Pioneer Fund

Pioneer Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund established in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California. It focuses on investments in top startups that have emerged from Y Combinator, leveraging a network of over 200 alumni from the accelerator program. The fund aims to support innovative companies at their inception, providing not only capital but also strategic guidance to foster growth and success in the competitive startup landscape.

Jon Armstrong

Venture Partner

Erica Brescia

Venture Partner

Corey Centen

Venture Partner

Cobi Druxerman

Venture Partner

Jarret Glasscock

Venture Partner

Hans Erik Holmen

Partner

Ritesh Malik

Venture Partner

Espen Malmo

CEO and Partner

Dave Messina

Partner

Stephanie Shyu

Venture Partner

Preben Songe-Møller

Partner and Chairman

Past deals in Seed Round

NuMind

Seed Round in 2023
NuMind allows users to design unique machine learning models to automatically interpret text. Ideal for sentiment analysis, topic detection, content control, and more. There is no need for special knowledge.

Curacel

Seed Round in 2023
Curacel is building the largest healthcare data platform in Africa. We deliver productivity tools and IT infrastructure to healthcare stakeholders across the continent, empowering them to digitize business processes, connect with stakeholders across the spectrum, and make decisions based on data that is otherwise unavailable. Curacel’s vision is to build a connected healthcare ecosystem for low income economies, to optimize the use of scarce resources, improve patient outcomes, and inform research, policy-making and public health in Africa with 360 degree data for the first time.

RootFi

Seed Round in 2022
Our mission at Clear Money is to make understanding your financial health approachable and easy. Our personal finance tool uses machine learning to nudge you into better habits, find you lower interest rate credit cards and personal loans, allow you to transfer money between accounts, and deliver actionable insights based on your spending patterns. It's like having your very own CFO. We are laying the foundation for the bank of the future.

Persephone Biome, Inc.

Seed Round in 2022
Persephone Biome, Inc. is a San Diego-based company focused on researching and developing products and therapies that modify gut microbial metabolism, particularly in relation to cancer treatment. Established in 2017, the company is creating innovative solutions aimed at enhancing the efficacy of oncology drugs by retuning the gut microbiome. This includes the development of a pill containing beneficial gut bacteria. In addition to its therapeutics, Persephone Biome aims to offer nutritional products that support the human gut microbiome, producing functional foods and beverages that cater to the growing consumer demand for health-oriented products. The company has plans to enter clinical trials to further advance its initiatives in the field of microbiome-directed therapies.

The Ankler

Seed Round in 2022
The Ankler is a newsletter covering the entertainment industry, offering daily scoops, commentary, and insight into the passing parade of America’s most colorful industrial spectacle. The Ankler is your entertainment industry newsletter, featuring commentary and gossip and filled with exclusive items capturing the rich and crazy pageant of life in this industry. From the Oscar race to industry moves to meltdowns in the commissary, it's going to be a daily look at the world of this industry, filled with the sorts of tidbits and points of view you cant find anywhere else in the trade realm.

Fleetzero

Venture Round in 2022
To deliver freight for our customers, Fleetzero is developing a fleet of electric ships without any green bonus. The company's vessels, unlike giant container ships, can be built inexpensively in domestic shipyards, which enables us to operate in regulated markets where ships must be built in the country they are traveling through. Fleetzero was established in 2021 in Auburn, Alabama.

Explorex Technologies, Inc.

Venture Round in 2022
Explorex offers an app that people use when they are dining out at a restaurant. Explorex enables people to view the menu, place their orders, and pay their bills easily through the app, without depending on the restaurant staff thus reducing service-related problems that customers face.

Engage Bio

Seed Round in 2022
Engage Bio is developing mRNA treatments that change cancer cells into production facilities for immunotherapies. With the help of these treatments, the immune system is activated and directed toward the tumour.

SaveIN

Seed Round in 2022
SaveIN, as the name suggests, is a financial services platform made exclusively for Indians, with an aim to revolutionize their experience across banking and daily financial transactions. We aim to offer, the full suite of traditional banking products and experiences, but in a never seen before avatar, thereby making it fun, simple, secure, and unbelievably rewarding experience. All this and more at just the click of a button, in a 100% digital and paperless, mobile first ecosystem.

Kapital

Seed Round in 2022
Kapital SmartBank provides Mexican small and medium businesses and their employees with next generation mobile banking and financial services in smart banking. Its line of products include online loans directly through its website and money ready in client's account in seconds, online payroll systems to send paychecks to employees with one click, and accounts receivables accounting displayed in an easy-to-use and 100% secure web and mobile dashboard, so that its clients can see and have control of all their finances in one single place. Its loans, payroll cards for employees, and corporate expenses cards have the support of Visa® and Mastercard® international technology.

