Precursor Ventures

Precursor Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm specializes in pre-seed and seed investments, primarily targeting early-stage companies in North America, with a focus on the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Toronto. Precursor Ventures invests in a diverse range of sectors, including consumer, digital health, education, enterprise, fintech, marketplace, software, and hardware, emphasizing both business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications. The firm typically invests between $0.1 million and $0.25 million in its portfolio companies. Distinctively, Precursor Ventures prioritizes investing in people over products, reflecting its commitment to supporting entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of their ventures. Additionally, the firm has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider to promote inclusive practices in its investment approach.

Marina Girgis

Principal and Checkwriter

Charles Hudson

Founder and Managing Partner

Ashtan Jordan

Principal

Ayanna Kerrison

Senior Associate

443 past transactions

VoiceOps

Seed Round in 2025
VoiceOps is a pioneering coaching enablement solution designed specifically for call centers, focusing on enhancing the effectiveness of coaches to achieve higher return on investment. Established in 2016, the company provides a platform that drives significant behavior change among sales representatives, resulting in improved conversion rates, decreased attrition, and reduced ramp-up time. VoiceOps integrates artificial intelligence tools to analyze high-volume calls, identify successful behaviors, and implement necessary improvements, thereby facilitating a more consultative customer experience. Its impact is notable, with clients experiencing substantial increases in close rates and significant reductions in compliance violations and post-call work. VoiceOps serves a diverse clientele across industries such as financial services, education, and insurance, and continues to grow rapidly, positioning itself as a leader in call center efficiency and performance enhancement.

Edera

Series A in 2025
Edera is a cybersecurity company specializing in strong workload isolation solutions for Kubernetes and AI environments. Its technology employs a cloud-native Type 1 hypervisor to provide robust container isolation, preventing lateral movement and eliminating container escapes. This approach ensures that each container operates within its own isolated kernel, enhancing security without compromising performance. Edera's platform is designed for seamless integration, requiring minimal configuration to secure workloads across various infrastructures. The company also supports open-source initiatives, offering tools like 'Am I Isolated,' a Rust-based container runtime scanner that detects gaps in container isolation.

Nectir

Seed Round in 2024
Nectir AI develops a versatile platform that provides educators with customizable, FERPA-compliant AI Assistants integrated into Learning Management Systems (LMS). This technology offers students personalized support around the clock, helping to alleviate faculty and staff workloads while fostering measurable improvements in student outcomes. Additionally, Nectir's platform promotes collaborative learning by connecting students enrolled in the same classes, enhancing engagement and communication among the student body and faculty. This dual focus on personalized assistance and collaborative tools aims to enrich the educational experience and facilitate better connections within academic communities.

Grw AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Grw AI offers scalable 1:1 coaching solutions that leverage AI to assist B2B sales teams in completing deals.

StretchDollar

Seed Round in 2024
StretchDollar is an insurance company focused on providing health benefits tailored for small businesses. It operates a platform that allows employees to utilize pre-tax dollars to select health plans that best meet their individual needs. By establishing a customized, tax-free budget for insurance, StretchDollar simplifies the health insurance process for small businesses, making it easier for them to offer accessible and affordable coverage to their employees. The platform aims to address common health insurance challenges faced by employees, promoting a more efficient and user-friendly experience in choosing appropriate health plans.

Boardy

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Boardy is an AI-powered professional networking startup with a voice assistant.

Highnote

Venture Round in 2024
Highnote is an innovative audio creators platform tailored for musicians, podcasters, and voiceover artists. It provides tools for capturing notes, annotating audio files, and collecting feedback seamlessly. Users can ask questions, create polls, and compare multiple versions of their work, all within a single interface. The platform allows listeners to respond and provide feedback directly on audio tracks without the need for account creation or app downloads. By facilitating high-quality audio streaming and efficient workflow management, Highnote aims to enhance collaboration and streamline the creative process for audio creators globally. As the industry for creator tools and services approaches a significant market size, Highnote positions itself as a pivotal resource for empowering music makers and audio professionals.

ClaimSorted

Pre Seed Round in 2024
ClaimSorted is a modern claims TPA providing a 5-star claims experience while also reducing operational and indemnity costs through our industry-leading claims team and advanced automation

Cimphony

Seed Round in 2024
Cimphony is a San Francisco-based company that offers a business software platform utilizing GenAI technology to streamline the legal processes essential for startups and growing companies. The platform provides comprehensive legal document support throughout various stages of a business's development, from incorporation and launch to managing commercial contracts, fundraising, data privacy, and employment compliance. By automating these legal tasks, Cimphony allows clients to focus on their core objectives and growth, simplifying the journey of building their enterprises.

Pie

Series A in 2024
Pie is an app that allows users to make plan.

Edera

Seed Round in 2024
Edera is a cybersecurity company specializing in strong workload isolation solutions for Kubernetes and AI environments. Its technology employs a cloud-native Type 1 hypervisor to provide robust container isolation, preventing lateral movement and eliminating container escapes. This approach ensures that each container operates within its own isolated kernel, enhancing security without compromising performance. Edera's platform is designed for seamless integration, requiring minimal configuration to secure workloads across various infrastructures. The company also supports open-source initiatives, offering tools like 'Am I Isolated,' a Rust-based container runtime scanner that detects gaps in container isolation.

