Pear

Pear is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2013 by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson. The firm specializes in investing in technology companies across North America, focusing on exceptional founders who are developing innovative solutions. Pear has a notable track record of seeding early-stage tech startups such as Dropbox, Lending Club, and Zoosk. The firm's investment strategy encompasses various sectors, including healthcare technology, oncology, and life sciences. By leveraging their extensive resources, Pear aims to support entrepreneurs in shaping the future and building transformative companies.

Pepe Agell

Partner

Keith Bender

Principal

Nils Bunger

Partner

Eddie Eltoukhy

Partner

Mar Hershenson

Founding Managing Partner

Vivien Ho

Principal

Udit Jain

Associate

Danielle Jing

Associate

Ajay Kamat

Partner

Anna Nitschke

CFO

Pejman Nozad

Founding Managing Partner

Touraj Parang

Operating Partner - Strategy & Business Development

Debra Schilling

CFO

Debby Schilling

CFO

Arpan Shah

Visiting Partner

205 past transactions

Neura Health

Seed Round in 2023
Neura Health is a venture-backed startup with a mission to improve access and quality of care for neurologic conditions. Our longer-term vision is to find cures by learning from the experience of every neurology patient. We were inspired to create Neura because of two key problems in neurology: access and quality. Access is sub-par because there are not enough neurologists in the country, so the average wait time is 35 days, with patients often having to travel hours to access the right specialist. Quality is sub-par because diagnoses are currently based on self-reported data with significant recency bias.

Koop

Seed Round in 2022
Community generated fun

Xilis

Series A in 2022
Xilis, Inc. develops next generation organoid technologies to guide precision therapy for cancer patients and improve drug discovery. It offers The XilisµO, a platform that enables rapid diagnostics, personalized drug screening, and scalable patient-derived models for high-throughput drug discovery. Xilis, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Fanimal

Seed Round in 2022
Fanimal is a ticketing platform based in San Francisco, California, designed to streamline the process of purchasing tickets for events like concerts and games. The application allows users to buy tickets and split the costs among their group members, making it more affordable and convenient for friends and family to attend events together. The founders launched Fanimal in response to the high fees associated with traditional ticketing services, which often deterred potential attendees from enjoying live entertainment. Through its innovative approach, Fanimal aims to enhance the ticket-buying experience while reducing the financial burden on consumers.

Osmind

Series B in 2022
Osmind Inc. specializes in developing healthcare software tailored for mental health providers and their patients, particularly focusing on treatment-resistant mental health conditions. Founded in 2020 and based in California, the company aims to enhance clinical care and streamline workflows for providers through its innovative software solutions. Osmind's tools not only facilitate improved patient care but also support the advancement of novel therapeutics, precision diagnostics, and care management programs. The company's mission is to increase patient access to effective mental health treatments that can succeed where traditional therapies may not.

PillSorted

Seed Round in 2022
PillSorted aims to provide a personalised way of delivering medication to patients, while setting forth the blueprint for the future of digital pharmacy care.

Finkargo

Seed Round in 2022
Finkargo is a financial services company based in Bogota, Colombia, that focuses on providing trade financing solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America. Founded in 2021, Finkargo aims to accelerate international trade operations by offering an import financing platform that integrates automated credit scoring and access to necessary capital. The company enables SMEs to enhance their sales and manage logistics more effectively by providing logistical and technological support, as well as fair pricing aligned with the needs of these businesses.

Muni Tienda

Series A in 2022
Muni Tienda is the first community group buying platform in Latin America, the system aims to provide convenience and savings to the region's middle class households.

Recora Health

Series A in 2022
Recora Health is a healthcare platform established in 2020 and headquartered in New York, USA, that focuses on cardiac recovery for older adults. The company provides a comprehensive approach to rehabilitation, combining coaching, guided exercise, and personalized care to support individuals recovering from cardiac events. By facilitating recovery at home, Recora Health aims to help patients regain confidence, foster community connections, and enhance motivation during their rehabilitation journey. The platform addresses various barriers that may hinder patients' ability to maintain their health, ultimately promoting a holistic integration of exercise, wellness, and medical care tailored to those in need.