Cofactr

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of automated electronics purchasing assistant designed to help the hardware team get all the parts they need. The company provides automated sourcing from global suppliers, powerful supply chain intelligence, and intuitive forecasting with transparent search, automated quoting, and instant purchasing, enabling clients to proactively source parts and mitigate supply issues.

Cypher Wallet

Seed Round in 2022
Existing Crypto Wallets are too geeky for mainstream users. We are building a multi-chain crypto wallet simplifying user experience for the mainstream users along with a crypto card.

Aviato

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Imagine seamless communication with, and discovery of startups & investors—Through short-form video pitches, where pitches rule the day and deal closures rule the night. The entire world of innovators and investors is connected online.

Alta

Seed Round in 2022
Alta creates online universes in VR, where players can co-operate or compete to achieve goals across different settings. (Fantasy, medieval.) These are designed specifically for VR, using physical interactions and exploring a vast landscape. The first universe is A Township Tale, a multiplayer experience for high-end VR devices, like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Players discover a magical, medieval town in the mountains, and can fill the town's many roles to survive. Become the blacksmith, miner, fisherman and lumberjack to collect and turn resources into tools and weapons.

Epsilon3

Seed Round in 2022
Epsilon3 is building the future of spacecraft operations software.

dNovo Bio

Seed Round in 2022
Dnovobio is a developer of a direct reprogramming technology intended to create any cell, tissue, or organ on demand. Its company's platform converts skin into functional brain cells. The company is currently operating in Stealth mode.

Happl

Seed Round in 2021
The community-building and wellbeing platform for the modern workforce

Pabio

Seed Round in 2021
Get your apartment fully furnished by a professional interior designer and rent high quality furniture on a monthly subscription.

TagMango

Seed Round in 2021
TagMango Private Limited is a Kolkata-based company that operates a platform designed to facilitate marketing and advertising through influencer partnerships. Established in 2019, TagMango enables influencers to transform their followers into brand marketers by offering customizable courses and personalized experiences. The platform features a diverse range of celebrities and influencers who can be engaged for creating video messages and conducting workshops, allowing brands to execute cost-effective online campaigns. Through this innovative approach, TagMango supports both influencers and brands in enhancing their digital marketing efforts and reaching wider audiences.

Anakin

Seed Round in 2021
Anakin specializes in providing competitive intelligence software tailored for e-commerce retailers and brands. The company's offerings enable users to gain insights into competitor strategies by delivering real-time data on product assortments and pricing from various e-commerce platforms. Anakin's technology automates the monitoring of competitors’ sales activities, allowing businesses to efficiently gather and analyze web data at scale. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Anakin empowers its clients to stay informed about industry trends and make data-driven decisions in a dynamic market environment.

Enable Us

Seed Round in 2021
Referenceable is an all-in-one workspace for the B2B Sales, Marketing, and Customer facing teams to provide a personalized and interactive buying and onboarding experience to their prospective customers. Customer facing teams have everything they need in one single location to: - Capture Video/Audio Product demos, customer references, sales decks, white-papers, contracts, onboarding material, and other content - Automatically organize & contextualize (by industry, persona, deal stage, deal size) - Build personalized deal rooms with AI-targeted content, simplified workflows, and 1:1 communication with the prospect and other stakeholders/influencers.

Deskimo

Seed Round in 2021
Workspace by the minute Join the hybrid work revolution! Find professional workspaces for you & your team instantly, with all the amenities you need, from our network of independent workspaces. Deskimo connects mobile working professionals with quality workspaces all over Singapore. 1) Find your Ideal Workspace Wherever You Are Discover the perfect office for you today, within walking distance. Search by location and features to choose from dozens of independent workspaces. 2) No Commitments & No Need to Reserve Ahead Deskimo workspaces are as ready as you are. Find a workspace near you, exactly when you need it, with instant check-in. 3) Never Pay for Unused Time With the Deskimo mobile app, you only pay for the time that you’re in the workspace, not a minute more. We run on your schedule.

Encuadrado

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an appointment scheduling, payments, and invoicing platform designed for independent professionals. The company's platform administers and manages the entire scheduling process, facilitates payments with cards, and automatically issues tickets among others, helping clients streamline operations by getting rid of administrative problems.

Planet A Foods

Seed Round in 2021
QOA manufactures chocolate that is cocoa-free. The company offers chocolate production practices that are made using traditional and precise fermentation.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Munich, Bavaria.

