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 Western US

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rif care

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Relish

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

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.

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.

CropConex

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Beem

Seed Round in 2022
Line Financial is a Public Benefit Corporation that delivers revolving lines of credit on its app as well as at online and in-store essential shopping destinations like pharmacies, grocery stores and more without credit-history, pay-slips, or credit-scores. Line is eliminating FICO, Credit and all other types of cards that don't belong in a post COVID world.

FTNBets

Pre Seed Round in 2022
FTNBets is a one-stop shop for all things fantasy sports and sports betting. It provides content that features deep-dive analytical features using the company's analytical tools.

Flexia

Seed Round in 2022
Flexia is a connected fitness company that offers a comprehensive home fitness solution centered around Pilates. The company provides a professional-grade Pilates machine known as the Reformer, along with an online studio featuring classes suitable for all skill levels. Flexia's technology is designed to tailor workouts and quantify their health benefits, focusing on improving posture, flexibility, and muscle tone while minimizing impact on the joints. By combining high-quality equipment with accessible online instruction, Flexia aims to replicate the Pilates studio experience in the comfort of one’s home.

Peach

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Twitch for the beauty industry.

GoFlyy

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Provider of same-day delivery and reverse logistics services intended for fashion retailers and shoppers. The company makes on-demand deliveries and returns a breeze to unlock growth potential for lifestyle and fashion retailers, enabling businesses by offering delivery and return experience for their customers that's convenient.

Bailport

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Bailport is a multi-currency e-wallet using blockchain to facilitate low-cost payments to Africa.

MerkleBot

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
MerkleBot trustless robotics data-capture infrastructure unlocking new business models and compliance frameworks for robotics and industrial machinery.

FLUIX

Pre Seed Round in 2022
FLUIX AI specializes in advanced cooling solutions and energy optimization for data centers, workstations, and gaming PCs. The company offers a unique Turbulent Liquid Cooling system that addresses the challenges of heat management, enhancing thermal efficiency and allowing for higher sustained processing speeds. By integrating and optimizing various facility systems, including HVAC and IT, FLUIX enables significant energy savings, reportedly up to 40% for critical infrastructure. Their innovative cooling system monitoring software further enhances operational efficiency by connecting industrial and information technology systems, ultimately reducing wasted cooling energy and improving overall performance for manufacturers and server providers.

Proxi

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Proxi powers the future of personalized navigation. Today, Proxi's no-code mapping software makes mapping and crowdsourcing geographic recommendations accessible to everyone. Local experts and influencers use Proxi to create, customize and embed highly interactive maps into their social media accounts, websites, and apps. Enabling and hosting this curated content will power future tech-enabled, location-based experiences.

Sēkr

Seed Round in 2022
Sēkr develops an app called The Vanlife App, which helps every road traveler find their way to free camping, resources, and outdoor community. The Vanlife App guides travelers to their next best adventure with the its social features that allow them to find and connect with other travelers nearby and detailed user reviews.

ComplYant

Seed Round in 2022
ComplYant is a developer of tax compliance platform for entrepreneurs that provide a simple, accurate way to follow tax deadlines. Its platform helps with tax deadlines, tax budgeting, deciphers tax notices, and manage deadlines for all business tax types. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Silvis Materials

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Silvis Materials develops 100% bio-renewable, bio-degradable cellulose emulsions will enable companies to create cradle-to-grave packaging, making coatings and glues without petroleum-derived materials, while cleaning up Air, Water and Land pollution. Silvis' emulsions will: use cellulose to create Recyclable; Compostable, Biodegradable (RCB) emulsions; match petroleum-based emulsion price, and plug into existing manufacturing; achieve global emissions regulations, dispensing with expensive legal challenges; reduce water, air, and land pollution; accelerate corporate sustainability goals

Green Canopy NODE

Seed Round in 2022
Green Canopy NODE operates as a vertically integrated construction technology firm and fund manager.

Radia

Pre Seed Round in 2022
We are building the first multi-chain and multi-web

Butterfly Labs

Venture Round in 2022
Butterfly Labs is an end-to-end platform diagnostics company that provides at-home blood testing. Its platform helps to gain better health insights by offering a range of services including lab services, test kit fulfillments, and doctors that enable digital health and wellness businesses to offer at-home testing to their patients. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Dreami

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Dreami is a mentoring platform for women, by women. Together, we are limitless. Mentorship matters. So why is it so hard to find one? Dreami matches ambitious women to accomplished women leaders. All backgrounds and experiences are welcome. Interested in becoming a mentor and joining the league of powerful women paying it forward? Apply at dreami.io/mentor

Kiddo

Series A in 2022
Good Parents Inc. develops Kiddo, a pediatric at-home care delivery system designed to assist parents in monitoring their children's health and wellness. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, Kiddo combines a proprietary wearable device with a connected application and integrated care options, including telehealth and doctor visits. The system tracks a range of health metrics, such as emotional well-being, physical activity, heart rate, caloric intake, sleep patterns, and growth. By providing these insights, Kiddo not only supports parents in overseeing their children's health but also aids healthcare providers in managing pediatric admission rates and care costs effectively.

