Slow Ventures

Slow Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2009, focusing on early-stage investments in technology-related companies across the United States. The firm emphasizes a community-driven approach, leveraging collective experience and curiosity to support entrepreneurs in their journey. Slow Ventures invests in a diverse range of sectors, including software, e-commerce, financial services, biotechnology, and more. By providing founders with essential resources, connections, and empathetic support, Slow Ventures aims to foster the development of strong and sustainable companies that can thrive at the intersection of technology, science, society, and culture.

Jill Carlson

Principal

Catherine Gildea

Associate

Sam Lessin

Partner

Megan Lightcap

Principal

Corinne Pinjuv

Partner and Operations Manager

Yoni Rechtman

Principal

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Ecosapiens

Seed Round in 2023
Ecosapiens is a Web3 and NFT project designed to empower individuals in the fight against climate change. The company offers a platform that integrates carbon into digital art while emphasizing nature-based solutions for carbon removal, reduction, and prevention. Through its innovative approach, Ecosapiens enables consumers to actively contribute to environmental sustainability and make a meaningful impact on the climate.

Comm

Seed Round in 2022
Comm Technologies is scaling E2E encryption with personal private servers.

Ranger Station

Seed Round in 2022
Ranger Station specializes in modernizing home insurance through a digital platform that enhances the capabilities of insurance agents. By offering a range of affordable and quality personal insurance products, Ranger Station aims to ensure the safety and security of households. The proprietary platform empowers agents to better serve their clients by providing essential tools and resources that facilitate education and informed decision-making regarding personal risk management. Through this approach, Ranger Station seeks to build stronger relationships between agents and customers, ultimately fostering a more secure environment for modern families.

Metropolis

Series B in 2022
Metropolis is an AI and computer vision start-up built to modernize parking and empower the future of mobility. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Pawlicy Advisor

Series B in 2022
Pawlicy Advisor Inc. is a pet insurance comparison service founded in 2018 and located in New York, New York. The company specializes in helping pet owners find optimal insurance coverage by allowing them to compare breed-specific insurance plans. Pawlicy Advisor examines various options available in the market and assesses the specific risks associated with different pet breeds. This approach enables pet owners to make informed decisions, ensuring they choose the best coverage for their needs while saving money. The service aims to simplify the process of selecting pet insurance, providing clear guidance on risks, costs, and coverage options.

Wonderbelly

Seed Round in 2022
Ginger Health Company provides solutions for digestive health and offers product options, education, and guidance for consumers. Ginger Health Company was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Altan Insights

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a data analytics platform designed for the evaluation and management of collectible assets. The company's platform offers a comprehensive database of alternative asset sale and transaction information to research, monitor, analyze, and understand the value and market dynamics of coveted physical assets, enabling investors, financial services professionals, and collectible market stakeholders providing a strategic edge in the collectible asset investment space.

Switchboard

Seed Round in 2022
Switchboard is the first error monitoring and incident response platform for Zapier and Make (formerly Integromat). its goal is to become the operating system for non-technical teams building dashboards, systems, and processes.

Ecosapiens

Seed Round in 2022
Ecosapiens is a Web3 and NFT project designed to empower individuals in the fight against climate change. The company offers a platform that integrates carbon into digital art while emphasizing nature-based solutions for carbon removal, reduction, and prevention. Through its innovative approach, Ecosapiens enables consumers to actively contribute to environmental sustainability and make a meaningful impact on the climate.

Sawa Credit

Seed Round in 2022
Sawa Credit, founded in 2020 and based in Castro Valley, California, is developing a technology platform that leverages behavioral science and machine learning to support borrowers through a community-oriented system. The company focuses on providing solutions in mortgage lending and mortgage servicing, aiming to enhance the borrowing experience by integrating innovative technology with an understanding of borrower behavior.

Pollen Mobile

Seed Round in 2022
Pollen Mobile operates a decentralized mobile network that is owned and managed by its users, leveraging blockchain technology to enhance mobile connectivity. The network utilizes citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) and incorporates a crypto-economy centered around Pollen Coin, Magma, and various open-source protocols. By offering a user-owned and operated alternative, Pollen Mobile aims to provide reliable, affordable, and privacy-focused mobile services, distinguishing itself from traditional mobile carriers.

Stem Disintermedia

Venture Round in 2022
Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians to collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings. It develops a platform intended to provide distribution and payments solution for artists and their teams. The platform aggregates cross-platform earnings, create contracts, and honor splits with collaborators, disburse payments and statements to all stakeholders in a project and visualizes performance data for each platform, enabling businesses to bring clarity to the complicated process of revenue management and ensure everyone involved in the creative process gets paid. Milana Rabkin, Tim Luckow, and Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith formed Stem Disintermedia in Los Angeles, California in 2015.

