Fizz offers a debit card and accompanying mobile app targeted at U.S. college students to build credit while managing finances. The platform provides credit-building tools, reward tracking, and cash-back on purchases to help students establish a credit profile, gain financial independence, and pursue financial stability.
Kudos Technology
Series A in 2024
Kudos Technology offers an AI-powered smart wallet service designed to enhance consumer rewards and benefits during purchases. The service efficiently tracks credit card rewards and analyzes data from multiple cards across numerous online merchants. When consumers are ready to check out, the smart assistant identifies the optimal card to use, maximizing the rewards and benefits associated with each transaction. This technology empowers customers to easily manage their payment options, ensuring they select the most advantageous card for every purchase.
Maza is a mobile application offering digital banking services and financial products. It provides users with access to savings accounts, NFC-enabled prepaid cards for online or offline purchases, bill payments, and money transfers, aiming to deliver a seamless and cost-effective banking experience.
Kudos Technology
Seed Round in 2022
Kudos Technology offers an AI-powered smart wallet service designed to enhance consumer rewards and benefits during purchases. The service efficiently tracks credit card rewards and analyzes data from multiple cards across numerous online merchants. When consumers are ready to check out, the smart assistant identifies the optimal card to use, maximizing the rewards and benefits associated with each transaction. This technology empowers customers to easily manage their payment options, ensuring they select the most advantageous card for every purchase.
Magical is a productivity app that empowers anyone to slash through repetitive tasks in seconds by effortlessly moving data between any site you work with. With a simple keystroke, Magical automates mundane tasks like messaging, data entry, sourcing, and prospecting workflows. Unlike existing automation solutions that are expensive, clunky, and require a technical team to set up, Magical is designed for non-technical users, offering a simple, user-enabled solution that works across any app.
Glide Apps
Series A in 2022
Glide Apps is a platform that allows users to create mobile applications directly from Google Sheets without the need for coding skills. Founded in 2018 and part of the Y Combinator Winter 2019 cohort, Glide enables both technical and non-technical users to convert spreadsheet data into functional mobile apps. The platform supports a variety of applications, including those for managing inventory, work orders, field sales, and customer relations, among others. By simplifying the app development process, Glide empowers users to leverage their existing data and share their creations as progressive web applications.
Homecoming
Seed Round in 2022
Homecoming is a provider of patient engagement tools specifically designed for psychedelic therapy. The company has developed a digital companion application that supports patients throughout their therapeutic process. This application promotes accountability and fosters long-term change by offering personalized guides, tasks, and daily check-ins. Additionally, it provides preparation and integration support within a single, user-friendly platform that includes relevant patient program content. This enables healthcare professionals to effectively guide their patients on their healing journeys, enhancing the therapeutic experience and outcomes.
TigerEye
Seed Round in 2022
TigerEye is a developer of sales software technology designed to enhance decision-making for a multigenerational workforce. The company leverages its expertise in machine learning and mobile enterprise solutions to address the limitations of legacy software, creating tools that empower sales leaders to make more informed and strategic choices. By focusing on the specific needs of businesses, TigerEye aims to provide innovative solutions that facilitate improved sales processes and outcomes.
Saturn Technologies
Venture Round in 2021
Saturn is a social network that operates on a temporal basis. Saturn organizes chaotic high school schedules and connects students with the people and information that are most important to them.
Beeper is a social media application that consolidates messaging across multiple platforms, including iMessage and WhatsApp, into a single interface. This innovative app allows users to search, snooze, or archive messages, ensuring that important communications are easily accessible and never overlooked. By providing a unified inbox, Beeper enhances the messaging experience, making it efficient for users to manage conversations from various networks in one place.
Popshop Live
Series A in 2021
Popshop Live is a mobile live streaming marketplace that lets individuals create and host their own shopping channels to sell directly to a global audience. Viewers interact with broadcasters in real time during streams and can access storefronts and archived shows, enabling an interactive and convenient shopping experience.
Cooper is a mobile application that enables users to connect with friends through gaming. It provides a platform for users to participate in voice chats, discover games their friends are playing, and organize gaming parties. The app focuses on fostering social interactions among gamers, allowing them to engage in games together in a fun and interactive environment.
Underdog Fantasy
Series A in 2021
Underdog Fantasy is an online daily fantasy sports platform that offers Pick'em games and esports projections. It provides a fantasy football application for drafting lineups, enabling users to compete and earn rewards through tournaments and authorized sports wagering. The company also operates a media network featuring former professional athletes, coaches, analysts, and up‑to‑date sports news.
AIDE Partners Inc. operates AIDE, a home medical care mobile application that facilitates the process of finding, selecting, and booking medical professionals for patients. Established in 2016, AIDE is headquartered in Quezon City, Philippines. The platform serves as a marketplace, connecting patients with qualified medical personnel across various specialties, thereby enhancing access to quality healthcare. The company's mission focuses on making medical care more convenient and accessible, allowing patients to receive hospital-level services in the comfort of their homes.
