The Rise Fund

The Rise Fund is committed to achieving social and environmental impact alongside financial returns. We seek to partner with creative entrepreneurs and build successful businesses that drive meaningful, measurable positive change. The Rise Fund will focus on investments in seven sectors in which independent research has shown that impact is both achievable and measurable in quantitative terms: education, energy, food and agriculture, financial services, healthcare, information and communication technology, and industrials and infrastructure.
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Maya Chorengel

Co-Managing Partner

Steve Ellis

Co-Managing Partner

Past deals in Namibia

Rad Power Bikes LLC

Series D in 2021
Rad Power Bikes LLC manufactures and sells electric bikes. It offers accessories, such as bags and storage, fenders and comfort products, racks and transport products, and safety and security products. The company also provides replacement parts, including batteries, brake pads, chargers, seats and grips, tires, and tubes. It sells its products online. Rad Power Bikes LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Seattle, Washington.
Frontier Markets Consulting Private Limited operates as a marketing, sales, and distribution company. The company specializes in selling durables for bottom of the pyramid households in rural and peri-urban India. It provides solar lighting products, including torches and lantern through last mile distribution points; household appliances, smartphones, and 4G services. Frontier Markets Consulting Private Limited was founded in 2009 and is based in Jaipur, India with additional offices in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Odisha, India.

Element Markets

Acquisition in 2021
Element Markets is a renewable natural gas marketing and environmental commodities company that applies its diverse expertise to provide structured environmental compliance and optimization services to corporate and institutional clients. The company has a successful track record within the renewable natural gas, low carbon fuels, emissions, carbon, and renewable energy credit markets. Element Markets LLC is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
SystemOne Technologies, Inc. develops data-driven healthcare insight and solutions for disease surveillance and response. It offers GxAlert, a software platform that contains pertinent information. Its platform provides insight into disease patterns and treatment outcomes, and clinical diagnosis, and system alerts to users. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Springfield, Massachusetts. It has an additional office in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Digital House

Series B in 2017
Digital House is a coding school where new generations of coders and digital professionals are trained to imagine, innovate, and create what they always dreamed. It was established in 2015 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Benevity, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
Benevity, Inc. is a software social enterprise that develops workplace giving and volunteer management software solutions. The company offers a workplace giving platform that includes custom cause portfolios and disaster response, company and user-generated volunteering, dynamic news and blog content, charitable rewards and matching incentives, centralized donation management and payroll deductions, and comprehensive reporting capabilities; consumer engagement solutions that include e-commerce and online, integrated donation management, loyalty rewards, charitable gift cards, mobile giving, and customized solutions; cloud-based employee engagement solutions; community impact solutions; and professional services, including interface design and development, charity vetting and due diligence, donation processing, international program development, custom collateral and launch planning, and customized services. Its platform and products enable companies to build social responsibility; achieve business impacts from their cause marketing, community investment, workplace giving, and volunteering programs; and attract, retain, and engage customers, employees, and partners. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Calgary, Canada.

Rad Power Bikes LLC

Series C in 2021
Rad Power Bikes LLC manufactures and sells electric bikes. It offers accessories, such as bags and storage, fenders and comfort products, racks and transport products, and safety and security products. The company also provides replacement parts, including batteries, brake pads, chargers, seats and grips, tires, and tubes. It sells its products online. Rad Power Bikes LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

CeriBell, Inc.

Series C in 2021
CeriBell, Inc. designs and manufactures medical devices for acquisition and interpreting electroencephalography (EEG) data in patients with various neurological conditions. It offers Ceribell EEG system that includes Ceribell EEG Headband that allows healthcare providers to accommodate various hair types and head sizes; and Ceribell EEG Recorder, a pocket-sized, battery operated recorder that provides clinical quality EEG and on-device EEG display. It serves medical staff in hospital ICUs, inpatient units, and emergency departments. CeriBell, Inc. was formerly known as Brain Stethoscope, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Mountain View, California.

LIVEKINDLY, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
LIVEKINDLY, Inc., also known as LK, publishes news stories and press releases on sustainable living. The company offers news related to health, ethics, business, environment, celebrity, and beauty and fashion that highlights sustainable way of living. It also provides information, such as vegan recipes, vegan restaurants, and vegan family vacation location. The company also operates a club Kindmind where it provides plant based meal plans, shopping guides, and session with experts. Livekindly is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Pearl Dairy Farms

Venture Round in 2019
Pearl Dairy Farms Limited produces and sells dairy products. The company procures raw material and milk from farmers and produces dairy products under its LATO brand. It also offers Dairy Development Program (DDP), Farmer Training and Assistance, and Milk collections centers. Pearl Dairy Farms Limited was founded in 2013 and is based in Mbarara, Uganda.

