Lighthouse Labs RVA

Lighthouse Labs has been Investing In The Lives of Founders™ since 2012 - when we launched our pilot program with a few teams and some big dreams. Since then, we’ve worked with hundreds of founders and 72 companies. Lighthouse Labs has invested over $1,000,000 and, as a 501(c)3 non-profit, has never taken equity in the companies we serve and the founders we support. Simply put, we help good people with good ideas - and we love what we do.

Erin Powell

Executive Director

58 past transactions

DIA

Grant in 2023
Dia has invented an electrochemical sensor that can measure a wide variety of chemical biomarkers non-invasively in saliva or sweat. The data is sent via Bluetooth to an app on the user’s smartphone and analyzed in real-time. From the app, it can be securely sent to a third party. To date, we have measured hormones, electrolytes, neurotransmitters and metabolites. At DIA, we let the biology dictate which analyte we put on which platform – our wearable arm sleeve for sweat or our table-top device for saliva – because some biomarkers, such as cortisol fluctuate throughout the day and need to be monitored through a wearable sensor, while others, such as creatinine are more suitable to a daily saliva test.

TMA Precision Health

Grant in 2022
TMA Precision Health is to improve the lives of rare disease patients everywhere. Give patients better treatment options today.

CRCL Solutions

Grant in 2022
CRCL provides wind and solar forecasting information for ERCOT's day-ahead and real-time markets. The company was founded in the year 2021 and is based in South Bend, Indiana.

Nessle

Grant in 2022
Nessle offers an online platform that connects new and expectant parents with perinatal experts for on-demand virtual care.

Ourobio

Grant in 2022
Our mission is to develop cutting-edge, bio-based technologies to accelerate decarbonization and eliminate the creation of microplastic pollution. Using engineered microorganisms, our proprietary bioprocess turns industrial byproducts into a low-footprint, a fully biodegradable polymer and performance enhancing additives simultaneously.

CaseCTRL

Grant in 2022
More Surgeries. Happier Patients. - Built by surgeons for surgical practices, CaseCTRL’s patent-pending surgery scheduling & management platform improves surgical revenue and patient care. In the United States, 51M patients are unprepared for surgery, resulting in lost time, patients, and $50B of surgical revenue annually. CaseCTRL uses artificial intelligence to automate surgery scheduling workflows, eliminate the administrative burden, and cultivate rewarding relationships with every surgical patient. By effectively engaging patients and tracking metrics that enhance patient care, CaseCTRL reduces surgery cancellations, complications, operational costs, and maximizes surgical case revenue.

Hoth Intelligence

Grant in 2022
Seeing is everything. We use augmented reality to make healthcare better.

Kinometrix

Grant in 2022
Kinometrix has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) platform using electronic health record (EHR) data to predict patient harm events in hospitals. Our first solution automates patient fall-risk assessment and provides accurate, real-time fall risk predictions with specific risk drivers directly to the frontline clinician.

On-Time Trials

Grant in 2022
On-Time Trials is a software-as-a-service company that uses machine learning to streamline the clinical trial monitoring process.

LipLoveLine

Grant in 2022
LipLoveLine is a company that bills itself as an ingredient-conscious lip care brand aimed at enhancing natural beauty, simplifying personal care routines, and inspiring self-acceptance.

Viora Health

Grant in 2022
Viora Health (www.viorahealth.com) is a health and wellness company whose mission is to empower diverse populations to advance health equity. Our tech-enabled human-centered programs use social and behavioral engagement to improve capacity, satisfaction, outcomes, and revenue for providers. Our work is funded by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Johnson and Johnson (J&J) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) and validated using an IRB approved study. Our programs have achieved 75% satisfaction score with 2x retention, and improved outcomes (lower stress, improved activation, social support, and food access).

Koda Health

Grant in 2021
Koda curbs the delivery of inappropriate care by digitally guiding patients through personalized end of life conversations, empowering them to make informed decisions and retain control of their healthcare journey. We ensure that patient’s healthcare preferences are protected while generating revenue for health systems, saving millions in unwanted expenditure, and collecting a valuable dataset on patient personas and care preferences.