Specto is a mobile application performance monitoring platform established in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Designed by developers for developers, the platform simplifies the integration process, allowing users to collect vital performance metrics with minimal coding. Specto’s proprietary dashboard enables businesses to monitor their mobile applications effectively, providing insights into performance issues and their underlying causes. By combining data analysis with industry expertise, Specto equips clients with actionable insights to enhance their applications' performance and usability. The company is committed to offering hands-on support to ensure seamless implementation and optimal use of its technology.
Castle operates an application to create and develop interactive cards. It offers a digital editor for designing and game development.
Underdog Fantasy
Seed Round in 2020
Underdog Fantasy is an online daily fantasy sports platform that offers Pick'em games and esports projections. It provides a fantasy football application for drafting lineups, enabling users to compete and earn rewards through tournaments and authorized sports wagering. The company also operates a media network featuring former professional athletes, coaches, analysts, and up‑to‑date sports news.
Jumbo Privacy
Series A in 2020
Jumbo Privacy is a technology company that specializes in a mobile application designed for managing online privacy and security. The app, available on iOS and Android platforms, empowers users to take control of their personal data across various social media platforms and internet services. By providing a universal interface, Jumbo Privacy enables individuals to easily handle privacy settings and protect their personal information from unwanted exposure. The company's mission is centered around the belief that data ownership rests with the user, making it essential for Jumbo to offer tools that reinforce user autonomy in maintaining their online privacy.
Pop
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Pop develops consumer and business software for photo and video customization. It operates two apps, StickerPop and FilterPop, enabling artists to earn passive income.
Cappuccino.fm
Seed Round in 2020
Cappuccino.fm is a company that specializes in developing a mobile audio group messaging application designed to facilitate connections among individuals. The application enables users to record voice memos and share them with customizable groups, thereby fostering deeper relationships and helping users create new connections. By focusing on audio communication, Cappuccino.fm aims to enhance social interactions in a more personal and engaging manner.
Sunshine
Seed Round in 2020
Sunshine is a Palo Alto, California-based technology company that develops an AI-powered photo-sharing app. The platform automates the identification and curation of the best moments for sharing with friends and family, while supporting group sharing, event coordination, invites, and shared albums, all with a focus on privacy and user control. Founded by Marissa Mayer and Enrique Muñoz Torres, Sunshine aims to simplify memory sharing by making moments easier to select and share.
Airkit is a company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2017. It operates a low-code digital platform designed to help businesses create engaging customer experiences. The platform enables sales, service, and operations teams to build customer journeys with features such as scheduling, information capture, location services, and digital payment processing. Airkit's technology allows users to abstract frontend development using prebuilt components and templates for various interfaces including web, mobile, voice, and chat. It also facilitates the integration of customer data across core systems via APIs and provides tools for measuring and optimizing user engagement through built-in analytics and reporting. Additionally, the platform offers a staging environment for testing operations and data flows, along with app tracing to preview applications in different resolutions and device frames.
Tikkit
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Tikkit is a New York-based mobile-first ticketing and event-management platform founded in 2015. It offers an app-driven solution that enables hosts to promote, fund, and digitally ticket events and allows attendees to manage payments and interactions for private gatherings and larger concerts. The platform supports event discovery, guest management, and check-in, integrating payments and social tools into a single mobile experience to simplify planning and participation for organizers and attendees.
Miso is a technology company that provides APIs for search and recommendation, enabling personalized web experiences without tracking users. The platform offers real‑time clickstream analysis and semantic intelligence to help marketplaces and brands increase revenue. In addition, Miso operates an online‑to‑offline service that connects consumers with verified home‑service professionals for cleaning, moving, installation, repair, flooring, relocation, and interior design. The service includes rating systems, convenient payment, and instant booking through iOS and Android apps, delivering hotel‑like quality at home.
Open
Venture Round in 2019
Shared mindful experiences to help friends be present together, on and offline.
Glide Apps
Seed Round in 2019
Glide Apps is a platform that allows users to create mobile applications directly from Google Sheets without the need for coding skills. Founded in 2018 and part of the Y Combinator Winter 2019 cohort, Glide enables both technical and non-technical users to convert spreadsheet data into functional mobile apps. The platform supports a variety of applications, including those for managing inventory, work orders, field sales, and customer relations, among others. By simplifying the app development process, Glide empowers users to leverage their existing data and share their creations as progressive web applications.
Recount Media
Seed Round in 2019
Recount Media, Inc. is a media company based in New York that focuses on delivering political news through high-quality journalism and short-form video content. Founded in 2018, Recount Media publishes The Daily Recount, a flagship show that summarizes significant political events and distills television news into concise, engaging narratives. The company's approach emphasizes clarity and accessibility, aiming to inform viewers in under five minutes without compromising on substance. In addition to The Daily Recount, Recount Media also features curated content such as interviews and Recap 2020, which creatively remixes political news stories. By leveraging mobile apps and web platforms, Recount Media seeks to transform the way audiences consume news, prioritizing straightforward, honest reporting.
