Trust Ventures

Trust Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2018 and located in Austin, Texas. The firm specializes in investing in startups, particularly within the technology sector, and aims to leverage its knowledge and expertise to support companies navigating incumbent-heavy industries. Through its investments, Trust Ventures seeks to foster innovation and growth in emerging businesses.

Ballard, Christopher

Venture Partner

Zina Bash

Venture Partner

Richard Deulofeut

Vice President

Brooke Fallon

Vice President

Peter Lake

Venture Partner

Connor McCarthy

Associate

Ben Weaver

Associate

Benjamin Weaver

Associate

34 past transactions

Thesis

Seed Round in 2023
Thesis offers personalized brain supplements that cater to all types of brains. They create potent nutritional compounds to improve mental function and provide individualized suggestions depending on their customers' goals and brain chemistry.

Levels

Series A in 2023
Levels develops a health and wellness platform designed to monitor metabolic fitness. The platform tracks blood glucose in real-time, enabling users to optimize their diet and exercise. The company was founded in 2019 and is a remote-first company.

Sana Benefits

Series B in 2022
Sana Benefits provides insurance health plans for small and medium businesses or individuals. The company offers simplified plans, ensuring you pay an honest price, and prioritizing customer service. It was founded in 2017 by Nathan Hackley and Will Young and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.

Ostro

Series B in 2022
Ostro is a health platform that personalized engagement solutions for life sciences. It creates informative connections between those who make medicines and those who take them. The platform helps millions of people live healthier lives by creating personalized healthcare journeys that boost engagement for consumers and HCPs and drive value for life sciences brands. Ostro was founded in 2019 and is based in Miami, Florida.

PairTree

Seed Round in 2022
PairTree engages in modernizing the adoption process. It uses future-forward technology to connect adoptive parents with birth moms.

StellarFi

Seed Round in 2022
StellarFi sets out to disrupt the poverty cycle by giving its users the flexibility to pay their bills on their own schedule, while building credit and generating value. They are a Public Benefit Corporation and believe that late bill payments and defaults are not simply consequences of poverty but, rather, its drivers.

Antora Energy

Series A in 2022
Antora Energy delivers zero-carbon industrial heat and power to heavy industries that are more reliable than fossil fuels. Antora’s thermal energy storage soaks up excess solar and wind electricity and uses it to heat blocks of carbon so they glow like inside a toaster.

The Helper Bees

Series B in 2022
The Helper Bees is an InsurTech successfully improving the home care experience for the payer and care-recipient. They work with some of the world’s largest insurance carriers to deliver transformative experiences in digitization, sourcing great care options, and applying machine learning to power intelligent care and claim analytics and processing.

IronVest

Seed Round in 2022
IronVest is a security technology developed to protect data, identity, and financial accounts in every online transaction.

Swimply

Venture Round in 2021
Swimply is an online marketplace for passion space and amenity rentals including pools, courts, and entire homes by the hour. Swimply enables local homeowners to monetize underutilized assets and open them up to their local communities, improving access while also helping local economics Swimply’s focus is providing spaces for joyous and unique experiences. We believe the best memories with friends and family are enabled through access to great spaces whether it be an amazing pool, a new pickleball court, or a luxury home for a large event. Since its inception, Swimply has connected tens of thousands of homeowners with millions of guests throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia

Sana Benefits

Series A in 2021
Sana Benefits provides insurance health plans for small and medium businesses or individuals. The company offers simplified plans, ensuring you pay an honest price, and prioritizing customer service. It was founded in 2017 by Nathan Hackley and Will Young and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.

Tinycare

Series A in 2021
Tinycare is a network of modern, micro centers that serves infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. It strives to provide the safest, cleanest, highest quality licensed daycares in San Francisco. It was founded by Michael Lai in 2018.

Steno

Seed Round in 2021
Steno offers court reporting and other litigation support services with deferred-payment options. It aims to improve the litigation process—offering dependable court reporting with undeniable innovation and exceptional customer service.

Dutch

Seed Round in 2021
Dutch is a veterinary telehealth service that specializes in treating anxiety and allergies in pets. At Dutch, we’re on a mission to treat the curable ailments that keep our pets from living their best lives. Many of our pets suffer from chronic conditions such as allergies and anxiety. Sadly, many also go untreated. Traditional vet appointments are inconvenient, expensive, and often stressful for our best friends. This leads to putting off wellness visits until a pain point is unignorable and frequently pushing quality-of-life issues under the rug. This is the reality of pet healthcare in the U.S. — but we know we can do better. By using telehealth solutions to connect pet parents with licensed veterinarians, Dutch makes veterinary visits convenient and practical. Dutch-affiliated vets work with your pet over time, whenever they need it, allowing our veterinarians to go beyond the symptoms and identify the root cause of your pet’s chronic suffering. We prescribe treatments and prescriptions that are medically backed, specialized to individual cases, and delivered directly to your door. Dutch currently operates in the following eight states: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, South Dakota, Virginia, Idaho, and Indiana.

