MI Ventures

MI Ventures, founded in 2009 and based in New York, is a venture capital firm that focuses on advising and investing in innovative and disruptive business ventures. The firm specializes in seed and series A investments, aiming to support early-stage companies in validating their business models and ideas. MI Ventures is particularly interested in the technology sector, seeking opportunities that have the potential to create a positive impact on society.

Aamer Abdullah

Principal

Aaron Allon

Senior Associate

Shazim Chhapra

Principal

Pema Sherpa

Associate

47 past transactions

Shoppable

Series A in 2016
Shoppable is a technology company that specializes in e-commerce solutions, founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York. The company offers a patented universal checkout API that enables advertisers, retailers, and publishers to develop various shoppable experiences, including websites, content, advertisements, and mobile applications. Shoppable's platform enhances affiliate marketing by integrating shopping experiences into paid search, display, and social media, while also providing turnkey embeddable commerce options for maximum flexibility on both desktop and mobile devices. With a focus on innovation, Shoppable aims to streamline the shopping process and reduce marketing costs for its clients.

Beacon

Series A in 2015
Beacon is an unlimited flight solution for New York and Boston. For as low as $1,750 a month, Beacon members get access to regularly scheduled flights, operated by one of Beacon’s licensed operating partners, on mid-sized executive aircraft. With concierges on location at the private air terminals used by Beacon, standing ready to help with everything from car rentals, to drinks or flowers, the Beacon team is marrying high-touch service with air travel to create a one-of-a-kind experience. To learn more about Beacon, the team, or membership please visit www.flybeacon.com, @flybeacon, facebook.com/flybeacon and youtube.com/flybeacon.

CoPromote

Seed Round in 2015
CoPromote, Inc. operates a social exchange platform designed to assist individuals and organizations in expanding their audience. The platform allows users to promote their content within a community, connect with other content creators, and share recommended promotions across various networks. It enables users to discover and share relevant content while facilitating real-time engagement with fans of other influencers. The service caters to a diverse range of content creators, including artists, bloggers, brands, businesses, musicians, and tastemakers. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, CoPromote was previously known as Headliner.fm Corp. before rebranding in February 2014.

Pcb:Ng

Seed Round in 2015
PCB:NG provides software optimized electronics manufacturing services. It manufactures electronic devices on the basis of electronic device designs uploaded by the consumers. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

BoxC

Venture Round in 2015
BoxC allows shippers and logistics providers access to an open international shipping network that is more reliable than postal carriers and cheaper than express carriers. All pay as you go. Unlike a traditional infrastructure, international shipping is available without the burdens of capacity planning, carrier contracts, partner integration, and fragmented customs clearance and tax requirements. The open international shipping network is accessible to every shipper and logistics provider through BoxC’s platform. No matter if you're building a large, complex shipping network, expanding your delivery service area, or needing better international shipping for your packages.

Social Rewards

Seed Round in 2014
Social Rewards, Inc. offers social media based loyalty marketing programs. It provides social media, affiliate programs, and loyalty marketing services. The company’s loyalty marketing program awards brand consumers for engaging in social media activity. It serves airlines, hotels, dining, movies/movie theaters, e-commerce, merchandise, and conferences/live events. Social Rewards, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Torrance, California.

PlanGrid

Series A in 2014
PlanGrid provides a cloud-based construction document collaboration platform that allows plans, markups, photos, and reports to be instantaneously shared with everyone on a construction project. Its platform lets contractors and architects collaborate from their desktop or mobile devices across all their project plans, specifications, photos, RFIs, and punchlists. Major construction firms use the platform of PlanGrid. Kenny Stone, Ralph Gootee, Ryan Sutton-Gee, and Tracy Young founded Loupe in 2011 that later became PlanGrid, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

BeGood Clothing

Seed Round in 2014
BeGood Clothing is the perfect fusion of San Francisco's philanthropic culture and fashion sensibility. It is a socially responsible clothing store nestled in the heart of the Marina District on Union Street. BeGood offers a dazzling selection of men's and women's fashion-forward apparel that supports a number of environmental and humanitarian causes. Owners Dean Ramadan and Mark Spera have an eye for fashion and a heart for humanity.

