Slow Ventures

Slow Ventures is a San Francisco-based private equity firm founded in 2009, specializing in early-stage investments in technology-related companies across the United States. The firm recognizes that impactful ideas and successful businesses take time to develop, and it emphasizes a community-oriented approach that leverages collective experience and curiosity. By investing at the intersection of technology, science, society, and culture, Slow Ventures provides founders with essential resources, connections, and insights. The firm is committed to supporting entrepreneurs throughout their journeys, aiming to foster the creation of strong and sustainable companies.

Sam Lessin

Partner

Megan Lightcap

Principal

Scott Marlette

Partner

Yoni Rechtman

Principal

Sam Le ssin

Partner

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EcoSapiens

Seed Round in 2023
Ecosapiens is a Web3/NFT project enabling consumers to make a positive impact on the climate.

Comm Technologies

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.

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/NFT project enabling consumers to make a positive impact on the climate.

Sawa Credit

Seed Round in 2022
Sawa is building a technology platform that uses behavioral science and machine learning to create a community support system for borrowers. Founded in 2021, the company is based in Castro Valley, California, United States.

Pollen Mobile

Seed Round in 2022
Pollen Mobile provides a decentralized mobile network that is built on the blockchain which is owned and operated by its users. Pollen Mobile helps to build its own mobile connectivity through a crypto-economy, enabling users to have reliable and affordable mobile connectivity.

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 is a business communication platform that offers a smart phone application designed to provide users with a reliable business phone number without the need for an additional phone or SIM card. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the platform facilitates seamless communication by differentiating between business and personal contacts. It utilizes Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, allowing users to make calls and send texts over the internet. OpenPhone offers features such as unlimited messaging and calling, call routing, auto-recording of calls, and automated responses to texts and missed calls. The application is available for both mobile and desktop, catering to startups, small businesses, and professionals looking to enhance their communication efficiency.

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 Technologies

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.

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.

ianacare

Series A in 2022
Ianacare, Inc. develops ianacare platform that offers products and services online through mobile applications. The company provides supportive care management for people suffering from chronic illnesses and other situations. Additionally, its platform connects caregiver, care recipient, and care supporters. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Newton Center, Massachusetts.

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.

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 creates foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of web3. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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!

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.

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.

Symbiose Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Symbiose Technologies is a communications company that creates AI-powered products that bring unprecedented depth, memory, and serendipity to your conversations. Symbiose is creating the highest-fidelity way to communicate -- a new paradigm for messaging and audio where conversations transform.

Umbrel

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

Postmoda

Seed Round in 2021
Postmoda operates as a peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace that specializes in luxury, designer, and vintage clothing. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, Postmoda emphasizes sustainability by utilizing local dry cleaners as fulfillment centers instead of traditional warehouses. This innovative model enables consumers to rent clothing through an app, allowing them to browse, book, and return items conveniently. The platform promotes a circular economy in fashion, making high-quality attire accessible while reducing waste. By facilitating both renting and lending, Postmoda connects users, creating a community centered around shared fashion experiences.

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 who face challenges related to earnings certainty and professional stability. With over 60 million individuals engaged in gig work, Solo addresses these concerns by offering tools that help optimize time management and facilitate seamless transitions between various jobs. The platform leverages data to deliver a comprehensive suite of services tailored specifically for gig workers, aiming to enhance their professional and financial stability in an increasingly flexible but often unpredictable work environment.

Solo

Seed Round in 2021
Solo is an innovative platform designed to support app-based gig workers who face challenges related to earnings certainty and professional stability. With over 60 million individuals engaged in gig work, Solo addresses these concerns by offering tools that help optimize time management and facilitate seamless transitions between various jobs. The platform leverages data to deliver a comprehensive suite of services tailored specifically for gig workers, aiming to enhance their professional and financial stability in an increasingly flexible but often unpredictable work environment.

Parallel Finance

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

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 Foods

Seed Round in 2021
Starday Foods is a healthy and sustainable food products company.

Class.com

Series B in 2021
Class.com specializes in online learning solutions, offering a range of courses that include core subjects, electives, and skills development. The company also provides program implementation services to enhance the educational experience. A key feature of Class.com is its integration with Zoom, allowing educators to utilize Class software within the Zoom Meetings platform. This integration facilitates various educational activities such as taking attendance, distributing assignments, administering quizzes or tests, grading, proctoring exams, and engaging in one-on-one discussions with students. Through these offerings, Class.com aims to support and improve the online teaching and learning process.

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.

Invisible AI

Venture Round in 2021
Invisible AI Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-driven cameras designed for logistics and manufacturing environments. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company provides a no-code, edge-based computer vision platform that enhances manual assembly processes by tracking body movement and posture. Its low-cost, low-bandwidth cameras can be deployed at workstations to facilitate real-time monitoring of assembly operations. Additionally, Invisible AI offers a web dashboard that ensures data security and provides clients with valuable insights by integrating, tracking, and analyzing operational data. This comprehensive approach helps organizations optimize their workflows and improve efficiency within their facilities.

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
We're a second-generation family planning benefits company focusing on reducing overall medical spend, improving employee health outcomes, and helping support employees' emotionally when navigating stressful fertility issues. Trusted by Metromile, Airtable, Lookout, Branch and other happy customers. Stork Club is backed by top-tier investors and supported by advisory board experts from UCSF, One Medical, LinkedIn, Y Combinator, Castlight Health, and Facebook.

