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New York Angels

New York Angels is one of the largest and most active angel investment organizations. Founded in 2004 as the successor organization to the NYNMA (New York New Media Association) Angel Investor Program, New York Angels is a membership organization of over 110 active angel investors and early stage venture capital funds. The group meets monthly to screen and present early stage technology companies, and its members have invested over $100 million since 2002 into over 90 ventures. In April of 2017, PItchbook identified New York Angels as #3 in their list of the 8 top VCs funding seed rounds of New York-based companies. Among the NYA membership are nationally known angel investors including Esther Dyson and David S. Rose. The group has one full-time staff, reporting to an 11 person Board of Directors chaired by Brian S. Cohen. Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey is currently Program Director of New York Angels. Since 2012, the membership has increased by 66% and investment activity has grown by over 215%. New York Angels concentrates on early stage investments in the range of $100,000 - $1,000,000, although it has led deals as large as $2 million. It receives over 2,200 financing applications annually, from which it selects 12-16 companies each month for an in-person screening, where all members of New York Angels are invited to attend. The group meets again for an Investment Breakfast at the end of the month, where 2-4 opportunities present to the membership with a goal to close their current investment round within two months. The group is considered a leader in the growing field of organized angel investing. It was the first member of the national Angel Capital Association, hosted the ACA Summit conference in 2006, and was the initial test group for the now-standard gust (Angelsoft) funding platform. Membership as an investor in New York Angels is by invitation only, and members are required to commit to investing at least $50,000 annually in early stage technology deals, in addition to the group's $3,500 annual membership dues. Requests for funding for entrepreneurial ventures may be self-submitted through the group's website. New York Angels charges no fees to entrepreneurs.

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ActiveProtective

Seed Round in 2016
ActiveProtective is a consumer device company that produces smart garments to reduce traumatic injury using wearable airbag technology. The company's proprietary technology uses 3D motion sensors to determine the stereotypical motions and accelerations that govern the body’s normal, daily activities, in order to determine ’departures’ from what is allowable. This technique called "fall disambiguation", allows users to determine falls prior to impact, intercept hip fractures, and protect themselves from risks during sports and military sessions by deploying micro-airbag protection. ActiveProtective was founded in 2006 and is based in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Social Bicycles

Series A in 2017
Social Bicycles Inc., doing business as JUMP Bikes, develops an online platform and software that enables members to find bikes at hub locations and reserve from the Web, mobile applications, or directly from the bike itself. It serves residential properties, municipalities, universities, and corporate campuses in the United States and internationally. Social Bicycles Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brooklyn, New York with locations worldwide. As of April 9, 2018, Social Bicycles Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc.

Critical Media

Series A in 2004
[Critical Media Inc.](http://www.criticalmediainc.com) develops end-to-end digital video solutions to capture, monetize, distribute and syndicate content online. The company's three business units—[Critical Mention](http://www.criticalmention.com/web/index.php), [ClipSyndicate](http://www.clipsyndicate.com/) and [Syndicaster](http://syndicaster.tv/)—provide robust solutions for corporations, publishers and media organizations to leverage video content. Its real-time broadcast capture infrastructure is the underlying technology of Critical Mention, a dynamic, real-time broadcast monitoring platform. Utilized by 25% of the Fortune 100, Critical Mention provides access to over 15,000 hours of keyword searchable, digitized news broadcasts from 4 continents. Focused on building the world's largest ad-supported repository of fully searchable, authoritative video news and information, ClipSyndicate offers publishers an unmatched distribution platform. Critical Media's most recent addition, Syndicaster offers broadcasters and content owners a comprehensive video ecosystem—a streamlined solution to upload, edit and publish, syndicate and monetize its video assets online. Critical Media was founded in 2002 under the name Critical Mention by Sean Morgan, one of the founders of Screaming Media—the largest text syndication company on the Internet now owned by Dow Jones, Inc.—and is headquartered in New York City. For more information please visit www.critical-media.com.

Ambient Devices

Series C in 2008
Ambient Devices provides a complete solution to offer wireless products to consumers that make tangible interfaces to digital information. Today, this solution includes: the Ambient Information Network™-a back-end service delivery infrastructure and wireless network; and the Ambient Device Design™-a set of hardware specifications to turn everyday objects (like pens, watches, and clocks) into glanceable wireless information devices, customized and branded by product companies.

Bombas

Funding Round in 2021
BOMBAS LLC designs, manufactures, and markets athletic socks for men, women, teens, and girls. It offers ankle, calf, and multipack socks. The company offers its products online in the United States and internationally. BOMBAS LLC was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Futurestay

Venture Round in 2016
Futurestay is a smart way for vacation rentals to connect to everything that matters: channels, guests, payments, and their own website and brand. Futurestay has over 110,000 vacation rentals in 120 countries and is the leading independent vacation rental business solution. It uses Smart Connections to list the property on Airbnb, HomeAway, and Booking.com.

