Oyster Ventures

Oyster Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in exceptional new-frontier technology companies. They target companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries, companies that enable globalization, with leverage to massively scale. It also specializes in early-stage investments in startups in fintech, with a focus on blockchain, crypto, E-commerce, market place, artificial intelligence, fintech, media tech, and SaaS companies. Oyster Ventures was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Kenneth Ballenegger

Managing Partner

Sophie Liao

Founding Partner

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Ridepanda

Seed Round in 2021
Ridepanda is an online e-ride shop that offers electric vehicles with maintenance support and theft protection.

Revere VC

Seed Round in 2021
Revere empowers a range of investment advisors, wealth managers, and allocators with the tools to expand their venture capital programs. Revere is best known for creating the industry’s first standardized framework for evaluating fund managers.

WeWeb

Seed Round in 2021
At weweb.io we are doing a low-code front-end builder to help companies ship web-applications faster. In a nutshell WeWeb is a visual builder like Webflow, but with the ability to use data from your own stack in the web-product: you can use your own Authentication system, data coming from your back-end (be it through a REST API or directly from a SQL DB), you can fetch and send data to your CRM, ATS, etc.

Firstbase.io

Seed Round in 2021
Launch, manage, and grow your startup. All in one place.

Queue

Seed Round in 2020
Queue provides agencies with a white-labeled platform to sell services, gather feedback on their work, and integrate a client portal into their website. Used by over 60,000 active teams over the world, it is the leading platform for collaboration among creatives, studios, and marketing teams. Cutting review cycles in half and pushing out higher quality work that delights customers. Sign up here -> https://app.usequeue.com/signup

ZBiotics

Seed Round in 2020
ZBiotics is a synthetic biology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company bioengineers probiotic bacteria for nutraceutical and other applications. ZBiotics is pioneering the use of genetically engineered probiotics to solve intractable problems.

Fantuan

Series A in 2020
Partnered with over 10,000 merchants while serving over 800,000 users. Fantuan is currently located in over 40 cities across the globe and is the largest Asian food delivery platform in North America

Alpaca

Series A in 2019
Alpaca is a developer-first embedded financial technologies platform that’s raised over $100m in funding. Alpaca offers crypto and stock investing, real-time market data, and end-to-end brokerage infrastructure through modern APIs. Alpaca supports hundreds of apps and businesses across the globe and is actively used by tens of thousands of enthusiastic developers. Alpaca is backed by top investors in the industry globally, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Social Leverage, Tribe Capital, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

(Re)vive

Series A in 2019
Revive was born to take on a supply chain challenge that every brand faces: What should we do with slightly imperfect returns, store try-ons, display samples, or just plain old excess inventory? Without actionable data, brands only have a few (not ideal) options: costly recycling - difficult when the materials are not built to be recycled easily; donations - also difficult since donation centers cannot process that much volume; and as the last resort, incineration or destruction of the goods. Current options offer no financial recovery, and brands expect to lose the majority of asset value for deadstock. Revive is a first-in-line solution. Before recycling or donating, let our AI-powered platform show the recovered value potential of this inventory. Let us help you make a decision of whether these small damages are worth cleaning and/or repairing to be sold. Based on your decision, Revive will help realize the maximum value of this neglected inventory.

Coinmine

Seed Round in 2019
Coinmine One is the first all-in-one crypto miner for everyone.

Verto

Seed Round in 2019
We power cross‑border payments for the world’s fastest‑growing startups and enterprises; with a specific focus on emerging markets. Send and receive instant payments globally through a single API or via our web platform.

Avenify

Angel Round in 2019
Avenify makes it easy for nursing students to pay for school with ISAs, helps them get a job once they graduate, and provides the financial services they need to be successful.

Seawise Capital

Seed Round in 2019
Seawise is reinventing global trade for SMEs, by offering trade finance and technology products to help them increase their trading volumes and manage their exports efficiently.

Traverse Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
At Traverse, we use AI and automation to speed up traditional prospecting, feasibility assessment and front end engineering work by a factor of 10. We help project developers find exceptionally high IRR projects across continents and also help them reduce development risks dramatically at the single project level.