Interstride

Grant in 2021
Interstride is an education technology company that provides student support services to higher education institutions. The company collaborates with colleges and universities to empower students in their journey.

HUED

Grant in 2021
HUED is a digital health company focused on improving quality of care for Black and Latinx populations through education, access and data.

Bookclubs

Grant in 2020
Bookclubs is an application that allows users to create clubs, schedule meetings, and choose books. The app currently helps over 250,000 members get organized and read together with tools to create clubs, schedule meetings, send messages, and discover what to read next.

MindCo Health

Grant in 2020
MindCo Health delivers accessible digital therapeutics solutions to change addictions globally, combining VR, neuroscience, and mindfulness. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

ArchiveCore

Grant in 2020
ArchiveCore is a verification software company. The challenges in the verification of training and competency are not unique to healthcare, and they work with clients from many professions, including education, skilled trades, and engineering. Each document has a unique digital fingerprint that helps your future employer verify the authenticity of your credentials.

Polycarbin

Grant in 2020
Polycarbin is leading the way in creating a robust circular plastics economy for the biopharmaceutical and life science industry. At Polycarbin, we work with laboratories to transform what is a valuable and often overlooked plastic waste stream into a recycled feedstock fit for re-use in the laboratory manufacturing supply chain.

Navattic

Grant in 2020
Navattic helps marketing and sales teams instantly create interactive product demos.

Kamana

Grant in 2019
The healthcare staffing industry is running on outdated software, phone calls, and emails. This is leading to missed opportunities and financial waste for everybody involved. Kamana is a SaaS platform eliminating the inefficient and expensive processes used to manage healthcare credentials and fill jobs. With an initial focus on the temporary healthcare staffing market, Kamana provide nurses and allied health professionals a universal credential management and sharing platform that eliminates time consuming and repetitive work, and healthcare employers an onboarding, credential/compliance management, and workflow automation platform that enables them to operate on lower margins and remain competitive in today’s changing market.

Terravive

Grant in 2019
Terravive is the global innovator and supplier of compostable Foodservice consumables including cups, cutlery, straws, to-go containers, shopping bags, bottles, plates, bowls, trays, sandwich bags, films, and customized products. Designed and manufactured in the USA, Terravive’s patent protected products support cilents throughout the USA and internationally. Terravive’s American made compostable products quickly degrade in a variety of mediums from freshwater and seawater to home and commercial composting facilities to municipal landfills. Terravive’s Foodservice disposables are FDA approved for food contact, and comply with domestic and international sustainability regulations including BPI, California Proposition 65, TUV Austria, EC 1935/2004, and ASTM 6400. Terravive is woman, minority and Veteran owned and is currently shipping products in 5 continents.

Light The Music

Grant in 2019
LIGHT THE MUSIC lets mobile music lovers play, remix, create and share visual music, using content sets from their favorite artists. By playing with intuitive visuals that represent sounds, users can make real music in minutes. It’s like Instagram for music fans.

NIRSleep

Grant in 2019
NIRSleep is developing an easy-to-use wearable neuroimaging platform to monitor neural activity by measuring cerebral oxygenation.

Bionica Labs

Grant in 2019
Bionica Labs is a wellness and fitness company that develops hardware for the digital health industry. They build wearable monitoring systems to solve problems for doctors and patients.

Hellofriend

Grant in 2019
Hellofriend is a social ordering platform where users can order and pay ahead at their favorite local businesses. With Hellofriend, users can invite their friends and order together to unlock exclusive rewards and collect points. Users can share points with their friends and stay up to date through the friends feed and in-app messaging. Hellofriend provides tools like contactless in-store ordering & payment, mobile ordering, and guest loyalty for businesses to succeed in today’s competitive market. Backed by: Harvard Innovation Lab, Lighthouse Labs (Capital One), Accathon Capital, Right Side Capital Management and CounterPointe Ventures.

Fringe

Grant in 2019
Fringe is a lifestyle benefits marketplace that makes benefits personalized to the individual and self-selected by each employee. The company was founded in 2018 and based in Richmond, Virginia.

