Side Door Ventures

Side Door Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in audacious founders building the future at the fringe. We’re generalist investors and back teams across software, life sciences, space, frontier tech, blockchain, gaming, and financial services that aim to transform industries and improve lives. The Future Starts at the Fringe.

Drew Gonzales

Principal

JJ MacLean

Principal

26 past transactions

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.

Magna

Seed Round in 2022
Magna develops a token vesting and DeFi investment management platform. The company's first product is Carta for Web3, where companies can manage their cap tables and distribute their token equity to employees, advisors, or investors. It aims to use locked tokens as composable building blocks to power collateralized lending, liquid secondary markets, and other DeFi applications.

Village Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Village Labs uses AI to take all the mundane tasks of modern work off your plate so you can work on what matters most. We connect to all of your team's SaaS tools and build no-code AI apps on top to save you tons of time and make each one of your team members better at their job.

Stablecorp

Seed Round in 2022
Stablecorp is a money solution provider that develops QCAD that is transparent and secure Canadian dollar stablecoin.

CryptoLeague

Pre Seed Round in 2022
CryptoLeague™, a Miami-based web3 tech company, is empowering web3 investing communities with the tools to accelerate their financial freedom. CryptoLeague is pioneering a new category in investing platforms, by harnessing the wisdom of the crowds in community investing. The founders of CryptoLeague believe that crypto and NFT investing is a community sport, which should be social, accessible, self-governing, competitive, and ultimately rewarding. CryptoLeague is unleashing the power of collaboration and access to quality knowledge in a first-of-its-kind platform; all aimed at generating life-changing investment returns.

Kintsugi

Series A in 2022
Kintsugi is developing novel voice biomarker software to detect signs of depression and anxiety from short clips of free form speech. Awarded multiple distinctions for AI technology and recently named one of Forbes’ Top 50 AI companies to watch in 2022, Kintsugi helps to close mental health care gaps across risk-bearing health systems, ultimately saving time and lives.

TransFi

Seed Round in 2022
TransFi helps businesses and individuals access better ways to move money. Combining industry-leading coverage of currencies and payment methods, our platform delivers compliant payouts, collections, and ramp services across Asia, Europe, LatAm, Africa, and North America. In our pursuit to advance economic prosperity through borderless finance, TransFi is making international money movement faster, less expensive, and more reliable than ever.

Stack Wealth

Seed Round in 2021
Stack lets you access exclusive wealth creation opportunities by helping you invest in premium multi-asset portfolios managed by real experts. Invest in debt, Indian & US equity, gold, private credit and more exclusive opportunities based on your risk appetite to reach your financial goals. You can track, automate, and predict your wealth growth with our app and stay up to date with all your investments through simple, detailed weekly & monthly reports. Good financial habits deserve great rewards. That’s why our investors are given free US Stocks for every investment made on the app.

BioSapien

Seed Round in 2021
BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline of indications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.

HIFI

Seed Round in 2021
HIFI is a next-generation payments infrastructure platform. The company powers a suite of modern payment APIs to enable businesses to move money faster on a global scale for the next chapter of the internet. Our payment rails powers businesses to move money instantly with near-zero cost to enhance cash flow, reduce inefficiencies, increase visibility, and combat fraud. Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2022.

LandVault

Series B in 2021
Admix is a monetisation platform for game developers that enables non-intrusive, programmatic product placements within their content. Admix is a programmatic platform for everything from immersive technologies to mobile games, selling their inventory to popular demand-side platforms and giving millions of advertisers the ability to buy game media in a couple of clicks.

Foxquilt

Series A in 2021
Foxquilt is an Insurance technology company focused on empowering small businesses and B2B networks to save on Small Business insurance.

HyperTrader

Seed Round in 2021
HyperLinq helps traders organize their portfolios, discover opportunities, execute trades faster, and analyze transactions. We provide access to institutional-grade trading technologies to everyone.

TransAstra

Pre Seed Round in 2021
TransAstra is developing breakthrough technologies in the areas of space resources and in-space transportation to enable massive growth to existing space industries and whole new space industries. TransAstra leads the world in the technologies to find, prospect, harvest, and use space resources. Space resources include water and other valuable materials to be found on asteroids and lunar poles. TransAstra knows how to extract these resources and use them as rocket propellant for use in today's commercial satellites and whole new industries including space tourism.

Prescient AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Prescient is a premier, state-of-the-art automation software that provides transparency and precise data insights for marketers and digital DTC brands alike. With the onset of a major shift toward a privacy-first internet, Prescient is the answer to fueling a brand’s success. Their technology helps measure, forecast, optimize, and continuously backtest marketing funnels with such meticulous accuracy that it saves the two most important things in business: time and money. Prescient knows that the e-commerce space is changing and the internet is evolving. They’re here to set a new tone for the future of tech: predicted profitability. They are rebuilding a sense of “trust in tech” through transparency in their partnerships and the software that they use every day in business.

Splinterlands

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Splinterlands is a decentralized, digital collectible trading card game built on blockchain technology. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Media, Pennsylvania.

Phood

Funding Round in 2021
Phood allows students to use dining dollars to order food from delivery services such as Doordash at no extra cost to the university. This is an opportunity to generate profit while enhancing dining services. Students are using food delivery apps on their phones 3-5 times a week already. Phood provides the technology that fits the university business model as well as their student's eating habits.

Snack App

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Snack App is a video-first dating app that combines the matching algorithms of a dating platform with the ability to flirt-stream life in real-time. The company was founded by Kimberly Kaplan and is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Ryu Games

Seed Round in 2021
Ryu Games helps make games with cash tournaments where players compete for a cash prize.

BioSapien

Venture Round in 2021
BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline of indications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.

Builtfirst

Seed Round in 2020
Builtfirst allows any company can create a perk marketplace, integration marketplace, reseller marketplace, or service marketplace in minutes. Our mission is to create the largest ecosystem of marketplace partners any company can go to market through.

Blue Wire

Series A in 2020
Blue Wire is an audio-centric media company hosting podcasts with athletes, influencers, and professional sports franchises. It acquires and launches podcasts about one team or one specific topic. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

MightyFly

Seed Round in 2020
MightyFly is remaking the future of logistics through autonomous freight delivery systems that are faster, cheaper and carbon neutral. We're building patent-pending, autonomous, electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft with a cargo capacity of up to 500 pounds, a range of 600 miles and speed of 150 mph to provide rapid and efficient package transport to businesses and governments. The "freight focused” design optimizes for speed and automation, leading to increased efficiency, greater throughput and higher margins.

Swyft

Seed Round in 2020
Swyft is a B2B marketplace offering same-day delivery for brands and retailers. It enables carriers to digitize or automate a good deal of what they’re traditionally doing by hand. Ship via Swyft and gain unified bills, digital PODs, real-time track and trace, branded customer notifications, SMS updates, and more. Swyft converts more shoppers at checkout and delights them with reliable and affordable same-day delivery. Swyft was founded in 2020 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Sendry

Pre Seed Round in 2019
E-money licensed DLT remittance, credit data and lending platform providing cash store to cardless ATM transfers and digital transfers.Uniquely utilises cash transfer data to augment credit scoring for lower income migrant workers allows X-border lending and loan repayments directly from remittances.

HavenLock

Series A in 2019
Haven is a smart door lock technology that challenges traditional notions of how the user secures their home and interact with the ecosystem inside. The company was founded in 2014 by Alex Bertelli and Clay Banks and is based in Franklin, Tennessee.
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