Plug and Play

Plug and Play, founded in 2006 and based in Sunnyvale, California, operates as a business accelerator and venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage and seed investments in technology startups. The firm runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs annually, connecting startups with corporate partners and investors to foster collaboration and growth. Plug and Play's investment strategy encompasses a wide range of sectors, including fintech, health and wellness, travel, cybersecurity, and sustainability, allowing it to support diverse startups from any country. The firm provides various resources, including funding, mentorship, office space, and networking opportunities, and has a global presence with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Plug and Play has a strong track record, having helped numerous startups secure over $9 billion in funding since its inception. Its programs aim to refine business models and facilitate introductions to potential investors, ultimately contributing to the growth of the startup ecosystem.

Saeed Amidi

Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer

Kiswana Browne

Associate

Nick Daley

Associate

Gabriela Dow

Co-Founder and Partner

Matt Helmers

Director of Strategy and Innovation

Alex Roudi

Managing Partner, San Diego

Marc Steiner

General Counsel

Jupe Tan

Managing Partner, Asia Pacific & Senior Vice President, Global Operations

Andy Toth

Investment Director

Phillip Vincent

Managing Partner, East Asia

Fan Wen

Associate

Chen Zhao

Managing Partner, China

Past deals in US East Coast

Neura Health

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

Octane11

Seed Round in 2022
Octane11 is a B2B-focused marketing solutions provider that helps businesses drive measurable impact at scale. Octane11’s suite of workflow tools, data products and intuitive analytics, make it easy for B2B marketers to coordinate “paid, owned and earned” tactics and deliver real world results. The company was incubated by digital advertising leader MediaMath and MathCapital, and officially launched in Q4 2019 in partnership with Oracle, LiveRamp, Intersection, Bombora and EverString. For more information and updates, visit www.octane11.com and follow us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/octane11.

Reco

Series A in 2022
Reco is a cloud collaboration tool that allows secure collaboration at the speed of business. It uses business context to protect sensitive assets shared via Slack, Jira, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and other platforms. The company develops tools that help organizations secure sensitive assets by mapping and monitoring contextual metadata. Reco monitors data sharing within and outside of an organization to detect potential problems.

Lucky

Seed Round in 2022
Location-Based Marketing Platform that allows brands/retail stores to engage with people via transportation apps.

Vector ML Analytics

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Vector ML is a financial analytics tool used by executives and analysts at banks and lending institutions to increase return, lower risk, and manage liquidity. It combines treasury, credit risk, FP&A, and capital market features in a single application using AI and automation, allowing for a 360-degree view of the balance sheet. Visit us at www.vectormla.com

Instant Teams

Series A in 2022
The future of work is remote and we’re creating the #1 Platform for remote workforces of untapped talent pools. Our software enables companies to create remote teams of agile, marketing and administrative talent while providing a management platform for payroll, compliance, time tracking and reporting. Our unique advantage is bringing untapped talent pools to companies to grow their distributed teams. We have a unique positioning with the military community and partnerships with the DOD to place talented professionals with transient lifestyles.

QRfertile LLC

Seed Round in 2022
QRfertile LLC is a company based in Farmington, Connecticut, specializing in male fertility solutions. Incorporated in 2018, it develops and manufactures an at-home fertility test kit for men, enabling them to assess their reproductive health conveniently. In addition to the test kit, QRfertile provides a digital platform that connects users with healthcare professionals, offering guidance and support throughout their fertility journey. The company's mission is to make male reproductive health accessible and comprehensive, addressing an often-overlooked aspect of healthcare.

Alaffia Health

Seed Round in 2022
Alaffia Technology Solutions, Inc. operates a SaaS platform for medical providers, payers, and auditors. It automates medical claim audits; helps medical providers to reduce billing errors; and lets auditors instantly to detect improper payments. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

Stere.io

Seed Round in 2021
Stere is a one-stop shop for businesses to find capacity and access digital tools to launch, improve, and grow insurance programs. It aims to empower businesses to launch and grow insurance programs with a full-stack infrastructure, by providing the right services and tools such as digital platforms, data analytics, a network of capacity providers, innovative tech, and more. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Dover, Delaware.

Blacktag

Seed Round in 2021
Blacktag is a global platform for interactive content by Black creators.

Agency

Convertible Note in 2021
Agency provides enterprise-level cybersecurity for individuals and growing businesses. Agency is located in New York.

Upsurance

Convertible Note in 2021
Upsurance operates a mid-market commercial insurance platform that enhances the speed and efficiency of insurance transactions. By utilizing a risk matching algorithm, the platform connects insurers with retail brokers, facilitating a streamlined process for browsing marketplace offerings and completing transactions. Upsurance's technology ensures a secure, auditable trail for all interactions, significantly improving the return on investment for insurers and providing brokers with unparalleled access to commercial insurance solutions.

Stere.io

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Stere is a one-stop shop for businesses to find capacity and access digital tools to launch, improve, and grow insurance programs. It aims to empower businesses to launch and grow insurance programs with a full-stack infrastructure, by providing the right services and tools such as digital platforms, data analytics, a network of capacity providers, innovative tech, and more. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Dover, Delaware.