Whatifi develops an interactive video-streaming platform that enables users to watch movies together on their phones, making decisions that shape the story's outcome. It combines elements of user-generated filmmaking with high-quality production values.
GreenPark Sports
Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2018, GreenPark Sports develops and operates an online gaming platform that provides digital experiences and games for sports and esports fans. Its flagship product is a free-to-play mobile game played over the top of sporting events, allowing users to compete as 'Best Fans' of their favorite leagues and teams.
Drum is a gig economy platform that aims to enhance the lives of millions by facilitating the creation and management of sales forces for businesses. Launched in 2019, it allows companies to establish a sales presence more efficiently than traditional advertising methods. In addition to supporting businesses, Drum provides a comprehensive platform for creators, enabling them to engage with their followers and monetize their content. The platform offers in-app analytics that help creators sell both digital and physical products directly through their profiles, allowing them to focus on their creative endeavors while managing their sales effectively.
Zero is a personal health and fitness platform. It is a fasting tracker used for intermittent, circadian rhythm, and custom fasting.
Zero was founded in 2016.
Specto
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Specto is a mobile application performance monitoring platform established in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Designed by developers for developers, the platform simplifies the integration process, allowing users to collect vital performance metrics with minimal coding. Specto’s proprietary dashboard enables businesses to monitor their mobile applications effectively, providing insights into performance issues and their underlying causes. By combining data analysis with industry expertise, Specto equips clients with actionable insights to enhance their applications' performance and usability. The company is committed to offering hands-on support to ensure seamless implementation and optimal use of its technology.
Jumbo Privacy
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Jumbo Privacy is a technology company that specializes in a mobile application designed for managing online privacy and security. The app, available on iOS and Android platforms, empowers users to take control of their personal data across various social media platforms and internet services. By providing a universal interface, Jumbo Privacy enables individuals to easily handle privacy settings and protect their personal information from unwanted exposure. The company's mission is centered around the belief that data ownership rests with the user, making it essential for Jumbo to offer tools that reinforce user autonomy in maintaining their online privacy.
Storr, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that has developed a mobile application designed for social media influencer retailing. Founded in 2014, Storr allows users to easily open their own online stores by selecting and promoting brand-name products. Unlike traditional retailers, users can earn money by selling these products directly to their networks. The platform aims to disrupt the conventional retail model, offering an alternative to major e-commerce giants. Storr collaborates with over 200 brands, including well-known names such as Chanel, Ray-Ban, and Adidas, thereby providing a wide range of offerings for its users. The company is backed by prominent figures in the retail and investment sectors, signifying its potential impact on the evolving landscape of the $3 trillion global retail market.
Glide Apps
Seed Round in 2019
Glide Apps is a platform that allows users to create mobile applications directly from Google Sheets without the need for coding skills. Founded in 2018 and part of the Y Combinator Winter 2019 cohort, Glide enables both technical and non-technical users to convert spreadsheet data into functional mobile apps. The platform supports a variety of applications, including those for managing inventory, work orders, field sales, and customer relations, among others. By simplifying the app development process, Glide empowers users to leverage their existing data and share their creations as progressive web applications.
Lolly
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Lolly is a social dating platform that uses short-form content to allow users to express themselves.
Storr, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that has developed a mobile application designed for social media influencer retailing. Founded in 2014, Storr allows users to easily open their own online stores by selecting and promoting brand-name products. Unlike traditional retailers, users can earn money by selling these products directly to their networks. The platform aims to disrupt the conventional retail model, offering an alternative to major e-commerce giants. Storr collaborates with over 200 brands, including well-known names such as Chanel, Ray-Ban, and Adidas, thereby providing a wide range of offerings for its users. The company is backed by prominent figures in the retail and investment sectors, signifying its potential impact on the evolving landscape of the $3 trillion global retail market.
Community
Seed Round in 2019
Community is a messaging and engagement platform that enables two-way, direct communication between influencers, brands, public figures, creators, artists, and their audiences at scale. The platform connects businesses and organizations with consumers through a secure channel, including a unique 10-digit phone number, and aims to facilitate authentic interactions while addressing data privacy concerns and reducing the toxicity often associated with traditional social media.
Lolli
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Lolli, Inc. is a company that specializes in a rewards platform enabling users to earn bitcoin while shopping online. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, Lolli has established partnerships with over 1,000 leading brands, allowing users to accumulate bitcoin rewards effortlessly. The platform operates through a browser extension for Chrome, as well as a mobile rewards wallet, facilitating transactions with networked merchants. When users make purchases at partner sites, Lolli earns a percentage of each sale and shares a portion of that revenue with users by depositing bitcoin directly into their Lolli wallets. This innovative approach provides users with an alternative currency for their shopping needs.