Clarity Money

Series A in 2016
For the first time, in the palm of your hand, you have an advocate to help you manage your money. A partner who is looking out for you. All within the Clarity Money app, you can lower your bills, cancel wasteful accounts, transfer money, create a savings account and get your credit score. The app also provides unprecedented transparency into your spending. It’s beautiful, easy to use and there is nothing like it on the market. Download now on the iOS App store Sign-up today: https://claritymoney.com/app

Evisors

Seed Round in 2011
Evisors is a company which access real world experts from the most prestigious schools and companies.

The Runthrough

Seed Round in 2013
TheRunthrough is an online hub that connects fashion tastemakers with the world’s best luxury and emerging brands. It is a members-only site for fashion editors and stylists to view virtual lookbooks. With one click, industry professionals can request sample products or high-res images for their photo shoots, celebrity events, and print and online publications. TheRunthrough simplifies and streamlines the fashion editing process.

Billtrust

Seed Round in 2003
Billtrust develops a payment cycle management platform designed to automate every step in the invoice-to-cash process. Its platform accelerates cash flow by automating invoice delivery, invoice payment, and cash application for remarkable cost savings, ease-of-use, and improved customer satisfaction rates, enabling businesses and corporate clients to improve operational efficiency. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Magnify.net

Series A in 2008
Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers.

Cognoptix

Venture Round in 2020
Cognoptix is creating and developing an innovative, non-invasive eye test to assist in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. Cognoptix's goal is to provide clinicians with a quick, predictive, reliable, inexpensive, and widely available test, enabling early diagnosis and treatment. The company was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

CirrusMD

Seed Round in 2015
CirrusMD Inc. operates a healthcare communication platform for doctors and patients in the United States. The company’s CirrusMD platform facilitates patients to send secure messages and images; schedule a video chat; access to health information; and 24/7 physician access to local doctors. It offers doctor-to-patient video chat and direct messaging through a HIPAA compliant patient profile. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

PEX Card

Series B in 2012
PEX Card is a corporate prepaid card solution small and medium sized companies use to control employee spending. PEX Card is a next generation Visa prepaid corporate card service SMBs use to control employee expense spending. We link robust controls via web and mobile apps to Visa prepaid cards so companies can directly manage each employee’s card balance and where they can spend in real time and while on the go. Managers discuss purchases with staff ahead of card funding to limit over-spending and can then top-up the employee’s card within seconds. If they want to put additional limits on where cards can be used, each employee profile can be set individually – i.e. YES for gas, NO for restaurants. Signing up for PEX Card simply requires business validation. No credit checks are required (we’re not lending any money). Visit our website to learn more.

Digit Wireless

Series A in 2001
Digit Wireless, operates as a user interface innovation company. It offers Fastap keypad technology solutions that enable to discover, access, and use messaging, mobile data, and voice services. The company licenses its technology to mobile manufacturers and operators. Digit Wireless, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, and Seoul.

Love Stories TV

Seed Round in 2019
Love Stories TV is a video-powered marketplace for wedding planning. We connect couples with the ideas, products, and services they need for their weddings. We connect wedding businesses with a pipeline of customers.

Dame Products

Seed Round in 2016
Dame Products was founded with the purpose of making phenomenal sex toys. The company's mission is to design well-engineered sex toys, to heighten intimacy, and to openly empower the sexual experiences of womankind.

CourseHorse

Seed Round in 2012
CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering the path to personal enrichment. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.

Good Health Media

Series A in 2009
Good Health Media is an online Health and Medical ad network that provides brands with health condition audiences like Diabetics, High Cholesterol sufferers etc. Using a process called ConditionMatch GHM tracks and targets the most frequent visitors to this niche health content. GHM can then re-target these in market audiences if desired. GHM has a consumer and health care professionals Channel.

U.S. Integrity

Seed Round in 2021
U.S. Integrity, LLC provides sports protection services to sports leagues and sports books throughout the United States. Its services include integrity monitoring; such as match-fixing, game manipulation, point-shaving, and the misuse of insider information, fraud prevention; analyze irregular bettor patterns and monitors nefarious cross-state wagering syndicates, and consulting services; which contains relevant and current information pertaining to states’ progress on introducing and/or submitting a sports betting bill. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Amper Music

Seed Round in 2015
Amper is an artificial intelligence composer, performer, and producer that creates unique music, tailored to any content, instantly. Using its proprietary sample library and datasets, their technology is built from the ground up with an emphasis on high-quality music through the fusion of music theory and AI innovation. The Amper Score enables enterprise teams to compose custom music in seconds and reclaim the time spent searching through stock music. Amper’s mission is to enable anyone to express themselves creatively through music regardless of their musical background or expertise. Amper builds tools powered by their Creative AI to help people create and customize original music.