Seasats

Venture Round in 2021
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.

NineSixteen

Seed Round in 2021
Lightbox helps retailers create a digitally connected storefront, making it seamless for customers to discover, search, sign up & purchase through interactive panels - bringing the best of e-commerce to physical retail. Customers can seamlessly buy online inventory directly in-store - payment, shipping information and email collected with one tap. It integrates with major e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, Magento, Klaviyo & much more. It includes a 43" touch panel that can be mounted like a TV anywhere inside store.

Farm

Seed Round in 2021
Farm is an investment platform focused on land stewardship.

Divercity.io

Seed Round in 2021
DIVERCITY (divercity.io) is a job platform dedicated to diversity hiring and to building the world’s largest minority professional network. Divercity was built particularly for underrepresenteds that are either looking for job opportunities and also for employers looking to diversify their teams. There is a very low rate of diversity in the workforce and our mission is to solve this. DIVERCITY is the ultimate platform for minority professionals that aspire to something and are looking to increase their network in a meaningful way.

ion Learning

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ion Learning is a woman-owned early-stage SaaS social learning platform focused on facilitating large-scale cultural change within enterprises. The platform caters to major organizations, such as Walmart and Ancestry.com, by providing programs centered on purpose, inclusion, leadership development, and emotional intelligence. Combining traditional e-learning with small-group mentoring, ion Learning enables impactful learning and mentoring experiences for corporate employees. Its proprietary diversity-biased algorithm and methodology yield results significantly exceeding industry standards, fostering inclusive workplace cultures that benefit all employees.

Sustaio

Convertible Note in 2021
Sustaio empowers people to live climate-smarter by quantifying & incentivizing emissions-reducing behavior; think Rakuten meets Nerdwallet for sustainable living. Sustaio gamifies real-time tracking of utility use and home efficiency actions for the everyday individual to effectively reduce their footprint within their home. All you need to get started is your online login for your utility bill.

Oro Financial

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Oro Financial is focused on revolutionizing the global financial infrastructure through web3 payments and digital token technology. The company offers a comprehensive platform that features a digital wallet application, allowing users to send, save, earn, and borrow money. Its services include facilitating both domestic and cross-border payments, as well as remittance options, which aim to reduce merchant payment processing costs and improve accessibility for unbanked populations. By enhancing the speed and security of clearance and settlement activities, Oro Financial enables individuals to meet all their banking needs in one seamless platform. Additionally, the company's proprietary technology supports the distribution of Central Bank Digital Currencies, further integrating traditional and digital financial systems.

Green Canopy NODE

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Green Canopy NODE operates as a vertically integrated construction technology firm and fund manager.

Edizeven

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Edizeven is an online job portal that allows users to quickly build a good resume in minutes. They offer personal restaurant recruiters. They take care of everything from job posting to sourcing, phone screening, and reference checks. They give you a shortlist of vetted candidates that match their requirements. Their restaurant manager just needs to conduct the final onsite interview and hire the one they like.

Saeidan

Seed Round in 2021
Saeidan is a solutions company that develops products and services that make it easier for consumers to access healthcare. They incubate and deploy innovative products that make it easier for people to navigate and access the healthcare system. Their mission to transform the experience for those navigating Medicare. Ask Claire, a product innovation by Saeidan, is an independent, free-to-the-consumer, digital guidance platform for those with Medicare. Today, Ask Claire helps users understand the program, compare Medicare plans, and connect directly with health plans when they are ready.

Seize

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Seize provides all the benefits of professional photography at 20% of the price and instantly where you need a photo.

Proxi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Proxi powers the future of personalized navigation. Today, Proxi's no-code mapping software makes mapping and crowdsourcing geographic recommendations accessible to everyone. Local experts and influencers use Proxi to create, customize and embed highly interactive maps into their social media accounts, websites, and apps. Enabling and hosting this curated content will power future tech-enabled, location-based experiences.