Secludy

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Secludy is privacy-guaranteed AI training made easy. We use advanced privacy technology to generate synthetic datasets that mimic your original dataset so that you can train your AI models on your most valuable data – without risks of leaking PII. With Secludy, you can: - Enable privacy-guaranteed fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) for AI assistants, chatbots, and other machine learning applications. - Deploy within your cloud - use Secludy without sharing any data with us. - Stay compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA.

Flex

Seed Round in 2024
Flex is a financial services company that provides analysis, integration, and management solutions for HSA/FSA payments.

Weights

Seed Round in 2024
Weights is a social AI Creation Platform. Create audio, images, chat, and more for free, and share with your friends!

Polytrial

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Operations design for clinical research

Kudos

Seed Round in 2024
Kudos is a Boston-based company that specializes in the manufacturing of natural disposable diapers for babies. Founded in 2019 by Amrita Saigal, Kudos offers diapers that are designed with sensitive skin in mind, utilizing chemical-free, plant-based renewable materials and cotton liners. The company's commitment to sustainability is reflected in its use of biobased materials, providing parents with an eco-friendly alternative for their children's diapering needs.

Nagish

Series A in 2024
Nagish is a company focused on making communication accessible for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. The firm has developed a platform that allows users to engage with call centers and enterprises through text-based communication, enabling them to make phone calls without relying on voice. By prioritizing accessibility, Nagish aims to bridge the communication gap for those with hearing challenges, facilitating a more inclusive experience in various professional and personal interactions.

PodcastAI

Seed Round in 2024
PodcastAI develops and deploys AI tools to transform podcast production, automating text-to-audio conversion to simplify content creation. The company's mission is to make podcasting efficient and accessible for creators and media companies globally.

Kudos Technology

Series A in 2024
Kudos offers an AI-powered smart wallet service designed to optimize consumer rewards and benefits during purchases. The service tracks credit card rewards and analyzes data across various cards and online merchants. When consumers are ready to check out, the smart assistant identifies the most advantageous card to use, highlighting potential rewards and benefits for that specific transaction. This functionality enables users to efficiently manage their credit cards and make informed decisions about which card to utilize for maximum benefit.

Essential

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Essential is a software platform designed to enhance efficiency in field service operations, focusing initially on the fire and life safety sector. The platform serves as a modern operating system for commercial service businesses, enabling teams to automate daily tasks, increase job bookings, and expedite payment processes. By utilizing artificial intelligence and intuitive workflows, Essential aims to streamline operations and facilitate growth for its users in the fire protection industry.

ESAI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
ESAI is the viral storytelling platform for Gen Z college applicants and young professionals.

Thoras.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Thoras.ai is an AI cloud management platform..It helps to detection, monitor performance, and manage costs.

The New Club

Seed Round in 2024
The New Club empowers and elevates women in engineering and connect them with the community and careers to excel.

Grupago

Seed Round in 2024
Grupago is a pioneering financial technology company focused on providing digital microcredit to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America. The company addresses the challenges faced by micro-SMBs that have limited access to traditional lending options by utilizing artificial intelligence, group collateral, and community distribution methods. Additionally, Grupago operates a payment orchestration platform designed to enhance payment acceptance rates for merchants while simultaneously reducing processing costs. This platform employs AI to automatically retry transactions across various payment providers, ensuring that merchants receive payments from a broader customer base efficiently and cost-effectively. Through these innovative solutions, Grupago aims to empower underserved businesses in the region.

PreemptiveAI

Seed Round in 2024
PreemptiveAI is focused on developing an artificial intelligence-enabled platform that integrates human physiology and pathology to predict health outcomes in real-time. By utilizing biomedical signals gathered from smartphones and wearable devices, the company aims to enhance healthcare delivery. Its AI-enabled software development kit (SDK) and application programming interface (API) facilitate remote access to patient vital signs, allowing healthcare providers to efficiently capture physiological data with minimal effort, such as through text messages and smartphone cameras. This approach not only increases access to critical health information but also improves patient care while reducing costs.

Buildstock

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Buildstock operates as a B2B marketplace for construction materials, aimed at connecting buyers directly with suppliers for bulk purchases in the high-rise and industrial sectors. The company's platform enhances procurement efficiency by providing access to real-time lending options and factoring services for purchase orders. This approach not only improves cash flow and unit economics but also facilitates better pricing, time savings, and data accuracy in material sourcing. By bridging the gap between developers and suppliers, Buildstock aims to streamline the procurement process for large-scale construction projects, ultimately benefiting all stakeholders involved.

AddGlow

Pre Seed Round in 2024
AddGlow foster on-site community to increase retention.

FlowFi

Seed Round in 2024
FlowFi is a financial intelligence company focused on assisting entrepreneurs in achieving optimal financial performance. Its platform integrates technology with accounting services, providing founders with an accessible overview of their company's financial health. This enables users to efficiently prepare investor reports and presentations, streamlining the financial management process. By combining these services, FlowFi aims to support businesses in making informed financial decisions and enhancing overall operational effectiveness.

Reset Financial Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology.

