New World Angels

New World Angels (NWA) is a group of private investors dedicated to providing equity capital to early-stage entrepreneurial companies in the state of Florida. NWA has chapters in South Florida and the Tampa Bay area and is typically a lead or co-investor in transactions totaling between $0.5 million and $2.5 million. Members of NWA have extensive experience in founding, building, and managing companies in a wide variety of industries. In addition to providing funding, NWA members make their expertise and resource networks available to portfolio companies. NWA works closely with other regional and national venture firms. In addition, it is supported by such leading institutions as The Research Park at Florida Atlantic University, Enterprise Development Corporation, Florida Atlantic University, and Florida International University.
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Sandra Arber

Director of Investor Relations

Steve O'Hara

Chairman

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Ron Tarro

President

Rhys Williams

Chair Emeritus

32 past transactions

OBMedical Company

Venture Round in 2014
OBMedical Company develops, manufactures, and sells external maternal-fetal monitoring systems for laboring women. It offers LaborView sensor system, a wireless electrode-based system for labor and delivery departments that externally measures labor contractions and the heart rates of the mother and child. The company’s device also provides signal capture and digital signal processing that allows the mother mobility during labor process; and improves the health and safety of mothers and babies during pregnancy and labor. It serves medical professionals and patients worldwide. OBMedical Company was founded in 2012 and is based in Newberry, Florida with additional office in Norcross, Georgia. As of September 30, 2018, OBMedical Company operates as a subsidiary of Philips Medical Systems International B.V.

Qure4u

Series A in 2018
Qure4u is an all-in-one patient experience platform that offers a fully integrated solution that supports the entire patient journey. It drives brand equity, in-office efficiency, and revenue while enhancing clinical insight and improving the patient experience. It also empowers patients to prepare for appointments, monitor their vitals, and connect with their providers via secure messaging and telehealth through Qure4u's all-in-one app. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Bradenton, Florida.

Switchboard Live

Seed Round in 2017
Switchboard is a live video, social media management platform that helps Creators, Producers, and Brands to manage their live streams, create workflows, that extend reach to online audiences and social connections. Switchboard develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of live streaming activations to social video platforms and broadcast destinations. We are always looking for innovative ways to simplify the "how you do live" process by combining best in practice tools and technology. Switchboard Live Inc. was founded in February 2016, ​headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Oralucent

Seed Round in 2019
Oralucent offers patented light emitting toothbrush designed to kill bad bacteria. Its product, the Oralucent toothbrush was developed to exploit cutting-edge lighting technology and recent advances in our understanding of the anti-microbial action of visible blue light. The company is driven by a mission to create and distribute innovative health products of the highest quality, safety, and efficacy. Oralucent was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Long Beach, California, United States.

VuPulse Co.

Seed Round in 2018
VuPulse is a text recognition company offering innovative advertising and intelligence solutions for networks, studios, and publishers. It transforms articles and social media posts into a direct response tune-in ad. Inserting a seamless call to action, viewers can link directly to where they can sign up for service. The company creates intelligent URLs that send consumers from a click to their preferred place to watch or shop. VuPulse was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

Bioceptive

Venture Round in 2013
Bioceptive, Inc. develops medical devices for gynecological procedures. Its products includes, intrauterine device (IUD) inserter that vastly simplifies the insertion procedure, while reducing the complications inherent with current insertion techniques. The company distributes its products through a network of distributors. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

SwiftSync

Series A in 2021
SwiftSync is a medtech startup developing disposable, dual-chamber pacing catheters. The company's temporary cardiac pacing involves electrical cardiac stimulation to treat arrhythmia during surgery and emergency surgery. Its patented device is moving toward clinical trials on the road to FDA approval and commercial sales.

VESTECK

Series A in 2021
VESTECK, Inc. (WWW.VESTECK.com) is an early-stage medical device company focused on bringing their proprietary technology to the aortic repair, structural heart and GI markets. Their first product, the "Suture-Tight" nitinol suture delivery catheter will bring a novel technology to endovascular aortic repair market solving a significant global challenge for physicians and patients.

ayfie Group

Series A in 2011
ayfie Inc. develops and operates text analytics platform. It transforms textual data into tables by taking the semantic journey through words, concepts, propositions, and aggregating insight in structured form accessible to mathematical methods. The company provides products for eDiscovery, linguistic modules, healthcare, finance, media, and compliance industries. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Denver, Colorado with additional offices in New York, New York.

Rewired Solutions

Series A in 2017
Rewired Solutions, Inc. develops technology and data-driven solutions for large-scale hiring in organizations. It offers Hero Persona, a sourcing-as-a-service solution that combines targeted advertising, data science, and predictive modeling of an organization’s top performers. The company’s Hero Persona engages ideal candidates that have the highest probability of high-potential performance and hero characteristics, and delivers them to talent acquisition teams in a pre-qualified and ready-to-hire candidate pipeline. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Sarasota, Florida.
Aegle Therapeutics Corporation, a biotechnology company, develops extracellular vesicles (EVs) from allogeneic bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells to treat dermatological conditions. It solution is used in burns and epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare pediatric connective tissue disorder, and to prevent scarring. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Arlington, Massachusetts with an additional office in Miami, Florida.