Kale

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of media platform designed to empower creators to translate their social value into economic value. The company offers an algorithm that identifies brands' super fans, based on their purchasing history and their social activity, and pays these customers directly for posting about them, enabling brands to connect with its loyal customers and rewards creators.

quadric.io

Series B in 2022
quadric.io is an end-to-end architecture optimized for real-time edge computing. It aims to empower developers in every industry with superpowers to create tomorrow’s technology, today. The company also designed to meet the powerful needs of next-level autonomous products, like self-driving cars and robots. quadric.io was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA, USA.

FreeWill

Series B in 2022
FreeWill is an online service that provides legal forms and legal information. FreeWill is an award-winning social venture founded by graduate students at Stanford University in 2016, with the help and support of many of the world’s leading experts in law, design, and philanthropy. The company is making estate planning warm, accessible, and totally free – so that you can more easily care for the people and causes you love.

Cooby

Seed Round in 2022
Cooby operates as a customer relationship management platform. Cooby provides tools for salespeople to automatically create client profiles, document meetings, track conversations, and manage tasks.

Neura Health

Seed Round in 2022
Neura Health is a venture-backed startup with a mission to improve access and quality of care for neurologic conditions. Our longer-term vision is to find cures by learning from the experience of every neurology patient. We were inspired to create Neura because of two key problems in neurology: access and quality. Access is sub-par because there are not enough neurologists in the country, so the average wait time is 35 days, with patients often having to travel hours to access the right specialist. Quality is sub-par because diagnoses are currently based on self-reported data with significant recency bias.

Melonn

Series A in 2022
Developer of a fulfillment company intended to help businesses manage inventory and orders. The company's platform connects users with online stores and offers real-time synchronization of inventories with a warehousing facility to increase the speed of packaging and delivery, enabling sellers to offer same-day delivery to their customers and increase revenue.

Spathios

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Book the best spaces in your city by the hour, in 3 clicks.

Wagr

Series A in 2022
Wagr operates as an online sports betting mobile application. The company provides a platform to the users to make and share sports bet with friends. The user can challenge friends, start groups, and track leaderboards through the platform. Wagr is based in the United States.

Smarty

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Smarty is a United States-based company that specializes in developing an online schedule automation tool. This application is designed to streamline and manage various business tasks, including scheduling meetings, facilitating introductions, and locating flights for out-of-town engagements. By automating these processes, Smarty aims to enhance efficiency and productivity for its users.

FarmRaise

Seed Round in 2021
FarmRaise Inc. develops and operates a digital fund-raising platform for farmers. It offers FarmRaise, a digital platform that connects farmers to funding opportunities, such as grants, loans, cost-sharing programs, emergency and disaster relief programs, easement programs, and state-specific opportunities. The company also provides financial consulting services. FarmRaise Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in Atherton, California.

Markai

Seed Round in 2021
Markai is a venture-backed startup that builds bridges across borders through the acquisition and growth of category-leading e-commerce brands. These brands, which are based in Asia but primarily sell to western consumers, feature strong products and breakout potential, but lack the resources to scale. Once identified and acquired, we dramatically grow our brands by improving branding & marketing and scaling them across channels & geographies. To further power this growth, we’re building a direct-to-manufacturer supply chain in China that enables rapid product iteration informed by real-time consumer data. Our founding team hails from the US & China and came together by way of places like Stanford, Bain, BCG, Amazon and eBay. We bring decades of experience in e-commerce and M&A. We are backed by top-tier venture capital firms in the US and Asia as well as leading angel investors around the world.

Maker Wine

Seed Round in 2021
Maker Wine Company, founded in 2019 and based in Sausalito, California, specializes in producing and supplying canned wines. The company offers a curated selection of premium wines presented in innovative formats, making them convenient for consumption on the go. Maker Wine sells its products through retail stores and online, catering to a diverse customer base seeking accessible and portable wine options. Formerly known as Cab Labs, Maker Wine aims to redefine the wine experience by providing quality products that can be enjoyed anywhere.