Goodfynd

Grant in 2019
Goodfynd is an on-demand marketplace for food trucks.

Humanitru

Grant in 2019
Humanitru provides nonprofits across a variety of verticals (museums, food banks, higher ed, etc.) with an integrated approach to data and payments: our core platform provides one universal view into all of the ways people engage with nonprofits. From donation processing, membership payments, volunteer opportunities, event and ticketing management, digital marketing; these data and payment sources all integrate to form behavioral profiles and donor cohorts. With these integrations coupled with operational automations (marketing, workflows, etc.) nonprofits are empowered to solve key issues around donor retention and acquisition. They make better fundraising choices to drive revenue, and provide their donors and consumers with an elevated experience expected from the modern nonprofit. We are re-inventing nonprofit software and providing them with the operating system that they need today to support the modern donor.

Babylon Micro-Farms

Grant in 2019
Babylon Micro-Farms offers a smart, scalable indoor farm tailored to meet the client's needs. At the touch of a button, Babylon delivers a simple yet engaging indoor growing experience. Babylon Micro-Farms is leveraging its remote management technology to develop a complete indoor farming platform that will power a distributed network of micro-farms across North America. They designed a low-cost microfarm to provide nutritious produce for food-insecure refugees in the Middle East. Alexander and Graham were initially inspired by the desire to bring the benefits of sustainable hydroponic farming to those who needed them. They set out to develop technology that would automate the complex aspects of indoor farming and, in doing so, make this transformative method of crop production accessible to anyone.

Brandefy

Grant in 2018
Brandefy is a Developer of a personal care product reviewing platform designed to offer reviews and information about those products. The company's platform shows shoppers how store brand and name brand products stack up against each other utilizing honest, straightforward consumer feedback and it also offers its own reviews encompassing ingredient analyses, it's own experiences with the product and chemical analyses when necessary, enabling customers to discover unknown information about the products before actually purchasing or using it.

Tablee

Grant in 2018
Tablee Company has a goal to make the hospitality industry's customer experience easier. They offer services and technologies that allow for further effective and direct connections between visitors and staff.

Radify Labs

Grant in 2018
Radify Labs is an internship center open to all students who are in preparation of actual internship to their desired job. They help students to pick a company that will be best suited for their internship. They provide internship program in different topics such as web design, digital marketing, graphic design, data sciences, entrepreneurship, and software engineering.

EdConnective

Grant in 2018
Provider of an online video coaching platform intended to foster teacher growth to impact student achievement. The company's platform helps teachers to receive coaching on teaching, share game tapes with their instructional coaches, get personalized feedback and grow teaching practice, enabling the student to have access to a highly effective teacher. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Virginia, United States.

Quinncia

Grant in 2018
Quinncia is an AI-based career development platform that helps students improve interview skills, polish resumes and find jobs. With the mission to make career development a part of academic curriculum, Quinncia allows career service to scale their offerings allowing each student to get personalized feedback on their resume and interviewing skills. Quinncia then connects students to potential employers who use Quinncia's AI to conduct first-round interviews. Quinncia was founded in 2015 by Himal Ahuja and Steve Farthing.

EnrichHER

Grant in 2018
EnrichHER Funding is fueling the growth of women-led businesses by enabling female founders to secure capital in an affordable and non-dilutive way. Similar to Kiva, they provide investors with an opportunity to lend to small businesses. EnrichHER Loans range from $50,000 to $75,000 and are made to pre-screened women-led companies.

Blueswipe

Grant in 2017
Blueswipe offers new point of sale systems and modern terminals. Get the equipment you need included in your low, flat-rate monthly subscription. No lease or purchase required. Gain access to advanced in-person processing capabilities and a large library of helpful apps and tools ready to add business value — timesheets, analytics, table management and more. Blueswipe Is Payments Made For Local Business. Too big for Square and not satisfied with poor service and high prices from big banks? Blueswipe delivers savings, simplicity, and service that makes you smile. Better Pricing: simple monthly subscription, no contract or hidden fees. Simple Switch: Integrate with your current POS, or get new equipment included with your subscription. Exceptional Service: available, reliable, personal. Always smile-worthy.

