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 USA

Pear Suite

Seed Round in 2023
Pear Suite is a cloud-based healthcare platform that focuses on improving health outcomes by addressing the social determinants of health for older adults. The platform enables community health workers, healthcare staff, and volunteers to evaluate and respond to the social factors influencing health in a scalable and cost-effective manner. Utilizing smart scripts, logic modeling, and actionable dashboards, Pear Suite allows healthcare providers to gain a comprehensive understanding of individuals beyond their medical conditions. This holistic approach aims to enhance overall well-being while also reducing healthcare costs.

Brolly

Convertible Note in 2023
Brolly is an insurtech company focused on making auto insurance more accessible and affordable in Africa, specifically through flexible payment options and usage-based pricing models. Headquartered in Delaware and operating in Ghana, Brolly utilizes artificial intelligence and automation to enhance the speed and efficiency of its services. The platform offers a pay-as-you-go auto insurance model and includes complimentary fleet management tools, allowing users to easily manage their insurance needs. Customers can report claims and receive same-day payments, streamlining the claims process. Brolly has plans to expand its services to additional African countries in the coming years.

Poplin

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

ARTIAL

Pre Seed Round in 2023
ARTIAL is empowering construction and energy industries with AI-driven fully autonomous drones, enhancing inspection, monitoring, and digitalization services. Our solution enables navigation in dense indoor and complex outdoor environments, autonomously collecting valuable data with high precision, while reducing the inspection time.

Protico

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Protico is a universal community layer across all websites and apps. We tackles the challenges for brands and users by developing a Social x Data Layer that empowers brands to build fully native, Reddit-like community hubs directly embedded within their websites and mobile apps. These branded communities enable genuine social interactions like discussions, content sharing, and engagement - all seamlessly integrated into the brand's core digital properties.

Savechain

Pre Seed Round in 2023
SaveChain is a global banking platform that facilitates cross-border currency transactions. It offers a variety of financial services akin to those of traditional savings accounts within a decentralized framework. The platform allows customers, including non-U.S. residents, to open bank accounts that are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). This enables users to save, send, and receive money in U.S. dollars, thereby enhancing access to banking services for a diverse clientele.

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.

ExLattice

Pre Seed Round in 2023
ExLattice is 3D printing Company.

Inpathy

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Inpathy is a social app creating empathetic communities through transparency, normalizing moods, and recreating the human experience.

Enreport

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Enreport is a cloud-based platform that automates and optimizes the operation of generation and distribution companies, as well as helps energy consumers.

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

Mainstack

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Mainstack Inc. specializes in developing software tailored for martial arts schools. Based in Austin, Texas, the company offers a comprehensive platform that enables studio owners to efficiently manage various aspects of their operations. Its software facilitates the tracking of student attendance, automates tuition payment collections, and manages belt testing and promotions. Additionally, Mainstack provides tools for designing and sharing Belt Promotion Certificates and Character Development Awards, which help enhance brand visibility within local communities. Founded in 2012 by Thomas Kim, Mainstack operates as a subsidiary of Zen Planner, LLC, and has established itself as a valuable resource for martial arts instructors and school administrators.

Allosense Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Allosense delivers an easy user experience for integrating smart sensors and analyzing data. We design and manufacture "always connected" asset trackers that use satellite, cellular, and mesh connectivity. Our trackers incorporate a suite of sensors for monitoring high-value assets in real-time.

Protico

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Protico is a universal community layer across all websites and apps. We tackles the challenges for brands and users by developing a Social x Data Layer that empowers brands to build fully native, Reddit-like community hubs directly embedded within their websites and mobile apps. These branded communities enable genuine social interactions like discussions, content sharing, and engagement - all seamlessly integrated into the brand's core digital properties.

Loadzpro

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Loadzpro is an AI-powered digital freight company that facilitates the transportation of vehicles and cargo for private individuals and commercial shippers. The company operates an on-demand trucking application that connects users to delivery professionals and transportation companies, offering services for moving goods locally, nationally, and internationally. Loadzpro provides various transportation options, including full truckload, less than truckload, and refrigerated transportation, utilizing advanced technology and insurtech solutions to enhance the shipping experience.

Liquidstar

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of charge stations designed to deploy smart batteries for electrical power distribution. The company's platform gives a category of energy distribution, utilizing waypoint charge stations to deploy smart batteries for beyond-the-grid electrical power distribution stations that offer wireless battery-powered sustainable ecosystems, and uses excess solar energy to power mini AWS like data centers solving the takeoff issue that plagues many micro and mini-grids, enabling clients to have electricity for essential services during grid-destroying disasters.