Tamatem

Seed Round in 2014
Tamatem Inc. is a mobile gaming studio and publishing company headquartered in Amman, Jordan, with an additional office in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2013, Tamatem focuses on developing and localizing games for Arabic-speaking smartphone users, addressing a significant market gap. The company collaborates with international studios and developers to publish various genres, including MMO-RPG, strategy, racing, puzzle, and trivia games, ensuring these titles are culturally relevant for the Arabic gamer. With a strong emphasis on localization, user acquisition, and monetization strategies, Tamatem has successfully published over 40 games that collectively have garnered more than 50 million downloads. As a leader in the MENA market, Tamatem's expertise aids in enhancing game visibility and revenue potential for its partners.

ResolutionTube

Seed Round in 2013
ResolutionTube is a patented mobile augmented reality collaboration platform for the customer service industry, initially targeting the field service industry. We connect the engineers on the field with the experts using our patent pending video platform. Connect to the right person at the right time. Get answers not only from your colleagues but from everyone within the organization. Video chat with them right away. The video chats are recorded and vetted before they become part of a tutorial. The knowledge center gets richer and more useful with time.

EndlessTV

Seed Round in 2013
EndlessTV is a TV network and internet company. It operates a mobile video distribution network. The company operates a network of mobile video applications including Endless News, Endless Sports, Endless Celebrity, and Endless Tech; and enables users to swipe to watch videos with no lag or latency. The company was founded by Nathaniel McNamara and Michael Weiksner in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.

Whisk

Seed Round in 2013
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Cambrian Genomics

Seed Round in 2013
Cambrian Genomics makes the first hardware/systems for laser printing DNA. Researchers in academia & industry order or clone >$1b/year of DNA. CGI delivers high quality sequence verified DNA to buyers in this existing/growing worldwide market.

Scoot

Seed Round in 2013
Scoot offered shared, electric mobility-as-a-service, including electric mopeds, electric cars, electric bicycles, and electric scooters in San Francisco, Barcelona, and Santiago. In 2012, Scoot was the first company to offer electric vehicles for rent through a smartphone app. In 2019, Scoot was acquired by Bird.

Playdate Digital

Seed Round in 2013
Playdate Digital Inc. specializes in developing mobile educational software for children, available on iOS and Android platforms. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, the company focuses on fostering essential literacy skills through interactive applications. One of its notable products, Play-Doh Create ABCs, aids children in learning to recognize and write letters while associating them with sounds. Playdate Digital emphasizes the value of play in children's learning, encouraging exploration and social interaction through its engaging apps. The company's mission revolves around creating entertaining and educational experiences that support holistic child development.

Bottlenose

Series A in 2013
Bottlenose, Inc. is a business intelligence software company specializing in real-time data analysis to identify threats and opportunities for enterprises. Its primary product, Nerve Center, is a SaaS solution designed for enterprise analysts and strategists, enabling them to monitor various aspects of their business, including brand reputation, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, and crisis response. By automating processes such as machine learning, data mining, and predictive analytics, Bottlenose allows clients to focus on extracting valuable insights rather than managing data. The platform identifies patterns and trends within large volumes of rapidly changing information, facilitating comprehensive business awareness. Founded in 2010, Bottlenose is based in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Los Angeles and New York City, and caters primarily to Fortune 100 companies.

MAZ

Seed Round in 2013
MAZ Systems Inc. is a cloud-based software provider that specializes in content logistics, enabling brands, media, and publishers to efficiently publish various types of content, including articles, videos, images, and audio, across multiple channels. The company's platform supports distribution to mobile applications, OTT services, social media, video and news aggregators, gaming consoles, voice assistants, and wearable devices, all managed from a single dashboard. Since its founding in 2010 and based in New York, MAZ has served over 1,000 companies, processing and distributing more than half a billion pieces of content to millions of users in over 200 countries. Trusted by notable brands such as Bloomberg, Hearst, and Conde Nast, MAZ has received recognition from publications like INC and Entrepreneur for its innovative contributions to the industry.