AnswersNow

Grant in 2017
AnswersNow is an app that revolutionized autism support by utilizing the use of technology. All of their clinicians are board-certified behavioral analysts. With thousands of hours of training, ongoing certifications, and master's level education requirements.

RoundTrip

Grant in 2017
RoundTrip is disrupting the medical transportation industry by providing on-demand medical transportation for hospitals, healthcare organizations, transportation organizations, and health plans.They get the ins and outs of care coordination because they started as paramedics and EMTs before earning MBAs and executive positions at some of the largest healthcare and medical transportation companies in the world. RoundTrip schedules, dispatches, and monitors non-emergency transportation for organizations and their riders in ten states. A few of their major partners include Mount Sinai Health System, Cooper University Health System, MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, Nemours Children’s Hospital, Crozer-Keystone Health System, and GRTC (the government paratransit program) of Richmond and Henrico Counties, VA. It offers easy-to-use online and mobile platforms that connect patients with non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT).

GOGO Band

Grant in 2016
GOGO Band is pioneering the use of machine learning and AI predictive analytics using biometric data captured from fourth generation wearables to help manage chronic health conditions and illnesses. This novel approach is first being deployed in a non-invasive, non-pharmaceutical, biometric driven home-based consumer solution for Pediatric Enuresis (PE), more commonly known as bed wetting, which is the #1 chronic health condition in children worldwide.

Pearl

Grant in 2016
Pearl provides a tutoring platform for educational organizations and institutions. The company supports educators in producing real, lasting growth for their students and their businesses.

Fenris

Grant in 2016
Fenris is a single API for data and insight used to streamline customer acquisition and improve retention for insurance products. Their clients (agencies, carriers, and financial services providers) leverage their APIs to inject insights and data into their workflows, increase conversions, and deliver killer Amazon-like customer journeys. Developer-first is our approach; it's the easy, secure way to access external data and custom algorithms that identify customers and ease the way. Their suite of APIs covers 95% of the US (255 million adults, 130 million households, 99% of properties (residential and commercial), 35 million small businesses, and 40 million new life events annually). Machine learning analytics engine that consistently hones its predictive scores to deliver more results right at the point of quote signals and scoring that streamline work flows and improve turn-around time in traditional and embedded purchase pathways.

GlassSmith

Grant in 2016
Provider of a web-based platform designed for repairing cell phones and smart phones. The company's mobile phone repairing platform fixes a number of issues with mobile phones to ranging from cracked screens to more complicated matters enabling users to get the phone repaired. It also purchases old cell phones to be refurbished or used for parts.

Spira

Grant in 2016
Spira has spent years in product development to create the source of food-safe dye. It creates industrial ingredients that replace petroleum and animal compounds using cyanobacteria. They produce products and services that help human and planetary health.

skraach

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
We are automated interior design. skraach is a faster, smarter way to furnish your space. With just three simple, shape-based questions, our proprietary DesignDNA algorithm takes the bias out of discovering your unique design style. We give you an entire style personality and profile, with a name (like The Visionary Modernist or Rugged Connoisseur) and a percentage breakdown of your top four primary styles and two accessory styles. We use that data to match you with furnishings we know you'll like from our partner retailers. "Don't start from scratch. Start with skraach."

Map My Customers

Grant in 2016
Map My Customers offers a geospatial sales platform designed to help marketing agents map and share customers' locations. The platform features email automation, sales funnel, route optimization, charts, and easy CRM features, enabling business owners to drive more sales with visual territory management resulting in increased revenue, efficiency, and accountability. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Painless1099

Convertible Note in 2015
Painless1099 is the first "portable benefits package" for self-employment. It’s a smart bank account that separates taxes from your income, automates health insurance payments, helps set up a SEP IRA to hit retirement goals, and sets some money aside for a rainy day, among other benefits not traditionally available to freelancers. Now, freelancers can access all the benefits of a W2 job and still stay in control of their self-employment career.

