Moonshots Capital makes seed stage investments in technology startups led by exceptional founders who are building products that “re-imagine” work and personal life in large and growing markets. We bring a disciplined approach to the investment process to identify companies with “moonshot” potential.

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Steereo raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-09-06 in Venture Round

STEEREO Inc. operates a music discovery platform for rideshare drivers. The company’s platform enables artists to get exposure and passengers to discover music during ride. It offers services to customers in New York, New York; and Austin, Texas. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Steereo

Acquicent raised an undisclosed amount on 2021-10-14 in Angel Round

We enable the fractional ownership of investment-grade luxury assets such as vintage cars and fine art, providing liquidity to owners of such assets while opening a new world of investment opportunities to the ordinary investor.

Asset owners can easily tap new sources of liquidity by tokenizing their unique assets while maintaining majority ownership, custody, and possession.

Ordinary investors can take positions in these assets, and in some cases trade them with no waiting period.

Acquicent

Koji raised $3000000 on 2016-10-31 in Seed Round

GoMeta, Inc. develops an augmented reality (AR) platform to create interactive posts to share on social media. It offers Metaverse, an application that discovers and interacts with characters and builds interactive experiences for others to discover; and Kojis mini apps that can be shared on all social platforms, embedded in any website, and sent via messengers and email. GoMeta, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Diego, California.

GoMeta

ProducePay raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-05-11 in Series B

Produce Pay was first conceived at Cornell University. With strong support from experienced faculty and the student body, it was able to rapidly gain momentum. Produce Pay obtained recognition from Cornell’s entrepreneurial community and was soon dubbed "The Next Johnson Start-Up," in reference to Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.

ProducePay

Cartwheel raised $3000000 on 2022-04-28 in Seed Round

We help businesses launch in-house delivery or upgrade their third-party delivery infrastructure. Companies save on costs, keep their brand identity, and have full control over visibility and data. We have dozens of integrations including Olo and ezCater. Our clients include P.F. Changs, Portillo's, and Charleys Philly Steaks, to name a few. We are hiring!

GR Dispatch

NXCR raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-10-29 in Venture Round

NXCR

Literati raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-05-17 in Venture Round

Based in Austin,Texas Literati is a subscription book club company. Since 2017, Literati has provided a unique try-before-you-buy book club service to kids 12 and under. Most recently the company has expanded its product line, offering book clubs curated by “luminaries,” a collection of authors, intellectuals, and other notable figures. 

Literati's team is made up of product people, perfectionistic designers, philosophical hackers, and straight-up hustlers on a mission to build revolutionary excitement in literature. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Literati

Prefix raised $1200000 on 2017-01-24 in Convertible Note

PreFix enables you to stop spending time worrying about your home and save 30-50% off annual maintenance costs.

Prefix

Field Day raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-11-18 in Seed Round

Field Day was founded in 2015 with the mission to empower multi-unit brands with the knowledge and tools to systemize and structure their local field marketing efforts. We are revolutionizing the way brands discover, activate, and measure local marketing.

Field Day’s platform enables a brand to discover local opportunities, activate internal staff or brand ambassadors for local marketing campaigns.

Field Day

Elementus raised $10000000 on 2023-02-06 in Series A

Elementus offers a analytics platform that brings cognition to the blockchain's native transparency. Elementus surfaces actionable insights directly from blockchain activity, identifying security vulnerabilities, exposing bad actors, and providing market intelligence for making informed investments in digital assets, allowing clients to bring more transparency to the blockchain ecosystem by building trust and accountability across the crypto markets in the process.

Elementus Inc.

BioThread raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-09-01 in Series A

BioThread

NXCR raised $30000000 on 2021-02-22 in Seed Round

Backtracks raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-07-14 in Convertible Note

Backtracks, Inc. develops podcast analytics and hosting platform that allows podcast publishers and advertisers to receive actionable data and insights, allowing them to adjust and target content for their audiences. The company serves the podcast publishers, advertisers, podcast aggregators, pod catchers, and discovery platform. Backtracks, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Backtracks

Ampsy raised $1300000 on 2017-02-01 in Seed Round

The Ampsy (formerly Fliptu) platform offers brands a comprehensive suite of social aggregation tools to aggregate & curate their best brand & fan social content into beautiful, engaging social visualizations. In 60 seconds, a brand can build a campaign and have it live & embedded anywhere with a single line of iframe code.  Our social embeds are proven to increase fan engagement and time-on-site, solving a major leakage problem in the customer acquisition & retention funnel.