Ladder

Seed Round in 2021
Ladder, Inc. operates a professional community platform designed for college students, facilitating access to job opportunities, fellowships, competitions, and mentorship. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in North Brunswick, New Jersey, Ladder enables students to connect with peers who share similar professional interests, fostering collaboration and mutual growth. The platform also provides users with updates on exclusive opportunities and allows them to seek and offer advice, creating a supportive environment for career development. Formerly known as Remote Students, Inc., Ladder aims to empower students as they transition into their professional lives.

menta

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a finance platform intended to promote technological development in businesses. The company's platform offers integration with modern technology in POS devices and technological scalability for business growth, enabling clients to generate increased revenue streams by embedding their own payment and financial services.

Seven Starling

Seed Round in 2021
Seven Starling is a membership platform focused on supporting parents during pregnancy and early parenthood. By offering live, expert-led classes, the platform aims to enhance the maternal care experience from pregnancy through the early stages of child-rearing. It provides valuable resources on childbirth, prenatal, and postpartum care, fostering a close-knit community where expecting and new parents can connect. The company's mission is to empower young parents with the knowledge and support they need at each stage of pregnancy and child development.

Immi

Seed Round in 2021
Immi is a food product manufacturer focused on creating instant ramen that is low in net carbohydrates and high in protein. The company offers a range of Asian-American food products designed to be guilt-free and nutritious, featuring options that are low in sodium, plant-based, and keto-friendly. By prioritizing better ingredients and crafted flavors, Immi aims to provide consumers with a healthy and delicious quick meal alternative that meets modern dietary preferences.

SZNS

Seed Round in 2021
SZNS is the NFT fragmentation service platform.

Affinity

Series C in 2021
Project Affinity, Inc. develops network and customer relationship management solutions for enterprises. Its solutions feature relationships management, email detection, Omni search, network intelligence, automatic data capture, collaboration and reminders, and chrome extension. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Axle Health

Seed Round in 2021
Axle Health enables telehealth companies, hospitals, insurance companies, and researchers to send nurses to their patients’ homes to administer physical services like blood draws and injections. Instead of going into a lab or doctor’s office, patients can now receive basic services at home.

Quansa

Seed Round in 2021
Quansa develops a software to link the employees’ payroll data with banks, fintech, and other financial institutions. Its platform operates as a financial assistant that provides financial solutions for employees. Quansa is based in USA.

Nobell Foods

Series B in 2021
Nobell Foods is a biotech company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing and producing animal-based food substitutes using plant materials. Founded in 2016, the company aims to transform plants into bioreactors to generate protein, unlocking their potential to create innovative food alternatives. By focusing on plant-based solutions, Nobell Foods seeks to provide sustainable options that can replace traditional animal products, contributing to a more environmentally friendly food system.

EmCasa

Series C in 2021
EmCasa is a Latin American prop-tech. Its mission is to guide customers through the most important financial transaction of their lives: buying a home. EmCasa's asset-light, managed marketplace model, allows different real estate players to plug their supply into the platform and then supports buyers through the complete purchasing process (search, visit, negotiation, closing). By leveraging technology and proprietary data algorithms, EmCasa delivers a superior customer experience to anyone buying or selling properties in Brazil. It'll soon launch mortgage, financial services and other vital products, to become the preferred real estate marketplace in the region. The company was founded in Nov/2017 and raised $7.6M .

Melonn

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a fulfillment company intended to help businesses manage inventory and orders. The company's platform connects users with online stores and offers real-time synchronization of inventories with a warehousing facility to increase the speed of packaging and delivery, enabling sellers to offer same-day delivery to their customers and increase revenue.

Cardless

Series B in 2021
Cardless, founded in February 2019 and based in San Francisco, is a credit card company that specializes in helping brands launch custom co-branded credit card products. The company manages all aspects of the program, including card underwriting, lending, issuance, and customer service, allowing brands to concentrate on providing valuable rewards to their loyal cardholders. Cardless employs an analytics dashboard to optimize the rewards programs and extract insights from program data, enhancing the overall customer experience. The company was established by Michael Spelfogel and Scott Kazmierowicz, who have backgrounds in computer science, data science, and experience at major firms such as Lyft and Visa. Cardless is supported by prominent venture capital firms and notable founders from various successful companies.