OpenPhone

Series B in 2022
OpenPhone Technologies, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing a business phone application tailored for startups, small businesses, and individuals. Founded in 2018, OpenPhone provides users with a reliable VoIP service that allows them to obtain a business phone number without needing a second device or SIM card. The application features unlimited messaging and calling capabilities, enabling users to separate their business and personal contacts effectively. Its platform includes functionalities such as call routing, auto-recording of calls, and automated responses to texts, missed calls, and voicemails, which help streamline communication for entrepreneurs and professionals. OpenPhone is accessible on both mobile and desktop devices, enhancing its usability for various users.

Better Financial

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a banking application designed to fight medical debts. The company's application has a built-in insurance policy that pays for medical deductibles and everyday expenses like rent and groceries or even lost income, enabling customers to get paid during any medical emergency.

Allora Labs

Series A in 2022
Upshot is a blockchain-based protocol that incentivizes experts to answer subjective questions honestly and captures the value of truth. Its first product aims to provide an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs by paying experts for honest appraisals unlocking new opportunities for experts and enabling a number of powerful new DeFi primitives.

Amper

Series A in 2022
Amper Technologies, Inc. develops and operates a clip-on device that helps factory owners and managers to analyze power consumption of their machines, predict downtime, and deploy predictive maintenance. It offers hardware and software to improve productivity and OEE. The company offers a solution from the hardware to the software, including non-invasive sensors, Internet-connected gateway, and web dashboards, as well as online dashboard to configure and see alerts, real-time status, key metrics, and rich reports. Its technologies also provides plant managers in factories to increase machine and labor productivity by having retrofit sensor that monitors across machine types. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Espresso Systems

Seed Round in 2022
Espresso Systems focuses on scaling and privacy solutions for Web 3 applications, specifically within the blockchain sector. The company specializes in "shared sequencing," a process where sequencers verify and batch transactions on layer-2 blockchains before relaying them to a layer-1 chain, such as Ethereum, for settlement. In addition to its blockchain expertise, Espresso Systems offers a robust infrastructure for online transaction technology, catering to the needs of clients in the online payment industry. This infrastructure enables efficient transaction processing and interaction, supporting the development of a more scalable and privacy-focused third generation of the World Wide Web.

Rarify

Series A in 2022
Rarify is currently working on making a service where minting and selling digital assets can become a non-hassle for industries such as music, gaming, applications and entertainment.

Subskribe

Series A in 2022
Developer of adaptive quoting and billing platform designed to offer SaaS companies innovative pricing models to successfully grow and manage their business. The company's systems include cloud-native and use a microservices architecture, that brings all the powerful benefits of the cloud such as auto-scaling and containerization, enabling clients to manage their recurring financial relationships with customers.

DIMO

Seed Round in 2022
[DIMO] connects the physical and digital world to produce useful work.

Aleo

Series B in 2022
Aleo is building the world's leading developer platform for enabling absolute privacy on blockchains. With their vocal advocacy for privacy tech in the blockchain ecosystem, they are playing a major part in mainstream awareness and industry adoption of privacy-preserving technologies. they are proud to offer a platform of services that exemplify privacy.

Ridge

Series A in 2022
Ridge is building a global network of computing power through partnerships with data centers and aggregators of highly distributed compute nodes. It develops an Edge Cloud that provides exceptional scalability and performance. The company is backed by some of the most successful venture funds in Israel and Silicon Valley.

Product Science

Series A in 2022
Product Science increases product metrics for mobile applications and helps apps work faster by providing insights into key performance issues that impact user experience. Product Science analyzes the code and actual runtime data to pinpoint performance issues. Our AI enables us to do it more efficiently by providing unique insights for data visualizations to help mobile developers to identify the problem right away.

ianacare

Series A in 2022
Ianacare, Inc. is a health care company focused on supporting family caregivers through its ianacare platform, which offers products and services via mobile applications. Founded in 2017 and based in Newton Center, Massachusetts, the company provides care management for individuals with chronic illnesses and other challenges. The platform facilitates connections among caregivers, care recipients, and care supporters, ensuring that users receive the encouragement and resources they need. Ianacare aims to empower caregivers by drawing on the experiences of caregivers, patients, and medical professionals, thereby addressing the complexities of caregiving in a comprehensive manner.

Taptap Send

Series B in 2021
Taptap Send is an app that lets immigrants send money back home to Africa instantly and at very low prices. Since launching in summer 2018, it has already moved tens of millions of dollars and reached tens of thousands of customers. It is live in seven European countries, and support payments into Senegal, Mali, Zambia, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, with more countries launching soon.

Incredible Dream

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of an online game platform intended to streamline and enhance gaming. The company develops original fantasy worlds, characters, games, and transmedia experiences for digital natives, enabling gamers to connect with other humans in a meaningful way through fun to play tabletop games.

Burrata

Seed Round in 2021
Burrata is a computer software provider and developer that bridges Web2 to Web3.