Maroo

Seed Round in 2021
Wedding is one of the major events in a person's life. Rarely that one is ready to compromise when deciding on the engagement ring, venue, photographer, catering, etc. Which makes weddings expensive and running over the initial budget. Broom provides you with flexibility around financing your dream wedding - from 3 to 24 months installments at no cost. You just enjoy the simple discovery of your favourite wedding providers, familiar process of booking your day in their calendar and streamlined checkout. Want to put down a credit card to collect your miles over installments period? No problem, we've got your back on this. No small fonts. No hidden fees. No budget cap. No cost for you. Find more on: www.broom.co

Govly

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Govly is building a market network for government contracting, like AngelList for government procurement.

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.

Khabri

Seed Round in 2021
Khabri, Inc. is a digital audio platform that specializes in vernacular content, enabling users to access short news clips in various languages. Founded in 2016 by Aankit Roy, Pulkit Sharma, and Sandeep Singh, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Its application allows content creators to develop personalized channels and programs, thereby reaching millions of listeners both in India and internationally. Khabri's platform supports offline listening, allowing users to download news content from their local areas without requiring an internet connection. This focus on vernacular audio content positions Khabri as a unique player in the digital media landscape, catering specifically to the diverse linguistic needs of its audience.

Zingbus

Seed Round in 2021
Zingbus is an emerging brand in the intercity bus services. We aim to provide a safe and reliable travel experience to the community which include well-equipped buses with modern facilities keeping in mind all the safety essentials.

AOA

Seed Round in 2021
AOA, based in Boston, New York, and London, is a female-led company focused on developing innovative cancer diagnostics specifically for women's health. The company is dedicated to creating the first accurate early-stage liquid biopsy test for ovarian cancer, which aims to enhance clinical practices, reduce patient mortality, and offer cost savings for healthcare payers. Utilizing an artificial intelligence-enabled platform, AOA's technology analyzes tumor marker gangliosides to facilitate the early detection of ovarian cancer. This approach not only helps healthcare providers implement more effective treatment strategies but also ensures that patients can access life-saving treatments sooner and at a more affordable cost.

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.

Foster

Seed Round in 2021
Community-powered writing workflow driven by some of the internet's best writers, editors, and experts.

Athens Research

Seed Round in 2021
Athens Research is a company focused on developing a knowledge graph specifically designed for research and notetaking. The platform is open-source and serves as a community-driven alternative to Roam Research, allowing users to create and manage a private and extensible knowledge base. By facilitating organized information storage and retrieval, Athens Research aims to enhance the research process and improve notetaking efficiency for its users.

seer

Seed Round in 2021
A SaaS-based sales and communication platform for Luxury retailers that enables sales associates to seamlessly and meaningfully connect their customers to relevant inventory, enabling them to more easily reach and exceed their sales goals.

Future Fields

Seed Round in 2021
Future Fields is a Canadian company dedicated to advancing cellular agriculture by creating accessible consumer products. The company specializes in developing cost-effective and serum-free growth media essential for the production of cultured meat. Additionally, Future Fields focuses on insect-based recombinant protein to enhance sustainability in protein production. By producing vital growth components for cell culture, the company aims to reduce the environmental impact of agriculture while maximizing social benefits. Through these innovations, Future Fields seeks to enable the agriculture industry to produce cell-based foods in a more efficient and sustainable manner.

Stacker

Seed Round in 2021
Stacker Software Ltd is a company based in London, United Kingdom, established in 2018, that provides a modular application platform designed for developers to create web applications. The platform utilizes user-friendly tools such as spreadsheets, animated slide decks, and email filters, allowing users to automate tasks and build customized applications without needing coding expertise. Stacker also offers Airportal, a feature that enables users to create personalized portals on top of Airtable, complete with user logins and private data management. The company's mission is to empower individuals to develop software solutions, regardless of their technical background.

TagMango

Seed Round in 2020
TagMango Private Limited is a Kolkata-based company that operates a platform designed to facilitate marketing and advertising through influencer partnerships. Established in 2019, TagMango enables influencers to transform their followers into brand marketers by offering customizable courses and personalized experiences. The platform features a diverse range of celebrities and influencers who can be engaged for creating video messages and conducting workshops, allowing brands to execute cost-effective online campaigns. Through this innovative approach, TagMango supports both influencers and brands in enhancing their digital marketing efforts and reaching wider audiences.