Joggr

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Threats are everywhere, Iris Security can protect your online assests.

Kneevoice

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Kneevoice develops a digital patellofemoral audio-arthrography system for the maintenance of knee health and wellness. It is combining a high-tech sound acquisition system with revolutionary cloud-based machine-learned algorithms, to promptly and efficiently achieve diagnostic accuracy previously available only through nondynamic, nonspecific, or invasive tests. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Backpack Healthcare

Seed Round in 2023
We are a digital pediatric mental health company.

Alleo.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Alleo.ai develops a life optimization system designed to increase productivity and control over work and personal life.

VERT

Pre Seed Round in 2023
VERT is a leader in wearable athletic technology focused on creating a better experience for athletes, coaches and fans. VERT is used in a variety of sports, including basketball, volleyball, running and other health and fitness activities. VERT is the official wearable technology of USA Volleyball and is used by over 200 collegiate and professional sports programs around the world. The tech company debuted the G-VERT™ Team System two years ago with their first NBA client, the Miami Heat. G-VERT™ Team System is currently being used by several NCAA schools across multiple sports, including two out of the four 2016 NCAA Division I Volleyball Final Four participants. VERT Technology was recently a part of the 2015 NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship games as the first wearable of its kind used for in-game play. Using VERTcast, a sports telemetry system broadcasting through live-screen and television newscast, viewers where able to experience student athleticism in real-time during the semi-final and championship games on ESPN 2.

Inpathy

Convertible Note in 2023
Inpathy is a social app creating empathetic communities through transparency, normalizing moods, and recreating the human experience.

Handl Health

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Handl Health is a healthcare price transparency platform. Until recently, healthcare prices in the US were considered a trade secret. While the CMS price transparency legislation aims to create a transparent pricing market, implementing this and driving value for businesses and consumers is overwhelmingly complex. Handl Health's platform offers health plans a simple way to comply with the legislation while digitizing how patients shop, book and pay for healthcare, creating an unparalleled experience and realizing an average cost saving of 28%.

Clyn

Seed Round in 2023
Clyn is a mobile platform that facilitates connections between residents and offices and various home service providers, including cleaners, handymen, plumbers, and landscapers. The application enables users to easily find and hire trusted housekeepers and cleaners while also offering these service providers the tools needed to grow their businesses. By streamlining the process of locating and engaging with home service professionals, Clyn aims to enhance convenience for users and support service providers in scaling their operations.

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.

BEERMKR

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of an automatic beer brewing machine designed to brew, ferment, carbonate, and serve beer. The company's brewing machine allows making over a gallon of craft beer and all the beer fermentation process is controlled by an application, enabling customers to enjoy beer conveniently.

THE MOST

Pre Seed Round in 2023
THE MOST designs and manufactures hardware and appliances to make styling textured hair faster, easier, and more convenient. Millions of women with highly textured hair agonize over the time and effort associated with styling, but it doesn't have to be hard. We have identified the major pain points in grooming routines and built tools that make at-home styling and grooming on the go easier than ever! We are tapping directly into the $250 billion hair care market by manufacturing tools and appliances that cater to women with highly textured hair. Our category creating, proprietary designs are conducive to highly profitable licensing arrangements with the $3 billion US liquid product market for textured consumers. Our unique business model is the first of its kind in the beauty space, and we are so excited to offer this high-margin, high-convenience option to retailers and the 60% of textured hair consumers craving this solution.

Rif care

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Feminine care, period care, wellness

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.

Seasats

Seed Round in 2022
Seasats autonomous ocean vehicles provide remote monitoring and data collection for defense and commercial customers at a fraction of the cost, logistics, and risk compared to traditional methods.

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.

Aerospace Orbit

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Aerospace Orbit is the dependable solution for purchasing departments struggling to source the parts they need. Buyers have access to ASAP’s vast database consisting of over 100 million unique parts that are all available through the ASAP supply-chain. We are a consistent supplier to manufactures and repair stations across the globe for critical components, standard parts, NSN parts, connectors, bearings, and board level components. End users trust the ASAP family for speed and reliability to keep your business flowing.