Xilis

Series A in 2021
Xilis, Inc. develops next generation organoid technologies to guide precision therapy for cancer patients and improve drug discovery. It offers The XilisµO, a platform that enables rapid diagnostics, personalized drug screening, and scalable patient-derived models for high-throughput drug discovery. Xilis, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Osmos

Series A in 2021
Osmos is on a mission to make cross-company data collaboration a simple, secure, and delightful experience. Powered by real-time data transformations, embeddable uploaders, and intuitive no-code experience for end-users, Osmos takes the pain out of importing and sharing data with external parties and systems. Osmos’s real time data transformation engine takes care of the problematic data/schema discrepancies. Powered by program synthesis, Osmos automatically learns complex transforms such as conditional logic, multi-column joins, splits, string/numeric manipulations, and validations, without the need for valuable engineers to “wrangle data”. Companies of all sizes use Osmos to streamline and simplify their data relationships with customers, vendors, and partners.

Local Kitchens

Series A in 2021
Operator of a restaurant platform intended to bring local restaurants under one roof. The company provides a micro food hall that lets customers mix and match favorite local restaurants from a single kitchen in one easy order and local kitchens offer pickup and delivery in one location, facilitating the digitalization of the restaurant industry while providing quality food options to every neighborhood, enabling families and friends to enjoy various cuisines at the same time by ordering from multiple menus all on the same check.

Wagr

Seed Round in 2021
Wagr operates as an online sports betting mobile application. The company provides a platform to the users to make and share sports bet with friends. The user can challenge friends, start groups, and track leaderboards through the platform. Wagr is based in the United States.

Kale

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of media platform designed to empower creators to translate their social value into economic value. The company offers an algorithm that identifies brands' super fans, based on their purchasing history and their social activity, and pays these customers directly for posting about them, enabling brands to connect with its loyal customers and rewards creators.

Foresight Diagnostics

Series A in 2021
Developer of a novel diagnosis technology designed to detect cancers earlier from a simple blood sample. The company's technology uses the biological features that make each cancer type and each individual person's cancer unique by focusing on the things that differentiate a cancer cell from a healthy cell, enabling healthcare professionals to conduct diagnoses of early smaller tumors and apply personalized and effective cancer treatment strategies for patients.

Axle Health

Seed Round in 2021
Axle Health enables telehealth companies, hospitals, insurance companies, and researchers to send nurses to their patients’ homes to administer physical services like blood draws and injections. Instead of going into a lab or doctor’s office, patients can now receive basic services at home.

Pahdo Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Pahdo Labs is building an Anime-style action MMORPG and game creation platform. The company's mission is to cultivate a virtual world built by players, an online place where people can have a meaningful role in something bigger than themselves, own and share the products of their ingenuity, and foster a sense of belonging for others. Pahdo Labs was founded in 2020 and is based in New York, NY.

Wage

Seed Round in 2021
We're building best-in-class API infrastructure for instant income and employment verification. Our vision is to expand the ways to verify financial identity and create a new modern standard for credit reporting.

Gryps

Seed Round in 2021
Gryps, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company that specializes in document data extraction and analysis for building and infrastructure owners and operators. Founded in 2020 and based in Bronx, New York, Gryps offers a platform designed to streamline construction information management. This platform creates a common information layer that ensures permanent access to document-centric data, automates repetitive tasks, and facilitates the retrieval of critical information across various systems. By doing so, Gryps aims to enhance decision-making throughout the project life cycle.

Osmos

Series A in 2021
Osmos is on a mission to make cross-company data collaboration a simple, secure, and delightful experience. Powered by real-time data transformations, embeddable uploaders, and intuitive no-code experience for end-users, Osmos takes the pain out of importing and sharing data with external parties and systems. Osmos’s real time data transformation engine takes care of the problematic data/schema discrepancies. Powered by program synthesis, Osmos automatically learns complex transforms such as conditional logic, multi-column joins, splits, string/numeric manipulations, and validations, without the need for valuable engineers to “wrangle data”. Companies of all sizes use Osmos to streamline and simplify their data relationships with customers, vendors, and partners.

ixlayer

Series A in 2021
ixlayer enables leading health systems, clinical labs, biopharma, and consumer companies to offer precision health testing, by remove all the technical, security, and regulatory complexity involved in launching a clinical health test.

