Pioneer Fund

Pioneer Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 2017, with its headquarters in Toronto, Canada. The firm focuses on early-stage investments and is particularly tied to the Y Combinator network, comprising over 420 alumni from the accelerator program. Pioneer Fund targets a diverse range of sectors, including consumer products, financial services, information technology, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, life sciences, gaming, artificial intelligence, and education technology, among others. By leveraging its connection to Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund aims to support innovative startups with high growth potential across various industries.

Bryant Chou

Senior Venture Partner

Patrick Deem

Venture Partner

Michael Dilworth

CFO and General Partner

Glasscock, Jarret

Senior Venture Partner and Healthcare Biotech

Beth Kolko

Senior Venture Partner

Parthi Loganathan

Venture Partner

Dave Messina

General Partner

Eric Norman

Visiting General Partner

Will Olsen

Venture Partner

Alexander Strunkin

Venture Partner

Jonathan Tang

Senior Venture Partner

Kitch Wilson

Venture Partner

Past deals in Seed Stage

FlexDesk

Seed Round in 2023
FlexDesk operates an online marketplace that simplifies the management of corporate real estate for businesses. By utilizing AI-driven workflows, it integrates various systems to help companies manage corporate leases, optimize occupancy, and facilitate employee access to a global network of coworking spaces. Its platform allows users to book coworking spaces, track utilization and spending, and oversee conference room rentals and team spaces for remote employees. Prominent companies such as Confluent, ezCater, and Hopper leverage FlexDesk to enhance decision-making and implement effective real estate solutions. Headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Y Combinator, FlexDesk serves as a comprehensive resource for organizations seeking to streamline their coworking space operations.

Optery

Seed Round in 2023
Optery specializes in privacy management by helping individuals remove their personal information, such as home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses, from the internet. The company opts users out of over 225 data brokers that trade in this data, making it one of the most comprehensive services available. By doing so, Optery aims to prevent identity theft and fraud, while also reducing the risk of phishing attempts and spam. Users can create a free account to receive a personalized exposure report that highlights where their information is publicly available and sold. Optery's mission focuses on empowering consumers to take control of their personal data, ensuring transparency and fairness in interactions with data brokers.

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.

OpenShelf

Seed Round in 2023
OpenShelf, founded in 2023, develops an inventory automation system aimed at optimizing contact lens management for optometrists. The company offers flexible robotic solutions that can handle, sort, and dispense thousands of unique contact lens boxes. This technology allows optometrists to gain valuable insights into their inventory, such as when to reorder specific prescriptions and the frequency of stock replenishment at their practice. By streamlining the contact lens inventory process, OpenShelf enhances operational efficiency and supports better patient care.

Curacel

Seed Round in 2023
Curacel is an insurtech company founded in 2019 by Henry Mascot in Ikoyi, Lagos. It offers an AI-powered platform that automates the insurance claims process and enhances fraud management. By employing advanced artificial intelligence algorithms, Curacel enables insurance staff to efficiently process high volumes of claims while simultaneously detecting fraud, waste, and abuse. The platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with various systems and third-party applications, providing insurance companies with tools to improve operational efficiency and foster customer loyalty.

Positional

Seed Round in 2023
Positional is a developer of a modern toolset platform designed for content and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) teams. The company's tools facilitate the rapid planning of topic clusters through instant keyword generation, topic creation, and structured outlines. This enables content teams to efficiently scale their content channels and significantly increase traffic from organic search. Over the past decade, Positional's team has gained extensive experience in building and scaling content channels across competitive markets, such as insurance and personal loans. The focus is on providing solutions that enhance the effectiveness of content strategies, allowing teams to achieve their goals more swiftly and effectively.

Integration Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Integration Labs is a data integration platform that simplifies access to customers' accounting, e-commerce, and payment data for businesses. The platform offers a well-documented Unified API, allowing product teams to efficiently read and write data across more than 20 platforms, including popular services like Quickbooks, Shopify, and Stripe. Companies utilize Integration Labs to automate accounting processes, underwrite credit risk, generate valuable business insights, and develop new business tools. By prioritizing safety and reliability, Integration Labs enables organizations to streamline their operations and enhance decision-making capabilities.

Kapital

Venture Round in 2022
Kapital provides a fintech solution designed to assist small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), freelancers, and startups in managing their financial processes more effectively. The company's platform enables clients to gain visibility and control over their treasury, allowing them to manage income, expenses, corporate spending, payroll distribution, and payments to suppliers from a single interface. By offering a suite of digital financial services, Kapital aims to simplify financial management and enhance access to financing, ultimately promoting growth and financial inclusion for its clients.

Remedial Health

Seed Round in 2022
Remedial Health operates as a wholesale distributor of medicine, catering to the vast network of approximately one million pharmacies and hospitals across Africa. The company addresses the prevalent inefficiencies in the healthcare supply chain, where providers often depend on open-air markets to acquire pharmaceuticals, leading to risks of counterfeit products. By offering a pharmacy operations and procurement management platform, Remedial Health enhances business-to-business access to medications. This platform incorporates technology that simplifies the ordering process and facilitates direct access to retail medicines from manufacturers or distributors, thereby improving workflow management and ensuring a more reliable supply of genuine medications for healthcare providers.

Persephone Biosciences

Seed Round in 2022
Persephone Biosciences develops healthcare technology designed to focus on microbial therapeutics for immuno-oncology applications. The company's technology uses artificial intelligence and omics techniques on multiple cancer patient gut microbiome and blood samples to identify microbes needed for normal immune function for population-scale patient data analytics, enabling lab researchers to design microbial drugs that prevent and fight cancer. Persephone Biosciences was founded in 2017 and is based in San Diego, California.

