TechNexus, LLC

TechNexus Venture Collaborative finds, funds and grows technology ventures, leveraging a unique alignment of relationships in the ecosystem to provide leading corporations with a platform to engage ventures, transform business models and ultimately drive innovation. Since 2007, TechNexus has brought together more than 500 startups with dozens of global corporate partners. Equal parts entrepreneur, strategist, and investor, we Rethink Growth.

Terry Howerton

Founder and CEO

Past deals in Speech Recognition

Osiris Media

Seed Round in 2019
Osiris Media Corp operates as a podcast production company that allows podcasters launch and grow their podcasts, and offers podcast fans access to engaging and diverse music and culture content. The company offers hands-on education for aspiring podcasters and tools that help podcasters create a web presence, distribute podcasts across iTunes and other platforms, and create and sustain audience engagement. It company also offers various podcasts that cover a variety of jam bands, indie rock, bluegrass, folk, as well as podcasts devoted to Phish and the Grateful Dead, along with podcasts that focus on parenting and other cultural topics. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Mesh++

Seed Round in 2020
Mesh++ is a solar-powered routers developer. Mesh++ uses mobile processing power to deliver a high-speed WiFi connection to outdoors and public places.

Rapchat

Seed Round in 2017
RapChat LLC develops and operates a mobile based application for creating and sharing freestyle raps. The company's platform allows users to interact, choose a beat, record over it, and then share it with others users. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Kenton, Ohio.

Playbook

Series A in 2020
Playbook is a mobile marketplace for trainers, health, and wellness athletes and professionals. It allows creators to have relationship with customers, build monthly income, and create own terms. It is an app for professionals, trainers, and athletes where they can share their workouts and healthy habits. It was launched in 2016 and is based in New York, USA.

Playbook

Seed Round in 2018
Playbook is a mobile marketplace for trainers, health, and wellness athletes and professionals. It allows creators to have relationship with customers, build monthly income, and create own terms. It is an app for professionals, trainers, and athletes where they can share their workouts and healthy habits. It was launched in 2016 and is based in New York, USA.

AI.Reverie, Inc.

Funding Round in 2018
AI.Reverie, Inc. develops simulation platform that generates synthetic data and simulations to help businesses build their machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) applications for smart cities, sustainable farms, and smart homes. The company offers suite of data and application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable businesses get training data they need to train and retrain their algorithms and AI applications. AI.Reverie, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Sea Machines

Convertible Note in 2017
An autonomous technology company, Sea Machines Robotics builds autonomous control and navigation systems for the commercial marine and boating industries. It develops advanced control systems for boats and ships, and specialized unmanned surface vessels to enhance operational safety and productivity on the water. Sea Machines Robotics builds RC NXT, an autonomous control and remote command system for PLC-based wireless control of vessel in existing or new build marine vessels, such as work boats, tugs, and launches; and DP-NXT autonomous control system that upgrades traditional manually piloted vessels to be operated with a reduced or zero on-board crew. It offers solutions for various unmanned applications, such as unmanned bathymetric survey vessels, AUV-tender, unmanned visual inspection of subsea assets, mobile unmanned passive acoustic monitoring, and dual towing. Michaerl G. Johnson founded Sea Machines Robotics on January 4, 2014. It has its headquarters in Boston in Massachusetts.

The Dyrt

Venture Round in 2019
The Dyrt, Inc. owns and operates an online portal that provides information and ratings on campsites. It offers The Dyrt, an open community consumer subscription software platform that lets campers search, review, and book campgrounds in the United States. The company’s application is also available on App Store and Google Play. The Dyrt, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Rapchat

Venture Round in 2017
RapChat LLC develops and operates a mobile based application for creating and sharing freestyle raps. The company's platform allows users to interact, choose a beat, record over it, and then share it with others users. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Kenton, Ohio.

Anglr

Convertible Note in 2019
Anglr is an online network that connects the global sport fishing community. Founded in 2016, thousands of fishermen/women have joined Anglr for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fishing activities. The company’s free mobile apps, patented IoT technologies, and website have helped members discover and plan fishing trips, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Anglr’s ability to connect fishermen/women makes fishing a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when fishing alone.

Gather Voices, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2018
Gather Voices makes video simple with a set of intuitive software solutions that enable organizations to produce, manage, edit and publish video at scale. We're in the Video Age, and companies that want to get and keep attention need to replace a large amount of text on web pages, emails and social media with video. They need nimble solutions that don't require special skills, high budgets or long timelines. Gather Voices makes video simple. Learn more and get a demo at https://gathervoices.co

Mycroft AI, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Mycroft AI, Inc. develops an open source voice assistant solution. Its Mycroft software operates as an open platform that can be extended, expanded, and remixed; and enabled through voice when put into device of the user’s choice, such as fridge, computer, speaker, wearable, car, and TV. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri with additional locations in Palo Alto, California; and Lawrence, Kansas.

Ocient

Series A in 2017
Ocient is a startup building a near-real-time database and data analytics platform for petabyte- to exabyte-scale data sets. Ocient was founded by the talent behind the largest software startup exit in Chicago’s history. Ocient is a well-funded company, with an engineering team comprised of brilliant computer scientists hailing from the world’s top universities and organizations.

MIXhalo Corp.

Convertible Note in 2018
MIXhalo Corp. develops an audio technology platform that enables users to access sound at a live event through the smartphones. It offers Mixhalo, a platform that enables live event organizers to give audiences what they came for, by delivering audio directly to attendees’ own phones and headphones. The company provides its solutions for concerts, political speeches, music events, sports, conferences, interpretations, and public events. MIXhalo Corp. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Soundskrit

Seed Round in 2019
Soundskrit develops velocity-based directional microphone to improve speech recognition and sound recording in smart devices. The microphone has application in smart-phones to allow audio to zoom in with recording; in smart devices to enhance speech recognition in noisy environments with multiple speakers, in situation-aware devices that allow users to choose which sounds they want to listen in to. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Studio

Convertible Note in 2018
Studio makes audio based group running classes available live and on-demand to anyone with access to a treadmill. Each class is a mix of great instruction from an awesome coach matched with an amazing playlist. Think of it like a SoulCycle class for running, that you can take at anytime that’s convenient for you.

Insoundz Ltd.

Convertible Note in 2019
Insoundz Ltd. develops and delivers a software platform that captures, isolates, and mixes every sound in real time and post game to delivers sound experience for live broadcasts, and post-events. It offers InSoundz basics that enables the user to capture each and every sound bite anywhere in the stadium during live events; InSoundz XR, a volumetric audio capture that allows the user to model the audio "radiation" pattern of objects in space and deliver a complete 6 degrees of freedom virtual camera experience. The company also provides InSoundz Pro Plus that enables the user to capture pre and post game highlights, deliver audio insights from training sessions, and generate new experiences not captured during the live game program. Insoundz Ltd. was founded in 2013 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

HAAS Alert

Convertible Note in 2019
HAAS Alert is the leading mobility and smart city data service provider keeping emergency crews, drivers and the public safe through Cellular V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle) communication. Drivers and emergency crews use the information to avoid collisions and reduce traffic delays. The HAAS Alert Safety Cloud is a real-time data stream connecting first responders, commercial, municipal, and slow moving fleets with motorists, connected and autonomous vehicles. Connected "smart"​ communities use the service to inform infrastructure, planning and real-time traffic management. The company is currently working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on advanced solutions and has support from leading safety organizations including NSC (National Safety Council), TSR (Together for Safer Roads), FAMA (Fire Apparatus Manufacturers' Association) and NFPA (National Fire Protection Association).

Pi Variables, Inc.