Rib

Seed Round in 2023
AI-powered platform

Nomad Homes

Series A in 2023
Nomad Homes is an online real estate brokerage founded in 2019 and headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The company operates in France, Spain, Portugal, and the UAE, providing a software-enabled marketplace for residential real estate across Europe and the Middle East. Nomad Homes enhances collaboration among agents, allowing them to maximize their earning potential. It offers a co-pilot tool to simplify the home buying and mortgage processes for buyers. By focusing on personalized experiences, Nomad Homes aims to standardize buyer representation and improve transaction efficiency, thus facilitating the buying, selling, and renting of real estate. The company is dedicated to creating an infrastructure that fosters seamless transactions and contributes to market growth.

QuoteMachine

Seed Round in 2023
QuoteMachine is a sales software platform that specializes in enhancing the sales processes for retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. It focuses on facilitating complex sales experiences that require human interaction, tailored payment terms, or special orders. By offering a customizable solution, QuoteMachine allows businesses to streamline quoting, ordering, invoicing, and payment services. This platform not only accelerates negotiations by managing pricing levels but also improves conversion rates through its live engagement tracker for quotes. By addressing the specific needs of merchants, QuoteMachine effectively contributes to increased revenue and cash flow in both B2C and B2B environments.

StretchDollar

Pre Seed Round in 2023
StretchDollar is an insurance company focused on providing health benefits tailored for small businesses. It operates a platform that allows employees to utilize pre-tax dollars to select health plans that best meet their individual needs. By establishing a customized, tax-free budget for insurance, StretchDollar simplifies the health insurance process for small businesses, making it easier for them to offer accessible and affordable coverage to their employees. The platform aims to address common health insurance challenges faced by employees, promoting a more efficient and user-friendly experience in choosing appropriate health plans.

Wicked Saints

Seed Round in 2023
Wicked Saints Studios is a developer of a game studio platform that focuses on creating interactive media using behavioral technology. The company integrates narrative augmented reality experiences to engage a generation that is increasingly concerned about mental health and social issues. This innovative approach enables users to participate in real-life quests, facilitated through augmented reality, thereby fostering a unique blend of entertainment and personal well-being.

Crate

Seed Round in 2023
Crate is an AI-driven platform that transforms content consumption and sharing. Founded in 2021 and based in Los Angeles, California, the company offers a solution that allows users to collect and save content from various apps and websites. Its platform enables individuals to organize, group, label, and annotate articles, podcasts, videos, and tweets. By streamlining the process of importing content from other platforms, Crate empowers content creators to customize, curate, and share their work effortlessly. The company aims to enhance how users interact with digital content, making it more accessible and engaging.

Roadway

Seed Round in 2023
AI-driven actionable analytics for growth marketing teams.

Lion Pose

Seed Round in 2023
Lion Pose is a clinical skincare brand specifically designed for brown skin, focusing on combating hyperpigmentation. Founded by Madhu Punjabi and Nisha P., the brand develops products that utilize a combination of active acids and gentle ingredients. These formulations target issues such as pigmentation, melasma, and dark spots, aiming to restore natural skin tone. Lion Pose emphasizes the use of clean ingredients and bases its product development on non-subjective, evidence-based assessments conducted on real individuals, ensuring that consumers have access to effective solutions for clearer skin.

Upwage

Seed Round in 2023
Upwage is an employment platform based in Wilmington, Delaware, that focuses on job postings featuring hourly wages. The platform allows users to sort job listings by salary, occupation, and title, facilitating easier access to higher-paying opportunities. By leveraging big data and artificial intelligence, Upwage aims to generate significant wealth for the 44% of Americans earning less than $16 per hour. Its mission is to connect low-wage earners with local employers who are willing to pay more for current skills, thereby enhancing job seekers' prospects for better financial outcomes.

SmartPass

Seed Round in 2023
SmartPass helps teachers and principals coordinate student movement throughout the school day. School schedules are more dynamic than ever. Rotating classes, advisory periods, pull-out interventions, and counseling sessions are just a few examples of managing traffic and teacher capacity. SmartPass unlocks communication across classrooms, increases safety, and integrates directly with SIS platforms to ensure students and teachers can focus on learning instead of logistics.

Glystn

Seed Round in 2023
Glystn, founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, California, operates a podcast management platform designed to enhance audience growth and management within the creator economy. The platform serves podcasters of all sizes, facilitating the discovery and engagement of new listeners across various online channels. By providing valuable analytics and insights, Glystn enables content creators to better understand their audience, thereby supporting their growth in an increasingly multi-platform environment.

Pollen

Seed Round in 2023
Pollen is an online platform that supports freelancers in expanding their businesses through professional development and tactical resources. It offers a range of tools, including personalized assessments, audio playbooks, and tailored growth plans, designed to help freelancers efficiently achieve their goals. Pollen facilitates connections among peers and provides access to proven processes from its expert network, enabling users to break down their objectives into manageable roadmaps that integrate seamlessly into their schedules. This approach fosters a non-performative community, encouraging freelancers to enhance their skills and attract new customers effectively.