Cruisebound

Convertible Note in 2021
Cruisebound is a travel agency on a mission to make the joy of cruising available to the masses by simplifying the booking experience.

Bankuish

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bankuish is a technology platform where gig workers and freelancers leverage their work history data to demonstrate their creditworthiness. Users gain access to a marketplace of preapproved offers from national banks tailored to their unique profile as well as tools to grow their credit score. The company helps banks gain new customers, manage risk, and improve customer relationships. The Bankuish Score has been used to de-risk thousands of individuals while maintaining a default rate well below the industry standard. Bankuish was established in 2020 with its headquarters in New York City and Mexico City.

BokDoc

Convertible Note in 2021
BokDoc is one of the leading companies aims to improve the healthcare system. Our digital platform allows users to book their appointments with doctors, in hospitals, and with any registered healthcare service provider, and get reminders for upcoming appointments. BokDoc additionally provide more than appointment, Bokdoc also provides online consultations that save time and effort for patients and doctors, booking surgeries and medical tourism for native patients. As our vision is to improve healthcare industry, our platforms gives the users the most simple and smoothest experience that patients need and deserve either the mobile app or website. Bokdoc will help patients to have the best healthcare services that they already deserve.

Denim

Series A in 2021
Axle Payments specializes in providing financial solutions to the freight industry, focusing on small freight brokers and their carriers. Founded in 2016 by Shawn Vo and Bharath Krishnamoorthy, the company is headquartered in New York. Axle Payments offers non-recourse factoring and payment processing services, which help brokers and carriers access the working capital they need to operate effectively. In addition to factoring, the company provides integrated payment solutions, collections, and financing options that enhance the efficiency and transparency of financial transactions within the logistics sector. Axle Payments aims to support the sustainability of the global logistics industry through its innovative financial services.

CrowdPass

Convertible Note in 2021
CrowdPass is a SaaS-based, event technology platform focused on enhancing experiences, efficiencies through our core of access, cashless, data, health, registrations, socials, & more.

Surround Insurance

Seed Round in 2021
Surround designs customer-centric insurance products for modern lifestyles. The company’s first offering is a subscription starter pack of insurance coverages for young, urban professionals who rent, share, borrow, and freelance.

Curex

Convertible Note in 2021
Curex is a telehealth platform that provides immunotherapy, custom treatments, allergy testing, and asthma care services.

Carverr, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2021
Carverr, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2018. The company specializes in developing technology to enhance product authenticity and safety through innovative solutions. Its flagship offering, ABIOGEN, utilizes programmable molecules that can be integrated into various forms, such as liquids and solids, to authenticate organic and non-organic food ingredients, agrochemicals, and consumer goods. Additionally, Carverr provides CERBERUS, a solution that transforms labels into authentication tools designed to combat counterfeiting and safeguard product quality and brand identity. The CERBERUS labels incorporate multiple security layers that can be verified by various stakeholders, ensuring the authenticity of the product. Through its advancements, Carverr aims to improve supply chain integrity and support sustainable practices within the agricultural and food sectors.

Hyfe

Convertible Note in 2021
Hyfe is a Cough Detection Algorithm that runs on a smartphone and tracks coughs. Using machine learning algorithms trained on millions of labeled sounds, it can detect coughs from ambient sound and track them over space and time. The end goal is to improve it to the point where it can distinguish between different types of coughs and become a powerful diagnostic tool.

CoverUS

Convertible Note in 2020
CoverUS Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Brooklyn, New York, develops an application that empowers users to take control of their health data while facilitating engagement with the healthcare industry. The company provides mobile health payment solutions aimed at making healthcare more affordable for Americans. Its platform intelligently matches users with personalized deals on prescriptions, procedures, and health products, helping them save on medical expenses. Additionally, CoverUS offers an online marketplace where patients can earn money by participating in healthcare research surveys, all while ensuring their privacy is protected.

Quo Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Nillify employs powerful data analytics to allow users to build a financial backup plan with just their data.

Mira

Seed Round in 2020
Mira helps self-employed professionals, small businesses, and unions access affordable everyday healthcare at only $25/mo. Mira has a network of 125 partner clinics and over 1000+ lab centers in the U.S. Mira was named Accenture's 1 of 11 innovation finalists in 2020.

Aniline

Venture Round in 2020
Aniline is a data analytics platform, enabling distribution of Group Insurance Products. Using advanced analytics and AI the company provides a detailed breakdown of employee populations by demographic, geographic, tenure, compensation and other relevant categories. All without soliciting any employer information. It also provide detailed employee sentiment on benefits and compensation policy and delivery.