FaithStreet

Seed Round in 2013
FaithStreet is a social network for faith communities to post prayer requests and church programs, offer support, and make online donations.

Social Rewards

Seed Round in 2012
Social Rewards, Inc. offers social media based loyalty marketing programs. It provides social media, affiliate programs, and loyalty marketing services. The company’s loyalty marketing program awards brand consumers for engaging in social media activity. It serves airlines, hotels, dining, movies/movie theaters, e-commerce, merchandise, and conferences/live events. Social Rewards, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Torrance, California.

MAZ

Seed Round in 2012
MAZ Systems Inc. is a cloud-based software provider that specializes in content logistics, enabling brands, media, and publishers to efficiently publish various types of content, including articles, videos, images, and audio, across multiple channels. The company's platform supports distribution to mobile applications, OTT services, social media, video and news aggregators, gaming consoles, voice assistants, and wearable devices, all managed from a single dashboard. Since its founding in 2010 and based in New York, MAZ has served over 1,000 companies, processing and distributing more than half a billion pieces of content to millions of users in over 200 countries. Trusted by notable brands such as Bloomberg, Hearst, and Conde Nast, MAZ has received recognition from publications like INC and Entrepreneur for its innovative contributions to the industry.

Appy Couple

Seed Round in 2012
Appy Couple enables users to create and publish personal mobile wedding apps and websites to share details and photos. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York.

CourseHorse

Seed Round in 2012
CourseHorse, Inc. operates an online platform that simplifies the process of finding and enrolling in a diverse range of classes. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, the platform offers opportunities in subjects such as art, cooking, health and fitness, languages, performing arts, professional development, technology, and children's education. By partnering with various class providers, CourseHorse serves as a centralized destination for individuals seeking personal enrichment and skill development. The platform enhances the learning experience by enabling users to compare options and easily enroll in courses that align with their interests and goals.

Bucketfeet

Seed Round in 2012
BucketFeet, Inc., doing business as BucketFeet, designs and manufactures shoes for men, women, and children. It also offers tees, hoodies, and socks. The company provides its products online. BucketFeet, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of October 23, 2017, BucketFeet, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SkinnyCorp, LLC.

Commerce Sciences

Seed Round in 2012
Commerce Sciences Ltd. develops and offers web personalization and on-site optimization. The company develops an engine that provides automatic personalization and analysis of online buyers' conduct. It serves e-commerce sites. Commerce Sciences Ltd. was founded in 2011 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of January 1, 2017, Commerce Sciences Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Taboola Inc.

SimpleReach

Seed Round in 2012
SimpleReach is the #1 way for brands to measure and improve content ROI. By bringing together hundreds of data sources across websites, social channels, and publishers into the world's largest content data cloud, SimpleReach enables brands to understand how their content drives business outcomes everywhere. Leading content marketers like Intel, Chase, and Home Depot rely on the SimpleReach platform to generate actionable insights that improve the impact of their content creation and distribution. Learn more at www.simplereach.com

500 Labs

Venture Round in 2012
500 Labs, formerly known as 500 Startups, is a global venture capital firm and startup accelerator established in 2010 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. The firm focuses on seed and early-stage investments across a wide range of sectors, including technology, financial services, biotech, and various emerging markets. It aims to support small and medium-sized startups through funding, mentorship, and a structured four-month accelerator program. 500 Labs invests between $0.05 million and $1 million for equity stakes of 5 to 10 percent in companies with monthly revenues of at least $100,000 and valuations between $1.54 million and $7.69 million. The firm has a strong emphasis on diversity, actively seeking to invest in companies led by minority founders. With a global footprint, 500 Labs operates in regions such as the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and has supported over 2,200 startups since its inception. It also contributes to building startup ecosystems through educational initiatives and global partnerships.