Tap

Seed Round in 2023
Tap is a financial services firm focused on individuals working in the technology sector. It has developed an equity trading platform that facilitates the conversion of startup stock into cash, providing users with the ability to sell their stock for liquidity. The platform offers flexibility, allowing shareholders to sell varying amounts of stock without the complications of traditional processes, such as extensive paperwork or tax implications. Additionally, Tap's services enable users to diversify their equity investments into funds, earn interest, and manage their finances through a cash account within the application. This streamlined approach caters specifically to the needs of technology professionals looking for efficient ways to manage their startup equity.

Audioshake

Seed Round in 2023
AudioShake employs AI to distinguish between music and speech, enhancing interactivity and accessibility in audio content. Major and independent labels, music publishers, film studios, artists, and app developers leverage the company's technology for sound separation and lyric transcription. This spans various applications, including sync licensing, immersive mixes, emerging audio uses in UGC, gaming, streaming, voice synthesis, sports, localization, and beyond. Winner of the Sony Demixing Challenge, AudioShake's patented, industry-leading technology is used by major labels, music publishers, film production studios, and more.

Campus

Series A in 2023
Campus is an accredited online community college that focuses on providing accessible educational opportunities to students across the country. It offers a range of live online and in-person associate degrees and certificate programs, emphasizing student success and support. By leveraging an online educational platform, Campus aims to facilitate a flexible learning environment that meets the diverse needs of its student population.

Pico

Series A in 2023
Pico is a software company that specializes in audience relationship management solutions for online businesses. Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, it provides a comprehensive platform that includes pre-made templates and features like integrated Facebook and Google sign-in buttons. Pico's offerings cater to various sectors, including newsletters, e-commerce, subscriptions, memberships, and donations. The company aims to empower creators and small business entrepreneurs by equipping them with tools and insights necessary for transforming their social media audiences into viable business opportunities.

Mavida Health

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Mavida provides specialized, comprehensive digital mental healthcare for the path to parenthood and beyond.

ChefHero

Series A in 2023
ChefHero Inc. is a technology company that operates a mobile and web application designed for businesses in the food service industry to efficiently order wholesale restaurant supplies. Founded in 2015 and based in Toronto, Canada, ChefHero connects restaurants, bars, coffee shops, food trucks, and caterers with regional suppliers. By streamlining the ordering process, the platform allows culinary professionals to focus more on their craft rather than the logistics of supply procurement. ChefHero aims to enhance the operational efficiency of food service businesses through its user-friendly interface and dedicated supplier network.

BuildCasa

Pre Seed Round in 2023
BuildCasa is a housing company focused on addressing the housing supply shortage in America. The company assists homeowners in selling unutilized lot space, providing them with an opportunity to maximize the value of their properties. By offering financial support of up to $250,000, BuildCasa enables homeowners to construct additional housing on their extra lot space. This approach not only helps homeowners realize the full potential of their properties but also contributes to increasing the overall housing supply.

Buildstock

Funding Round in 2022
Buildstock operates as a B2B marketplace for construction materials, aimed at connecting buyers directly with suppliers for bulk purchases in the high-rise and industrial sectors. The company's platform enhances procurement efficiency by providing access to real-time lending options and factoring services for purchase orders. This approach not only improves cash flow and unit economics but also facilitates better pricing, time savings, and data accuracy in material sourcing. By bridging the gap between developers and suppliers, Buildstock aims to streamline the procurement process for large-scale construction projects, ultimately benefiting all stakeholders involved.

The Chief Navigators

Funding Round in 2022
Create helps companies ship new products 10x faster through a code generation system that lets them share the code for common use cases and access to a global pool of developers supercharged with this system.

Pivo

Seed Round in 2022
Pivo is a financial platform designed to support small and medium-sized businesses across Africa by providing access to a comprehensive range of financial services in one location. The platform aims to democratize finance, offering tools specifically tailored for the supply chain sector. By streamlining access to various financial services, Pivo enables its clients to efficiently engage with borderless financial solutions, promoting enhanced operational efficiency and growth opportunities for businesses in the region.

Guaranteed

Seed Round in 2022
Guaranteed is a care company that specializes in at-home hospice services, combining technology with compassionate support to enhance the end-of-life experience for patients and their families. The company provides a tech-enabled platform that facilitates telemedicine services and offers in-person hospice aides, ensuring that both patients and caregivers receive the necessary assistance during challenging times. By focusing on modern, patient-centered care, Guaranteed enables families to navigate the complexities of hospice care while equipping providers with the tools needed to deliver effective support in the home setting.

Perspective

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Self-reflection, powered by AI. Perspective’s mission is to create a daily moment of self-awareness, empowering consumers to live a conscious life with fewer regrets.

Snoots

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Snoots operates as a unique members-only primary care clinic, providing unlimited healthcare services for a monthly fee. In addition to its primary care offerings, Snoots has developed a comprehensive pet care platform that focuses on the wellness and treatment of pets. This platform encompasses a range of veterinary services, including digital follow-ups, appointment summaries, health check-ins, dermatology care, an on-site pharmacy, nutritional support, and behavioral counseling. By integrating these services, Snoots enables pet owners to manage their pets' health efficiently and conveniently.

Hiki

Funding Round in 2022
Hiki, Inc. operates a mobile application designed specifically for the autistic community, facilitating friendship and dating. Launched in 2016 and based in Asheville, North Carolina, Hiki collaborates closely with autistic adults to ensure that the app is sensory-aware and meets the unique needs of neurodivergent individuals. The platform allows users to create profiles and communicate through private messages, helping them connect with others in their geographical area. By focusing on inclusivity and representation, Hiki aims to provide a supportive social ecosystem for neurodivergent adults to form meaningful relationships and build community.