Owkin

Series A in 2020
Owkin is an artificial intelligence company founded in 2016, with headquarters in New York and an additional office in Paris. The company focuses on developing machine learning software for medical research, enabling researchers to test AI models on distributed data. Owkin's offerings include Owkin Lab, which facilitates data connectivity by therapeutic area; Owkin Loop, which provides validated and packaged models; and a comprehensive software stack for full-stack services. The company currently has 30 live models and an additional 40 in development. Owkin aims to empower medical researchers in hospitals, universities, and pharmaceutical companies to better understand variations in drug efficacy among patients, enhance the drug development process, and identify optimal treatments for individual patients, ultimately improving treatment outcomes. The company is supported by various investors and has a scientific board to guide its research initiatives.

Gatsby

Seed Round in 2020
Gatsby Digital, Inc. develops a commission-free stock options trading platform. It offers Gatsby to trade for or against companies and ETFs. The company’s Gatsby allows users to earn rewards points with every trade and redeem rewards for gift cards at various retailers. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York. Gatsby Digital, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ViewTrade Securities Inc.

RxAll

Seed Round in 2020
RxAll, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence pharmacy platform for pharma authentication, distribution, and primary care through which patients and pharmacies in Africa order authenticated medicines and receive tele-pharma primary care. Its platform uses a molecular sensor device and a cloud database of spectral signatures of medicines to carry out non-destructive product authentication before pharmacy order fulfillment. The company uses artificial intelligence and deep learning algorithms to identify drug counterfeits and provide real time information to pharmaceutical companies. RxAll, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Denim

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Axle Payments specializes in providing financial solutions to the freight industry, focusing on small freight brokers and their carriers. Founded in 2016 by Shawn Vo and Bharath Krishnamoorthy, the company is headquartered in New York. Axle Payments offers non-recourse factoring and payment processing services, which help brokers and carriers access the working capital they need to operate effectively. In addition to factoring, the company provides integrated payment solutions, collections, and financing options that enhance the efficiency and transparency of financial transactions within the logistics sector. Axle Payments aims to support the sustainability of the global logistics industry through its innovative financial services.

Lazarus

Convertible Note in 2020
Lazarus Enterprises Inc. is a company that develops and operates a clinical decision support platform aimed at improving cancer detection. Founded in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lazarus utilizes patient health data and artificial intelligence to enhance diagnostic accuracy for skin and cervical cancers. The platform provides automatic analysis of medical images and delivers instant results, ensuring seamless integration with electronic health records. By supporting healthcare professionals in early cancer detection, Lazarus aims to contribute to better patient outcomes and more effective treatment strategies.

Everyday Life

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Everyday Life Insurance uses technology to redefine financial security for middle income families. Its first product, Predictive Protection, saves consumers money by automatically adjusting coverage based on predictable life events like kids growing up or retirement. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Babylon Micro-Farms

Seed Round in 2020
Babylon Micro-Farms Inc. is a company based in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded in 2017, that specializes in indoor farming solutions for leafy greens, herbs, microgreens, and edible flowers. The company provides a smart, scalable indoor farm system designed to meet the unique needs of its clients. By leveraging remote management technology, Babylon is creating a comprehensive indoor farming platform aimed at establishing a distributed network of micro-farms across North America. The founders, Alexander Olesen and Graham Smith, initially developed a low-cost micro-farm while studying at the University of Virginia, with the goal of providing nutritious produce to food-insecure populations. Their vision focuses on making sustainable hydroponic farming accessible and efficient, automating the complexities of indoor agriculture to benefit a broader audience.

Caresyntax

Venture Round in 2019
Caresyntax Inc. develops a technology platform specializing in surgical analytics to enhance safety and efficiency in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. The company offers solutions designed to identify and manage risks, automate workflows, and reduce variability in surgical procedures. Its flagship products include qvident, a performance management software that enables surgical teams to create and share surgical content, and PRIME365, an integration platform that consolidates key surgical data from various sources such as video, audio, patient vitals, and procedural timestamps. Caresyntax's offerings support a range of surgical procedures, from minimally invasive to robotic surgeries, and can be deployed as HIPAA-compliant software through on-premise, cloud-based, or hybrid installations. Established in 1991, Caresyntax is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Buddy

Seed Round in 2019
Buddy Technology, Inc. provides insurance brokerage services. It offers health and accidental insurance plans to customers who are involved in risky outdoor activities. The company also operates an online platform to provide the insurance plans and interact with customers. Buddy Technology, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Richmond, Virginia.

BigID

Series C in 2019
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

Esusu

Seed Round in 2019
Esusu is a financial technology platform focused on empowering tenants and enhancing property performance through innovative data solutions. Its rent reporting platform captures rental payment data and reports it to credit bureaus, enabling tenants to build their credit scores. This service benefits property owners by attracting tenants, reducing turnover, improving collections, and ultimately increasing revenue. Esusu operates across the United States, covering over 500,000 rental units in 35 states. By connecting tenant financial health with property management, Esusu aims to create a more equitable and sustainable rental ecosystem.