Cooby

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cooby operates as a customer relationship management platform. Cooby provides tools for salespeople to automatically create client profiles, document meetings, track conversations, and manage tasks.

AKKO

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Provider of insurance services intended to offer protection against accidental damage and theft of personal belongings. The company offers modern, simple, and affordable device protection options including phone-only plans for all consumer devices, enabling customers to have protection benefits.

FarmRaise

Seed Round in 2021
FarmRaise Inc. develops and operates a digital fund-raising platform for farmers. It offers FarmRaise, a digital platform that connects farmers to funding opportunities, such as grants, loans, cost-sharing programs, emergency and disaster relief programs, easement programs, and state-specific opportunities. The company also provides financial consulting services. FarmRaise Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in Atherton, California.

Polygon

Seed Round in 2021
Polygon is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in providing remote psychological evaluations and support for individuals with learning differences such as dyslexia and ADHD. The company employs licensed psychologists to conduct comprehensive self-assessments, delivering personalized reports that include diagnoses and intervention strategies. By focusing on remote diagnostics and support, Polygon aims to equip individuals with the necessary tools to thrive academically and personally, ensuring that those with learning differences have access to the resources they need to succeed.

Learn to Win

Seed Round in 2021
Learn to Win, Inc. is a training platform based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in micro-learning programs for aviators and athletes. The company focuses on enhancing performance in high-stakes environments, utilizing cognitive learning science to minimize mental lapses. Its platform facilitates playbook learning and game planning, offering real-time analytics that enable flight instructors and coaches to identify mental weaknesses in their teams. Trusted by the United States Air Force and esteemed collegiate athletic programs, Learn to Win aims to improve training outcomes through innovative and effective learning solutions tailored for intense roles.

Darwin Homes

Series A in 2021
Darwin Homes, Inc. provides property management services for owners and residents. Its services include repairs and maintenance, leasing, resident screening, rent collection, inspections, and eviction for owners; and services for residents. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Austin, Texas.

BioAge Labs

Series C in 2020
BIOAGE discovers and develops drugs to treat aging and associated diseases.

Aurora Solar

Series B in 2020
Aurora Solar Inc. develops a cloud-based software solution for solar design and sales. Its web application is used for solar PV engineering design; provides workflow management functionality; and facilitates sales and customer acquisition. The company’s software is used across the solar industry from independent installers to module manufactures and large corporate contractors. Aurora Solar Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Relay

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Relay is a one-tap customer experience platform designed to assist small businesses in managing appointments, accepting payments, and enhancing communication with customers. The platform simplifies various tasks by enabling service professionals to share their estimated arrival times, send status updates, and request payments, reviews, and referrals with a single tap. By integrating essential business tools and messaging capabilities, Relay aims to improve customer experience and help businesses grow. This approach not only facilitates efficient communication but also contributes to generating revenue and increasing customer lifetime value.

Recora Health

Seed Round in 2020
Recora Health is a healthcare platform established in 2020 and headquartered in New York, USA, that focuses on cardiac recovery for older adults. The company provides a comprehensive approach to rehabilitation, combining coaching, guided exercise, and personalized care to support individuals recovering from cardiac events. By facilitating recovery at home, Recora Health aims to help patients regain confidence, foster community connections, and enhance motivation during their rehabilitation journey. The platform addresses various barriers that may hinder patients' ability to maintain their health, ultimately promoting a holistic integration of exercise, wellness, and medical care tailored to those in need.

EmCasa

Series B in 2020
EmCasa is a Latin American prop-tech. Its mission is to guide customers through the most important financial transaction of their lives: buying a home. EmCasa's asset-light, managed marketplace model, allows different real estate players to plug their supply into the platform and then supports buyers through the complete purchasing process (search, visit, negotiation, closing). By leveraging technology and proprietary data algorithms, EmCasa delivers a superior customer experience to anyone buying or selling properties in Brazil. It'll soon launch mortgage, financial services and other vital products, to become the preferred real estate marketplace in the region. The company was founded in Nov/2017 and raised $7.6M .