Human Interest

Series D in 2021
Human Interest offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans. Previously, only large companies offered employee retirement plans, leaving more than half of all working Americans without a path to a secure financial future. The company believes that a path to financial independence should be accessible to people in all lines of work.

Fourth Partner Energy

Private Equity Round in 2021
Fourth Partner Energy provides turnkey rooftop solar energy solutions for customers in India. The company specializes in manufacturing solar energy based applications and its current product portfolio includes solar lanterns, home lighting systems, solar street lights, and photovoltaic panels. Fourth Partner Energy aims to build, develop, and manage a large operating portfolio of de-centralized solar power assets in India and is positioned as a leading renewable energy services company. It strives to be a partner for sustainable change and endeavors to do so by providing products and services that improve the renewable resources available on the planet, and provide its customers with better quality at lower costs. Fourth Partner Energy is an MNRE empanelled Channel Partner and an ISO 9001:2008 certified company. It is also registered as a partner with state bodies such as RREC, TNREDC, and NREDCAP. The company was founded in 2010 by [Vikas saluguti](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/vikas-saluguti), [Saif Dhorajiwala](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/saif-dhorajiwala), and [Vivek Subramanian](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/vivek-subramanian-3). It is based in Hyderabad, India.

Rallybio, LLC

Series B in 2020
Rallybio, LLC, a biopharmaceutical company, develops transformative therapies for patients with severe and rare disorders. Its lead product candidate, RLYB211, is in development for the prevention of fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT), a life-threatening rare disease that can cause uncontrolled bleeding in fetuses and newborns. Its drugs focus on antibodies, small molecules, and engineered proteins. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Mines.io, Inc.

Series B in 2019
Migo offers a digital Credit-as-a-Service platform to domestic banks, mobile operators, retailers, and payment processors. The platform includes components such as APIs, frameworks, consumer insights tools, and expertise on best practices that enterprise partners can use to build transformative consumer credit services in emerging markets. Founded on 2014, Migo allows companies to offer credit to their customers, augmenting traditional bank, and payment card infrastructure. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Varo Money, Inc.

Series E in 2021
Varo Money, Inc. provides online banking products and services. It offers bank and savings accounts; and online checking accounts and overdraft protection solutions. Varo Money, Inc. Varo Money, Inc. was formerly known as Ascendit Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Varo Money, Inc. in February 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Brava Home

Series B in 2017
Brava Home is an IoT and domestic automation company that integrates technology and design to enable joyful experiences in the home, starting with the kitchen. The company uses science, technology, and design to save time and create joy. It is also actively hiring exceptional people who love food.

Bankingly

Series A in 2018
Bankingly provides software as a service (SaaS) to the financial institutions. The company provides Internet based banking services through digital channels, such as mobile banking, online banking, and conversational banking to the financial institutions. Bankingly was founded in 2015 and is based in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Varo Money, Inc.

Series D in 2020
Varo Money, Inc. provides online banking products and services. It offers bank and savings accounts; and online checking accounts and overdraft protection solutions. Varo Money, Inc. Varo Money, Inc. was formerly known as Ascendit Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Varo Money, Inc. in February 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Varo Money, Inc.

Series E in 2021
Varo Money, Inc. provides online banking products and services. It offers bank and savings accounts; and online checking accounts and overdraft protection solutions. Varo Money, Inc. Varo Money, Inc. was formerly known as Ascendit Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Varo Money, Inc. in February 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