Esusu

Seed Round in 2019
Esusu is a financial technology platform focused on empowering tenants and enhancing property performance through innovative data solutions. Its rent reporting platform captures rental payment data and reports it to credit bureaus, enabling tenants to build their credit scores. This service benefits property owners by attracting tenants, reducing turnover, improving collections, and ultimately increasing revenue. Esusu operates across the United States, covering over 500,000 rental units in 35 states. By connecting tenant financial health with property management, Esusu aims to create a more equitable and sustainable rental ecosystem.

Concertio

Seed Round in 2019
Concertio Inc. specializes in artificial intelligence-driven system performance optimization software, enabling enterprises to enhance computing efficiency while minimizing infrastructure costs. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company offers the Concertio Optimizer, which continuously monitors the interactions between applications and systems, automating parameter tuning throughout development and deployment. Its tools, including Optimizer Studio and Optimizer Runtime, cater to performance engineers and IT professionals by providing an optimization toolkit and a dynamic optimization framework that improve the performance of systems and components in real-time. Concertio's solutions are utilized by prominent industry players such as Intel and Marvell, transforming general-purpose systems into specialized, high-performance configurations tailored to specific workloads.

Gatsby

Seed Round in 2019
Gatsby Digital, Inc. develops a commission-free stock options trading platform. It offers Gatsby to trade for or against companies and ETFs. The company’s Gatsby allows users to earn rewards points with every trade and redeem rewards for gift cards at various retailers. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York. Gatsby Digital, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ViewTrade Securities Inc.

Neuralys

Venture Round in 2019
Neuralys is a cybersecurity platform that allows businesses to overcome security issues faster and easier than ever before. We simplify the risk mitigation process by providing enterprises transparency, accountability, and governance to improve collaboration between security teams and business units, leveraging on existing tools, making them better, and drastically reducing risk mitigation times.

EvolutionIQ

Seed Round in 2019
DeepFraud Technologies Inc., doing business as EvolutionIQ, operates a predictive analytics platform for general liability, workers compensation, and group disability insurance businesses. It offers EvolutionIQ that applies AI and data collection to claims analytics for time series analytics, individualized medical processing and variation, and claim notes and natural language processing. The company’s EvolutionIQ also provides intelligent fraud and malingering detection, and predictive claim processing. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Caresyntax

Series A in 2019
Caresyntax Inc. develops a technology platform specializing in surgical analytics to enhance safety and efficiency in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. The company offers solutions designed to identify and manage risks, automate workflows, and reduce variability in surgical procedures. Its flagship products include qvident, a performance management software that enables surgical teams to create and share surgical content, and PRIME365, an integration platform that consolidates key surgical data from various sources such as video, audio, patient vitals, and procedural timestamps. Caresyntax's offerings support a range of surgical procedures, from minimally invasive to robotic surgeries, and can be deployed as HIPAA-compliant software through on-premise, cloud-based, or hybrid installations. Established in 1991, Caresyntax is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Southie Autonomy

Convertible Note in 2019
Southie Autonomy develops a robot software that enables any industrial robot to be re-purposed and re-deployed by any person even without robotics expertise or even computer skills. It aims to help businesses recoup ROI faster by lowering time, cost, and skill barriers, in applications like kitting, palletizing, and simple assembly. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Woveon

Convertible Note in 2019
Woveon is an enterprise conversation management software. By prioritizing customer inquiries with artificial intelligence and automating aspects such as complaint investigation and analysis, Woveon enables companies to strategically interact with customers and engage in effective courses of response. The technology pulls in conversations from any number of customer touchpoints like social, sms and livechat, and integrates with existing customer data systems such as CRMs, sales, marketing and legacy systems. The combined conversational, transactional and behavioral data is used to produce suggested responses and workflows to help resolve customer issues in real time. Through integrated channels and customer systems, businesses using Woveon are able to provide unique tailored experiences, allowing them to orchestrate seamless journeys through conversation
BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers can click and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come. Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.

ACADEME

Convertible Note in 2019
The AcadeMe is the next generation professional education platform for women on the rise. Through master classes taught by successful female executives, women gain the skills, resources, and community support to advance in the workplace.

Lula

Convertible Note in 2019
Lula operates a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects vehicle owners with individuals seeking to rent those vehicles. It allows vehicle owners to list their vehicles for rent and facilitates direct communication and transactions between owners and renters. Lula does not own or manage the vehicles and does not engage in the contracts formed between owners and renters. Additionally, Lula provides insurance technology solutions tailored for various sectors, including car rental companies and logistics firms. Their offerings include policy management, risk assessment tools, and claims handling services, which help clients streamline their insurance processes and reduce operational costs.

Quo Finance

Convertible Note in 2019
Nillify employs powerful data analytics to allow users to build a financial backup plan with just their data.

finally

Seed Round in 2019
Back Office is a technology-based company that helps small businesses by automating their bookkeeping and accounting. It is a one-stop source for building a strong and vital company back office. Small and medium-sized businesses looking for administrative and operations services, including on-demand experts and back-office personnel turn to them for help succeeding with their businesses each and every day. Back Office.co was founded in 2018 and is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States.