Lenco

Seed Round in 2021
Lenco is a Neobank that makes current bank accounts and tools for SMEs to grow in Africa. It make bank accounts easy to open and free to manage for businesses in Africa, while also providing tools that helps the businesses grow

Climatescape

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Climatescape operates a community platform helping people find opportunities to dive into climate through jobs, community, and investment. Its platform is an open directory of organizations working for people to learn about climate solutions and contribute their skills and capital for a sustainable future.

Shaztra

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Shaztra is a no-code AI-powered platform that provides Continuous Automation Testing for software teams. Shaztra integrates quality assurance into existing development workflows to build reliable customer-trusted products faster. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Benchmark Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Benchmark Labs provides asset-specific weather forecasting for the agricultural sector, and beyond. Benchmark Labs is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

MCSquared Health

Pre Seed Round in 2021
MCSquared Health simplifies the medical billing process so patients and providers can focus on what's most important: care. We have has the expertise to understand why America’s complex and expensive health care system can make it frustrating for patients to make payments. Our mission is to radically simplify and modernize the way in which Americans pay for their health care.

Group B Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Parenting is hard enough. Our mission at Group B Labs is to create technology that simplifies child care in a way that nurtures both parent and child. The promotion of breastfeeding is fundamental to maternal and infant health. In addition, women’s advancement around the world depends on their ability to work and become economically empowered. Tying together support for gender equity and maternal/infant well-being is the need for novel solutions that support the return of women to the workplace. We’re redefining breastmilk and formula bottle preparation and feeding, a typically tedious, inconvenient, and time-consuming process, whether at home, 3am, or on-the-go.

Birdstop

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Birdstop is a company that develops infrastructure for inspecting and monitoring field assets using autonomous drone applications. Its platform automates the data collection process for remote assets, allowing users to access real-time information over the Internet through networked unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground stations. This technology enables asset owners to detect anomalies and make critical decisions without needing to be physically present at the location, facilitating efficient management of offsite physical assets across various industries.

Khepra

Seed Round in 2021
Khepra uses proprietary technology and excess renewable electricity to break down plastics and agricultural waste. The company applies ultrasonic technology to breaking waste streams into drop-in fuels in a novel, completely electrified process. This process is used as a method to use excess solar and wind energy during curtailment and provide clean energy generation during times of low generation. The company is operating in San Francisco, California.

UMA

Pre Seed Round in 2021
UMA is a developer of a game-based learning platform to create engaging and memorable learning experiences for pre-teens and teens. The company builds a mobile game where players learn the basics of Algebra and mathematical thinking through an applied and visual lens. Its long-term vision is to build a platform where middle and high school students will learn all core school subjects and critical skills by playing its games.

Robyn

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Robyn Inc. operates a community-driven digital platform focused on integrative maternal wellness, catering to women at various stages of parenthood. The company connects aspiring, expecting, and new parents with a network of wellness providers across 14 service categories, including birth education, nutrition, mental health, and lactation support. Robyn also offers digital education courses, such as childbirth education and lactation classes, aiming to make parental wellness and education more accessible. By providing resources and tools, Robyn seeks to empower women in making informed decisions about their health and well-being during pre-pregnancy and throughout their parenting journey. Founded in 2019 and based in Los Angeles, Robyn was previously known as FertileGirl LLC.

Inference Solutions

Seed Round in 2021
Inference Solutions Inc. is a provider of cloud-based Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and sophisticated call-handling solutions, headquartered in San Francisco, California. Established in 2011, the company specializes in Intelligent Virtual Agent technology, allowing businesses to utilize its code-free platform, Inference Studio, to create and implement self-service applications across various communication channels, including voice, chat, and messaging. With over 550 clients from diverse industries, Inference Solutions collaborates with leading telecommunications carriers and contact center providers to offer advanced self-service capabilities, enhancing customer interactions and driving revenue growth for service providers.

Confidante

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Confidante is a developer of a mental health support platform to promote client-therapist relationships. It supports both clients and providers throughout the mental health journey and engages them between clinical therapy sessions. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, Bay Area.

Remmie

Seed Round in 2021
Remmie formerly known as MiVUE, develops and manufactures a connected and family-friendly otoscope. It empowers families to take charge of their health and improve diagnostic accuracy for telemedicine companies. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Culver City, California.

Venteur

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Venteur is a digital benefits marketplace designed for independent workers, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berkeley, California. The company collaborates with leading benefits providers to offer a wide range of options, including health insurance, life insurance, disability, and retirement plans. Its platform utilizes artificial intelligence to create a personalized experience, enabling employees to select the health benefits that best meet their needs through individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRA). This approach not only empowers employees in their healthcare purchasing decisions but also allows employers to maintain predictability in their benefits budgets while optimizing plan selection and administration.