Handle

Seed Round in 2019
Handle.com powers the largest credit and finance teams in construction. Fortune 500 material suppliers and contractors trust Handle software on a daily basis to provide their credit and finance departments with an end-to-end solution. Handle is the new modern technology approach to better manage online payments, waivers and lien management for construction.

Allure Systems

Seed Round in 2019
Allure Systems uses AI to produce apparel images for eRetailers

Pronto

Seed Round in 2019
Pronto is a fast-growing marketplace that provides ride-sharing and delivery services for second-tier cities in LATAM. It is based on a subscription model for the drivers instead of commissions. It was founded in 2017 by Miguel Cano, Gabriel Cano and Nydia Cano. Pronto is currently backed up by Y Combinator (Winter 2019) and global venture capital funds.

Cityfurnish

Seed Round in 2019
Cityfurnish is an internet company that specializes in the fields of e-commerce and online rental. It features an online renting zone where contemporary and modern styles amalgamate to establish a new genre of wooden furniture and furnishings. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana.

Boundary Layer Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
Boundary Layer Technologies is a startup that builds high-speed container ships using hydrofoil technology. It was founded in 2018.

WorkClout

Pre Seed Round in 2019
WorkClout is building the future of manufacturing. WorkClout is a SaaS company that helps manufacturers increase their operational efficiency. WorkClout tracks every action on the factory floor and uses the data to make suggestions on how to increase efficiency.

Alpaca

Seed Round in 2019
Alpaca is a developer-first embedded financial technologies platform that’s raised over $100m in funding. Alpaca offers crypto and stock investing, real-time market data, and end-to-end brokerage infrastructure through modern APIs. Alpaca supports hundreds of apps and businesses across the globe and is actively used by tens of thousands of enthusiastic developers. Alpaca is backed by top investors in the industry globally, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Social Leverage, Tribe Capital, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Abacus

Seed Round in 2018
Abacus helps financial services companies reduce long back-and-forth onboarding sessions, eliminate inefficient data collection, and streamline compliance workflows.

(Re)vive

Seed Round in 2018
Revive was born to take on a supply chain challenge that every brand faces: What should we do with slightly imperfect returns, store try-ons, display samples, or just plain old excess inventory? Without actionable data, brands only have a few (not ideal) options: costly recycling - difficult when the materials are not built to be recycled easily; donations - also difficult since donation centers cannot process that much volume; and as the last resort, incineration or destruction of the goods. Current options offer no financial recovery, and brands expect to lose the majority of asset value for deadstock. Revive is a first-in-line solution. Before recycling or donating, let our AI-powered platform show the recovered value potential of this inventory. Let us help you make a decision of whether these small damages are worth cleaning and/or repairing to be sold. Based on your decision, Revive will help realize the maximum value of this neglected inventory.

Reach

Series A in 2018
Reach is a technology company that builds long-range wireless power networks that deliver scalable and resilient energy infrastructure. The company's wireless power solution does for power delivery what Wi-Fi does for data connectivity. The Reach system is built on state-of-the-art, patented technology, including high-efficiency power beaming circuits, network optimization algorithms, and adaptive electromagnetic surfaces, delivering a highly scalable, safe, and easy-to-use power platform. Ideally suited for manufacturing, government, energy, logistics, and retail.

Reap

Convertible Note in 2018
Reap is a financial platform that enables access and financial connectivity through innovation for companies of all sizes. We are committed to helping businesses orchestrate success by offering the best financial tools and technology that evolve with our customers and the market. Our card issuing API allows businesses to issue and curate their own credit card programs securely, providing seamless experiences for customers. Together with our expense management software, which combines global payout and our flagship Reap Visa Corporate Credit Card, we empower businesses to take control of their finances and streamline their operations. Reap is supported by an empowering group of investors, including Acorn Pacific Ventures, Arcadia Funds, HashKey Capital, Hustle Fund, Fresco Capital, Abacus Ventures and Payment Asia. The Company was founded in 2018 and has since expanded to a team of over 50, working across offices in seven countries.

SKALE Labs

Venture Round in 2018
SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts. SKALE acts as a middle-ware layer which provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts at the rate of millions per second on platforms such as Ethereum, EOS, and other Smart Contract Blockchain platforms. The SKALE Network is a fully decentralized, open-source P2P network that is run using the SKALE utility token which is staked by dApps and supported by SKALE Mining nodes.

