Unshackled Ventures is the only early-stage venture capital fund that enables unrecognized and excluded immigrant founders to start companies in the U.S. Since its founding in 2014, Unshackled has proven its thesis that investing and supporting this population drives strong investment returns across key industries, including American infrastructure, generative AI, healthcare, space, and enterprise SaaS. To date, the firm has invested in 80 companies and over 200 entrepreneurs.
Maximus is a consumer telemedicine company for men’s health and hormone optimization. Maximus is revolutionizing the performance enhancement space by democratizing doctor-prescribed protocols developed by some of the world’s leading experts in men’s health. Maximus’ King Protocol utilizes a convenient prescription medication capsule to stimulate natural testosterone production, proven by at-home lab tests. Maximus was established in 2020 by Cameron Sepah in Santa Monica, California.
Formally is a legal collaboration company seeking to use intelligent technology and accessible design to simplify legal processes and increase access to justice.
Prismpop is an online beauty community that helps users in finding products that are personalized to their needs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.
Parfait is a brand-new wig customization platform aimed at disrupting the category by integrating facial recognition and artificial intelligence to provide buyers with customizable wig products.
WithOthers is a music impact events platform that connects artists and fans. WithOthers was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Hairtelligence is using computer vision technology that enables customers to customize their hair wigs and extensions, all from the comfort of their home. This is the first direct-to-consumer customization business model, eliminating the need for in person visits, and removing the costs associated with customization from traditional stylists. Our service generates customizable 3D hair models that match wigs and other hair extensions, such as clip-ins, braids, bundles, and closures that we manufacture, customize and sell, allowing the user to visualize realistic product results in real time. By capturing the dimensions of our customers facial features to measure wig, closure, and frontal fit, using color identification to match skin tone to lace tint, and allowing our customers to select the color and cut of their hairstyle, we provide fully customized wigs, weave bundles, frontals, and closures with a single purchase. The company was co-founded by Isoken Igbinedion and Ifueko Igbinedion.
Faeth Therapeutics is a data-driven, evidence-based company that specializes in mechanistic understanding of the way that dietary nutrients influence tumor growth and cancer treatment. It fully focuses on matching specific diets with tumor genotypes and treatment regimens to improve the outcomes of cancer therapy. The company was founded to translate breakthrough discoveries, made by cancer research laboratories, into clinical practice. Its founding team includes some of the industry’s preeminent researchers and clinicians.
Pod Foods is a logistics and technology enabled B2B marketplace, connecting brands directly with retailers and built for the new era of grocery. We work with growing brands of all sizes as well as grocery retailers, including both traditional retailers and online delivery solutions.
CatalyzeX helps engineers, developers, and technical leaders easily discover and apply relevant machine-learning techniques to their projects. The company offers a website for looking up machine learning techniques and their code implementations with browser extensions that automatically find and show relevant code implementations for any machine learning papers users come across while browsing the web, helping engineers, developers, and technical leaders easily discover and apply relevant machine learning techniques to their projects.
Plantible Foods is a B2B food technology company producing sustainable plant-based protein to optimize the food industry. The company develops a proprietary and vertically integrated agricultural manufacturing platform to allow food companies to innovate while optimizing costs and delivering products with improved taste, texture, health, and environmental footprint.
Pngme, they believe everyone deserves equal access to finance. Their platform enables this by making the process of collecting, analyzing, and using financial data by financial institutions frictionless and simple. Banks, Fintechs, and Credit Bureaus use our platform to create innovative financial products for un/underserved people. Their platform enables one-click data sharing, real-time insights, and credit scoring. Pngme is on a mission to give ownership of data back to people, thereby giving equal access to finance and enabling wealth creation for billions of people.
Maximus is a consumer telemedicine company for men’s health and hormone optimization. Maximus is revolutionizing the performance enhancement space by democratizing doctor-prescribed protocols developed by some of the world’s leading experts in men’s health. Maximus’ King Protocol utilizes a convenient prescription medication capsule to stimulate natural testosterone production, proven by at-home lab tests. Maximus was established in 2020 by Cameron Sepah in Santa Monica, California.