Mysten Labs

Series A in 2021
Mysten Labs, founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, California, develops foundational infrastructure to promote the adoption of web3 technologies. The company focuses on enhancing the development of decentralized services by simplifying the complexities associated with lower-level blockchain integrations. By providing essential tools and improvements across multiple blockchain networks, Mysten Labs enables developers to concentrate on delivering superior user experiences, thereby facilitating broader engagement with web3 applications.

Parcl

Seed Round in 2021
Parcl is a digital real estate protocol built on the blockchain. The company's headquarters are in New York City.

Stride Funding

Series A in 2021
Stride Funding (AlmaPact Inc.) is a mission-driven company focused on enabling debt-free lives for students, by supplementing student loans with flexible income sharing agreements. Unlike student loans that lock students into a single rigid payment, Stride’s payments rise and fall with a student’s income so that payments are always affordable. The company has been recognized as a visionary leader by FinTech analysts for its efforts on income protection and career support. Stride was created by students, for students, aiming to change student lives for the better. The company has been recognized by Harvard and MIT as a top new venture. Stride has received venture investments from GSV Accelerate, Slow Ventures, Sinai Ventures and Pear VC; and its strategic investors include Strada Education. Its advisors include serial entrepreneurs, Doug Levin and Tina Sharkey. Fund your Future, Find your Stride!

Dagster Labs

Series A in 2021
Dagster Labs develops an open-source Python library known as Dagster, which serves as a data orchestration platform for building modern data applications. The platform facilitates collaboration among infrastructure engineers, data engineers, and data scientists, enabling them to efficiently process and produce trusted data. Dagster offers a user-friendly programming model for constructing data pipelines and workflows, designed to integrate smoothly with existing tools and systems. Its incrementally-adoptable architecture allows clients to leverage their current infrastructure while enhancing their data management capabilities.

Vint

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Operator of an investment platform intended for wine investing. The company's platform allows investors to invest in the wine market, it sources wines and spirits through the use of data models, analytics, and a team of industry experts and takes a sourcing fee, enabling investors to diversify their portfolio by investing in the wine market.

Symbiose

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Symbiose Technologies is a communications company that specializes in developing AI-powered conversational software. Its products are designed to enhance personal interactions by providing users with a digital companion that functions as a lightweight therapist and personal journal. Utilizing deep learning, the software engages users in verbal conversations and reflective questioning, promoting self-awareness and personal growth. Symbiose aims to redefine the communication landscape by offering a high-fidelity messaging experience that fosters empathic intelligence and contributes to users' overall peace of mind.

Umbrel

Seed Round in 2021
Umbrel provides a personal server with a Bitcoin and Lightning node at home.

FourFront

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an entertainment platform designed to combine real-life actors and artificial intelligence to pull audiences. The company's platform allows to chat personally with the virtual characters across communication platforms and to create fictional influencers that leverage the proprietary tools to appear real, enabling audiences to get a social and interactive marketing experience.

Postmoda

Seed Round in 2021
Postmoda operates as a peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace specializing in luxury, designer, and vintage clothing. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company provides a platform where users can rent items directly from one another, enhancing sustainability in the fashion industry. The service allows consumers to browse and book their selections through an application, with options for both renting and lending clothing. Items can be returned to local dry cleaners, which serve as fulfillment centers, facilitating a convenient and eco-friendly rental experience. Postmoda aims to transform traditional fashion consumption by promoting a circular economy and reducing waste.

Mayk

Seed Round in 2021
Mayk provides a virtual music studio designed to help people make original songs for streaming or social media. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Solo

Seed Round in 2021
Solo is an innovative platform designed to support app-based gig workers by addressing the challenges of pay instability and professional uncertainty in the gig economy. With over 60 million individuals engaged in gig work, Solo leverages data analytics to offer insights and tools that help workers optimize their time and manage multiple jobs effectively. The platform provides city-level pay and performance benchmarks, including hour-by-hour earnings predictions, and ensures transparency in market pay rates. Additionally, Solo offers services that help workers bridge income gaps when earnings fall short, empowering them to achieve greater financial stability and reach their personal financial goals.

Parallel Finance

Series A in 2021
Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.

Solo

Seed Round in 2021
Solo is an innovative platform designed to support app-based gig workers by addressing the challenges of pay instability and professional uncertainty in the gig economy. With over 60 million individuals engaged in gig work, Solo leverages data analytics to offer insights and tools that help workers optimize their time and manage multiple jobs effectively. The platform provides city-level pay and performance benchmarks, including hour-by-hour earnings predictions, and ensures transparency in market pay rates. Additionally, Solo offers services that help workers bridge income gaps when earnings fall short, empowering them to achieve greater financial stability and reach their personal financial goals.

BreachQuest

Seed Round in 2021
Provider of security breach and incident response management services intended to offer visibility into malicious content and immediately deliver responses. The company utilizes forensic triage tools to offer cybersecurity, digital forensics, ransomware response and recovery, data collection, malware investigation, phishing response administration, and other related services, enabling companies to implement an effective phishing incident response plan and mitigate future uncertainties.