Funding Round in 2019
Pi Variables, Inc. develops, manufactures, and supports intelligent devices for the transportation industry. The company’s technology enhances the safety of those working on the roadway, including work zone personnel, law enforcement, fire equipment personnel, utility and maintenance vehicles, helicopter pilots, and maritime navigation. Its products are available throughout the United States, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Japan, and the Middle East. Pi Variables, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Tustin, California.

rammer.ai

Venture Round in 2020
Rammer.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers. They have developed the only platform that uses machine learning to analyze conversations in real-time proactively. The company aims to eliminate the complexity of building and maintaining conversational understanding systems so that developers can focus on building delightful and productive experiences, using Rammer’s underlying technology. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Reality AI

Seed Round in 2019
Reality Analytics, Inc. (Reality AI) was founded by Jeff Sieracki and Stuart Feffer in 2015 to make software that helps R&D engineers develop products using sensors. Reality AI uses proprietary algorithms for optimized feature discovery and model generation, component selection and specification setting, BoM optimization, and data collection / synthetic augmentation/curation. Use cases include sound recognition, gesture recognition, and predictive maintenance using vibration, accelerometer, sound, radar, current/voltage/capacitance, and other sensor modalities. Customers in the automotive, industrial, and consumer/commercial products sectors. Reality AI has 14 US patents and 6 more pending, all in the areas of feature discovery and machine learning as applied to sensor and signal problems. Offices in Columbia, MD, Sunnyvale, CA and Tokyo, Japan.

Anglr

Seed Round in 2018
Anglr is an online network that connects the global sport fishing community. Founded in 2016, thousands of fishermen/women have joined Anglr for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fishing activities. The company’s free mobile apps, patented IoT technologies, and website have helped members discover and plan fishing trips, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Anglr’s ability to connect fishermen/women makes fishing a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when fishing alone.

Mycroft AI, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
Mycroft AI, Inc. develops an open source voice assistant solution. Its Mycroft software operates as an open platform that can be extended, expanded, and remixed; and enabled through voice when put into device of the user’s choice, such as fridge, computer, speaker, wearable, car, and TV. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri with additional locations in Palo Alto, California; and Lawrence, Kansas.

Rapchat

Seed Round in 2019
RapChat LLC develops and operates a mobile based application for creating and sharing freestyle raps. The company's platform allows users to interact, choose a beat, record over it, and then share it with others users. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Kenton, Ohio.

Sonoro

Series A in 2020
Sonoro is a global media company creating premium, Spanish-language audio content. It collaborates with world-class storytellers to create content across a range of verticals that can be distributed broadly. Sonoro was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, CA, and with an office in Mexico.

Losant

Series A in 2018
Losant is a developer platform designed to helps people build complex connected solutions. Losant provides powerful data collection, aggregation, and visualization features to help understand and quantify vast amounts of sensor data. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Rotabull, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
Rotabull, Inc. develops a software for the aviation industry. The company offers an online platform, Rotabull, which facilitates the buying and selling of airplane parts. It provides management, automation, and integration of aviation parts inventory, online listings, quotes, and other e-commerce activities for the enterprise resource planning and management. It serves e-commerce and aviation sectors. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Gather Voices, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Gather Voices makes video simple with a set of intuitive software solutions that enable organizations to produce, manage, edit and publish video at scale. We're in the Video Age, and companies that want to get and keep attention need to replace a large amount of text on web pages, emails and social media with video. They need nimble solutions that don't require special skills, high budgets or long timelines. Gather Voices makes video simple. Learn more and get a demo at https://gathervoices.co

RhinoDox

Convertible Note in 2019
RhinoDox is a cloud-based, Intelligent Content Management platform for Manufacturing companies. They streamline communication and transparency by connecting people, content and business processes to deliver the power of lean manufacturing. We help get more done in less time.

Pushkin Industries

Series A in 2019
Pushkin Industries to spread the joy found making and listening to podcasts.

Synap Software Labs

Series A in 2016
At Synap, customer relationships are the center of Their product and Their business. They are creating delightful and empowering experiences for Their customers, by taking full-advantage of the recent advancements in the API ecosystem, mobile platforms, and data analysis.

Natrion LLC

Seed Round in 2022
Natrion is a developer of large-scale batteries used to generate efficient renewable energy. Its batteries are ceramic solid-electrolyte and source energy from solar and wind to manage power deployment for renewable energy storage that enable businesses to make solar power cost-effective for homes, farms, and the military. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Binghamton, New York.

Catch Co.

Series B in 2021
The Catch Co. creates a simplified and irresistible shopping experience that curates the right gear at the right time to the right anglers—at a fraction of the cost of traditional retail. They are changing the way anglers shop for the products they love.

EmPath

Convertible Note in 2019
EmPath, Inc. is a technology startup that uses machine learning to discover employee skills, match the skills to their current job and future roles, and recommend course-work to close skill gaps. It offers Skills Career Management As a Service solution that prepares workers and organizations for the future of work by understanding and optimizing skills capabilities and needs. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Impossible Aerospace Corp

Convertible Note in 2020
Impossible Aerospace Corp manufactures long-range electric aircrafts and related solutions for first responders, including law enforcement and fire fighters. The company's products include US-1, which is a long duration performance aircraft and Air Support, which is an unmanned airborne policing and first response system. It offers aircraft, training, IT connectivity support, camera systems, routine maintenance, FAA certifications, training, and program support. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

BoxCast

Seed Round in 2018
BoxCast is a complete video streaming solution that fits in the palm of your hand. Anyone with a video camera can broadcast live video through their website, email, or social media. Viewers tune-in using any Internet connected computer, tablet, or modern smartphone.

Sounder

Series A in 2022
Sounder.fm is a platform that helps audio creators manage, market, and measure their audio content. Sounder offers free hosting, transcription, Pinpoint Audio Search, and analytics to help the user grow its audience. It aims to drive creativity and make audio better for everyone. The company was founded in 2019 and based in New York, New York.

Playbook

Convertible Note in 2018
Playbook is a mobile marketplace for trainers, health, and wellness athletes and professionals. It allows creators to have relationship with customers, build monthly income, and create own terms. It is an app for professionals, trainers, and athletes where they can share their workouts and healthy habits. It was launched in 2016 and is based in New York, USA.

Double Elvis Productions

Convertible Note in 2019
Double Elvis Productions is an audio-driven media company that creates podcasts and experiences for those who can't resist the rebel yell. With a focus on music and pop culture, co-founders Jake Brennan (Disgraceland) and Brady Sadler develop wildly entertaining original content and experiences, while creating a platform for artists and modern storytellers. Its initial slate of projects is four music-focused podcasts in partnership with iHeartMedia and as part of iHeartRadio Original Podcasts, including the recently launched Dear Young Rocker.

The Dyrt

Series A in 2019
The Dyrt, Inc. owns and operates an online portal that provides information and ratings on campsites. It offers The Dyrt, an open community consumer subscription software platform that lets campers search, review, and book campgrounds in the United States. The company’s application is also available on App Store and Google Play. The Dyrt, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Aspinity

Convertible Note in 2017
Aspinity offers neuromorphic all-analog integrated circuit technology that can replicate the functionality of digital signal processors. It reduces the system power requirements for always-on sensing applications. Their vision is that battery life does not have to stand in the way. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Synap Software Labs

Seed Round in 2015
At Synap, customer relationships are the center of Their product and Their business. They are creating delightful and empowering experiences for Their customers, by taking full-advantage of the recent advancements in the API ecosystem, mobile platforms, and data analysis.

Streem, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
Streem is an award winning technology company that enhances real-time communication and collaboration by creating an intelligent camera. The platform delivers a combination of augmented reality (AR), computer vision, and machine learning. It equips the expert with the capability to remotely capture crucial information by using proprietary spatial mapping, OCR, and object & pose estimation technology.

Ocient

Series B in 2021
Ocient is a startup building a near-real-time database and data analytics platform for petabyte- to exabyte-scale data sets. Ocient was founded by the talent behind the largest software startup exit in Chicago’s history. Ocient is a well-funded company, with an engineering team comprised of brilliant computer scientists hailing from the world’s top universities and organizations.

Rapchat

Seed Round in 2018
RapChat LLC develops and operates a mobile based application for creating and sharing freestyle raps. The company's platform allows users to interact, choose a beat, record over it, and then share it with others users. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Kenton, Ohio.

Rollick

Venture Round in 2021
Rollick Outdoor, Inc. operates an online marketing platform which allows manufacturers of recreational products to connect with dealers. The platform helps retailers and manufacturers provide an individualized online and in-store experience for the powersports, RV, and marine industries. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Agora.io

Venture Round in 2021
Agora is a high-growth Communications-Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) provider delivering mobile-first, real-time communications for developers and businesses globally. Agora's API is the most widely adopted API for real-time communications around the world, installed on more than 500 million devices and rapidly growing. The Agora real-time communication stack includes features like include voice calling, video calling, group conferencing, interactive broadcasting, and much more. Reliable, accessible and scalable, Agoria.io provides communications services to organizations across industries, including telemedicine, education, financial services, customer service, social media applications, and mobile gaming.

SwiftIQ

Grant in 2014
SwiftIQ uses high scale data processing and machine learning to deliver contextually relevant insights and digital experiences for retailers and brands. Its platform unifies and analyzes data primarily from in-store transactions as well as online behavior and third party sources to predict and inform category captains, shopper marketing, assortment, supply chain and content delivery decisions. SwiftIQ’s unique ability to process billions of basket-level transaction records in near real-time and convert that into on-demand mobile visualizations, dayparts, affinities and attribution fosters a new level of retailer/supplier collaboration and innovation. Since launching its category captain and consumer behavioral analytics platforms in late 2014, SwiftIQ now analyzes over $40 billion in offline, receipt-level point of sale data. The company serves 5 of the global leading category suppliers and several billion-dollar retailers. SwiftIQ, named a Top Innovator twice by DataWeek, has also been recognized by Forrester, Forbes, NACS, ProgressiveGrocer and ComputerWorld for its achievements.

Meet Cute

Series A in 2020
Meet Cute is a podcast company that focuses on romantic comedies. Meet Cute produces and distributes original romantic comedies in podcast form that focus on “providing the happiness and hope that have become synonymous with the timeless genre. The company was launched in December 2019 and based in New York City, New York.

Reelables, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
Reelables is a reel-to-reel manufacturing of ultra-thin wireless Bluetooth labels. The company is building ultra-thin flexible Bluetooth trackers that are built into labels that can be affixed to products. They enable businesses to keep track and find almost anything without any work.

Catch Co.

Convertible Note in 2020
The Catch Co. creates a simplified and irresistible shopping experience that curates the right gear at the right time to the right anglers—at a fraction of the cost of traditional retail. They are changing the way anglers shop for the products they love.

Zenrez Corporation

Series A in 2017
Zenrez provides boutique fitness studios industry leading sales and marketing software with revenue management at its core. We apply dynamic pricing and yield management techniques -- traditionally limited to huge industries like airlines and hotels -- to help boutique fitness studios increase their revenue, drive repeat business, reduce customer churn, and fill last-minute spots in class. Additionally, our CRM platform breaks down and identifies the most significant growth levers of your studio and the most actionable fitness-specific KPIs at your fingertips. Learn more at https://www.zenrez.com

Portal

Seed Round in 2019
Portal is an innovative digital video sharing platform that changes how people earn money from their content. Portal has no secret algorithms that tracks every move instead, viewers can instantly send creators $0.10-$100 to show their appreciation.

Artiphon

Seed Round in 2019
Artiphon, Inc. engages in the design and manufacturing of musical instruments. Artiphon, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Kerning Cultures

Seed Round in 2019
Kerning Cultures is building the premier Middle East podcast network. As audio media becomes mainstream in other international markets, we're defining the space for the Middle East and North Africa. Our inaugural show produces radio documentaries from the Middle East for regional and global audiences.

RadioPublic PBC

Convertible Note in 2018
RadioPublic is a Public Benefit Corporation founded by PRX. With RadioPublic you can hear any podcast. Searching for and adding a show is fast. It's also simple to import your podcast subscriptions from other apps.

Ocient

Series A in 2018
Ocient is a startup building a near-real-time database and data analytics platform for petabyte- to exabyte-scale data sets. Ocient was founded by the talent behind the largest software startup exit in Chicago’s history. Ocient is a well-funded company, with an engineering team comprised of brilliant computer scientists hailing from the world’s top universities and organizations.

Tetra

Seed Round in 2017
Tetra uses AI to take notes on phone calls, to help you focus, remember the details, and keep your team in sync.

Fugitive Media

Seed Round in 2019
Fugitive Media is a premium podcast studio creating exciting new shows in the Narrative and Travel markets, with IP licensing across all media platforms. From the people who brought you Detour and plenty of great television shows.

Soundskrit

Seed Round in 2019
Soundskrit develops velocity-based directional microphone to improve speech recognition and sound recording in smart devices. The microphone has application in smart-phones to allow audio to zoom in with recording; in smart devices to enhance speech recognition in noisy environments with multiple speakers, in situation-aware devices that allow users to choose which sounds they want to listen in to. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Fixers

Convertible Note in 2018
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.

Insoundz Ltd.

Convertible Note in 2021
Insoundz Ltd. develops and delivers a software platform that captures, isolates, and mixes every sound in real time and post game to delivers sound experience for live broadcasts, and post-events. It offers InSoundz basics that enables the user to capture each and every sound bite anywhere in the stadium during live events; InSoundz XR, a volumetric audio capture that allows the user to model the audio "radiation" pattern of objects in space and deliver a complete 6 degrees of freedom virtual camera experience. The company also provides InSoundz Pro Plus that enables the user to capture pre and post game highlights, deliver audio insights from training sessions, and generate new experiences not captured during the live game program. Insoundz Ltd. was founded in 2013 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Lightout

Seed Round in 2018
Lightout Inc. provides digital outdoor advertising platform. It also provides billboard platform, campaigns creation, and real time dashboard. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Soundskrit

Venture Round in 2021
Soundskrit develops velocity-based directional microphone to improve speech recognition and sound recording in smart devices. The microphone has application in smart-phones to allow audio to zoom in with recording; in smart devices to enhance speech recognition in noisy environments with multiple speakers, in situation-aware devices that allow users to choose which sounds they want to listen in to. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Portal Labs

Venture Round in 2019
Portal Labs develops a professional service platform for agencies, consultancies, law firms, and accounting firms. Its platform Portal offers to set up with an online presence of clients and enables clients to communicate, share documents, pay, and share messages from one portal. Portal Labs is based in New York, New York.

AI.Reverie, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
AI.Reverie, Inc. develops simulation platform that generates synthetic data and simulations to help businesses build their machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) applications for smart cities, sustainable farms, and smart homes. The company offers suite of data and application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable businesses get training data they need to train and retrain their algorithms and AI applications. AI.Reverie, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Losant

Series A in 2018
Losant is a developer platform designed to helps people build complex connected solutions. Losant provides powerful data collection, aggregation, and visualization features to help understand and quantify vast amounts of sensor data. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

AI.Reverie, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
AI.Reverie, Inc. develops simulation platform that generates synthetic data and simulations to help businesses build their machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) applications for smart cities, sustainable farms, and smart homes. The company offers suite of data and application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable businesses get training data they need to train and retrain their algorithms and AI applications. AI.Reverie, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Studio

Seed Round in 2017
Studio makes audio based group running classes available live and on-demand to anyone with access to a treadmill. Each class is a mix of great instruction from an awesome coach matched with an amazing playlist. Think of it like a SoulCycle class for running, that you can take at anytime that’s convenient for you.

BoxCast

Series A in 2020
BoxCast is a complete video streaming solution that fits in the palm of your hand. Anyone with a video camera can broadcast live video through their website, email, or social media. Viewers tune-in using any Internet connected computer, tablet, or modern smartphone.

Playbook

Series A in 2020
Playbook is a mobile marketplace for trainers, health, and wellness athletes and professionals. It allows creators to have relationship with customers, build monthly income, and create own terms. It is an app for professionals, trainers, and athletes where they can share their workouts and healthy habits. It was launched in 2016 and is based in New York, USA.

ampUp

Seed Round in 2021
AmpUp is an electric vehicle (EV) software company that enables drivers, hosts, and fleets to charge stress-free. Our technology gives businesses and property owners the ability to efficiently manage multiple charge stations in one place. Advanced features, such as smart scheduling, dynamic access control and energy optimization provide site hosts more flexibility and affordability for their charger investment. Our community and fleet management system also allows site hosts to participate in AmpUp's peer-to-peer charging network, the largest and fastest growing in the world. Ampup was founded in 2018 and incubated at YCombinator.

Streem, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Streem is an award winning technology company that enhances real-time communication and collaboration by creating an intelligent camera. The platform delivers a combination of augmented reality (AR), computer vision, and machine learning. It equips the expert with the capability to remotely capture crucial information by using proprietary spatial mapping, OCR, and object & pose estimation technology.

HAAS Alert

Seed Round in 2021
HAAS Alert is the leading mobility and smart city data service provider keeping emergency crews, drivers and the public safe through Cellular V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle) communication. Drivers and emergency crews use the information to avoid collisions and reduce traffic delays. The HAAS Alert Safety Cloud is a real-time data stream connecting first responders, commercial, municipal, and slow moving fleets with motorists, connected and autonomous vehicles. Connected "smart"​ communities use the service to inform infrastructure, planning and real-time traffic management. The company is currently working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on advanced solutions and has support from leading safety organizations including NSC (National Safety Council), TSR (Together for Safer Roads), FAMA (Fire Apparatus Manufacturers' Association) and NFPA (National Fire Protection Association).

ampUp

Venture Round in 2021
AmpUp is an electric vehicle (EV) software company that enables drivers, hosts, and fleets to charge stress-free. Our technology gives businesses and property owners the ability to efficiently manage multiple charge stations in one place. Advanced features, such as smart scheduling, dynamic access control and energy optimization provide site hosts more flexibility and affordability for their charger investment. Our community and fleet management system also allows site hosts to participate in AmpUp's peer-to-peer charging network, the largest and fastest growing in the world. Ampup was founded in 2018 and incubated at YCombinator.

SwiftIQ

Seed Round in 2014
SwiftIQ uses high scale data processing and machine learning to deliver contextually relevant insights and digital experiences for retailers and brands. Its platform unifies and analyzes data primarily from in-store transactions as well as online behavior and third party sources to predict and inform category captains, shopper marketing, assortment, supply chain and content delivery decisions. SwiftIQ’s unique ability to process billions of basket-level transaction records in near real-time and convert that into on-demand mobile visualizations, dayparts, affinities and attribution fosters a new level of retailer/supplier collaboration and innovation. Since launching its category captain and consumer behavioral analytics platforms in late 2014, SwiftIQ now analyzes over $40 billion in offline, receipt-level point of sale data. The company serves 5 of the global leading category suppliers and several billion-dollar retailers. SwiftIQ, named a Top Innovator twice by DataWeek, has also been recognized by Forrester, Forbes, NACS, ProgressiveGrocer and ComputerWorld for its achievements.

Best Case Studios

Convertible Note in 2019
Best Case Studios is a podcast studio and media company focusing on premium narrative audio. They specialize in bringing culturally relevant and unique perspectives to life through narrative audio storytelling. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Anglr

Seed Round in 2018
Anglr is an online network that connects the global sport fishing community. Founded in 2016, thousands of fishermen/women have joined Anglr for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fishing activities. The company’s free mobile apps, patented IoT technologies, and website have helped members discover and plan fishing trips, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Anglr’s ability to connect fishermen/women makes fishing a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when fishing alone.

Catch Co.

Convertible Note in 2019
The Catch Co. creates a simplified and irresistible shopping experience that curates the right gear at the right time to the right anglers—at a fraction of the cost of traditional retail. They are changing the way anglers shop for the products they love.

Hologram

Series A in 2019
Hologram is a connectivity enablement toolkit that empowers makers, engineers, and creators of all types to connect their devices with wireless data as well as manage billings as they grow. Hologram provides a flexible platform with no minimums, instant connectivity, and robust scalability to help its users grow their businesses and projects from 1 to 1000 devices. Its goal is to simplify the process of building connected hardware that works everywhere. Hologram was founded in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Beam Health

Seed Round in 2021
Beam Health Group, LLC develops and operates a telemedicine platform that allows healthcare providers to connect with patients via text, voicemail, and video chat. Its platform offers patient marketing, engagement, and education tools, as well as branded landing page and social media campaigns. The company's platform allows medical practices to have video appointments with their existing patients or find new patients in their marketplace. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Dysonics

Convertible Note in 2019
The Dysonics team have been leaders in human audio perception and spatial sound capture and reproduction research for over 15 years. The core Dysonics technology was developed in the Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing (CIPIC) lab at the University of California, Davis. In 2012 Dysonics emerged from the newly created UC Davis technology incubator (ETTC) to commercialize our revolutionary headphone-based audio technologies. Dysonics mission is to provide the most immersive audio experience using patented DSP algorithms, microphone and speaker arrays, head tracking sensors, and ML/AI technology for personalized applications.

Sonoro

Seed Round in 2020
Sonoro is a global media company creating premium, Spanish-language audio content. It collaborates with world-class storytellers to create content across a range of verticals that can be distributed broadly. Sonoro was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, CA, and with an office in Mexico.

Krisp Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Krisp app makes remote workers more professional. With Krisp you can take calls from wherever you want without worrying about privacy and background noise. The app works with all conferencing and recording apps out of the box. It also supports any headset and microphone (built-in, Bluetooth or USB).

Sentenai Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Sentenai is cloud service that connects intelligent systems to the data they need to make better decisions in real-time. Sentenai’s product combines distributed systems and applied machine learning to automatically organize sensor data streams, making them searchable in real-time. Sentenai is an early-stage startup building data infrastructure for machine learning and predictive applications.

Trint Limited

Venture Round in 2022
Trint Limited operates an online platform for searching, editing, and getting audio and video content. The company’s platform enables customers to convert their audio and video files into text, polish transcripts to perfect in minutes, make their audio and video files searchable, put captions on their videos, and share bite-sized chunks of audio and video content online. It serves customers in various industries, including journalism and media, video editing, academic research, and market research and user experience. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

ampUp

Venture Round in 2022
AmpUp is an electric vehicle (EV) software company that enables drivers, hosts, and fleets to charge stress-free. Our technology gives businesses and property owners the ability to efficiently manage multiple charge stations in one place. Advanced features, such as smart scheduling, dynamic access control and energy optimization provide site hosts more flexibility and affordability for their charger investment. Our community and fleet management system also allows site hosts to participate in AmpUp's peer-to-peer charging network, the largest and fastest growing in the world. Ampup was founded in 2018 and incubated at YCombinator.

Native Voice

Venture Round in 2022
Native Voice is a software SDK for audio device manufacturers to integrate their SDK to create the next generation of listening devices. The company is building a fundamental building block to enable this voice-first ecosystem. Native Voice removes that friction by helping to connect with multiple assistants and all their skills or actions while acting as the library for the brands that are deploying their own voice-enabled solutions.

Let’s Do This

Venture Round in 2020
Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet. It helps race organizers to reach an engaged community of participants and endurance sports enthusiasts, offering a dedicated platform to provide detailed event information, news, and special offers. Find and book the best running, triathlon, cycling and obstacle events in the UK and around the world. Whether it's a 5k fun run or tenth Ironman Triathlon, Let's Do This is the best place to find the perfect race. It was founded in 2016 by Alex Rose and Sam Browne who are both passionate runners and cyclists. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an office in London, United Kingdom.

Catch Co.

Series A in 2020
The Catch Co. creates a simplified and irresistible shopping experience that curates the right gear at the right time to the right anglers—at a fraction of the cost of traditional retail. They are changing the way anglers shop for the products they love.

Anglr

Venture Round in 2021
Anglr is an online network that connects the global sport fishing community. Founded in 2016, thousands of fishermen/women have joined Anglr for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fishing activities. The company’s free mobile apps, patented IoT technologies, and website have helped members discover and plan fishing trips, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Anglr’s ability to connect fishermen/women makes fishing a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when fishing alone.

PDI Software

Venture Round in 2014
PDI, the leader in enterprise management software for the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale markets, delivers solutions to connect to intelligent business. Our people-first approach, combined with our 35-year heritage and best-in-class technology, helps you thrive in today’s digital economy. We’re passionate about your success and delivering exceptional customer experiences. It’s time to reimagine enterprise management and connect to intelligent business.

RadioPublic PBC

Venture Round in 2019
RadioPublic is a Public Benefit Corporation founded by PRX. With RadioPublic you can hear any podcast. Searching for and adding a show is fast. It's also simple to import your podcast subscriptions from other apps.

First Due

Venture Round in 2021
First Due Size Up is on a mission to end first responder injuries due to a lack of information. The platform programmatically gathers information from online and offline sources, translates that data into an easy-to-consume format and makes it accessible to First Responders at the time of dispatch on any device, completely integrated with 911, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and customized to the agencies Standard Operating Procedures. Think of us as SaaS+SmartData+EmergencyResponse to reduce cost and save lives.

Natrion LLC

Venture Round in 2021
Natrion is a developer of large-scale batteries used to generate efficient renewable energy. Its batteries are ceramic solid-electrolyte and source energy from solar and wind to manage power deployment for renewable energy storage that enable businesses to make solar power cost-effective for homes, farms, and the military. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Binghamton, New York.

PDI Software

Venture Round in 2017
PDI, the leader in enterprise management software for the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale markets, delivers solutions to connect to intelligent business. Our people-first approach, combined with our 35-year heritage and best-in-class technology, helps you thrive in today’s digital economy. We’re passionate about your success and delivering exceptional customer experiences. It’s time to reimagine enterprise management and connect to intelligent business.

Myra Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Myra Labs offers APIs that power Slack and Messenger bots, customer service applications, and others that require sophisticated natural language understanding. Myra Labs is building a conversational experience platform. Our APIs provide scalable and highly tunable machine learning services, including state of the art deep learning models, that understand natural language and conversational state. Our mission is to empower developers to build the highest quality user experiences.

Hefring Marine

Venture Round in 2021
Hefring Marine provides operators to prevent injuries to their crew and passengers, along with minimizing potential damage caused to craft and equipment from wave slamming. The company is based in Reykjavík, Iceland.

HAAS Alert

Venture Round in 2019
HAAS Alert is the leading mobility and smart city data service provider keeping emergency crews, drivers and the public safe through Cellular V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle) communication. Drivers and emergency crews use the information to avoid collisions and reduce traffic delays. The HAAS Alert Safety Cloud is a real-time data stream connecting first responders, commercial, municipal, and slow moving fleets with motorists, connected and autonomous vehicles. Connected "smart"​ communities use the service to inform infrastructure, planning and real-time traffic management. The company is currently working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on advanced solutions and has support from leading safety organizations including NSC (National Safety Council), TSR (Together for Safer Roads), FAMA (Fire Apparatus Manufacturers' Association) and NFPA (National Fire Protection Association).

Sea Machines

Convertible Note in 2020
An autonomous technology company, Sea Machines Robotics builds autonomous control and navigation systems for the commercial marine and boating industries. It develops advanced control systems for boats and ships, and specialized unmanned surface vessels to enhance operational safety and productivity on the water. Sea Machines Robotics builds RC NXT, an autonomous control and remote command system for PLC-based wireless control of vessel in existing or new build marine vessels, such as work boats, tugs, and launches; and DP-NXT autonomous control system that upgrades traditional manually piloted vessels to be operated with a reduced or zero on-board crew. It offers solutions for various unmanned applications, such as unmanned bathymetric survey vessels, AUV-tender, unmanned visual inspection of subsea assets, mobile unmanned passive acoustic monitoring, and dual towing. Michaerl G. Johnson founded Sea Machines Robotics on January 4, 2014. It has its headquarters in Boston in Massachusetts.

Aspinity

Seed Round in 2018
Aspinity offers neuromorphic all-analog integrated circuit technology that can replicate the functionality of digital signal processors. It reduces the system power requirements for always-on sensing applications. Their vision is that battery life does not have to stand in the way. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

First Due

Seed Round in 2020
First Due Size Up is on a mission to end first responder injuries due to a lack of information. The platform programmatically gathers information from online and offline sources, translates that data into an easy-to-consume format and makes it accessible to First Responders at the time of dispatch on any device, completely integrated with 911, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and customized to the agencies Standard Operating Procedures. Think of us as SaaS+SmartData+EmergencyResponse to reduce cost and save lives.

3AM Innovations

Seed Round in 2020
3AM Innovations has partnered with experts around the globe to solve this age-old problem. It has designed a solution that utilizes state-of-the-art sensors, communication technologies, and software called FLARE – an acronym for Firefighter Location and Rescue Equipment. FLARE creates a self-contained mesh network that monitors, records, and reports a firefighter’s movements, location, and surrounding temperature in real-time. FLARE is a solution designed by firefighters for firefighters and will improve the safety and outcomes for the men and women who risk their lives daily.

Sentenai Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
Sentenai is cloud service that connects intelligent systems to the data they need to make better decisions in real-time. Sentenai’s product combines distributed systems and applied machine learning to automatically organize sensor data streams, making them searchable in real-time. Sentenai is an early-stage startup building data infrastructure for machine learning and predictive applications.

Miles

Series A in 2021
Miles is a universal rewards app empowering anyone to earn miles automatically for all forms of travel and commute. You can then redeem your miles from retailers such as HP, DoorDash, Garmin, Peet’s, Shipt, Pandora, Reebok, Chewy, Home Chef, and many more. Similar to a frequent flyer program, but for all forms of transportation, Miles delivers value for every mile traveled, across every mode of travel, anywhere in the world. Whether by car (as a driver, passenger or rideshare), plane, train, subway, bus, boat, bicycle, or on foot, the Miles app effortlessly awards users’ travel - regardless of where their journey takes them. Miles can be saved or redeemed at any time - with the value increasing every month as more merchants accept them as a form of payment. Download Miles today to start getting rewarded!

Playbook

Seed Round in 2020
Playbook is a mobile marketplace for trainers, health, and wellness athletes and professionals. It allows creators to have relationship with customers, build monthly income, and create own terms. It is an app for professionals, trainers, and athletes where they can share their workouts and healthy habits. It was launched in 2016 and is based in New York, USA.

Qcode

Convertible Note in 2020
QCode Media, Inc. operates as an audio production studio. It offers scripted and narrative stories; and fiction and talk shows. The company provides its services through online platform. QCode Media, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Native Voice

Convertible Note in 2020
Native Voice is a software SDK for audio device manufacturers to integrate their SDK to create the next generation of listening devices. The company is building a fundamental building block to enable this voice-first ecosystem. Native Voice removes that friction by helping to connect with multiple assistants and all their skills or actions while acting as the library for the brands that are deploying their own voice-enabled solutions.

Reality AI

Seed Round in 2020
Reality Analytics, Inc. (Reality AI) was founded by Jeff Sieracki and Stuart Feffer in 2015 to make software that helps R&D engineers develop products using sensors. Reality AI uses proprietary algorithms for optimized feature discovery and model generation, component selection and specification setting, BoM optimization, and data collection / synthetic augmentation/curation. Use cases include sound recognition, gesture recognition, and predictive maintenance using vibration, accelerometer, sound, radar, current/voltage/capacitance, and other sensor modalities. Customers in the automotive, industrial, and consumer/commercial products sectors. Reality AI has 14 US patents and 6 more pending, all in the areas of feature discovery and machine learning as applied to sensor and signal problems. Offices in Columbia, MD, Sunnyvale, CA and Tokyo, Japan.

Zenrez Corporation

Convertible Note in 2018
Zenrez provides boutique fitness studios industry leading sales and marketing software with revenue management at its core. We apply dynamic pricing and yield management techniques -- traditionally limited to huge industries like airlines and hotels -- to help boutique fitness studios increase their revenue, drive repeat business, reduce customer churn, and fill last-minute spots in class. Additionally, our CRM platform breaks down and identifies the most significant growth levers of your studio and the most actionable fitness-specific KPIs at your fingertips. Learn more at https://www.zenrez.com

Losant

Series B in 2018
Losant is a developer platform designed to helps people build complex connected solutions. Losant provides powerful data collection, aggregation, and visualization features to help understand and quantify vast amounts of sensor data. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

DIVE Studios

Seed Round in 2019
DIVE STUDIOS operates a podcast network with production studios. It produces podcasts for K-Pop fans, Asian Americans, and other audiences. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California with a production studio in Seoul, South Korea.

Sea Machines

Series B in 2020
An autonomous technology company, Sea Machines Robotics builds autonomous control and navigation systems for the commercial marine and boating industries. It develops advanced control systems for boats and ships, and specialized unmanned surface vessels to enhance operational safety and productivity on the water. Sea Machines Robotics builds RC NXT, an autonomous control and remote command system for PLC-based wireless control of vessel in existing or new build marine vessels, such as work boats, tugs, and launches; and DP-NXT autonomous control system that upgrades traditional manually piloted vessels to be operated with a reduced or zero on-board crew. It offers solutions for various unmanned applications, such as unmanned bathymetric survey vessels, AUV-tender, unmanned visual inspection of subsea assets, mobile unmanned passive acoustic monitoring, and dual towing. Michaerl G. Johnson founded Sea Machines Robotics on January 4, 2014. It has its headquarters in Boston in Massachusetts.

Edgybees Ltd.

Series A in 2020
Edgybees Ltd. develops and operates an online platform that delivers augmented reality experience that moves, even at the highest speeds, from drones to cars, trains, and wearable devices. Its Industrial solutions include; search and rescue / homeland security, real estate, architecture and urban planning, construction and urban development, field view: agriculture and land management, industrial facilities, and automotive. The company’s gaming solution include; Droneprix AR, Drone FX, and Sky Skreemers. It caters to fire departments, police departments, and homeland security sectors. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Atypical Artists

Convertible Note in 2020
Atypical Artists, LLC, a production studio, produces audio science fiction podcasts. It offers audio drama products from soup to nuts. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in West Hollywood, California.

Sentenai Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Sentenai is cloud service that connects intelligent systems to the data they need to make better decisions in real-time. Sentenai’s product combines distributed systems and applied machine learning to automatically organize sensor data streams, making them searchable in real-time. Sentenai is an early-stage startup building data infrastructure for machine learning and predictive applications.

Soundskrit

Seed Round in 2020
Soundskrit develops velocity-based directional microphone to improve speech recognition and sound recording in smart devices. The microphone has application in smart-phones to allow audio to zoom in with recording; in smart devices to enhance speech recognition in noisy environments with multiple speakers, in situation-aware devices that allow users to choose which sounds they want to listen in to. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Pi Variables, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
Pi Variables, Inc. develops, manufactures, and supports intelligent devices for the transportation industry. The company’s technology enhances the safety of those working on the roadway, including work zone personnel, law enforcement, fire equipment personnel, utility and maintenance vehicles, helicopter pilots, and maritime navigation. Its products are available throughout the United States, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Japan, and the Middle East. Pi Variables, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Tustin, California.

Reality AI

Seed Round in 2017
Reality Analytics, Inc. (Reality AI) was founded by Jeff Sieracki and Stuart Feffer in 2015 to make software that helps R&D engineers develop products using sensors. Reality AI uses proprietary algorithms for optimized feature discovery and model generation, component selection and specification setting, BoM optimization, and data collection / synthetic augmentation/curation. Use cases include sound recognition, gesture recognition, and predictive maintenance using vibration, accelerometer, sound, radar, current/voltage/capacitance, and other sensor modalities. Customers in the automotive, industrial, and consumer/commercial products sectors. Reality AI has 14 US patents and 6 more pending, all in the areas of feature discovery and machine learning as applied to sensor and signal problems. Offices in Columbia, MD, Sunnyvale, CA and Tokyo, Japan.

Dysonics

Convertible Note in 2017
The Dysonics team have been leaders in human audio perception and spatial sound capture and reproduction research for over 15 years. The core Dysonics technology was developed in the Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing (CIPIC) lab at the University of California, Davis. In 2012 Dysonics emerged from the newly created UC Davis technology incubator (ETTC) to commercialize our revolutionary headphone-based audio technologies. Dysonics mission is to provide the most immersive audio experience using patented DSP algorithms, microphone and speaker arrays, head tracking sensors, and ML/AI technology for personalized applications.

AssemblyAI

Convertible Note in 2019
AssemblyAI Inc. develops application programming interface (API) that helps developers in building customized chat interfaces. It transcribes phone calls and builds voice powered applications. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

RadioPublic PBC

Series A in 2019
RadioPublic is a Public Benefit Corporation founded by PRX. With RadioPublic you can hear any podcast. Searching for and adding a show is fast. It's also simple to import your podcast subscriptions from other apps.

Periodic

Seed Round in 2018
Periodic powers real-time inventory for service sector e-commerce. Their products make it easy for any organization to take scheduling and reservations to the web. They power instant booking sites for services like ScheduleThing.com as well as enterprise and industry-specific solutions. Their powerful API allows marketplaces and SaaS providers to add real-time bookings to their offerings with ease. It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Bloomington, Indiana.

Amper Music, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
Amper is an artificial intelligence composer, performer, and producer that creates unique music, tailored to any content, instantly. Using its proprietary sample library and datasets, their technology is built from the ground up with an emphasis on high-quality music through the fusion of music theory and AI innovation. The Amper Score enables enterprise teams to compose custom music in seconds and reclaim the time spent searching through stock music. Amper’s mission is to enable anyone to express themselves creatively through music regardless of their musical background or expertise. Amper builds tools powered by their Creative AI to help people create and customize original music.

SwiftIQ

Series A in 2017
SwiftIQ uses high scale data processing and machine learning to deliver contextually relevant insights and digital experiences for retailers and brands. Its platform unifies and analyzes data primarily from in-store transactions as well as online behavior and third party sources to predict and inform category captains, shopper marketing, assortment, supply chain and content delivery decisions. SwiftIQ’s unique ability to process billions of basket-level transaction records in near real-time and convert that into on-demand mobile visualizations, dayparts, affinities and attribution fosters a new level of retailer/supplier collaboration and innovation. Since launching its category captain and consumer behavioral analytics platforms in late 2014, SwiftIQ now analyzes over $40 billion in offline, receipt-level point of sale data. The company serves 5 of the global leading category suppliers and several billion-dollar retailers. SwiftIQ, named a Top Innovator twice by DataWeek, has also been recognized by Forrester, Forbes, NACS, ProgressiveGrocer and ComputerWorld for its achievements.

Roby

Seed Round in 2018
Roby is a chat/voice-enabled software that handles all requests, automates repetitive tasks, eliminates miscommunication, and reduces resolution time to increase employee satisfaction. It works by simplifying and automating tasks such as employee QAs, room booking, facility requests, and IT support allowing you to focus on what really matters. Roby is a Techstars 2018 company. Its mission is to create an engaged, productive, and happy workplace for our customers by making their operation efficient, simple, and personalized.

Podfund

Seed Round in 2019
The podcast industry's first dedicated source of funding for podcasters.

Lightout

Convertible Note in 2019
Lightout Inc. provides digital outdoor advertising platform. It also provides billboard platform, campaigns creation, and real time dashboard. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

SpokenLayer

Series A in 2019
spokenlayer converts printed content and publications into audio. It allows clients to submit their articles using its self-guided API so that the company takes the content from the clients and finds suitable voice for narration thereby enables listening the content using mobile, Web, or in the car. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Unifyd Insights

Convertible Note in 2019
Unifyd changes how Analysts, Data scientists and Engineers individually source, schedule, normalize, cleanse, & match data to datasets. This rinse and repeat is replaced with Unifyd Graph, a context aware system that maps your data to external party datasets. Data is sourced in a zero code environment where staff expert in data context collaborate with technical staff to source and publish insights in minutes.

LANDR

Series A in 2017
LANDR Audio Inc. provides a cloud based intelligent audio mixing and mastering technology for musicians. It offers MixGenius, an intelligent music production system that listens and responds using complex algorithms to engineer music. The company’s MixGenius includes psychoacoustic and spectral analysis system that actively listens to music and detects detailed features in the audio signals. LANDR Audio Inc. was formerly known as MixGenius, Inc. LANDR Audio Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

ShotTracker Inc.

Series A in 2018
ShotTracker makes sensor-based technology that automatically captures basketball statistics in real-time during practices and games. At ShotTracker, they improve the performance of competitive athletes by bringing elite-level analytics to the masses. Their latest innovation, ShotTracker TEAM, captures real-time practice and game stats for basketball teams, and it's affordable for teams at every level of play.

Bumpers Media

Convertible Note in 2017
Bumpers develops an iOS app that allows users to make a podcast direct from their mobile devices, using the phone's built-in microphones.

Closer Sports

Convertible Note in 2019
Closer Sports is creating a live-streaming platform for athletes to connect with fans. The co-founders want their product to fill in the shortcomings of ESPN and existing social media services. Unlike Instagram, the startup lets athletes charge for access to their live-streams. The company is kicking things off with UFC fighters and had 500 paid subscribers after launching recently.

Losant

Series A in 2017
Losant is a developer platform designed to helps people build complex connected solutions. Losant provides powerful data collection, aggregation, and visualization features to help understand and quantify vast amounts of sensor data. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Tectonic Audio Labs

Convertible Note in 2019
Tectonic Audio Labs Inc. designs and manufactures loudspeakers for use in AV rental, touring, and house of worship applications. It offers PL-11 flat panel loudspeakers for small to medium sized venues; PL-12 flat panel loudspeakers for medium to large spaces; rigging systems; single and multiple panel mounting systems; and speaker cases, as well as commercial sound reinforcement systems. The company’s products are used in clubs, rental, theaters, churches, auditoriums, corporate A/V, sports venues, and festivals. It sells its products through dealers in the United States. Tectonic Audio Labs Inc. was formerly known as Flat Audio Technologies, LLC. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Woodinville, Washington.

Zensors

Convertible Note in 2018
Zensors, Inc. develops visual sensors using artificial intelligence. It offers real-time analytics platform and custom dashboards. It provides smart tracking solutions to cafés, cities, stadiums, factories, offices, and retailers. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Audeze

Series A in 2020
Audeze LLC is a California-based high-end audio manufacturer delivering the most accurate sound reproduction available today. Audeze products are engineered with the latest innovations in materials science and technology matched with precision craftsmanship to produce an astonishingly dynamic and immersive sound. Audeze’s commitment to research and development is reflected in every facet of our made-in-the-USA products.

Let’s Do This

Convertible Note in 2020
Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet. It helps race organizers to reach an engaged community of participants and endurance sports enthusiasts, offering a dedicated platform to provide detailed event information, news, and special offers. Find and book the best running, triathlon, cycling and obstacle events in the UK and around the world. Whether it's a 5k fun run or tenth Ironman Triathlon, Let's Do This is the best place to find the perfect race. It was founded in 2016 by Alex Rose and Sam Browne who are both passionate runners and cyclists. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an office in London, United Kingdom.

Portside, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Portside, Inc. designs and develops Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for data reporting and analytics for aircraft management companies, aircraft owners. corporate flight departments. fractional and jet card operators. charter operators & flight departments. Its software integrates with other software and enables multiple scheduling, accounting, maintenance and expense management. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Myra Labs

Convertible Note in 2017
Myra Labs offers APIs that power Slack and Messenger bots, customer service applications, and others that require sophisticated natural language understanding. Myra Labs is building a conversational experience platform. Our APIs provide scalable and highly tunable machine learning services, including state of the art deep learning models, that understand natural language and conversational state. Our mission is to empower developers to build the highest quality user experiences.

Piccolo Labs Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Piccolo Labs Inc. develops vision assistant technology. It combines cameras equipped with Wi-Fi, artificial intelligence and artificial vision that can identify people's movements and gestures. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

YAC

Seed Round in 2020
Yac is a digital voice messaging service developing a broad range of hosted messaging and communications services. Its hosted messaging and communications services includes inbound call management, fax to email, virtual numbers, audio conferencing, and personal numbers facilities. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Kissimmee, Florida.

Imageous

Convertible Note in 2019
Imageous, Inc. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based chat and voice enabled software for office management. It offers Roby, a platform that handles all requests, automate repetitive tasks, eliminates miscommunication, and reduces resolution time to increase employee satisfaction. Its platform sends metrics to employees to keep track of the effort from the support team and get their feedback. Imageous, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Seattle, Washington. It has additional office in Tokyo, Japan.

Voxeet

Seed Round in 2017
Voxeet is now clearly positioned as the leading real-time collaboration platform (cPaaS) that enables WebRTC with the only highly secure, crystal clear 3D surround-sound, audio and video experience. After being named a Gartner Cool Vendor 2016, we were just recognized as the 2017 "Hot Vendor" in Unified Communications and Collaboration (watch 1 min video) by Aragon Research. Our API library also enables screen sharing, presentation mode, broadcasting, call recording, translation, messaging, scheduling and more.

AI.Reverie, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
AI.Reverie, Inc. develops simulation platform that generates synthetic data and simulations to help businesses build their machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) applications for smart cities, sustainable farms, and smart homes. The company offers suite of data and application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable businesses get training data they need to train and retrain their algorithms and AI applications. AI.Reverie, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Studio

Series A in 2019
Studio makes audio based group running classes available live and on-demand to anyone with access to a treadmill. Each class is a mix of great instruction from an awesome coach matched with an amazing playlist. Think of it like a SoulCycle class for running, that you can take at anytime that’s convenient for you.

Alpha Exploration Co

Convertible Note in 2020
SaaS in Stealth

Dysonics

Series B in 2018
The Dysonics team have been leaders in human audio perception and spatial sound capture and reproduction research for over 15 years. The core Dysonics technology was developed in the Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing (CIPIC) lab at the University of California, Davis. In 2012 Dysonics emerged from the newly created UC Davis technology incubator (ETTC) to commercialize our revolutionary headphone-based audio technologies. Dysonics mission is to provide the most immersive audio experience using patented DSP algorithms, microphone and speaker arrays, head tracking sensors, and ML/AI technology for personalized applications.

Sweatworking, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
Sweatworking, Inc., an online digital fitness platform that enables gyms to share workouts. The company provides content creation services, marketing support and a fitness-forward technology platform so gyms can create, deliver and monetize on-demand video workouts, recovery routines, meditations, and meal plans. Sweatworking, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Sea Machines

Series B in 2020
An autonomous technology company, Sea Machines Robotics builds autonomous control and navigation systems for the commercial marine and boating industries. It develops advanced control systems for boats and ships, and specialized unmanned surface vessels to enhance operational safety and productivity on the water. Sea Machines Robotics builds RC NXT, an autonomous control and remote command system for PLC-based wireless control of vessel in existing or new build marine vessels, such as work boats, tugs, and launches; and DP-NXT autonomous control system that upgrades traditional manually piloted vessels to be operated with a reduced or zero on-board crew. It offers solutions for various unmanned applications, such as unmanned bathymetric survey vessels, AUV-tender, unmanned visual inspection of subsea assets, mobile unmanned passive acoustic monitoring, and dual towing. Michaerl G. Johnson founded Sea Machines Robotics on January 4, 2014. It has its headquarters in Boston in Massachusetts.

YAC

Seed Round in 2019
Yac is a digital voice messaging service developing a broad range of hosted messaging and communications services. Its hosted messaging and communications services includes inbound call management, fax to email, virtual numbers, audio conferencing, and personal numbers facilities. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Kissimmee, Florida.

Dot Dot Dot Media

Convertible Note in 2020
Dot Dot Dot Media is a news and entertainment company focused on creating content of humanity and technology. The company's mission is to help us feel human again in today’s world, using storytelling to foster real connections. Their first show, First Contact, launched in December in partnership with iHeartMedia.

Catch Co.

Convertible Note in 2018
The Catch Co. creates a simplified and irresistible shopping experience that curates the right gear at the right time to the right anglers—at a fraction of the cost of traditional retail. They are changing the way anglers shop for the products they love.

Krisp Technologies, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Krisp app makes remote workers more professional. With Krisp you can take calls from wherever you want without worrying about privacy and background noise. The app works with all conferencing and recording apps out of the box. It also supports any headset and microphone (built-in, Bluetooth or USB).

PodFund

Seed Round in 2019
SaaS

Trint Limited

Series A in 2019
Trint Limited operates an online platform for searching, editing, and getting audio and video content. The company’s platform enables customers to convert their audio and video files into text, polish transcripts to perfect in minutes, make their audio and video files searchable, put captions on their videos, and share bite-sized chunks of audio and video content online. It serves customers in various industries, including journalism and media, video editing, academic research, and market research and user experience. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Mesh++

Convertible Note in 2018
Mesh++ is a solar-powered routers developer. Mesh++ uses mobile processing power to deliver a high-speed WiFi connection to outdoors and public places.

Sea Machines

Series A in 2018
An autonomous technology company, Sea Machines Robotics builds autonomous control and navigation systems for the commercial marine and boating industries. It develops advanced control systems for boats and ships, and specialized unmanned surface vessels to enhance operational safety and productivity on the water. Sea Machines Robotics builds RC NXT, an autonomous control and remote command system for PLC-based wireless control of vessel in existing or new build marine vessels, such as work boats, tugs, and launches; and DP-NXT autonomous control system that upgrades traditional manually piloted vessels to be operated with a reduced or zero on-board crew. It offers solutions for various unmanned applications, such as unmanned bathymetric survey vessels, AUV-tender, unmanned visual inspection of subsea assets, mobile unmanned passive acoustic monitoring, and dual towing. Michaerl G. Johnson founded Sea Machines Robotics on January 4, 2014. It has its headquarters in Boston in Massachusetts.

Roby

Convertible Note in 2019
Roby is a chat/voice-enabled software that handles all requests, automates repetitive tasks, eliminates miscommunication, and reduces resolution time to increase employee satisfaction. It works by simplifying and automating tasks such as employee QAs, room booking, facility requests, and IT support allowing you to focus on what really matters. Roby is a Techstars 2018 company. Its mission is to create an engaged, productive, and happy workplace for our customers by making their operation efficient, simple, and personalized.

Insoundz Ltd.

Series A in 2018
Insoundz Ltd. develops and delivers a software platform that captures, isolates, and mixes every sound in real time and post game to delivers sound experience for live broadcasts, and post-events. It offers InSoundz basics that enables the user to capture each and every sound bite anywhere in the stadium during live events; InSoundz XR, a volumetric audio capture that allows the user to model the audio "radiation" pattern of objects in space and deliver a complete 6 degrees of freedom virtual camera experience. The company also provides InSoundz Pro Plus that enables the user to capture pre and post game highlights, deliver audio insights from training sessions, and generate new experiences not captured during the live game program. Insoundz Ltd. was founded in 2013 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

MTonomy

Funding Round in 2018
MOLTEN modernizes core operations of the media and entertainment industry — including rights, content, distribution and licensing operations. _____________ MOLTEN is a cloud platform that streamlines core operations of media and entertainment enterprises. MOLTEN digitizes and transforms film/TV rights, content, distribution and licensing operations across the enterprise globally, empowering teams with real-time insight and automation tools to do more. Built by a team from MIT with professionals from the industry, this state-of-the-art vertical-cloud platform hosts over 150M film and TV rights today.

Revery Media

Convertible Note in 2020
Revery Media is a development and production studio that develops and produces narrative content for smart speakers. The company using podcasts and AI-driven narrative analysis to build engaged audiences around IP with a clear path to adaptation in TV, film, and location-based entertainment. Revery Media interactive voice experiences transform linear storytelling into 2-way conversations, allowing artists, brands, and publishers to build deep relationships with their audiences. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, CA.

Krisp Technologies, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
Krisp app makes remote workers more professional. With Krisp you can take calls from wherever you want without worrying about privacy and background noise. The app works with all conferencing and recording apps out of the box. It also supports any headset and microphone (built-in, Bluetooth or USB).

SwiftIQ

Series A in 2014
SwiftIQ uses high scale data processing and machine learning to deliver contextually relevant insights and digital experiences for retailers and brands. Its platform unifies and analyzes data primarily from in-store transactions as well as online behavior and third party sources to predict and inform category captains, shopper marketing, assortment, supply chain and content delivery decisions. SwiftIQ’s unique ability to process billions of basket-level transaction records in near real-time and convert that into on-demand mobile visualizations, dayparts, affinities and attribution fosters a new level of retailer/supplier collaboration and innovation. Since launching its category captain and consumer behavioral analytics platforms in late 2014, SwiftIQ now analyzes over $40 billion in offline, receipt-level point of sale data. The company serves 5 of the global leading category suppliers and several billion-dollar retailers. SwiftIQ, named a Top Innovator twice by DataWeek, has also been recognized by Forrester, Forbes, NACS, ProgressiveGrocer and ComputerWorld for its achievements.

Dysonics

Convertible Note in 2020
The Dysonics team have been leaders in human audio perception and spatial sound capture and reproduction research for over 15 years. The core Dysonics technology was developed in the Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing (CIPIC) lab at the University of California, Davis. In 2012 Dysonics emerged from the newly created UC Davis technology incubator (ETTC) to commercialize our revolutionary headphone-based audio technologies. Dysonics mission is to provide the most immersive audio experience using patented DSP algorithms, microphone and speaker arrays, head tracking sensors, and ML/AI technology for personalized applications.

Portside, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
Portside, Inc. designs and develops Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for data reporting and analytics for aircraft management companies, aircraft owners. corporate flight departments. fractional and jet card operators. charter operators & flight departments. Its software integrates with other software and enables multiple scheduling, accounting, maintenance and expense management. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Perch

Convertible Note in 2018
Perch utilizes cameras mounted to weight racks to measure, store, and analyze weightlifting performance. Jacob Rothman and Nathan Rodman founded it in July 2016, with its headquarters in Cambridge in Massachusetts.

AssemblyAI

Convertible Note in 2019
AssemblyAI Inc. develops application programming interface (API) that helps developers in building customized chat interfaces. It transcribes phone calls and builds voice powered applications. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Giide

Seed Round in 2020
Giide is an audio authoring and publishing platform for businesses to create hyperlinked audio content. Our platform includes a mobile application, audio content authoring system and embeddable player for publishing Giides on web. We support creators and businesses with new tools and technologies for audio listening including audio plus an on-screen synchronous content feed. Giide provides detailed metrics to businesses that want to understand audio interaction beyond passive podcast listening and video consumption.

Fitbod, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Fitbod allows users to maximize the use of indoor gym equipment and confidence to train effectively for strength. Using machine learning, Fitbod analyzes tracked workout data to build a real-time strength-training plan tailored to your physical capability, available equipment, and fitness goals. By turning activity data into concrete fitness guidance, Fitbod innovates beyond current fitness apps, which offer fixed exercise plans that can’t adapt to unique user needs. It was launched in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Catch Co.

Series A in 2017
The Catch Co. creates a simplified and irresistible shopping experience that curates the right gear at the right time to the right anglers—at a fraction of the cost of traditional retail. They are changing the way anglers shop for the products they love.

BoxCast

Venture Round in 2017
BoxCast is a complete video streaming solution that fits in the palm of your hand. Anyone with a video camera can broadcast live video through their website, email, or social media. Viewers tune-in using any Internet connected computer, tablet, or modern smartphone.

Catch Co.

Series A in 2020
The Catch Co. creates a simplified and irresistible shopping experience that curates the right gear at the right time to the right anglers—at a fraction of the cost of traditional retail. They are changing the way anglers shop for the products they love.

Zensors

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Zensors, Inc. develops visual sensors using artificial intelligence. It offers real-time analytics platform and custom dashboards. It provides smart tracking solutions to cafés, cities, stadiums, factories, offices, and retailers. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

LANDR

Series B in 2019
LANDR Audio Inc. provides a cloud based intelligent audio mixing and mastering technology for musicians. It offers MixGenius, an intelligent music production system that listens and responds using complex algorithms to engineer music. The company’s MixGenius includes psychoacoustic and spectral analysis system that actively listens to music and detects detailed features in the audio signals. LANDR Audio Inc. was formerly known as MixGenius, Inc. LANDR Audio Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Tonal

Series B in 2018
Tonal is a smart home gym that uses artificial intelligence and expert-led coaching to provide strength training. It manufactures and provides Tonal, fitness training equipment. The equipment is installed on walls and offers personalized workouts through it. It also provides workout plans, such as build muscles, balancing strength, and athletic performance based on individual requirements. It also offers live-recorded classes by coaches. Aly Orady founded Tonal in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

HAAS Alert

Seed Round in 2021
HAAS Alert is the leading mobility and smart city data service provider keeping emergency crews, drivers and the public safe through Cellular V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle) communication. Drivers and emergency crews use the information to avoid collisions and reduce traffic delays. The HAAS Alert Safety Cloud is a real-time data stream connecting first responders, commercial, municipal, and slow moving fleets with motorists, connected and autonomous vehicles. Connected "smart"​ communities use the service to inform infrastructure, planning and real-time traffic management. The company is currently working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on advanced solutions and has support from leading safety organizations including NSC (National Safety Council), TSR (Together for Safer Roads), FAMA (Fire Apparatus Manufacturers' Association) and NFPA (National Fire Protection Association).