Circle Medical
Funding Round in 2018
Circle Medical Technologies, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers a tech-enabled primary care service, allowing patients to receive medical care at home or work without a membership fee. Founded in 2015, the company utilizes a mobile application compatible with iOS and Android, which enables users to scan their health insurance cards to verify eligibility and coverage. The platform automates various tasks such as scheduling, billing, and managing medical records through the use of Artificial Intelligence. Circle Medical provides access to board-certified physicians who are experienced in delivering patient-centered care, and offers a wide range of services including wellness exams, treatment for chronic conditions, mental health support, and prescriptions. The company contracts with most major insurance carriers, ensuring that doctor visits are covered under many insurance plans, with availability extending to evenings and weekends.
YourMechanic
Series B in 2018
YourMechanic, Inc. is an online platform that facilitates car repair and maintenance services, allowing vehicle owners to request quotes, book appointments, and receive advice from professional mechanics at their home or office. Established in 2011 and based in Mountain View, California, the company aims to make car repair both affordable and convenient. YourMechanic connects car owners with local mechanics, enabling customers to choose the services they need and the mechanics they prefer. The platform offers a comprehensive range of services, including oil changes, brake pad replacements, and diagnostics, as well as tools for tracking maintenance schedules and service histories. By providing a transparent and user-friendly approach to car maintenance, YourMechanic enhances the overall experience for both vehicle owners and service providers.
Qvin develops a non-invasive blood analysis pad that uses menstrual blood to track menstrual problems and detect health conditions. The device provides actionable insights through a smartphone application, helping women monitor their health, proactively screen for issues, and discuss findings with clinicians.
Even.com is focused on enhancing financial resilience for employees, addressing the challenges faced by over half of Americans living paycheck to paycheck. The company develops a mobile budgeting application that automatically budgets upcoming bills, allowing users to manage their spending habits effectively. By partnering with employers, Even provides its services as a benefit, which not only supports employees in making ends meet, paying down debt, and saving money but also helps employers improve employee retention. The business operates transparently, ensuring that it profits only when its customers do. Even.com is based in Oakland, California, and Raleigh, North Carolina.
POPARAZZI
Seed Round in 2018
Poparazzi is a photo-sharing application that enables users to create social profiles for their friends and share photos of them, fostering authentic connections and empathy among users. Currently available only on iOS, the app allows individuals to assume the role of the "paparazzi" for their friends, capturing and sharing moments that promote engagement and interaction within their social circles. Through its innovative design, Poparazzi aims to bring people closer together by offering a platform that emphasizes genuine connections and shared experiences.
Thunkable
Venture Round in 2018
Thunkable is a United States-based no-code platform that enables users to create native mobile applications without writing code. It offers a drag-and-drop interface, built-in templates, and design elements to simplify app development, with online design and instant previews on devices. The platform supports cross-platform deployment to major mobile platforms and enables direct submission to the iOS and Android app stores, allowing individuals and developers to build functional apps without traditional coding.
JetFuel
Seed Round in 2018
JetFuel is an influencer driven app promotion service.
Founded in 2013, Volley specializes in developing AI-powered conversational games optimized for messaging apps and voice interfaces. Its popular titles include Song Quiz, Yes Sire, World Detective, Trivia Showdown, Math Showdown, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, and 20 Questions.
Dreams is a New York City-based company that specializes in a mobile-only television platform, focusing on a modern, mobile-first news experience. Founded in 2016 by Tom Bender and Greg Hochmuth, Dreams employs patent-pending computer vision technology to transform live television news into a vertical video format in real-time. This innovative approach allows for the creation of the first-ever live, 24/7 vertical video news channels. The Dreams app is available for free in the United States on both the App Store and Google Play, and it does not require any login or registration, making it accessible to a wide audience.
RouteThis
Pre Seed Round in 2018
RouteThis operates a platform that enhances in-home network diagnostics, ensuring flawless WiFi connectivity. It transforms mobile devices into network probes, offering real-time visibility for internet service providers to diagnose and resolve internet issues remotely.
ShopShops
Seed Round in 2018
ShopShops is a livestream shopping platform that connects consumers with brick-and-mortar retailers across the globe, allowing users to shop from diverse stores directly through their mobile devices. Founded in 2016 by Liyia Wu, the company operates from its headquarters in New York City and Beijing. The platform offers an interactive experience, enabling customers to browse efficiently by location and access authenticated products from various brands and stores. By breaking down geographical barriers, ShopShops provides a unique shopping experience that combines curation and interaction, allowing fashion-savvy consumers to explore global retail offerings conveniently and affordably.
Mirror Emoji Keyboard
Seed Round in 2017
Mirror uses a single selfie to instantly create hundreds of emoji that look like you and your friends. You can then use these in all messengers.
Fuzzy, established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, is a pet healthcare startup offering subscription-based services. It aims to make pet care accessible, affordable, and convenient. Through its mobile application, Fuzzy provides 24/7 veterinary consultations via chat and video. Additionally, it offers home delivery of pet essentials such as medications, supplements, and food for dogs and cats. The company's mission is to cater to the personalized needs of pets, allowing owners to manage their pets' health from home. Notable investors include Precursor Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and Matrix Partners.