Heylo

Seed Round in 2022
Heylo is a community management platform that helps group leaders build community and collect payments, transforming in-person group into the thriving, self-sustaining community it truly is. Heylo assists leaders in bringing people together, from volleyball clubs to volunteer groups.

Rella

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rella is the go-to solution for any creator and social media-powered business to automate their workflow and share their content. Millions today are disorganized, wasting hours each week, and spending money using fragmented and inefficient tools that are not made for social media. On Rella, you can manage campaigns using AI, and share, send, and auto-post your content. Rella was founded by Natalie, a creator with 380,000 followers and a previous social media agency owner.

Kudos Technology

Seed Round in 2022
Kudos offers an AI-powered smart wallet service designed to optimize consumer rewards and benefits during purchases. The service tracks credit card rewards and analyzes data across various cards and online merchants. When consumers are ready to check out, the smart assistant identifies the most advantageous card to use, highlighting potential rewards and benefits for that specific transaction. This functionality enables users to efficiently manage their credit cards and make informed decisions about which card to utilize for maximum benefit.

TRAXyL

Seed Round in 2022
TRAXyL, Inc. specializes in the innovative installation of optical fiber by providing a unique distribution system that allows for the direct application of fiber communications onto road surfaces. Founded in 2014 and based in Warrenton, Virginia, the company has developed a method that eliminates the need for traditional trenching, thus facilitating faster deployment of broadband services. This technology not only enhances connectivity in underserved areas but also supports the rollout of 5G networks, making it easier for municipalities and internet service providers to improve access in various locations, including campuses, hospitals, and military bases.

Partake Foods

Series B in 2022
Partake Foods, Inc. is a food company that specializes in producing and selling allergy-friendly snacks, particularly cookies. The company offers a range of products that are nut-free, gluten-free, vegan, and made without genetically modified organisms. Its cookie varieties include sprouted grain chocolate chip, double chocolate chip, sweet potato millet, carrot oat, and birthday cake mini cookies, catering to health-conscious consumers and those with dietary restrictions. Partake Foods markets its products online, making them accessible to a broader audience. Founded in 2016 and originally known as Vivis Life, LLC, the company is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Highnote

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Highnote is an innovative audio creators platform tailored for musicians, podcasters, and voiceover artists. It provides tools for capturing notes, annotating audio files, and collecting feedback seamlessly. Users can ask questions, create polls, and compare multiple versions of their work, all within a single interface. The platform allows listeners to respond and provide feedback directly on audio tracks without the need for account creation or app downloads. By facilitating high-quality audio streaming and efficient workflow management, Highnote aims to enhance collaboration and streamline the creative process for audio creators globally. As the industry for creator tools and services approaches a significant market size, Highnote positions itself as a pivotal resource for empowering music makers and audio professionals.

Notch Financial

Seed Round in 2022
Notch Financial provides solutions to streamline financial operations. The company offers a customer payment portal for managing and processing payments securely. Its payment collection tools automate payment workflows, while real-time reconciliation ensures accurate transaction syncing. Invoice management is automated for creating and tracking invoices, and the OCR invoice scanning feature allows users to easily digitize, process, and integrate invoices with accounting and ERP systems. These tools aim to simplify financial tasks and improve operational efficiency for businesses.

Bloom Community

Seed Round in 2022
Bloom is a dating community that creates a secure online environment for sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture individuals. Based in Oakland, California, and initially known as Together, this YCombinator-backed startup focuses on facilitating social connections through organized group dates in parks. Members specify their preferences for potential partners, and Bloom arranges meetups involving 6 to 8 participants, fostering a welcoming atmosphere. The platform emphasizes a strong culture of consent and relies on referrals, ensuring that users can safely and comfortably engage with new friends and partners.

EarlyDay

Seed Round in 2022
EarlyDay operates an online career marketplace focused on early childhood education, facilitating connections between employers and job seekers in the preschool and childcare sectors. The platform streamlines the hiring process by enabling preschools and childcare centers to quickly and efficiently find pre-screened, qualified educators. By emphasizing factors such as commuting time, pay, benefits, and educational philosophies, EarlyDay aids job seekers in identifying suitable positions that align with their preferences. This approach simplifies the hiring and job search experience, making it more accessible for both employers and prospective employees in the early education field.

Stardust

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Stardust is a hormone health platform that teaches you how to work with the phases of your cycle. We integrate science, ancient wisdom, astronomy and artificial intelligence to help you understand the magic of your cycle, track your experiences, manifest goals, and befriend your body. Whether you are trying to predict periods, get pregnant, understand your symptoms or just want to form a deeper connection to your body, Stardust has you covered. Founded and led by women, we're committed to best-in-class privacy practices and will never sell or divulge your data.

OpenSauced

Funding Round in 2022
OpenSauced operates as a platform focused on enhancing the open source software ecosystem. It provides tools that allow companies to assess the quality of contributions through a scoring system, akin to a credit score, which helps in identifying valuable developers and their activities. The software offers alerts regarding potential contribution churn, ensuring that contributions are recognized fairly across all contributors. This transparency enables developers to showcase their work and find new projects to engage with, fostering a more collaborative environment within the open source community.

