Toy Ventures

Toy Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Berkeley, California. The firm focuses on investing in seed and early-stage companies, primarily seeking minority stakes in its portfolio. As an operator-led organization, Toy Ventures leverages its expertise and experience to identify and support innovative businesses within the toy industry and related sectors. By concentrating on early-stage opportunities, Toy Ventures aims to foster growth and development in its chosen investments, contributing to the evolution of the toy market.

Ramnik Arora

Co-Founder

Gaurav Chawla

Investor

46 past transactions

InnoVein

Venture Round in 2023
InnoVein is a venture-backed medical device company focusing on cardiac and arterial approaches. The company develops and offers an implantable valve that can regularize blood flow in the veins of the elderly suffering from venous insufficiency disease. InnoVein was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California.

Repool

Seed Round in 2022
From end-to-end fund launch to fund administration to elegant investor servicing and fundraising solutions, Repool builds modern hedge fund backoffice solutions. Repool has raised over $6.5mm in funding from leading VCs such as Y Combinator, Canaan, and Matrix, as well as the founders of leading financial services firms like Mercury, Jeeves, and Brex.

Frontrunner

Seed Round in 2022
Frontrunner is a decentralized sports prediction market where users can buy shares of sports propositions and trade them like they would stocks. Unlike traditional sportsbooks where users place a bet and wait, Frontrunner gives users full control over their portfolios, allowing them to dynamically buy and sell positions as the odds change. By leveraging the power of free markets and the blockchain, we create fully transparent markets and liquid positions which fundamentally change the way that people invest in their sports knowledge and beliefs. The vision is to bring DeFi concepts like AMMs, margin trading, and perpetuals to a marketplace of sports derivatives, creating parity between financial and sports betting markets.

Drip

Series A in 2022
Drip provides the thrill of live commerce to NFTs, and physical collectibles.

Eridan

Series B in 2022
Eridan is building the world’s first digital sampling radio for 4G, 5G, and beyond. Eridan's unique transceiver architecture produces all sub-6GHz cellular signals at full transmit power, eliminating the need for linear power amplifiers. This fully digital wireless signal generation approach consumes 5-10x less power to transmit the same amount of data.

Possible Finance

Venture Round in 2022
Possible Finance is a consumer finance company that offers access to capital and a guided path toward long-term financial health. It focuses on helping communities break the debt cycle and unlock economic mobility for generations.

Pilot

Venture Round in 2022
Pilot offers bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses. The company's platform offers accurate financial reports and automated accrual basis bookkeeping to produce on-demand and error-free reports, enabling businesses to reduce time, cost, and labor associated with traditional outsourced bookkeeping practices.

Resolve

Series A in 2021
Resolve is a B2B payments platform that offers buy now, pay later billing for business purchases. Resolve is a B2B payments solution that allows merchants to extend risk-free net terms to their customers. By making it easier to get paid, we help manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors increase sales and improve their cash flow. B2B merchants can use Resolve in all of their sales channels, including e-commerce checkouts. Resolve is backed by top investors, including PayPal and Affirm co-founder Max Levchin.

Sandbox VR

Series B in 2021
Sandbox VR is a virtual reality startup that offers a premium, fully-immersive virtual reality experience. The company combines motion capture in real time with virtual reality technology to create a new medium that is the closest thing to the Star Trek holodeck that exists. The company was founded in 2016 and has presence in the Bay Area and Hong Kong

Lucra Sports

Seed Round in 2021
Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.

Mobalytics

Series B in 2021
Mobalytics is an eSports company creating a new, more robust way for competitive gamers to analyze and improve their performance. The company is developing a Gamer Performance Index (GPI) that involves using in-game data available from game APIs and crunching it through machine learning algorithms to analyze and improve player performance across several areas crucial for competitive gaming.

Whatnot

Series C in 2021
Whatnot operates a livestream shopping platform that allows users to buy, sell, and discover a variety of products, including fashion, beauty, electronics, and collectibles. The platform combines community engagement with entertainment, fostering a unique shopping experience.

Jeff

Seed Round in 2021
Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other types of digital footprint. Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score. The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.

Frontrunner

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Frontrunner is a decentralized sports prediction market where users can buy shares of sports propositions and trade them like they would stocks. Unlike traditional sportsbooks where users place a bet and wait, Frontrunner gives users full control over their portfolios, allowing them to dynamically buy and sell positions as the odds change. By leveraging the power of free markets and the blockchain, we create fully transparent markets and liquid positions which fundamentally change the way that people invest in their sports knowledge and beliefs. The vision is to bring DeFi concepts like AMMs, margin trading, and perpetuals to a marketplace of sports derivatives, creating parity between financial and sports betting markets.

Keys

Seed Round in 2021
Keys is building the architecture of anticipatory communication. Texting is the biggest communication channel in the world and everyone has trouble communicating. AI is disrupting communication as we know it. Keys is a new way to think about writing—leveraging GPT3, Keys suggests what to write based on the user’s intent, helping people communicate more effectively, quickly, and accurately.

