Pasadena Angels

Pasadena Angels is an angel investment network founded in 2000 and based in Pasadena, California. This nonprofit organization focuses on supporting early-stage companies, particularly those in the technology sector, by leveraging the expertise of over 100 seasoned entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Each year, Pasadena Angels screens approximately 80 companies from diverse industries, offering them valuable guidance in developing effective business plans and securing necessary financing. The organization provides individual investments of up to $1 million, focusing on ventures located in Southern California that are seeking between $1 to $5 million in funding. Pasadena Angels collaborates with other venture capital firms and angel groups to further assist emerging businesses. Importantly, the organization does not charge fees for its services and does not act as an investment agent, instead investing directly in companies it identifies as having significant potential for success. Through its network, Pasadena Angels aims to enhance job growth and foster commercialization of new technologies by addressing common challenges faced by startups.

Kevin Herzberg

Vice Chairman

50 past transactions

Essenvia

Seed Round in 2023
Essenvia is an online software to streamline pre and post-market workflow for medical device companies by streamlining plans or activities to market, improving cross-functional collaboration, and automating steps to manage initial and subsequent device modifications.

Autio

Seed Round in 2022
The Autio app is your audio road trip companion with 10,000+ location-based audio stories across the US. It’s like having a personal tour guide on demand. Enjoy narration from celebrities like Kevin Costner, John Lithgow, and Phil Jackson, alongside passionate locals and cultural experts. It’s great for inspiring detours, sparking interesting conversations, and discovering hidden knowledge along your journey.

Everyset

Seed Round in 2021
Everyset is the easiest platform for employers to on-board, pay, and insure project workforces. Workers instantly onboard and track payments with a profile portable between employers. To increase density between employers & workers, we are initially focused within entertainment.

EventHub

Pre Seed Round in 2021
EventHub offers virtual expos, a sponsorship marketplace, and a management dashboard for event organizers. Its platform enables organizers to manage exhibitor applications, payments, paperwork, and logistics through a clean, intuitive dashboard that also enables batch updates and messaging. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Amsel Medical Corp

Convertible Note in 2021
Amsel Medical is a medical device company that develops mechanical surgical clamping technology for surgical and interventional procedures. The SCureClamp with Interdigitation Occlusion Technology (iDOTTM) from Amsel Medical is designed to easily and securely close vessels such as veins, arteries, and tubular structures. The anchoring feature of the SCureClamp keeps the implant in place and prevents slippage. Grasping enables doctors to occlude vessels of various sizes, types, and wall thicknesses.

Seatrec

Seed Round in 2020
Seatrec is a climatetech/bluetech startup creating solutions for clean, sustainable energy production from temperature differences in the ocean. Founded in 2012 by CEO, Dr. Yi Chao, Seatrec has developed technology from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to provide infinite power for oceanographic research equipment including floats and gliders. By implementing Seatrec’s revolutionary technology, researchers can extend the life of the equipment, benefit from significant cost savings, and power more sensors resulting in greater data collection and insights with zero emissions and waste. Applications include ocean data capture, seafloor mapping, offshore aquaculture, Arctic research, meteorology, and climate change mitigation.

Spine Align

Seed Round in 2020
Spine Align is developing a portfolio of intraoperative products that both assess and assist with corrective surgeries for spinal alignment. It develops a breakthrough, patent-pending imaging technology that enables on-demand, 3D, full-length measurements of a patient’s spine with a 95% reduction in time and an 80% reduction in radiation exposure compared to current technologies.

Fluid Power AI

Series A in 2020
Fluid Power AI is installed on a hydraulic system to monitor its health status and predict failure in real-time. The company was founded by Jose Gomez and Francis Toglia and is based in Redding, California.

Seatrec

Seed Round in 2020
Seatrec is a climatetech/bluetech startup creating solutions for clean, sustainable energy production from temperature differences in the ocean. Founded in 2012 by CEO, Dr. Yi Chao, Seatrec has developed technology from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to provide infinite power for oceanographic research equipment including floats and gliders. By implementing Seatrec’s revolutionary technology, researchers can extend the life of the equipment, benefit from significant cost savings, and power more sensors resulting in greater data collection and insights with zero emissions and waste. Applications include ocean data capture, seafloor mapping, offshore aquaculture, Arctic research, meteorology, and climate change mitigation.