Extend

Series A in 2019
Extend Enterprises, Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a peer-to-peer software as a service platform, allowing users to utilize their credit cards virtually. Established in 2017, Extend specializes in providing digital payment infrastructure that empowers financial institutions to deliver modern card experiences. The company enables banks, businesses, and innovators to leverage virtual card technology through a diverse range of products, including aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card application, and a pioneering card tokenization service.

Surround Insurance

Convertible Note in 2019
Surround designs customer-centric insurance products for modern lifestyles. The company’s first offering is a subscription starter pack of insurance coverages for young, urban professionals who rent, share, borrow, and freelance.

Concrete Sensors

Seed Round in 2019
Embedded sensors analyze data from concrete as it is curing to report the strength of the concrete in real time. Using known methods from ASTM and their library of concrete mixes, all you need is their sensor and a smartphone. With real-time feedback about the curing status of concrete, you will know: - Concrete cured under acceptable conditions - Concrete is not too cold - Concrete is not too hot - When to take the forms down - When to move on with work

Ario

Seed Round in 2019
Ario LLC is an information technology company specializing in augmented reality solutions for web and mobile applications. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, Ario develops tools that enhance training and operational efficiency for frontline workers. Its platform enables organizations to capture and distribute expert knowledge, facilitating improved employee performance and skill development. By leveraging augmented reality, Ario's solutions help businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and the U.S. military, reduce human error, enhance worker confidence, and ultimately save costs while increasing revenue.

Leverage

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Leverage, Inc. is a company that develops and operates an artificial intelligence-based vendor relationship management platform aimed at aiding procurement professionals. The platform provides essential data and information to facilitate supplier engagement and enhance purchasing decisions. Key features of Leverage's offerings include intelligent relationship mapping, automated supplier pages, and compliance monitoring and enforcement. By tracking and managing supplier performance throughout the supply chain, Leverage helps organizations achieve cost savings and drive continuous improvement. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in New York, New York.

Gatsby

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Gatsby Digital, Inc. develops a commission-free stock options trading platform. It offers Gatsby to trade for or against companies and ETFs. The company’s Gatsby allows users to earn rewards points with every trade and redeem rewards for gift cards at various retailers. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York. Gatsby Digital, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ViewTrade Securities Inc.

Nodar

Convertible Note in 2018
Nodar, Inc. specializes in manufacturing advanced sensors for various transportation modes, including cars, trucks, drones, ships, trains, and aircraft. The company offers innovative LiDAR technology and a 3D stereo vision system called Nodar Longbow, which is designed to enhance the capabilities of autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2018 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Nodar aims to provide a cost-effective and high-performance solution for the automotive, marine, and railway industries. Their products, including the Hammerhead system, utilize off-the-shelf cameras to deliver precise depth sensing, targeting applications for level 3 and level 4 autonomous vehicles. This technology supports functions such as collision warning, path planning, and automatic emergency braking, contributing to improved safety and performance in the automotive sector.

Woobo

Seed Round in 2018
Woobo is a technology company developing companion robots for kids. It utilizes cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence technologies and they strive to provide all children with a smart-companion who can talk, amuse, inspire, and grow alongside them.' Woboo also connects to parents via an iOS/Android app that allows parents to send voice messages to their children, set wake up and bedtime routine activities, and get snapshots of their child's development with data like word clouds. Woboo was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Radius8

Seed Round in 2018
Radius8, Inc. is a software company that specializes in enhancing the retail experience by connecting online consumer behavior with local physical stores. Founded in 2014 and based in Princeton, New Jersey, Radius8 offers a localization platform that enables retailers to provide store-centric online experiences tailored to local digital demand. Their software targets nearby customers by ensuring they encounter local content across social networks and online searches, ultimately driving foot traffic to stores. Radius8 can be implemented quickly, typically within 30 days, without necessitating changes to existing technology or store operations. Its solutions aim to improve profitability through increased consumer engagement. The company has established partnerships and serves notable clients such as GUESS, John Varvatos, and Academy Sports + Outdoors, positioning itself as a key player in the evolving retail landscape.

Monir

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Monir is creating an AI-driven optimization layer to digital content. Our vision is to disrupt the publishing and content marketing industries and we are starting with e-commerce. We are developing an e-commerce experience to help online retailers increase sales through tailored content created with AI.

With Clarity

Series A in 2018
With Clarity is the only online, direct to consumer home try-on engagement ting company that marries affordability with expertise and convenience with a personal touch. With their Free Home Preview, they can try replicas of engagement ring styles at home to make a confident decision. Then return to their site to fully customize the ring and make it one of a kind. It has the lowest diamond prices guaranteed and a refreshing new way to shop for engagement rings. With Clarity was formerly known as Four Mine

SAFE™

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
SAFE Button replaces ‘Sign-In with Facebook’ and ‘Sign in with Google.’ It is a free service provided by websites concerned for your privacy, which does not track you and never sells your data. Also, the SAFE Button does not use passwords. We send a cryptographic message to your smartphpone, and all you have to do is approve with one tap to login to your favorite sites, or register for new online accounts. You can use the extra security in your phone like FaceID to Samsung Fingerprint reader with no codes to enter! And with the SAFE Button, you never get unwanted spam emails or notifications on your phone.