Steelike

Seed Round in 2020
Steelike, Inc. develops, produces, and supplies concrete for construction. The company provides Steelike Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) for construction projects including highway infrastructure. Steelike, Inc. was formerly known as Kulish Design Co, LLC and changed its name to Steelike, Inc. in July 2020. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Springfield, Virginia.

CloudFrame

Series A in 2022
CloudFrame is a software product company bridging the mainframe innovation gap with a step-by-step, low-risk approach towards modernizing legacy mainframe technologies. CloudFrame’s innovative approach significantly reduces the business and regulatory risk associated with changing mission-critical mainframe applications. By converting legacy programs to portable, Cloud-ready modern code, customers can reduce mainframe costs, integrate new technologies into their business applications, and migrate to Cloud.

Furious Corp

Seed Round in 2014
Furious Corp. provides PROPHET, a business optimization SaaS platform that connects various data and systems, and offers analytics, reporting, and yield management tools to the advertising business. It offers PROPHET Professional, a product that allows seeing inventory, audience, and pricing across sales channels for smaller publishers with limited advertising delivery systems; and PROPHET Enterprise that provide advertising modules, such as mission control, forecasting, and planning. The company also provides PROPHET Addressable an additional functionality that can be integrated into the planning component of PROPHET Enterprise offers tools to optimize inventory yield and maximize revenue when selling addressable or targeted television; and REV, a media proposal platform. In addition, it offers deployment, training, and support services. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

KoolSpan

Series B in 2006
KoolSpan provides robust, cross-platform, end-to-end communication security for the Enterprise and Consumer. KoolSpan’s multiple encryption solutions secure phone calls and messaging on Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry smartphones with an application that is easy to install, manage and use. KoolSpan’s security and privacy solutions address the growing threat of loss or theft of intellectual property, vital information and proprietary assets. Customers include government organizations and enterprises in over 60 countries worldwide that span government, financial services, industrial/manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare and others. KoolSpan is FIPS 140-2 validated and has 21 issued patents with dozens more pending. KoolSpan is privately held and based in Bethesda, Md.

Allstar

Seed Round in 2021
Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.

Anvato

Seed Round in 2008
Anvato, Inc. is a technology platform for media companies to manage and monetize live and on demand video assets. Anvato serves both publishers and advertisers providing the only end-to-end media content platform with live and on-demand video management, syndication, monetization, and analytics. Anvato's unique technology enables broadcasters to capture live broadcasts, edit live and syndicate to web and mobile devices near real time. Publishers can monetize live streams with dynamic and user-targeted ad insertion. Anvato allows advertisers to track campaign effectiveness and optimize ad revenue. US Media clients include Univision Communications, and Kantar Video, a division of WPP. Anvato is the recipient of the 2010 Frost and Sullivan Global Innovation Award in Online Video. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

New York Shipping Exchange

Series A in 2017
New York Shipping Exchange enables the transformation of the container shipping industry through two innovations: a new standardized freight contract and a new way to trade freight digitally. The company is supporting the transformation of container shipping by solving inefficiencies associated with booking downfalls and shipment rollings. They determined to eliminate the distrust between shippers and carriers that has been created by the lack of accountability in ocean contracts. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Biorez

Series C in 2018
Biorez, Inc. is a early-stage regenerative medicine company engaged in developing bioresorbable scaffold implants to regenerate functional tissue in vivo. Its lead product candidate is an off-the-shelf implant for ACL reconstruction that spares harvesting of patient donor-tissue, and provides a better alternative to cadaver-based materials. The company plans to commercialize its lead ACL technology, as well as expand its platform to develop new and innovative clinical solutions.

CirrusMD

Series A in 2017
CirrusMD Inc. operates a healthcare communication platform for doctors and patients in the United States. The company’s CirrusMD platform facilitates patients to send secure messages and images; schedule a video chat; access to health information; and 24/7 physician access to local doctors. It offers doctor-to-patient video chat and direct messaging through a HIPAA compliant patient profile. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

KoolSpan

Series A in 2004
KoolSpan provides robust, cross-platform, end-to-end communication security for the Enterprise and Consumer. KoolSpan’s multiple encryption solutions secure phone calls and messaging on Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry smartphones with an application that is easy to install, manage and use. KoolSpan’s security and privacy solutions address the growing threat of loss or theft of intellectual property, vital information and proprietary assets. Customers include government organizations and enterprises in over 60 countries worldwide that span government, financial services, industrial/manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare and others. KoolSpan is FIPS 140-2 validated and has 21 issued patents with dozens more pending. KoolSpan is privately held and based in Bethesda, Md.

