Outbound Ventures

Outbound Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015. It focuses on early-stage investments in consumer tech, supporting founders with global networking to drive company growth.

Harrison Balistreri

Principal

Luis Gonzalez

Co-Founder and Partner

Nael Rasamny

Co-Founder and Partner

Jimmy Thermiotis

Co-Founder and Partner

51 past transactions

Worky

Convertible Note in 2022
Worky develops employee-centric HR software that automates HR activities and benefits. Its platform securely calculates payroll accurately, ensuring all HR processes are consolidated in one place.

Treinta

Series A in 2022
Treinta is a digital ledger app tailored for Latin American microbusinesses. It enables users to record transactions by assigning products from their inventory, providing real-time insights into business metrics. By using Treinta, owners can save up to 30 minutes daily in bookkeeping tasks and enhance efficiency by over 30%. Currently, it serves microbusinesses transitioning from pen-and-paper tracking methods.

Sanzo

Series A in 2022
Sanzo is a beverage company dedicated to showcasing unique Asian flavors through its product offerings. It specializes in flavored sparkling water, crafted with real fruit and designed to provide a refreshing experience that honors the authenticity of traditional flavors. Sanzo's beverages contain no added sugars, ensuring a clean and natural drinking option for consumers. By focusing on quality and affordability, the company aims to deliver drinks that resonate with those seeking genuine taste experiences while bridging cultural gaps.

Fractional

Seed Round in 2021
Fractional is a platform for fractional real estate investment that enables investors to purchase fractions of properties and visualize returns, cash flow, and costs via a marketplace. It supports a range of property types, including single-family and multi-family homes, with a focus on making real estate investing accessible, educational, collaborative, and inclusive while reducing entry barriers and time commitments.

Flat.mx

Series A in 2021
Flat.mx is the one-stop-shop for residential real estate in Mexico that simplifies the home-buying experience. They provide multiple products and services including home brokerage, a marketplace, and credit products.

Siglo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Siglo is transforming the internet service provider market in urban communities across Latin America. The company specializes in offering wireless home broadband services, which currently connect over 3,200 homes and generate monthly recurring revenue of $150,000. Siglo's internet services are designed to provide fast connection plans that cater to the diverse needs of users, enabling them to work, study, and engage in entertainment seamlessly. By focusing on accessibility and quality, Siglo aims to bridge the digital divide in underserved areas, ensuring that more individuals have reliable access to the internet.

Prescient AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Prescient AI is a leading automation software provider for marketers and direct-to-consumer brands. It offers precise data insights, helping businesses measure, forecast, optimize, and continuously backtest marketing funnels to save time and money. Prescient's AI-powered platform simulates various scenarios to derive actionable insights, enabling brands to optimize ad campaigns, drive growth, and maximize revenue.

Nabis

Series B in 2021
Nabis is a licensed cannabis wholesale marketplace that specializes in distributing cannabis products to retailers. The company operates a platform that utilizes a fast distribution network to fulfill, store, and sell wholesale cannabis products. This service benefits a wide range of retailers, from small delivery businesses to large dispensary chains, allowing them to efficiently manage and ship wholesale cannabis orders. In addition to distribution, Nabis offers sales, marketing, financing, and data analytics services, effectively coordinating the entire cannabis distribution lifecycle from production to delivery.

Treinta

Seed Round in 2021
Treinta is a digital ledger app tailored for Latin American microbusinesses. It enables users to record transactions by assigning products from their inventory, providing real-time insights into business metrics. By using Treinta, owners can save up to 30 minutes daily in bookkeeping tasks and enhance efficiency by over 30%. Currently, it serves microbusinesses transitioning from pen-and-paper tracking methods.

Moonshot Brands

Series A in 2021
Moonshot Brands is a company that specializes in acquiring, operating, and growing profitable e-commerce businesses. Based in Toronto, it focuses on the online and mail order retail industry, leveraging its expertise to enhance the performance and scale of its portfolio companies. By implementing strategic growth initiatives, Moonshot Brands aims to maximize the potential of the businesses it acquires, positioning itself as a key player in the e-commerce landscape.

fortú

Seed Round in 2021
fortú is the personal finance platform for Latinos and Hispanics

Blank Street

Seed Round in 2021
Blank Street is a coffee chain focused on making coffee accessible and enjoyable for a broader audience by providing convenient locations and a streamlined customer experience. The company employs automated espresso machines that ensure consistent quality, allowing baristas to engage more with customers and cultivate relationships. Blank Street's product offerings include a variety of coffee flavors, baked goods, pastries, and tacos, all designed to enhance the coffee-drinking experience. In addition, customers can conveniently place their orders through a mobile application, facilitating a quick and efficient service. The company's commitment to sustainability is reflected in its goal of operating with zero waste and zero emissions, while utilizing high-quality outsourced vendors for milk and pastries to maintain focus on their core coffee products.

