Upheaval Investments

Upheaval Investments is a venture capital investment firm based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2018. The firm focuses on investing in seed through growth-stage companies that are driven by innovative technologies and visionary founders. Upheaval Investments aims to establish long-term partnerships with its portfolio companies, supporting their development and growth in various sectors.

Riley Florsheim

Co-Founder, Partner and Chief Investment Officer

9 past transactions

Atomos

Venture Round in 2023
Atomos Space is an aerospace company founded in 2018 and located in Denver, Colorado. It specializes in the development of orbital transfer vehicles and space nuclear technology. The company's vehicles are designed to enhance maneuverability and create a sustainable orbital environment, which allows satellite operators to significantly lower their costs for reaching their intended destinations in space. By making various orbits more accessible, Atomos aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of satellite deployment and operations.

HaptX

Series A in 2021
HaptX develops advanced virtual reality gloves that simulate touch sensation with remarkable realism. By utilizing patented microfluidic technology, HaptX Gloves offer 130 points of touch feedback and provide resistive force feedback of 4 lbs. per finger while tracking hand motions with sub-millimeter precision. This innovative device creates a haptic experience that allows users to perceive the texture, shape, motion, vibration, and temperature of virtual objects, enhancing interaction within the virtual environment. Founded by Jake Rubin and Dr. Bob Crockett, HaptX operates with a team of 35 employees across offices in Seattle, Washington, and San Luis Obispo, California.

Reniac

Series A in 2020
Reniac, Inc. specializes in designing and developing intelligent data-aware architectures for various applications, servers, and data storage solutions. The company has created a data engine platform that enhances and optimizes open-source database implementations, particularly for data-centric applications. Reniac's offerings include a Cassandra I/O accelerator, a distributed and persistent cache, and a storage engine tailored for graph and SQL databases. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in Hyderabad, India, and Richmond, Canada, Reniac aims to address bottlenecks in data infrastructure workloads. Its cloud-based data engine is engineered to provide higher throughput and lower latency within a scale-out architecture, assisting enterprises in improving performance for critical workloads across public cloud, hybrid, and on-premise data centers without necessitating changes to existing applications.

HaptX

Series A in 2019
HaptX develops advanced virtual reality gloves that simulate touch sensation with remarkable realism. By utilizing patented microfluidic technology, HaptX Gloves offer 130 points of touch feedback and provide resistive force feedback of 4 lbs. per finger while tracking hand motions with sub-millimeter precision. This innovative device creates a haptic experience that allows users to perceive the texture, shape, motion, vibration, and temperature of virtual objects, enhancing interaction within the virtual environment. Founded by Jake Rubin and Dr. Bob Crockett, HaptX operates with a team of 35 employees across offices in Seattle, Washington, and San Luis Obispo, California.

Passbase

Seed Round in 2019
Passbase, Inc. specializes in digital identity verification tools designed to help businesses combat fraud, minimize data breach risks, and comply with privacy regulations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an office in London, the company provides a self-sovereign identity platform that uses verified government documents, social media accounts, and biometric signatures. Its services include facial comparison, liveness detection, information extraction, and ID authenticity checks, allowing users to take control of their digital identities and enabling businesses to onboard pre-verified users seamlessly. By integrating these capabilities, Passbase enhances data security and protects against unauthorized access, facilitating secure and private sharing of login credentials and verified documents.

Passbase

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Passbase, Inc. specializes in digital identity verification tools designed to help businesses combat fraud, minimize data breach risks, and comply with privacy regulations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an office in London, the company provides a self-sovereign identity platform that uses verified government documents, social media accounts, and biometric signatures. Its services include facial comparison, liveness detection, information extraction, and ID authenticity checks, allowing users to take control of their digital identities and enabling businesses to onboard pre-verified users seamlessly. By integrating these capabilities, Passbase enhances data security and protects against unauthorized access, facilitating secure and private sharing of login credentials and verified documents.

Atomos

Convertible Note in 2018
Atomos Space is an aerospace company founded in 2018 and located in Denver, Colorado. It specializes in the development of orbital transfer vehicles and space nuclear technology. The company's vehicles are designed to enhance maneuverability and create a sustainable orbital environment, which allows satellite operators to significantly lower their costs for reaching their intended destinations in space. By making various orbits more accessible, Atomos aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of satellite deployment and operations.

Chowly

Series A in 2018
Chowly Inc., established in 2015 and based in Chicago, Illinois, specializes in streamlining restaurant operations by integrating third-party online ordering platforms with restaurant point-of-sale systems. Its platform automatically transfers orders from various online sources to the restaurant's POS, reducing manual effort, minimizing errors, and saving staff time, thereby lowering costs and increasing efficiency.

Reniac

Venture Round in 2017
Reniac, Inc. specializes in designing and developing intelligent data-aware architectures for various applications, servers, and data storage solutions. The company has created a data engine platform that enhances and optimizes open-source database implementations, particularly for data-centric applications. Reniac's offerings include a Cassandra I/O accelerator, a distributed and persistent cache, and a storage engine tailored for graph and SQL databases. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in Hyderabad, India, and Richmond, Canada, Reniac aims to address bottlenecks in data infrastructure workloads. Its cloud-based data engine is engineered to provide higher throughput and lower latency within a scale-out architecture, assisting enterprises in improving performance for critical workloads across public cloud, hybrid, and on-premise data centers without necessitating changes to existing applications.
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