Flagright

Seed Round in 2022
Flagright offers a transaction monitoring platform that provides real-time fraud detection and anti-money laundering solutions for financial institutions and fintech companies. The platform is designed to automate transaction monitoring, identify suspicious activities, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. With its API-first approach and a no-code back office, Flagright enables users to prevent, detect, and manage fraudulent activities effectively, thereby enhancing risk management and streamlining compliance workflows.

The Ankler

Seed Round in 2022
The Ankler is a subscription-based newsletter dedicated to the entertainment industry, providing daily insights, commentary, and gossip. It serves as a comprehensive source of information, capturing the vibrant and often dramatic landscape of the industry. The Ankler covers a wide range of topics, from awards season and industry developments to behind-the-scenes anecdotes, offering readers a unique perspective that is not readily available through traditional trade publications. By focusing on exclusive content and engaging narratives, The Ankler positions itself as an essential resource for those interested in the inner workings and colorful stories of the entertainment world.

Fleetzero

Venture Round in 2022
Fleetzero, established in 2021 in Auburn, Alabama, is focused on developing a fleet of battery-electric cargo ships aimed at decarbonizing ocean freight. The company designs zero-emission vessels that can be constructed affordably in domestic shipyards, allowing operations in regulated markets where local shipbuilding is required. These electric ships promise lower operational costs and improved reliability compared to traditional fossil-fuel vessels, providing clients with an efficient and sustainable alternative for marine transportation. By facilitating significant reductions in fuel, maintenance, and crew expenses, Fleetzero seeks to transform the freight industry while adhering to environmental standards.

Diversion

Seed Round in 2022
Diversion is a developer of a code management platform designed to enhance collaboration and the overall developer experience. The platform provides synchronized environments and custom metadata for repository objects, facilitating effective teamwork among software development teams, regardless of code base size. Additionally, it incorporates a cloud workspace that aims to improve security and streamline DevOps processes, ultimately transforming how developers interact with code and one another.

Strong Compute

Seed Round in 2022
Strong Compute is building the future of Cloud Computing, priced by performance not consumption. Our software and hardware optimizations speed up neural network development 10x-1000x, file transfer 1000x, instance start time 10x. We're starting with AI and are aimed at the $500B cloud market.

Ordinary Seafood

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Ordinary Seafood is a food-tech company focused on providing sustainable seafood alternatives through the innovative use of plant protein and biotechnology. The company aims to restore balance in the food system by developing vegan-based seafood products that are both delicious and healthy. By leveraging these technologies, Ordinary Seafood offers consumers a way to enjoy seafood flavors while promoting sustainability and addressing environmental concerns related to traditional seafood sourcing.

AstroForge

Seed Round in 2022
AstroForge is an asteroid mining company focused on extracting valuable minerals, including gold, from asteroids. The company employs a method of breaking asteroids into smaller pieces, refining them, and returning only the valuable materials to Earth. This innovative approach aims to unlock untapped resources in space, offering researchers and industries access to materials that have not yet been utilized.

Explorex Technologies, Inc.

Venture Round in 2022
The Indian restaurant industry has already adopted technology to adapt to the growing demands and match the expectations of today's customers but the absence of a full-stack cloud-based software is extremely frustrating to business owners today. The existing systems lack modularity, lack the ability to integrate with services, and hence aren't plug and play. Also, Restaurants are extremely frustrated with all the 5-6 independent systems that don't talk to each other. We are solving these problems by building a full-stack solution for the 30 million+ restaurants in India, by solves order management, operations management, online delivery, payment processing, reports & analytics, and guest identification and re-engagement all using one system - Explorex. Location: 420 S 4th Street Unit 15, Ames, IA, us, 50010

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 is a social finance platform that assists individuals in managing their healthcare expenses by facilitating the discovery of nearby healthcare practices and allowing users to split their medical bills into manageable monthly installments. The platform aims to enhance user experiences in banking and daily financial transactions by organizing lending, borrowing, and money recording among trusted contacts such as family, friends, and business partners. Through its comprehensive suite of products and services, SaveIN addresses the needs of users in the retail and personal finance sectors, promoting a more accessible approach to financial management.

Optery

Seed Round in 2022
Optery specializes in privacy management by helping individuals remove their personal information, such as home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses, from the internet. The company opts users out of over 225 data brokers that trade in this data, making it one of the most comprehensive services available. By doing so, Optery aims to prevent identity theft and fraud, while also reducing the risk of phishing attempts and spam. Users can create a free account to receive a personalized exposure report that highlights where their information is publicly available and sold. Optery's mission focuses on empowering consumers to take control of their personal data, ensuring transparency and fairness in interactions with data brokers.

SixWheel

Seed Round in 2022
SixWheel provides road freight electrification services.

Kapital

Seed Round in 2022
Kapital provides a fintech solution designed to assist small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), freelancers, and startups in managing their financial processes more effectively. The company's platform enables clients to gain visibility and control over their treasury, allowing them to manage income, expenses, corporate spending, payroll distribution, and payments to suppliers from a single interface. By offering a suite of digital financial services, Kapital aims to simplify financial management and enhance access to financing, ultimately promoting growth and financial inclusion for its clients.