WareIQ

Seed Round in 2020
WareIQ Logistics Private Limited, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, specializes in warehousing, logistics, and e-commerce fulfillment services. The company caters to online-first brands, large retailers, cross-border sellers, and dropshippers, offering a comprehensive solution that integrates warehousing, inventory management, order processing, shipping, and returns management. Through its technology platform, WareIQ connects a nationwide network of fulfillment centers and last-mile couriers, enabling e-commerce businesses to deliver next-day service akin to that of major players like Amazon. This streamlined approach allows clients to efficiently track and manage their inventory, orders, and shipments, enhancing their operational capabilities in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

Dapi

Seed Round in 2020
Dapi Ltd is a fintech company that specializes in developing application programming interfaces (APIs) to facilitate payments between consumer bank accounts and businesses. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the company provides a suite of open banking APIs designed to connect customer bank accounts, initiate payments, and access financial data in real-time. Dapi acts as an intermediary between financial applications and banks, enabling developers to create solutions such as digital wallets, budget trackers, and investment applications. Its services allow fintech companies to initiate payments through banks and offer financial services based on customer bank statement data. Dapi operates in multiple countries, including the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, South Africa, and Kuwait, and has demonstrated significant demand for its offerings, achieving substantial growth in annual recurring revenue.

Toolbox

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Toolbox is focused on improving the work landscape for skilled construction workers, who collectively earn over $300 billion in wages. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, Toolbox operates a labor marketplace that empowers workers and subcontractors to showcase their professional skills, secure job opportunities, and reduce downtime through short-term gigs. Additionally, Toolbox provides financial technology solutions tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, offering intelligent banking services, financial insights, and automated bookkeeping. This platform enables businesses to easily compare and select lender offers, purchase materials and equipment, and gain a comprehensive view of their financial health, thereby facilitating access to necessary capital for growth.

BIK

Seed Round in 2020
Bikayi is a social e-commerce platform that allows merchandisers to create their online channel & communicate with subscribers in real-time.

Seam

Seed Round in 2020
Seam is a developer-focused platform that offers an API to manage and control various IoT devices within homes and buildings. The company provides a unified solution for automating physical actions such as unlocking doors, adjusting thermostats, and turning off lights. By using Seam's technology, organizations can connect applications to a wide range of physical devices without the complexities associated with low-level protocol implementation. This streamlined approach allows users to create efficient physical automations through a single dashboard, facilitating the integration of smart locks and access systems from multiple brands.

WareIQ

Seed Round in 2020
WareIQ Logistics Private Limited, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, specializes in warehousing, logistics, and e-commerce fulfillment services. The company caters to online-first brands, large retailers, cross-border sellers, and dropshippers, offering a comprehensive solution that integrates warehousing, inventory management, order processing, shipping, and returns management. Through its technology platform, WareIQ connects a nationwide network of fulfillment centers and last-mile couriers, enabling e-commerce businesses to deliver next-day service akin to that of major players like Amazon. This streamlined approach allows clients to efficiently track and manage their inventory, orders, and shipments, enhancing their operational capabilities in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

Intelline

Seed Round in 2020
Intelline Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in the manufacturing of innovative diesel generators designed to enhance efficiency and sustainability in power production. Established in 2017 and based in Kitchener, it offers a range of products, including the Modular Linear Generator (MLG), which directly converts combustion energy into electricity, and the Reconfigurable Linear Electric Motor (RLEM), utilized in the production of linear motors. Intelline's generators boast a 40 percent improvement in fuel efficiency compared to conventional diesel engines, leading to significant cost savings, particularly for industries such as mining. Additionally, the company is focused on facilitating the transition to sustainable fuels, allowing customers to utilize various fuel types, including natural gas, biofuels, synthetic fuels, and hydrogen. This versatility helps mitigate the impact of fuel price fluctuations while promoting a more eco-friendly approach to energy generation.

CarbonChain

Seed Round in 2020
CarbonChain.io Limited develops software as a service (SaaS) tool to automate accounting of carbon emissions. The company helps metals and mining, oil and gas, and agriculture industries to track and manage supply chain carbon emissions. It offers tool to commodities producers, commodities traders, logistics companies, and financial institutions. CarbonChain.io was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Rally Video

Seed Round in 2020
Rally Video, established in 2020 and based in Toronto, Canada, is a software company that specializes in online social interactions. The company's primary product, Rally, provides a platform for users to engage in audio and video calls, send instant messages, and conduct professional online meetings. By focusing on creating an interactive environment for social groups, Rally Video aims to enhance virtual communication and collaboration.

Toolbox

Seed Round in 2020
Toolbox is focused on improving the work landscape for skilled construction workers, who collectively earn over $300 billion in wages. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, Toolbox operates a labor marketplace that empowers workers and subcontractors to showcase their professional skills, secure job opportunities, and reduce downtime through short-term gigs. Additionally, Toolbox provides financial technology solutions tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, offering intelligent banking services, financial insights, and automated bookkeeping. This platform enables businesses to easily compare and select lender offers, purchase materials and equipment, and gain a comprehensive view of their financial health, thereby facilitating access to necessary capital for growth.