Braavo Capital, Inc. is a financial solutions company established in 2015 and headquartered in New York, specializing in providing capital-as-a-service financing solutions to mobile app and game developers. The company offers non-dilutive funding options, allowing developers to obtain the necessary capital for marketing and user acquisition without relinquishing ownership stakes. In addition to funding, Braavo provides analytics tools that assist app businesses in tracking performance and making informed, data-driven decisions. This combination of financial support and performance insights empowers founders to build scalable and sustainable businesses in the competitive mobile app market.
ShopShops
Seed Round in 2017
ShopShops is a livestream shopping platform that connects consumers with brick-and-mortar retailers across the globe, allowing users to shop from diverse stores directly through their mobile devices. Founded in 2016 by Liyia Wu, the company operates from its headquarters in New York City and Beijing. The platform offers an interactive experience, enabling customers to browse efficiently by location and access authenticated products from various brands and stores. By breaking down geographical barriers, ShopShops provides a unique shopping experience that combines curation and interaction, allowing fashion-savvy consumers to explore global retail offerings conveniently and affordably.
ThriveCash
Seed Round in 2017
Thrive is a technology company focused on creating innovative financial products tailored for students and young professionals, emphasizing their future potential rather than their past financial histories. Founded by individuals who faced financial challenges while pursuing their education in the United States, Thrive aims to address the needs of students who lack credit or substantial financial support. The company's flagship application allows students to access funds based on their job offers, enabling them to cover essential expenses such as security deposits, moving costs, and credit card payments while still in school. By investing in human potential, Thrive seeks to empower the next generation to thrive financially as they transition into their professional lives.
Bird designs and operates a micro-mobility platform offering shared personal electric vehicles, such as e-scooters and electric bicycles, to urban communities. The platform coordinates with cities to provide affordable, sustainable transportation that can be picked up and dropped off anywhere, reducing car trips and traffic while supporting integration with public transit. The service operates in multiple markets, including Canada, and features a user profile and a network for sharing vehicles among members, with options to access additional electric mobility products as the platform expands.
Itsme
Pre Seed Round in 2017
Itsme creates high fidelity Avatars and Environments that enable the World to feel closer together. Millions of people use Itsme to explore the world, meet new people, and grow meaningful friendships without the constraints of physical space
SelfMade operates a technology platform that transforms and shares images on social media. It offers professional photo editing services and social media support to help members grow their online following. The company's app provides access to its follower growth technology, allowing users to determine their brand aesthetic, growth strategy, and posting schedule.
krypt.co
Seed Round in 2017
krypt.co builds the next generation of mobile-based authentication, with a vision that authentication should be based on strong cryptography.
Public key cryptography has existed for almost 40 years but it’s barely used for authentication. The private key is not memorizable. Most people cannot compute digital signatures in their head. Therefore we need to store the private key somewhere. It has to be accessible but also kept a secret. At KryptCo, they tackles this very problem and believes that smartphone is core to the solution.
Prefer is a referral network that facilitates connections between independent service professionals and clients. The platform offers an application designed to enhance the way these professionals, such as massage therapists, babysitters, and hairstylists, discover clients and collaborate effectively. By leveraging trusted referrals from satisfied customers, Prefer helps service providers secure a consistent flow of new business. Additionally, the application improves the booking and payment experience for existing clients, fostering stronger relationships over time. Through its innovative approach, Prefer aims to streamline the referral process and build a supportive community for both service professionals and their clients.
Founded in 2015, Dave is a fintech company based in Los Angeles, California. It operates a mobile application that provides users with banking services, including overdraft protection, early access to paychecks, and credit building tools. The app aims to improve financial wellness by offering transparent, fee-free banking and has grown to serve over 12 million members since its inception.
SnapDocs
Pre Seed Round in 2017
SnapDocs, Inc. is a real estate technology company that specializes in digital mortgage closings. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, SnapDocs provides a platform that connects lenders, title companies, notary signing agents, and homebuyers, facilitating a streamlined closing process. The platform automates interactions among these participants, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and consumer satisfaction. It offers features such as performance metrics for mobile notary signing agents, customizable workflows for lenders and real estate professionals, and early access to closing packages for homebuyers. By leveraging advanced automation and patented technology, SnapDocs enhances the closing experience, enabling clients to save time and reduce costs while maintaining compliance. The company's focus on improving both borrower experience and business outcomes positions it as a leading solution in the mortgage closing industry.
Cue puts you, your interests, and your friends at the heart of the experience. Cue works with other apps and services to help you find fun things to do, and gives you the tools to easily share ideas and create events with friends.
Founded in 2015, Curtsy is a mobile application that facilitates women to buy and sell clothing, shoes, handbags, jewelry, and accessories directly from each other. The platform uses machine learning and human review to assist sellers in merchandising their items effectively and provides shipping kits for seamless order fulfillment.
Hooked is a pioneering entertainment platform that specializes in chat fiction, a novel storytelling format popular among teens and millennials. With over 50 million readers worldwide and top rankings in the App Store across multiple countries, Hooked is transforming digital entertainment. Backed by prominent investors from Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher and Jamie Foxx, the company aims to become the next major player in media.