FreeWill

Series A in 2020
FreeWill is an online service that provides legal forms and legal information. FreeWill is an award-winning social venture founded by graduate students at Stanford University in 2016, with the help and support of many of the world’s leading experts in law, design, and philanthropy. The company is making estate planning warm, accessible, and totally free – so that you can more easily care for the people and causes you love.

Juni Learning

Series A in 2020
Juni Learning, Inc. is an online education platform that specializes in providing private coding courses for children aged 8 to 18. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Boston, the company focuses on accelerated learning in computer science. Its offerings include beginner courses like Juni Jr and Scratch: Game Superstar, as well as core curriculum options such as Graphics Superstar, Problem Solver, and Data and Algorithms Master. For more advanced students, Juni Learning provides training in AP Computer Science A and the USA Computing Olympiad. The program features live, personalized instruction delivered by highly qualified instructors, often one-on-one or in small groups, utilizing a curriculum developed by Stanford graduates and Google alumni. This approach ensures that students receive a tailored educational experience that fosters their growth and development in the field of technology.

Osmind

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Osmind Inc. specializes in developing healthcare software tailored for mental health providers and their patients, particularly focusing on treatment-resistant mental health conditions. Founded in 2020 and based in California, the company aims to enhance clinical care and streamline workflows for providers through its innovative software solutions. Osmind's tools not only facilitate improved patient care but also support the advancement of novel therapeutics, precision diagnostics, and care management programs. The company's mission is to increase patient access to effective mental health treatments that can succeed where traditional therapies may not.

Seven Starling

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Seven Starling is a membership platform focused on supporting parents during pregnancy and early parenthood. By offering live, expert-led classes, the platform aims to enhance the maternal care experience from pregnancy through the early stages of child-rearing. It provides valuable resources on childbirth, prenatal, and postpartum care, fostering a close-knit community where expecting and new parents can connect. The company's mission is to empower young parents with the knowledge and support they need at each stage of pregnancy and child development.

Pando

Series A in 2020
Pando has created a new financial tool for people in high volatility careers. We connect individuals with similar expected earnings and provide tools for them to pool a fraction of their future income — delivering both risk mitigation and the ability to capture upside potential. Our client focus includes professional athletes, entrepreneurs, and MBA’s.

Cardless

Series A in 2020
Cardless, founded in February 2019 and based in San Francisco, is a credit card company that specializes in helping brands launch custom co-branded credit card products. The company manages all aspects of the program, including card underwriting, lending, issuance, and customer service, allowing brands to concentrate on providing valuable rewards to their loyal cardholders. Cardless employs an analytics dashboard to optimize the rewards programs and extract insights from program data, enhancing the overall customer experience. The company was established by Michael Spelfogel and Scott Kazmierowicz, who have backgrounds in computer science, data science, and experience at major firms such as Lyft and Visa. Cardless is supported by prominent venture capital firms and notable founders from various successful companies.

AccessBell

Seed Round in 2020
Expand your Zoom experience with features including real-time collaboration, personal notes, and agendas that sync with tools you already know and love. Take personal & collaborative notes and assign action items during the meeting. Organize your meetings with an agenda to indicate the progress of the meeting. Integrate seamlessly with Slack, Drive, Email, and other productivity tools. Track user engagement and better understand your meeting participation.

Wagr

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Wagr operates as an online sports betting mobile application. The company provides a platform to the users to make and share sports bet with friends. The user can challenge friends, start groups, and track leaderboards through the platform. Wagr is based in the United States.

Polygon

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Polygon is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in providing remote psychological evaluations and support for individuals with learning differences such as dyslexia and ADHD. The company employs licensed psychologists to conduct comprehensive self-assessments, delivering personalized reports that include diagnoses and intervention strategies. By focusing on remote diagnostics and support, Polygon aims to equip individuals with the necessary tools to thrive academically and personally, ensuring that those with learning differences have access to the resources they need to succeed.

rePurpose Global

Pre Seed Round in 2020
rePurpose Global, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in a plastic credit platform aimed at reducing plastic waste and promoting environmental sustainability. The organization provides a simple mechanism for individuals and businesses to achieve a Plastic Neutral status by financing projects that remove plastic waste from ecosystems. For every $0.50 contributed, rePurpose Global facilitates the removal of 1 kilogram of plastic that would otherwise harm the environment. Operating through a Global Solutions Network, the company collaborates with various plastic recovery projects across seven countries to enhance their environmental impact and support innovative solutions for waste management. Additionally, its subsidiary in India focuses on urban waste management consulting and educational initiatives to raise awareness about environmental issues among middle school students.