Kingdom Supercultures

Seed Round in 2020
Kingdom Supercultures develops and produces microbial cultures that help food manufacturers to produce new varieties of food. The company produces and offers Koji, a Japanese food ingredient used to make miso, sake, soy sauce, and more. Its products helps in producing fermented sodas, beers, and plant-based dairy replacements. The company offers a platform that uses software and hardware automation to assemble microbial cultures for natural food production. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Future Fields

Seed Round in 2020
Future Fields is a Canadian company dedicated to advancing cellular agriculture by creating accessible consumer products. The company specializes in developing cost-effective and serum-free growth media essential for the production of cultured meat. Additionally, Future Fields focuses on insect-based recombinant protein to enhance sustainability in protein production. By producing vital growth components for cell culture, the company aims to reduce the environmental impact of agriculture while maximizing social benefits. Through these innovations, Future Fields seeks to enable the agriculture industry to produce cell-based foods in a more efficient and sustainable manner.

Bactobio

Seed Round in 2020
Baccuico utilizes sequencing, machine learning, and cultivation techniques to harvest biological dark matter and applying them to medical and industrial applications. It aims to solve the antibiotic resistance crisis by discovering novel antibiotic classes targeting some of the most urgent bacterial pathogens - before moving on to broader applications.

DeepSource

Seed Round in 2020
DeepSource Corp. is a technology company that offers an online platform for automated code reviews, focusing on identifying potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, and performance issues. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Walnut, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, the platform continuously analyzes source code changes to detect and address issues categorized as security risks, performance concerns, anti-patterns, and bug risks. By facilitating the discovery and automatic resolution of these issues, DeepSource aids developers in ensuring code quality before deployment, ultimately enhancing software reliability and security.

Tajir

Seed Round in 2020
Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.

WorkClout

Seed Round in 2020
Workclout, Inc. develops SaaS software for manufacturers. Its software provides business intelligence, shipments for automatic delivery slips, floor reporting for idle and down time logging; job scheduling for job alerts; order management for integrated invoices, sales orders and for job ticketing. It serves customers in commercial printing, corrugated, vacuum forming, label printing, flexible packaging, and folding carton industries. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Newark, Delaware.

Grain

Seed Round in 2020
Grain Technology, Inc. is a financial technology company based in Oakland, California, established in 2017. The company has developed a mobile application that offers a revolving line of credit linked to users' existing debit cards, utilizing their income and cash flow data. This innovative platform serves as an alternative to traditional credit cards, allowing individuals and businesses to access credit without the need for a separate card. By focusing on responsible lending practices, Grain aims to provide a solution that helps users manage their finances effectively while minimizing the risk of accumulating unnecessary debt.

99 Minutos

Seed Round in 2020
99 minutos is an ecommerce delivery company which operates in Latin America. It provides full conectivity to any ecommerce, with live tracking and quick control. 99minutos is faster, cheaper and more reliable than any delivery company out there.

TagMango

Seed Round in 2020
TagMango Private Limited is a Kolkata-based company that operates a platform designed to facilitate marketing and advertising through influencer partnerships. Established in 2019, TagMango enables influencers to transform their followers into brand marketers by offering customizable courses and personalized experiences. The platform features a diverse range of celebrities and influencers who can be engaged for creating video messages and conducting workshops, allowing brands to execute cost-effective online campaigns. Through this innovative approach, TagMango supports both influencers and brands in enhancing their digital marketing efforts and reaching wider audiences.

ZeoAuto

Seed Round in 2020
Zeo Auto operates as a freight management platform to track, analyze, and improve fleet operations. Its platform offers real time location tracking at its centre and integrations with various sensors (including temperature, AC, fuel, engine and SOS) and OBD protocol to the fleet owner. It also supports fleet managers in managing end to end operations right from capturing orders, assigning drivers, as well as ETA, route planning, trip management, vehicle tracking (speed, distance, and location), waybill generation services for logistics industry. The company is based in Mumbai, India.

PostEra

Seed Round in 2020
PostEra provides medicinal chemistry services by integrating molecular design with chemical synthesis. It designs algorithms that accurately predicts bioactivity in the low-data limit; and algorithm to outperform human chemists in predicting the outcomes of chemical reactions, tackling challenges in chemo-, regio-, and stereo-selectivity. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

DeepSource

Seed Round in 2020
DeepSource Corp. is a technology company that offers an online platform for automated code reviews, focusing on identifying potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, and performance issues. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Walnut, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, the platform continuously analyzes source code changes to detect and address issues categorized as security risks, performance concerns, anti-patterns, and bug risks. By facilitating the discovery and automatic resolution of these issues, DeepSource aids developers in ensuring code quality before deployment, ultimately enhancing software reliability and security.