New York Shipping Exchange

Venture Round in 2021
New York Shipping Exchange enables the transformation of the container shipping industry through two innovations: a new standardized freight contract and a new way to trade freight digitally. The company is supporting the transformation of container shipping by solving inefficiencies associated with booking downfalls and shipment rollings. They determined to eliminate the distrust between shippers and carriers that has been created by the lack of accountability in ocean contracts. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

New View Surgical

Series B in 2021
New View Surgical, Inc. develops VisionPort technology which combines four devices, which includes laparoscope, camera, light source, and access port into one providing surgeon with complete control of both visualization and instrumentation. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

GameCo

Series A in 2016
GameCo created Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM) a category of Video Game Gambling on casino floors. It is a pioneering company uniting the experience of playing video games with the excitement of gambling by creating Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM). GameCo’s VGM is the first platform to bring video games to the casino floor engaging a new market of casino customers. The first video game gambling platform approved by any regulator in the United States, GameCo’s patented VGM proprietary arcade-style cabinets allows a player’s skill to effect the payout and winnings while maintaining the same casino-based economics as slot machines.

Peel Away Labs

Seed Round in 2018
The idea for PEEL AWAYS started out small, in my dorm room at the University of Arizona. I couldn’t help but notice how few students washed their sheets…and how much time went between washes. Next thing I knew, PEEL AWAYS was my new pet project. So how do you get people to wash their sheets? By creating such an amazing sheet that it doesn’t have to be washed at all. Our team at Peel Away Labs has tried and tested over 30 prototypes to give you the softest, absorbent disposable sheet out there. Each layer of PEEL AWAYS is breathable, flexible and comfortable, night after night. It’s even gentle on the environment by saving precious water, so while your wallet gets a break, Mother Nature does too. We want to change the way you think about bedding. Try PEEL AWAYS for yourself, and enjoy a fresh, clean sheet one layer at a time.

Shoppable

Seed Round in 2012
Shoppable is a profitable technology company with a suite of e-commerce products surrounding Shoppable's patented, universal checkout API. Shoppable's solutions enable advertisers, retailers, and publishers to create shoppable sites, content, ads, videos, mobile apps, recipes, and other innovative commerce experiences. The company was founded in 2011 in San Francisco and is now headquartered in New York.

Front Range Biosciences

Seed Round in 2017
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

EnergySage

Series A in 2015
EnergySage, LLC operates an online marketplace for solar and other clean energy technologies for homeowners, businesses, and non-profits. It offers educational, analytical, and shopping tools to help consumers determine suitable clean energy solutions and proceed with installing solar, wind, geothermal, or other technologies. EnergySage, LLC was founded in 2009 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

SureDone

Seed Round in 2013
SureDone Inc. operates a cloud-based eCommerce platform that enables users for selling across various marketplaces. It offers SureDone, a solution that allows users to plug multiple channels into it and manage listings, inventory, orders, and fulfillment out of one platform; and to add new or used products on eBay, Amazon, Google Shopping, and their eCommerce storefront. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Dash

Seed Round in 2013
Dash is a mobile payment platform that allows patrons to view, split, and pay their tab from their smartphone. It integrates directly with the leading hospitality point-of-sale systems, which means it's extremely easy for restaurants to accept Dash as payment. Users benefit from bill splitting, itemized digital transactions, increased security, and ease of closing out a tab at a busy bar. Dash is lives in 30+ markets and processes thousands of transactions weekly. Dash was founded in 2011 by Jeff McGregor and Gennady Spirin, with backers including Great Oaks VC, Caerus Ventures, New York Angels, and Jonathan Segal.

HeTexted

Seed Round in 2013
HeTexted, Inc. operates an online platform that provides question and answer service for dating questions. Its online platform allows registered users to seek advice in connection with dating and relationship issues by posting texts and other content and seeking answers or advice from other registered users. The company’s platform also offers a paid feature where registered users can engage the services of a dating advice expert for opinion, in depth answers, and situation and text analysis. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

ImagineAir

Seed Round in 2015
ImagineAir offers personal air taxi services. It operates a fleet of Cirrus SR-22s. It offers direct flights to and from over 1000 airports in the southern and eastern U.S. ImagineAir was co-founded by Aaron Sohaki, Ben Hamilton, and Paul Fischer in 2005 and is based in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

Aereon Inc.

Venture Round in 2004
Aereon Solutions is a provider of wireless and head office based process automation solutions for HVAC, plumbing electrical contracting, and construction companies.

EnerKnol

Convertible Note in 2014
EnerKnol is an innovative energy policy data and analytics company, conceived to solve the vast market need for real-time access to the critical regulatory information required to make decisions in the energy industry, from fossil fuels, to power & utilities, environmental commodities, renewables, and beyond. EnerKnol—Energy Knowledge—is a name that captures how simple, yet how fundamental their solution is. As Sir Francis Bacon famously declared, “Knowledge itself is power”. And that’s the driving ethos behind EnerKnol—that knowledge of power is necessary to drive investment and innovation, and fulfill their mission to transform the energy industry for the better.

