Prosper Women Entrepreneurs

Prosper Women Entrepreneurs is a Missouri-based early-stage venture firm established in 2014, dedicated to enhancing access to growth capital for women entrepreneurs. The organization focuses on increasing the number of women investing in early-stage capital markets, thereby fostering a more equitable entrepreneurial landscape. By targeting investments specifically in women-led companies, Prosper Women Entrepreneurs aims to empower female entrepreneurs and support their business development, contributing to broader economic growth and innovation.

Maxine Clark

Managing Partner

Jennifer Ehlen

Founder and Managing Partner

Peter Finley

Managing Director

Hal Gentry

Managing Partner

Mary Jo Gorman

Lead Managing Partner

Carol Matthews

Managing Partner

34 past transactions

Victoria Harbour Tech

Angel Round in 2018
Victoria Harbour Tech is a blockchain service provider.

Threater

Seed Round in 2018
Bandura uses simple, innovative technology and best-in-class threat intelligence to secure your networks, data and users in real time - wherever they are. Whether it’s from data we provide out of the box, data from one of our Partner Integrations - or any other data source you have - we block attacks from up to 150 Million malicious IPs and domains in real-time, with no latency. At Bandura, we believe nothing scales like simplicity. We make blocking threats smart and simple - at scale - everywhere.

RippleNami

Seed Round in 2017
RippleNami frees users from information silos, making big data relevant, decipherable and actionable. The cloud-based, device-agnostic and cost-effective platform can be customized to control access to valuable data with specific profiles and permission levels. The only traceability and transparency solution of its kind, RippleNami helps deliver real-time information on any device, allowing users the power to easily solve problems, make critical decisions and collaborate like never before.

Lean Media

Convertible Note in 2017
Lean Media, Inc. specializes in cookieless digital advertising services tailored for agribusiness and rural community advertisers. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri, the company employs geo-targeting techniques to identify individual consumers by mapping IP addresses to a comprehensive consumer insights database. This approach allows for precise audience targeting, focusing on demographics, psychographics, and behavioral insights, which enhances engagement and minimizes advertising waste. Lean Media's offerings include customized campaigns aimed at specific workplaces or mindsets, enabling advertisers to effectively reach individual consumers or specific consumer types across devices. By leveraging these capabilities, Lean Media ensures that advertisements are delivered to the right audience at the right time, optimizing the effectiveness of advertising efforts.

Sightworthy

Angel Round in 2017
Sightworthy connects brands to a smart brief submission platform and a global network of editors & motion graphics designers to produce short-form video in hours. Notable customers include Mercedes-Benz, GSK, Carnival Cruise and more.

Social Sparkling Wine

Seed Round in 2017
Social Sparkling Wine, LLC, based in Chicago, Illinois, specializes in producing organic sparkling wine crafted from brown rice. The flagship product, known as Social, is a certified organic, gluten-free sparkling sake that contains only 88 calories per serving. It is uniquely blended with super-food extracts and flower essences such as hibiscus, rose, elderflower, ginger, and coconut, appealing to health-conscious consumers. The company emphasizes its mission to promote vibrant and connected living while encouraging responsible drinking. Additionally, Social Sparkling Wine contributes 1% of its proceeds to charitable causes, reflecting its commitment to making a positive impact in the community. Products are available for purchase through online delivery as well as in retail locations. Founded in 2013, the company aims to redefine health-conscious alcohol options.

Per Diem Plus, LLC

Seed Round in 2017
Per Diem Plus, LLC develops an application which automatically calculates per diem. The company features include robust expense tracking and receipt scanning tools. It records trucker specific travel related and operating expenses. Per Diem Plus, LLC was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Clayton, Missouri.

FetchFind

Venture Round in 2017
FetchFind, an established leader in professional pet education, provides pet care businesses with a robust e-learning platform subscription, resulting in increased staff retention and higher margins. 125,000 US pet care service businesses capture a U.S. market share of $23 Billion per year, yet, are plagued with 125% staff turnover due to antiquated hiring and training solutions. FetchFind finally gives pet care businesses what they need to grow and sustain a team of qualified pet professionals. Investor information: https://www.fetchfindinvestors.com | Watch our demo here: https://youtu.be/142T6fCxcg0

Makeena

Venture Round in 2017
Makeena is a mobile and web-based platform that connects healthy and eco-friendly brands with shoppers who are looking for good for them, good for their family, and good for the planet products. For the Brand, Makeena provides a streamlined, location-aware mobile and web consumer engagement platform for natural and sustainable brands, automating tracking and redemption for the shopper across multiple platforms, brands, and retailers at the point of purchase (online or in-store) for a single shopper account. By pushing location and context-aware incentives to shoppers, then tracking and rewarding their engagement, brands build new shoppers, and increase loyalty and repeat purchases. On the backend, brands upload their own information and decide where, when, and how much to offer. Makeena then collects the shopper data and provides the brands with a way to analyze and manage that data, delivering to the brands deeper shopper insights, where their products are located (in what stores and where on the shelf), and what encourages their shoppers to stay loyal to them.