Populus

Series A in 2022
Populus is a platform for cities to manage and price commercial fleets to deliver safer more sustainable streets. Over 100 cities around the world rely on Populus to receive GPS data from commercial vehicles, and are now leveraging their platform to create, manage, and enforce payment for access to curbs to prioritize transitions to lower carbon transportation.

Dopl Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Dopl Technologies, co-founded by an ex-Microsoft engineer and two Harvard-trained experts, focuses on enhancing healthcare access for underserved populations, particularly in rural areas where healthcare resources are limited. The company has developed a telerobotic ultrasound system that allows specialists to conduct diagnostic ultrasound procedures remotely, addressing the issue of specialists being predominantly located in urban centers. This innovative platform aims to improve patient access to timely care, enhance health outcomes, and provide financial benefits to hospitals by reducing costs and increasing revenue. By leveraging technology, Dopl seeks to bridge the gap in healthcare availability and ensure that quality medical services reach those who need them most.

Akin Mental Health

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Akin Mental Health is a digital health platform dedicated to enhancing the well-being of individuals who care for family members with serious mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe depression. The company focuses on providing education, skill building, coaching, and peer support to help families effectively navigate the challenges associated with mental health conditions. By offering resources and guidance, Akin Mental Health empowers caregivers to improve their understanding and approach to supporting their loved ones.

Clutch

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Clutch is a digital marketplace that links next-generation creators with small businesses and national brands. The platform enables creators to monetize their talents by assisting businesses with content creation needs, enhancing their digital marketing presence.

Torpedo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Torpedo operates a commerce platform designed to enhance the food ordering experience while minimizing delivery costs. The platform enables users to initiate or join group orders, allowing them to share the expense and save money. Additionally, Torpedo incorporates a social aspect, letting users see what their friends are ordering in real time and either tag along or promote their own choices. The platform also features challenges that reward users with bytes, which can be redeemed for meals, further incentivizing group participation. By facilitating these interactions, Torpedo not only helps users reduce their food expenses but also provides valuable insights to businesses, aiding in revenue growth.

EvaBot

Series A in 2022
EvaBot Inc. operates an artificial intelligence platform designed to facilitate personalized gift-giving experiences. The company caters to a diverse clientele, including executives, real estate agents, event organizers, customer retention teams, recruiters, consultants, and agencies. By leveraging machine intelligence, EvaBot matches unique product offerings with the specific interests and preferences of recipients, ensuring that each gift is tailored and memorable. This service streamlines the gifting process, allowing users to easily send corporate gifts at scale without the hassle of managing preferences or delivery details. Founded in 2015 and initially named Vizzi Inc., the company rebranded to EvaBot Inc. in August 2017. It is headquartered in Fremont, California, with an additional office located in Calgary, Canada.

Guava

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Guava is a digital banking platform specifically tailored for black small business owners. Its mission is to close the racial wealth gap by offering equitable financial products and services designed to meet the unique needs of black entrepreneurs. The platform not only facilitates quick mobile fund transfers with no hidden fees but also provides access to valuable resources like industry experts, workshops, webinars, and courses. By fostering connections and offering essential financial tools, Guava aims to empower black entrepreneurs to grow their businesses and expand their networks.

Charter

Seed Round in 2022
Charter is focused on transforming workplaces to create dynamic organizations where employees can thrive. The company publishes an email newsletter and other content aimed at workplace decision-makers, providing insights and strategies for enhancing organizational effectiveness. In addition to its publishing efforts, Charter hosts events and offers an online training program centered on hybrid work, equipping businesses with practical guidance on optimizing their work environments. Through these initiatives, Charter aims to foster a new era of workplace dynamics that supports the well-being and productivity of all workers.

Arkive

Seed Round in 2022
Arkive is building the people’s museum: a collection of art and culture curated by a global community of members and displayed around the world.

Finix

Venture Round in 2022
Finix is a developer of a B2B payment processing platform that enables businesses to own, manage, and monetize their payment systems. The platform features a modular, workflow-driven architecture and a real-time interface that allows users to track transactions, consolidate data from various payment processors, and underwrite merchant accounts. This capability supports banks, acquirers, and enterprises in facilitating quick and secure push payments over debit cards and enables them to send money globally. By providing these tools, Finix aims to enhance the payment processing experience for its clients.

Brkaway

Funding Round in 2022
Brkaway is a platform that connects brands with content creators, facilitating the production of short-form video content for social media channels such as TikTok and Instagram Reels. The platform provides tools that simplify the process of ongoing branded content creation, allowing brands to obtain the videos they require while ensuring that content creators are compensated for their work. By streamlining communication and collaboration, Brkaway enhances the efficiency of content production, benefiting both parties involved in the creative process.

Goodr

Venture Round in 2022
Goodr Inc. is a technology-driven platform based in Atlanta, Georgia, focused on sustainable food surplus management to combat hunger and reduce food waste. Founded in 2016, Goodr offers a real-time food rescue application that allows businesses to efficiently donate edible food waste to local nonprofit organizations. Their platform includes features such as logistics management, analytics on food waste patterns, and documentation for tax deductions under applicable regulations. Goodr's blockchain-enabled system provides an audit-friendly record of donations, enabling businesses to track their contributions and assess community impact. By streamlining food donations, Goodr aims to create a triple benefit: improving business profitability through tax savings, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions from landfills, and addressing hunger in local communities.