ViewPoint Therapeutics

Series B in 2018
ViewPoint Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to the development of treatments for diseases of protein misfolding, including cataracts. The company's crystallin stabilizers include a small molecule that is active in preclinical models of age-related cataracts via a target-based screening and optimization effort, providing physicians with drugs to prevent or reverse protein misfolding, which is implicated in numerous common disorders of aging including cataracts, presbyopia, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Benevity, Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2020
Benevity, Inc. is a software social enterprise that develops workplace giving and volunteer management software solutions. The company offers a workplace giving platform that includes custom cause portfolios and disaster response, company and user-generated volunteering, dynamic news and blog content, charitable rewards and matching incentives, centralized donation management and payroll deductions, and comprehensive reporting capabilities; consumer engagement solutions that include e-commerce and online, integrated donation management, loyalty rewards, charitable gift cards, mobile giving, and customized solutions; cloud-based employee engagement solutions; community impact solutions; and professional services, including interface design and development, charity vetting and due diligence, donation processing, international program development, custom collateral and launch planning, and customized services. Its platform and products enable companies to build social responsibility; achieve business impacts from their cause marketing, community investment, workplace giving, and volunteering programs; and attract, retain, and engage customers, employees, and partners. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Calgary, Canada.

UBQ Materials

Venture Round in 2021
UBQ envisions a world where finite resources are infinitely reused. It aims to help rescue the planet. The UBQ proprietary process converts Residual Municipal Solid Waste, destined to landfills, into novel bio-based UBQ Material, that can be used to make everyday durable products - with a reduced carbon footprint. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Dodla Dairy Limited

Private Equity Round in 2017
Dodla Dairy offers wide range of Milk Products Comprising of Fresh Milk, Butter, Ghee, Paneer, Curd, Flavoured Milk, Doodh Peda, Ice Cream and Skimmed Milk Powder. These products are conveniently packed to suit various needs of consumers.

Little Leaf Farms, LLC

Series B in 2022
At Little Leaf Farms, they are committed to delivering the freshest, best tasting baby greens to New England salad lovers all year round. From our greenhouse in Devens, Massachusetts, they can deliver our products to stores within a day of harvest – a big difference from the majority of lettuce that is grown on the West Coast and spends a week traveling by truck to our local stores. And, the sustainable growing practices they support have been carefully developed to protect our planet. They hope you enjoy the fresh, delicious flavors of our baby greens!

DreamBox Learning

Series C in 2018
DreamBox Learning is an online software provider that offers elementary mathematics education through its intelligent adaptive learning platform. Its adaptive engine looks beyond the answer to see how a student is solving problems, and adjusts accordingly to build a personalized learning path for them.

Climavision

Series A in 2021
Climavision is bringing a revolutionary new approach to climate technology with weather solutions that help reduce the economic risks of climate change for companies, governments, and communities alike. We bring together the power of a high-resolution weather radar and satellite network, with advanced weather prediction modeling and decades of industry expertise. By combining lower altitude, proprietary data with cutting-edge machine learning and AI technology, our one-of-a-kind offering provides 10x higher resolution and more accurate forecasting, to address critical coverage gaps left by existing radar networks across the U.S. and drastically improve forecast accuracy.

RefleXion Medical

Venture Round in 2022
RefleXion Medical Inc., a medical equipment company, develops a biologically-guided radiotherapy system (BgRT) for cancer treatment. Its technology allows tumors to continuously signal their location during treatment and potentially revolutionize the practice of radiation oncology. The company’s technology also enables simultaneous treatment of tumors throughout the body, as well as real-time dose adaptation to specific biological characteristics of the tumor. RefleXion Medical Inc. has a strategic collaboration agreement with Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited; and a strategic partnership with HealthMyne Inc. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Hayward, California.

Varo Money, Inc.

Series B in 2018
Varo Money, Inc. provides online banking products and services. It offers bank and savings accounts; and online checking accounts and overdraft protection solutions. Varo Money, Inc. Varo Money, Inc. was formerly known as Ascendit Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Varo Money, Inc. in February 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

RefleXion Medical

Series D in 2020
RefleXion Medical Inc., a medical equipment company, develops a biologically-guided radiotherapy system (BgRT) for cancer treatment. Its technology allows tumors to continuously signal their location during treatment and potentially revolutionize the practice of radiation oncology. The company’s technology also enables simultaneous treatment of tumors throughout the body, as well as real-time dose adaptation to specific biological characteristics of the tumor. RefleXion Medical Inc. has a strategic collaboration agreement with Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited; and a strategic partnership with HealthMyne Inc. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Hayward, California.

CeriBell, Inc.