Soozie's Doozies, LLC

Venture Round in 2016
Soozie's Doozies, LLC engages in baking cookies. It offers refrigerated cookie dough pouches, cookie dough, butter cookies, butter shortbread, and baked cookie tins. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Union, Missouri.

RippleNami

Seed Round in 2016
RippleNami frees users from information silos, making big data relevant, decipherable and actionable. The cloud-based, device-agnostic and cost-effective platform can be customized to control access to valuable data with specific profiles and permission levels. The only traceability and transparency solution of its kind, RippleNami helps deliver real-time information on any device, allowing users the power to easily solve problems, make critical decisions and collaborate like never before.

Mindset App

Seed Round in 2016
Mindset App provides organizational mental wellness with mobile and wearable tech. Discover methods of combating stress at its source, and enjoy the clinically proven long-term benefits. The journal feature in the Mindset app mirrors Cognitive Behavioral Therapy exercises. Increase focus and capture control of the present with quick meditations that will give you a fresh boost. New to meditation? You're sure to find a type that works for you. Meditation pro? Discover new techniques to deepen your practice. Connect a wearable heart rate monitor to the Mindset app for optimal benefit. Connecting helps us learn about your stress levels throughout the day. They notify you when you're stressing and give you de-stress exercises and tips when it matters most. Beat your inner negativity bias by recognizing and celebrating good things, and watch a pattern of positivity start to form in your life. Using proven methods created by clinical specialists, the Mindset app's personalized model guides you to mental wellness. They track your progress, and learn when you're stressed out and the locations that trigger you, to create custom tips that steer you toward optimal mind management so you can become your best self.

MusicSpoke

Seed Round in 2016
MusicSpoke is an online music publishing platform that connects composers, conductors, and performers, allowing them to share and sell new music for choral and ensemble arrangements. Founded in 2013 and based in Lincoln, Nebraska, MusicSpoke serves as a global distribution platform, enabling musicians and educators to purchase sheet music directly from composers. This model not only supports living artists but also facilitates a more direct relationship between creators and their audience, similar to platforms like Etsy for artists.

Precision Image Analysis

Venture Round in 2016
Precision Image Analysis (PIA) provides an innovative remote image post-processing analysis service for use in diagnostic medical studies, including CT and MRI. HIPAA compliant IT architecture enables to upload images, monitor, track, and retrieve analyses remotely. Precision Image Analysis expertly-trained analysts deliver results in as few as two hours. It offers CT and MRI post-processing services to the healthcare and research communities with specific expertise in Cardiac, Vascular and Neuro. Migrating cardiovascular image analysis tasks to PIA means that you don’t have to worry about the schedule, time, or resource bottlenecks. It can easily and inexpensively scale up and down with surges in image analysis volume. No need to hire additional staff, invest in software training, or spend on unnecessary new technology. PIA Medical was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, United States.

Threater

Convertible Note in 2016
Bandura uses simple, innovative technology and best-in-class threat intelligence to secure your networks, data and users in real time - wherever they are. Whether it’s from data we provide out of the box, data from one of our Partner Integrations - or any other data source you have - we block attacks from up to 150 Million malicious IPs and domains in real-time, with no latency. At Bandura, we believe nothing scales like simplicity. We make blocking threats smart and simple - at scale - everywhere.

Balloon

Seed Round in 2016
Balloon removes bias from group work and decision-making - across teams, both internal and external. Its platform levels the playing field and makes it possible to anonymously surface and prioritize information, feedback, and insights that companies can't get any other way.

KiraKira3D

Seed Round in 2016
KiraKira3D is a pioneering mobile application focused on 3D modeling, aimed at transforming how girls engage with engineering. The platform offers online classes that teach 3D printing, providing a unique learning experience by combining virtual instruction with tangible rewards in the form of 3D printed objects. KiraKira3D fosters an online community dedicated to learning, creating, and sharing, while equipping users with essential engineering skills and concepts. The lessons cover a range of transferable skills relevant to various STEM fields, including architecture, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and industrial design, thereby broadening the educational opportunities for young learners interested in these disciplines.

Investment POD

Seed Round in 2016
Investment POD, LLC is a digital wealth management platform designed to assist wealth advisors and high-net-worth individuals in navigating the evolving landscape of online investing. Founded in 2012 and based in Potomac Falls, Virginia, the company offers tools that enable advisors to establish and enhance their online presence while differentiating themselves from traditional robo-advisors. Investment POD combines sophisticated strategies for asset and investment diversification with automated solutions to streamline the investment process from research to execution. This platform supports wealth advisors in scaling their businesses and allows individuals to manage their own wealth effectively. By providing customized solutions for registered investment advisors and wealth management firms, Investment POD aims to facilitate the integration of digital components into existing business models, ultimately promoting more efficient asset gathering and client servicing.