ProterixBio

Series A in 2004
Developer of proprietary blood-based biomarker tests to transform the management of chronic respiratory diseases. The company is focused on addressing the unmet need for tools to provide a real-time, biological assessment of a patient’s disease state. ProterixBio's products will enable health care providers to better manage their patients and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations, leading to improved outcomes and reduced health care costs. It was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts.

Tommy John

Seed Round in 2013
Tommy John, Inc. manufactures and markets undershirts and underwear for men, wives, and girlfriends. It sells its products online and through a network of retail shops in the United States; and ships its products internationally. The company was formerly known as TJP Enterprises, LLC. Tommy John, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Aristotle Circle

Series B in 2011
Aristotle Circle connects parents to experts in admissions, education, and child development. The company offers services ranging from pre-K to graduate school admissions to Special Needs education and advocacy. Aristotle Circle’s network of more than 200 vetted experts grows daily and currently serves over 500 clients in 26 states and 7 countries.

PEX Card

Venture Round in 2010
PEX Card is a corporate prepaid card solution small and medium sized companies use to control employee spending. PEX Card is a next generation Visa prepaid corporate card service SMBs use to control employee expense spending. We link robust controls via web and mobile apps to Visa prepaid cards so companies can directly manage each employee’s card balance and where they can spend in real time and while on the go. Managers discuss purchases with staff ahead of card funding to limit over-spending and can then top-up the employee’s card within seconds. If they want to put additional limits on where cards can be used, each employee profile can be set individually – i.e. YES for gas, NO for restaurants. Signing up for PEX Card simply requires business validation. No credit checks are required (we’re not lending any money). Visit our website to learn more.

Front Range Biosciences

Series A in 2018
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

Vizibility

Series A in 2011
Vizibility helps people package and promote their online presence with a powerful Mobile Business Card. Build trust and credibility quickly when you make an accurate, powerful and lasting impression. Your mobile business card is like a personalized, mobile-friendly website with key content about you and your organization. It's instantly accessible from any smartphone without an app. And it's a snap to share using QR codes and Microsoft Tag barcodes, NFC mobile wallet cards, Apple Passbook and special buttons and links. Vizibility's mobile identity management platform is integrated and resold by printers and web-to-print vendors which are seeking to offer valuable new features, generate new revenue streams and differentiate themselves from competitors. U.S. Patents 7,831,609, 7,987,173, 8,095,534, 8,271,650, 8,275,837 and 8,280,879. Other patents pending.

Pinterest

Angel Round in 2010
Pinterest, Inc. provides visual discovery engine in the United States and internationally. The company’s engine allows people to find inspiration for their lives, including recipes, home and style ideas, travel destinations, and others. It shows them visual recommendations based on people personal taste and interests. The company was formerly known as Cold Brew Labs Inc. and changed its name to Pinterest, Inc. in April 2012. Pinterest, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

BYNDL

Convertible Note in 2014
BYNDL is a mobile transaction services company providing payments, permissions and relationship solutions for Unattended Retail environments. BYNDL brings the power of mobile transactions to point-of-decision selling situations, enabling mobile apps and vending machines alike to accept mobile payments and deliver mobile coupons. BYNDL’s open, integrated software-as-a-service (SaaS) mobile transaction service mobile-enables Unattended Retailing companies’ software and machines, resulting in reduced operating costs, increased margins and new revenue opportunities. BYNDL’s stored value payment solution dramatically reduces the impact of transaction fees across multiple small value purchases. Only BYNDL can support any mobile device or technology, any payment method or settlement process, provide stored value, and integrate with existing software and systems. BYNDL Bundles Your New Digital Life. For more information, please visit www.byndl.com.

CE Interactive

Series A in 2007
Wirewize is a product of CE Interactive, a New York-based software and services company that has developed the definitive platform to help users manage, support, improve and simplify their consumer electronics experience. CEI represents the next generation of support services, and provides its solutions to consumer electronics retailers, manufacturers, service providers and consumers. CEI's unique information delivery technologies provide cross-brand model specific support solutions at all critical customer touch points; on the retail floor, through a call center help desk, through a service or installation event, and by the customer directly over the web.

Pond5

Angel Round in 2008
Pond5 Inc. operates an online video library that enables users to upload and sell royalty free footage, photos, illustrations, music, sound effects, after effects, public domain, and 3D models. It offers services to filmmakers, creators, and video, film, and television producers. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Prague, Czech Republic; Geneva, Switzerland; and Dublin, Ireland.

ORCA, Inc.

Series A in 2009
ORCA is a fintech platform for building payment processing alternatives for social networks, online games to accept and optionally aggregate payments, create loyalty programs, and send marketing messages.