The Landing is a social design platform that empowers everyone to create together. Our mission is to empower and enable the creativity of our community through an intuitive, fun, and social platform. We believe the future of product discovery is social, experiential, and creator-led. We provide our community with the tools to discover, remix, create and connect over fully customizable moodboards.
Strive FM is an ad-tech platform that pays rideshare drivers to advertise Spotify artists by playing their music in rideshares. With stream & fan exposure from passengers on its rideshare-based network, the company enables organic growth for Artists on Spotify. Additionally, it uses QR-code remotes to direct passenger exposure and accelerate organic growth while gathering rich data from the interactions of these new fans.
Inspirit is a virtual reality tool for science and STEM education. The company's virtual labs, simulations, and virtual reality are being used to transform science courses all over the world. They provide educational institutions with access to a next-generation learning platform that includes a large library of immersive labs and simulations that are available on a variety of desktop/laptop and VR platforms. Its platform includes tools for classroom management, custom assessment integrations, group or networked lab sessions, and curriculum alignment options. Inspirit was launched in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. Over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching. By offering free coaching and peer mentorship, Career Karma has grown to over 150,000 members from every background and profession. Through its directory of 9,000 boot camps and trade schools, career switchers discover training programs by comparing courses and reading student reviews. The Career Karma mobile app makes your decision even easier. In the app, you can connect with current students and alumni to find your ideal program and get prepared for admission.
Prismpop is an online beauty community that helps users in finding products that are personalized to their needs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.
Faeth Therapeutics is a data-driven, evidence-based company that specializes in mechanistic understanding of the way that dietary nutrients influence tumor growth and cancer treatment. It fully focuses on matching specific diets with tumor genotypes and treatment regimens to improve the outcomes of cancer therapy. The company was founded to translate breakthrough discoveries, made by cancer research laboratories, into clinical practice. Its founding team includes some of the industry’s preeminent researchers and clinicians.
Dispo is a photo-sharing app designed to simulate the experience of using a disposable camera from the comfort of mobile phones. The app replicates the experience of taking photos on a disposable camera without a front-facing screen and develop those photos over a period of one day, thereby enabling users to create raw and authentic photos.
Copilot is an intelligent knowledge management and delivery system built for customer-facing teams. 70% of content and collateral built by sales enablement or product marketing goes unused today. That's because content management systems aren't focused on adoption by and delivery to end users. At Copilot, we have an industry-leading content management and delivery solution that helps deliver content effectively to sales and other customer-facing professionals. Our differentiators: a) we deliver content to reps as a part of their workflow, and b) we use conversational cues on Zoom calls to suggest content to reps in real-time. Copilot supports several kinds of content, including: case studies, customer stories, competitive battle cards, playbooks, persona-based discovery checklists, call scripts, marketing collateral, product sheets and more.
Inception Ops
Seed Round in 2020
Inception Ops is a stealth mode company based in San Francisco
On Deck is a platform serving the many strands of identity that unite ambitious people around the globe. Their ever-growing community and action-oriented programming will help the people to get there—fast. On Deck will up-level career, launch, and scale big ideas, or make lifelong friends.
Prismpop is an online beauty community that helps users in finding products that are personalized to their needs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.
Lily AI is the first platform that bridges the gap between brand-speak and customer-speak to drive exponential growth for commerce companies large and small. Lily AI seamlessly injects customer-centric product attributes into site search engines, recommendation systems, SEO/SEM capabilities and item setup processes to drive exponential lifts in traffic, conversion, revenue and brand loyalty. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.
Hairtelligence is using computer vision technology that enables customers to customize their hair wigs and extensions, all from the comfort of their home. This is the first direct-to-consumer customization business model, eliminating the need for in person visits, and removing the costs associated with customization from traditional stylists. Our service generates customizable 3D hair models that match wigs and other hair extensions, such as clip-ins, braids, bundles, and closures that we manufacture, customize and sell, allowing the user to visualize realistic product results in real time. By capturing the dimensions of our customers facial features to measure wig, closure, and frontal fit, using color identification to match skin tone to lace tint, and allowing our customers to select the color and cut of their hairstyle, we provide fully customized wigs, weave bundles, frontals, and closures with a single purchase. The company was co-founded by Isoken Igbinedion and Ifueko Igbinedion.