Everyset

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Everyset is the easiest platform for employers to on-board, pay, and insure project workforces. Workers instantly onboard and track payments with a profile portable between employers. To increase density between employers & workers, we are initially focused within entertainment.

dotstudioPRO

Seed Round in 2019
A Robust Video Syndication Ecosystem powered by technology. Serving the Content Owners demand for audience, with Online Publishers demand for more content. dotstudioPRO is a disruptive video management and monetization platform. We make it painless for content owners and publishers to monetize across devices and platforms, with transparency.

Ready, Set, Food!

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.

UNest

Seed Round in 2019
UNest is an app democratizing access to smart financial solutions for all families. It helps parents build a better financial future for their children. In five minutes, you can open a UTMA account for your child and no paperwork is required. All members receive access to advisor-guided investment plans, the app's simple gifting feature, UNest Rewards and they can easily set up recurring contributions. In 2018, Ksenia Yudina founded UNest in North Hollywood, California.

Kitterly

Seed Round in 2019
Kitterly sells knitting & crochet kits to make anything from accessories, clothing and dog sweaters.

Capillary Biomedical

Seed Round in 2018
Capillary Biomedical is a medical device startup developing technologies for diabetes management. They aim to dramatically simplify glucose monitoring and insulin delivery, reducing the burden on both patients and the overall healthcare system. The company is based in Irvine, CA and is a spin-out of the Artificial Pancreas Center at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA.

Breadware Inc

Seed Round in 2018
Breadware, Inc. offers a platform that acts as an online resource for things related to product development and the Internet of Things (IoT). Its platform enables businesses to explore existing IoT products for concept ideas; compare capable service providers based on budget, timeline, experience, and specialization; and get support at various steps of the way. The company offers solutions in the areas of sports, smart building, smart home, transportation, medical, and industrial. Breadware, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Reno, Nevada. As of March 31, 2020, Breadware, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of StoneAge Inc.

Ocular Data Systems

Venture Round in 2017
The DAX™ Evidence Recorder is the successor to the Hawkeye HGN Trainer and is manufactured and marketed by Ocular Data Systems LLC, an affiliate of Visionetx, Inc. The DAX™ device captures eye movements as evidence supporting police officers administering the Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST). DAX™ consists of a goggle-like frame that allows law enforcement officers to manually test the eye movements and responses of a subject, while directly observing eye responses and capturing these responses in 'live' video using infrared cameras. The subject's captured eye responses can then be stored and played back for instructor critique in training or for evidence in conviction.

C360 Technologies

Series A in 2017
C360 Technologies is a video technology that delivers quality non-stitched immersive video products to date. C360 is a different kind of 360/VR company. Unlike most, they don’t stitch or require multi-headed cameras to deliver our stunning 6K immersive broadcast and streaming video. They've worked in the industry since 2008 pioneering original 360 technologies that continue to deliver the highest quality, non-stitched immersive video in the world. Their live output for linear broadcast and OTT streaming platforms coupled with the industry's smallest pro-grade immersive camera is unique compared to others. C360 delivers multiple HD-SDI outputs directly to the broadcast backhaul for live television events while simultaneously delivering a 4K stream to the OTT platform for distribution across VR and second screen (magic screen) applications. Unlimited users are now empowered to independently control their camera location and P/T/Z during the live event. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Wexford, Pennsylvania.

Episona, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Episona's first product, Seed, is an epigenetic test for male infertility focused on decreasing cost and time to pregnancy for those seeking fertility care. Clinically, Seed can identify 1) hidden male factor in cases of unexplained infertility and 2) epigenetic patterns that strongly associate with poor embryogenesis. Episona is led by an experienced team of medical doctors and scientists, with world-class expertise in both epigenetics and human reproductive health. The company began operations in 2013 and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA. For more information, visit https://episona.com.

Rosalind

Convertible Note in 2017
Based in San Diego, ROSALIND enables the world’s life science researchers to derive more value from their data and complete projects faster. We believe the potential of biomedical and multi-omic data is maximized when it is accessible, interactive, and shareable. Extracting meaningful insights from pools of data takes a truly interoperable ecosystem that breaks down silos of complex information and sparks collaboration. The ROSALIND platform harnesses the power of scientific collaboration, cloud computing, and data science to enable integrated analyses that unify knowledge through an intuitive user interface that is built for any researcher. For more information, please visit www.rosalind.bio.

Tot Squad

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Tot Squad is a marketplace that connects new parents with health, wellness and safety services both virtually and in person. We're a one-stop shop in the $46B "New Mom Economy" consolidating the highly fragmented providers of services like car seat installation, babyproofing, and lactation consulting. Our car seat installation services can be found on Amazon and Walmart as an add-on with a car seat purchase.

Vydia

Seed Round in 2016
Vydia is an end-to-end music technology platform that provides labels with the infrastructure and tools to power their business. With a full suite of services, Vydia offers video and audio supply chain, global distribution, analytics, rights management, payments, detailed revenue reporting, and white label services. Vydia is a premium partner of leading digital service providers such as Spotify, Apple, TikTok, Vevo, YouTube, and Facebook. Combining innovative technology with industry expertise, Vydia is distribution reimagined. To learn more, please visit vydia.com

Nevados

Seed Round in 2016
Nevados Engineering designs and manufactures solar ground installations that are faster to install and less expensive than traditional systems. With $1M awarded from the Department of Energy, Nevados is completing development and preparing to supply systems to solar developers in 2017.

Veristride

Seed Round in 2015
We analyze your movement at the source, enabling you to heal, excel, and thrive. We promote wellness by giving users a clear path to achieve their health and performance goals using data-backed analytics.

Vydia

Seed Round in 2014
Vydia is an end-to-end music technology platform that provides labels with the infrastructure and tools to power their business. With a full suite of services, Vydia offers video and audio supply chain, global distribution, analytics, rights management, payments, detailed revenue reporting, and white label services. Vydia is a premium partner of leading digital service providers such as Spotify, Apple, TikTok, Vevo, YouTube, and Facebook. Combining innovative technology with industry expertise, Vydia is distribution reimagined. To learn more, please visit vydia.com

HappyDesk

Angel Round in 2014
HappyDesk’s Sharing-space-as-a–service (SSaaS) software platform is transforming the way shared spaces are sold, accessed and serviced. Think of HappyDesk as the “Uber” for the $11 billion shared space category. Just as Uber’s technology connects riders and drivers, HappyDesk easily connects people and shard spaces – everywhere. . Shared space providers of all shapes and sizes, leverage HappyDesk’s white label e-commerce, CRM, billing, proposal, door access and marketplace to increase engagement by providing seamless access to shared spaces and services like never before. The result: providers have a software solution that enhances the customer experience, increases revenue and reduces administrative time and money. Space seekers like HappyDesk because of the endless amount of shared spaces and related services they can search, buy and access. Direct engagement between provider and seekers has never been so easy or transparent.

Edufii

Series A in 2014
Edufii develops and operates a cloud-based coaching platform and skill development network. The company's product includes TrainingSpaces, which allows capturing technique, drills, and recaps with videos, photos, audio, and text at course, court, field, and gym, also it allows feedback import from training aids and technologies. The company's customers include golf pros and academies; fitness and mental trainers; baseball coaches; soccer coaches; and physical therapists. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California.

FanBread

Convertible Note in 2014
FanBread disrupts how media brands are built by introducing technology solutions that enable efficient content creation, distribution, and monetization. Its platform utilizes data and predictive analytics to match new media brands to the most relevant freelance content producers and facilitates the collaboration required to create high-quality original content. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Yapert

Angel Round in 2014
Yapert is headquartered in San Diego and operates MyFvs, a pop culture portal and community for millennials. MyFvs curates the most popular visual content from across the social world including music, entertainment, sports, fashion, fitness and lifestyle interests. By directly working with content creators such as media companies, brands, entertainers, and musicians, MyFvs also offers exclusive, behind the scenes content.

AnyMeeting

Angel Round in 2013
AnyMeeting offers a full-featured web conferencing product designed and priced for small business, including a completely free ad-supported option. They provide all the features a small business needs – including 6-way video conferencing, conference calling, built-in VoIP, screen sharing, presentation sharing, video sharing, recording, mobile, social media integration, webinar ticketing, and more – in one, easy-to-use package. Their software is completely web based and runs inside a web browser. That means no annoying downloads required for your attendees, unlike with many of their competitors. Attendees can join with just a single click on the meeting link. It’s lighting fast and super easy. AnyMeeting costs less than major competitors, starting at just $18/month for meetings with up to 25 attendees, and $78/month for webinars with up to 200 attendees. Of course, there's always the completely free ad-supported option that allows you to host meetings or webinars with up to 200 attendees.

Ranker

Venture Round in 2013
Ranker, attracting more than 30 million monthly unique visitors worldwide, is the leader in fan-powered rankings on just about everything. Whatever the topic - TV, movies, video games, sports, brands, food, lifestyle - Ranker puts the vote into the hands of millions rather than a few critics to answer the questions we are most passionate about. Over 1 billion votes now power Ranker Insights, a treasure trove of psychographic correlation data that delivers personalized consumer recommendations (“if you like X, you’ll also like Y, Z”), and also audience insights to marketers, studios, and platforms seeking a deeper understanding of consumer tastes and preferences. Launched in 2020 and powered by Ranker Insights, Watchworthy is the only statistically relevant, crowd-sourced TV recommendation app available to consumers. Ranker is listed on 2020’s Inc 5000 and Inc. 5000: California Series, Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500 featuring the fastest growing companies in North America and Built In LA’s Top 50 Mid-Sized Companies To Work For in 2020 & 2021, and No. 5 on Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021. Headquartered in Los Angeles with over 115 employees, Ranker also has an office in NYC.

Atlas Powered

Seed Round in 2012
Atlas is a time management and collaboration platform for mobile that centralizes all your calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes making collaboration on mobile shockingly simple - no email required. Currently, Atlas is focusing on the $150B Direct Selling Industry that has more than 92 million independent salespeople worldwide. Founders have deep domain experience and relationships. Atlas is a LaunchpadLA company. Learn more at: http://angel.co/atlas.

Audioscribe

Venture Round in 2012
Audioscribe offers real-time speech recognition software for court reporters and medical transcription activities.

JobSync

Series A in 2011
JobSync is a talent acquisition automation platform that enhances applicant tracking systems (ATS) by integrating them with popular job application tools such as Indeed Apply and Facebook Jobs. This integration allows companies to push completed applications directly into their ATS, significantly increasing the number of qualified applications. JobSync offers an intuitive interface that improves usability for recruiters and hiring managers, making the hiring process more efficient. The platform also features customized automation, filters, and advanced rules, enabling hiring professionals to streamline their workflows and find suitable candidates more quickly. By facilitating seamless connections between job sites and ATSs, JobSync aims to improve the overall quality of candidates received by organizations.

Ranker

Series A in 2011
Ranker, attracting more than 30 million monthly unique visitors worldwide, is the leader in fan-powered rankings on just about everything. Whatever the topic - TV, movies, video games, sports, brands, food, lifestyle - Ranker puts the vote into the hands of millions rather than a few critics to answer the questions we are most passionate about. Over 1 billion votes now power Ranker Insights, a treasure trove of psychographic correlation data that delivers personalized consumer recommendations (“if you like X, you’ll also like Y, Z”), and also audience insights to marketers, studios, and platforms seeking a deeper understanding of consumer tastes and preferences. Launched in 2020 and powered by Ranker Insights, Watchworthy is the only statistically relevant, crowd-sourced TV recommendation app available to consumers. Ranker is listed on 2020’s Inc 5000 and Inc. 5000: California Series, Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500 featuring the fastest growing companies in North America and Built In LA’s Top 50 Mid-Sized Companies To Work For in 2020 & 2021, and No. 5 on Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021. Headquartered in Los Angeles with over 115 employees, Ranker also has an office in NYC.

Allylix

Series C in 2010
Allylix, Inc., an early stage biotechnology company, develops terpene products and their derivatives for the flavor and fragrance, food ingredient, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and biofuel markets. Its products comprise nootkatone, which is a grapefruit flavor that is used in fruit juices and citrus flavored sodas. The company also develops sesquiterpenes that are part of aroma chemical segment of the flavor and fragrance market; and production platforms for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and agricultural markets. Allylix, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in San Diego, California with research and development laboratories in Lexington, Kentucky.

Ondax

Series E in 2010
Ondax was founded in 2000 by a team from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Bonn. Ondax built a manufacturing infrastructure for high volume production to produce Volume Holographic Gratings. The Volume Holographic Grating has many advantages over thin film and fiber Bragg gratings. The narrow-band filtering capability in reflection mode (0.1 nm) over a large aperture (25 mm) is unique. This unique filtering technology is used in high-power laser diodes wavelength stabilization, beam combining, astronomy multi-line filtering, and spectral imaging.

MyShape

Series C in 2008
MyShape.com is an online retail store created for you. Personalized stores (called myShop) search for and display clothing matched to a shopper's specific measurements, body shape and preferences.

H2scan

Series D in 2008
H2scan Corporation is headquartered in Valencia, California, and was formed September 18, 2002 through an MBO with capital assistance from Vancouver-based Chrysalix Energy Limited Partnership and Ravinia Venture Fund. The company was created upon the purchase of all sensor assets of DCH Sensor Corporation. Ballard Power Systems Inc., Shell Hydrogen, and Duke Energy formed Chrysalix (www.chrysalix.com) in July 2001. This Partnership has since been joined by The BOC Group, BASF Venture Capital, The Mitsubishi Corporation. The fundamental technology of H2scan sensor systems was developed by the U.S. National Laboratory at Sandia. H2scan has significantly improved upon this technology through US patents and manufacturing trade secrets.

EZ-Apps

Venture Round in 2008
EZ-Apps is building winning web applications. They own every application they build but prefer to share ownership with partners. They are US based with a global reach that has enabled us to secure and support a large, international and diverse customer base. All development work is done in house, in the US. Their track record speaks for itself, from their very first application, which helps protect the London Underground, to their most recent application which is the world's first electronic parking validation system.

Allylix

Venture Round in 2007
Allylix, Inc., an early stage biotechnology company, develops terpene products and their derivatives for the flavor and fragrance, food ingredient, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and biofuel markets. Its products comprise nootkatone, which is a grapefruit flavor that is used in fruit juices and citrus flavored sodas. The company also develops sesquiterpenes that are part of aroma chemical segment of the flavor and fragrance market; and production platforms for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and agricultural markets. Allylix, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in San Diego, California with research and development laboratories in Lexington, Kentucky.

OptionEase

Angel Round in 2007
OptionEase is the market and technology leader in on-demand accounting compliance solutions. More than 350 companies ranging from small privately held start-ups to large multi-national public corporations are using the OptionEase compliance solution to comply with the complex regulation of FAS 123(R) and manage their equity plans.

MyShape

Series B in 2007
MyShape.com is an online retail store created for you. Personalized stores (called myShop) search for and display clothing matched to a shopper's specific measurements, body shape and preferences.

VantageILM

Series A in 2007
VantageILM, Inc. develops and markets integrated loan and lease management software products to finance companies, lenders, leasing, credit unions, and independent banks. Its on-demand loan management solution integrates origination, servicing, collections, recovery management, analysis and reporting, document management, collateral management, and accounting in a single platform.

Numira Biosciences

Series A in 2007
Numira Biosciences, Inc., a contract research organization, provides imaging services for disease research, drug discovery, and pre-clinical studies in animal models. It offers Virtual Histology for soft tissue imaging applications, such as atherosclerosis, osteoarthritis, heart defects, pulmonary diseases, developmental biology, and phenotyping; and high-resolution bone imaging tools to analyze and characterize the skeletal anatomy and bones of animal models. The company also provides image processing and visual analytics solutions; AltaViewer visualization software, a visualization tool for use in non-clinical environments to view, manipulate, and export images of small animal datasets for research purposes; and imaging chamber, a multi-modality imaging chamber that facilitates the co-registration of anatomical and functional images by means of sequential multi-modal imaging.

TherMark

Series A in 2006
TherMark Holdings founded as TherMark Corporation in 1996, has grown to be an expert in laser marking technology. TherMark's patented laser marking process quickly produces permanent, high-contrast, high-resolution marks on a variety of surfaces including metals, ceramics, glass, porcelain, nylon, marble, granite, stone, and some plastics.

Progressive Beverages

Series C in 2005
Founded in June 2002, Progressive Beverages LLC is an importer and marketer of premium distilled spirits from Asia. Based in Los Angeles, CA, Progressive is the first and only American brand owner to commercialize soju in the mainstream U.S. market. Soju, which means “fiery spirits,” is a traditional Asian liquor with product characteristics similar to premium vodka or gin. Soju is the best selling spirits category in the world with annual worldwide sales of over $14 billion (200 million cases) in 80 countries. Soju outsells vodka almost 4 to 1 on a worldwide basis, but is relatively unknown in the U.S. Progressive is changing this lack of awareness in the American market with two outstanding products: Tori Kai Premium Soju and Han Soju. Discover why Progressive and its soju products have the American wine and spirits market buzzing.

H2scan

Series B in 2004
H2scan Corporation is headquartered in Valencia, California, and was formed September 18, 2002 through an MBO with capital assistance from Vancouver-based Chrysalix Energy Limited Partnership and Ravinia Venture Fund. The company was created upon the purchase of all sensor assets of DCH Sensor Corporation. Ballard Power Systems Inc., Shell Hydrogen, and Duke Energy formed Chrysalix (www.chrysalix.com) in July 2001. This Partnership has since been joined by The BOC Group, BASF Venture Capital, The Mitsubishi Corporation. The fundamental technology of H2scan sensor systems was developed by the U.S. National Laboratory at Sandia. H2scan has significantly improved upon this technology through US patents and manufacturing trade secrets.

PhatNoise

Series A in 2003
PhatNoise provides digital media solutions that enable individuals to introduce digital content into automobiles to enhance the consumer entertainment experience. It was founded in 1999 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
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