Kairos AR, Inc.

Series B in 2017
Kairos is an artificial intelligence company specializing in face recognition. Through computer vision and machine learning, Kairos can recognize faces in videos, photos, and the real-world - making it easier than ever to transform the way your business interacts with people. Kairos navigates the complexities of face analysis technology, so you don’t have to. We offer APIs and SDKs any developer can integrate with ease. Founded in 2012 and based in Miami, Kairos is a venture-backed organization servicing a diverse global customer base.

TAO Connect

Series A in 2017
TAO Connect, Inc. is committed to reducing mental health disparities by bringing affordable, effective, and accessible treatment to people who have had limited access in the past.

Cre8tor.App

Seed Round in 2017
Cre8tor.App, formerly known as RecordGram, is an iOS mobile-based music and video recording studio that allows its users to collaborate songs between amateur artists. It offers an affordable marketplace for leasing original instrumentals, and a user friendly multi track platform to record and share creations instantly across social networks. The functions of the application are music tab, user creations, the stage, vocal monitoring, and a notepad. It allows its users to select beats, write their own lyrics, record new tracks, and shoot videos. Cre8tor.App is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2015 by Erik Mendelson.

Videoo

Seed Round in 2016
Videoo, Inc. operates an online platform that automatically connects social videos using hashtags to form dynamic crowd-sourced playlists. Its platform enables users to watch, vote, upload, and share video playlists. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Streann Media

Series A in 2019
Streann is the leading white label OTT Platform provider with unique technology in the world. Our enterprise SaaS platform allows video content owners to launch next generation video streaming platforms like Netflix, Youtube, Hulu, Amazon Video with their own content for live streaming, VOD, DVR, awarded monetization features and engagement tools, to be deployed and ready to market in less than two weeks. Create your own TV network, build your audience and monetize. Our platform will help you manage all your audio and video content for web, Mobile, Roku, AppleTV, Fire TV, Virtual Reality. We give you the tools to create your own App design without needed to call a developer. Your content, your creativity, your Network!

SYNKT Games, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2016
Synkt Games is a fast growing, mobile-platform developer, that builds sports games grounded in social interaction. Our team is comprised of serial entrepreneurs who have extensive experience founding, building and operating innovative, successful companies. We value collaboration, commitment, professional development and collectively building exciting products that serve the needs of our customers and business partners.

OBMedical Company

Seed Round in 2016
OBMedical Company develops, manufactures, and sells external maternal-fetal monitoring systems for laboring women. It offers LaborView sensor system, a wireless electrode-based system for labor and delivery departments that externally measures labor contractions and the heart rates of the mother and child. The company’s device also provides signal capture and digital signal processing that allows the mother mobility during labor process; and improves the health and safety of mothers and babies during pregnancy and labor. It serves medical professionals and patients worldwide. OBMedical Company was founded in 2012 and is based in Newberry, Florida with additional office in Norcross, Georgia. As of September 30, 2018, OBMedical Company operates as a subsidiary of Philips Medical Systems International B.V.

Paracosm Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Paracosm develops mobile reality capture, progress monitoring, and visualization solutions to help construction teams build better. With quick and easy scanning, job sites can be captured daily or weekly to gain powerful insights into projects and prevent rework. Their tools bring productivity for BIM/VDC to the next level, improve documentation, and make tracking construction progress easier than ever. Paracosm is a 3D mapping software company located in Gainesville, Florida. Their engineering team includes top computer vision engineers, parallel-processing devs, and 3D experts all striving to build the world’s best 3D mapping and visualization solutions.

Myxer

Series A in 2007
Myxer is a streaming internet radio company based in Austin, Texas. Myxer is the only free service that allows our customers to fine tune their music tastes by artist and song; we believe in providing everyone with "Listener Controlled Radio." In addition to offering access to 20 million songs, Myxer also provides access to a massive catalog of downloadable content. Myxer is an ad supported service that also operates the Myxer Music Network with access to over 16 million monthly unique visitors across Slacker, Jango, Tunewiki and Songza. The Myxer Music Network provides access to genre or artist based targeting across multiple premiere services and provides advertiser branded content distribution.