Recovr Health

Seed Round in 2022
Verapy is a mobile rehabilitation platform that utilizes virtual reality (VR) to create immersive games for physical therapy, resulting in better patient experiences by making rehabilitation more productive, fun and engaging

ZAMA Health

Pre Seed Round in 2022
ZAMA Health is the premier mental health platform for the athletic community. The company serves as the behavioral health integration for any fitness company, gym, or athletic program. It is developing an evidenced-based clinical model that leads to better retention and performance outcomes for gym members and elite athletes.

Morpheus Space

Series A in 2022
Morpheus Space GmbH, founded in 2018 and based in Dresden, Germany, specializes in manufacturing electric propulsion systems for spacecraft. The company's innovative product offerings, including nanoFEEP and multiFEEP, are designed to enhance satellite operations by enabling service providers to manage entire constellations as a unified entity. By integrating advanced electric propulsion with artificial intelligence, Morpheus Space is transforming the NewSpace industry. Their solutions allow satellites to perform numerous orbital maneuvers, facilitating a new approach to mission planning that prioritizes objectives through automated decision-making. This capability provides unprecedented flexibility for satellite networks, enabling optimal adjustments to meet specific user needs, such as revisiting frequencies and monitoring dynamic points of interest.

Rootine

Series A in 2022
Rootine is a precision nutrition platform that utilizes evidence-based technology to analyze biometric and lifestyle data, providing personalized nutrition recommendations. The company's approach focuses on connecting various health data points to improve individual health outcomes. By leveraging patient data, Rootine crafts tailored vitamin regimens that adapt to the unique biological needs of each person. Its artificial intelligence system continuously refines these recommendations and nutrient formulas as users' bodies change, ensuring that individuals receive optimized support for their health goals. This personalized approach aims to empower clients to make informed health decisions based on real-time data and ongoing progress tracking.

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.

OutAt

Pre Seed Round in 2022
OutAt Inc. is a multimedia company dedicated to creating inclusive spaces for the LGBTQ+ community and its allies. The company manages several brands, including the family-friendly festival Out at the Fair, OutAt.TV, and OutAt Music. OutAt aims to ensure that individuals of all ages and orientations feel accepted and valued in various environments, free from judgment and discrimination. Through its platform, OutAt provides access to a wide range of LGBTQ+ content, entertainment, technology, and education, fostering a sense of belonging and appreciation within the community.

ShowingHero

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Showing Hero provide a simple solution to the leasing woes. The moment a prospect tenant shows interest either online or through the phone, ShowingHero steps in. They respond to 100% of leads, pre-screen and provide them access to your market listing and available showtimes. They nurture the prospect by sending customized communications on a timely basis through email and text; reminding them about their upcoming appointment to help drastically reduce no-shows. ShowingHero also follows up with tenants and gathers feedback on the showing and the property, giving you insight each step of the way!

Relish

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Relish integrates medication, behavioral counseling, and lifestyle support to treat the underlying emotional causes of weight gain.

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.

nFlux AI

Series A in 2022
nFlux, Inc. develops a software that provides artificial intelligence, visual content, and lingual information. The company offers Ask Engine, a unified integrated interface where users can acquire information from multiple sources, by asking a question. It serves entertainment, education, security, and healthcare sector. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Naborforce

Series A in 2022
Naborforce connects older adults to a network of “Nabors” for social engagement and on-demand support for errands, transportation, and help around the home. The company aims to promote productive, connected and joyous aging and living. It is inspired by JOY to promote engaged, productive and connected aging and living. Naborforce was founded in 2018.

Rainwalk Technology

Venture Round in 2022
Rainwalk Technology is a SaaS cloud-native platform providing pet insurance. It offers pet rating, policy, and claims services through the Rainwalk Integration Framework, which is a set of API and utilities built to make connecting to legacy systems or modern insurance tech stacks easy. In addition to these three core services, it also provides full rate, rule, and form filing services, loss ratio commitments to protect their insurer partners' combined ratio, and sales and content design support delivered to agents and marketing teams. The company is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina in 2018 by Tong Wu.

Haulsale

Seed Round in 2022
Haulsale is a brand-new marketplace where seasoned resellers can buy in bulk and sell their products. Haulsale comes from a variety of sources, including other resellers trying to get rid of inventory, homes clearing out clutter, overstocked merchants, and more. Every ad is personally reviewed to make sure it has a reasonable price and a complete description. Both parties are safeguarded in every transaction and purchase.