Limbix is a company dedicated to developing prescription digital therapeutics for adolescent mental health. Their flagship product, SparkRx, is an evidence-based, clinically validated tool designed to treat depression and anxiety in teenagers. Limbix combines clinical expertise with technological innovation to deliver effective mental health treatments.
Founded in 2015, Dave is a fintech company based in Los Angeles, California. It operates a mobile application that provides users with banking services, including overdraft protection, early access to paychecks, and credit building tools. The app aims to improve financial wellness by offering transparent, fee-free banking and has grown to serve over 12 million members since its inception.
Frisbee
Seed Round in 2016
Frisbee builds mobile video products that enable people to intimately and authentically communicate with one another through video. We want to help people feel close to one another even when apart in a way that builds deeper relationships.
We're looking for motivated engineers who can bring their skills and ideas to building mobile products that help people connect. We're a small scrappy team of former Facebookers and startup vets, and looking for A players to bring on!
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Alively (iOS) makes it easy to capture & share everyday moments privately with your friends through live or recorded video: https://alive.ly/ and App Store here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alively/id1143273512
Launchkit
Venture Round in 2016
Launch Kit is an online platform designed to empower creators by providing them with essential resources, technology, and community support. Focused on serving streamers, user-generated content creators, influencers, and other digital creators, Launch Kit aims to be the go-to destination for individuals seeking to establish and grow their online presence. In addition to its community-driven approach, the company develops mobile applications and offers a suite of developer tools that assist app creators in building, launching, and monitoring their applications effectively. Through its comprehensive offerings, Launch Kit seeks to facilitate sustainable online livelihoods for a diverse range of creators.
Go Insurance
Series A in 2016
Go Insurance is a mobile car insurance platform based in San Francisco, founded in 2014, that provides car insurance through an iPhone application. The app offers instant quotes from registered insurers and includes features such as Go Safe Map and Go Dispatch, with insurance quotes available in select states. The service aims to simplify the insurance process by reducing paperwork and incorporating a driver's license photo as part of the verification process to enable easy enrollment.
Josephine
Seed Round in 2016
Josephine, Inc. is an online platform that connects users with home-cooked meals prepared by local cooks in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically in Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, and San Francisco. Founded in 2014 and based in Oakland, California, the platform allows customers to discover, order, and pick up meals directly from their neighbors' homes, promoting community engagement and supporting local cooks.
Clarity Money
Series A in 2016
Clarity Money, Inc. is a financial technology company based in New York, founded in 2016. The company has developed an artificial intelligence-powered application that assists individuals in managing their personal finances. The Clarity Money app offers users tools to analyze their spending, lower bills, cancel unnecessary subscriptions, transfer funds, and establish savings accounts. It also provides insights into credit scores and promotes greater transparency in financial management. By leveraging advanced data science and AI, Clarity Money aims to empower consumers to make informed financial decisions and optimize their financial well-being. In April 2018, Clarity Money became a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Bank USA.
Expo
Convertible Note in 2016
Expo lets you write native apps that run on web, iOS, and Android with a single React codebase. Expo is trusted in production by tens of thousands of companies including Brex, Flexport, Valve, Blackline, Burger King, sweetgreen, Cameo, Codecademy, DailyPay, TriNet, ShapeShift, Warpcast, and Insider and is depended on by over 1,000,000 projects on GitHub.
Founded in 2014, Shipbob Inc. specializes in online shipping and fulfillment software for small e-commerce businesses. It aggregates services from major carriers like FedEx, UPS, and USPS, offering pickup, packaging, warehousing, batch fulfillment, and tracking solutions through its mobile app.
Reserve Media
Venture Round in 2016
Reserve Media, Inc. is a hospitality technology company that offers a digital dining concierge service designed to connect restaurants with diners. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston, Reserve provides a platform that allows customers to discover restaurants, make reservations, and receive personalized services, while also enabling restaurants to enhance their customer relationship management and gain valuable insights into their operations. The platform aims to reduce reservation cancellations and improve the overall dining experience by streamlining the booking process. Reserve has established partnerships with numerous renowned chefs and restaurateurs, positioning itself as a leading resource in the industry. The service is accessible through a mobile app available for both iOS and Android devices. As of 2018, Reserve Media operates as a subsidiary of Resy Network, Inc.
Wakie
Convertible Note in 2016
Wakie develops mobile applications that facilitate voice-based social interactions, including wake-up calls, by connecting users through a global community. The platform allows individuals to initiate conversations on various topics, customize profiles with nicknames, and engage in private voice chats with others, offering a pseudonymous and safe environment for companionship and support. Originally launched in 2011 in Russia with a Russian-language wake-up app, the service has expanded to an international user base and provides an alternative to traditional alarms by enabling human-powered wake-up calls through peer participation.
Cover Financial
Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2015, Cover Financial specializes in mobile-first insurance brokerage services. It offers a range of commercial insurance coverages, including property, liability, cyber, and more, through its user-friendly mobile application.