Palitronica

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Palitronica is a network security provider focused on safeguarding global supply chains across various sectors, including defense, energy, communications, transportation, and healthcare. The company develops cybersecurity software and devices that offer protection against counterfeit, fraudulent, and suspect items, addressing issues related to hardware security, tampering, and semiconductor integrity. By integrating secure digital signal processing into a unified technology, Palitronica enables clients to effectively manage and mitigate risks associated with the integrity of their products, from individual components to entire systems.

Cofactr

Seed Round in 2022
Cofactr, founded in 2021 by Matthew Haber and Phillip Gulley in New York, offers automated solutions for electronics purchasing aimed at critical industries such as aerospace, defense, medtech, and robotics. The company provides an end-to-end supply chain automation platform that enhances procurement processes and integrates logistics for mission-critical hardware. Cofactr's technology enables hardware teams to efficiently source components from global suppliers through features like automated quoting, transparent searches, and instant purchasing. By leveraging powerful supply chain intelligence and intuitive forecasting, Cofactr allows clients to proactively manage their parts sourcing and address potential supply issues effectively.

Toolbox

Seed Round in 2022
Our mission at Toolbox is to help construction, maintenance and repair contractors thrive by providing them with a simple, yet powerful financial operating system to grow their business. Today, contractors can access our best-in-class and construction-focused corporate charge card to facilitate mission-critical payments, including materials and equipment purchases. Contractors also get access to an app to manage their finances, make payments, issue new cards for themselves and their team members, and organize expenses based on current and completed projects. Toolbox is backed by reputable investors, including Y Combinator, [1984.vc](http://1984.vc/), Kickstart Seed Fund, J Ventures, FJ Labs, and Liquid2Ventures.

Cypher Wallet

Seed Round in 2022
For consumers, Cypher offers an EVM & Cosmos noncustodial wallet & crypto card allow a one-stop-shop for purchasing, bridging, staking, swapping and off-ramping crypto For developers, Cypher offers an seamless onboarding SDK for any dApp in addition to a Push SDK that allows on-chain events to be converted into human, readable mobile push notifications

Riogrande

Seed Round in 2022
Riogrande operates as a developer of an e-commerce platform focused on acquiring, building, and scaling online brands in Latin America. The company's platform is designed to optimize and integrate operations, assisting e-commerce entrepreneurs in growing and strengthening their brands. By fostering collaboration and leveraging economies of scale, Riogrande aims to create the next generation of online businesses, enabling them to achieve higher targets and enhance their market presence. Through its innovative approach, Riogrande is contributing to the expansion of e-commerce in the region.

Aviato

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Aviato is an online platform designed to facilitate the sourcing, qualification, and engagement of early-stage startups. It offers a unique approach to venture funding by allowing clients to submit video pitches, which can be reviewed by scouts and associates, streamlining the investment process from application to meeting scheduling. This automation eliminates the need for personal introductions, saving investors time while helping them discover promising investment opportunities. With a robust and frequently updated dataset, Aviato provides actionable insights that help users uncover previously overlooked founders and companies, positioning itself as an essential tool in the startup investment landscape.

Alta

Seed Round in 2022
Alta is a virtual reality company that develops games. They focus on developing a range of fun-based, adventurous, and war-mimicking multiplayer games that could be played across multiple virtual reality interfaces and immersive environments, enabling gaming enthusiasts to engage in mobile, animated virtual reality games via smartphones, laptops, or computers anytime, anywhere.

Epsilon3

Seed Round in 2022
Epsilon3 develops advanced software technology aimed at modernizing space missions and complex engineering operations. By creating an industry-standard platform, Epsilon3 provides interactive, real-time synchronized procedures for various programs and missions. This allows satellite operators, space manufacturers, and integrators to access detailed analytics, reports, and dashboards. The software enhances efficiency and user-friendliness, enabling operators to streamline their workflows and save time and resources throughout the entire project lifecycle. Epsilon3's commitment to improving operational software represents a significant advancement in the aerospace sector.

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.

Arc Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Arc Technologies is a full-service finance platform designed specifically for software startups. It offers a comprehensive digital solution that allows founders to borrow, save, and spend through an integrated cash management and capital markets platform. By partnering with Stripe, Arc provides a unique fintech service that helps startups convert future revenue into immediate capital without equity dilution. The platform equips clients with financial tools to manage their capital effectively, enabling them to leverage insights for efficient growth. Through these services, Arc Technologies aims to support the financial health and expansion of software businesses.

Mora Financial

Seed Round in 2022
Mora.com, operated by Mora Financial, is dedicated to helping parents set up and manage ROTH IRA accounts for their children, providing a foundation for early financial growth and long-term security. We simplify the complexities of hiring children for household tasks to meet IRS requirements for earned income, enabling parents to legally fund a child’s ROTH IRA. Our services include payroll, tax compliance, and audit documentation support, ensuring that families adhere to tax code regulations while maximizing the financial benefits. With Mora, parents can establish a secure financial future for their kids, combining professional-grade support with peace of mind.

Happl

Seed Round in 2021
Our goal is to make Happl the leading People Experience platform for businesses across the globe. We want every manager to feel empowered to engage and support their teams, to make sure employees feel like they belong.

TagMango

Seed Round in 2021
TagMango is a software-as-a-service (SAAS) platform that empowers content creators to establish their own online stores for hosting cohort-based courses and selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Launched in February 2021, the platform offers features such as a landing page builder, payment processing, inbuilt video hosting, and a chat function to facilitate live course delivery. In March 2022, TagMango expanded its offerings by introducing an NFT marketplace, allowing creators to mint and sell their own NFTs. Additionally, the platform connects users with celebrities and influencers, enabling them to create personalized courses and video messages that can enhance learning experiences in social media marketing and other subjects.