UrbanKisaan

Seed Round in 2020
UrbanKisaan builds vertical farms in India and sells the produce directly to consumers via subscription based app. The farms create a positive change at every step from seed to store ensuring quality and traceability. They grow fresh veggies locally produced which are grown without using soil using 95% less water. It aims to create a sustainable future for farming and feed the world in a way that is good for both people and the planet. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Freshpaint

Seed Round in 2020
Freshpaint connects the customer data from the site or app to marketing and analytics tools. It automates tedious work so engineering can focus on the product. Freshpaint is capable of integrating marketing and analytics tools with one click. The company was co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons.

Gas Pos

Seed Round in 2020
Gas Pos, Inc. specializes in providing point of sale (POS) systems specifically designed for gas stations, truck stops, and convenience stores across the United States. Established in 2015 and headquartered in North Little Rock, Arkansas, the company offers a comprehensive range of products, including POS terminals, fuel controllers, cash drawers, scanners, customer displays, and pin pads. Notably, Gas Pos provides its services at no cost, including the provision of the POS terminal and related equipment, as well as free installation and customer support. This approach allows operators in the fuel retail sector to access essential technology without upfront investment, facilitating smoother operations and enhanced customer service.

Felix Biotechnology

Seed Round in 2020
Felix Biotechnology is working to accelerate the deployment of novel biotherapeutics to manage infectious diseases. Felix Biotechnology's bio-therapeutics targets antibiotic-resistant bacteria to manage infectious diseases precisely and effectively, allowing healthcare professionals to manage urgent microbial challenges in human health.

Abalone Bio

Seed Round in 2020
Abalone Bio, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on developing antibody drugs for various medical conditions, including pain, inflammatory diseases, rare cancers, and rare kidney diseases. Founded in 2017 and based in Richmond, California, the company aims to create treatments for peripheral neuropathy. Abalone Bio employs advanced techniques such as yeast cell libraries to generate billions of antibody variants, which can either activate or inhibit specific drug targets. Additionally, the company utilizes gene sequencing, machine learning, and synthetic biology to produce recombinant protein versions of its antibodies and to validate their efficacy through human cell assays. This innovative approach allows Abalone Bio to address rare diseases with distinct mechanisms of action.

Somatic

Seed Round in 2020
Somatic is a New York-based company that specializes in providing robotic cleaning services specifically for commercial bathrooms. Founded in 2017, Somatic develops advanced bathroom cleaning robots designed for use in office buildings and other commercial spaces. These robots are programmed to perform cleaning tasks using virtual reality technology, enabling them to spray and wipe down surfaces effectively. Additionally, the robots are equipped to navigate autonomously, including opening doors and using elevators, which allows clients to significantly reduce operational costs and improve staff retention.

Nugget

Seed Round in 2020
Nugget Inc. provides an application that lets users to record short audio clips, apply filters to juice up the sound, and share them on a social feed. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Tajir

Seed Round in 2020
Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.

FamPay

Seed Round in 2020
FamPay Solutions Private Limited is a Bengaluru-based company that provides a digital payment application specifically designed for teenagers and their families. Incorporated in 2019, FamPay enables minors to conduct various payment activities, including UPI, peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions, and card payments, without requiring a traditional bank account. The application allows parents to send money to their children, who can then spend it securely at online and in-store merchants under parental supervision. By focusing on the unique needs of younger users, FamPay aims to create a seamless and enjoyable payment experience for teenagers while ensuring financial safety and accountability.

ZeoAuto

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Zeo Auto operates as a freight management platform to track, analyze, and improve fleet operations. Its platform offers real time location tracking at its centre and integrations with various sensors (including temperature, AC, fuel, engine and SOS) and OBD protocol to the fleet owner. It also supports fleet managers in managing end to end operations right from capturing orders, assigning drivers, as well as ETA, route planning, trip management, vehicle tracking (speed, distance, and location), waybill generation services for logistics industry. The company is based in Mumbai, India.

TagMango

Pre Seed Round in 2020
TagMango Private Limited is a Kolkata-based company that operates a platform designed to facilitate marketing and advertising through influencer partnerships. Established in 2019, TagMango enables influencers to transform their followers into brand marketers by offering customizable courses and personalized experiences. The platform features a diverse range of celebrities and influencers who can be engaged for creating video messages and conducting workshops, allowing brands to execute cost-effective online campaigns. Through this innovative approach, TagMango supports both influencers and brands in enhancing their digital marketing efforts and reaching wider audiences.