Canary Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Canary Technologies is an enterprise hospitality technology company that provides hotels with innovative solutions to drive efficiency and enhance the guest experience. The company's core solutions get rid of antiquated technology in hotels. With backing from some of the top investors in Silicon Valley, Canary Technologies is trusted by thousands worldwide and serves some of the world’s largest and most iconic hotel brands.

Witnet

Venture Round in 2018
Witnet is an open source project originally devised by Stampery, the leaders of blockchain-powered data certification. The protocol is now being developed by Witnet Foundation in collaboration with a community of independent contributors. The mission of Witnet Foundation is ensuring the successful development and deployment of the Witnet protocol, as well as guaranteeing its sustainability and fostering the ecosystem of applications built on top of the protocol. Although Witnet Foundation will play a leading role during the first years, as the project evolves and the Witnet community becomes wider, Witnet Foundation will progressively relinquish its weight in favor of the community.

SFOX

Series A in 2018
SFOX is a cryptocurrency prime dealer that provides professional traders and institutional investors higher returns when trading large volumes, through smart routing and a global integrated order book.

Hedera Hashgraph

Venture Round in 2018
The Hedera hashgraph platform will offer a distributed public ledger that enables anyone to easily develop globally decentralized applications. Developers can build secure, fair, blazing-fast decentralized applications on top of the Hedera hashgraph platform.

Forge

Series B in 2018
Forge Global is a private securities marketplace that serves the complex and emerging needs of the private market ecosystem by forging new connections through its technology, data, and expertise. Founded in 2014, the firm empowers investors and shareholders by facilitating liquidity in the private markets. Forge is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and large, global institutions including Deutsche Börse, Temasek, Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, FT Partners, Draper Associates, Peter Thiel, Munich Re Ventures, and LUN Partners Group.

Oasis Labs

Series A in 2018
Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology. They are building a new computing platform that enables cloud-scale, real-world applications with decentralized trust and privacy protection; in short, a privacy-first, high-performance cloud computing platform on blockchain.

Republic

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Founded in 2016 and based in New York City, Republic is an equity crowdfunding platform that allows individuals to invest in private companies starting from as little as $10. The platform connects startups seeking funding with a diverse range of investors, including venture capital firms, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. Republic facilitates investment opportunities across various sectors, including gaming, real estate, and cryptocurrencies, enabling a broader audience to participate in the startup ecosystem.

Elph Network

Seed Round in 2018
Elph is a portal for decentralized apps. It brings together a token-curated app store, decentralized identity, and secure digital asset storage to make using blockchain-based apps simple. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Basis

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Basis protocol is designed to expand and contract supply similarly to the way central banks buy and sell fiscal debt to stabilize purchasing power. For this reason, we refer to Basis as having an algorithmic central bank.

Origin Protocol

Corporate Round in 2018
Origin is a protocol for creating sharing economy marketplaces using the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS. It empowers developers and businesses to build decentralized marketplaces on the blockchain. Its protocol makes it easy to create and manage listings for the fractional usage of assets and services. Origin allows buyers and sellers to discover each other, browse listings, make bookings, leave ratings and reviews, and much more. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Oasis Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology. They are building a new computing platform that enables cloud-scale, real-world applications with decentralized trust and privacy protection; in short, a privacy-first, high-performance cloud computing platform on blockchain.

Qulture.Rocks

Seed Round in 2018
Qulture.Rocks is a San-Francisco based software company that builds people management applications for some of the world's most influential companies. Its platform enables organizations to implement 1:1s, goals/OKRs, performance reviews, 360-degree and ongoing, on-the-spot feedback and recognition.

Telegram

Venture Round in 2018
Telegram is an instant messaging service that aims to make communication simple, fast, and secure. The company's product allows for group chatting, document sharing, message encryption, cloud storage, and message synchronization across many operating systems. The Telegram application can be used on all devices. Messages sync across any number of phones, tablets, or computers.

Verdigris Technologies

Series A in 2018
Verdigris enables building intelligent buildings through AI and real-time energy monitoring. In addition, Verdigris delivers insight into the power usage per device when in critical condition. Verdigris Building.AI is cloud analytics software for enterprise facilities managers and large commercial buildings. It allows them to optimize operations, increase facility uptime, and save on energy costs. Building.AI is a sophisticated machine learning analytics SAAS platform and embedded wireless sensor that enables real-time identification, disaggregation, and analysis of the loads in buildings, providing unprecedented insights about behavior and usage.