Pabio

Seed Round in 2021
Pabio is a rent-to-own furniture company that offers personalized interior design services. The company was founded in 2020 and has its headquarters in Weihergasse, Bern.

Anakin

Seed Round in 2021
Anakin specializes in competitive intelligence software tailored for retailers and brands, focusing on e-commerce. The company offers global coverage of real-time product assortments and pricing data from over 100 million stock-keeping units (SKUs) across various e-commerce platforms. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Anakin automates the tracking and categorization of competitors' offerings, allowing clients to efficiently gather and analyze web data. This capability aids retailers and brands in understanding their competition's strategies, ultimately enhancing their decision-making processes in the market.

Enable Us

Seed Round in 2021
Enable Us is a business software developer that offers a comprehensive platform designed for B2B sales, marketing, and customer-facing teams. The platform serves as a centralized workspace where teams can efficiently capture, organize, and deliver a variety of content, including product demos, sales decks, customer references, and onboarding materials. By providing tools to create personalized deal rooms with targeted content and streamlined workflows, Enable Us enhances the buying and onboarding experience for prospective customers. The platform allows for asynchronous communication with prospects and stakeholders, enabling businesses to engage effectively and drive revenue growth.

Inversion

Seed Round in 2021
Inversion Space is a privately held company focused on transforming the utilization of space through the development of affordable and high-frequency return vehicles. Aimed at both commercial and defense sectors, Inversion's vehicles are designed to facilitate global delivery, resupply missions to space stations, and the return of resources from space. This capability is essential for supporting human activities in low-Earth orbit and beyond, allowing clients to access efficient and cost-effective re-entry solutions.

Deskimo

Seed Round in 2021
Deskimo is a desk booking app that facilitates access to workspace for remote professionals in Singapore and Hong Kong. The platform connects users with a network of vetted workspaces, enabling them to discover suitable locations for work. Deskimo allows users to check in quickly and pay by the minute for their chosen workspace, making it a flexible option for those seeking to work away from distractions. By providing easy access to quality work environments, Deskimo supports businesses in adopting hybrid work models and enhances productivity for mobile workers.

AOA

Seed Round in 2021
AOA Dx is a biotechnology company with a team of entrepreneurs that brings innovative, impactful, and cost-effective medical technologies from research and development into the hands of providers and patients. The company is driven by a mission to bring to market the first accurate early-stage non-invasive ovarian cancer diagnostic test that will improve clinical practice and help reduce patient mortality.

Bite Ninja

Seed Round in 2021
Bite Ninja is a remote hiring technology platform for restaurants.

Encuadrado

Seed Round in 2021
Encuadrado is a company based in Santiago, Chile, established in 2019, that offers a comprehensive platform for appointment scheduling, payments, and invoicing tailored for independent professionals. The platform streamlines the entire scheduling process, allowing users to manage appointments efficiently, accept card payments, and automatically issue tickets. By addressing administrative challenges, Encuadrado enables its clients to enhance their operational efficiency and focus more on their core services.

Planet A Foods

Seed Round in 2021
Planet A Foods is a company focused on producing cocoa-free chocolate made from natural ingredients. By utilizing traditional fermentation methods, the company aims to provide a sustainable alternative to traditional chocolate, allowing consumers to enjoy their chocolate cravings without the negative impacts associated with cocoa production. Planet A Foods emphasizes local food production with minimal environmental impact, striving to reduce carbon emissions and promote sustainable practices in the food industry.

Metaphor

Seed Round in 2021
Metaphor is a language-model-based search engine that simplifies how users carry out web searches.

ContainIQ

Seed Round in 2021
ContainIQ is a Kubernetes native monitoring and tracing platform ContainIQ helps teams to track and observe Kubernetes core metrics, events, and logs. It helps them monitor the health of the cluster with pre-built dashboards and easy-to-set monitors.

Reframe

Seed Round in 2021
Reframe is an app to help people cut back on alcohol use and build healthier habits

Tuli

Seed Round in 2021
Tuli is a London-based MedTech company focused on transforming pharmacies into local health hubs by providing essential healthcare services, such as blood testing, directly within communities. The company has developed a global healthcare platform that enables pharmacies to function as diagnostic centers. Utilizing industry-standard encryption, the platform ensures secure storage, access, and transfer of medical information between healthcare providers and patients. This innovative approach allows individuals to store and access their personal electronic medical records conveniently, enhancing the accessibility of healthcare services in their neighborhoods.

Maroo

Seed Round in 2021
Maroo is a payment platform specifically designed for the wedding and events industry, enabling businesses to manage payments without incurring processing fees. It offers features such as payment acceptance, branded invoice creation, and the ability to make payments to freelancers and suppliers. A key aspect of Maroo's service is its zero fee model, which allows fees to be passed onto clients. The platform has gained the trust of over 9,000 businesses and has facilitated more than $180 million in revenue for event professionals. Additionally, Maroo provides tools for couples to connect their bank accounts, manage invoices, and receive insights and recommendations on their budgets, allowing for a more manageable approach to wedding expenses through options like equal monthly installments.

Promakhos Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2021
Promakhos Therapeutics is building a platform of bacterial molecules to awaken the human body’s innate ability to control inflammation and heal.

Fingo Africa

Seed Round in 2021
Fingo Africa is a fintech startup that offers digital banking services primarily designed for the youth. The company provides a range of services, including current accounts, money transfers, bill payments, and link-based payments. Fingo's platform enables users to conveniently transfer money to friends, family, or businesses and includes features such as saving goals and real-time transactions. Through its innovative approach, Fingo aims to simplify the financial experience for younger users, making banking more accessible and user-friendly.