Prolific

Seed Round in 2019
Prolific is an online platform that facilitates ethical participant recruitment for research purposes. It connects researchers with a diverse pool of respondents worldwide, allowing for fast and reliable data collection. By enabling users to specify their target audience for surveys, Prolific ensures that researchers can gather high-quality psychological and behavioral data efficiently. The platform is designed to enhance accessibility to trustworthy data, ultimately supporting improved knowledge and decision-making in various fields.

Oxygen

Seed Round in 2019
Oxygen operates as a digital banking platform that uniquely caters to both personal and business banking needs, addressing the requirements of consumers, small businesses, and freelancers in the modern economy. In addition to its banking services, Oxygen Technical Services offers technology solutions that include computer and network designs, connectivity, website design, and e-commerce solutions. The company's commitment to cybersecurity emphasizes secure data storage, ensuring that backup and recovery processes comply with established standards. To maintain data resiliency, Oxygen implements comprehensive backup strategies and scheduled test restores, safeguarding data from servers, workstations, and various cloud platforms, including Microsoft 365.

Vahan

Seed Round in 2019
Vahan Inc. develops a mobile education platform for low-income populations. The company offers Vahan, an application for feature phones and smartphones that enables students to practice what they’re learning in the classroom, outside it. Its application helps students maximize learning outcomes; and Web-based learning management system allows instructors to track their students' scores and progress, review students' responses, and send them feedback via SMS or voice messages. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.

Digi-Prex

Seed Round in 2019
Digi-Prex operates a monthly medication delivery platform that focuses on serving patients with chronic diseases in India. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Hyderabad, with an additional office in San Francisco, the company enables patients to upload prescriptions and receive their medications at discounted rates from local pharmacies. In addition to medication delivery, Digi-Prex offers a comprehensive management solution tailored to individual health needs, providing a one-stop platform for chronic disease management. This approach aims to simplify access to necessary treatments while supporting patients in effectively managing their health conditions.

Dover

Seed Round in 2019
Dover is a recruitment services provider based in the United States, focused on modernizing the hiring process for companies. The organization employs a unique automated hiring platform that leverages algorithmic technology to identify and engage suitable candidates for open positions. By understanding the specific skill sets required by companies, Dover streamlines the recruitment process, reducing the need for extensive human involvement. This approach not only enhances the efficiency of hiring but also helps organizations improve their margins by ensuring that the right talent is onboarded. Through its innovative methods, Dover aims to support some of the fastest-growing companies in finding and engaging high-quality candidates.

Bouncer

Seed Round in 2019
Bouncer is a technology company specializing in fraud prevention, particularly in the realm of online payments. It has developed advanced machine learning technology for credit card scanning, designed to enhance the user experience during checkout and improve customer conversion rates. Bouncer's solutions provide businesses with security comparable to card-present transactions, despite operating in a card-not-present environment. In May 2021, Bouncer was acquired by Stripe, an international payments processor, to integrate its innovative technology into Stripe's existing fraud prevention tools.

Juno College of Technology

Seed Round in 2019
Juno College of Technology provides a comprehensive and accelerated training for students. With Juno College's proven process, students can spend the shortest possible amount of time out of the workforce while being set up for a career. Juno College of Technology is an expert at training non-technical people and turning them into employable and high-earning web developers. Juno College of Technology was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

ScholarMe

Seed Round in 2019
ScholarMe Co. develops an online financing platform for college-funding scholarships. It connects lenders and individuals for providing financing solutions, such as scholarships and education loans for coaching, tuitions, and education. ScholarMe Co. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Lang API

Seed Round in 2019
LangAPI exists to help developers rapidly translate and localize their apps for users worldwide. They automate translation between a huge number of languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, and Russian. To make the developer experience as smoooth as possible, translating a string is as simple as wrapping it with a special function. Currently, they only support JavaScript and TypeScript codebases. You can choose to either use machine translations (Google Translate) for testing or human translations for production.

GreenTiger

Seed Round in 2019
GreenTiger AI, Inc operates an online platform that connects investors in emerging and developed markets. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

EARTH AI

Seed Round in 2019
Earth AI Pty Ltd. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based software that locates areas of mineralization in greenfield and remote areas with no pre-existing geological data. The company gives geologists location suggestions for mineral exposure and auto generates precise geological maps from satellite, geophysical, and geochemical datasets. Earth AI Pty Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in Parramatta, Australia.