Starday

Seed Round in 2021
Starday Foods is a company focused on producing healthy and sustainable food products. It emphasizes the use of sustainable practices in its operations, which enhances efficiency and promotes environmentally friendly methods in food and beverage development. The company specializes in creating food items that are low in sugar and free from palm oil and dairy, catering to consumers who seek quality ingredients. By prioritizing sustainable practices, Starday Foods aims to minimize its environmental impact while delivering nutritious options to its customers.

Class

Series B in 2021
Class is a provider of online learning solutions that focuses on enhancing remote education through its virtual classroom software. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to streamline the teaching and learning process, including features such as attendance tracking, assignment distribution, grading, and proctored exams. By integrating its software with platforms like Zoom, Class facilitates interactive and effective learning experiences for both teachers and students. The platform encompasses functionalities such as seating charts, ID verification, participation tracking, and performance management, enabling educators to optimize their classroom management and improve student engagement. Additionally, Class provides courses across various subject areas, including core, elective, and skills development, along with program implementation services to support educational institutions in their online teaching efforts.

Embark

Series B in 2021
Embark offers dog DNA testing that ends preventable diseases in dogs. It was founded by top experts in genomics, computational biology, and software design to sell an industry-leading dog DNA test. They use a clinical-grade CLIA-certified SNP chip to provide the most accurate and comprehensive results (200,000+ genetic markers) available on the market. Their data contributes to proprietary genetics research that will help dog owners optimize nutrition, exercise, allergies, and prevent a variety of heritable conditions. Their technological advantage, intellectual capital, and research-focus enable them to push canine health toward our shared vision of preventative veterinary care.

Breakr

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a tech-enabled music promotion marketplace intended to connect musicians with influencers. The company's platform addresses the unique challenges of influencer campaigns and seamlessly connects the users based on matching interests, goals, and campaign criteria, enabling record labels, artists, and brands to form successful collaborations with influencers that drive traffic, engagement, and ultimately revenue.

Invisible AI

Venture Round in 2021
Invisible AI Inc. specializes in developing advanced artificial intelligence-powered cameras and a visual intelligence platform tailored for logistics and manufacturing facilities. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a no-code, edge-based computer vision platform that monitors body movement to enhance manual assembly processes. Its low-cost cameras can be deployed at workstations, providing full visibility and tracking of body posture and movement to identify and address manual assembly errors. The platform includes a web dashboard that integrates, tracks, and analyzes data, enabling clients to optimize workflow and improve operational efficiency. Through its innovative solutions, Invisible AI aims to enhance real-time visibility into operational practices, ultimately reducing costs and increasing safety and effectiveness in manufacturing environments.

Checkstep

Seed Round in 2021
CheckStep provides a AI-powered Trust & Safety and UGC management software to online platform worldwide. It enables company to manage the full policy management life-cycle.

RabbitHole

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of crypto networks designed to earn digital currency using crypto applications. The company provides tokens for doing onchain actions, offers tools to distribute ownership and quests that upon completion offer rewards, enabling users to acquire XP, level up, and earn rewards for interacting with well-known blockchain protocols.

Robocorp

Series A in 2021
Robocorp Oy, a subsidiary of RoboCorp Technologies, Inc., specializes in developing a cloud-based platform for open source robotic process automation (RPA). Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Helsinki, Finland, Robocorp aims to simplify the implementation of RPA by providing developers with cloud-native, open-source tools. This approach enables organizations to adopt RPA solutions without the restrictive limitations often associated with traditional offerings, facilitating greater flexibility and efficiency in automating business processes.

Stork Club

Series A in 2021
Stork Club Fertility, Inc., founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, specializes in fertility, maternity, and parental benefit programs aimed at creating family-friendly workplaces. The company provides customized employer-sponsored benefits that help reduce both direct medical spending and indirect costs related to talent attrition and absenteeism. By focusing on improving employee health outcomes and offering emotional support during challenging fertility journeys, Stork Club has garnered trust from various organizations, including Metromile, Airtable, and Lookout. The company's initiatives are supported by a distinguished advisory board comprising experts from institutions such as UCSF and One Medical, as well as from notable companies like LinkedIn and Facebook.

Hummingbot

Series A in 2021
Hummingbot is an open-source software platform that enables users to implement automated, algorithmic trading strategies typically accessible only to institutional investors. It specializes in high-frequency trading and provides tools for deploying, monitoring, and managing multiple trading bots, facilitating the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. The platform generates market analysis insights and current pricing information, allowing users to engage in decentralized market making. Hummingbot is recognized as a leader in the open-source algorithmic trading space for cryptocurrencies and is supported by significant investment from Bain Capital Ventures and Stanford University's StartX Fund. Through its liquidity mining platform, Hummingbot is transforming the landscape of financial markets by promoting crowd-sourced trading solutions.