Latent Studio

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Latent Studio is a web applications that generates professional quality product photographs and enhanced branded imagery for small and medium direct to consumer brands and ecommerce businesses.

Revolve Surgical

Seed Round in 2021
Revolve Surgical is a Toronto-based company founded in 2019 that is developing a unique surgical robot designed for use in a variety of operating environments, including the over one million abdominal surgeries conducted outside of hospitals in the United States. The company's robotic surgery platform employs a hybrid manual-robotic approach that eliminates the need for teleoperation, thereby reducing both the size and cost of traditional surgical robots. By simplifying design and operation, Revolve aims to enhance access to robotic surgery for patients and improve value-based care in the medical field.

Zen

Seed Round in 2021
Zen operates a digital ergonomic platform designed to enhance corporate ergonomic programs. The company focuses on providing ergonomic education and resources to employees, promoting healthy posture and productivity at work. Its offerings include real-time posture correction tools, exercise programs for back and joint care, and various ergonomic-related information. By empowering individuals to maintain better ergonomics, Zen aims to contribute to overall employee well-being and effectiveness in the workplace.

Pry Financials

Seed Round in 2021
Pry Financials is a financial planning platform that offers small businesses an alternative to traditional spreadsheets. The platform integrates various financial tools to provide real-time insights into budget versus actual performance. Pry's software enables users to manage their hiring plans, project cash flows, and model different financial scenarios within a user-friendly visual environment. This functionality allows businesses to efficiently track their budgets, optimize financial models, and monitor cash runway, facilitating better decision-making and financial management.

Talus Bio

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Talus Bio is a biotech startup focused on drug discovery, particularly in the development of therapies targeting gene regulators for cancer treatment. The company utilizes a data-enabled platform that combines functional proteomics, automated biology, and machine learning to address the challenges associated with cancer transcription factors. Its proprietary MARMOT platform employs advanced techniques such as AI, quantitative proteomics, synthetic chemistry, and computational biology to design and analyze small-molecule drugs and proteins. This innovative approach aims to enhance drug development processes in the oncology sector, facilitating advancements in gene regulation and contributing to more effective cancer therapies.

Govly

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Govly is a software platform focused on enhancing the government contracting process by connecting Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Value-Added Resellers (VARs), and prime contract holders within a unified network. The platform provides access to real-time opportunities from non-public contract feeds and offers a comprehensive suite of tools to facilitate the bidding process from discovery to award. Govly enables businesses to efficiently monitor and analyze the federal procurement landscape, helping them to identify and pursue the most promising opportunities. By centralizing government contracts and automating various aspects of the bidding process, Govly aims to streamline collaboration among organizations, enhance communication through notifications and updates, and ultimately increase the likelihood of winning government contracts.

Aviron

Seed Round in 2021
Aviron Interactive is a fitness company that specializes in innovative rowing machines designed for home use. Their rowers incorporate gamification features, allowing users to engage in short, high-intensity workouts that combine cardio and strength training. With smart resistance settings and various workout programs curated by experienced trainers, Aviron provides a diverse range of options to keep users motivated and engaged. The company's focus on delivering an interactive fitness experience differentiates it from traditional workout regimes, making fitness more accessible and enjoyable for clients.

Axle Health

Seed Round in 2021
Axle Health is a provider of scheduling and workforce management software tailored for home health care providers. Its platform features a mobile app for clinicians, an operations dashboard for office teams, and proprietary logistics algorithms designed to optimize scheduling. Additionally, Axle offers a patient engagement and booking solution, all of which can be customized and accessed modularly through an API. The platform is compatible with various electronic medical records systems, facilitating seamless integration. By leveraging Axle's software, major home health care providers can enhance the efficiency of their clinical teams while automating the complexities of scheduling and dispatching. The company also supports in-home health services, including telehealth, enabling patients to access treatments more swiftly and effectively.

Khabri

Seed Round in 2021
Khabri is a digital audio platform for content in vernacular. Ita app allows content creators to create channels and programmes that reach vernacular listeners. Aankit Roy, Pulkit Sharma, and Sandeep Singh launched the company in Haryana, Haryana in 2016.

Grain

Seed Round in 2021
Grain Technology, Inc. is a financial technology company founded in 2017 and based in Oakland, California. It specializes in developing a mobile application that offers an alternative to traditional credit cards by providing a revolving line of credit linked to users' existing debit cards. The platform analyzes income and cash flows to instantly pre-approve users for credit, enabling access to funds without the need for a new credit card. Additionally, Grain allows users to obtain cash advances directly to their bank accounts at no cost. By focusing on responsible credit management, Grain aims to help individuals and businesses secure financing while minimizing the risk of incurring unnecessary debt.

Zingbus

Seed Round in 2021
Zingbus is an emerging provider of intercity bus services in India, focusing on connecting various cities while prioritizing safety and reliability. The company offers an easy ticket booking system based on destination and journey date, ensuring a user-friendly experience. Zingbus emphasizes punctuality with features such as on-time departures and live tracking of buses. Each journey is designed to be comfortable and hassle-free, with modern amenities provided onboard, including clean blankets, water bottles, and hand sanitizers. Overall, Zingbus aims to deliver a safe and enjoyable travel experience for its customers.