Upchurch Chocolate

Grant in 2015
Upchurch Chocolate They make chocolate – small batch, craft chocolate from the beans.

OccasionGenius

Grant in 2015
OccasionGenius is the most comprehensive and personalized event technology company for enterprise clients. Using AI, OccasionGenius identifies events, classifies events based on its patented technology, and makes recommendations for each user's "interest genome". Part of the genius is that it gets smarter with every click, getting to know each user's event interests. Several verticals use OccasionGenius' technology on an enterprise level. Examples include: 1) Hotels - OccasionGenius offers a "proactive concierge" service with an event digest outlining events happening during a guest's stay, with 2 days before and after and a button allowing guests to "extend my stay." The valuable customer service add-on allows hotels to wow guests, compete with AirBnB, brand themselves as local and experiential, and increase overall customer satisfaction reviews. 2) Universities - OccasionGenius offers universities a way to integrate new students into the community at large with a Friday community events email populated by OccasionGenius. Events are customized for the student body - for instance, a business school can focus on business-related events in the area. 3) Relocation - OccasionGenius provides relocation companies with a valuable service helping employees who are new to the area get acclimated and connected to their new community, through a weekly email that shows the events picked for them in their new neighborhood. 4) Real Estate Agent CRMs - OccasionGenius provides agents a co-branded weekly email to provide value to their clients after the sale as a closing gift, which allows the agents to stay top of mind and to brand themselves as a local expert.

Zoozil

Grant in 2015
Zoozil is a publishing company that publishes K-12 books for young readers. They combine the elements of interactivity, compelling information, and exciting storytelling to captivate readers from grades K-12.

Painless1099

Grant in 2015
Painless1099 is the first "portable benefits package" for self-employment. It’s a smart bank account that separates taxes from your income, automates health insurance payments, helps set up a SEP IRA to hit retirement goals, and sets some money aside for a rainy day, among other benefits not traditionally available to freelancers. Now, freelancers can access all the benefits of a W2 job and still stay in control of their self-employment career.

MajorClarity

Grant in 2015
MajorClarity is an online platform that creates learning environments for students, in all stages of their education. By creating pressure-free, non-result-based learning environments, the platform facilitates exploratory learning for students. It provides students with a college or career exploration platform, and helps counselors’ better track and advice students. MajorClarity is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Tenant Turner

Grant in 2014
Tenant Turner is a Y Combinator-company formed out of the aftermath of the 2008 financial and housing crisis.

Nudge Coach

Grant in 2014
Coaching online is messy, so we're on a mission to perfect the way coaching programs are delivered. Built to make online coaching easier, more effective and more scalable, Nudge Coach makes it easy to customize a coaching app for your clients, deliver your program, and keep more clients on track to reach their goals.

KickUp

Grant in 2014
KickUp helps professional development teams differentiate teacher support through analytics. Its SaaS-based analytics platform is designed to offer professional learning services. The analytics platform helps users customize pre-loaded goals to align with their district or region's strategic goals, pull together real-time data from surveys. They partner with K-12 organizations to coordinate professional learning efforts, improve decision-making, and ensure that great ideas translate into demonstrable outcomes in the classroom. Jeremy Rogoff, Victoria Kinzig, and Eric Krupski headquartered KickUp in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2014.

Blue Ocean Brain

Grant in 2014
Blue Ocean Brain is a pioneering microlearning firm that combines collaborative consultation, award-winning content, and flexible integration options to help clients of all sizes and industries across the globe develop a high-performing culture of inclusion and learning that aligns with and supports their strategic priorities. Produced fresh daily, Blue Ocean Brain's interactive content and modern user experience bring mission-critical material to the on-the-go learner in a way that fits easily into the natural flow of their workday. Blue Ocean Brain's content is designed to upskill busy employees around important initiatives such as diversity and inclusion, leadership development, employee mental health and well-being, critical thinking, change management, and much more.

Kyndi

Grant in 2014
Kyndi's Natural Language Search solution helps organizations find answers in unstructured, text-based data at unmatched speed and precision.
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