Appticles

Seed Round in 2016
Appticles is an online platform suited for content creators (bloggers, small and medium publishing houses, but also data-driven enterprises) that enables them to effortlessly reach their mobile audience by packaging their existing content into cross-platform mobile web applications. We bring forth the HTML5 technology, empowering content creators, to better reach and target their mobile audience regardless of the mobile operating system (iOS, Android, Windows Phone/RT, BB10, FirefoxOS & Tizen) or device type (smartphone or tablet) they are using. The platform has an intuitive workflow with a rich set of features that makes it easier for content creators to personalize their own mobile web applications: ❖ Social reading experience on mobiles & tablets Users can easily share content from within the mobile web applications on their favorite social media channels. This way, their friends & followers can simply tap on a link and immediately have access to the application, without needing to install anything. That’s priceless! ❖ Themes and custom appearance Choosing from multiple themes, customizing the colors & fonts, adding logos and mixing different graphic elements makes the brand consolidate its identity. ❖ Responsive UI All mobile web applications are sensitive to orientation changes: landscape and portrait. In other words, the look and feel of the mobile web app seamlessly morphs into the screen size of the user’s device. ❖ Offline mode capability Users can still access the mobile web application even if they’re on a tube, on a plane or if their signal is poor. This enhanced reading experience is all possible through this type of mobile web applications. ❖ Monetization Monetizing the mobile web apps can be achieved either through ads, paid subscriptions or social micropayments. Regardless of the chosen monetization model, all the money goes directly in the content creator’s pocket. There’s no shared revenue constraint. Read more about it and start creating your own mobile web application now: http://www.appticles.com/

Janus Choice

Seed Round in 2015
Janus Choice, LLC provides solutions for improving the hospital discharge process and empowering the patient to pick the right skilled nursing facility. The company offers a search engine with a patentable algorithm to hospitals and patients for matching patient’s clinical and social needs with the services provided by the facility; allows patients and their families to make a decision without leaving hospital room, bringing benefits to the hospital by decreasing length of stay, and promoting patient’s choice and improving overall experience; and creates multiple benefits to the facilities participating in the program. It serves patients, hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Rockford, Illinois.

Threater

Convertible Note in 2015
Bandura uses simple, innovative technology and best-in-class threat intelligence to secure your networks, data and users in real time - wherever they are. Whether it’s from data we provide out of the box, data from one of our Partner Integrations - or any other data source you have - we block attacks from up to 150 Million malicious IPs and domains in real-time, with no latency. At Bandura, we believe nothing scales like simplicity. We make blocking threats smart and simple - at scale - everywhere.

Edis Solutions

Seed Round in 2015
Confluence gathers, filters, combines and presents the pharmaceutical intelligence you need. It turns manual into automatic, risk into reliability and wait into wow. With Confluence you start where it counts: crucial planning and decision-making. Skip the assembly, start with Confluence.

taptl

Seed Round in 2015
taptl develops, manufactures and sells transparent touch-screens. The touch-screens can be used as windows, kiosks, directories, “TVs,” or computers for personal or business use. The technology is currently being marketed to the luxury interiors industry, including retail, yachts, aircrafts, and homes. They are offered in sizes 5”-110”, available in HD and UHD, and are environmentally sustainable, with endless applications.

Threater

Convertible Note in 2015
Bandura uses simple, innovative technology and best-in-class threat intelligence to secure your networks, data and users in real time - wherever they are. Whether it’s from data we provide out of the box, data from one of our Partner Integrations - or any other data source you have - we block attacks from up to 150 Million malicious IPs and domains in real-time, with no latency. At Bandura, we believe nothing scales like simplicity. We make blocking threats smart and simple - at scale - everywhere.

Janus Choice

Seed Round in 2015
Janus Choice, LLC provides solutions for improving the hospital discharge process and empowering the patient to pick the right skilled nursing facility. The company offers a search engine with a patentable algorithm to hospitals and patients for matching patient’s clinical and social needs with the services provided by the facility; allows patients and their families to make a decision without leaving hospital room, bringing benefits to the hospital by decreasing length of stay, and promoting patient’s choice and improving overall experience; and creates multiple benefits to the facilities participating in the program. It serves patients, hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Rockford, Illinois.

