevents sniping, and lower fees helps creators like Frank Cho, Stanley “Artgerm” Lau, Arthur Adams, Khoi Pham, and many more earn as much as 4x more for their art when they list on Nerd Crawler. Nerd Crawler is backed by LAUNCH and Jason Calacanis (early investor in Uber, Thumbtack, and Calm). Learn more at www.nerdcrawler.com.

Hookhub

Convertible Note in 2024
Marketplace for landowners to rent out parking space to RV and Trailers- nightly, long-term or storage parking.

CustomerIQ

Convertible Note in 2024
CustomerIQ is a technology company that provides a collaborative workspace for teams to centralize and analyze customer feedback. Its AI-driven platform automates the collection and organization of customer interactions from various sources like calls, support tickets, and CRM notes. By extracting insights, identifying themes, and quantifying feedback, CustomerIQ helps teams understand their customers better, identify opportunities, and make data-driven decisions to improve products and services.

Abacus

Convertible Note in 2024
Abacus is an AI powered knowledge management platform for financial services and regulated industries with on-prem generative AI models.

Where2Wheel

Convertible Note in 2024
Where2Wheel makes off-roading easy. Where2Wheel.com offers to the nations largest crowd-sourced off-road trail database, and our W2WParks marketplace connects private landowners with local off-roaders to create convenient & accessible 4x4 off-roading.

StockNews.AI

Convertible Note in 2024
StockNews.AI is an AI SaaS application that monitors and analyzes financial articles to help users save time and make a better decision

Public Bored

Convertible Note in 2024
Public Bored is a company that operates digital billboards, aiming to revitalize urban spaces by making them more engaging and community-focused. Their platform allows clients to create and display dynamic content, advertisements, and real-time updates, offering flexibility to personalize billboard messages.

Loop Golf

Seed Round in 2024
Automatically get the best tee times at any public course in the US. Our cutting-edge web and mobile apps are revolutionizing the way golfers experience the game they love, one loop at a time.

ConvertMate

Convertible Note in 2024
ConvertMate is a technology company that specializes in automating eCommerce growth. It offers an AI-driven SEO platform primarily designed for Shopify store owners. The platform employs AI tools to optimize product descriptions, conduct A/B testing, and maintain brand voice consistency, thereby enhancing search engine rankings and conversion rates for its users.

SPEED AI

Convertible Note in 2024
The Legal Industry's First and ONLY AI-Powered Intake & Prospect Analysis Platform

SpatialGen

Convertible Note in 2024
Video Streaming, Spatial Video, Immersive Video, 3D Data

Ai Synapse

Convertible Note in 2024
Ai Agent-based company automates your entire end-to-end B2B sales process from lead/demand generation, pre-meeting readiness, in-meeting live recommendations, and Customer relationship management post-sale with the help of generative AI. Whatever a team of 30 salespeople can do in 3 months with existing tech/tools, we can do that in 3 to 5 hours.

PodcastAI

Seed Round in 2024
PodcastAI is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven tools for podcast production. It aims to streamline content creation by automating text-to-audio conversion, making podcasting more efficient and accessible for creators and media companies worldwide. The company's platform transforms podcasters into producers, enabling them to generate entire episodes using artificial intelligence, thereby facilitating swift and effective episode publication.

Ellis

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Ellis automates inbound, outbound, email, twitter, and linkedin marketing and provides crm tools to startups.

Rivin

Convertible Note in 2024
Instantly find sales and profitability data across all e-commerce marketplaces in seconds. Get valuable insights into price histories, sales per seller, and more omni-channel data to analyze inventory.

Rapha

Funding Round in 2024
Rapha is a technology company that operates a recruiting platform designed to enhance the hiring process for startups. It leverages artificial intelligence and audio responses from applicants to assess both cultural fit and hard skills, thereby enabling companies to efficiently qualify candidates early in the recruitment process without the need for initial phone screens.

Big Rentals

Convertible Note in 2024
Big Rentals is a technology company that specializes in providing all-in-one rental management software for equipment owners and small businesses. Its platform simplifies business operations, facilitates online bookings, and boosts sales, enabling users to efficiently manage and grow their rental businesses.

Layerpath

Convertible Note in 2024
Layerpath is a technology company that empowers users to swiftly create interactive product demos using artificial intelligence. Its platform transforms screen recordings into engaging, customizable product tours, enabling businesses to effectively showcase their products across multiple touchpoints and enhance customer learning experiences.

Second Hand Geek

Pre Seed Round in 2024
We are a two sided marketplace for all things related to Tabletop gaming.

Prosperous

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Prosperous AI is a technology company that specializes in streamlining sourcing and procurement processes for businesses. It offers an AI-powered platform that integrates with existing ERP systems, automating tasks such as supplier negotiations, material sourcing, and contract management. By leveraging real-time analytics and demand forecasting, the platform helps companies make data-driven decisions, reduce costs, and improve efficiency in their supply chain. Prosperous AI has gained significant traction in industries like Aerospace, Infrastructure, and Energy, enabling enterprises to optimize their procurement processes and make better-informed supply chain decisions.

Zweelie

Angel Round in 2024
Zweelie is a developer of a project management platform aimed at transforming business operations. The platform provides a comprehensive toolkit that simplifies various aspects of business management, including task management, customer relationship management, secure payments, presentations, and brand guidelines. By offering these tools, Zweelie helps businesses streamline their operations, enhance collaboration, and prioritize data-driven decision-making. This approach is designed to save time and facilitate easier management for businesses at different stages, from startups to those handling daily operations or seeking to expand.

CodeMate AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
CodeMate is an AI pair programmer that helps developers and development teams write, fix and maintain their codebase. It allows users to search, navigate and interact with their proprietary codebase and documentation without leaving their environment.

MARVL

Pre Seed Round in 2024
A new way of communicating with your revenue platforms! MARVL brings CRM and sales playbooks to messaging apps!

Loop Golf

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Automatically get the best tee times at any public course in the US. Our cutting-edge web and mobile apps are revolutionizing the way golfers experience the game they love, one loop at a time.

Umbrella Sports

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Umbrella Sports is focused on capturing motion data and during practice and competition, then delivering actionable insights in real-time to accelerate improvement. Our flagship golf experience, SmartGrip, lets golfers of all skill levels achieve more distance, consistency, power, accuracy, and confidence – instantly.

Recall

Convertible Note in 2024
Recall uses AI to build your own personal knowledge graph from the content you consume so you can safely forget everything and trust that Recall will resurface it when it's needed.

Permar AI

Funding Round in 2024
Permar AI enables eCommerce shops to continuously optimize themselves around the clock. Using generative AI, Permar AI can automatically test texts, images, and entire elements on your website to increase conversion rates. By utilizing performance data, Permar AI iteratively refines the results, helping to optimize data-driven eCommerce web shops. Imagine a team consisting of a UX researcher, a frontend developer, and a designer tirelessly conducting experiments to improve the conversion rate of your website and boost growth. That's the essence of Permar.

Flite

Funding Round in 2024
Flite is a technology company that specializes in event management. It offers a platform designed to simplify and enhance the process of planning, organizing, promoting, and managing events for businesses of all sizes. The platform provides valuable insights into event performance and attendee engagement, enabling companies to make informed decisions and optimize future events.

Dexla

Convertible Note in 2024
Dexla is a company that enables business founders to create dynamic applications from their ideas. It specializes in developing a text visual application that facilitates the creation of artificial web-based products. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Dexla offers tools that assist in building, designing, linking, and enhancing applications through the integration of text and visuals. This approach empowers front-end software engineers to efficiently develop data management applications, streamlining the process of application development.

Krepling

Seed Round in 2024
Krepling is a pioneering no-code composable platform designed for e-commerce, empowering merchants to create tailored buying experiences for customers online. Founded in early 2020 by brothers Liam and Travis Gerada, both of whom have backgrounds in e-commerce, Krepling provides tools that enable merchants to construct and manage their entire e-commerce operations, from front-end stores to marketing and consumer buying flows, all without requiring coding expertise. The platform consolidates various operational aspects into a single interface, enhancing data capabilities and allowing merchants to capture customer insights effectively. Operating in over five countries, Krepling supports merchants across more than 35 countries, promoting inclusivity in e-commerce participation.

MyLens.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Turn any inputs into insightful visuals

DataMotto

Pre Seed Round in 2024
DataMotto provides an AI notebook that makes raw data clean and insightful.

The Drive AI

Convertible Note in 2024
World's first fully agentic file management system

AskHumans

Pre Seed Round in 2024
AskHumans is a technology company that provides an AI-driven platform for businesses to collect, analyze, and understand customer feedback. The platform uses advanced AI models, including GPT, to facilitate open-ended conversations, identify sentiments and themes, and generate actionable insights. It offers features such as personalized and voice replies, visualised insights, and exportable reports, helping businesses enhance their customer understanding and drive growth.

PodcastAI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
PodcastAI is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven tools for podcast production. It aims to streamline content creation by automating text-to-audio conversion, making podcasting more efficient and accessible for creators and media companies worldwide. The company's platform transforms podcasters into producers, enabling them to generate entire episodes using artificial intelligence, thereby facilitating swift and effective episode publication.

LayerNext

Pre Seed Round in 2024
LayerNext is a technology company specializing in AI data infrastructure for Computer Vision. Its platform streamlines the process of collecting, curating, labeling, and searching large-scale vision data, empowering Computer Vision teams to build more accurate models efficiently.

10ten

Angel Round in 2023
10ten is a platform specifically designed for software developers, enabling them to create, distribute, and monetize technical content effectively. The platform provides a comprehensive toolset that allows developers to consolidate, display, and structure their content, facilitating its distribution to a global audience. By leveraging this platform, organizations can establish a reliable source of income through scalable revenue streams, ultimately maximizing the impact and results of their content creation efforts.

Querio

Convertible Note in 2023
Querio is a technology company specializing in data analysis and insights. It offers an AI-powered platform that enables businesses to connect, analyze, and visualize data with minimal technical effort. The platform provides automated query and visualization tools, as well as collaborative Jupyter notebooks, allowing users to explore data, create dashboards, and generate reports. It also ensures data privacy and security.

SupportPay

Seed Round in 2023
Ittavi, Inc was the original creator of SupportPay, a payment platform designed to assist single, divorced, separated, and blended families in managing their financial relationships. The platform enabled users to track child support payments and share expenses directly between parents, facilitating the management of financial obligations. Features included expense tracking, receipt storage, and payment processing. However, Ittavi, Inc was liquidated in early 2018 and no longer exists. The assets and operations of SupportPay were subsequently acquired by Smart Family Tech, Inc, which now oversees the platform and its services.

Data Parrot

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Data Parrot is a technology company that provides a sales analytics platform. It uses artificial intelligence to automatically extract and analyze sales data, offering real-time insights into trends, forecasts, progress, pipeline growth, and deal risks. This empowers sales managers to enhance performance, improve efficiency, and make more informed strategic decisions, ultimately driving business growth.

Letterhead

Seed Round in 2023
Letterhead is a digital publishing platform that simplifies the creation, distribution, and monetization of email newsletters. By automating key processes, it allows users to efficiently manage their newsletter content while integrating advertising and subscription features. The platform offers a range of customizable templates, enabling users to produce high-quality newsletters that can engage audiences effectively. With its focus on streamlining operations, Letterhead addresses the challenges of producing consistent newsletters, making it easier for users to drive revenue through ad placements and paid memberships.

PodcastAI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
PodcastAI is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven tools for podcast production. It aims to streamline content creation by automating text-to-audio conversion, making podcasting more efficient and accessible for creators and media companies worldwide. The company's platform transforms podcasters into producers, enabling them to generate entire episodes using artificial intelligence, thereby facilitating swift and effective episode publication.

Fitted

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Fitted is a virtual closet platform for discovering, purchasing, and sharing outfits.

Anyplace

Series B in 2023
Anyplace is a housing platform built for the work-from-anywhere movement. The company's latest product is Anyplace Select, accommodation designed for productivity and catered to remote workers, digital nomads, corporate travelers, and more. Select apartments include a fully equipped home office and gigabit internet.

Tolt

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Tolt is a technology company that assists early-stage tech startups in establishing and expanding their partner programs. It offers a comprehensive suite of features, including tracking and automated payouts, to facilitate these programs' growth and success. Notable startups that have utilized Tolt's services include Practice.do, Creately, and LeapAPI. The company is supported by prominent investors such as LAUNCH and Jason Calacanis.

TaxGPT

Pre Seed Round in 2023
TaxGPT is a technology company that specializes in automating tax filing processes using artificial intelligence. It leverages AI and tax data to provide accurate insights and maximize tax deductions for clients. The company offers personal tax and finance-related advisory services, automatically filing taxes and helping clients make informed decisions.

Zest

Seed Round in 2023
Zest is an online platform founded by Jacob Gutstein in 2021 and based in Chicago, Illinois, that aims to enhance users' cooking skills. The platform allows individuals to improve and organize their home cooking by providing recipes tailored to their skill levels. Zest promotes a gamified approach to cooking, making the experience entertaining and approachable while also focusing on reducing food waste. Through its user-friendly interface, the platform encourages creativity in the kitchen, helping users gain confidence as they learn to navigate the cooking process from grocery shopping to plating their dishes.

dotflo

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Dotflo is a technology company that specializes in AI-powered phone support solutions for Third Party Administrators (TPAs) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firms. Its platform uses AI workers to handle inbound calls, addressing queries like claim status, benefit verification, and service requests, and also facilitates proactive follow-ups with stakeholders. The system tracks calls and conversations, providing businesses with a comprehensive dashboard to enhance efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Argyle

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Argyle is a developer of construction software that enhances collaboration between office and field teams through augmented reality. The company's innovative platform utilizes three-dimensional holograms to align building information modeling (BIM) with physical job sites, allowing users to visualize and interact with project details in real time. This technology includes features such as self-healing model registration and visual alignment verification, which help reduce rework and improve overall project outcomes. Argyle's patented system is designed to maintain accurate registration of the digital model with its real-world counterpart, even in dynamic construction conditions, enabling continuous recalibration and adaptation throughout the project lifecycle.

Fanfare

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Fanfare is a one-stop-shop solution for hardware and game creators. Fanfare combines e-commerce with community-building for game creators and their fans. It allows anyone with an idea for a new game to create a profile, find a community to support the idea, raise funding, and sell products. Their advanced recommendation engine helps new creators find an audience and our creator tools enable them to nurture that audience into paying customers.

Verbaly

Convertible Note in 2023
Verbaly is a technology company that provides a web-based application for both businesses and consumers. It offers an AI-powered speech coach that records, assesses, and trains users to enhance their verbal communication skills in various contexts, such as job interviews, public speeches, sales calls, and workplace collaborations. The application analyzes recordings, offers mock interviews, small talk practice, and pitch coaching, providing personalized feedback and insights to help users improve their communication effectiveness.

Data Parrot

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Increase your operational efficiency by enabling Salesforce® sandboxes with structured, related data straight from Production. Data Parrot makes delivering mission critical business enhancements easy.

driverDOC

Seed Round in 2023
driverDOC is a supply chain software-as-a-service company that focuses on enhancing the driver experience. It has developed a logistics management platform that streamlines freight tracking and centralizes essential documents. The platform captures high-quality document images at the outset, minimizing the time spent searching for documents and improving estimated time of arrival calculations. Additionally, it aids in managing driver detention, allowing clients to digitize their back office operations effectively. By simplifying invoicing processes, driverDOC enhances overall performance for its users.

VenturusAI

Angel Round in 2023
VenturusAI is a technology company that employs advanced AI models, including GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, to provide entrepreneurs with comprehensive analysis and feedback on their business ideas. Its platform assesses the viability of an idea, identifies potential challenges and opportunities, and offers tailored recommendations to enhance its chances of success.

Groundwork

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Groundwork is a conversion system for home improvement contractors who want to win the right leads for their business. They provides a video and text-based collaboration tool to speed up the sales process and increase win rates.

Braintrust

Seed Round in 2023
Braintrust is an educational marketplace focused on supporting vulnerable learners by providing tailored tutoring programs designed to enhance foundational literacy and math skills. The platform employs certified educators who deliver personalized tutoring experiences for K-12 students across various backgrounds and abilities, including those who are significantly behind their grade level. With a commitment to creating impactful educational solutions, Braintrust offers ESSA-certified programs recognized for their effectiveness in accelerating learning outcomes among low-performing students. This approach has led to substantial improvements in literacy and math skills, achieving documented triple-digit gains in several large school districts. Through engaging and meaningful instructional experiences, Braintrust aims to address the unique challenges faced by struggling learners.

River Platform Company

Convertible Note in 2023
River is an in-person community event platform and social platform. We help huge, distributed communities get together IRL at a massive scale by letting the community step up to produce self-organized events. It's a completely new motion for how events happen. Tim Ferris celebrated his 10th anniversary of the podcast with 150+ meetups on River Superteam hosts a live monthly eco system call with 100+ IRL watch parties on River The All-In Podcast gets fans together in 50+ cities every 25 episodes on River This Week in Startups hosts Founder Fridays jam sessions in 30+ cities on River

Coffee Clozers

Debt Financing in 2023
Coffee Clozers specializes in developing a real estate investment platform that assists users in identifying cash-flowing properties. The platform is designed to provide suitable deals, enabling investors to explore and evaluate various investment opportunities in real estate. By focusing on properties that generate consistent cash flow, Coffee Clozers aims to facilitate informed investment decisions for its users.

BeforeSunset

Pre Seed Round in 2023
BeforeSunset is an AI-driven productivity tool designed to assist teams and busy professionals with daily planning and time management. It addresses common workplace challenges such as disorganized tasks, lack of focus, miscommunication, and inadequate planning. The software facilitates effective daily planning by prompting users to consider their tasks, estimated completion times, and available time. It emphasizes maintaining focus by minimizing distractions and enabling users to concentrate on individual tasks. BeforeSunset allows users to review past achievements and unfinished tasks while tracking time spent on each task to ensure progress aligns with plans. Additionally, it includes a "Team Timeline" feature for team members to share updates on their current tasks, availability, and mood, fostering transparency and reducing miscommunication. The platform also offers analytics that help users reflect on their productivity, highlighting completed versus unfinished tasks and team engagement metrics. Moreover, it accommodates personal planning needs, allowing users to keep certain tasks private, ensuring a comprehensive approach to productivity that balances work and personal commitments.

Coffee Clozers

Debt Financing in 2023
Coffee Clozers specializes in developing a real estate investment platform that assists users in identifying cash-flowing properties. The platform is designed to provide suitable deals, enabling investors to explore and evaluate various investment opportunities in real estate. By focusing on properties that generate consistent cash flow, Coffee Clozers aims to facilitate informed investment decisions for its users.

Melengo

Convertible Note in 2023
Melengo is a technology company that operates a fashion platform. It connects with brands in the accessories, apparel, and footwear industry, offering a democratized supply chain through a network of vertically integrated manufacturers. The company uses generative AI to streamline development, sourcing, manufacturing, and financing, enabling clients to develop, finance, and scale new apparel lines efficiently.

Deep Sentinel

Venture Round in 2023
Deep Sentinel Corp. develops advanced home protection systems that utilize artificial intelligence to enhance security. Founded by David Selinger in 2016 and based in Pleasanton, California, the company focuses on creating effective crime prevention devices, including security cameras and alarms. Its innovative technology combines AI and computer vision to analyze video streams and contextual information to detect threats in real time. This enables proactive intervention before a potential crime occurs, thereby enhancing the safety of homes and businesses. With a research and development office in Taiwan, Deep Sentinel aims to differentiate itself in the competitive security market through a strong emphasis on user experience and cutting-edge technology.

CyberFilm AI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
CyberFilm AI is a technology company that develops AI-powered tools for filmmakers. Their flagship product, Saga, empowers the next generation of creatives to streamline their filmmaking process, enabling them to produce more content, faster, and with limited budgets. The AI tool assists in plot and character development, creating beat sheets and storyboards, thereby helping users bring their stories to life more efficiently.

Neighborbrite

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Neighborbrite operates as an AI-powered home improvement marketplace designed to assist homeowners throughout their renovation journey. The platform simplifies the home improvement process by providing personalized design recommendations, immediate budget estimates, and access to a vetted network of industry professionals. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Neighborbrite enhances the traditional renovation experience, making it more efficient and tailored to individual needs. The platform also offers tools for generating design ideas, including suggestions for drought-tolerant plants and various landscaping styles, allowing homeowners to create appealing and sustainable outdoor spaces without requiring professional expertise. Ultimately, Neighborbrite aims to transform home improvement into a seamless and intelligent experience, enabling homeowners to effectively realize their vision for their properties.

AskHumans

Convertible Note in 2023
AskHumans is a technology company that provides an AI-driven platform for businesses to collect, analyze, and understand customer feedback. The platform uses advanced AI models, including GPT, to facilitate open-ended conversations, identify sentiments and themes, and generate actionable insights. It offers features such as personalized and voice replies, visualised insights, and exportable reports, helping businesses enhance their customer understanding and drive growth.

Mindful Mamas

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Mindful Mamas Club is a wellness-focused company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. It offers an application specifically designed to enhance mindfulness among mothers by providing relevant education and practical tools for meditation. The application guides users through calming and soothing meditation practices, helping mothers to relax their minds and effectively reduce stress. Mindful Mamas Club fosters a supportive community dedicated to teaching various mindfulness techniques, making it easier for women to incorporate these practices into their daily lives.

Monic.ai

Angel Round in 2023
Monic.ai is an artificial intelligence-driven learning platform that specializes in test preparation. It allows users to upload unstructured study materials, which the platform then analyzes to generate customized learning tools such as flashcards, quizzes, and summaries. This enables students to engage with their study materials more effectively and facilitates a personalized learning experience. Additionally, Monic.ai provides an interactive element, allowing users to converse with AI using their own files, further enhancing their study capabilities. The platform aims to streamline the process of exam preparation by transforming traditional study content into actionable and tailored educational resources.

Edge

Seed Round in 2023
Edge (formerly EyeRate), the leading employee-driven growth platform, unlocks employees as a thriving sales and marketing channel for multi-location service brands like European Wax Center, Massage Envy, Gold’s Gym, Driven Brands, and Xponential Fitness. The Edge (Employee-Driven Growth Engine) platform transforms frontline teams into a trusted network of brand promoters with employee rewards that are aligned to sales growth. Edge’s industry-leading technology integrates with major Point of Sale (POS) systems enabling corporate and franchise teams to automate their customer feedback and sales competitions for thousands of locations. Edge equips operational managers to improve employee recognition with rewards for driving positive online reviews. We are headquartered in Sacramento and backed by investors like Mucker Capital, Jason Calacanis’ Launch Accelerator, and Moneta Ventures to redefine how frontline employees earn and service brands win.

threesixfive (365.)

Angel Round in 2023
365 is the easiest way to log meals. Take a photo and let AI count your calories in seconds. Users have lost over +20lbs with 365 since our launch in December 2022.

Slate

Seed Round in 2023
Slate, Ltd. is a content creation platform designed for social media, offering a range of tools such as custom fonts, colors, filters, graphics, and animations through a mobile application. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the platform facilitates brand management and content creation specifically for teams, enabling them to maintain brand consistency across their social media posts. Slate's user-friendly interface allows organizations to produce and share on-brand content efficiently on various platforms, including Instagram stories. The company has gained recognition for its innovative approach, having been listed as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2022, and is utilized by prominent brands like the NFL, VISA, and Budweiser.

RealReports

Venture Round in 2023
RealReports is an AI-driven property advisory platform tailored for real estate agents, aimed at enhancing value, boosting sales, and reducing risk. The platform aggregates data from over 60 leading industry providers, delivering comprehensive insights on residential properties across the United States. By utilizing a sophisticated AI named Aiden, RealReports can answer inquiries, analyze documents, and generate leads, offering a competitive edge to real estate professionals. The service is trusted by prominent multiple listing services and brokerages, ensuring agents and their clients benefit from reliable and actionable information. Additionally, RealReports incorporates a unique data marketplace that assigns NFT tokens to properties, providing privacy-controlled access to a historical record of real estate transactions. This innovation enables homeowners to make informed decisions regarding their properties throughout the buying, ownership, and selling processes.

Oqire

Angel Round in 2023
Oqire helps streamline the sales discovery process and optimize collaboration between presales and sales professionals, helping them deliver more deal-winning demos. The process of uncovering an organization’s business challenges, and the value they can derive from your solution, is not a one-time activity. The insight gained across BDRs, Account Executives and Presales Consultants needs to be shared and leveraged throughout the sales cycle. By helping optimize the overall discovery process, Oqire ensures Presales Consultants have the detailed information they need to deliver a deal-winning demo, effectively position against potential competitors and overcome objections in the mind of the buyer.

Frenter

Seed Round in 2023
Frenter is a comprehensive platform designed for the rental industry, offering a robust technical infrastructure that enables businesses to make informed decisions and minimize risks. The company provides a suite of tools for fleet management, incorporating telematics, usage data, and equipment health insights. Frenter's software facilitates real-time monitoring of equipment, utilizing cellular and satellite GPS to track assets even in remote locations. With features such as asset management, GPS tracking, fleet analytics, maintenance scheduling, and logistics tracking, Frenter equips rental businesses with the necessary insights to optimize operations and reduce downtime.

LeaseMagnets

Pre Seed Round in 2022
LeaseMagnets is a digital leasing assistant focused on enhancing the real estate leasing experience. The company's primary offering is a video-based tool that integrates seamlessly into apartment websites, allowing potential renters to visualize life in their prospective homes. This innovative approach simplifies the leasing process by providing comprehensive property insights and personalized virtual tours. LeaseMagnets aims to improve lead capture and facilitate in-person tours, ultimately helping clients convert website visitors into signed leases. Additionally, the company offers resources for optimizing apartment marketing campaigns, further supporting property managers in their leasing efforts.
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