Cargo

Series A in 2018
Cargo Systems, Inc. operates a mobile marketplace designed for selling products to passengers in transit, primarily through rideshare services. The company's platform, known as Cargo, enables passengers to order a diverse range of products, including snacks, electronics, and health and beauty items, delivered directly to them without the need for a dedicated app. Founded in 2016 by former employees of Birchbox, Cargo initially launched in New York and Boston and has since expanded its reach across 49 states. The company collaborates with rideshare drivers and brand partners to facilitate this unique in-car shopping experience, providing an opportunity for drivers to earn additional income while enhancing passenger convenience. Cargo is headquartered in New York, New York, and has received backing from various venture capital firms.

Cardiomo

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Cardiomo Care, Inc. develops wearable healthcare monitoring and tracking device to record EKG, heart rate, respiratory rate, and temperature, as well as tracks body position. Further, the company offers a mobile application and algorithms to detect different events of arrhythmia, other conditions, and falls to alert users and caregivers. It sends alert notifications to the users and observers, as well as offers nonstop health monitoring. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Broker Buddha

Convertible Note in 2018
Broker Buddha Inc. is an insurtech company based in New York City that offers a software platform designed to streamline the insurance application and renewal process for commercial brokers and their clients across the United States. Founded in 2017, Broker Buddha provides an intuitive workflow that significantly reduces the time brokers spend on applications and renewals by up to 80%. The platform enables brokers to create applications by selecting necessary forms from a library, adding schedules, and customizing messages, while also allowing for the upload of essential documents. With features that pre-fill applications with prior-year data, the solution enhances efficiency and facilitates quicker responses, enabling brokers to focus on business growth and client relationships.

Sudu

Seed Round in 2018
Sudu Logistics Inc. owns and operates a logistics technology platform. The company offers an end-to-end platform that matches shippers and carriers based upon route optimization. The platform identifies transportation methods by road, sea, rail, and air. The company caters to multiple industries, such as consumer goods, energy and infrastructure, pharmaceutical & health care, government & nonprofits, industrial goods, retail, and others along with fortune 1000 companies. Sudu Logistics Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Naadam

Series A in 2018
Naadam is an American clothing company specializing in affordable, luxury cashmere products. The company mills and crafts its products to the standards so they become softer with time and design their garments to complement the way people live, not constrain it. Naadam works to protect the planet through anti-desertification programs, clean energy-powered factories, and tree planting nonprofit work. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.

Spiro.AI

Seed Round in 2018
Spiro Technologies, Inc. develops a relationship management platform that works in the background and recommends sales teams on different actions. The company’s platform creates contacts; eliminates data entry; provides sales suggestions; delivers reports; assists in making, receiving, and transcribing calls and texts from Spiro Voice number; and assists sales teams to track and manage opportunities. It serves construction, finance, manufacturing, professional service, and technology industries. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Iterative Scopes

Convertible Note in 2018
Iterative Scopes provides doctors with real-time computer-aided detection and diagnostic tools powered by computer vision and machine learning technology that improves patient outcomes by helping gastroenterologists detect and categorize lesions in real-time, including those that often elude the human eye, and bring care worldwide by providing doctors with access to deep neural networks trained by experienced GI specialists. Iterative Scopes was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Relativity6

Seed Round in 2018
Relativity6, Inc. develops a machine learning/AI platform which enables carriers and brokers to discover ways to bring back lapsed customers. It offers predictive statistical models, machine learning algorithms, and randomized field experiments. Its statistical models utilize unresponsive customer transaction, behavioral, demographic, and digital footprint data to predict which customers are willing to return to a client’s business; estimate the value of each high potential unresponsive customer by predicting their second lifetime value; and run various randomized real-time field experiments. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Extend

Seed Round in 2018
Extend Enterprises, Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a peer-to-peer software as a service platform, allowing users to utilize their credit cards virtually. Established in 2017, Extend specializes in providing digital payment infrastructure that empowers financial institutions to deliver modern card experiences. The company enables banks, businesses, and innovators to leverage virtual card technology through a diverse range of products, including aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card application, and a pioneering card tokenization service.

Lumo

Seed Round in 2018
At lumo,They’re obsessed with making air travel smarter. They predict flight delays months, weeks, hours ahead of time, making planning easier and flight changes less stressful.

Mantl

Seed Round in 2018
Mantl is the first customer-centric outer core ecosystem that gives banks and credit unions the flexibility to innovate using modern technology, while owning their brand throughout the entire customer lifecycle.