SkyMedicus

Convertible Note in 2015
SkyMedicus is a HIPAA compliant medical tourism company with a digital technology marketplace that connects patients with professionals in medicine. The company connects patients with its global network over 500 professionals in medicine. SkyMedicus provides an affordable way for patients to directly access surgeries, procedures, and related treatments. It also offers an online medical and dental platform for its patients. Founded by Mark Reder, Amy Holcomb, and Tracy Foster, the company is based in Los Angeles, California.

Smart Monitor

Convertible Note in 2015
Smart Monitor Corp. specializes in monitoring and tracking solutions for individuals with chronic health conditions. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a non-invasive wristwatch designed to monitor movements and detect shaking motions associated with conditions like epilepsy. This device alerts connected family members and caregivers in real-time, while also collecting data on seizures for both users and clinicians to facilitate effective health management. By integrating sensor technology, mobile applications, and cloud computing, Smart Monitor aims to enhance the safety and autonomy of its users, providing reassurance to their families and care providers. The company distributes its products through a network of partners domestically and internationally.

SixPlus

Seed Round in 2015
SixPlus is an online platform that facilitates the booking of private and semi-private venues for group events. It is particularly popular among corporate event and administrative professionals who require spaces for occasions such as board dinners, team lunches, and company holiday parties. The platform allows users to browse a variety of venues across major cities, including New York, Washington DC, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. Clients can build custom proposals, manage bookings, contracts, and communication efficiently, all from a single location.

Smart Monitor

Convertible Note in 2015
Smart Monitor Corp. specializes in monitoring and tracking solutions for individuals with chronic health conditions. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a non-invasive wristwatch designed to monitor movements and detect shaking motions associated with conditions like epilepsy. This device alerts connected family members and caregivers in real-time, while also collecting data on seizures for both users and clinicians to facilitate effective health management. By integrating sensor technology, mobile applications, and cloud computing, Smart Monitor aims to enhance the safety and autonomy of its users, providing reassurance to their families and care providers. The company distributes its products through a network of partners domestically and internationally.

BookaLokal

Seed Round in 2015
BookaLokal Inc. operates a social dining platform that connects hosts and guests through a variety of food events worldwide. Established in 2012 and based in Chatham, New Jersey, the platform allows users to explore and book diverse culinary experiences such as dinners, brunches, food tours, ice cream tastings, and cooking classes. Hosts include food bloggers, aspiring chefs, and individuals looking to share their culinary skills while earning income. Guests range from travelers and expats to locals who appreciate food and the opportunity to meet new people in a welcoming environment. In addition to event booking, BookaLokal facilitates cultural exchange by enabling participants to share recipes, photos, and experiences, enriching their culinary journeys.

KiteReaders

Convertible Note in 2015
KiteReaders is an internet company that designs, develops, and distributes ebooks and apps for children ages 3-8. It creates interactive and multimedia ebooks and apps that entertain, engage, and educate kids (ages 3-8) to place them on a path to academic success. The company publishes under its own brand as well as for other brands like Disney, Hallmark, Gibbs-Smith, and more. KiteReaders aims to provide quality eBooks and resources for children and their families and promote literacy in an increasingly digital world. It was founded in 2012 and is based in Santa Clara, California, United States.

SanusEO

Convertible Note in 2015
SanusEO engagement and intervention platform trigger behavior modification at critical points in transition care saving healthcare dollars while improving patient outcomes. SanusEO is a mHealth company, offering mobile texting and web services to support population health management and help improve both clinical and financial outcomes. It was incorporated in 2012 and is based in St Louis, Missouri.

Wondermento

Seed Round in 2015
Wondermento seeks to lovingly integrate the convenience of mobile apps with the tangibility of elegant hardware. The company seeks to build more interactive applications and devices with an emphasis on the connection between efficient, healthy living and the happiness of play. Wondermento was founded in November 2013, has offices on three different continents and is continuing to build out hardware for multiple markets. WonderWoof is Wondermento's flagship product, a dog activity tracker that is as fashionable as it is functional. Shaped like a BowTie and coming in seven designer colors, WonderWoof tells you if your dog is playing, walking, jumping, sleeping, running or dreaming. Based on your dog’s size, breed, and age, WonderWoof suggests goals for your pup to meet per day using bones and badges earned as a playful incentive. It also links with a social network of other WonderWoofers to keep up with your doggy friends on the free app.

Boosterville

Angel Round in 2013
Boosterville Inc. is a fundraising platform that partners schools with local businesses to generate financial support for educational institutions. It offers a mobile web application that enables school supporters to discover local merchants willing to allocate funds, typically designated for credit card processing fees, towards school fundraising efforts. This innovative approach not only helps local schools raise essential funds but also brings new customers to participating businesses, enhancing their sales. Additionally, Boosterville provides a communications platform that facilitates interaction between fundraisers and merchants, allowing them to update supporters on fundraising activities and promote local businesses. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, Boosterville was previously known as Sodbuster Inc. and is a subsidiary of Beyond Inc.