Hydra Studios

Seed Round in 2020
Hydra Studios, founded in 2017 and based in New York, offers membership-based wellness spaces designed to optimize both body and mind. The company provides private suites equipped with fitness amenities, rainfall showers, towel service, locker storage, steam rooms, infrared saunas, vanity stations, and bookable nap and meditation rooms. Hydra Studios caters to individuals seeking a modern approach to wellness, offering a quiet place to recharge or engage in fitness activities.

Better Booch

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2012, Better Booch specializes in the manufacture, distribution, and retail of tea-based kombucha. Each product is crafted with distinct premium loose-leaf tea blends, botanicals, herbs, and adaptogens, ensuring no added juice or sugar.

Maude

Seed Round in 2020
Maude is a sexual wellness brand that offers body-safe intimate care products, including latex-based condoms, lubricants formulated from natural ingredients, and a range of personal massagers, vibrators, and massage candles. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Maude pursues quality, simplicity, and inclusivity to make intimacy better for all people. The company partners with carefully selected manufacturers to produce easy-to-use items designed to elevate everyday experiences while destigmatizing sexual health. Its product platform focuses on body-safe solutions for intimate care, aiming to provide accessible options that minimize side effects and support well-being. Maude emphasizes transparent formulations, modern design, and a straightforward approach to personal wellness, seeking to simplify choosing and using products that enhance comfort, pleasure, and confidence.

Conjure

Seed Round in 2020
Conjure is an online furniture rental company based in New York that provides an alternative to traditional furniture ownership. Founded by Daniel Ramirez and Aditya Khilnani, the company operates a marketplace featuring designer-curated furniture pieces suitable for both home and office use. Conjure allows consumers to quickly and affordably furnish their spaces with stylish rentals available at reasonable monthly rates. Recently, the company raised $9 million in seed funding, comprising $4 million in equity led by Pillar VC and RiverPark Ventures, along with $5 million in debt financing from CoVenture, to further its mission of transforming how individuals acquire furniture.

Parrot Software

Seed Round in 2020
Parrot Software specializes in developing comprehensive restaurant management solutions that integrate software and hardware to optimize operations for restaurants and fast-food establishments. Its platform encompasses essential functions such as point of sale, inventory management, customer payments, ordering, seating, and data visualization. By providing back-office tools that streamline these various tasks, Parrot Software enables clients to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of their restaurant operations. The company's focus on innovation aims to deliver superior satisfaction in both service and operational management for its customers.

Sanzo

Seed Round in 2020
Sanzo is a beverage company dedicated to showcasing unique Asian flavors through its product offerings. It specializes in flavored sparkling water, crafted with real fruit and designed to provide a refreshing experience that honors the authenticity of traditional flavors. Sanzo's beverages contain no added sugars, ensuring a clean and natural drinking option for consumers. By focusing on quality and affordability, the company aims to deliver drinks that resonate with those seeking genuine taste experiences while bridging cultural gaps.

Nexu

Seed Round in 2020
Nexu is a digital platform designed for car dealerships. It uses AI and automation to offer real-time financing solutions, enabling more customers to acquire new or used vehicles with personalized plans and minimal requirements.

Sable

Seed Round in 2020
Sable is a digital banking company focused on providing accessible financial services to underserved individuals, particularly those who are new to the U.S. or lack a traditional credit history. The company offers credit-building cards, fee-free bank accounts, and debit cards that can be obtained quickly without requiring a Social Security number or U.S. address. Sable's products include a premium card designed for faster credit building through enhanced reporting on multiple data points. Additionally, the company provides a gamified path to unsecured credit, guiding customers through tangible milestones to improve their financial standing.

Cann

Seed Round in 2020
Cann specializes in producing low-dose tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) beverages. Their products offer all-natural flavors, made from natural citrus and herbal extracts with a touch of agave nectar. These beverages are vegan, gluten-free, contain no artificial sweeteners or preservatives, and aim to provide consumers with a light, refreshing social buzz while avoiding the typical cannabis taste.