***2014 SXSW Accelerator Finalist

http://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2014/2014-sxsw-accelerator-finalists-revealed-startups-rock-austin-march

***Named 1 of the 20 Most Interesting Technologies at SXSW by IPG Media Lab of Interpublic Group - IPG (NYSE)

http://www.ipglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SXSW2014_IPGMediaLab_Recap.pdf

Ampsy

Koji raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-03-09 in Series A

Arx Pax Labs, Inc. raised an undisclosed amount on 2014-09-01 in Convertible Note

Arx Pax Labs, Inc. develops magnetic field architecture (MFA) technology based hover engines. Its technology is used to transmit electromagnetic energy. The company also engages in licensing its MFA technology for application in industrial automation and material handling, and clean room automation and shock absorption; structural isolation; transportation; entertainment and recreation; and education areas. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Gatos, California.

Arx Pax Labs, Inc.

PlushCare raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-02-18 in Series B

PlushCare is a San Francisco-based tech startup that makes it easy to find and meet with a doctor online, even on the same day. Their mission is to provide patients with the best doctors and the best medical experience in a friendly and personalized way. The company's technology platform enables over 100,000 patients (and growing) to get care from a board-certified doctor online. With an NPS of 90 and an App Store rating of 4.9, they strive to provide the healthcare experience that patients deserve. PlushCare has also been developing Coronavirus at home testing.

PlushCare

ID.me raised $8300000 on 2020-06-25 in Series B

The mission of ID.me is to make the world a more trusted place by enabling transparent interactions between people and organizations. ID.me is a digital identity network that empowers consumers to prove their identity via a digital medium in contexts where it would benefit the consumer to be known. For relying parties, ID.me provides a single API endpoint through which partners can verify the identity of users attempting to access a website or to unlock an exclusive benefit. The United States Department of Commerce selected ID.me as one of the top five identity companies in America in 2013 and awarded the company a $2.8M grant to participate in the President's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). ID.me was a Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013. Entrepreneur Magazine selected ID.me as one of 100 Brilliant Companies for 2014 in their June 2014 edition. Key customers include SeaWorld, Overstock.com, Under Armour, Dell, Sears Holding Corporation, and 129 additional retailers and brands.

ID.me

Reachify raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-05-23 in Convertible Note

Reachify Inc. operates a software buying platform that enables enterprise brands to invest in software solutions, such as website platforms, mobile apps, and web analytics. The company provides intelligence to empower enterprise brands to learn, understand, and engage with technology providers. Its platform enables brands to get a list of vetted technology solutions in various categories, discover what their competitors are using, learn about their suite of offerings and see who are their customers, compare to similar vendors, and get category reports of vendors and market intelligence that helps to understand how to invest. The company also enables technology vendors to update their customer listings, suggest categories as needed, and update general company information. Reachify Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Reachify Inc.

ID.me raised $132000000 on 2023-04-11 in Series D

Groundswell raised $15000000 on 2021-11-30 in Seed Round

Groundswell

BioThread raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-10-18 in Venture Round

Wildfire Systems raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-06-04 in Seed Round

Wildfire is on a mission to reward organic commerce everywhere. We help companies monetize their users with white-label cash back and coupon services. Wildfire makes it easy for our partners’ users to save money and earn cash back from their favorite apps and websites.

Wildfire Systems

Copper Labs raised $2000000 on 2021-03-11 in Seed Round

Copper is a wireless energy monitor that helps utilities leverage real-time energy data to engage consumers with actionable energy insights. The company's product collects revenue-grade data from electric, gas, and water meters to generate insights with practical value and consumer-friendly alerts during peak periods, enabling consumers to reduce costs and save energy.