Tire Agent

Seed Round in 2020
Tire Agent Corp. operates a mobile tire store that offers online ordering and provides installation at home or office. The company operates as a search engine and aggregator for tires and wheels. The company's agents provide each customer with personalized tire recommendations based on their vehicle and how many miles a year they drive. Tire Agent Corp. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Front Range Biosciences

Venture Round in 2020
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

Atomation

Seed Round in 2018
Atomation, founded in Tel Aviv and now with headquarters in Saint Louis, Missouri, is a business-to-business solutions company that uses an innovative Internet of Things (IoT) platform to connect existing, in-field, legacy objects and assets to the internet. Focused on making the data gathered by sensors into useful and actionable information, Atomation solves problems differently with affordable and simple solutions that allow businesses to transform operations and optimize their bottom line.

Ambient Devices

Series B in 2008
Ambient Devices provides a complete solution to offer wireless products to consumers that make tangible interfaces to digital information. Today, this solution includes: the Ambient Information Network™-a back-end service delivery infrastructure and wireless network; and the Ambient Device Design™-a set of hardware specifications to turn everyday objects (like pens, watches, and clocks) into glanceable wireless information devices, customized and branded by product companies.

Cookstr

Series A in 2009
Cookstr’s mission is to organize the world‘s best cookbooks and recipes and make them universally accessible. Cookstr develops and delivers innovative products and technologies for partners – market leaders in the media, healthcare and food industries – to support enjoyable and healthy consumer lifestyles focused on quality home cooking. Cookstr's flagship product is our hand-curated database of thousands of cookbook recipes by hundreds of well-known chefs and cookbook authors, which we offer directly to consumers via the Cookstr website, www.cookstr.com, and license as a "channel" to our partners.

SetJam

Debt Financing in 2010
More TV shows and movies are available online than through cable. No one watches them though because they're scattered across dozens of sites. At SetJam we've abstracted this complexity and created a place where people can watch TV online in a way that rivals old TV in its simplicity. In so doing, we believe that we can drive a mass audience to legal content and build the basis for a new kind of TV that is personal, interactive, and social.

PayPerks

Angel Round in 2010
PayPerks, Inc. provides sweepstakes-based award programs. Its educational rewards platform allow users to win cash prizes for learning, and taking tutorials and surveys on various topics, such as budgeting and saving, prepaid card, nutrition, and more. PayPerks, Inc. was formerly known as Arlyn Davich LLC. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York.

eDataSource

Series A in 2006
Founded in 2003 as the industry's first email intelligence company, eDataSource pioneered the use of live consumer inboxes to analyze email success metrics. Their multi-source monitoring solution now includes the most cutting edge, AI-powered machine learning tracks over 90% of all commercial emails sent globally. No other players in the email monitoring space offer anything like our combination of data-depth and breadth of ISP representation. This leading-edge technology empowers marketers with the deepest, most precise, and easily accessible information to improve critical success metrics of their email marketing programs. eDataSource provides tools and services for the world's leading brands, agencies, and email service providers.

Bandwagon

Seed Round in 2014
Bandwagon facilitates real-time sharing of taxis and hired vehicles. Through web and mobile apps, they connect people who are traveling in the same direction. Shared trips are affordable, fun, and environmentally-friendly. Bandwagon builds transportation software and systems. Their primary area of expertise is building products that increase the efficiency of for-hire vehicle fleets, and increase the connectivity of these fleets with traditional transit systems. Bandwagon also offers transportation strategy consulting to large organizations, municipalities and transportation management agencies. Bandwagon was inspired by an ethic of repair and a belief that cities are fundamentally collaborative & creative enterprises. The Company’s mission is to create products and services that increase urban access to mobility and reduce energy costs and pollution, by reorganizing existing transportation infrastructure. Their products provide efficient access to traditional transportation networks where they exist, and create new mobility where traditional transportation infrastructure is underdeveloped.

eJamming

Series A in 2005
[eJamming](http://www.ejamming.com) allows musicians located anywhere to get together for jam sessions. Your drummer is in New York, lead guitar is in India, your bass player is somewhere else, and you're on keyboard. No problem. eJamming lets you jam anyway. And you can talk to the other musicians via a VOIP feature. All you need is digital instrument (midi enabled) and an internet connected computer. Download the client (Mac or PC), and either get the old band back together virtually or find a musician on the service.

Concert Window

Convertible Note in 2014
Concert Window, Inc. operates an online platform that enables to watch live concerts. Its online ticketing platform allows customers to purchase tickets in advance or on the day of the show. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Zive

Seed Round in 2017
Zive, Inc., a consumer software company, develops 'Kiwi for Gmail', an email desktop application for Mac and Windows users. Kiwi for Gmail is up to 2.0, which comes with a new toolbar and allows users to multitask. The application turns G Suite applications like docs and slides, into Windows desktop applications. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

BeautyBooked

Seed Round in 2014
BeautyBooked, Inc. operates a Website that allows users to search and book appoints for local day spas and salons. The company’s site allows users to book appointments for blowout, nails, haircut, tanning, facial treatments, massage, hair color, makeup, brows and lashes, bikini wax, body treatment, and laser and medi services. It primarily serves customers in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, and Miami. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York. As of January 19, 2016, BeautyBooked, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of StyleSeat, Inc.