Dandy

Venture Round in 2020
Dandy modernizes the $400 billion global dental industry with end-to-end software and manufacturing solutions, providing a digital platform that manages the entire workflow from ordering to delivering customized restorations. By combining proprietary technology with world-class manufacturing and operations, Dandy enables dental practices and labs to streamline operations, improve treatment predictability and patient experience, upskill staff, and transition to digital workflows, resulting in high-quality, consistent, and affordable outcomes.

Bespoke Financial

Seed Round in 2019
Bespoke Financial, Inc. is a licensed lender based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in providing customized funding solutions for the cannabis industry. Founded in 2018, the company addresses the unique operating capital needs of cannabis cultivators, manufacturers, brands, distributors, retailers, and ancillary businesses. Bespoke Financial offers services such as invoice financing and inventory financing, designed to alleviate working capital constraints and enhance financial flexibility across the cannabis supply chain. By facilitating access to capital, Bespoke Financial enables its clients to reduce cash flow cycles and realize their growth potential.

Wethos

Seed Round in 2019
Wethos Virtual Studios enables solo business owners to expand their capabilities by swiftly assembling teams of skilled creatives and marketers. The platform employs agile methodologies to deliver tailored branding, web development, digital content creation, and growth campaigns in real-time.

Laika

Seed Round in 2019
Laika is an e-commerce platform specializing in a wide range of products and services for pets. The company provides over 4,000 product options, including food, snacks, medications, and accessories. In addition to these offerings, Laika features a services section with more than 17 different services, encompassing healthcare, grooming, and entertainment for pets. With a focus on convenience, Laika delivers all items directly to customers' homes, allowing them to select preferred delivery dates and times, including same-day delivery in major cities. The platform supports various payment methods, ensuring a seamless shopping experience for pet owners seeking to meet their pets' needs.

Island

Venture Round in 2019
Island Global Holdings is a California-based company that specializes in the production of artisanal quality cannabis products. Founded in 2014 and located in Redondo Beach, the company is dedicated to responsibly crafting its products, ensuring that each item is made with care. Island Global Holdings sources its cannabis exclusively from California cultivators who align with its commitment to quality and craftsmanship.

Sable

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Sable is a digital banking company focused on providing accessible financial services to underserved individuals, particularly those who are new to the U.S. or lack a traditional credit history. The company offers credit-building cards, fee-free bank accounts, and debit cards that can be obtained quickly without requiring a Social Security number or U.S. address. Sable's products include a premium card designed for faster credit building through enhanced reporting on multiple data points. Additionally, the company provides a gamified path to unsecured credit, guiding customers through tangible milestones to improve their financial standing.

Nabis

Seed Round in 2019
Nabis is a licensed cannabis wholesale marketplace that specializes in distributing cannabis products to retailers. The company operates a platform that utilizes a fast distribution network to fulfill, store, and sell wholesale cannabis products. This service benefits a wide range of retailers, from small delivery businesses to large dispensary chains, allowing them to efficiently manage and ship wholesale cannabis orders. In addition to distribution, Nabis offers sales, marketing, financing, and data analytics services, effectively coordinating the entire cannabis distribution lifecycle from production to delivery.

Maude

Seed Round in 2019
Maude is a sexual wellness brand that offers body-safe intimate care products, including latex-based condoms, lubricants formulated from natural ingredients, and a range of personal massagers, vibrators, and massage candles. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Maude pursues quality, simplicity, and inclusivity to make intimacy better for all people. The company partners with carefully selected manufacturers to produce easy-to-use items designed to elevate everyday experiences while destigmatizing sexual health. Its product platform focuses on body-safe solutions for intimate care, aiming to provide accessible options that minimize side effects and support well-being. Maude emphasizes transparent formulations, modern design, and a straightforward approach to personal wellness, seeking to simplify choosing and using products that enhance comfort, pleasure, and confidence.

Ayenda Hotels

Seed Round in 2019
Ayenda Hotels is a rapidly growing hotel chain based in Medellín, Colombia, and is recognized as the largest hotel chain in the country by the number of properties. Founded in 2015, Ayenda focuses on providing standardized, budget-friendly accommodations for individuals, families, and business travelers. The company operates a network of franchise hotels in major cities such as Barranquilla, Bogotá, Medellín, and Pereira, ensuring that essential needs are met for all types of guests. Utilizing proprietary technology, Ayenda manages its operations through a comprehensive platform that includes hotel management software, pricing algorithms, and user-friendly interfaces, thereby enhancing the overall guest experience. The chain emphasizes quality amenities, including free WiFi and clean accommodations, making it a competitive choice for travelers seeking affordable lodging options.