Passbird Research is at the forefront, re-writing the internet, the digital infrastructure, and economics. They provide software companies that would come to read about a decade later in internet history books.
Livedocs lets you bring live data from your existing tools (like Stripe, Google Analytics, Segment) into your documents, so anybody on your team can track vital metrics like retention, MRR, web traffic, etc in under 90 seconds. Livedocs documents are simple to build and even simpler to share — no code or database-schema-knowledge required!
BounceTown develops an application designed to make music production simple. It provides social graphs for creators to set up immediate feedback loops. It also helps creators build a reputation for their music skills. It helps them build a community, a following, and a fan base.
Pngme, they believe everyone deserves equal access to finance. Their platform enables this by making the process of collecting, analyzing, and using financial data by financial institutions frictionless and simple. Banks, Fintechs, and Credit Bureaus use our platform to create innovative financial products for un/underserved people. Their platform enables one-click data sharing, real-time insights, and credit scoring. Pngme is on a mission to give ownership of data back to people, thereby giving equal access to finance and enabling wealth creation for billions of people.
Plutoshift is an operational data platform to monitor physical infrastructure. It leverages existing data collection systems to automate data workflows and provide a unified view of performance. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Prime Discoveries develops rapid, novel diagnostics for emerging pathogen infections with focus on cost effective, massively scalable and easily automatable assays. We leverage multiple patented technologies to enable samples to result in under 1 hour with minimal lab infrastructure and technical expertise. Our products are best in class for Covid, Flu, STIs and new drug resistant microbes. All our assays are novel and developed in the United States and can serve millions of people.
GrowthPlug is a practice growth and optimization SaaS that is focused on helping healthcare practices to accelerate new patient acquisition, manage online reputation, automate front desk operations, and elevate the patient experience. Launched in 2017, GrowthPlug works with hundreds of healthcare practices across the country.
OXIO is the first telecom-as-a-service (TAAS) platform for brands and enterprises that unbundles mobile telecom infrastructure, capturing the powerful data and true value that it emits. Its 100 percent cloud-based solution blends the wireless infrastructure of many providers, enabling something that wasn't possible before — a custom-purposed, asset-light network delivered to each brand in a matter of days. OXIO's B2B SaaS solution unlocks the full and uncompromising control of the wireless experience for brands, including actionable intelligence that drives clear value and results. Mobile data, long locked up in telecom silos, allows brands to get closer to their customers than ever. The company is headquartered in New York, with offices in Mexico City and Montreal, Canada.
Inspirit is a virtual reality tool for science and STEM education. The company's virtual labs, simulations, and virtual reality are being used to transform science courses all over the world. They provide educational institutions with access to a next-generation learning platform that includes a large library of immersive labs and simulations that are available on a variety of desktop/laptop and VR platforms. Its platform includes tools for classroom management, custom assessment integrations, group or networked lab sessions, and curriculum alignment options. Inspirit was launched in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. Over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching. By offering free coaching and peer mentorship, Career Karma has grown to over 150,000 members from every background and profession. Through its directory of 9,000 boot camps and trade schools, career switchers discover training programs by comparing courses and reading student reviews. The Career Karma mobile app makes your decision even easier. In the app, you can connect with current students and alumni to find your ideal program and get prepared for admission.
Pod Foods is a logistics and technology enabled B2B marketplace, connecting brands directly with retailers and built for the new era of grocery. We work with growing brands of all sizes as well as grocery retailers, including both traditional retailers and online delivery solutions.
21labs is a DevOps platform that uses production analytics to enable autonomous testing and release with confidence, backed by data.The self-learning, auto-maintenance test automation platform reduces manual and automated QA efforts by 90% and helps organizations truly leverage CI/CD in weeks vs. years. 21 Labs is a framework agnostic SaaS platform, integrated into its customers’ stack, requiring no lengthy setup processes.