Rainwalk Technology

Seed Round in 2022
Rainwalk Technology is a SaaS cloud-native platform providing pet insurance. It offers pet rating, policy, and claims services through the Rainwalk Integration Framework, which is a set of API and utilities built to make connecting to legacy systems or modern insurance tech stacks easy. In addition to these three core services, it also provides full rate, rule, and form filing services, loss ratio commitments to protect their insurer partners' combined ratio, and sales and content design support delivered to agents and marketing teams. The company is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina in 2018 by Tong Wu.

Havoc Shield

Venture Round in 2022
Havoc Shield, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in developing cyber security programs tailored for small businesses. Founded in 2019, the company focuses on providing fast and effective solutions to help these businesses protect their digital assets from cyber threats.

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.

Havoc Shield

Seed Round in 2022
Havoc Shield, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in developing cyber security programs tailored for small businesses. Founded in 2019, the company focuses on providing fast and effective solutions to help these businesses protect their digital assets from cyber threats.

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.

DroneAdair

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
DroneAdair offers an end-to-end Sales and Marketing Automation Platform.

Alvee

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Alvee provides real-time, patient-specific alerts, notifying you when a patient has a confirmed or possible health equity issue.

Metric Mate

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Metric Mate is the patented platform that allows turning any strength training equipment into smart hardware with games and competitions to make workouts more fun.

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.

Illoominus

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Illoominus is a data analytics platform designed to empower leaders to activate and manage their organization's DE+I strategy.

Cookonnect

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Cookonnect connects busy families with early career, personal cooks to create greater access to in-home meal preparation services.

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!

Varkn

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Varkn is a mobile app that connects travelers of all kinds to a fleet of independent on-demand valet drivers across airports, train stations, and bus stations for the purpose of easy, time-saving, and affordable parking via a smartphone.

Emigrait

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Emigrait generates detailed fingerprints of behavior and lifestyle for each consumer.

My Panda

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
My Panda is a mobile application that facilitates connections between local personal assistants and individuals who require assistance in managing their tasks. By leveraging a hyper-local community approach, the platform addresses the challenges of time constraints and support shortages faced by busy individuals. Users can find trusted assistants in their vicinity, making it easier to complete their to-do lists and improve overall productivity. Through this service, My Panda aims to enhance the accessibility of personal assistance while fostering community engagement.

Trend

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Trend is a curated marketplace of influencers and brands. They help brands source high quality user generated content and targeted exposure with social media influencers. They love working with new, innovative companies that are changing the game. They’ve been fortunate to work with brands like Chameleon Cold-Brew, Health-Ade Kombucha, FabFitFun, Saatva Mattress, Mighty Swell, Mark Cuban Companies, and more. Reach an engaged audience anywhere in the country with the click of a button. The Trend community consists of thousands of talented, creative personalities that they hand-select and personally invite to join. Their influencers have audiences that like, comment, and genuinely engage with their content. On average, posts through the Trend network engage with over 20,000 followers per post and more than 600 likes per post.

CropConex

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
CropConex is a marketplace and supply chain management platform streamlining the sales and exports of specialty crops worldwide.

Clockout

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
SaaS platform that provides restaurant workers with real-time access to their daily earnings after every clock-out, which can be sent to their bank account of choice at their discretion, anytime.

Finli

Seed Round in 2022
Finli, Inc. is a technology company that offers a digital platform designed to streamline payment processes for family-oriented businesses. Founded in 2018 and based in San Marino, California, Finli provides business management software that facilitates invoicing, tuition collection, enrollment, and payment communications. The platform is tailored to serve daycare centers, preschools, afterschool programs, and local businesses, enabling them to efficiently manage their administrative tasks, including billing, payment collection, and customer management. This comprehensive solution allows families to oversee their financial responsibilities and invite contributions towards educational expenses, thereby fostering community engagement and support.

Improovy

Seed Round in 2022
Using technology and data, Improovy's full-service platform allows homeowners to get an accurate price, get matched to a fully certified contractor, and schedule their project online in 2 minutes or less. Founded by the owners of some of the largest and fastest-growing contracting companies in the nation, Improovy knows what it takes to provide a world-class home improvement service experience. As a result, Improovy's revolutionary system empowers contractors to perform the best work of their lives.

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.

SPARE CS, INC

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Spare CS, Inc. is a company founded in 2013 and based in Santa Monica, California. It specializes in developing and operating a mobile application that provides secure access to cash through the Apple iOS platform. The company focuses on enhancing financial accessibility for its users by leveraging technology to ensure safe transactions.