LAIKA

Seed Round in 2019
LAIKA is like a dog with two tails right now. Its platform for pet products and services has been growing in recent months and it’s drawn the necessary investment to keep up its momentum. LAIKA built a digital platform where users don’t have to go anywhere else to meet said needs. With two main sections; products and services. In the products section, we have more than 4,000 references (among which you can find most of the brands of food, snacks, medicines, accessories and others). In the services section, we have more than 17 services, all the healthcare, beauty and entertainment services. All of the above delivered straight to your home and with the flexibility of choosing the date and time on and at which you wish to receive the order, including same-day deliveries for the main cities and accepting all payment methods, both online and cash on delivery.

DirectShifts

Seed Round in 2019
They've set out to modernize healthcare recruiting. They're a team of physicians and entrepreneurs who have come together to solve a major pain point facing medical professionals today. Healthcare is a noble profession that has become overburdened by loss of autonomy, administrative bloat, and an ever-increasing number of intermediaries widening the gap between patients and providers. They want to help realign the industry around its original purpose and let providers administer better care.

Hatchways

Seed Round in 2019
Hatchways is a platform focused on making career transitions easier. Focused on web developers. They believe that helping people find fulfilling work will lead to the betterment of society and themselves. The current education to employment pathway restricts people from exploring and discovering different missions, teams and industries-- leaving people feeling dissatisfied with where they spend 30-50% of their days. With an increase in automation and AI, this is a problem that increasingly needs to be solved or companies will face unstable and unhappy workforces. Hatchways is a platform that qualifies and matches candidates with paid work placements that will help them discover fulfilling work at any stage of their life.

Nomad Rides

Seed Round in 2019
Nomad Rides is an application platform that provides commission-free ride-hailing service for drivers. They also monetize the business through driver subscriptions, geo-located based advertisements, and in-car vending. The application allows its drivers to keep the entirety of their fares for a small monthly fee. Nomad Rides also offers student-focused ride-sharing service. It also enables drivers to earn more and riders to pay less. Nomad Rides was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Carmel, IN, USA.

Dover

Seed Round in 2019
Dover is a recruitment services provider based in the United States, focused on modernizing the hiring process for companies. The organization employs a unique automated hiring platform that leverages algorithmic technology to identify and engage suitable candidates for open positions. By understanding the specific skill sets required by companies, Dover streamlines the recruitment process, reducing the need for extensive human involvement. This approach not only enhances the efficiency of hiring but also helps organizations improve their margins by ensuring that the right talent is onboarded. Through its innovative methods, Dover aims to support some of the fastest-growing companies in finding and engaging high-quality candidates.

Prenda

Seed Round in 2019
Prenda is an ed-tech company with the vision of helping young people learn technology in a fun, informal settings. It helps libraries and schools run code clubs weekly meetings where people work together to teach themselves computer programming. The company founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Mesa, Arizona.

WaystoCap

Seed Round in 2019
WaystoCap is a B2B marketplace where businesses in Africa can buy and sell products. Beyond just product discovery and verification, WaystoCap helps businesses in obtaining financing and insurance, managing their shipments, and ensuring payments security. WaystoCap facilitates the whole trading operation so that its buyers can find the most competitive products and obtain financing; and its suppliers can access new markets and trade in a secure environment.

54gene

Seed Round in 2019
54gene develops a pan-African biobank to identify new drug targets, and develop diagnostics and treatments for diseases. The company targets multiple disease states, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neuro-degenerative disease. It also provides genetic testing and molecular diagnostics services. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional offices in Lagos, Nigeria.

Aura Vision

Seed Round in 2019
Aura Vision Labs Ltd develops a video AI platform designed to enhance in-store analytics for retailers and brands. By utilizing existing security cameras, the platform transforms video feeds into actionable insights that inform critical retail decisions. It enables users to track customer journeys, analyzing how customers and employees navigate stores and interact with products, which helps identify factors influencing conversion rates. The platform also measures the impact of marketing campaigns over various locations and time periods, providing a comprehensive view of store performance. Established in 2017 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in San Francisco, Aura Vision's solutions cater to retail operations and shopping malls, ultimately aiming to improve the overall shopping experience.

Eclipse Foods

Seed Round in 2019
Eclipse Foods manufactures plant-based dairy products that closely mimic the taste, texture, and functionality of traditional animal dairy items, such as ice cream, cream cheese, and sour cream. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Walnut, California, the company utilizes innovative plant-processing technology to create dairy alternatives that avoid the health, environmental, and welfare issues associated with conventional dairy production. By focusing on delivering high-quality plant-based options, Eclipse Foods aims to provide consumers with healthier choices while preserving the familiar flavors of traditional dairy products.