Copper Labs was founded in 2016 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Copper Labs

RED 6 raised $7000000 on 2021-03-01 in Venture Round

RED 6 INC. develops outdoor augmented reality solutions for air combat training. The company offers airborne tactical augmented reality system (ATARS) that enables virtual and constructive assets into the real-world by enabling pilots and ground operators to see synthetic threats in real-time, outdoors, and high-speed environments. RED 6 INC. was founded in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

RED 6

nok raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-11-20 in Seed Round

nok enables brands to sustainably offer their consumers in-home product tryouts at scale. nok users enjoy 2 hour delivery and are charged no upfront costs. Whether the user decides to buy or return their tryout product, they can do so easily within their nok account. 

Our service is 100% green and provides partner brands with a unique competitive advantage:

-	Consumers will give your brand a try before any other
-	Spark the market by instantly spreading product experiences
-       Obtain key learnings around customer perception
-	Optimize your trade spend by entering retail locked and loaded with local traction and data.
-       Generate sales by eliminating barriers from the traditional purchase decision process
-       Interact with your customers in a new, exciting way - even while they're at home.

Yoi raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-10-20 in Seed Round

Yoi Corp. provides SaaS based mobile digital tools for line managers. It offers Yoi, a solution that provides support to corporate line managers in onboarding, integration and engagement, evaluation and performance management, training and development, and exiting. The company’s Yoi provides templates that automatically deliver assignments, meeting requests, data collection assessments, and reports all activities to the manager’s inbox. Yoi Corp. was formerly known as PocketCoach, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. As of December 12, 2017, Yoi Corporation operates as a subsidiary of HighGround, Inc.

Yoi Corp

Pray.com raised $14000000 on 2018-03-14 in Series A

Pray.com is a social impact company: we’re driven by a mission to grow faith and cultivate community. Our team is comprised of people from all backgrounds – some of us pray, some of us meditate, and some of us just want to see more empathy in the world. At Pray.com we walk the talk, live the d.r.e.a.m., and combine our talents to build something bigger than ourselves. Pray.com helps people grow their faith and cultivate their community through its website & mobile application by offering daily prayer plans, inspirational audio content, & faith-based social networking tools. Pray.com's vision is to create a world where everyone leaves a legacy of helping others.

Pray Inc.

Pray.com raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-02-14 in Seed Round

Roost raised $1200000 on 2015-07-01 in Seed Round

Roost by VerticalResponse helps local professionals get more business from social media. Roost was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Roost’s unique social marketing platform is entirely focused on helping small businesses and independent professionals manage their social presence and engage with their customers across key social networks. Roost has more than 30,000 customers across over 50 industries using its social products.

Roost

ProducePay raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-01-09 in Convertible Note

Art Craft Entertainment raised an undisclosed amount on 2015-09-15 in Seed Round

Art Craft Entertainment is a game development company that builds and publishes games on multiple platforms. The company is popularly known for its game “Crowfall”.

Art Craft Entertainment

Gretel raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-11-05 in Seed Round

Gretel Labs, Inc. develops an online platform that helps developers to create and share data. It offers data catalog, automate data exposure detection, and fast data cataloging of streaming data for fun and privacy; synthetics; and transformation, real time transformation, and data firewalling. Gretel Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Gretel, Inc. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Poway, California.

Gretel Labs, Inc.

Kasita raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-03-21 in Convertible Note

Kasita, Inc. manufactures and sells modular buildings that can sit by themselves or stack to form apartments. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Kasita

Koji raised $20000000 on 2022-01-25 in Series B

Robinhood raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-09-29 in Funding Round

Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.

The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application.

Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt established the company in Menlo Park, California in 2013.

Robinhood Markets, Inc.

eTailPet raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-03-28 in Seed Round

ETailPet facilitates online sales by creating custom online stores for independent pet retailers. eTailPet is a full-service eCom solution for independent pet retail, providing a digital storefront.

The company was founded in 2018 and based in Los Angeles, California.

eTailPet

Fair raised an undisclosed amount on 2017-02-17 in Series A

Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time.

Fair was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Fair

harvest.ai raised $412000 on 2014-11-21 in Pre Seed Round

harvest.ai allows organizations to identify and stop data breaches from targeted attacks, insider threats, and stolen credentials in near real-time. It has successfully applied AI-based algorithms to learn the business value of critical documents across an organization, with an industry-first ability to detect and stop data breaches from targeted attacks and insider threats before data is stolen.