KADO

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Networking and Relationship Management Software

KeepWOL

Pre Seed Round in 2022
KeepWOL helps teams better understand one another by creating a fun, authentic environment for human interaction, team building & bonding. Our unique process and easy-to-use software foster meaningful interactions between those of different ages, races, backgrounds, and interests within an organization, so you can maximize cultural intelligence and minimize turnover.

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.

Fêtefully

Seed Round in 2022
Fêtefully is an online platform integrating human talent and AI-driven functions to provide couples with affordable and personalized wedding & event planning services. Couples save money on professional planning, while planners make money in their spare time.

ARTIAL

Pre Seed Round in 2022
ARTIAL is empowering construction and energy industries with AI-driven fully autonomous drones, enhancing inspection, monitoring, and digitalization services. Our solution enables navigation in dense indoor and complex outdoor environments, autonomously collecting valuable data with high precision, while reducing the inspection time.

bekome

Pre Seed Round in 2022
bekome is a mental heath tech startup aiming to simplify, modernize, and humanize the experience of finding the right, tailored mental healthcare for young adults. bekome's mission is to use technology to help care providers and care seekers navigate a broken system by redefining how care-seekers and providers connect, evaluate and match together. bekome is the only mental health platform that effectively elevates the important factors at the intersection of personality, culture, and presenting challenges to curate the best-fit match between care providers and seekers. Every aspect of the bekome platform is designed to help care seekers gauge fit with a provider and feel confident in their mental health journeys.

SEQUENSE

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Sequense is a task management platform for travel advisors that are widely used by their peers in the industry.

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.

Reason

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Reason is a goal-based investing assistant empowering retail investors to invest for specific goals in a more organized, intentional way. With Reason, you're able to view all of your investments (stocks, ETFs, crypto) in one place, assign investments to specific goals, and simulate and track your success.

Rheaply

Funding Round in 2022
Rheaply, Inc. is a Chicago-based company founded in 2016 that offers an online platform called Asset Exchange Manager (AxM). This platform allows organizations to buy, sell, trade, donate, and rent resources, facilitating better visibility and utilization of assets. Rheaply connects a diverse array of users, including Fortune 500 companies, startups, school systems, and nonprofit organizations, enabling them to create a marketplace for resource exchange both internally and externally. The company aims to enhance resource management and promote sustainability through its innovative asset management solutions.

IndieFlow

Seed Round in 2022
IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. It is an Israeli startup that developed a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage their workflow, distribute their songs on platforms like Deezer, Amazon Music, Spotify, and more. It also allows users to manage royalty payments.

knowRX

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
knowRX™is a mobile online application that schedules, monitors, and provides feedback on drug usage (prescription and over-the-counter medicines) for consumers and designated medical contacts. knowRX™ promotes wellness, accountability, and consumer feedback throughout the completion of a course of therapy. knowRX™ is designed to promote well-being through an online platform for patient and physician engagement. The Platform provides important drug information and current clinical trial reports to assist healthcare providers and their patients in the selection of the right therapy for the individual. Additionally, through this user-friendly app, patients are offered access to counseling, genomics data for treatment compatibility, nutritional guidance, holistic insights, clinical trial opportunities and instructional videos on clinical research, and trending analysis regarding medication behavior, all with the goal of achieving the most beneficial treatment outcomes. The makers at knowRX™ recognize that drug adherence is a major factor in the success of medical therapy. There is no single solution that addresses nonadherence for all patients. We set out to create an interactive platform that makes available multiple solutions and learns about consumers to establish and refine access to tools that best fit the respective needs of individual patients.

AlliConnect

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Thrivelution is disrupting the current market space by streamlining the process of connecting patients with providers, focusing on the quality of matches, and demonstrating a return on investment for small business owners.

ToMarket

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
To Market is a platform that connects purveyors of local edible goods directly to restaurants and chefs that need them the most. The company serves as a simple online marketplace for sourcing and selling the highest quality local goods. For farmers, the company allows them to track their inventory online and it automatically becomes available to local Chefs for easy online ordering. Meanwhile for the chefs, they can have and order the finest products from the local farms, just a click away with easy online ordering and tracking.

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.

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.

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.

Whirl

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Whirl is a dating app that enables anyone to set up single friends. The app also allows the user's friend network to set a date. Friends of the user are able to edit the profile with photos and suggest matches for the user based on their preferred friend-of-a-friend relationships.

Pongo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
At PongoAI we are changing the way small to medium-sized businesses collect, receive, share, and analyze feedback. We enable smaller businesses to access the same AI-powered experience management tools used by Fortune 500 companies.