Thunkable
Seed Round in 2016
Thunkable is a United States-based no-code platform that enables users to create native mobile applications without writing code. It offers a drag-and-drop interface, built-in templates, and design elements to simplify app development, with online design and instant previews on devices. The platform supports cross-platform deployment to major mobile platforms and enables direct submission to the iOS and Android app stores, allowing individuals and developers to build functional apps without traditional coding.
NURX
Pre Seed Round in 2016
NURX is a digital healthcare company offering transparent pricing and judgement-free care across various services including reproductive health, at-home testing, dermatology, migraine care, and more. It provides users with convenient access to medications and personalized care through its platform.
Confide
Seed Round in 2016
Confide, Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a mobile messaging platform designed for confidential communication. Established in 2013, Confide specializes in providing users with off-the-record messaging capabilities, featuring encrypted, self-destructing messages that are also screenshot-proof. This unique approach ensures that conversations remain private and secure while preventing duplication or misuse of sensitive information. By enabling users to discuss delicate topics and share unfiltered opinions without fear of exposure, Confide aims to enhance information integrity and privacy in digital communications.
Nom is a live and interactive video community platform that enables users to host professional cooking, creative, and DIY shows. It provides an application tailored for food enthusiasts, allowing them to create, share, and watch their favorite culinary stories in real-time. By tapping into a network of makers, creators, and chefs, Nom empowers individuals to direct, produce, and host their own food shows, fostering a vibrant community centered around culinary exploration and creativity.
Spot Tech, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company, established in 2013, that specializes in developing a travel planning platform. This application provides users with recommendations for food, coffee, and drinks, while also facilitating collaborative trip exploration. Users can browse and research various destinations, compile lists of interesting locations and activities, and easily plan their trips with friends. Spot aims to enhance the travel experience by making it more interactive and user-friendly.
Forward
Convertible Note in 2016
Forward is a startup focused on transforming healthcare delivery by incorporating advanced technologies that have been underutilized in the industry, such as sensors, mobile applications, and artificial intelligence. Founded in January 2016 by former executives from Google and Uber, Forward operates primary care clinics that emphasize personalized patient care. Through its mobile application and natural language processing system, the company enhances healthcare services, offering features like body scanning, genetic screening, real-time blood testing, and home monitoring of vital signs. These innovations empower patients to take control of their health, promote transparency, and foster better collaboration with their primary care physicians. Backed by prominent investors and entrepreneurs, Forward aims to redefine the patient experience in healthcare.
Metromile
Series D in 2016
Metromile is a digital auto insurance platform that uses data science to offer personalized policies based on actual mileage driven, providing real-time insights and potential savings of up to 47% compared to traditional insurance methods. It offers features such as automated claims processing, smart driving analytics via its mobile app, and theft tracking.
SelfMade
Seed Round in 2016
SelfMade operates a technology platform that transforms and shares images on social media. It offers professional photo editing services and social media support to help members grow their online following. The company's app provides access to its follower growth technology, allowing users to determine their brand aesthetic, growth strategy, and posting schedule.
Hooked
Pre Seed Round in 2015
Hooked is a pioneering entertainment platform that specializes in chat fiction, a novel storytelling format popular among teens and millennials. With over 50 million readers worldwide and top rankings in the App Store across multiple countries, Hooked is transforming digital entertainment. Backed by prominent investors from Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher and Jamie Foxx, the company aims to become the next major player in media.
Seed
Venture Round in 2015
Seed is simply a better way to bank. As a mobile first banking service designed with the small business in mind, Seed empowers small businesses with modern, easy-to-use digital tools and customer-support resources for starting, running, and growing a business. With Seed, business banking has never been easier.
Provider of on demand drug delivery platform intended to create a better experience for patients at a lower price. Nimble partners with pharmacies nationwide to provide prescription delivery, as well as a mobile app for patients to manage and review prescriptions/orders from their phone.
Hooked is a pioneering entertainment platform that specializes in chat fiction, a novel storytelling format popular among teens and millennials. With over 50 million readers worldwide and top rankings in the App Store across multiple countries, Hooked is transforming digital entertainment. Backed by prominent investors from Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher and Jamie Foxx, the company aims to become the next major player in media.
Headspace
Series A in 2015
Headspace is a mental health technology company that provides a digital platform for mindfulness and emotional well‑being. Its mobile app offers guided meditations, sleep aids, and mindfulness programs for work, relationships, and health. The service expands beyond meditation to include clinical content, coaching, therapy, psychiatry, and AI‑driven care navigation, allowing individuals, employees, and health plan members to access personalized support. Headspace partners with organizations to deliver corporate wellness programs that improve employee productivity and well‑being.