Reclip.It

Angel Round in 2012
Reclip.It is a personalized shopping list app that helps people save money by matching list items with digital coupons and weekly ads from top retail stores like Walmart, Macy's, Walgreens, Target, BestBuy, Home Depot, CVS, etc. In 2012, Reclip.It was selected by Instyle Magazine as "Best of the Web" and previously received funding from 500Startups, Great Oaks VC and angel investors in Silicon Valley and NYC. In 2013, the Reclip.It team joined Walmart Labs to continue their work to help tens of millions of people "save more money and live better" by combining advanced personalization technology with big data to develop new, differentiated experiences for the savvy shopper on walmart.com.

Gizmo.com

Seed Round in 2011
Gizmo is a cloud-based multichannel marketing platform for mobile, tablet, social, and web. Gizmo is a venture-backed San Francisco based company which provides a suite of tools for marketers to build, deploy, and manage cross-platform marketing campaigns. Currently gizmo is in private beta, testing with fortune 500 brands. If you are interested to become a part of the private beta please email contact@gizmo.com. Furthermore, you can sign up at http://www.gizmo.com.

Adility

Series A in 2011
Adility LLC is a technology company that facilitates online-to-offline commerce transactions through a suite of digital promotion tools. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with an additional office in San Francisco, Adility provides three main products: Adility Gateway, Adility Cloud, and Adility Console. The Adility Gateway serves as a RESTful API that enables the creation and distribution of prepaid products, services, and coupons, integrating seamlessly with point-of-sale systems for in-store redemption and settlement. The Adility Cloud acts as a storage solution for these promotions, allowing brands and retailers to manage their offerings and target specific audiences through location and demographic data. Finally, the Adility Console offers a user-friendly interface for brands, retailers, and publishers to oversee their business development activities and campaigns without needing to navigate complex technical processes. Adility operates as a subsidiary of InComm, Inc.

Rentabilities

Seed Round in 2011
Rentabilities, Inc. owns and operates a Website through which it enables a user to search for items that can be rented. The company also offers online payments and reservations. Rentabilities, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

ModeWalk

Seed Round in 2011
ModeWalk Inc. operates an online marketplace that connects luxury designers and craftsmen directly with consumers. Founded in 2010 and based in Palo Alto, California, the platform allows designers to engage with customers, receive feedback, and drive traffic to their offerings. ModeWalk provides wardrobe stylist services and expert fashion advice, previously accessible only to affluent individuals, thereby democratizing personal styling. Utilizing proprietary technology, the platform enables a network of personal stylists to create tailored outfit selections for clients, enhancing their shopping experience. Clients can interact with stylists by providing feedback on curated outfits and making purchases directly through the site. Additionally, ModeWalk offers members exclusive access to premier runway shows, showcasing the latest in European fashion and reinforcing the company's commitment to luxury and personalized service.

MomentFeed

Seed Round in 2011
MomentFeed, Inc. is a company that specializes in mobile customer experience management software tailored for various industries, including automotive, banking, restaurants, retail, telecommunications, and travel. Founded in 2010 and based in Santa Monica, California, MomentFeed offers a comprehensive platform that helps multi-location brands optimize their visibility in local search results. Its services include tools for managing social media engagement, executing national and multi-market advertising campaigns, and maintaining digital reputation. Additionally, MomentFeed provides solutions for aligning and cleaning location data, as well as enhancing digital presence through location-specific marketing strategies. The platform is designed to automate local-mobile search triggers, thereby increasing customer engagement and driving foot traffic to physical locations, ultimately contributing to revenue growth for brands.

CityPockets

Seed Round in 2011
CityPockets is a digital wallet for daily deals. Users enter their login credentials to a number of different group-buying/daily deal sites (Groupon, LivingSocial, BuyWithMe, Restaurant.com and many more) and their system automatically populate their account with all of their vouchers on a single dashboard. CityPockets send custom email reminders before a voucher expire, and have iPhone & Android app for mobile redemption. In April 2011, CityPockets launched a secondary marketplace for deals so that people can buy & sell past deals, which is a $1-2B market. With the acquisition of DealBurner in August 2011, CityPockets is poised to have the largest inventory of deals past, present and instant. It signals a focus on mobile and location-based deal alerts, and is slowly becoming a full-service provider for its users to buy, manage and sell deals all on a single platform.

Dygest

Seed Round in 2011
Dygest is the maker of Scoople, a social platform for playing the news. It combines three fundamental human behaviors into a new and exciting experience: Information consumption, expression of opinions, and predictions about what others think. By “picking a side”, users can share their opinion on any news story while collecting points for guessing the prevalent sentiment about the story or predicting its outcome. Scoople guides real-world experiences of expressing and exchanging opinions and surfacing user expertise on a given topic through simple taps of a button. Merchants and brands leverage Scoople’s platform to reach highly defined and targeted audiences by participating in the game through sponsored questions.

Pusher

Seed Round in 2011
Pusher Ltd. is a company that offers a hosted API service designed to integrate real-time bi-directional functionality into web and mobile applications, as well as other internet-connected devices. Founded in 2011 and based in London, the company provides a suite of libraries, including a JavaScript client library tailored for web and HTML5 applications. Additionally, Pusher offers features such as authentication mechanisms for private channels, presence functionality to track online users, and tools for debugging applications. Pusher has operated as a subsidiary of MessageBird B.V. since December 2020.

Mowingo

Seed Round in 2011
Mowingo, Inc. provides a personal shopping and dining solution for iPhone or Android devices. Its solutions include Mowingo, a solution for iPhones or Android devices to browse product catalogs and restaurant menus. The company’s solution enables users to decide stores, restaurants, and other local businesses to follow, as well as share shopping and dining tips with their friends; and businesses to follow reward to users for their loyalty by offering deals and information. Mowingo, Inc. is based in Palo Alto, California.

Profitably

Series A in 2011
Profitably is a web application designed to help small businesses enhance their profitability by analyzing QuickBooks data. It securely interprets financial information to generate a prioritized list of actionable recommendations aimed at improving various aspects of the business. These recommendations may include strategies such as optimizing pricing, changing vendors for office supplies, or focusing on the most profitable customers. By providing essential analytics and relevant resources, Profitably equips businesses with the tools necessary to implement these suggestions effectively, ultimately driving growth and improving the bottom line.

Open Garden

Seed Round in 2011
Open Garden is changing the way people connect to the Internet. By enabling anyone to securely share their own Internet connection and earn money, the Open Garden protocol empowers millions of people to create their own networks in their own communities, while making Internet access more affordable, faster and private.

Mediamorph

Funding Round in 2011
Mediamorph’s mission is to boost business performance and accelerate content value across the entertainment ecosystem. The company's platform provides actionable insights into financial, rights and consumption information, enabling content providers to stay connected to the rapidly growing ecosystem and complex world of video distribution.

NabeWise

Seed Round in 2011
NabeWise helps people who are moving and traveling find the right neighborhood for them.

LawPivot

Seed Round in 2010
From free legal documents to discounted rates with outstanding attorneys, LawPivot is here to help every step of the way. Since 2008, LawPivot has helped over 20 million small businesses and families create legal documents, engage with local attorneys and confidently protect their future.

Profitably

Seed Round in 2010
Profitably is a web application designed to help small businesses enhance their profitability by analyzing QuickBooks data. It securely interprets financial information to generate a prioritized list of actionable recommendations aimed at improving various aspects of the business. These recommendations may include strategies such as optimizing pricing, changing vendors for office supplies, or focusing on the most profitable customers. By providing essential analytics and relevant resources, Profitably equips businesses with the tools necessary to implement these suggestions effectively, ultimately driving growth and improving the bottom line.

Hitpost

Seed Round in 2010
Hitpost is a developer of a mobile sports betting application called Sports Bet™, designed for sports fans to wager and compete against friends. The app is available on both iOS and Android platforms and is recognized for its speed and ease of use. Sports Bet™ covers all major sports and is offered as a free-to-play game. In addition to betting, Hitpost has created a sports network that allows users to share content, photos, and community captions while providing up-to-date scores and highlights. This combination of features enhances the engagement of sports enthusiasts, facilitating connections and competition among users online.
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