Switchboard

Venture Round in 2017
Switchboard is founded on the notion that colleges, universities, independent schools, and organizations need strong communities to help students and alumni succeed. Switchboard helps schools and other organizations create responsive, caring networks where members of their community can find and share transformative opportunities. Their community platform, consulting, and professional development offerings help teams and institutions engage their communities. Switchboard's engagement platform generates meaningful, lasting engagement for dozens of alumni, nonprofit, and industry communities. The company was founded by Mara Zepeda and Sean Lerner in 2012 and is based in Portland, OR, USA.

Stacks

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Blockstack is a decentralized computing network that puts users in control of their data and login. It’s the easiest way to build decentralized apps that can scale. Blockstack enables engineers to build secure, privacy-focused applications: users are in control of their data instead of storing it with large tech companies. Over 120 independent developer teams have built apps on Blockstack.

Aella

Seed Round in 2017
Aella provides instant credit solutions that eliminates the hassle of standard loan applications and enables employee to borrow at competitive and fair rates through their employers. Individuals can download the application through Android devices. Benefits of the platform are offered to employees, companies, and investors. The offices of the company are located across the United States and Nigeria.

Upgraded

Seed Round in 2017
Operator of Circular Economy platform for electronics retailers and OEMs. Platform offers the ability for consumers to trade-in used devices and/or subscribe to new and used devices. The company provides an in-store portal for sales associates and an online checkout experience. The company’s software integrates all necessary partners including lenders, insurers, logistic providers, refurbishers, recyclers, etc. and provides a branded customer journey. Founded in Stockholm in 2016, program partners include Apple, Elkjøp and Microsoft. US offers can be found at http://www.getupgraded.com

Jumpcut

Seed Round in 2016
Jumpcut creates captivating online courses. Online education today is fundamentally broken. Less than 10% of people who start an online course today finish it -- a completion rate that is unacceptable to us.Jumpcut courses have a 65% course completion rate. People binge-watch them like Netflix originals. 90% of our users renew their Jumpcut subscription for the next month. They're bringing the best practices from the entertainment industry to online education.

Mezmo

Venture Round in 2016
Mezmo, formerly LogDNA, is an observability platform to manage and take action on your data. It ingests, processes, and routes log data to fuel enterprise-level application development and delivery, security, and compliance use cases.

Kite

Seed Round in 2016
Kite is an artificial pair programmer. It augments coding environment with internet’s programming knowledge and machine learning. It shows examples and documentation for the libraries and terminal commands being used. Kite even detects simple errors and offers to fix them for each users.

Reach

Seed Round in 2015
Reach is a technology company that builds long-range wireless power networks that deliver scalable and resilient energy infrastructure. The company's wireless power solution does for power delivery what Wi-Fi does for data connectivity. The Reach system is built on state-of-the-art, patented technology, including high-efficiency power beaming circuits, network optimization algorithms, and adaptive electromagnetic surfaces, delivering a highly scalable, safe, and easy-to-use power platform. Ideally suited for manufacturing, government, energy, logistics, and retail.

Clearbit

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Clearbit develops business intelligence application program interface tools designed to help companies to find information about their customers. Their tools provide the right data for customer analysis, geolocation, fraud prevention, background checks, address verification, and salesforce records. They enable organizations to increase sales and reduce fraud.

Vault12

Seed Round in 2014
Vault12 is the provider of a crypto storage platform intended to deliver new decentralized digital custody to protect digital assets. The company's platform offers distributed, decentralized, and serverless digital custody, enabling clients to safeguard their cryptocurrencies, using a cryptographically secure network made up of trusted people and devices. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Postmates

Seed Round in 2012
Postmates is an on-demand food delivery platform that gives customers access to restaurants and retailers. The platform gives customers access to the most selection of merchants in the US with more than 600,000 restaurants and retailers available for delivery and pickup, many of which are exclusive to Postmates. The market leader in Los Angeles and markets across the southwest, Postmates covers 80% of US households, across all 50 states. Customers can get free delivery on all merchants by joining Postmates Unlimited, the industry's first subscription service.
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