Aidaly

Seed Round in 2022
Aidaly is a platform dedicated to supporting family caregivers through a range of services. It offers training, compensation, coaching, and financial resources, aiming to enhance the well-being of both caregivers and the elderly individuals they assist. By facilitating the hiring of family caregivers, Aidaly ensures that elderly clients receive care from trusted individuals while also providing monetary compensation to the caregivers. The platform is designed to strengthen social safety nets and mitigate the negative health impacts associated with financial stress, ultimately fostering a supportive community for caregivers and their families.

Flexpa

Seed Round in 2022
Flexpa is a healthcare technology company founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, California. It specializes in developing a platform that allows digital health applications to connect with patient access APIs and integrate claims histories. By digitizing data collected from various healthcare providers, Flexpa creates analytics dashboards that enable healthcare professionals to track individual and group patient outcomes. This integration of diagnostic tests and lab reports helps providers make informed decisions regarding treatment plans and pharmaceutical options, ultimately aiming to enhance healthcare outcomes.

Terra.do

Seed Round in 2022
Terra.do Inc. is an online platform dedicated to educating individuals about climate change and facilitating their transition to climate-related careers. Founded in 2020, the company operates from Bengaluru, India, with an additional office in Stanford, California. Terra.do collaborates with climate experts to provide a comprehensive overview of the climate landscape through its online programs. These programs cover a range of topics, including the scientific aspects of climate change, its global impacts, environmental finance, and strategies for mitigation. Participants have the opportunity to engage in practical climate projects, allowing them to apply their skills in real-world contexts and advance their professional journeys in the climate sector.

Reflex

Seed Round in 2022
Reflex operates an online marketplace that connects retailers with flexible retail associates on demand. The platform addresses various staffing challenges faced by retailers, such as last-minute callouts, no-shows, and holiday rushes, as well as providing support for omnichannel operations. By facilitating the fulfillment of staffing needs, Reflex enables retailers to manage their workforce more effectively. Simultaneously, the platform offers workers the opportunity to find retail shifts with preferred clothing brands in their vicinity, thus creating a mutually beneficial environment for both retailers and associates.

Kinside

Series A in 2022
Kinside Inc., founded in 2018 and based in Pasadena, California, operates a dual-sided childcare platform that connects working parents with a network of daycares and preschools across the United States. The application enables parents to find and secure childcare options while offering the ability to pay for care online. Kinside's platform provides a comprehensive range of childcare services, allowing parents to access current openings and explore various options. Additionally, it facilitates employer contributions and tax savings, thereby creating a transparent and affordable solution for working families seeking reliable childcare.

YardKit

Funding Round in 2022
YardKit specializes in outdoor living space renovations, aiming to simplify and reduce the costs associated with exterior home improvements. The company offers a variety of services, including custom-made plans for cohesive outdoor spaces, yard kit applications, and remote design landscape plans. Designed by licensed landscape architects, these offerings allow homeowners to easily transform their yards through a straightforward process.

Moonlight

Funding Round in 2022
Moonlight is an online platform that serves as a social space for tarot enthusiasts and professionals. It offers tools for tarot readings, education, and community engagement, allowing users to explore various facets of themselves through transformative rituals and visual storytelling. The platform facilitates connections among tarot hobbyists and practitioners, promoting an environment where participants can learn about tarot, share experiences, and receive professional readings. Through its focus on these therapeutic rituals, Moonlight aims to provide life-changing perspectives for its users.

Planet FWD

Series A in 2022
Planet FWD is a San Francisco-based company focused on creating snacks from regenerative ingredients to mitigate carbon emissions in the food system. By sourcing from farmers who employ carbon-capturing practices, the company aims to promote sustainable agriculture. Planet FWD also operates a regenerative food platform that connects brands with consumers interested in climate-friendly products. In addition to developing carbon-neutral food items, the company provides compostable packaging to further reduce consumers' carbon footprints. Furthermore, Planet FWD offers a carbon management platform that helps consumer brands measure their product or company emissions and develop customized plans for reducing their carbon impact, thereby fostering sustainability and enhancing consumer trust.

Hostfully

Seed Round in 2022
Hostfully Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing a comprehensive property management platform tailored for vacation rentals worldwide. The company's core offering is a digital guidebook system that provides guests with local recommendations and essential property information via mobile, desktop, print, and voice access. Additionally, Hostfully automates operational tasks such as payments (via Stripe) and accounting (with Quickbooks integration), while distributing listings across major platforms like Airbnb, HomeAway, Booking.com, and TripAdvisor. This all-in-one solution enables managers of over 10,000 properties in approximately 80 countries to enhance guest experiences, boost bookings, and increase revenues.

Paisa

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Paisa focuses on enhancing financial security for families reliant on remittances. The company has developed a credit platform aimed at improving financial health through the remittance cash economy. By leveraging this system, Paisa provides a robust digital financial services infrastructure. It offers business-to-business lines of credit to remittance agencies to address liquidity gaps and business-to-consumer microloans for individuals receiving remittances. This approach enables recipients to access loans more easily, thereby supporting their financial needs and fostering greater economic stability.