Clarke Industrial Engineering

Venture Round in 2016
Clarke Valve is a developer of energy-saving shutter valves designed to work in a variety of industrial and aerospace applications. The company's technology can be easily scaled or customized to meet many challenging requirements and is currently deployed in a diverse spectrum of markets, including oil and gas, aerospace, chemical, power plants, and water management. Its valves offer a combination of zero pressure drop, zero flow restriction, full pluggability, precise flow control, negligible turbulence, low cavitation, low water hammer, low noise, ultra-thin footprint, low power consumption, plug and play adaptability and long-term reliability, that enable power plants, oil and gas facilities, and chemical plants to efficiently use these valves in various challenging applications. Clarke Valve was established in 2011 and is headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
Clarke Valve is a developer of energy-saving shutter valves designed to work in a variety of industrial and aerospace applications. The company's technology can be easily scaled or customized to meet many challenging requirements and is currently deployed in a diverse spectrum of markets, including oil and gas, aerospace, chemical, power plants, and water management. Its valves offer a combination of zero pressure drop, zero flow restriction, full pluggability, precise flow control, negligible turbulence, low cavitation, low water hammer, low noise, ultra-thin footprint, low power consumption, plug and play adaptability and long-term reliability, that enable power plants, oil and gas facilities, and chemical plants to efficiently use these valves in various challenging applications. Clarke Valve was established in 2011 and is headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
ource Molecular Corporation is a private commercial laboratory founded in 2002 with a mission to fill the void between source identification research and real-world implementation of the technology. The laboratory is dedicated to offering innovative technology for solving pathogenic water pollution problems through microbial source tracking genetic and molecular techniques. Throughout the years, the Source Molecular microbiology laboratory has analyzed samples for hundreds of industrial plants, watershed management groups, state/federal government agencies, universities and engineering firms making it the leader in the Microbial Source Tracking (MST) industry.

VuPulse Co.

Series A in 2019
VuPulse is a text recognition company offering innovative advertising and intelligence solutions for networks, studios, and publishers. It transforms articles and social media posts into a direct response tune-in ad. Inserting a seamless call to action, viewers can link directly to where they can sign up for service. The company creates intelligent URLs that send consumers from a click to their preferred place to watch or shop. VuPulse was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

Clarke Industrial Engineering

Venture Round in 2017
Clarke Valve is a developer of energy-saving shutter valves designed to work in a variety of industrial and aerospace applications. The company's technology can be easily scaled or customized to meet many challenging requirements and is currently deployed in a diverse spectrum of markets, including oil and gas, aerospace, chemical, power plants, and water management. Its valves offer a combination of zero pressure drop, zero flow restriction, full pluggability, precise flow control, negligible turbulence, low cavitation, low water hammer, low noise, ultra-thin footprint, low power consumption, plug and play adaptability and long-term reliability, that enable power plants, oil and gas facilities, and chemical plants to efficiently use these valves in various challenging applications. Clarke Valve was established in 2011 and is headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.

LocalBlip

Seed Round in 2016
LocalBlip is a coupon and promotional tool for small businesses. LocalBlip connects local businesses with shoppers by giving them both a new way to discover each other.
Aegle Therapeutics Corporation, a biotechnology company, develops extracellular vesicles (EVs) from allogeneic bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells to treat dermatological conditions. It solution is used in burns and epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare pediatric connective tissue disorder, and to prevent scarring. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Arlington, Massachusetts with an additional office in Miami, Florida.

Admiral

Seed Round in 2016
Admiral is the industry’s leading Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) platform, serving over 16,000 sites worldwide. Admiral empowers publishers to engage their audiences to drive and optimize revenue streams from paid subscriptions to adblock recovery. Admiral’s one-tag solution provides free revenue analytics, and a suite of engagement, GDPR/CCPA privacy compliance, subscription, and revenue growth modules. Interested publishers and partners are encouraged to learn more at GetAdmiral.com

Kairos AR, Inc.

Series A in 2014
Kairos is an artificial intelligence company specializing in face recognition. Through computer vision and machine learning, Kairos can recognize faces in videos, photos, and the real-world - making it easier than ever to transform the way your business interacts with people. Kairos navigates the complexities of face analysis technology, so you don’t have to. We offer APIs and SDKs any developer can integrate with ease. Founded in 2012 and based in Miami, Kairos is a venture-backed organization servicing a diverse global customer base.

mVisible Technologies

Series A in 2006
mVisible is about helping the individual use the internet to take the mobile space by storm. The MyxerTones website is a community of users based around mobile content delivery, commerce and communications. MyxerTones allows fans to browse and search independent artists ringtones, pictures, fulltrack downloads and video where the consistent theme is to build a community where buyers and sellers, consumers and producers come together.

Raw Shorts, Inc.

Series A in 2016
RawShorts automates video content creation for business users with AI driven text to video workflow. With Raw Shorts businesses can create animated explainers and promo videos for the web with automated workflow. Users can browse its catalog of industry specific templates to make videos that are appropriate for their businesses; upload the videos and customize it by adding media, text, transitions, effects, and audio; and share them on YouTube, Facebook, landing pages, and more. The software is used by businesses and startups, marketing professionals, and training and educational institutions. RawShorts was launched in 2013 and is operated from the Wynwood District in Miami, Florida.

TAO Connect

Series A in 2016
TAO Connect, Inc. is committed to reducing mental health disparities by bringing affordable, effective, and accessible treatment to people who have had limited access in the past.