Terra API

Seed Round in 2021
Terra API specializes in facilitating the seamless transfer of health data between various applications and devices. The company provides an online application programming interface (API) that enables developers to connect easily with health apps, wearables, sensors, and blood laboratories. By utilizing standard protocols for data exchange, Terra API allows applications to accept requests and return responses in commonly used formats, supporting efficient communication across diverse fitness tracking devices. This integration empowers users to share and access their health and fitness data from multiple sources, enhancing the overall user experience in health management.

Kodo

Seed Round in 2021
Kodo is a fintech startup focused on serving the corporate card and B2B payments needs of small businesses. The company offers credit cards for startups. It can be used for services such as business expenses, money transfers, online/offline purchases, and more. Kodo was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Axle Health

Seed Round in 2021
Axle Health is a provider of scheduling and workforce management software tailored for home health care providers. Its platform features a mobile app for clinicians, an operations dashboard for office teams, and proprietary logistics algorithms designed to optimize scheduling. Additionally, Axle offers a patient engagement and booking solution, all of which can be customized and accessed modularly through an API. The platform is compatible with various electronic medical records systems, facilitating seamless integration. By leveraging Axle's software, major home health care providers can enhance the efficiency of their clinical teams while automating the complexities of scheduling and dispatching. The company also supports in-home health services, including telehealth, enabling patients to access treatments more swiftly and effectively.

PowerX

Seed Round in 2021
PowerX offers an app that provides a unified view of all energy, devices, and water outlets running in any home. PowerX’s patent-pending AI technology saves money by learning the routine, automatically optimizing the water heating and providing solutions to help save money and be more efficient. PowerX helps to identify the individual appliances and water outlets like a garden faucet that are driving up the utility bill each month. The company was founded in 2020 and based in Brooklyn, New York.

Regent

Seed Round in 2021
Regent is a maritime mobility company focused on developing electric flying machines for coastal transportation. The company specializes in designing and manufacturing seagliders, which are wing-in-ground-effect crafts that operate a few meters above the water's surface. These innovative vehicles combine the high speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat, enabling them to travel at speeds of up to 180 mph (290 km/h) over suitable ranges for regional trips. Regent's seagliders aim to replace traditional ferries and short-haul aircraft on coastal routes, providing fast, safe, and cost-effective transportation solutions that connect coastal cities and islands. By revolutionizing regional transportation, Regent seeks to enhance connectivity among coastal communities while promoting sustainable travel options.

Foster

Seed Round in 2021
Foster is a developer of an online social network platform tailored for writers and editors. The platform facilitates a collaborative writing workflow, allowing professional writers to submit drafts for review and receive constructive feedback from qualified peers and professional editors. By integrating this feedback, writers can improve the quality of their work while contributing to the community's knowledge base. The platform not only enhances individual writing but also fosters engagement among users, enabling them to form professional relationships and deepen their expertise in various subjects. Through this community-driven approach, Foster aims to elevate the standards of writing and editing across its user base.

Zoko

Seed Round in 2021
Zoko is a messaging platform that facilitates business operations through chat applications like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. It enables companies to send notifications, conduct marketing, and engage in conversational commerce, enhancing customer interactions. The platform offers a dashboard that allows businesses to manage customer experiences effectively, guiding prospects towards making purchases. By leveraging social media as a sales channel, Zoko helps companies personalize their communications at scale, enabling real-time engagement and conversion. Additionally, the platform aids in qualifying for the verified green tick mark, streamlining sales, marketing, and customer support processes.

Cheqout

Seed Round in 2021
Cheqout is a mobile point-of-sale (POS) platform designed for brick-and-mortar businesses, enabling waiters and retail workers to efficiently manage orders and payments. Founded in 2020 by David Rincon-Cruz, Jamie Sunderland, and Tom Sharon, the platform allows customers to place orders directly from their own devices by scanning QR codes, which facilitates a seamless transaction experience. Cheqout collects orders into single tickets from the same table, preventing overwhelming the kitchen with multiple tickets. Additionally, it offers features that allow guests to browse menus, find their bills by resuming the QR code scan, and split their bills in various ways. This innovative approach streamlines the ordering process and enhances customer convenience.

Kodo

Seed Round in 2021
Kodo is a fintech startup focused on serving the corporate card and B2B payments needs of small businesses. The company offers credit cards for startups. It can be used for services such as business expenses, money transfers, online/offline purchases, and more. Kodo was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

GreaseBoss

Seed Round in 2021
GreaseBoss provides a lubrication management system that assists machinery owners in ensuring their equipment is adequately maintained. The company's hardware and software products enable real-time verification of greasing, guiding operators to the specific grease points that require attention. By facilitating this process, GreaseBoss helps prevent equipment failure and lowers maintenance costs, ultimately enhancing the efficiency and longevity of heavy machinery.

Forcyte Biotechnologies

Seed Round in 2021
Forcyte Biotechnologies, Inc. was formed to leverage FLECS Technology (originally developed in the Di Carlo Lab @ UCLA) to provide drug-makers and researchers direct access to cellular force generation at the single-cell level – a cellular behavior that was previously inaccessible in an automated way.Forcyte Biotechnologies provide a fundamentally new class of cell-based assays that functionally evaluate single-cell contractility, integrated into standard multi-wellplate vessels – available both as end-to-end services, and as consumables.

Athens Research

Seed Round in 2021
Open-Source Roam Research. A private, extensible, and community-driven knowledge graph.

seer

Seed Round in 2021
Seer is a SaaS-based platform designed for luxury retailers to enhance the sales experience for both associates and customers. The platform enables sales associates to effectively connect with clients by providing access to relevant inventory, thereby facilitating more meaningful interactions. By utilizing email and SMS, Seer allows retail salespeople to create and distribute personalized shoppable lookbooks, which can drive sales and attract new customers. This approach not only helps sales associates meet and exceed their sales goals but also fosters stronger customer engagement in the luxury retail sector.

Future Fields

Seed Round in 2021
Future Fields is a company focused on sustainable production through insect biotechnology, specifically utilizing its EntoEngine™ platform, which leverages the genetic capabilities of fruit flies to generate environmentally friendly biomolecules. Founded in 2018 and based in Edmonton, Canada, Future Fields specializes in developing insect-based recombinant proteins that serve as growth components essential for cell culture. By prioritizing sustainability, the company aims to reduce the environmental impact of protein production while enhancing the economic feasibility of cell-based foods in the agriculture industry. Future Fields is supported by notable venture capital firms and investors from Silicon Valley and beyond.

Zingbus

Seed Round in 2021
Zingbus is an emerging provider of intercity bus services in India, focusing on connecting various cities while prioritizing safety and reliability. The company offers an easy ticket booking system based on destination and journey date, ensuring a user-friendly experience. Zingbus emphasizes punctuality with features such as on-time departures and live tracking of buses. Each journey is designed to be comfortable and hassle-free, with modern amenities provided onboard, including clean blankets, water bottles, and hand sanitizers. Overall, Zingbus aims to deliver a safe and enjoyable travel experience for its customers.

Terra API

Seed Round in 2021
Terra API specializes in facilitating the seamless transfer of health data between various applications and devices. The company provides an online application programming interface (API) that enables developers to connect easily with health apps, wearables, sensors, and blood laboratories. By utilizing standard protocols for data exchange, Terra API allows applications to accept requests and return responses in commonly used formats, supporting efficient communication across diverse fitness tracking devices. This integration empowers users to share and access their health and fitness data from multiple sources, enhancing the overall user experience in health management.

Stacker

Seed Round in 2021
Stacker is a no-code software creation platform established in 2017 and headquartered in London, England. The company provides a modular application platform that enables developers to create software without needing coding skills. Its offerings include tools for application development using intuitive spreadsheets, animated slide decks, and email filters, which facilitate the automation of common tasks through custom buttons. This approach allows developers to build their own software from the ground up, making the development process more accessible and efficient.

TagMango

Seed Round in 2020
TagMango is a software-as-a-service (SAAS) platform that empowers content creators to establish their own online stores for hosting cohort-based courses and selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Launched in February 2021, the platform offers features such as a landing page builder, payment processing, inbuilt video hosting, and a chat function to facilitate live course delivery. In March 2022, TagMango expanded its offerings by introducing an NFT marketplace, allowing creators to mint and sell their own NFTs. Additionally, the platform connects users with celebrities and influencers, enabling them to create personalized courses and video messages that can enhance learning experiences in social media marketing and other subjects.

Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals

Seed Round in 2020
Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a preclinical biotechnology company based in New York that specializes in developing novel psychotropic drugs aimed at treating mental illnesses. Established in 2019, the company focuses on creating innovative compounds that enhance the therapeutic benefits of classic psychedelics while improving safety, tolerability, duration, and efficacy. Gilgamesh addresses the growing global mental health crisis by providing treatments for various neuropsychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, substance use disorders, and stress-related issues. Through a combination of medicinal chemistry and drug development expertise, the company aims to accelerate the availability of effective therapies, ultimately improving the quality of life for individuals suffering from central nervous system disorders.

Indee Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Indee Labs specializes in developing innovative hardware for gene delivery, focusing on a non-viral intracellular delivery system. This technology facilitates the efficient development and scalable manufacture of gene-modified cell therapies, including chimeric antigen receptor T cells. By employing microfluidic vortex shedding, the system enables the gentle delivery of constructs such as nucleic acids, proteins, and gene-editing complexes to a variety of cell types, ensuring maximum recovery of viable, modified cells with minimal disruption. Indee Labs collaborates with the Australian National Fabrication Facility and has established its presence with offices in Sydney and lab space at Bonneville Labs in Berkeley. The company is recognized for its contributions to the field, having affiliations with NSW Health, IndieBio, Y Combinator, and MBC Biolabs.

WareIQ

Seed Round in 2020
WareIQ is a supply chain management service focused on delivering eCommerce fulfillment solutions in India. The company provides a technology-driven platform that connects a nationwide network of fulfillment centers and last-mile couriers, enabling next-day delivery akin to Amazon's logistics. WareIQ integrates various aspects of the supply chain, including warehousing, inventory and order management, shipping, and returns management. This comprehensive approach allows eCommerce businesses to efficiently track and manage their inventory, orders, and shipments, ultimately enhancing their operational effectiveness.

Dapi

Seed Round in 2020
Dapi Ltd is a fintech company that specializes in developing an application programming interface (API) designed to facilitate payments between consumer bank accounts and businesses. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Dapi offers a suite of open banking APIs that enable real-time connections to customer bank accounts, initiate payments, and access financial data. This functionality empowers developers to create various financial applications, such as digital wallets, budget trackers, and investment tools. Dapi's services have gained traction across multiple countries, including operations in the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, South Africa, and Kuwait. The company has experienced significant growth, achieving $400,000 in annual recurring revenue and a monthly growth rate exceeding 50%.

CarbonChain

Seed Round in 2020
CarbonChain offers a carbon accounting platform designed to assist organizations in monitoring and managing their greenhouse gas emissions throughout their supply chains. The platform is particularly focused on high-emission sectors such as metals, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing. By identifying emissions associated with various transactions, CarbonChain enables businesses to make informed decisions that mitigate their climate impact and adapt to evolving carbon pricing. This capability not only helps companies protect their supply chains but also promotes a transition toward a net-zero economy by highlighting the immediate benefits of sustainable practices.