Numerade

Series A in 2021
Numerade are singularly focused on creating exceptional video and interactive content experiences for education making the knowledge and skills of world class educators widely accessible and affordable to student audiences of all backgrounds. Numerade mission is to close the educational opportunity gap by unlocking and democratizing access to extraordinary educators and the content they have to offer.

dYdX

Series C in 2021
dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange built by developers on a mission to build open, secure, and powerful financial products. dYdX runs on audited smart contracts on Ethereum, which eliminates the need to trust a central exchange while trading. We combine the security and transparency of a decentralized exchange, with the speed and usability of a centralized exchange. Founded back in 2017 from ex-Coinbase and Uber engineer, Antonio Juliano, dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, & Spot trading, as well as borrow / lend pools on Ethereum. Users can earn interest or take loans for a nominal fee as well as trade on margin with custom leverage. Trade your crypto, the safe and secure way, with dYdX

TTYL

Series A in 2021
TTYL is the audio social network, where hanging out with your closest friends is as easy as throwing on headphones. See who's free to talk and jump into conversations with up to 8 of your best friends. If you're the first one online, just background the app and let them jump in your ears!

Lucra Sports

Seed Round in 2021
Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.

CreditBook

Seed Round in 2021
CreditBook is a digital platform that serves Pakistan’s underserved MSMEs and developers with financial solutions and services. CreditBook was launched in 2020 with the single aim to improve the financial outcomes of MSMEs across emerging markets. Starting with a bookkeeping app, the company impacted over 1 million MSMEs across 400 localities in Pakistan. CreditBook has since built a suite of financial solutions that empower underserved businesses to extend financing to their customers in a matter of hours.

boitas.com

Seed Round in 2021
Boitas is a startup that is quickly disrupting the $100 Billion industry of wholesale grocery and foodservice distribution in Latam. By offering offices, hospitals, restaurants, schools, and SMBs owners all their daily supplies in one place with a simple mobile/web experience with broad selection of items, transparent pricing, real-time availability, simple ordering, and on-time deliveries 6 days a week

Populus

Seed Round in 2021
Populus is a platform for cities to manage and price commercial fleets to deliver safer more sustainable streets. Over 100 cities around the world rely on Populus to receive GPS data from commercial vehicles, and are now leveraging their platform to create, manage, and enforce payment for access to curbs to prioritize transitions to lower carbon transportation.

Looped

Seed Round in 2021
Looped is a virtual events platform, powering the future of live entertainment.

Umbra

Venture Round in 2021
Cutting edge space systems—from refined mission solutions to best-in-class data. Umbra is a vertically integrated space technology company that empowers government and commercial partners with consistent, actionable insights. Change is constant. Umbra recognizes our customers’ existential need to dependably acquire high quality intelligence data for trusted, secure decision making. Organizations cannot leave critical missions to chance. Make better decisions for your enterprise by incorporating best-in-class remote sensing solutions.

Deep Discovery

Seed Round in 2021
Deep Discovery is inspired by our work with the journalists who led the reporting of the Panama Papers, where we uncovered a previously unreported international nuclear trafficking ring, using only public data found across the open Web. There are thousands of similar organized crime networks going undetected, causing banks to be fined billions of dollars for letting them slip through the cracks. At Deep Discovery, we are applying AI to discover hidden patterns in raw data that reveal high-risk activity at an unprecedented global scale. We automatically generate financial crime risk assessment scores, analogous to a FICO score, for every company in the world, including their directors and officers. These risk scores will be available under a simple subscription model to be queried by banks, regulators, and journalists, with the underlying source documentation available for verification and further human analysis. No other software vendor in the marketplace today is able to generate network-based risk assessments, which is a big reason banks have been continuing to get caught doing business with bad actors and receiving massive fines.

Offsight

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We help solve the delivery, quality, traceability and communication challenges of modular/offsite construction and project-based manufacturing with our easy to use mobile software.

Bolt

Series C in 2020
Bolt is on a mission to democratize commerce. Bolt strengthens retailers’ relationships with their customers by unlocking secure, logged-in, lightning-fast checkouts. The company’s rapidly growing network of one-click-checkout-ready shoppers visits Bolt merchants as if they are return customers. Hundreds of retailers including, REVOLVE, Casper, Badgley Mischka, and LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics leverage Bolt to offer their shoppers the seamless checkout experiences they’ve come to expect across the internet. Bolt was established in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Valiu

Seed Round in 2020
Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorro and Alberto Niego in 2018.

EasyPost

Series A in 2020
EasyPost is a technology leader that builds shipping solutions for ecommerce brands, fulfillment providers, online marketplaces and businesses of all sizes. The company provides a best-in-class multi-carrier shipping API that removes the technical complexities of logistics while making shipping more reliable, efficient, and affordable.

Chainalysis

Series C in 2020
Chainalysis designs and develops anti-money laundering software for Bitcoin businesses. Its products include REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders, visualizes data, and shares results with people and organizations, and API, a transaction-based risk scoring solution that contains the source and destination of funds to measure risk. Chainalysis also offers activity monitoring reports and diligence tools, which allow analysts to estimate criminal revenues and emerging threats. It offers activity monitoring reports, due diligence tools, and cyber threats from the deep web for financial institutions, real-time application programming interface (API), web-based investigation software for due diligence, and verification of customers for bitcoin business, and web-based investigation tools to identify cyber-criminals, identification of bitcoin extortion payments made by victims to criminals, and attribution for cyber threat intelligence industries.