Remesh

Series A in 2018
Remesh Inc. operates an AI-powered online platform that facilitates live conversations with large groups of people, allowing users to engage with up to 1,000 participants simultaneously. Founded in 2013 and based in the United States, Remesh enables organizations to gather and analyze audience responses in real-time. This capability helps businesses understand their customers or employees better, leading to more informed decision-making. By providing a space for collective input, Remesh represents the collective thinking of diverse groups, enhancing communication and collaboration.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2018
Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. Their solution is fully portable, it allows its user to switch networks and chains with the click of a button, so they don't have to worry about picking the perfect network configuration from day one. They support the blockchain developer ecosystem with best-of-breed dev-ops advise. Blockdaemon was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Blueprint Income

Seed Round in 2018
Blueprint Income, Inc. operates a digital platform that connects pension planners with insurance companies, providing a marketplace for retirement income products such as annuities. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, the company aims to simplify the retirement planning process, allowing users to compare and purchase various annuity options tailored to their personal circumstances. By offering easy access to fixed, income, and index annuities, Blueprint Income empowers individuals, regardless of their employer, age, or wealth, to secure guaranteed, lifelong income for retirement. The platform not only facilitates the selection and purchase of these financial products but also enhances consumer understanding of annuities, enabling users to make informed decisions about their financial futures.

New Wave Foods

Seed Round in 2018
New Wave Foods, Inc. specializes in producing and selling plant-based seafood products, focusing primarily on sustainable shrimp alternatives. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a variety of items, including sautéed, grilled, breaded, and fried shrimp, as well as shrimp tacos and salads. Its products are made from sustainably sourced seaweed and soy protein, enriched with natural flavors and essential amino acids, providing a healthy, low-calorie, and zero-cholesterol option for consumers. Targeting the culinary market in the United States, New Wave Foods aims to preserve and enrich seafood traditions through its innovative plant-based offerings.

Denim

Venture Round in 2018
Axle Payments specializes in providing financial solutions to the freight industry, focusing on small freight brokers and their carriers. Founded in 2016 by Shawn Vo and Bharath Krishnamoorthy, the company is headquartered in New York. Axle Payments offers non-recourse factoring and payment processing services, which help brokers and carriers access the working capital they need to operate effectively. In addition to factoring, the company provides integrated payment solutions, collections, and financing options that enhance the efficiency and transparency of financial transactions within the logistics sector. Axle Payments aims to support the sustainability of the global logistics industry through its innovative financial services.

Quilt

Series A in 2018
Quilt Insurance Agency, LLC is an online insurance broker based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2015. The company specializes in providing renters' insurance and term life insurance through digital channels, catering primarily to individuals who are accustomed to online interactions. Quilt aims to simplify the insurance purchasing process, making it more accessible and user-friendly. As of August 2018, Quilt operates as a subsidiary of Haven Life Insurance Agency, LLC.

BigID

Series A in 2018
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

ShareIQ

Venture Round in 2018
ShareIQ is on a mission to build the most earned media performance platform for brands. Their focus at Share IQ is to educate, inform and assist brand marketing teams on insights and opportunities for action on all the ways their earned media influences brand discovery, social sharing, influencing and, ultimately, purchase. They help make social media and earned media as measurable and accountable as paid media marketing. Through the deployment of proprietary image DNA technology, ShareIQ has acquired, analyzed and indexed more than 1 trillion digital images. The system is purpose-built for brands to track the activity and performance of specific content at global scale, with near-perfect accuracy. The ShareIQ platform is technology that identifies, tracks and discovers original pieces of visual content, as well as shared and republished copies of specific images. They do this so that brands and their images can be quickly discovered and shared by the fans and customers that love them, and so that brand marketing teams can maximize return on their earned media and content marketing investments.

Owkin

Series A in 2018
Owkin is an artificial intelligence company founded in 2016, with headquarters in New York and an additional office in Paris. The company focuses on developing machine learning software for medical research, enabling researchers to test AI models on distributed data. Owkin's offerings include Owkin Lab, which facilitates data connectivity by therapeutic area; Owkin Loop, which provides validated and packaged models; and a comprehensive software stack for full-stack services. The company currently has 30 live models and an additional 40 in development. Owkin aims to empower medical researchers in hospitals, universities, and pharmaceutical companies to better understand variations in drug efficacy among patients, enhance the drug development process, and identify optimal treatments for individual patients, ultimately improving treatment outcomes. The company is supported by various investors and has a scientific board to guide its research initiatives.

Habit

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Habit is a data platform company that aggregates multiple sources of data and provides a stack of data intelligence for insurance companies.

With Clarity

Seed Round in 2017
With Clarity is the only online, direct to consumer home try-on engagement ting company that marries affordability with expertise and convenience with a personal touch. With their Free Home Preview, they can try replicas of engagement ring styles at home to make a confident decision. Then return to their site to fully customize the ring and make it one of a kind. It has the lowest diamond prices guaranteed and a refreshing new way to shop for engagement rings. With Clarity was formerly known as Four Mine

Naadam

Seed Round in 2017
Naadam is an American clothing company specializing in affordable, luxury cashmere products. The company mills and crafts its products to the standards so they become softer with time and design their garments to complement the way people live, not constrain it. Naadam works to protect the planet through anti-desertification programs, clean energy-powered factories, and tree planting nonprofit work. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2017
Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. Their solution is fully portable, it allows its user to switch networks and chains with the click of a button, so they don't have to worry about picking the perfect network configuration from day one. They support the blockchain developer ecosystem with best-of-breed dev-ops advise. Blockdaemon was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Slice Labs

Series A in 2017
Slice Labs is the insurance engine behind tomorrow’s cloud-based, on-demand digital services ecosystems for the new economy. Through Slice’s Insurance Cloud Services (ICS) platform, Slice is enabling insurers, technology companies, and other service providers to build truly intelligent and intuitive, pay-as-you-go digital insurance products protecting the insured anytime and anywhere. Slice is licensed in the US and the UK, and recently launched in Asia Pacific.