Series B in 2018
CeriBell, Inc. designs and manufactures medical devices for acquisition and interpreting electroencephalography (EEG) data in patients with various neurological conditions. It offers Ceribell EEG system that includes Ceribell EEG Headband that allows healthcare providers to accommodate various hair types and head sizes; and Ceribell EEG Recorder, a pocket-sized, battery operated recorder that provides clinical quality EEG and on-device EEG display. It serves medical staff in hospital ICUs, inpatient units, and emergency departments. CeriBell, Inc. was formerly known as Brain Stethoscope, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Zipline Inc.

Series D in 2019
Zipline Inc. designs and manufactures drones that are used to deliver medical supplies. Its drones deliver medical products, such as vaccines, medicines, and blood. Zipline Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Half Moon Bay, California.

EVERFI

Series D in 2017
EVERF is building and operating the nation's largest network for online education in off-curriculum, but highly valuable content areas such as financial literacy, student loan management, digital literacy, substance abuse prevention and other key life skills for the 21st century student. Our award-winning, proprietary software-as-a-service platform is designed to provide a highly engaging experience for students and features the latest technology and instructional design, including rich media, high-definition video, 3D simulations and social networking. We work with more than 7,000 schools, colleges and universities in all 50 states.

Persefoni

Series B in 2021
An intelligent SaaS Platform that helps organizations measure and reduce their carbon footprint in real-time. Our solutions help turn consumption and emissions data into action, enabling real and significant progress toward a lower organizational footprint from Scope 1 to 3. https://tinyurl.com/reuterspersefoni

RefleXion Medical

Series C in 2018
RefleXion Medical Inc., a medical equipment company, develops a biologically-guided radiotherapy system (BgRT) for cancer treatment. Its technology allows tumors to continuously signal their location during treatment and potentially revolutionize the practice of radiation oncology. The company’s technology also enables simultaneous treatment of tumors throughout the body, as well as real-time dose adaptation to specific biological characteristics of the tumor. RefleXion Medical Inc. has a strategic collaboration agreement with Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited; and a strategic partnership with HealthMyne Inc. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Hayward, California.

Wilderness Holdings

Post in 2018
Wilderness Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, operates as an ecotourism company. It engages in the safari consulting, including tour operating; transfer and touring through air and road; and camp, lodge, and safari exploration operations, as well as the provision of finance and asset management services. The company operates 48 safari camps and 32 aircrafts in Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Wilderness Holdings Limited was founded in 1983 and is based in Gaborone, Botswana. As of June 14, 2019, Wilderness Holdings Limited operates as a subsidiary of African Wildlife Holdings Partnership.

Dharma

Series A in 2017
Dharma is devoted to helping people use data to transform their work - no matter their level of expertise. Our software makes it easy for anyone to quickly gather, understand, and act on the field-level information that drives critical business and organizational decisions. Dharma's tools are user-friendly, feature-rich, and flexible enough to work in any sector - whether that means tracking a program's performance, taking attendance in a classroom, capturing client information, or researching an epidemic.

Cellulant Corporation

Series C in 2018
Cellulant Corporation develops and provides one-stop mobile payments platform for connecting businesses and governments in Africa. The company offers consumer payment, digital and neighborhood agency banking, and remittance solutions. It provides Mula, a payment platform; Agrikore, a blockchain based contracting and digital payment tool for agriculture sector; and Tingg, a solution for making and receiving card, bank, and bill payments. Cellulant Corporation was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

Acorns Grow, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
Acorns is a finance company that allows individuals to round up purchases and automatically invest the change. It allows customers to automatically invest in a low-cost, diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds offered by some asset managers including Vanguard and BlackRock. Acorns was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
Frontier Markets Consulting Private Limited operates as a marketing, sales, and distribution company. The company specializes in selling durables for bottom of the pyramid households in rural and peri-urban India. It provides solar lighting products, including torches and lantern through last mile distribution points; household appliances, smartphones, and 4G services. Frontier Markets Consulting Private Limited was founded in 2009 and is based in Jaipur, India with additional offices in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Odisha, India.

Meishubao

Series D in 2020
美术宝1对1致力于为每个家庭提供个性化定制的美育课程,主要面向4 -12岁适龄儿童,采用1对1真人在线互动教学形式,利用iPad或电脑等移动终端,随时随地的提供少儿艺术培养专属课程,自主研发的美术教学“Art Class”跨平台在线互动课堂系统,实现在线美术教学的多场景应用,让用户足不出户就能随时接受来自央美、清华、国美等数万名师的专业辅导。

Varo Money, Inc.