Odie Pet Insurance

Seed Round in 2021
Provider of pet insurance services intended to create flexible financial plans for pet wellness. The company's services cover unexpected accidents, illnesses and other pet emergencies, along with affordable and convenient policies with a technology-based claims process, enabling pet owners to protect themselves from the stress of unexpected hefty pet healthcare costs.

Chia Network

Series D in 2021
Chia Network Inc. is a blockchain-based company founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It focuses on creating a cryptocurrency platform that emphasizes decentralization, security, and efficiency. The company has developed a unique technology based on proofs of space and time, which utilizes underused storage space on hard drives, making its approach to cryptocurrency mining less resource-intensive compared to traditional methods. Chia Network also offers Chialisp, a smart transaction programming language that enhances the functionality and user-friendliness of its cryptocurrency transactions. By leveraging this innovative technology, Chia Network aims to optimize cryptocurrency transactions while providing a sustainable alternative for both individual miners and financial institutions.

Allora Labs

Series A in 2021
Upshot is a blockchain-based protocol that incentivizes experts to answer subjective questions honestly and captures the value of truth. Its first product aims to provide an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs by paying experts for honest appraisals unlocking new opportunities for experts and enabling a number of powerful new DeFi primitives.

Seed Health

Series A in 2021
Seed Health is a microbial sciences company focused on harnessing the applications of bacteria to enhance human and environmental health. Through collaborations with prominent academic institutions, the company accelerates scientific advancements to create live biotherapeutics and innovative consumer products. Its consumer brand, Seed®, specializes in developing next-generation probiotics tailored for various life stages and body ecosystems. The product offerings include supplements that combine probiotics and prebiotics aimed at providing systemic benefits, such as improving digestive health, skin health, heart health, and supporting micronutrient synthesis. The company's Scientific Advisory Board comprises experts in various fields, including microbiology, immunology, and gastroenterology, further strengthening its commitment to scientific rigor and innovation.

Aleo

Venture Round in 2021
Aleo is building the world's leading developer platform for enabling absolute privacy on blockchains. With their vocal advocacy for privacy tech in the blockchain ecosystem, they are playing a major part in mainstream awareness and industry adoption of privacy-preserving technologies. they are proud to offer a platform of services that exemplify privacy.

Bansho

Seed Round in 2021
Bansho provides live learning that boosts confidence in kids and supports busy parents. It empowers parents to help in their kid's learning journey by providing access to text, video, and audio messaging with a dedicated learning partner. It was founded in 2020 and is based in New York City, New York.

PearPop

Seed Round in 2021
Pearpop is the marketplace for social collaborations between the teeming hordes of musicians, craftspeople, chefs, clowns, diarists, dancers, artists, actors, acrobats, aspiring celebrities, and actual celebrities.

Formation

Seed Round in 2021
Formation is a remote fellowship for ambitious software engineers who seek impactful roles at the most innovative companies in the world. Fellows work directly with senior engineers from companies like Google, Uber, Oracle and more to build features and debug production issues in real consumer facing applications. They learn the computer science fundamentals they need to think like a software engineer and solve the world's most challenging problems. Our unparalleled outcomes are a result of our relentless focus on engineering principles and building a community of the best engineers in the industry. Our fellows regularly get hired at companies like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, etc.

Fold

Series A in 2021
Fold, Inc. operates a platform that allows users to earn bitcoin as cashback while shopping with credit or debit cards at various retailers. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, the company offers an online service where users can sync their payment cards or transfer bitcoin from their wallets to purchase digital gift cards on their mobile devices, receiving immediate bitcoin rewards. Fold also enables users to exchange old gift cards for bitcoin, further integrating cryptocurrency into everyday transactions. Through its innovative solutions, Fold aims to make bitcoin more accessible and practical for mainstream consumers.

Iron Fish

Seed Round in 2021
Iron Fish is a cryptocurrency that prioritizes privacy and accessibility within the blockchain space. As a Layer 1 blockchain, it ensures robust privacy protections for every transaction conducted on its platform. The company aims to create private blockchain networks that are accessible to a global audience, employing an efficient syncing technique that supports low-resource clients, including mobile devices and websites. By focusing on these aspects, Iron Fish seeks to uphold the principles of cash in an increasingly digital environment.

Custodia Bank

Series A in 2021
Custodia Bank, also known as Avanti Financial Group, operates as a crypto bank based in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Established in 2020, it focuses on providing regulated banking services tailored for institutional customers engaged with digital assets. The bank offers a range of services, including custody solutions for digital assets, which comply with stringent institutional custody standards. Additionally, Custodia Bank serves as a compliant bridge to the US dollar payments system, facilitating transactions within the digital assets industry. Its commitment to regulatory compliance positions it as a trusted partner for institutions navigating the evolving landscape of digital finance.

Creative Juice

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a financial network intended to help digital content creators grow their content with assistance from leading creators and financial partners. The company's platform provides creators with access to funds that help them support each other and invest in their peers' businesses and offers a hookup that lets creators connect their accounts to its tools to get information about business valuation and other related matters, enabling clients to get financial backing and also an estimate of their projected revenues and the value of their business so that they can make informed decisions about how to grow it.