Bluecrew
Seed Round in 2015
BlueCrew, Inc. is a staffing platform based in Palo Alto, California, focused on connecting employers with temporary workers in the Bay Area. The company offers a mobile-based solution that allows businesses to post job openings and for applicants to sign up and apply for positions. BlueCrew specializes in filling short-term, low-complexity roles, particularly in areas such as warehouse work, commercial moving, data entry, and delivery services. By leveraging a matching algorithm, the platform streamlines the hiring process, enabling employers to efficiently find high-quality candidates who fit their scheduling needs. BlueCrew aims to enhance the staffing experience for both employers and workers by introducing transparency and flexibility while maintaining the legal protections associated with traditional employment models. As of February 2018, BlueCrew operates as a subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp.
Shipbob
Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2014, Shipbob Inc. specializes in online shipping and fulfillment software for small e-commerce businesses. It aggregates services from major carriers like FedEx, UPS, and USPS, offering pickup, packaging, warehousing, batch fulfillment, and tracking solutions through its mobile app.
NimbleRx
Seed Round in 2015
Provider of on demand drug delivery platform intended to create a better experience for patients at a lower price. Nimble partners with pharmacies nationwide to provide prescription delivery, as well as a mobile app for patients to manage and review prescriptions/orders from their phone.
Luxe is building a logistics platform that will drive the next generation of local real time services, beginning with parking. The free Luxe app, available on iPhone, transforms parking from a necessary evil to a daily highlight.
With a veteran team of leaders from Zynga, Tesla, Google, Yahoo and Groupon, a fleet of prescreened, friendly valets, dozens of insured and secure indoor parking lots and a sophisticated technology platform that monitors every step of the process from drop-off to pick-up, Luxe is leading the charge on a new industry of on demand services that addresses a ubiquitous urban challenge: parking.
Reserve Media
Series A in 2015
Reserve Media, Inc. is a hospitality technology company that offers a digital dining concierge service designed to connect restaurants with diners. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston, Reserve provides a platform that allows customers to discover restaurants, make reservations, and receive personalized services, while also enabling restaurants to enhance their customer relationship management and gain valuable insights into their operations. The platform aims to reduce reservation cancellations and improve the overall dining experience by streamlining the booking process. Reserve has established partnerships with numerous renowned chefs and restaurateurs, positioning itself as a leading resource in the industry. The service is accessible through a mobile app available for both iOS and Android devices. As of 2018, Reserve Media operates as a subsidiary of Resy Network, Inc.
MileIQ is a mobile application that specializes in automatic mileage tracking for individuals and businesses. Designed to simplify the process of logging drives, the app utilizes drive-detection technology to automatically record users' trips and calculate their value for tax deductions and expense reports. MileIQ's services cater to self-employed workers seeking mileage deductions as well as larger companies aiming to manage mileage expenses effectively. The application enables users to securely store their drive history in the cloud, ensuring accurate mileage recording and efficient mileage reimbursement processes. Owned by Microsoft, MileIQ emphasizes ease of use and accuracy in its mileage tracking solutions.
Pushbullet
Seed Round in 2015
Pushbullet Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing mobile applications designed to facilitate seamless communication between devices. Founded in 2013, Pushbullet enables users to send files, links, reminders, and checklists between their Android devices and computers quickly and securely. The applications allow users to view calls and texts on their computers and effortlessly transfer various types of information, thereby enhancing productivity and connectivity across devices. Pushbullet's services aim to bridge the gap between phones, tablets, and computers, allowing for a more integrated user experience.
Kik, founded in 2009 by a group of University of Waterloo students, is a mobile messaging application based in Waterloo, Ontario. The company aims to facilitate connections among users, services, and businesses, particularly targeting a teenage audience. Kik offers features that allow users to share their feelings and engage with friends and family, as well as chatbots for entertainment. With over 300 million registered users, Kik has established itself as a popular messaging platform, with more than 40% of young Americans using it as their primary messaging app. Users typically spend an average of 35 minutes per session within the app, reflecting its strong engagement. The company is supported by notable venture capitalists and has raised significant funding, with Tencent, the creator of WeChat, as a strategic investor.
Alfred Club, Inc. is a technology-driven company that provides a resident experience and building management platform designed for apartment buildings. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, Alfred offers the Hello Alfred program, which allows residents to outsource everyday tasks such as package receiving and dog walking to dedicated home managers. These home managers are W-2 employees, ensuring they receive benefits and training, which enhances service quality and fosters local community support. The platform integrates various services, enabling residents to request assistance with grocery delivery, home cleaning, and access to exclusive events and virtual classes, all through a single, intuitive interface. Alfred has been recognized as a leader in transforming the real estate industry and has gained media attention for its innovative approach to enhancing the residential living experience.
Complex Polygon
Seed Round in 2014
Complex Polygon, Inc. is a product studio based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in designing, building, and launching mobile applications aimed at enhancing social connections among users. Established in 2013, the company focuses on innovation through experimentation with new products, while effectively utilizing its existing technology and insights into human behavior. This approach allows Complex Polygon to develop better user experiences and adapt quickly to emerging trends. Notable products include Tag and Swipe, which exemplify the company's commitment to creating tools that facilitate interpersonal interactions. As of 2017, Complex Polygon operates as a subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc.