Techstars

Techstars Central LLC, founded in 2006 and based in Boulder, Colorado, operates as a startup accelerator and venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage technology-oriented companies. It specializes in a mentorship-driven accelerator program, selecting ten startups each summer to participate in a three-month incubation period, offering funding of $120,000 in exchange for equity. Techstars invests primarily in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, and IoT, while avoiding investments in medical devices, healthcare technology, and local service-oriented businesses. In addition to its primary accelerator, Techstars has various specialized programs, including those focused on music, retail, mobility, and social impact, with global reach extending to regions such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm prefers taking minority stakes, typically between six and ten percent, without seeking board representation or investor rights. Techstars has built a robust network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and corporate partners to foster innovation and growth within its portfolio, which includes over 1,000 companies with a significant collective market capitalization.

Ethan Austin

MD of the Techstars Western Union Accelerator

Max Kelly

Managing Director of Techstars London

Lesa Mitchell

Managing Director

Vijay Tirathrai

Managing Director

Mark Tortorella

Advisor

Nathanial Zola

MD

Past deals in Northeastern US

Poplin

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Direct-to-consumer bedding brand

Aircare

Seed Round in 2023
AirCare Labs LLC, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, offers AirCare, a remote monitoring and telehealth platform designed to assist hospitals in preventing patient readmissions and enhancing overall patient outcomes. The platform allows clinicians to remotely monitor and engage with patients at any time and from any location, utilizing tele-nursing and tailored analytics. By providing these capabilities, AirCare aims to improve the quality of care and streamline healthcare processes for institutions. As of March 31, 2015, AirCare Labs LLC operates as a subsidiary of RightCare Solutions, Inc.

Savvy

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Savvy™ is a high-performance video product paving the way to successful social advertising. It's the leading video creation solution for businesses that drives performance and growth. It's the better way to video. #SavvyWorks

Movez

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Movez is a social event platform that addresses the challenges faced by millennials in attending and organizing social gatherings. The platform offers a user-friendly map interface that highlights various events occurring in the city, enhancing navigation and participation. It also introduces features that improve user experience, such as gender ratio quadrics, which cater to social dynamics. For event hosts, Movez provides tools to streamline the organization of events, ensuring they are enjoyable and well-coordinated. By focusing on the key aspects of social connectivity, transportation, and organization, Movez aims to transform how people engage with social events and nightlife, making the process more efficient and enjoyable for all participants.

Column

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Column is a social network application. In Column They offer monetary rewards by contributing positively to discussions and moderating content on the platform. Column is the social network for topic-specific content.

Nix

Series A in 2022
Nix, Inc. is a consumer diagnostic company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that specializes in the manufacture of single-use biosensing wearable technologies designed to monitor hydration levels. The company has developed a sweat-based biometric sensor that provides real-time insights into hydration status and electrolyte loss, catering primarily to athletes, soldiers, and laborers. This innovative sensor enables users to optimize their performance by accurately assessing their fluid needs during training and competition. Founded in 2015, Nix aims to empower individuals to make informed decisions about their hydration.

WeStock

Venture Round in 2022
WeStock is leading the next phase of retail by empowering brands and their followers with industry-leading tools to measure and facilitate consumer demand WeStock empowers brands by empowering their customers. They streamline the product request process and ensure that you have the leads, consumer data and velocity solutions that your brand needs to thrive in market and succeed on the shelf.

Metrobi

Venture Round in 2022
Metrobi Inc. is a company specializing in pre-scheduled delivery services designed for business-to-business transactions. Founded in 2016 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Metrobi utilizes a mobile platform that incorporates artificial intelligence to optimize local deliveries for businesses. The company's technology enables efficient routing and pairing of deliveries, allowing for bulk product pickups from stores or warehouses and subsequent delivery to various destinations. This innovative approach increases driver productivity by 23% and reduces mileage by up to 50%. By facilitating a shared delivery service and providing an on-demand fleet, Metrobi aims to lower delivery costs for businesses while ensuring fair compensation for drivers.

Pointz

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Pointz is a mobile mapping app that helps navigate bike and scooter riders through safe routes in cities. Its routing algorithm favors roads on a unique ‘quiet network’ of residential side streets, protected bike lanes, and other 'bike-friendly' streets.

SQOR Technologies Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2022
At SQOR.ai, we’ve created a game-changing platform for senior leadership to monitor the health of execution across their entire organization. SQOR.ai is an AI-driven, no-code solution that seamlessly integrates all your SaaS tools through simple authentication. This enables SQOR.ai to extract vital insights from everyday company data, which is often scattered across multiple tools, making it easily accessible, digestible, and actionable for company leadership. Our advanced algorithms eliminate the need for expensive data scientists, analysts, or engineers, providing trustworthy situational awareness for teams. The unique “Execution Score” offers a comprehensive view of company performance, allowing all stakeholders to effortlessly monitor the health of the company. With SQOR.ai, KPIs are monitored, validated, analyzed, and delivered in real-time, ensuring that everyone from senior leaders to external partners can see, know, and act with confidence. Our ecosystem ensures that critical performance insights are always at your fingertips, empowering all stakeholders to make informed decisions and drive the company forward. SQOR.ai transforms SaaS data into actionable business intelligence, delivering on the promise of efficiency through AI and creating unparalleled value for investors.

Lynq

Series A in 2022
Lynq, established in 2014 and based in Brooklyn, New York, specializes in the manufacturing of handheld personal location devices. The company focuses on providing a decentralized and secure method for transmitting location data, allowing users to communicate over long distances without relying on traditional infrastructure. Lynq's innovative approach incorporates unique frequency-hopping techniques, enabling the transmission of location information in a manner that minimizes the risk of detection and interception. This commitment to privacy and security distinguishes Lynq's offerings in the personal location device market.

PopPD

Pre Seed Round in 2022
PopPD is interactive online professional development training for educators. They also acknowledge that professional development in isolation is not the solution to the systemic change needed in education. They connect with educators from different races, generations, geographical locations, gender minorities, the community, and individuals with disabilities.

Noteworthy AI

Seed Round in 2022
Climate change creates new risks for electric utilities. From more frequent and intense storms to droughts that create wildfire-friendly conditions, it’s now more critical than ever for these companies to enact mitigation measures that account for these risks. One mitigation is the proactive inspection and inventory of grid assets at-scale, usually by piloting aerial drone missions to collect imagery and video on each asset. While these methods have proven to increase both grid safety and resiliency, most are employed on the transmission grid but not on the distribution grid. This is because, compared to transmission grid assets, distribution grid assets are too numerous, too geographically dispersed, are often located in densely populated areas, and the aerial view is often obscured by vegetation for much of the year. This makes piloting drone inspection missions over distribution grid assets extremely difficult. Yet, 90% of power outages occur on the distribution grid and there are cases of faulty distribution grid equipment sparking wildfires, such as the recent Silverado Fire in Southern California. Noteworthy AI solves this problem by ensuring that distribution grid assets are adequately inspected and monitored. Our solution combines hardware at the Edge and software in the Cloud to help electric utilities inspect and inventory distribution grid assets at scale. Our Edge hardware mounts directly on electric utility fleet vehicles (e.g. repair trucks) and uses proprietary computer vision to inspect and inventory distribution poles and their components with no impact on crew duties. Results are sent to our Cloud software in real-time. This converts non-productive fleet vehicle travel time into active inspection and monitoring at a low cost, enabling electric utilities to reap grid resiliency and safety benefits on the distribution grid as well.

Payvmnt

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Payvmnt is an end-to-end online marketplace offering same-day delivery. We operate, manage, and own our delivery vehicles, warehouses and inventory. The mission is to be a one stop shop for all your same-day delivery needs. We set out with a goal of making the customer's experience simple and easy during the uncertain times of today. From trash bags to candles, online shopping has never been this easy. We are paving the way for same-day delivery across the United States and are starting in the most challenging city NYC!

Pilotbird

Seed Round in 2022
Pilotbird is a SaaS platform for insurance companies that uses social data points to deliver value in key parts of the insurance value chain. Pilotbird empowers Life & Health insurance teams to better score risk, engage customers and detect claims fraud by analyzing social data points.

Indistinguishable From Magic

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The platform that makes designing and creating interactive hardware fast, easy, and accessible by removing the need for programming and engineering.

Satisfi Labs

Series A in 2022
Satisfi Labs Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in conversational AI, offering a software-as-a-service application designed to enhance real-time customer engagement through mobile devices. Its platform, known as the Answer Engine, serves various sectors including retail, sports venues, attractions, and live events by powering chatbots, voice experiences, messaging applications, and website forums. This technology facilitates effective communication by automatically directing customer inquiries to the most appropriate responders within an organization, while also providing tools for performance assessment and opportunities to improve the customer experience. Founded in 2016, Satisfi Labs aims to create unique and interactive experiences for customers across diverse industries.

KADO

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Networking and Relationship Management Software

Openly

Series C in 2022
Openly Inc. is a technology-enabled insurance provider that specializes in homeowners insurance, catering to customers through independent agents. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Chicago, the company leverages technology and industry expertise to deliver comprehensive insurance coverage. Openly's offerings include protection for the structure of the building, walls, roof, and attached fixtures. The company focuses on providing a simplified quoting process, aiming to enhance the overall insurance experience for its customers.

Realworld

Seed Round in 2022
Realworld is a platform designed to help make smart, informed decisions about finances, health, and life's big moments. This empowers young people with the knowledge they need. They have interviewed thousands of college students, twenty-somethings, employers, academics, and subject-matter experts about life in the real world to ensure this wasn’t just an “us problem.” It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

OncoveryCare

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
OncoveryCare operates as a virtual survivorship clinic focused on enhancing the lives of cancer survivors. The clinic provides a dedicated platform that facilitates navigation through the challenges of survivorship, offering essential tools and support to promote healthier and happier living. Its mission is to ensure that every survivor in need of care has access to comprehensive resources, aiming to address and reduce disparities in survivorship outcomes. By emphasizing whole-person care, OncoveryCare fosters a sense of community among survivors, thereby improving their overall quality of life.

LegacyShift

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
LegacyShift is an EdTech company committed to shaping the future of online learning for the Black community. It is building the first and largest online learning platform offering targeted, culturally relevant, and cinematic quality video courses, masterclasses, and educational shows designed to help Blacks achieve personal and professional success. LegacyShift offers an opportunity to learn from the most brilliant people, experts, pioneers, and cultural icons within the global Black community.

Candle

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Candle is a mobile application designed to simplify investment for users by employing an index fund strategy. It allows individuals to invest in companies they believe in while maintaining a customizable and balanced portfolio. The app provides users with insights into their financial status and offers actionable recommendations, particularly in decentralized finance (DeFi) strategies that aim to outpace inflation. Candle connects fintech developers and influencers with banking and investing consumers, optimizing financial management through automation. Its features include creating and sharing custom portfolios, utilizing advanced algorithms for tasks such as rebalancing and tax loss harvesting. By automating various aspects of financial management, Candle reduces the complexity and stress associated with personal finance, enabling users to save both time and money.

NAL Media - Brij

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Nal media provides workforce development services for media. They also provide networking space and internal workforce development tool services. Additionally, they also provide entertainment services.

Rewire Fitness

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rewire Fitness is a human performance platform that provides evidence-based solutions for tracking the athlete's readiness to perform. The company's patent-pending technology integrates protocols used by the Navy Seals, Nasa, and neuroscience, enabling athletes and other populations to reach their ultimate potential. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New Paltz, New York.

Bucephalus

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Bucephalus is a supply chain ops platform that empowers e-commerce brands to move products faster, cheaper, and more sustainably using AI. The company partners with environmentally conscious brands to be the operating system for their supply chain, giving them confidence, saving them time and money, and reducing both waste and carbon emissions to grow their triple bottom line.

Audyo

Seed Round in 2022
Intelligent audio for the internet. In just one line of code, Audyo makes any publication listenable.

Ecolectro

Seed Round in 2022
Ecolectro makes materials that make clean fuels and chemicals. The company is commercializing a proprietary platform of novel polymers that are best in class, allowing its customers to produce devices that last longer and cost less. Ecolectro has defensible IP, state-of-the-art facilities, experienced personnel, and strong customer traction.

Paerpay

Seed Round in 2022
Paerpay is a financial application designed to enhance in-person payment experiences for merchants, particularly in the restaurant industry. By streamlining the payment process, Paerpay addresses the challenges faced by merchants, who can lose significant revenue due to payment friction and non-paying customers. The platform allows users to scan a code at their table to either create a new bill or connect to an existing one, facilitating payment, bill splitting, and tipping with ease. This contactless payment service aims to eliminate the frustrations associated with traditional payment methods, enabling a smoother and more efficient transaction experience for both merchants and their customers.

Linq

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Wecover Platforms builds artificially intelligent robots for businesses, including legal firms, financial sectors, insurance companies, and research and marketing sectors.

Spiky.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Spiky.ai is the first AI-based modular integrated advanced analytics platform that leads the Edutech 5.0 revolution. Spiky.ai is a one-stop-shop solution, gathering all essential AI-based analytics products under one platform.

Augurisk

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Augurisk provides risk assessments for 12 disaster and societal risk factors, including Crime, Storms, Floods, Wildfires, Earthquakes and more. For more information, please visit our website.

elo audio

Pre Seed Round in 2022
elocance is the first app that lets you save your web articles, emails, newsletters and work documents, so you can listen to them later. You can listen to everything you would normally need to read and actually do it on the go! In the metro, during your commute, or while you're running. Gain time while catching up and learning more.

Namic Group Inc.

Series A in 2022
Technology Consulting

PeduL

Seed Round in 2021
PeduL Inc. is a crowdfunding platform based in Newark, New Jersey, founded in 2016. The platform is designed to help students raise funds for their higher education, addressing the financial challenges many face when pursuing college degrees. By providing a dedicated space for education crowdfunding, PeduL enables students to connect with potential donors who can assist in alleviating the costs associated with higher education. This innovative approach aims to change the traditional methods of funding college expenses, offering an alternative solution for students in need of financial support.

Aleria

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Aleria helps companies improve recruitment strategies, increase employee satisfaction and loyalty, achieve diversity goals and drive business performance. To get started, our Inclusion Assessment can identify the unique opportunities that exist within your organization.

Breakthru

Seed Round in 2021
SportsHi connects student-athletes to colleges and amazing opportunities like scholarships. Our mission is to encourage high school students to play sports by creating a community where all student-athletes can grow. We know the positive impact high school sports can have in the classroom and in your day-to-day life. By creating SportsHi, we want to send more of our youth to higher education.

Employee Cycle

Seed Round in 2021
Employee Cycle is an automated, centralized, and real-time standalone HR Metrics Dashboard. We transform your HR data silos and turn them into HR data stories.

Kinumi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ilera is a digital health and lifestyle company focused on connecting aging adults and their loved ones with the resources and services they need to live full, healthy lives. Our model provides a goal-oriented approach empowering aging adults to remain active, independent and healthy with the support of a CareConcierge™. Our model is comprehensive and goes beyond the physical health of our clients and also addresses social and emotional health, with the goal of supporting clients live their best life. Ilera has the added benefit of supporting women in the workforce balance disparate demands, as they represent over 75% of all family caregivers for seniors. Ilera provides a personal CareConcierge™ and a digital platform that allows our clients to make service requests and view upcoming appointments and activities all in one place without the hassle of having to ask their loved ones for help, while still giving their designated family caregiver visibility for peace of mind. Ilera was founded in 2019 by Chekesha Kidd and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.

BRIGHT

Seed Round in 2021
A health-tech company that created BEACON40™, a noninvasive device stimulating the brain's activity and rejuvenating healthy brain function with 40Hz light.

Tozuda

Seed Round in 2021
Tozuda is a manufacturing company that develops the most affordable and reliable concussion awareness solutions. Our mission is to bring visibility to an invisible injury - concussion; we believe everyone deserves to play, work, and serve safely. Tozuda Head Impact Sensors can be attached to all helmet and detects any concussion event within milliseconds. If it's RED, check your head.™

OneScreen.AI

Seed Round in 2021
We make it easy for the right people to spend the right money and get the right content on the right screen at the right time.

NotedSource

Pre Seed Round in 2021
NotedSource connects firms with active professors, scientists, and other academic subject matter experts in real time for on-demand projects. Through an expert network of thousands of PhDs, NotedSource works with clients on a variety of business needs including data science, editing and translation, experiment design, secondary research, literature search and artificial intelligence.

BeAKid

Pre Seed Round in 2021
BeAKid is a cloud-based classroom management software designed to help community centers, childcare organizations.

MyFitPod

Pre Seed Round in 2021
MyFitPod is a software company that provides automated systems and turnkey tools for fitness professionals. The company helps fitness professionals launch, grow, and elevate their unique fitness brand and concept. It allows them to manage their live stream, video-on-demand, and in-person workouts all in one convenient place. MyFitPod was founded in 2020 and is based in Lawrenceville, NJ.

Trova

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Trova is a mobile app designed to bring people together in the communities where we live, work, and play. We provide a platform that truly enables people to convert online connections to meaningful friendships. Trova is an organization led social network.

Two To Tango

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Two to Tango is a multinational company that provides tailor made business connections to the world. Founded by visionary awarded Colombians, genius in networking, they blended their innovative and business minds to connect the world. Adding data from all continents to a behind the scenes algorithm, they deliver an EASY tool to find business allies ANYWHERE.

Health Haven Rx

Seed Round in 2021
Healthy Quit Inc. is a digital health company and a pharmacy that provides vaping and smoking cessation by utilizing an artificial intelligent (AI) treatment algorithm and medications to help patients quit.

Rivet

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Rivet is a platform helping artists and creators identify, retain, and nurture their most engaged fans. We help our users analyze and optimize their fan engagement and empower them with new avenues for monetizing their audiences, all in one platform.

Vincere Health

Seed Round in 2021
Vincere Health Inc. is a health technology company based in Allston, Massachusetts, founded in 2019 at the Harvard Innovation Labs and backed by Techstars. The company has developed an application designed to assist users in quitting smoking and making healthier lifestyle choices. This application utilizes a combination of incentives, behavioral nudges, and evidence-based interventions, allowing users to set personal goals and monitor their progress. Users engage with the application by using an attachable breathalyzer device to verify their adherence to smoking cessation goals. Additionally, they can receive financial rewards for reducing their smoking habits and achieving cessation. Through these methods, Vincere Health aims to address significant healthcare challenges by promoting positive behavior change.

WePlayed

Seed Round in 2021
WePlayed is an intelligent college sports video platform that enriches and activates post-game content to help schools drive sponsorships and amplify community engagement. WePlayed works with athletes, coaches, fans, teams, clubs, leagues, conferences, colleges, rights holders, brands, and other sports sponsors. The company is poised to transform the sports experience for millions of people worldwide by allowing them to discover, personalize and share their favorite moments from one of the richest video repositories across all sports. They consolidate, catalog, and activate previously unpublished and post-live broadcast sports video content that becomes idle after the competition ends. they extract viewable moments from games using machine learning-assisted crowdsourcing and advanced recognition technology. They continually enrich the content with sports contextual and player metadata to drive precision search, better recommendation engine performance, and increased viewing.

Dash

Venture Round in 2021
Spektra is building APIs and tools that make it possible for businesses to accept and disburse Mobile Money payments from and to multiple providers and currencies within minutes, NOT months, without dealing with Mobile Network operators at all. With a few lines of code, a single tap or click, your customers can pay you with our seamless and easy to use products on the web, mobile, and in-app.

Omnic.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Omnic.AI is a leader in esports player performance data, utilizing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance training for both professional coaches and aspiring gamers. The company's platform analyzes gameplay videos to assess player performance, generating unique statistics through proprietary algorithms. This enables esports organizations to implement predictive analytics and improve player development. Omnic.AI operates on a straightforward software-as-a-service model, allowing casual gamers to easily upload their gameplay videos and receive tailored coaching recommendations for skill improvement. By combining deep learning technology with innovative performance metrics, Omnic.AI is transforming how player abilities are evaluated and enhanced in the esports industry.

Noteworthy AI

Seed Round in 2021
Climate change creates new risks for electric utilities. From more frequent and intense storms to droughts that create wildfire-friendly conditions, it’s now more critical than ever for these companies to enact mitigation measures that account for these risks. One mitigation is the proactive inspection and inventory of grid assets at-scale, usually by piloting aerial drone missions to collect imagery and video on each asset. While these methods have proven to increase both grid safety and resiliency, most are employed on the transmission grid but not on the distribution grid. This is because, compared to transmission grid assets, distribution grid assets are too numerous, too geographically dispersed, are often located in densely populated areas, and the aerial view is often obscured by vegetation for much of the year. This makes piloting drone inspection missions over distribution grid assets extremely difficult. Yet, 90% of power outages occur on the distribution grid and there are cases of faulty distribution grid equipment sparking wildfires, such as the recent Silverado Fire in Southern California. Noteworthy AI solves this problem by ensuring that distribution grid assets are adequately inspected and monitored. Our solution combines hardware at the Edge and software in the Cloud to help electric utilities inspect and inventory distribution grid assets at scale. Our Edge hardware mounts directly on electric utility fleet vehicles (e.g. repair trucks) and uses proprietary computer vision to inspect and inventory distribution poles and their components with no impact on crew duties. Results are sent to our Cloud software in real-time. This converts non-productive fleet vehicle travel time into active inspection and monitoring at a low cost, enabling electric utilities to reap grid resiliency and safety benefits on the distribution grid as well.

Nixtla

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Nixtla is a time series research and deployment company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The company specializes in developing artificial intelligence solutions that facilitate the understanding, classification, and prediction of time series data. Nixtla offers a software development platform that allows developers and data scientists to create open-source forecasting software easily. Users can set up cloud-based time series processing services and utilize continuous integration and deployment to manage APIs on the company's infrastructure. This enables clients to develop features at both the time series and temporal levels, streamlining the production-ready forecasting process.

Attenex

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Panel-as-a-Service Marketing Insights for Challenger Brands

Finch

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Finch is a tool that decodes products' environmental and social impacts to incentivize consumers and brands to make better decisions. It operates a browser extension software to offer insights on a multitude of consumer products. Its software assesses what products are made of, how they are created, and how long they last, besides pinning expert scores on products' environmental and social impacts with functional reviews from real people. Using machine learning capabilities, it scores products based on a series of attributes and equips consumers with the right information at the point of purchase.

Reactiv

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Reactiv is a virtual occupational therapy clinic, where we use computer vision and gaming to increase engagement and improve outcome. Just using a regular mobile app, no extra hardware needed.

Satisfi Labs

Series A in 2021
Satisfi Labs Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in conversational AI, offering a software-as-a-service application designed to enhance real-time customer engagement through mobile devices. Its platform, known as the Answer Engine, serves various sectors including retail, sports venues, attractions, and live events by powering chatbots, voice experiences, messaging applications, and website forums. This technology facilitates effective communication by automatically directing customer inquiries to the most appropriate responders within an organization, while also providing tools for performance assessment and opportunities to improve the customer experience. Founded in 2016, Satisfi Labs aims to create unique and interactive experiences for customers across diverse industries.

Paco

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Paco is a new Slack productivity app that sniffs out important asks hidden beneath heaps of Slack conversations and reminds you about them at an appropriate time. It tracks and follows up on important messages with your colleagues automatically, freeing you up to tackle things that need your undivided attention. Paco was recently the #3 Product of the Day on ProductHunt, and is featured as a 'New & Noteworthy' app on Slack! Designed for Developers, Designers, Data Scientists, Managers, Product Managers, Founders/CEOs or WFH remote workers who need to step away from the Slack chaos and still not miss out on important stuff.

Metrobi

Seed Round in 2021
Metrobi Inc. is a company specializing in pre-scheduled delivery services designed for business-to-business transactions. Founded in 2016 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Metrobi utilizes a mobile platform that incorporates artificial intelligence to optimize local deliveries for businesses. The company's technology enables efficient routing and pairing of deliveries, allowing for bulk product pickups from stores or warehouses and subsequent delivery to various destinations. This innovative approach increases driver productivity by 23% and reduces mileage by up to 50%. By facilitating a shared delivery service and providing an on-demand fleet, Metrobi aims to lower delivery costs for businesses while ensuring fair compensation for drivers.

Toucan

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Toucan is a virtual platform specifically designed for social events. Guests move smoothly from conversation to conversation while keeping track of their friends and people they want to meet. This allows groups to connect in natural and authentic ways and makes virtual events approachable, engaging, and frictionless.

Parkday

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Parkday is a mobile app and data platform providing custom food programs by using recommendation algorithms and data science to generate personalized ready-to-eat meals from our food partners based on dietary preferences, geography, and lifestyle.

Cheres

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cheres is a New York-based company that offers a digital platform designed to enhance investment transparency among users by allowing them to view their friends' investment activities. The platform seamlessly integrates with users' existing accounts on various investing platforms. Additionally, Cheres operates a cross-functional collaboration tool that aims to eliminate silos between departments within organizations. By consolidating data from various operational sources, the platform provides an assistant that helps clients analyze crucial business metrics related to revenue, customers, expenses, products, marketing, and financial performance.

Equipt

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We help fast-growing tech companies attract, recruit, and retain BIPOC talent while building inclusive workplace habits. We do it with online community-based learning experiences.

Small Packages

Funding Round in 2021
Help one progress on their relationship journey through physical expertly curates gifts as well as techonology tools.

Quartolio

Funding Round in 2021
Quartolio Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an AI-powered platform aimed at enhancing research efficiency. Founded in 2016 and based in Long Island, New York, Quartolio's platform facilitates the connection, discovery, and management of scholarly documents, data, and discussions. By utilizing natural language processing, it streamlines the synthesis of insights from vast scientific datasets, including articles, clinical trials, and patents. Quartolio has garnered recognition as one of the leading Data/AI startups by Hello Tomorrow and has participated in prestigious programs such as the MIT Global Entrepreneurship program and the NYU StartEd Incubator. The company maintains partnerships with several academic institutions, including the New York Institute of Technology, further establishing its role in the research community.

ReRent

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ReRent is a developer of a property management platform that enables students to avoid debt and recoup thousands in rent wasted. Its platform creates the listing, prepares the space, welcomes the guests, and cleans up that helps students to monetize their apartment space while they're away.

LaneSpotter

Pre Seed Round in 2021
LaneSpotter finds safe bike routes for cyclists and provides real-time information about the roads they ride. Unlike current apps, LaneSpotter leverages its community to create living maps that highlight real-life road conditions. By sharing their knowledge of local streets and businesses, LaneSpotter’s cycling community generates information that cannot be captured with a static map, like road safety ratings, bike infrastructure, alerts for road conditions like potholes, and recommended rides and routes.

The Folklore Group

Pre Seed Round in 2021
The Folklore is an NYC-based multi-brand e-commerce site and wholesale agency that delivers high-end contemporary African designer fashion and lifestyle products to customers around the world. The Folklore's primary mission is to streamline the process of delivering Africa's most in-demand brands to global customers through the use of sales technology and new production channels.

MDaaS Global

Seed Round in 2021
MDaaS Global Corp. owns and operates diagnostic centers in clinically-underserved communities in Africa. Its diagnostic centers offer radiology, cardiology, and lab services. The company also offers SentinelX, that enables patients to track their health over time and easily access primary care both in-person and virtually. The company also retails, leases, installs, and maintains medical equipment for hospitals. It caters to the healthcare industry. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Vitally

Series A in 2021
Vitally, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing an analytics platform tailored for B2B SaaS businesses. Founded in 2017, the platform enables companies to monitor essential product metrics that influence customer retention and assesses the effectiveness of their post-sales processes. Vitally provides comprehensive analytics tools that offer insights into customer engagement and help identify both opportunities and risks associated with customer transitions. The platform integrates various customer data to present a holistic view of key performance indicators, allowing businesses to establish health scores, set notifications, and implement automated workflows to enhance customer experience and reduce churn.

Thermexit

Funding Round in 2021
Thermexit is a line of high-end thermal interface gap filler pads that offers thermal management solutions. The company's technology is derived from years of government-funded research and development in advanced materials including the application of carbon nanotubes in electrochemical systems as well as dispersion, compounding, and coating process for composites of nanotubes and other carbons.

Denim

Series A in 2021
Axle Payments specializes in providing financial solutions to the freight industry, focusing on small freight brokers and their carriers. Founded in 2016 by Shawn Vo and Bharath Krishnamoorthy, the company is headquartered in New York. Axle Payments offers non-recourse factoring and payment processing services, which help brokers and carriers access the working capital they need to operate effectively. In addition to factoring, the company provides integrated payment solutions, collections, and financing options that enhance the efficiency and transparency of financial transactions within the logistics sector. Axle Payments aims to support the sustainability of the global logistics industry through its innovative financial services.

Beam Health

Seed Round in 2021
Beam Health Group, LLC is a telemedicine platform that facilitates connections between healthcare providers and patients through various communication methods, including text, voicemail, and video chat. Established in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, the company focuses on assisting small health practices by offering a pay-as-you-go digital care solution. Beam's platform enhances patient marketing, engagement, and education, providing tools such as branded landing pages and social media campaigns. Additionally, it enables medical practices to conduct video appointments with existing patients and attract new ones within their marketplace.

beastcoast

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Beastcoast is an online esports game organizer that specializes in organizing games and tournaments based on players' interests. The company focuses on providing quality content, entertainment, and community engagement. It also offers merchandise store for gamers. Founded in 2017 by Grant Zinn in New York City, New York.

Waffle Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Waffle Labs is a technology company that reinvents insurance and improving value for consumers. Founded in 2018 by Michael Li, Quentin Coolen, and Sam Barnsley, Waffle Labs is headquartered in New York.

Whelp

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Whelp, Inc. is an AI-powered customer support software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform established in 2019 and headquartered in New York, New York. It integrates multiple communication channels, including voice, phone, SMS, email, and social media, to provide a unified customer support experience. Whelp caters to various industries, such as airlines, healthcare, education, insurance, banking, and retail, serving call centers, business process outsourcing (BPO) firms, and sales teams. The platform not only enhances customer service through features like an AI-based hybrid chatbot and rapid callback capabilities but also introduces a revenue stream by enabling customer support agents to sell and upsell products using embedded payment processing technology.

Regen Network

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Regen Network operates a digital platform designed to facilitate ecological agreements among farmers, brands, and institutions, aiming to promote regenerative agriculture and combat climate change. Utilizing the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint Consensus Engine, the platform is built on a Proof-of-Stake blockchain that focuses on ecological data and agreements. It provides tools for creating scientifically robust ecological contracts, making it easier for land managers and institutions to engage in sustainable practices. The platform employs satellite remote sensing and ecological state protocols to monitor land conditions, generating reliable attestations about ecological health. With an estimated Ecosystem Service Market projected to grow significantly, Regen Network seeks to capture a substantial share by enabling effective ecological coordination and investment in planetary health.

Dash

Funding Round in 2021
Spektra is building APIs and tools that make it possible for businesses to accept and disburse Mobile Money payments from and to multiple providers and currencies within minutes, NOT months, without dealing with Mobile Network operators at all. With a few lines of code, a single tap or click, your customers can pay you with our seamless and easy to use products on the web, mobile, and in-app.

Phood

Seed Round in 2021
Phood is a startup company developing a food waste prevention platform that aims to reduce food waste. The platform utilizes data analytics and artificial intelligence to capture the food that businesses, such as restaurants, are purchasing, preparing, and are stored in refrigerators or on shelves to cut food waste in half and helps food businesses build a more resilient food system and supply chain. IN 2015, Luc Dang and Nick Kruczek established the company New York, New York.

Paerpay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Paerpay is a financial application designed to enhance in-person payment experiences for merchants, particularly in the restaurant industry. By streamlining the payment process, Paerpay addresses the challenges faced by merchants, who can lose significant revenue due to payment friction and non-paying customers. The platform allows users to scan a code at their table to either create a new bill or connect to an existing one, facilitating payment, bill splitting, and tipping with ease. This contactless payment service aims to eliminate the frustrations associated with traditional payment methods, enabling a smoother and more efficient transaction experience for both merchants and their customers.

Monitaur

Venture Round in 2021
Monitaur, Inc. is a software company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that focuses on enhancing auditability, transparency, and governance for organizations utilizing machine learning in regulated environments. Founded in 2019, Monitaur offers a machine learning assurance platform that addresses the unique needs of companies employing AI for critical decision-making processes. The platform provides comprehensive logging and monitoring of machine learning models, ensuring that every decision is recorded and easily accessible for examination. By employing advanced features such as bias detection, fairness assessment, and anomaly monitoring, Monitaur enables its clients to establish trust and confidence in their machine learning systems, ultimately facilitating compliance in industries where decision transparency is paramount.

Gatsby

Series A in 2021
Gatsby Digital, Inc. develops a commission-free stock options trading platform. It offers Gatsby to trade for or against companies and ETFs. The company’s Gatsby allows users to earn rewards points with every trade and redeem rewards for gift cards at various retailers. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York. Gatsby Digital, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ViewTrade Securities Inc.

Remesh

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Remesh Inc. operates an AI-powered online platform that facilitates live conversations with large groups of people, allowing users to engage with up to 1,000 participants simultaneously. Founded in 2013 and based in the United States, Remesh enables organizations to gather and analyze audience responses in real-time. This capability helps businesses understand their customers or employees better, leading to more informed decision-making. By providing a space for collective input, Remesh represents the collective thinking of diverse groups, enhancing communication and collaboration.

Black Oak TV

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Black Oak TV focuses on digital media, film, television, video streaming, and content such as black web series. They created short films, TV shows, movies, and more to check out on their website, YouTube, Facebook, and IG. Their company has offices in Los Angeles, New York City, and Oakland.

HappsNow

Seed Round in 2021
Fueling the next generation of live events. HappsNow provides a cost-effective event management, and fan experience, solution to help event organizers sell more tickets, market events intelligently and efficiently, and foster more valuable relationships with patrons. HappsNow houses events of all sizes, types and genres. HappsNow believes in technology first, stellar client-focused support, and constant patron communication. HappsNow delivers constant innovative technology and low fees-and if your event is free, so are we.

SoLo Funds

Series A in 2021
SoLo Funds, Inc. is a mobile money exchange and lending platform that connects lenders and borrowers, allowing users to borrow on their own terms and lenders to benefit from their contributions. Established in 2015 and based in New York City, SoLo Funds operates as an alternative financial solution, offering rapid loan options to borrowers while providing lenders with significant value. The platform has evolved from a unique lending marketplace into a comprehensive community banking solution that leverages individual capital, insurance, and banking products, supported by advanced A.I. underwriting technology.

Cabinet Health

Seed Round in 2021
Cabinet Health is a company focused on creating environmentally friendly healthcare solutions that prioritize both human well-being and environmental sustainability. It manufactures refillable medicine containers and compostable medicine pouches, designed to keep medications fresh and secure. The cabinet pouches are made from a blend of wood cellulose and sealants, reflecting the company's commitment to reducing waste in the healthcare sector. By promoting sustainable practices in the distribution and storage of medicines, Cabinet Health aims to lead a new movement towards a more responsible and eco-conscious healthcare industry.

Floop

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Floop, Inc. operates as a mobile application that offers real time graphical interface. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Woodbridge, Connecticut.

NewHomesMate

Seed Round in 2021
Propertymate - is the network that helps real estate agents close more deals by giving them access to new construction and off-market information. We leverage data science to match buyer and seller agents based on the best potential close after analyzing millions of listings and individual buying patterns of hundreds of thousands of homebuyers.