Spero Foods

Seed Round in 2019
Spero Foods, Inc. is a company that specializes in producing and selling alternative dairy products, focusing primarily on cream cheese. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Spero employs innovative food science and process engineering to create mainstream plant-based dairy alternatives. The company aims to provide healthy food options for all individuals, positioning itself as a disruptor in the traditional dairy market. Spero Foods' products are available through various channels, including wholesalers, retail stores, and online platforms across the United States. The company has gained recognition for its innovative approach and has received awards from notable organizations such as Fast Company, NEXTY, and The Food Network. Its products can be found in over 3,500 authorized locations, including major retailers like Kroger, Whole Foods, Publix, and Sprouts.

Pair Eyewear

Seed Round in 2018
Pair Eyewear, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in customizable eyeglasses for children. Founded in 2017 by Nathan Kondamuri and Sophia Edelstein, the company offers a unique approach to eyewear by providing base frames and interchangeable top frames that allow kids to express their personal style and interests. By combining functionality with creativity, Pair Eyewear transforms glasses from mere medical devices into a fun and engaging accessory for children. The company's direct-to-consumer model leverages an e-commerce platform, making the purchasing process convenient for parents while enhancing the overall experience for young wearers. Pair Eyewear is committed to offering quality, affordable glasses that are both stylish and practical, featuring hand-polished frames and shatterproof polycarbonate lenses.

Fitco

Seed Round in 2018
Fitco is a management and retention software company that focuses on supporting fitness boutiques and sports centers in their business growth. The company offers a comprehensive gym management platform that facilitates the administration of fitness facilities, including sales management and customer monitoring. By leveraging technology, Fitco enhances operational efficiency and helps fitness centers foster community engagement. Its mobile app also provides a user-friendly interface for fitness enthusiasts, allowing them to connect more easily with the services offered by these centers. Through its innovative solutions, Fitco enables fitness businesses to increase sales, strengthen their brand presence, and attract new clients.

Aprendiendo

Pre Seed Round in 2018
We help students and universities in reducing drop out rates, over 50% in LatAm through our customized contents and self paced learning platform.

Indie Boost

Seed Round in 2018
With billions of $ lost on online ads due to ad blocker technology and millennials becoming harder and harder to reach we built a marketplace where brands can hire gamers to directly promote their product or brand to millions of viewers across the world.

Unbound

Seed Round in 2018
Unbound is a company focused on sexual wellness for women, offering a range of products including vibrators, lubricants, and accessories. The company operates an e-commerce platform that allows customers to purchase body-safe items directly from their website, ensuring discreet delivery to their homes. By prioritizing women's sexual health and wellness, Unbound aims to provide a comfortable and accessible shopping experience for its customers.

For Days

Seed Round in 2018
For Days is a sustainable apparel company focused on promoting a circular economy by manufacturing and recycling textiles. It offers tees and other clothing on subscription and membership models and operates a take-back program that allows customers to return worn items for recycling, supporting a closed-loop system to reduce textile waste. The company also runs the Trashie rewards platform, which provides incentives for customers to participate in clothing recycling at scale and offers a range of goods beyond apparel, including skincare, home essentials and accessories. Based in Brooklyn and established in 2016, the company aims to reduce environmental impact through comprehensive recycling and reuse of used textiles.

Ark Foods

Seed Round in 2018
Ark Foods specializes in cultivating unique, non-GMO fruits and vegetables such as shishito and honey peppers on smaller acreage to ensure quality and taste. Their products aim to provide chefs and consumers with access to hard-to-find, delicious produce.

Mented Cosmetics

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2017, Mented Cosmetics is a luxury beauty company based in New York. It specializes in cruelty-free and vegan cosmetics, offering a range of nude lipstick shades and nail polishes specifically formulated for women of color.

Ambrosia

Seed Round in 2017
Ambrosia is a waste management company that converts food scraps into valuable resources. It operates a distributed facility model, transforming organic waste into liquid and solid fertilizers, animal feed, organic chemicals, and clean energy.

Tinkergarten

Series A in 2017
Tinkergarten, Inc. is a company that specializes in outdoor play-based learning classes for children aged 18 months to 8 years. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Northampton, Massachusetts, Tinkergarten focuses on providing authentic early childhood education through engaging activities. The company connects families with local leaders who facilitate these activity-based classes, fostering skill development in a natural environment. By offering a network of community leaders, Tinkergarten enhances the learning experience, allowing children to grow in confidence and capability while enjoying the benefits of outdoor play.