Kintsugi

Seed Round in 2021
Kintsugi utilizes machine learning and voice biomarkers to detect clinical depression and anxiety, providing innovative talk therapy software to users in over 250 cities worldwide. By analyzing short clips of free-form speech, the company has developed a mental healthcare infrastructure that identifies signs of these conditions, thereby assisting medical practitioners in addressing gaps in mental health care. Kintsugi has amassed the world's largest longitudinal, annotated voice data set for this purpose, resulting in the creation of a clinical-grade voice biomarker diagnostic, which is currently pending patent and FDA approval. This technology aims to measure the severity of depression and anxiety in real-time, offering a more effective approach to mental health assessment and intervention.

LevelTen Energy

Series C in 2021
LevelTen Energy, Inc. operates a renewable energy transaction marketplace that links corporate and industrial power buyers with power purchase agreements (PPAs) from utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects. Founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a technology-driven platform that enables a diverse range of customers to access renewable energy solutions. By aggregating buyers and sellers, LevelTen allows smaller corporate and industrial customers to engage with the same projects and terms typically available to larger energy purchasers. This innovative approach simplifies the procurement process, helping customers achieve their sustainability goals while stabilizing energy costs and eliminating the complexities of traditional request for proposal (RFP) processes.

Urban Sky

Seed Round in 2021
Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in component miniaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before. With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers.

Tribe XR

Venture Round in 2021
Tribe XR Inc. operates a platform for real-world skills training. Its application enables users to upload their VR music, perform live, and take lessons to gain DJ skills. Tribe XR Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Carbon Origins

Funding Round in 2021
Carbon Origins is an aerospace startup company empowering people with the best tools to explore space.

Flyte

Funding Round in 2021
Flyte is an AI-powered note-taking platform that automatically generates organized meeting notes and action items immediately after calls. By integrating with platforms such as Zoom, Salesforce, and Outlook, Flyte streamlines the process of sharing meeting minutes among team members. This technology assists business professionals by converting voice into concise text summaries, thereby reducing the time spent on rework. Flyte enhances productivity by simplifying the execution of meetings, allowing teams to focus on more critical tasks.

The Beans

Funding Round in 2021
The Beans is a financial planning platform that aims to simplify the journey to financial success. Founded on September 15, 2016, by Matthieu Tourne and Melissa Gail Pancoast, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform utilizes visual tools involving dried beans and corn to provide an engaging and accessible approach to wealth management. By offering proactive and positive support, The Beans helps users alleviate financial stress, allowing them to concentrate on their passions and interests.

Dispatch Goods

Funding Round in 2021
Dispatch Goods Inc. manufactures reusable steel containers and boxes for food delivery ecosystem. The company offers containers for the elimination of the disposable food ware. It serves restaurants and food trucks. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Hello Audio

Funding Round in 2021
Hello Audio is an audio hosting platform for coaches, course creators, and influencers that delivers private feeds of their content.

ComplYant

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ComplYant is a developer of tax compliance platform for entrepreneurs that provide a simple, accurate way to follow tax deadlines. Its platform helps with tax deadlines, tax budgeting, deciphers tax notices, and manage deadlines for all business tax types. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Communikind

Funding Round in 2021
Communikind, Inc. is an online platform designed to assist caregivers and parents of children with special care needs. The platform enables users to collect, store, and share important health data with medical professionals. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Communikind aims to empower children and their care communities by providing tools that facilitate better communication and documentation of care.

People Clerk

Funding Round in 2021
People Clerk guides individuals without an attorney throughout the bureaucratic California small claims process. We help individuals prepare, file, and serve their small claims lawsuit in addition to creating an evidence packet to increase their chances of winning. *Small claims disputes are disputes under $10,000 (security deposits, contracts, fender benders).

Upkid

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Upkid is a marketplace of on-demand childcare teachers to better staff daycares and preschools. It helps child care providers or substitutes when they are in a pinch and need an extra teacher or just need to take a day off. Its application offers child care programs with a network of background-checked and trained early childhood substitutes that help parents to find someone last minute to watch their children.

Butterfly Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Butterfly Labs is an end-to-end platform diagnostics company that provides at-home blood testing. Its platform helps to gain better health insights by offering a range of services including lab services, test kit fulfillments, and doctors that enable digital health and wellness businesses to offer at-home testing to their patients. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.