Fetcher

Series A in 2021
Fetcher is a recruiting automation platform designed to streamline the hiring process for organizations. It offers tools that assist hiring managers and human resource teams in connecting with candidates whose skills and experiences align with job requirements and company culture. Fetcher's platform utilizes a virtual assistant to enhance recruitment efficiency, allowing clients to sort through various talents and select the most eligible candidates. By reducing the complexities and costs associated with hiring, Fetcher enables organizations to focus on attracting talent and fostering the development of their workforce. The company aims to build long-term partnerships with organizations that value talent as a key asset, providing essential tools to support their growth.

River

Series A in 2021
River Financial Inc. is a financial technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019 by Alexander Leishman and Andrew Benson. The company specializes in providing a platform for individuals and institutions to buy, manage, and sell bitcoin. Its flagship product is a Bitcoin brokerage designed for sophisticated retail investors, offering a high-touch service that prioritizes security and client experience. River Financial's platform includes tools for investment performance, such as cost basis tracking, catering to the needs of its clients in the evolving cryptocurrency market.

Porter Road Butcher

Series A in 2021
Porter Road is a omnichannel whole animal butcher changing the broken food system, by working directly with farmers to offer exceptional, sustainably raised meat direct to consumer. The company was founded by James Peisker and Chris Carter.

Eco

Series A in 2021
Eco is a digital cryptocurrency platform designed to facilitate global transactions for everyday use. It operates independently from any single organization or government, aiming to create a more equitable distribution of resources by sharing the majority of the economic value generated with its community. The platform features a digital wallet that combines savings accounts, rewarded spending, and bill payment into a single, user-friendly interface. This innovative approach encourages effective money management and aligns the interests of the company with its users, fostering a sustainable financial system. Additionally, Eco is supported by a network of verified organizations worldwide, ensuring that its services remain safe and reliable for all users.

Eco

Series A in 2021
Eco is a digital cryptocurrency platform designed to facilitate global transactions for everyday use. It operates independently from any single organization or government, aiming to create a more equitable distribution of resources by sharing the majority of the economic value generated with its community. The platform features a digital wallet that combines savings accounts, rewarded spending, and bill payment into a single, user-friendly interface. This innovative approach encourages effective money management and aligns the interests of the company with its users, fostering a sustainable financial system. Additionally, Eco is supported by a network of verified organizations worldwide, ensuring that its services remain safe and reliable for all users.

Easol

Seed Round in 2021
Fixers is a travel and experiences marketplace for creative entrepreneurs and independent brands. Our sellers range from yoga retreats in Mongolia, brown bear watching in Romania to music festivals in Croatia. Fixers helps you discover unique trips you can't find anywhere else. We're changing the game by getting to know you, we help you to discover more. Balancing human curation with clever algorithms we bring your world together in one place to create the most exciting travel store on the planet, made for you.

Identiq

Series A in 2021
Identiq Protocol LTD, doing business as Identiq, operates an anonymous verification network that enables its members to validate new users. It verifies the identity of new users, and vouches for ones they already know, all without sharing any user data. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

MealMe

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a food delivery platform designed to find the various food options available through social media. The company's platform uses artificial intelligence to show various restaurants with recommendations based on preference, and at the same time, the delivery time of the different providers can be compared along with booking and reservation features, enabling users to save money and follow other foodies and restaurants.

Otter.ai

Series B in 2021
Otter.ai creates technologies and products that make important information from voice conversations including meetings, interviews, and lectures instantly accessible and actionable. The company's award winning product, Otter Voice Notes, is used by business professionals, journalists and students to generate rich notes that can be easily searched and shared. Otter is based on proprietary technologies for speech recognition, speaker separation, speaker ID, and keyword / topic extraction. The company was founded by successful repeat entrepreneur Sam Liang and fellow engineering PhD Yun Fu. Investors We are proud to be supported by some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists who were early investors in Tesla, SpaceX, Slack, and Twitter. Additionally, we are backed by legendary angel investor David Cheriton, who provided the initial capital to Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start Google.

Pawlicy Advisor

Series A in 2021
Pawlicy Advisor Inc. is a pet insurance comparison service founded in 2018 and located in New York, New York. The company specializes in helping pet owners find optimal insurance coverage by allowing them to compare breed-specific insurance plans. Pawlicy Advisor examines various options available in the market and assesses the specific risks associated with different pet breeds. This approach enables pet owners to make informed decisions, ensuring they choose the best coverage for their needs while saving money. The service aims to simplify the process of selecting pet insurance, providing clear guidance on risks, costs, and coverage options.

Powder

Series A in 2021
Powder is a startup that helps to share video clips of favorite games, follow people with the same interests and interact with them.