Aavia was born from a shared passion for solving problems in healthcare and improving female health and wellness. They chose Aavia because it evokes an image of a bird - powerful and free to soar. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Human is an e-learning platform to hear and follow voice notes from the greatest mentors. The company was founded by Yijen Liu and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Pilleve's aim is to fill in the gap between opioid prescription and addiction, which has affected millions of Americans and resulted in thousands of accidental overdoses. Pilleve decreases the costs of opioid abuse and addiction for insurance companies, providers, loved ones and patients. This ranges from accidental overdoses to long term treatment. We do that by detecting the signs earlier, intervening, and ensuring patients are using their prescription opioids safely. In doing so, pilleve decreases the social and financial burden that cripples patients and their stakeholders. Pilleve’s solution to opioid misuse and abuse starts with an integrated pill bottle, coupled with a smartphone application, that accurately monitor’s a patient's intake in real time and securely holds opioids at all times. Patients input passwords or use their phone’s biometric scanners to dispense a pill. Before dispensing their opioids, patients are asked about their pain levels and mood in order to assess if they’re showings signs of aberrant behaviors. Pill usage data at the point of intake is collected and analyzed. Physicians are then alerted if a patient is exceeding recommended dosages. Through their EHRs, physicians can see results in real time and intervene by changing a patient’s prescription, limiting dosages, or helping patients wean off their medication.
Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. Over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching. By offering free coaching and peer mentorship, Career Karma has grown to over 150,000 members from every background and profession. Through its directory of 9,000 boot camps and trade schools, career switchers discover training programs by comparing courses and reading student reviews. The Career Karma mobile app makes your decision even easier. In the app, you can connect with current students and alumni to find your ideal program and get prepared for admission.
Sote: A data and analytics company enabling banks and FI's in Africa to lend to corporates and SME's based on proprietary trade data (Moody's for Africa). At Sote, we are a data-first company empowering the growth of African businesses. Our mission is to bridge the $150 billion trade finance gap within the $400B industry, hampered by a lack of credible trade data. We eliminate traditional reliance on real-estate collateral by offering reliable credit, risk management, underwriting and business intelligence. By leveraging advanced technology, Sote operates seamlessly across three distinct domains: Trade Finance, Data, and Logistics. Welcome to a new era of African trade, powered data. Sote, Swahili for 'all of us'
Below the Fold uses machine learning to provide automatic context on any news article. Their product uses artificial intelligence to automatically surface the previous "chapters" of the news story, helping active news readers avoid a rabbit hole of Google searches. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in West Hollywood, California.
Lynk Global is a mobile network technology company that offers universal connectivity for mobile phones. It allows standard mobile phones, without any changes in hardware or software, to be connected virtually anywhere on the globe using our low-earth-orbit satellites.
Plantible Foods is a B2B food technology company producing sustainable plant-based protein to optimize the food industry. The company develops a proprietary and vertically integrated agricultural manufacturing platform to allow food companies to innovate while optimizing costs and delivering products with improved taste, texture, health, and environmental footprint.
Skritswap provides natural language processing, machine learning, personal information, large document, machine consistency, mortgage, augmented intelligence, and plain language consulting services. The company's Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) models can advise the user on which clauses to modify in order to expedite the closing of their contract. By substituting the original text, Skritswap clarifies the jargon in any contract with simpler language and clearer formatting through AI.
CatalyzeX helps engineers, developers, and technical leaders easily discover and apply relevant machine-learning techniques to their projects. The company offers a website for looking up machine learning techniques and their code implementations with browser extensions that automatically find and show relevant code implementations for any machine learning papers users come across while browsing the web, helping engineers, developers, and technical leaders easily discover and apply relevant machine learning techniques to their projects.
Modern infrastructure for the travel industry. We leverage distributed ledger technology and build distribution technology that helps hotels cut out intermediaries and connect directly with travel sellers.