Series C in 2019
Varo Money, Inc. provides online banking products and services. It offers bank and savings accounts; and online checking accounts and overdraft protection solutions. Varo Money, Inc. Varo Money, Inc. was formerly known as Ascendit Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Varo Money, Inc. in February 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mines.io, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Migo offers a digital Credit-as-a-Service platform to domestic banks, mobile operators, retailers, and payment processors. The platform includes components such as APIs, frameworks, consumer insights tools, and expertise on best practices that enterprise partners can use to build transformative consumer credit services in emerging markets. Founded on 2014, Migo allows companies to offer credit to their customers, augmenting traditional bank, and payment card infrastructure. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Green Monday Holdings

Venture Round in 2020
Green Monday Holdings manufactures and distributes plant-based pork substitute products and frozen meals. The company also owns and operates a chain of vegetarian-focused retail outlets and cafes. It offers OmniPork; OmniPork Luncheon, a luncheon meat provides dietary fiber, potassium and calcium; OmniPork Strips; OmniPork Buns; OmniPork pearl dumpling, a healthy plant-based dim sum alternative; OmniPorkEat, a Thai Basil OmniPork with jasmine rice; and Thai OmniPork stir-fried noodles. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Fourth Partner Energy

Series B in 2018
Fourth Partner Energy provides turnkey rooftop solar energy solutions for customers in India. The company specializes in manufacturing solar energy based applications and its current product portfolio includes solar lanterns, home lighting systems, solar street lights, and photovoltaic panels. Fourth Partner Energy aims to build, develop, and manage a large operating portfolio of de-centralized solar power assets in India and is positioned as a leading renewable energy services company. It strives to be a partner for sustainable change and endeavors to do so by providing products and services that improve the renewable resources available on the planet, and provide its customers with better quality at lower costs. Fourth Partner Energy is an MNRE empanelled Channel Partner and an ISO 9001:2008 certified company. It is also registered as a partner with state bodies such as RREC, TNREDC, and NREDCAP. The company was founded in 2010 by [Vikas saluguti](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/vikas-saluguti), [Saif Dhorajiwala](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/saif-dhorajiwala), and [Vivek Subramanian](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/vivek-subramanian-3). It is based in Hyderabad, India.
CFPA Microfinance Management Co is a small microfinance institution that focuses on the rural market. Its main purpose is to tailor micro-credit, insurance, wealth management, e-commerce and other multi-faceted services to rural low-income groups who cannot fully enjoy the services of traditional financial institutions, to help them develop their industries, increase their income, and achieve good results as soon as possible. life.

C3

Series F in 2018
C3 IoT is the leading AI and IoT software platform provider for digital transformation. C3 IoT delivers a comprehensive and proven platform as a service (PaaS) for rapidly developing, deploying, and operating large-scale AI, predictive analytics, and IoT applications at scale for any enterprise value chain in any industry. At the core of the C3 IoT offering is the revolutionary C3 Type System—an extensible, model-driven AI architecture that dramatically enhances data scientist and application developer productivity. C3 IoT also offers configurable, high-value SaaS products for predictive maintenance, fraud detection, sensor network health, supply chain optimization, energy management, and customer engagement.

Zipline Inc.

Series C in 2018
Zipline Inc. designs and manufactures drones that are used to deliver medical supplies. Its drones deliver medical products, such as vaccines, medicines, and blood. Zipline Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Half Moon Bay, California.

Nithio Holdings

Seed Round in 2018
Nithio Holdings is an energy finance company focused on the off-grid sector in Africa. Nithio is an energy finance platform that provides services to distributed energy service companies, capital providers, governments, and other stakeholders in the distributed solar energy sector in Africa. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Grupo VI-DA

Series A in 2018
Grupo VI-DA develops a technology based platform that houses Spanish-language digital content. The company provides digital reading products to students, schools, and consumers that democratize access to Spanish language fiction, nonfiction, technical, and academic content. Grupo VI-DA is headquartered in Palermo, Argentina. The company has additional offices in Mexico.

Rad Power Bikes LLC

Venture Round in 2021
Rad Power Bikes LLC manufactures and sells electric bikes. It offers accessories, such as bags and storage, fenders and comfort products, racks and transport products, and safety and security products. The company also provides replacement parts, including batteries, brake pads, chargers, seats and grips, tires, and tubes. It sells its products online. Rad Power Bikes LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Seattle, Washington.