VoyHoy

Seed Round in 2017
VoyHoy is an online booking platform headquartered in Santiago, Chile, that specializes in providing travelers with the ability to compare and purchase bus tickets, along with other transportation options such as flights, trains, ferries, and rideshare services across Latin America. Established in 2014, VoyHoy employs a multi-modal booking system that aggregates prices from various providers, allowing users to efficiently find the best deals. By streamlining the travel booking process, VoyHoy aims to save users both time and money.

Fresco News

Series A in 2017
Fresco News Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a citizen-driven platform for breaking news content. Founded in 2014, the platform enables users to browse and share breaking news photos and videos from around the world, allowing individuals to report news as they experience it. Fresco News facilitates the sharing of diverse perspectives on news stories and connects users with news outlets across the United States. The platform notifies users about nearby breaking news events and offers opportunities for users to earn money by sharing videos directly with news organizations. By leveraging mobile technology, Fresco News empowers individuals to become reporters and contribute to the news landscape in meaningful ways.

Beek

Seed Round in 2017
Beek is developing the leading audio platform in Latin America, aiming to become the Netflix for spoken word audio among the region's over 480 million native Spanish speakers. The company offers a subscription-based service providing access to a wide range of audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and other audio content.

Charity Miles

Series A in 2017
Charity Miles is a mobile application that converts physical activity into funds for selected charities. Users choose their preferred charity, engage in activities like walking, running, or cycling, and the app tracks miles covered, converting them into monetary donations for the chosen cause.

Junzi Kitchen

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2015, junzi grew out of a hunger for our childhood staples: northern Chinese food made with healthy, seasonal ingredients. Yet recreating the taste of home has done much more than sate our cravings—the amazing power of food in building community has inspired us to make our bings and noodles accessible to all. In just three years, we’ve grown junzi to four locations in New Haven, CT near Yale University, Morningside Heights near Columbia University, Greenwich Village near NYU and (soon-to-open) Bryant Park—and that’s just the beginning!

Elemental Path

Seed Round in 2016
Elemental Path is a company dedicated to enhancing children's learning experiences through innovative play. They specialize in creating web-connected smart toys that offer screen-free educational interactions. Notably, Elemental Path developed CogniToys, the world's first internet-connected smart toys designed to engage children through interactive dialogue. These toys provide an engaging and fun way for young learners to acquire knowledge while playing.

Rebel

Seed Round in 2016
Rebel is a company based in Washington, D.C., that specializes in in-email checkout products, allowing businesses to transform their email communications into interactive marketing tools. Founded in 2014 and known originally as Rebelmail, the company rebranded to Rebel in June 2018. By enabling actionable experiences directly within the inbox, Rebel enhances user engagement and increases conversion rates, effectively turning email into a powerful extension of a brand's app or website. This innovative approach helps businesses drive more actions from recipients, leveraging email as a key revenue driver. As of October 2018, Rebel operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce.

Jumpcut

Seed Round in 2016
Jumpcut, Inc. is a company based in Hollywood, California, founded in 2014, that specializes in developing and delivering online educational courses focused on content creation and digital media. The company offers a diverse range of courses covering topics such as comedy, vlogging, growth hacking, viral video production, and monetization strategies for brand partnerships. Jumpcut aims to address the challenges of online education, achieving a notable course completion rate of 65%, significantly higher than the industry average. Its courses are designed to engage users similarly to popular streaming content, resulting in a high subscription renewal rate of 90%. By incorporating best practices from the entertainment industry, Jumpcut seeks to transform the online learning experience into a more captivating and effective format.

AYR

Venture Round in 2016
AYR is an e-commerce driven women's clothing company based in New York City. Founded in 2014 by Maggie Winter and Jac Cameron, AYR specializes in year-round womenswear, with a focus on denim. The company offers a range of clothing items including jeans, pants, shirts, dresses, jackets, and work-wear, primarily sold online.

Tinkergarten

Seed Round in 2016
Tinkergarten, Inc. is a company that specializes in outdoor play-based learning classes for children aged 18 months to 8 years. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Northampton, Massachusetts, Tinkergarten focuses on providing authentic early childhood education through engaging activities. The company connects families with local leaders who facilitate these activity-based classes, fostering skill development in a natural environment. By offering a network of community leaders, Tinkergarten enhances the learning experience, allowing children to grow in confidence and capability while enjoying the benefits of outdoor play.
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