CoinAlpha, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Hummingbot is an open source high-frequency (HFT) software client that allows anyone to run automated, algorithmic trading strategies that were previously available only to Wall Street hedge funds. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Stanford University's StartX Fund, Hummingbot is the leading open source algorithmic trading platform for crypto. The Hummingbot client also powers our liquidity mining platform, which is a data-driven, digital marketplace for crowd-sourced, decentralized market making that is changing the way financial markets are created and traded.

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. develops a blockchain-based transaction and cryptocurrency platform. It provides Chialisp, a smart transaction programming language that unlocks the security, transparency, and ease of use of cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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, Inc. is a microbial sciences company pioneering applications of bacteria to impact human and environmental health. In collaboration with leading academic partners, our foundry model accelerates breakthrough science to develop live biotherapeutics and consumer innovations. Our Scientific Advisory Board is comprised of leading scientists with expertise in microbiology, immunology, genetics, metabolomics, gastroenterology, pediatrics, environmental sciences, and women’s health. Learn more—seedhealth.com Our consumer portfolio, Seed®, develops next-generation probiotics for specific developmental stages and various ecosystems of the body—seed.com

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 enables users to earn bitcoin as cashback when users shop at retailers with their credit card/bitcoin wallet. It offers Fold, an online platform that enables users to sync their credit/debit card/transfer BTC from their bitcoin wallet into a digital gift card on their phone and receive bitcoin cashback instantly. Fold, Inc. was formerly known as Fold and changed its name to Fold, Inc. in January 2018. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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
Avanti Financial Group is an operator of a crypto-asset banking company used to focus on providing regulated services for digital assets. Its services act as a compliant bridge to the US dollar payments system and a custodian of digital assets that can meet strict levels of institutional custody standards that provide customers with banking services for the digital assets industry. Avanti Financial Group was established in 2020 and is headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Fetcher

Series A in 2021
Fetcher's mission is to make it fast, easy, and fun for organizations to find the right person, for the right job, at the right time. Fetcher helps companies find candidates whose talents, interests, and experience best match the needs of the job and the culture of the team. Fetcher believes when the right person is in the right role, the real magic happens. Fetcher was built to reduce the pain and expense of hiring so that organizations can focus their time on attracting talent and nurturing the growth and development of their people. Fetcher is committed to investing in long-term partnerships with organizations who see talent as their greatest asset, and Fetcher creates the tools that empower 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.

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.

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.com

Series A in 2021
Class.com specializes in online learning solutions, offering a range of courses that include core subjects, electives, and skills development. The company also provides program implementation services to enhance the educational experience. A key feature of Class.com is its integration with Zoom, allowing educators to utilize Class software within the Zoom Meetings platform. This integration facilitates various educational activities such as taking attendance, distributing assignments, administering quizzes or tests, grading, proctoring exams, and engaging in one-on-one discussions with students. Through these offerings, Class.com aims to support and improve the online teaching and learning process.

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 testing solutions, providing comprehensive kits that enable organizations to offer a safe and convenient alternative to traditional doctor and laboratory visits. By making preventative health testing accessible across various industries, Kit facilitates reliable health monitoring for customers, ensuring ease of use and enhanced accessibility. The company aims to streamline the health testing process, allowing individuals to manage their health from the comfort of their homes while supporting organizations in delivering effective health services.

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 provides membership based wellness spaces. The company offers fitness suites, rainfall showers, towel service, locker storage, steam, infrared sauna, vanities, and bookable nap and meditation rooms. Hydra Studios was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Hydra Studios

Seed Round in 2020
Hydra Studios provides membership based wellness spaces. The company offers fitness suites, rainfall showers, towel service, locker storage, steam, infrared sauna, vanities, and bookable nap and meditation rooms. Hydra Studios was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

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 is a business communication platform that offers a smart phone application designed to provide users with a reliable business phone number without the need for an additional phone or SIM card. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the platform facilitates seamless communication by differentiating between business and personal contacts. It utilizes Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, allowing users to make calls and send texts over the internet. OpenPhone offers features such as unlimited messaging and calling, call routing, auto-recording of calls, and automated responses to texts and missed calls. The application is available for both mobile and desktop, catering to startups, small businesses, and professionals looking to enhance their communication efficiency.

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. develops a blockchain-based transaction and cryptocurrency platform. It provides Chialisp, a smart transaction programming language that unlocks the security, transparency, and ease of use of cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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.

River

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Pando

Series A in 2020
Pando has created a new financial tool for people in high volatility careers. We connect individuals with similar expected earnings and provide tools for them to pool a fraction of their future income — delivering both risk mitigation and the ability to capture upside potential. Our client focus includes professional athletes, entrepreneurs, and MBA’s.

Stork Club

Seed Round in 2020
We're a second-generation family planning benefits company focusing on reducing overall medical spend, improving employee health outcomes, and helping support employees' emotionally when navigating stressful fertility issues. Trusted by Metromile, Airtable, Lookout, Branch and other happy customers. Stork Club is backed by top-tier investors and supported by advisory board experts from UCSF, One Medical, LinkedIn, Y Combinator, Castlight Health, and Facebook.