Wellthie

Funding Round in 2017
Wellthie Inc., an insurance technology company, offers broker and carrier shopping tools to simplify insurance distribution for small businesses and individuals. It offers cloud-based e-commerce platform for selling tools, medical and ancillary quotes, broker management dashboard, modeling and scenario planning, online storefront, custom client proposals, distribution channels, marketplace product promotion, small group and individual analysis, market insights, and consumer engagement. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Quilt

Seed Round in 2017
Quilt Insurance Agency, LLC is an online insurance broker based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2015. The company specializes in providing renters' insurance and term life insurance through digital channels, catering primarily to individuals who are accustomed to online interactions. Quilt aims to simplify the insurance purchasing process, making it more accessible and user-friendly. As of August 2018, Quilt operates as a subsidiary of Haven Life Insurance Agency, LLC.

Stackfolio

Seed Round in 2017
Founded by Pavleen Thukral and Allen Nance in 2015, Atlanta-based Stackfolio is a fintech startup that uses modern technology to serve a vibrant online marketplace for loan trading between financial institutions. The integrated data research platform helps institutions make sophisticated trading decisions.

Lapetus Solutions

Seed Round in 2017
Lapetus Solutions, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Wilmington, North Carolina, established in 2014. The company focuses on developing online biodemographics and facial analytics technology, creating innovative tools and platforms that aim to enhance life event prediction. By leveraging advancements in information technology and life sciences, Lapetus Solutions seeks to provide industries such as insurance with alternatives to traditional assessment methods, thereby improving accuracy and efficiency in predicting life events.

Aureus Analytics

Seed Round in 2017
Aureus Analytics Pvt. Ltd. specializes in developing CRUX, an artificial intelligence-based analytics platform tailored for the insurance sector, specifically for property, casualty, and life insurance. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, with additional offices in Hartford, United States, and Mumbai, India, the company focuses on enhancing customer experience through predictive analytics and machine learning technologies. Aureus Analytics provides actionable insights to insurers, empowering them to make informed decisions that improve customer retention and loyalty. Its cloud-based solutions are designed to handle vast amounts of internal and external data, catering to insurers and banks of all sizes with a user-friendly interface and a subscription-based pricing model.

Fourstay

Seed Round in 2017
4stay is an online marketplace connecting students with property managers near your campus. They currently have dozens of open rooms looking for students. Their rooms are affordable, their process is easy to use and their platform allows students to know exactly what each room looks like and what amenities they have so that nothing is a surprise!

Next Level Networks

Seed Round in 2017
Next Level Networks is an IT solutions provider that offers design and implementation of local area and wide area networks, and more.

Softmogul

Seed Round in 2017
Softmogul is a technology company specialized on developing and building innovative technologies to facilitate and automate hotel operations. Providing a complete set of tools that are flexible, simple yet powerful to meet any specific need. Softmogul is an all-in-one fully mobile platform that facilitates all the aspects of the hotel management, integrating together a PMS, Channel Manager, Booking Engine, Housekeeping, POS and Event Manager; making them work seamlessly together.

BigID

Seed Round in 2017
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

Dropel Fabrics

Angel Round in 2017
Dropel is the performance-based yarn and cotton fibers company. Dropel’s patent-pending technology applies material science and cotton processing technology to make clothing “life proof”, including stain proof and spill proof. Dropel won Demo China’s Silicon Valley Summit in 2016 and was named Apparel magazine’s 2016 Top Innovator. At SXSW Interactive, Dropel was a World Technology finalist, wowing the audience with its presentation at SXSW’s Innovative World Technology forum.

Radius8

Seed Round in 2016
Radius8, Inc. is a software company that specializes in enhancing the retail experience by connecting online consumer behavior with local physical stores. Founded in 2014 and based in Princeton, New Jersey, Radius8 offers a localization platform that enables retailers to provide store-centric online experiences tailored to local digital demand. Their software targets nearby customers by ensuring they encounter local content across social networks and online searches, ultimately driving foot traffic to stores. Radius8 can be implemented quickly, typically within 30 days, without necessitating changes to existing technology or store operations. Its solutions aim to improve profitability through increased consumer engagement. The company has established partnerships and serves notable clients such as GUESS, John Varvatos, and Academy Sports + Outdoors, positioning itself as a key player in the evolving retail landscape.