Alto Solutions

Seed Round in 2020
Alto Solutions delivers an easy-to-use, automated process for investing in alternatives with IRA savings. It aims to democratize alternative asset investing. AltoIRA offers an easy-to-use investing platform that empowers everyday investors to diversify their IRAs by investing in alternative assets such as private equity, venture capital, real estate, loans, and cryptocurrency. Offering Traditional, Roth, SEP, and Crypto IRAs, Alto is bringing alternative investments to the mainstream. Everyday investors can now easily and cost-effectively access their retirement savings to invest in assets once reserved solely for high-net-worth individuals. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Coinbase

Venture Round in 2020
Coinbase, Inc. is an online platform that enables merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Coinbase provides various products and services, such as a user-friendly website for transactions, digital wallets, and merchant payment processing tools. The platform allows users to connect their bank accounts to facilitate the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. Additionally, Coinbase Ventures serves as the company's investment arm, focusing on early-stage startups in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors. With a mission to create an open financial system for the world, Coinbase has positioned itself as a significant player in the digital currency market.

Feedcast

Pre Seed Round in 2020
We help creators to monetize their content through audio courses

Robinhood

Funding Round in 2020
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application.

Seated

Venture Round in 2020
Seated is an app that rewards consumers for dining out, ordering pickup or getting delivery from local restaurants. Seated is the first dynamic pricing platform for restaurants--we help fill their seats while providing members incredible rewards to top brands and unique experiences. Here at Seated, we strongly believe that restaurants are a vital part of our community. Through best-of-breed technology, our mission is to help ensure their continued success as they provide amazing meals and one-of-a-kind experiences. We currently drive demand to over 1,000 restaurant partners across 4 US markets, helping to grow both their dine-in and online order sales. For each meal enjoyed, our members earn rewards to top brands like Uber, Sephora, Target, Amazon & CB2, building a loyal member community to support our local restaurant partners.

Brat TV

Venture Round in 2020
Brat TV is a teen-leaning digital production company. Brat TV operates in the technology industry.

Cohesity

Series E in 2020
Cohesity is a data management technology company that provides hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, file services, and analytics. With the Cohesity Data Cloud, organizations can secure, manage, and recover data at an enterprise scale while gaining insights through AI capabilities.

FairShake

Seed Round in 2020
FairShake is a company that empowers individuals to reach fair resolutions in disputes with large companies. It is building the future of consumer law by giving everyone the power to understand and assert their consumer rights.

Photon Commerce

Seed Round in 2020
Photon Commerce provides white-labeled multi-layered AI-as-a-Service to B2B SaaS providers. The company enables them to bring new instant product experiences to market, such as 1-click bill pay. It is backed by the Nasdaq Center and Village Global, a venture firm funded by Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and other successful industry leaders. t was founded in 2020 and is located in San Francisco, California. Photon Commerce is like Plaid for B2B documents, enabling B2B platforms to instantly offer generative AI/OCR to the market. Its multi-layered generative B2B AI provides decision analysis for business leaders and critical checks aligned with business functions such as 1-click Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and other intelligent financial services.

Carbon-12 Labs, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Fiat to Crypto Made Simpler. API-Driven on-ramps to blockchain economy.

Skip Scooters

Series A in 2019
Skip Scooters operates shared electric scooters for reliable last-mile transportation. The company works with cities to ensure our fleets are operated with the support of the surrounding communities, and they stand behind their riders by providing vehicles, safety education, and training, and world-class support. The scooter rental company is based in San Francisco, California. It is formerly known by its Y Combinator codename, Waybots.

Ironclad

Series C in 2019
Ironclad is a contracting platform that helps transform contract processes by automating workflows and approvals. Its platform also automatically identifies key terms and entities, turns contracts into code and allows users to search, tag, and manage their contracts to help legal, sales, and operations teams streamline the way they create, store, and combine contracts as intelligence assets.

Blockfolio

Series A in 2019
Blockfolio offers mobile portfolio tracking and management for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Blockfolio is the network for mobile cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and management. Millions of people trust Blockfolio to stay connected to the pulse of the industry through market data, news, and direct updates from leaders of top crypto projects. Blockfolio is committed to providing free access to our users and token team partners.

Zum

Series C in 2019
Zūm is a provider of safe, efficient, and reliable child transportation for school districts and busy families. Zūm saves schools money and parents time by providing flexible transportation options through its network of highly vetted drivers and advanced scheduling, routing, and tracking technology. The company currently provides children’s transportation service in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. Zūm was founded in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

The Ocean

Seed Round in 2019
Developer of an institution-grade decentralized platform intended to offer fast and secure ethereum and ERC20 token trading. The company's platform decentralizes the most security-vital parts of an exchange while preserving the speed and scalability of traditional order books to offer wallet-to-wallet and algorithmic trading, enabling users to execute trades offering more liquidity at lower cost and risk.
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