Necessary Ventures

Zócalo Health is a family medicine service that provides bilingual and culturally relevant health care, resources, and education. They offer prevention, primary care, behavioural health, and traditional practices. It offers convenient, transparent, and culturally-aligned care to its members.

Forage is a payments company that provides merchants with the ability to accept EBT SNAP payments through a unified API, facilitating transactions and improving access to essential goods for customers using government assistance programs. The company focuses on creating a seamless integration process for businesses, allowing them to implement EBT payments in both online and in-person settings. By streamlining payment processing, Forage enables merchants to reach a broader customer base, supporting food security initiatives and promoting inclusivity in commerce. Additionally, Forage offers ongoing support and resources to ensure that merchants can effectively utilize their payment solutions and navigate the regulatory landscape associated with EBT transactions.

Relief is a mobile app that delivers on debt-elimination commitment. They aim to become the company that people come to for help getting back in the black. By developing products and services that are simple, effective, and easy to use, they will make financial relief accessible to those who need it.

Rubi Laboratories develops biocatalyst solutions that manufacture carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry. Its technology offers a natural resource for making things and directly synthesizes the threads that help clients produce viscose that is carbon-negative, water-chemical, land-neutral, traceable, and biodegradable.

Wayve develops a fully autonomous driving system for autonomous vehicles. It uses end-to-end deep learning to create artificial intelligence capable of complex driving, which can scale across diverse urban environments. Wayve operates a fleet of electric vehicles fitted for autonomous operation and technology development. It is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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

Kurios is a Y Combinator backed company that delivers cohort-based online courses for companies in Latin America. We provide training in programs in digital business skills such as Product Management, Growth, Digital Management, etc., that are delivered by professionals coming out of global tech companies like Amazon, Stripe, Youtube, Uber, Dropbox, Wise, Rappi and more. We serve some of the largest enterprises in the region like Walmart Mexico, Femsa, Coppel, Bancolombia, BCP, Alicorp, among others.

AllVoices helps People Teams surface, investigate and respond to workplace incidents more consistently and efficiently. We offer audit-ready documentation, early trend detection, and AI-powered features to save People Teams time on manual tasks. With AllVoices, companies have access to real-time, proactive data that helps them identify issues before they become systemic problems, helping them improve culture holistically while providing a safe place for employees to feel heard. For more information, please email info@allvoices.co.

Taro Health is a health insurance company that offers relationship-based healthcare services.

Advekit is a healthcare platform used to make the process of finding a mental health support therapist easy, empowering, and encouraging. The platform helps patients find the right therapist and use their insurance to pay for therapy. It improves access to quality treatment and helps individuals better utilize their mental health benefits and offers a sliding-scale fee structure, which is a variable rate based on a person's ability to pay for treatment, thus helping users in simplifying the process of finding therapists based on their needs, availability, and insurance.

Yummy develops a food delivery app that operates across Latin America. The app allows users to order and pay for their orders through their mobile application or website platform and offers different payment methods such as foreign credit cards and cash, that conveniently enable users to enjoy their food at a location of their choice. Vicente Zavarce founded Yummy in 2020 and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States.

Spero Foods is a startup disrupting dairy with novel process engineering and food science technology, working to innovate the first mainstream plant-based dairy, because every human deserves healthy food. Spero has been named Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, NEXTY’s Best Dairy/Meat Alternative, and The Food Network’s Supermarket Awards. Sold nationally in retail and food service, with over 3,500 auth locations like Kroger, Whole Foods, Publix, and Sprouts.

Arc Boats is an electric boat manufacturer offering a seamlessly connected boating experience. The boats use aerospace-inspired engineering and are designed with custom battery packs for stability, range, and speed.

WorkEQ is a business development and employment agency helping businesses create a flexible, hybrid, and productive work-life balance.

Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for innovative companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses all in one app. The platform combines the WHO well-being assessment, self-service wellness kits, a network of certified coaches, and licensed therapists available in 35 languages all available in a seamless app. It empowers employers to charge in acknowledging that mental health is just as important as physical health, destigmatizing the conversation, and increasing the accessibility of mental health services for all.

Decent offers more affordable healthcare by aligning incentives to improve health, reduce costs, and put members at the center of their care.

Wayve develops a fully autonomous driving system for autonomous vehicles. It uses end-to-end deep learning to create artificial intelligence capable of complex driving, which can scale across diverse urban environments. Wayve operates a fleet of electric vehicles fitted for autonomous operation and technology development. It is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

EnsoData is a startup that utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze the human body to diagnose health conditions. EnsoData, whose software uses machine learning algorithms to help clinicians score sleep data and diagnose patients with sleep apnea and other disorders, has now realized that dream—and then some. EnsoData's autoscoring algorithm combines AASM scoring best practices with cutting edge machine learning algorithms that learn and adapt to every single patient.