Expedock

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Expedock, Inc. designs and develops freight document processing software solution for freight forwarding companies. It provides communication between organizations in the international cargo supply chain using artificial intelligence. The company is based in Palo Alto, California.

Run The World

Seed Round in 2020
Run The World, Inc. develops a platform that enables people to plan and attend live online events. Its platform enables organizers to plug and play the event templates; and attendees to interact and learn from each other and have meaningful conversations online. The company’s platform also enables organizations to browse attendee lists, conduct fireside chats, and organize cocktail parties for the attendees. It serves customers worldwide. Run The World, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Fanimal

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Fanimal is a ticketing platform based in San Francisco, California, designed to streamline the process of purchasing tickets for events like concerts and games. The application allows users to buy tickets and split the costs among their group members, making it more affordable and convenient for friends and family to attend events together. The founders launched Fanimal in response to the high fees associated with traditional ticketing services, which often deterred potential attendees from enjoying live entertainment. Through its innovative approach, Fanimal aims to enhance the ticket-buying experience while reducing the financial burden on consumers.

Maker Wine

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Maker Wine Company, founded in 2019 and based in Sausalito, California, specializes in producing and supplying canned wines. The company offers a curated selection of premium wines presented in innovative formats, making them convenient for consumption on the go. Maker Wine sells its products through retail stores and online, catering to a diverse customer base seeking accessible and portable wine options. Formerly known as Cab Labs, Maker Wine aims to redefine the wine experience by providing quality products that can be enjoyed anywhere.

Covalent Networks

Venture Round in 2019
Covalent Networks is a developer of an employee training platform designed to support the administration of employer-driven technical training programs. The company's platform provides real-time visibility into performance, schedule, tasks and goals, tracks trainees' progress on-the-job, collects and analyzes key data to improve recruitment, learning and productivity outcomes across multiple facilities, enabling employers to support dynamic workforce programs and efficiently train their teams.

Zippin

Series A in 2019
Zippin owns and operates AI-driven software platform of checkout-free technology which enables retailers to quickly deploy frictionless shopping in their stores. The company is based in the United States.

Xilis

Venture Round in 2019
Xilis, Inc. develops next generation organoid technologies to guide precision therapy for cancer patients and improve drug discovery. It offers The XilisµO, a platform that enables rapid diagnostics, personalized drug screening, and scalable patient-derived models for high-throughput drug discovery. Xilis, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Exporta Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Exporta Technologies, Inc. is a Boston-based company that develops an export-as-a-service platform aimed at assisting small manufacturers in entering the global e-commerce supply chain. Founded in 2017, the company provides a range of services including sourcing suppliers, sample selection, logistics, and distribution. Additionally, Exporta operates as a B2B marketplace, connecting wholesale and retail buyers in North America with suppliers in Latin America, thereby facilitating international trade and expanding market access for small manufacturers.

Nightfall

Series A in 2019
Nightfall (formerly known as Watchtower) uses machine learning to identify business-critical data, like customer PII, across your SaaS, APIs, and data infrastructure so it can be managed and protected.

Young Alfred

Series A in 2019
Young Alfred LLC, an insurance agency, operates a platform to compare and buy insurance online. It offers personal and casualty insurance, including auto, homeowners, condo, mobile home, renters, umbrella, flood, earthquake, motorcycle, recreational vehicle, landlord, and personal articles policies insurance in Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Cardless

Seed Round in 2019
Cardless, founded in February 2019 and based in San Francisco, is a credit card company that specializes in helping brands launch custom co-branded credit card products. The company manages all aspects of the program, including card underwriting, lending, issuance, and customer service, allowing brands to concentrate on providing valuable rewards to their loyal cardholders. Cardless employs an analytics dashboard to optimize the rewards programs and extract insights from program data, enhancing the overall customer experience. The company was established by Michael Spelfogel and Scott Kazmierowicz, who have backgrounds in computer science, data science, and experience at major firms such as Lyft and Visa. Cardless is supported by prominent venture capital firms and notable founders from various successful companies.