Toolbox

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Our mission at Toolbox is to help construction, maintenance and repair contractors thrive by providing them with a simple, yet powerful financial operating system to grow their business. Today, contractors can access our best-in-class and construction-focused corporate charge card to facilitate mission-critical payments, including materials and equipment purchases. Contractors also get access to an app to manage their finances, make payments, issue new cards for themselves and their team members, and organize expenses based on current and completed projects. Toolbox is backed by reputable investors, including Y Combinator, [1984.vc](http://1984.vc/), Kickstart Seed Fund, J Ventures, FJ Labs, and Liquid2Ventures.

Intelline

Seed Round in 2020
Intelline offers the dependable and safe power production you expect from diesel engines, in a revolutionary new package. Intelline has designed a diesel generator that they claim has 40 percent better fuel efficiency, which translates to enormous savings at scale; Mining operations, they note, could save millions per year with better diesel generators.

WareIQ

Seed Round in 2020
WareIQ is a supply chain management service focused on delivering eCommerce fulfillment solutions in India. The company provides a technology-driven platform that connects a nationwide network of fulfillment centers and last-mile couriers, enabling next-day delivery akin to Amazon's logistics. WareIQ integrates various aspects of the supply chain, including warehousing, inventory and order management, shipping, and returns management. This comprehensive approach allows eCommerce businesses to efficiently track and manage their inventory, orders, and shipments, ultimately enhancing their operational effectiveness.

CarbonChain

Seed Round in 2020
CarbonChain offers a carbon accounting platform designed to assist organizations in monitoring and managing their greenhouse gas emissions throughout their supply chains. The platform is particularly focused on high-emission sectors such as metals, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing. By identifying emissions associated with various transactions, CarbonChain enables businesses to make informed decisions that mitigate their climate impact and adapt to evolving carbon pricing. This capability not only helps companies protect their supply chains but also promotes a transition toward a net-zero economy by highlighting the immediate benefits of sustainable practices.

Future Fields

Seed Round in 2020
Future Fields is a company focused on sustainable production through insect biotechnology, specifically utilizing its EntoEngine™ platform, which leverages the genetic capabilities of fruit flies to generate environmentally friendly biomolecules. Founded in 2018 and based in Edmonton, Canada, Future Fields specializes in developing insect-based recombinant proteins that serve as growth components essential for cell culture. By prioritizing sustainability, the company aims to reduce the environmental impact of protein production while enhancing the economic feasibility of cell-based foods in the agriculture industry. Future Fields is supported by notable venture capital firms and investors from Silicon Valley and beyond.

Rally Video

Seed Round in 2020
Rally Video is a social media video network that is constantly evolving. It enables users to quickly switch between communities when watching and hearing what's going on around them, as if they were in a public room. Founded by Ali Jiwani, Anson Kao, and Amy Liu in the year 2020.

Kingdom Supercultures

Seed Round in 2020
Kingdom Supercultures specializes in the development and production of microbial cultures that assist food manufacturers in creating innovative food products. Founded in 2019 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the company offers Koji, a traditional Japanese ingredient used in various fermented foods and beverages. Their technology utilizes an extensive biobank of Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) microbial strains and employs automated systems to characterize and assemble these strains into new combinations. This enables the production of plant-based foods that replicate dairy flavors, low-alcohol beverages with rich taste, and effective natural preservatives. Kingdom Supercultures collaborates with clients across multiple sectors, including food, beverage, personal care, and beauty, focusing on enhancing the health and sustainability of food offerings.

Orange Health Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Orange Health Labs is a health tech startup focused on providing diagnostic lab services that enable doctors to deliver care remotely. The company aims to enhance patient convenience by allowing individuals to receive home sample collection and access to test results without the need for clinic visits. By adopting a patient-centric approach, Orange Health helps reduce wait times for test results and facilitates efficient testing for blood tests, checkups, and pathology services. This innovative model supports the vision of making healthcare more accessible and seamless for consumers in their homes.

Bactobio

Seed Round in 2020
Bactobio operates a microbial discovery platform focused on identifying and characterizing novel microbes for applications in healthcare, agriculture, and industrial sectors. By leveraging advanced technologies in synthetic biology, next-generation sequencing, and machine learning, the company aims to address the antibiotic resistance crisis by discovering new classes of antibiotics that target urgent bacterial pathogens. Bactobio's platform is distinguished by its capability to access and analyze a vast array of non-culturable microbes, presenting significant opportunities for innovative product development. This approach enables researchers to develop not only novel antibiotics for disease treatment but also fungicides to enhance crop protection.

DeepSource

Seed Round in 2020
DeepSource is a modern static analysis platform that continuously analyzes code for security vulnerabilities, performance issues, bug risks, and anti-patterns, and helps developers discover and automatically fix these issues in code before shipping to production.

Tajir

Seed Round in 2020
Tajir is an online platform based in Lahore, Pakistan, that facilitates inventory procurement for mom-and-pop stores through a mobile application. Founded in 2018, the company addresses the challenges faced by store owners by providing full price transparency on various products. Tajir's marketplace enables retailers to buy and sell a wide range of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), including soft drinks, biscuits, shampoos, and food staples like rice and wheat. In addition to inventory procurement, Tajir offers logistics and information tools, aiming to simplify the retail economy for its clients. The company is led by the Khan brothers, whose family has a long history in the FMCG retail distribution sector.
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