Kasisto

Seed Round in 2014
Kasisto enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers via human-like, intelligent conversations anytime, anywhere. Its digital experience platform, KAI, powers omnichannel virtual assistants and chatbots who are fluent in banking across mobile apps, websites, messaging platforms, and voice-enabled devices. The company was founded in 2013 by Dror Oren, Zor Gorelov, Sasha Caskey, and Ruth Brown and headquartered in New York, New York.

Localytics

Seed Round in 2010
Upland Localytics is a mobile app analytics and marketing platform. It gives companies the insights and tools they need to improve their mobile app acquisition, engagement, and retention efforts. It provides a family of cloud-based enterprise work management software applications for information technology, process excellence, finance, professional services, and marketing functions within organizations. The company's platform is used in more than 6,000 apps on more than 2 billion devices by companies such as Live Nation, HSN, Comcast, and The New York Times.

Enertiv

Seed Round in 2016
Enertiv, Inc., a digital energy company, provides data driven energy efficiency solutions to real estate, energy services, tech companies, energy software, and utilities markets worldwide. It offers energy data and analytics, sub metering and automated billing, measurement and verification, CircuitAPI, and energy consumption monitoring solutions. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

CrowdTangle

Convertible Note in 2013
CrowdTangle makes it incredibly easy to find & track content on the social web.

Body Labs

Seed Round in 2014
Body Labs is a horizontal solution provider of human-aware AI that understands the way we move and how we’re shaped to make our world more personal. The company is comprised of the best in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and body modeling. It aims to deliver human-aware AI as the next digital platform to empower the capture and use of 3D body motion and shape for numerous industries. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

VinePair

Seed Round in 2017
VinePair operates an online platform that enables wine consumers to discuss, share, and understand about wine and other beverages. It offers weekly titles, newsletters, blogs, and many others. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Social Standards

Series A in 2017
Social Standards, Inc. develops market research tools to discover and deliver actionable business insights with authentic analysis of social data. Its tool provide consumer voice measurement and marketing insights for beverage alcohol, beauty, personal care, food and beverage, quick serve restaurants, and other industries. Social Standards, Inc. was formerly known as BarTrendr, Inc. and changed its name to Social Standards, Inc., in July 2016. The Company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Oakland, California

Modalyst

Seed Round in 2016
Modalyst is dropshipping automation software for ecommerce businesses. Modalyst automates the ecommerce dropshipping operations for online stores and connects them to the best suppliers and items to dropship. Modalyst gives storeowners all the workflow tools to manage suppliers, import product catalogs, sync inventory data, and process orders. Modalyst has direct integrations with Shopify, Wix, and Bigcommerce platforms.

Story2

Seed Round in 2014
Story2 is a provider of a platform used to expand speaking, writing, and collaboration through online storytelling. Its platform uses the power of storytelling to expand writing confidence and persistence in college admissions, job search, and on the job by replacing empty words with vibrant, personal stories and writing that enable students to overcome the hurdles of the college admissions process as well as receive scholarships.

Membrion

Series B in 2023
Membrion, Inc. manufactures and commercializes membranes that filter molecules. It filters molecules, such as ions under various conditions, such as hot, cold, acidic, caustic, vacuum, and biologically sensitive conditions. The company’s products are used in flow batteries, water purification, fuel cells, and pharmaceutical applications. Membrion, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Goldilock

Seed Round in 2023
Patented Goldilock is the only technology on earth that allows individuals and institutions to physically disconnect and connect data and devices to & from the internet, in seconds, from anywhere on earth, with no human intervention - and WITHOUT using the internet. That's right. Goldilock has created a complete non-IP back channel, available to you and your organization, without purchasing specialty personal devices or going through complex training. Goldilock keeps your data completely isolated from the internet, invisible and un-findable to hackers. For your enterprise Goldilock can ensure your data backups are clean and isolated in case of ransomware or other cyber intrusions. Goldilock's Autotomy product allows network administrators to isolate devices and network architecture, in seconds, to mitigate attacks, zero-day incidents and other cyber threats.