It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

harvest.ai

Gretel.ai raised $11999998 on 2020-10-21 in Venture Round

ProducePay raised $2500000 on 2016-06-29 in Seed Round

Literati raised $12000000 on 2019-10-23 in Series A

Ampsy raised $1340000 on 2017-02-01 in Seed Round

VersusGame raised $25000000 on 2022-06-15 in Series A

VersusGame

Parking Panda raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-10-11 in Seed Round

Parking Panda is the industry leading mobile application and optimization platform for parking. Our app enables users in need of parking to search for, compare, and reserve guaranteed parking spots in over 40 cities nationwide.  Parking Panda also offers a full suite of parking management tools developed to relieve common industry headaches such as on-site payment processing, inventory tracking, and ticket creation.

Parking Panda

Yoi Corp raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-09-30 in Seed Round

PlushCare raised $8000000 on 2016-11-03 in Series A

Field Day raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-12-27 in Seed Round

hiQ Labs raised $7388893 on 2016-06-17 in Venture Round

hiQ Labs, Inc. develops a cloud based platform for employee selection, development, and retention. The company’s solutions include Keeper, a human capital management tool that provides predictive attrition insights about an organization's employees using public data; and Skill Mapper, a solution for talent acquisition and management that provides employee engagement by promoting internal mobility and reduce the costs associated with external talent acquisition. It serves Fortune 500 companies. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

hiQ Labs, Inc.

Kasita raised $10000000 on 2016-09-23 in Series A

Field Day raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-03-15 in Convertible Note

Fair raised $50000000 on 2018-03-05 in Series A

RED 6 raised $30000000 on 2021-06-01 in Series A

Shep raised $1400000 on 2018-02-15 in Seed Round

Shep’s browser extension-based tool provides travel programs with an easy way to capture employee bookings made on consumer travel sites, messaging employees about the travel policy, while capturing those off-channel bookings for the travel team.

Shep

Pacaso raised an undisclosed amount on 2021-03-19 in Venture Round

Pacaso modernizes the generations-old practice of co-owning a second home, creating a marketplace that makes buying and selling easy, and adding professional management and technology to make scheduling dates and owning the home seamless and simple.
Buyers considering a second home can tell Pacaso where they want to buy, how much they want to spend and how much time they expect to spend in the house. Pacaso and its real estate agent partners will help them find the perfect home and set up a professionally managed LLC uniquely designed for co-ownership. The buyer will purchase their desired share — for example, half of the home, which will guarantee them access to the home for half the year — and Pacaso will briefly purchase the remainder of the home, before reselling the remaining portion to vetted buyers. Pacaso will manage the property, and owners will use Pacaso’s mobile app to make scheduling easy and equitable.

Pacaso

Koji raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-08-27 in Convertible Note

Koji raised $3000000 on 2016-10-31 in Pre Seed Round

Prefix raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-04-08 in Convertible Note

Koji raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-09-19 in Convertible Note

ProducePay raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-11-30 in Series A

Able raised $3290000 on 2021-10-28 in Seed Round

Able is a mobile app that allows the users to manage their income.

Able

BioThread raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-07-22 in Series A

Gretel.ai raised $3500000 on 2020-01-01 in Seed Round

WONDER raised an undisclosed amount on 2015-05-06 in Convertible Note

Wonder is a startup currently operating in stealth mode.

WONDER

Shep raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-12-31 in Convertible Note

Reachify raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-01-17 in Seed Round

Koji raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-02-06 in Seed Round

Backtracks raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-05-15 in Convertible Note

ClassPass raised an undisclosed amount on 2015-02-04 in Series C

ClassPass Inc. provides an online fitness class booking service. It offers an online subscription service that provides access to a network of boutique fitness studios and gyms, including cycling, Pilates, yoga, strength training, dance, martial arts, and more. ClassPass Inc. was formerly known as Classtivity Inc. and changed its name to ClassPass Inc. in March 2014. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York. It has locations in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Oceania.

ClassPass Inc.