EdgeDB

Seed Round in 2019
Through streamlined data model and powerful query language, we make working with data productive, pleasant and efficient for developers and data engineers.

Knoetic

Seed Round in 2019
Knoetic, a startup "built with Chief People Officers, for Chief People Officers," announced an $18M Series A round of funding led by Accel. Over 100 angel investors also participated in the round, including New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant, and executives from Box, Figma, Johnson & Johnson, LinkedIn, Scale, Pinterest, Calm, Front, and more. Knoetic is the first company to unify a social network and a SaaS analytics tool in the same platform. By embedding its exclusive social network of 1,000+ world-class Chief People Officers, CPOHQ, directly into its people analytics software, the resulting "Insight Engine" gives CPOs both quantitative and qualitative insights, enabling them to make smarter, holistic decisions about their workforce. Chief People Officers use Knoetic to build their board decks, present data to their CEOs, solve challenges with peers, and improve their employee retention, compensation, and hiring. The rapidly-growing startup's customer + community base includes many of the world's top technology companies, including Lyft, Squarespace, Amplitude, Snyk, Dollar Shave Club, and Zapier. Over 1,000 other Chief People Officers use Knoetic's exclusive, referral-only community (named CPOHQ) to discuss their most pressing challenges. These include navigating the COVID delta variant, transitioning to remote work, and scaling through hypergrowth.

Wage

Convertible Note in 2019
We're building best-in-class API infrastructure for instant income and employment verification. Our vision is to expand the ways to verify financial identity and create a new modern standard for credit reporting.

Heap

Series C in 2019
Heap Inc. develops an analytics infrastructure designed for online businesses, enabling them to capture and analyze web, mobile, and cloud interactions, such as clicks and transactions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in New York and Utah, Heap's solution automates the analytics process, allowing companies to focus on deriving insights and making informed business decisions. The platform provides a comprehensive view of customer data, helping businesses optimize product offerings and enhance user experiences. Heap serves over 6,000 clients across various industries, including e-commerce, financial services, and software as a service (SaaS), with notable customers such as Twilio, LendingClub, and Optimizely.

ixlayer

Series A in 2019
ixlayer enables leading health systems, clinical labs, biopharma, and consumer companies to offer precision health testing, by remove all the technical, security, and regulatory complexity involved in launching a clinical health test.

impct

Pre Seed Round in 2019
IMPCT Corporation, founded in 2015 and based in Oakland, California, manufactures and sells coffee and snacks. In addition to its food products, the company operates Playcare, a daycare franchise that provides early education in urban slums. IMPCT distributes its offerings through its own retail stores as well as through indirect channels and distributors. The company is committed to promoting ethical branding and operates an "impact trade" platform that allows brands to integrate social responsibility into their business models at no cost, thereby enabling them to meet the ethical expectations of their customers.

Osmos

Seed Round in 2019
Osmos is on a mission to make cross-company data collaboration a simple, secure, and delightful experience. Powered by real-time data transformations, embeddable uploaders, and intuitive no-code experience for end-users, Osmos takes the pain out of importing and sharing data with external parties and systems. Osmos’s real time data transformation engine takes care of the problematic data/schema discrepancies. Powered by program synthesis, Osmos automatically learns complex transforms such as conditional logic, multi-column joins, splits, string/numeric manipulations, and validations, without the need for valuable engineers to “wrangle data”. Companies of all sizes use Osmos to streamline and simplify their data relationships with customers, vendors, and partners.

Macro

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Marlo, Inc. develops an application that employs the Zoom software development kit (SDK) to add depth and analysis to daily work meetings. It offers Macro that enables customization to Zoom meetings and automatically add text to a Google Doc and formats it into a shareable document. Its platform enables users to customize Zoom's interface for any type of meeting. The company’s platform is used by product teams and engineering teams. Marlo, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.