Class

Series A in 2021
Class is a provider of online learning solutions that focuses on enhancing remote education through its virtual classroom software. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to streamline the teaching and learning process, including features such as attendance tracking, assignment distribution, grading, and proctored exams. By integrating its software with platforms like Zoom, Class facilitates interactive and effective learning experiences for both teachers and students. The platform encompasses functionalities such as seating charts, ID verification, participation tracking, and performance management, enabling educators to optimize their classroom management and improve student engagement. Additionally, Class provides courses across various subject areas, including core, elective, and skills development, along with program implementation services to support educational institutions in their online teaching efforts.

Plume Clinic

Series A in 2021
Plume is a health tech company for the transgender community. The company focuses on radically increasing access to care, medication, and products for the trans community, supporting a bold, authentic and healthy lifestyle. Its vision is to make gender-affirming care available to anyone until it transforms healthcare for every trans life.

Kit

Seed Round in 2021
Kit specializes in at-home health and lab testing solutions that enable businesses and organizations to offer a safe and convenient alternative to traditional doctor and laboratory visits. The company's comprehensive testing kits are designed to make preventative health testing accessible across various industries, allowing customers to manage their health from the comfort of their homes. By providing reliable and easy-to-use testing options, Kit aims to enhance the accessibility of health services for individuals and organizations alike.

Yotta

Series A in 2021
Yotta Technologies Inc., founded in 2019 and based in New York, operates a savings platform designed to help users manage their finances while encouraging saving through a unique prize system. The platform pools interest from users' savings and offers the opportunity to win prizes, including amounts up to $10 million, through weekly draws. By incorporating a lottery-like feature, Yotta aims to motivate individuals to save more effectively, thereby enhancing their financial security. The company has positioned itself as an innovative player in the financial technology space, focusing on both savings and user engagement.

Metropolis

Series A in 2021
Metropolis is an AI and computer vision start-up built to modernize parking and empower the future of mobility. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Hydra Studios

Seed Round in 2020
Hydra Studios operates a network of wellness spaces designed for individuals seeking to optimize their physical and mental well-being. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company offers membership-based access to modern facilities that include fitness suites, rainfall showers, steam rooms, infrared saunas, and well-appointed locker rooms. Additionally, Hydra Studios provides bookable nap and meditation rooms, allowing members to recharge in private. The company aims to create an elevated experience for its members, combining fitness, relaxation, and self-care in a thoughtfully designed environment.

Hydra Studios

Seed Round in 2020
Hydra Studios operates a network of wellness spaces designed for individuals seeking to optimize their physical and mental well-being. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company offers membership-based access to modern facilities that include fitness suites, rainfall showers, steam rooms, infrared saunas, and well-appointed locker rooms. Additionally, Hydra Studios provides bookable nap and meditation rooms, allowing members to recharge in private. The company aims to create an elevated experience for its members, combining fitness, relaxation, and self-care in a thoughtfully designed environment.

HMBradley

Series A in 2020
HMBradley is a developer of a digital banking platform for savers. It rewards everyone, regardless of income, for developing sound financial habits. HMBradley 's platform offers digitized banking services featuring virtual banking technologies that let users get credit cards instantly and enjoy banking facilities anytime via a smartphone application. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

OpenPhone

Series A in 2020
OpenPhone Technologies, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing a business phone application tailored for startups, small businesses, and individuals. Founded in 2018, OpenPhone provides users with a reliable VoIP service that allows them to obtain a business phone number without needing a second device or SIM card. The application features unlimited messaging and calling capabilities, enabling users to separate their business and personal contacts effectively. Its platform includes functionalities such as call routing, auto-recording of calls, and automated responses to texts, missed calls, and voicemails, which help streamline communication for entrepreneurs and professionals. OpenPhone is accessible on both mobile and desktop devices, enhancing its usability for various users.

Boardroom Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Boardroom Labs Inc. develops an integrated governance management platform designed to enhance decision-making and governance within various crypto networks. Founded in 2020 and based in New York, the company aims to enable stakeholder-owned platforms to scale effectively while considering the interests of all constituents. Boardroom Labs focuses on improving distributed management practices and values high standards in code quality, testing, and architecture. The company is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that encourages continuous learning and clear communication among its team members.

BloomCredit

Series A in 2020
Bloom Credit is a fintech platform that works to improve the financial eligibility of people declines for lending products. The company's technology uses a data-driven approach to offer actionable advice, insights, and guidance working directly with lenders to graduate their applicants through consumer credit analysis, ongoing credit monitoring and alerting lenders when an applicant meets eligibility requirements, enabling consumers to improve their financial health and loan eligibility. With credit at the heart of financial customer relationships, BloomCredit creating advanced developer-friendly API solutions that can improve, monitor, and promote credit health to build trust between consumers and the financial institutions that serve them. It was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, United States.

Mento

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a career platform intended to help people advance in the workplace through a combination of coaching, tools, content, and data. The company's platform offers a career support system with tools and resources to organize and execute job searches, market salary data, and negotiation strategies, enabling employees to manage their careers, salaries, and daily work.