Prefix raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-11-29 in Convertible Note

BioThread raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-02-28 in Series A

Pray.com raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-11-01 in Convertible Note

Shep raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-08-02 in Convertible Note

NXCR raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-07-16 in Convertible Note

WONDER raised an undisclosed amount on 2017-05-31 in Series A

ID.me raised an undisclosed amount on 2017-05-31 in Series B

PlushCare raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-12-29 in Series A

Arx Pax Labs, Inc. raised an undisclosed amount on 2015-08-14 in Convertible Note

PreciseTarget raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-07-01 in Series A

PreciseTarget is a data science company helping retailers acquire, engage and reactivate inactive customers. They've taken a programmatic approach, using billions of SKUs and consumer transactions to create the first cross-merchant taste graphs (recommended product sets) for individual customers

Cobrain

Olive raised $32800000 on 2018-07-30 in Series D

Olive AI, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation solution for healthcare organizations. It offers Olive, an AI-as-a-Service that is used to automate workflow ranging from claim status checks and account updates to prior authorizations and others. The company was formerly known as CrossChx, Inc. and changed its name to Olive AI, Inc. in July 2018. Olive AI, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

Olive

RED 6 raised an undisclosed amount on 2021-06-16 in Series A

PlushCare raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-03-16 in Series B

Unoceros raised an undisclosed amount on 2015-12-04 in Convertible Note

Unoceros is a company that provides cellphone users with the ability to turn their cellphones into a computing network.

Unoceros is creating a massive, distributed computing network out of mobile devices. The Unoceros app utilizes the processing power of users’ devices when these devices would otherwise be idle, and pays each user for this access. That computing power can then be used by scientists and researchers as a faster, cheaper, and highly scalable alternative to traditional high performance computing solutions. Unoceros is optimizing existing technology for the betterment of humanity by facilitating cutting edge research.

Unoceros

X2 Performance raised an undisclosed amount on 2021-01-07 in Convertible Note

Advanced Bio Development, Inc. develops, produces, and sells liquid energy supplements. It offers X2 All Natural Energy, a refreshing drink that uses a blend of green and black teas, antioxidants, and pure honey; and X2PERFORMANCE, a natural sports energy product to improve the training and athletic performance. The company’s products are available in lemon, strawberry and kiwi, and raspberry flavors.

Advanced Bio Development

Backtracks raised $2100000 on 2019-05-30 in Seed Round

Field Day raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-03-01 in Convertible Note

Pacaso raised $75000000 on 2021-03-24 in Series B

Fair raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-04-20 in Convertible Note

Gretel raised $52199996 on 2021-10-07 in Series B

Wildfire Systems raised $15000000 on 2021-08-04 in Series A

Outpost raised $7100000 on 2022-08-30 in Seed Round

Outpost

Domuso raised $2200000 on 2015-10-26 in Angel Round

Domuso is a next-generation financial services platform offering a comprehensive suite of payment processing solutions for multifamily property owners and operators. Driven by data and technology, Domuso provides new digital payment options that streamline the rent payment experience for residents and improve individual property financial performance. Fully integrated with leading accounting systems and property management platforms, Domuso is the only provider to offer alternative credit, digital certified and automated, logic-driven payment options. Domuso is privately held and headquartered in the heart of Silicon Beach in Santa Monica, California. For more information, visit domuso.com.

Domuso Inc.

Synergy Fuels raised $215000 on 2015-12-16 in Seed Round

Development & innovation of profitable advanced energy technologies. Including technologies reducing energy demand, as well as low-emissions / low-energy production of hydrogen, petroleum, diesel fuel, clean water, long-term power, and independent energy sites. Current products are patented, post-revenue, zero-emissions, zero-landfill, scalable solutions to address global energy needs.

Synergy Fuels

MyCollected raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-11-01 in Seed Round

MyCollected, Inc. develops an application software. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

MyCollected

Carta raised an undisclosed amount on 2021-02-01 in Secondary Market

Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup.

Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital.

It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California.

Carta

Ampsy raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-04-08 in Seed Round

NXCR raised an undisclosed amount on 2021-05-05 in Convertible Note

Fair raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-09-16 in Seed Round

RED 6 raised an undisclosed amount on 2021-01-08 in Convertible Note