Bravado

Series B in 2022
Bravado is a community platform aimed at sales professionals, founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides online tools and organizes in-person events to assist its members in amplifying their voices, enhancing their personal brands, and connecting with peers in the sales industry. The platform emphasizes customer endorsements, establishing a trusted network that enables sales professionals to generate referrals and develop their careers effectively. Through its resources, Bravado seeks to empower individuals in the sales field to excel in their roles and foster meaningful professional relationships.

Noyo

Series B in 2022
Noyo is a company focused on modernizing the insurance industry through API-based data exchange. Established by experts in benefits, insurance, and technology, Noyo aims to enhance the infrastructure of the benefits sector by providing seamless digital connectivity. Its platform enables the secure exchange of critical benefits data among insurers, brokers, and consumers, facilitating real-time access to information essential for benefit design and delivery. By offering a suite of developer-friendly application programming interfaces, Noyo allows brokers and insurers to effortlessly connect with various platforms, streamlining the enrollment process and improving overall efficiency in the benefits landscape.

FlowFi

Seed Round in 2022
FlowFi is a financial intelligence company focused on assisting entrepreneurs in achieving optimal financial performance. Its platform integrates technology with accounting services, providing founders with an accessible overview of their company's financial health. This enables users to efficiently prepare investor reports and presentations, streamlining the financial management process. By combining these services, FlowFi aims to support businesses in making informed financial decisions and enhancing overall operational effectiveness.

Canopy

Funding Round in 2022
Canopy operates a climate benefits platform designed to assist employees in achieving net zero carbon emissions at home. The platform enables employers to facilitate reductions in carbon footprints associated with personal energy use by offering or subsidizing various sustainable solutions. These include electric vehicles, e-bikes, renewable electricity, rooftop solar systems, home batteries, induction stoves, and heat pumps. By providing these resources, Canopy empowers the workforce to decarbonize their homes and transportation, contributing to overall environmental sustainability.

Brilliant Illustrations

Funding Round in 2022
Developer of bible study platform designed to reimagine texts for modern times. The company's platform integrates comics, groups, and gamification using new living translations of the scriptures, enabling users to get visualizations of the stories within the pages.

ndaOK

Funding Round in 2022
ndaOK is an automated platform designed specifically for processing nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) using artificial intelligence. The platform simplifies the execution of NDAs by automating the identification of key terms and ensuring compliance with organizational standards. It can review, edit, and approve agreements, offering a faster, more reliable, and cost-effective alternative to traditional attorney-based processing. By streamlining the NDA process, ndaOK alleviates the challenges typically associated with managing these agreements, enabling companies to efficiently handle their confidentiality needs without the usual complexities.

Unschedule

Funding Round in 2022
Unschedule is a communications tool that assists users in managing and having meaningful conversations that should take place outside of the calendar. Unschedule is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2021.

Koban

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Koban is a fintech company focused on transforming financial services in Latin America by addressing the needs of the unbanked population and improving options for existing banking customers. The company provides a secure digital platform that offers a range of user-friendly financial services, including payments, money transfers, budgeting tools, and credit facilities. Koban is dedicated to promoting financial inclusion through innovative technology and design, aiming to empower individuals in managing their financial lives effectively. By prioritizing customer experience, Koban seeks to simplify the complexities of money management and broaden access to essential financial services across the region.

FlipFam

Pre Seed Round in 2022
FlipFam operates a football prediction gaming platform that allows fans to engage in competitions while earning limited-edition digital collectibles, known as NFTs, at no upfront cost. Users can participate by answering questions about their favorite teams and making predictions, which enables them to accumulate digital trophies. These trophies serve as a means to unlock unique rewards, including exclusive club merchandise, VIP tickets, and other real-world prizes. By competing with friends and fellow fans, users can enhance their trophy room based on their skill and activity, gaining access to special competitions and rarer collectibles. FlipFam's innovative approach combines fan engagement with the excitement of gaming and the value of digital assets.

Carbon Collective

Seed Round in 2022
Carbon Collective is an online investment advisor dedicated to addressing the climate crisis by providing sustainable and green investment services. The company focuses on creating low-fee, diversified investment portfolios that aim to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. By offering a platform that allows users to invest in companies actively working to combat climate change, Carbon Collective seeks to bridge the significant annual climate investment gap. Its mission is to empower individuals to make impactful investment choices that contribute to a more sustainable future.

Aunt Flow

Series A in 2022
Aunt Flow Corp. is a manufacturer and supplier of menstrual products, focusing on providing access to high-quality hygiene items for individuals who menstruate. Founded in 2018 and based in Columbus, Ohio, the company offers a range of products, including tampons and pads made from 100% organic cotton, as well as additional merchandise such as clothing and accessories. Aunt Flow emphasizes sustainability by producing biodegradable products and operates a unique model where for every tampon purchased, a tampon is donated to someone in need within the United States. The company sells its products directly to consumers online and partners with businesses and schools to make menstrual products available at no charge through free-vend dispensers, ensuring that all individuals have access to essential hygiene products.
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