Swimply

Series A in 2021
Swimply is an online marketplace for passion space and amenity rentals including pools, courts, and entire homes by the hour. Swimply enables local homeowners to monetize underutilized assets and open them up to their local communities, improving access while also helping local economics Swimply’s focus is providing spaces for joyous and unique experiences. We believe the best memories with friends and family are enabled through access to great spaces whether it be an amazing pool, a new pickleball court, or a luxury home for a large event. Since its inception, Swimply has connected tens of thousands of homeowners with millions of guests throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia

SchoolHouse

Seed Round in 2021
SchoolHouse helps families set up at-home, in-person Learning Pods--groups of 4-8 students of same or similar-aged students learning, socializing, and developing together. The company was co-founded by Brian Tobal and Joseph Connor in 2020 and is headquartered in New York.

Avvir

Series A in 2021
Avvir works seamlessly with its existing systems from photo capture, to construction workflow management to laser scans and 360 photos. Their platform helps them identify potential risks and slowdowns, plus save time and money by automating their progress and earned value tracking, quality control, and as-built creation.

Diptera

Seed Round in 2021
Developing technology to fight mosquitoes with mosquitoes.

Farcast

Seed Round in 2020
Farcast (formerly DASH Systems) is a Los Angeles based technology company developing hardware and software to enable precision airdrop deliveries. They take a commercial airplane, open the door, and autonomously release and land packages within a helipad-size area. Its technology allows commercial cargo to be safely delivered in remote, rural, or previously inaccessible areas, quickly and affordably.

Steno

Series A in 2020
Steno offers court reporting and other litigation support services with deferred-payment options. It aims to improve the litigation process—offering dependable court reporting with undeniable innovation and exceptional customer service.

Sana Benefits

Series A in 2020
Sana Benefits provides insurance health plans for small and medium businesses or individuals. The company offers simplified plans, ensuring you pay an honest price, and prioritizing customer service. It was founded in 2017 by Nathan Hackley and Will Young and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.

ICON

Series A in 2020
ICON is a construction technology company that uses 3D robotics, software, and advanced materials.

Degree Insurance Co.

Seed Round in 2020
40% of students who start college this fall won't finish. We can do better. Degree guarantees a student's income in the 5-years following graduation through their development of a novel insurance product. This encourages students to enroll, and importantly, to complete their education.

Legalpad

Seed Round in 2020
Legalpad makes work visa applications faster, easier, and better for startups by pairing smart software with human support. Legalpad solves the work visa problem for startups and helps people to pursue employment across borders, beginning with startups. Legalpad was founded by Sara Itucas.

Veryable

Seed Round in 2020
Our mission is to revitalize the American manufacturing sector by allowing businesses to “variablize” labor costs in small increments. This lets them increase costs only as their output increases, which will empower businesses to scale while maintaining a lower and more constant cost structure. We aim to achieve this through our technology, which enables us to transform an antiquated and inefficient labor market into a real-time marketplace for labor. This will put more people to work and relieve the burden on producers, improving overall productivity and enabling organic growth.

Blueprint Power

Seed Round in 2020
Blueprint Power is an NYC-based tech company whose mission is to accelerate the growth and financial sustainability of distributed, intelligent clean energy by helping regional groups of real estate companies transform their portfolios into power plants. More specifically, they manage these power plants to generate excess supply that they can then sell to markets and customers who increasingly need a more and higher quality supply of electricity. Blueprint is founded by experienced tech innovators and entrepreneurs from firms like Google, Boeing, and Vestas, and are backed by prominent corporate leaders and venture investors from the worlds of real estate, energy, and tech.

Ostro

Series A in 2019
Ostro is a health platform that personalized engagement solutions for life sciences. It creates informative connections between those who make medicines and those who take them. The platform helps millions of people live healthier lives by creating personalized healthcare journeys that boost engagement for consumers and HCPs and drive value for life sciences brands. Ostro was founded in 2019 and is based in Miami, Florida.

Sana Benefits

Seed Round in 2019
Sana Benefits provides insurance health plans for small and medium businesses or individuals. The company offers simplified plans, ensuring you pay an honest price, and prioritizing customer service. It was founded in 2017 by Nathan Hackley and Will Young and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.

Meati

Venture Round in 2019
Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that provides fungi-based meat alternatives to everyone. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day. Meati Foods was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boulder, United States.

Levels

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Levels develops a health and wellness platform designed to monitor metabolic fitness. The platform tracks blood glucose in real-time, enabling users to optimize their diet and exercise. The company was founded in 2019 and is a remote-first company.

Veryable

Seed Round in 2019
Our mission is to revitalize the American manufacturing sector by allowing businesses to “variablize” labor costs in small increments. This lets them increase costs only as their output increases, which will empower businesses to scale while maintaining a lower and more constant cost structure. We aim to achieve this through our technology, which enables us to transform an antiquated and inefficient labor market into a real-time marketplace for labor. This will put more people to work and relieve the burden on producers, improving overall productivity and enabling organic growth.

Visibly

Series B in 2018
Visibly provides digital vision care solutions and online vision test services. The company's products include eyewear and contact lenses, providing an online option for vision testing. Visibly serves e-commerce employers, eye care providers, insurance providers, online healthcare platforms, and optical retail.

ICON

Seed Round in 2018
ICON is a construction technology company that uses 3D robotics, software, and advanced materials.

Oklo

Series A in 2018
Oklo develops clean energy plants to provide emission-free, reliable, and affordable energy using advanced fission. Oklo’s first product the Aurora produces 1.5MW of electric power and can save 1,000,000 tons of carbon emissions during its operation over other forms of power generator alternatives. It converts nuclear waste into clean energy and can produce clean energy for decades without refuelling.
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