Particle is an API platform for healthcare data exchange allowing patients and consumers to share their medical information. Its platform enables a single health record-tying together previously disparate information from a patient's various doctors and yielding valuable data insights in the process by combining healthcare records from thousands of sources. The platform then standardizes the data to FHIR R4 to ensure that they are usable at scale.

Unlearn.AI is a biotech AI company that develops a digital twin service for clinical trials. Digital twins enhance healthcare by assessing health risks before a disease manifests its symptoms, according to some experts. Unlearn brings together a world-class team of experts across pharma, medtech, machine learning, and business who share a vision of using machine learning and biostatistics to improve clinical trials for the benefit of patients and sponsors. Unlearn invented their TwinRCT solution to enable biopharma partners to run faster, more successful clinical trials. A TwinRCT is a randomized trial that uses machine learning to achieve a higher probability of success with a smaller number of patients. As in a traditional RCT, patients are randomized to a treatment group and a control group, but, unlike a traditional trial, a prognostic digital twin is created for every patient using a machine learning model trained on historical data. The treatment effects for the primary and secondary outcomes can all be estimated from the trial with greater precision after correcting for a prognostic score derived for each patient's digital twin. TwinRCTs provide a scientifically-sound method for using deep learning and historical patient data to improve clinical trials.

AllVoices helps People Teams surface, investigate and respond to workplace incidents more consistently and efficiently. We offer audit-ready documentation, early trend detection, and AI-powered features to save People Teams time on manual tasks. With AllVoices, companies have access to real-time, proactive data that helps them identify issues before they become systemic problems, helping them improve culture holistically while providing a safe place for employees to feel heard. For more information, please email info@allvoices.co.

Tempest is a digital recovery program that helps people to quit drinking and build a life they love. It specializes in the fields of health diagnostics, healthcare, and personal health.

Wayve develops a fully autonomous driving system for autonomous vehicles. It uses end-to-end deep learning to create artificial intelligence capable of complex driving, which can scale across diverse urban environments. Wayve operates a fleet of electric vehicles fitted for autonomous operation and technology development. It is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

KUDI is a financial service provider focused on providing access to electronic banking and financial services by leveraging conversational interfaces, natural language processing and artificial intelligence to provider faster access, frictionless experience, and ultimately boost financial inclusion in emerging markets. KUDI is enabling secured financial transactions via Facebook, Telegram, Slack and Skype. KUDI's focus is the African market with a primary focus on the Nigerian Payment ecosystem and the company does this in partnership with e-payment regulators, a leading commercial bank, and an international payment processor.

Unlearn.AI is a biotech AI company that develops a digital twin service for clinical trials. Digital twins enhance healthcare by assessing health risks before a disease manifests its symptoms, according to some experts. Unlearn brings together a world-class team of experts across pharma, medtech, machine learning, and business who share a vision of using machine learning and biostatistics to improve clinical trials for the benefit of patients and sponsors. Unlearn invented their TwinRCT solution to enable biopharma partners to run faster, more successful clinical trials. A TwinRCT is a randomized trial that uses machine learning to achieve a higher probability of success with a smaller number of patients. As in a traditional RCT, patients are randomized to a treatment group and a control group, but, unlike a traditional trial, a prognostic digital twin is created for every patient using a machine learning model trained on historical data. The treatment effects for the primary and secondary outcomes can all be estimated from the trial with greater precision after correcting for a prognostic score derived for each patient's digital twin. TwinRCTs provide a scientifically-sound method for using deep learning and historical patient data to improve clinical trials.

Recursion is a clinical-stage biotechnology company decoding biology by integrating technological innovations across biology, chemistry, automation, data science, and engineering, with the goal of radically improving the lives of patients and industrializing drug discovery. Central to our mission is the Recursion Operating System, or Recursion OS, that combines an advanced infrastructure layer to generate what we believe is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing proprietary biological and chemical datasets and the Recursion Map, a suite of custom software, algorithms, and machine learning tools that we use to explore foundational biology unconstrained by human bias and navigate to new biological insights which may accelerate our programs. We are a biotechnology company scaling more like a technology company.

KUDI is a financial service provider focused on providing access to electronic banking and financial services by leveraging conversational interfaces, natural language processing and artificial intelligence to provider faster access, frictionless experience, and ultimately boost financial inclusion in emerging markets. KUDI is enabling secured financial transactions via Facebook, Telegram, Slack and Skype. KUDI's focus is the African market with a primary focus on the Nigerian Payment ecosystem and the company does this in partnership with e-payment regulators, a leading commercial bank, and an international payment processor.