Sote: A data and analytics company enabling banks and FI's in Africa to lend to corporates and SME's based on proprietary trade data (Moody's for Africa). At Sote, we are a data-first company empowering the growth of African businesses. Our mission is to bridge the $150 billion trade finance gap within the $400B industry, hampered by a lack of credible trade data. We eliminate traditional reliance on real-estate collateral by offering reliable credit, risk management, underwriting and business intelligence. By leveraging advanced technology, Sote operates seamlessly across three distinct domains: Trade Finance, Data, and Logistics. Welcome to a new era of African trade, powered data. Sote, Swahili for 'all of us'
Lily AI is the first platform that bridges the gap between brand-speak and customer-speak to drive exponential growth for commerce companies large and small. Lily AI seamlessly injects customer-centric product attributes into site search engines, recommendation systems, SEO/SEM capabilities and item setup processes to drive exponential lifts in traffic, conversion, revenue and brand loyalty. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.
GridRaster provides the underlying compute and network stack to power high-end VR/AR experiences on mobile platforms by leveraging the edge cloud. The solution provides high-performance graphics at ultra low latency, while improving the overall performance by 10x. Our vision is to drive the mass adoption of VR/AR by dramatically improving the reach of exciting content and bringing breathtaking immersive experiences to users.
Bluefield Technologies offers remote sensing technology to assist in measuring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Bluefield Technologies delivers precise, always-on methane leak detection via microsatellites.
Bluefield Technologies offers remote sensing technology to assist in measuring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Bluefield Technologies delivers precise, always-on methane leak detection via microsatellites.
Plutoshift is an operational data platform to monitor physical infrastructure. It leverages existing data collection systems to automate data workflows and provide a unified view of performance. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Trucking is the backbone of the American economy, moving 70% of all freight. Truck drivers risk their lives by spending months away from their families to keep the American economy moving. They are working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remotely controlled by drivers for the first and last mile. Their trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families.
Lily AI is the first platform that bridges the gap between brand-speak and customer-speak to drive exponential growth for commerce companies large and small. Lily AI seamlessly injects customer-centric product attributes into site search engines, recommendation systems, SEO/SEM capabilities and item setup processes to drive exponential lifts in traffic, conversion, revenue and brand loyalty. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.
Pine Park Health works with medicare advantage plans, senior living communities, and providers to improve health outcomes for seniors. Through its new clinical care delivery model, it brings doctors and clinical staff right into senior living communities, providing safer, more convenient urgent and primary care. Pine Park establishes a dedicated space within each senior living community and staffs each location with a team of physicians, physician assistants, and nurses. This allows them to provide comprehensive healthcare on-site, see patients more regularly, and better support their holistic health.
Plutoshift is an operational data platform to monitor physical infrastructure. It leverages existing data collection systems to automate data workflows and provide a unified view of performance. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
With more than 90% of consumers expecting product delivery to fit their busy schedule, continuous and flexible delivery management is the critical missing link needed for customer satisfaction and retention in modern supply chains. With GraphLI's automated delivery management software, Transportation companies deliver more goods with the existing fleet, cut fuel and labor costs, and keep customer expectations met and happy. GraphLi's monitoring and performance measurement tools turn location-centric field data into real-time insights to enable continuous improvements in delivery services. The SaaS platform is simple to understand, Plug-N-Play, stores the data securely, automates repetitive processes where needed, and generates intelligence for proactive planning and execution.
Trucking is the backbone of the American economy, moving 70% of all freight. Truck drivers risk their lives by spending months away from their families to keep the American economy moving. They are working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remotely controlled by drivers for the first and last mile. Their trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families.
SenseiHub is an educational technology startup that offers a platform which enables companies to find and employ current students for short-term internship projects. SenseiHub was founded by Sameep Sheth and Aditya Sudhakar in February 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
GridRaster provides the underlying compute and network stack to power high-end VR/AR experiences on mobile platforms by leveraging the edge cloud. The solution provides high-performance graphics at ultra low latency, while improving the overall performance by 10x. Our vision is to drive the mass adoption of VR/AR by dramatically improving the reach of exciting content and bringing breathtaking immersive experiences to users.
Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce. Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, to sending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows. We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.
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