Yotta

Seed Round in 2020
Yotta Technologies Inc., founded in 2019 and based in New York, operates a savings platform designed to help users manage their finances while encouraging saving through a unique prize system. The platform pools interest from users' savings and offers the opportunity to win prizes, including amounts up to $10 million, through weekly draws. By incorporating a lottery-like feature, Yotta aims to motivate individuals to save more effectively, thereby enhancing their financial security. The company has positioned itself as an innovative player in the financial technology space, focusing on both savings and user engagement.

Facet

Series B in 2020
Facet Wealth, Inc. is a financial services firm that specializes in wealth management and financial planning for small accounts. Established in 2016 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, the company offers a range of services including retirement planning, education planning, income tax planning, estate planning, insurance planning, and asset management. Facet Wealth distinguishes itself by providing personalized financial guidance through dedicated Certified Financial Planners on a subscription basis, making financial planning more accessible and affordable. The firm serves a diverse clientele, including professionals, pre-retirees, and retirees, with a focus on enhancing their financial security and overall prosperity.

Whist

Seed Round in 2020
Fractal lets you work, create, and play faster and better from any device, anywhere, by streaming your favorite and most demanding applications from the cloud.

Cozy

Seed Round in 2020
Cozy Finance, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in developing risk management software for the decentralized finance sector. Founded in 2020, the company provides a platform that equips developers with tools to create effective asset management solutions for cryptocurrency investors. Its software enables users to access permissionless, peer-to-peer protection against potential failures in smart contracts, thereby facilitating the effective management of digital assets. Formerly known as CozyCo, Inc., Cozy Finance aims to unlock value for crypto investors through innovative risk management strategies.

Mosaic

Series A in 2020
Mosaic Building Group, Inc. is a technology-focused construction company based in Phoenix, Arizona, with additional offices in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2015, the company provides a range of construction services to homebuilders, including general contracting, framing, plumbing, electrical, drywall, and site work. Mosaic specializes in single-family, multi-family, custom homebuilding, and build-to-rent projects. With a commitment to enhancing efficiency in the construction process, Mosaic employs advanced technologies and programming to automate various tasks, resulting in faster and more streamlined homebuilding. The company's mission centers on creating communities that foster a sense of connection and belonging, aiming to make beautiful living environments accessible to a broader audience.

Stem Disintermedia

Venture Round in 2020
Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians to collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings. It develops a platform intended to provide distribution and payments solution for artists and their teams. The platform aggregates cross-platform earnings, create contracts, and honor splits with collaborators, disburse payments and statements to all stakeholders in a project and visualizes performance data for each platform, enabling businesses to bring clarity to the complicated process of revenue management and ensure everyone involved in the creative process gets paid. Milana Rabkin, Tim Luckow, and Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith formed Stem Disintermedia in Los Angeles, California in 2015.

Chia Network

Venture Round in 2020
Chia Network Inc. is a blockchain-based company founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It focuses on creating a cryptocurrency platform that emphasizes decentralization, security, and efficiency. The company has developed a unique technology based on proofs of space and time, which utilizes underused storage space on hard drives, making its approach to cryptocurrency mining less resource-intensive compared to traditional methods. Chia Network also offers Chialisp, a smart transaction programming language that enhances the functionality and user-friendliness of its cryptocurrency transactions. By leveraging this innovative technology, Chia Network aims to optimize cryptocurrency transactions while providing a sustainable alternative for both individual miners and financial institutions.

ROOM

Series A in 2020
ROOM is rethinking the modern workplace through affordable, sustainable and flexible solutions that make more room for people at work by designing modular and creative office products that help companies of all sizes build a better work environment. Launched in May 2018 by serial entrepreneurs Brian Chen and Morten Meisner-Jensen, ROOM is backed by Slow Ventures, a leading venture capital firm that was one of the original investors in Casper. Honored by TIME Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2018, ROOM is already building the workplace of tomorrow for over 1,500 customers ranging from high-growth start-ups to Fortune 500 companies including Nike, Google, NASA, Salesforce, Uber, Shopify, Wayfair, and more. Learn more about ROOM at www.room.com.

LOOM

Seed Round in 2020
LOOM is a wellbeing platform empowering women through reproductive and sexual health education. Weaving together inclusivity, empathy and science, LOOM is an entirely new approach to health education that helps women thrive in their bodies at every stage. Founded in 2016 by Erica Chidi and Quinn Lundberg, LOOM is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Dagster Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Dagster Labs develops an open-source Python library known as Dagster, which serves as a data orchestration platform for building modern data applications. The platform facilitates collaboration among infrastructure engineers, data engineers, and data scientists, enabling them to efficiently process and produce trusted data. Dagster offers a user-friendly programming model for constructing data pipelines and workflows, designed to integrate smoothly with existing tools and systems. Its incrementally-adoptable architecture allows clients to leverage their current infrastructure while enhancing their data management capabilities.
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