Automotus

Seed Round in 2023
Automotus, Inc. develops a computer vision software that helps in traffic and parking management using existing camera networks. It provides communities with tools and data to optimize their city planning and urban development. It also provides customers with traffic and parking data for the allocation of parking and traffic resources. Automotus, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Transactis

Pre Seed Round in 2005
Transactis transforms traditional paper billing and payment processing by enabling businesses of all sizes to replace paper bills, statements, invoices, payments and documents with more efficient digital alternatives. Transactis goes to market exclusively with resellers—financial institutions, technology companies, printers and business process outsourcers—to provide their customers with secure, configurable, white-label, industry-leading SaaS solutions. More than a technology provider to resellers, Transactis is a full-service business partner, delivering a broad and deep suite of sales, marketing, technical and operational support, empowering resellers to more successfully serve their clients. Transactis meets the strictest regulatory and compliance requirements including HIPAA, SSAE 16, PCI Level 1, and SOC 2. Transactis’ investors include ff Venture Capital, MacAndrews & Forbes, Metamorphic Ventures, Safeguard Scientifics, StarVest Partners, Capital One, Fifth Third Bank, PNC, TD Bank and Wells Fargo.

RankMiner

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Machine Learning, emotional voice analytics and predictive modeling are converging to revolutionize how call centers enable their agents and interact with customers. Analyzing voice from each call will enable call center agents to perform more effectively as well as give supervisors additional insights to better support their teams. RankMiner analyzes a person's voice, not the words used, but how they are spoken to reveal speaker intent and predict what that caller is likely to do. Clients use RankMiner to reduce the costs of employee turnover and increase revenues through cross-sales and collections.

Tommy John

Pre Seed Round in 2010
Tommy John, Inc. manufactures and markets undershirts and underwear for men, wives, and girlfriends. It sells its products online and through a network of retail shops in the United States; and ships its products internationally. The company was formerly known as TJP Enterprises, LLC. Tommy John, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Sustain

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Sustain is the first brand of all-natural, vagina-friendly essentials. They make everything from tampons to condoms to lubricants. From tampons to condoms, to lubricants, most products contain unhealthy ingredients that can do your body harm. At Sustain, we're committed to always putting your health first, which means our products are better, healthier, and more vagina-friendly than traditional brands. Bonus points that they're better for Mother Earth as well.

Terecircuits

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Terecircuits Corporation develops materials and processes to support micro assembly and mass transfer of displays and advanced electronics. It offers advanced polymers, encapsulation materials, and liquid metal interconnects. The company also provides photo-polymer mass transfer for use in MicroLEDs, such as automotive and AR/VR applications. In addition, it offers new materials and design language for systems in package manufacturing for use in Internet of Things and health technology. The company serves display, electronics, and semiconductor industries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Automotus

Seed Round in 2022
Automotus, Inc. develops a computer vision software that helps in traffic and parking management using existing camera networks. It provides communities with tools and data to optimize their city planning and urban development. It also provides customers with traffic and parking data for the allocation of parking and traffic resources. Automotus, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Goldilock

Seed Round in 2023
Patented Goldilock is the only technology on earth that allows individuals and institutions to physically disconnect and connect data and devices to & from the internet, in seconds, from anywhere on earth, with no human intervention - and WITHOUT using the internet. That's right. Goldilock has created a complete non-IP back channel, available to you and your organization, without purchasing specialty personal devices or going through complex training. Goldilock keeps your data completely isolated from the internet, invisible and un-findable to hackers. For your enterprise Goldilock can ensure your data backups are clean and isolated in case of ransomware or other cyber intrusions. Goldilock's Autotomy product allows network administrators to isolate devices and network architecture, in seconds, to mitigate attacks, zero-day incidents and other cyber threats.

Membrion

Venture Round in 2023
Membrion, Inc. manufactures and commercializes membranes that filter molecules. It filters molecules, such as ions under various conditions, such as hot, cold, acidic, caustic, vacuum, and biologically sensitive conditions. The company’s products are used in flow batteries, water purification, fuel cells, and pharmaceutical applications. Membrion, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

iSpeech

Pre Seed Round in 2009
iSpeech (www.ispeech.org) provides human quality text to speech and speech recognition solutions to consumers, developers and businesses worldwide. -Leading developer of speech-enabled mobile apps: 30+ million downloads of iSpeech apps -Leading speech development platform: 20,000+ developers and billions of API calls -Growing list of enterprise customers spanning Publishing, Mobile, Automotive and the Connected Home

fuse.ar

Pre Seed Round in 2019
fuse.ar enables brands to reach consumers organically, bringing new value to consumers, new data to brands and a new ability to create organic reach. fuse.ar has a patented AR platform that is redefining the way people socially react to media by integrating themselves into branded video content. The company's proprietary AI video technology analyzes and syncs content automatically and seamlessly without any human intervention. It takes pre-created regular 2D videos and convert it into AR experience using proprietary and patented technology. It takes a passive experience and convert it into an active experience. It make user based commercials. Since these commercials are being developed and shared organically by the users, it is being posted on social media as UGC and not as branded content, therefore promoted as one. Achieving unlimited organic reach for brands. Among the company's partners are P&G, Coca-Cola, iHeart Media, and more. fuse.ar was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Goodpin

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Goodpin is a web-platform.