Nucleus Adventure Capital
Born out of decades of friendship and investing, NAC was created to identify and support ground breaking innovation in the pursuit of a better world. We invest early and quickly, build relationships with founders and love to get our hands dirty to help our partners achieve their goals. Our fundamental investment philosophy has two tenets: 1) We believe that identifying and investing behind change - especially fundamental shifts in how the world works or what is possible - is key to capturing exponential returns 2) We believe that while early-stage investing can appear to be little more than random to the casual observer, subject matter expertise properly applied to evaluate uncommon opportunities tilts the power law in our favor As a result we like to stick to our knitting: we have had success and we continue to find incredible opportunities to work with smart and driven executive teams operating in markets that are going to be big in the consumer-touching space. Our approach is deliberately sector and vertical agnostic, and we've invested in businesses ranging from IoT to ice cream to space tourism to secure crypto wallets (and everything in between) but we believe our best investments come when we can understand the impact on the person at the end of the value-chain and what it's worth to them, and that the combination is much, much bigger than the market understands. We evaluate hundreds of opportunities annually from sources public and private: private placements, portco spinoffs, syndicates, friendly VCs, accelerators, founder referrals, and plain old fashioned networking and shoe leather. We look for the combination of a team + product that is positioned to win the future as well as an access + opportunity that we believe gives asymmetrical upside - and then look to share the best of the best with partners who can contribute more than just capital.
Tumelo is an impact-focused financial technology firm. Our mission is to enable retail investors and pension members to create and benefit from a more sustainable investment system. We do this by partnering with investment and pension providers, enabling them to provide their customers with transparency over the companies they own and a shareholder voice on issues they care about, such as gender equality or climate change. Our solution is white-label software delivered via APIs and/or a user dashboard. Our software integrates with existing investment platforms improving customer engagement, acquisition and retention for providers.
TomTex recycles agriculture waste and creates a sustainable, accessible, and practical alternatives to currently commercial materials.
Founded in 2015, VeriSolutions is an early stage Internet of Things (IoT) technology business that has designed and developed a hardware enabled software platform for restaurants. The platform includes a restaurant operations software suite and a cold-chain solution which consists of a hardware component (sensors to monitor food temperature) and a cold chain management software component.
FinDox develops document, compliance, and workflow management products for the financial services industry. Founded in 2016, FinDox's software tracks the completion of assigned projects on a real-time basis and workflow management, which enables companies to help companies assign works to their employees.
Zenrez provides boutique fitness studios industry leading sales and marketing software with revenue management at its core. We apply dynamic pricing and yield management techniques -- traditionally limited to huge industries like airlines and hotels -- to help boutique fitness studios increase their revenue, drive repeat business, reduce customer churn, and fill last-minute spots in class. Additionally, our CRM platform breaks down and identifies the most significant growth levers of your studio and the most actionable fitness-specific KPIs at your fingertips. Learn more at https://www.zenrez.com
Ample Hills Creamery is a chain of ice cream shops filled with quirky and decadent creations. They handcraft their ice cream in small batches, using fresh, local, all-natural milk, cream, and eggs. In fact, their dairy and eggs are so fresh, they were inside hormone-free, grass-fed, happy cows and chickens just a few days before we churned them into ice cream.
AgSmarts is a provider of environmental sensing and agricultural irrigation automation in the agriculture industry. With global demand for agricultural output rising and constraints confronting agricultural producers from all sides of their operations, AgSmarts helps farmers address these challenges by introducing the power of industrial controls. Its universal retrofit irrigation automation platform helps producers boost yields while reducing their operational costs and minimizing their water usage. The company's patent-pending IP-enabled sensing and wireless communication hardware coupled with its proprietary automation algorithms are revolutionizing agriculture by gathering critical environmental data directly from fields that allow existing irrigation infrastructure to anticipate and autonomously meet the soil moisture needs of the specific crop being grown in the field throughout the production season. The technology is distributed through existing Ag Service Providers' retail operations on a Platform as a Service (PaaS) basis and begins immediately improving the producer's bottom line when installed on their existing irrigation equipment through increased yield revenues and lower operational costs. Clayton Plymill and Brett Norman in Martin, Tennessee in 2014.
Founded by three passionate European kiteboarders, WOO is redefining the way action sports is played, viewed and consumed with the first-ever onboard motion sensor device + app experience. There is no means to measure performance in action sports. Even X-Games and Olympics still rely on the judgment of the human eye. We build the technology to allow action sports athletes to measure their performance, share the results with their friends, and compete against their peers and the best in the world in a fun and engaging way.
FitReserve is a multi-studio fitness subscription that allows members to mix and match in-person, live stream, and on-demand workouts from the top studios and instructors.
QuickFrame's intelligent video platform reduces the time, cost, and subjectivity of traditional video creation, empowering you to do more with video.
Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. They are committed to building extraordinary products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life. Their first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts. Launched in October 2015 to great acclaim, they took the wellness industry by storm! Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, the IDA Design Award, and the Red Dot Award. As a business, Elvie has been recognized as one of Wired’s ‘hottest start-ups" and named one of the 15 start-ups "to watch" by The Sunday Times, and both products have been featured in the Oscar nominee gift bags. They recently launched a second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, which is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere. Elvie Pump received international praise following its unveiling on the catwalk at London Fashion Week and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B led by IPGL and supported by Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures. This represented the largest ever fundraise in femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution for Elvie Pump and Elvie Trainer across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Headquartered in London, UK, with offices also in New York City, the company has received numerous awards and raised more than $52 million in investment.
Icebergs is a web-based application that enables its users to organize their projects, research, and inspirations. It was launched on February 6, 2013 in Barcelona, Spain.
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