Vast Ventures

Vast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm established in 2004 and based in New York, New York. The firm focuses on investing in a diverse range of sectors, including consumer brands, insurance, artificial intelligence, cloud software, finance, food, resource sustainability, deep tech, healthcare, and real estate. By targeting innovative companies within these industries, Vast Ventures aims to support growth and development while leveraging emerging technologies and market trends.

Doug Chertok

Founder and Managing Partner

Aniq Rahman

Managing Partner

94 past transactions

Ophelos

Seed Round in 2022
Ophelos was created to transform how individuals, families, and businesses manage their financial health.

Clicoh

Series A in 2022
Clicoh is a startup born in Cordoba, Argentina in 2018 that provides fulfillment and logistics solutions through innovation and technology for digital companies in Latam.

Source

Seed Round in 2022
Source Health enables product leaders, engineers, and clinicians to collaborate on building healthcare experiences that place the patient at the center.

Black Crow AI

Series A in 2022
Black Crow AI develops a business analytics platform that delivers machine learning predictions. Its platform provides real-time insights to the business users at companies of any size, for less than the cost of 1 data scientist. Black Crow’s ML predictions improve new customer acquisition scale and efficiency by 25-50%.

ConcertoCare

Series B in 2022
ConcertoCare delivers primary and complex care to seniors and other adult patients. They provide three distinct in-home care models, which are all powered by their proprietary population health and analytics engine. Their novel approach to patient care is composed of their team of renowned experts in home-based geriatric medicine, digital health, palliative care, healthcare analytics, and value-based care.

Little Otter

Series A in 2022
Little Otter is a children's mental health company that developed an app that focuses on the mental health of children and their families. Little Otter is a family-focused mental health service for children. The company app makes it simple to connect with qualified providers from the convenience of the user's phone and gain access to advice and guidance developed by Dr. Helen Egger and child mental health experts.

Foodology

Series A in 2021
Foodology builds and runs delivery-focused digital restaurant brands. It engages in scaling restaurant brands across Latin America. Its virtual restaurants run through cloud kitchens enabling brands to shorten their iteration cycles and increase their concept offering without incurring significant setup costs. The company operates over 80 kitchens in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru.

Castor

Seed Round in 2021
Castor helps workers in Mexico save & avoid debt by providing them with automated savings tools and much needed liquidity between paychecks and giving them access to a portion of their wages on a daily basis, without charging interest. Castor App is headquartered in Mexico, and was founded in 2021.

Commons Clinic

Venture Round in 2021
Commons Clinic is a multi-specialty clinic that provides healthcare treatment to patients. The company's clinic offers comprehensive specialty and surgical care programs for pain, orthopedics, women's health, and men's health, enabling patients to avail improved and efficient medical care. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Juno Medical

Seed Round in 2021
Juno Care is a whole-family healthcare platform that provides modern open-access care for the entire family’s day-to-day needs, including pediatrics, women’s health, adult primary care, and same-day services. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in New York, New York, United States.

Nomad

Series A in 2021
Nomad is a fintech company that provides financial services such as a bank account and an investment platform. It develops an application where users can open an account and can use it to travel, buy, save money, and invest in the USA. It also offers remittances and a debit card.

Marble

Series A in 2021
MedChart Inc. operates a cloud-based platform designed to simplify the retrieval and management of healthcare records. Founded in 2014 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company enables patients to view, store, and share their medical records securely online. MedChart's offerings include a variety of document types, such as legal, hospital, clinical, and research documents. The platform automates the release of information process, enhancing the ease with which individuals can access their health data. By facilitating better ownership and management of medical records, MedChart aims to improve patient care and streamline interactions between patients and healthcare providers.

Houm

Seed Round in 2021
Houm is reinventing the way of leasing and selling properties in Latam by leveraging technology, data, and design to transform a currently painful and bureaucratic process into a pleasant, quick, and simple experience, both for the owner and for the tenant/buyer.

Cyrus Security

Seed Round in 2020
Cyrus is here to protect people from cybercrime. Our mission is to democratize security and make people safer. Cybercrime is an enormous threat to society, bigger than any one person or group and much harder to trace. Cyrus puts the person in the center and is here to protect you from this threat. Cyrus was founded by cybersecurity experts Oren Arar, Jonathan Livneh, and Shahak Shalev combining their vast knowledge and experience to create the most accessible and world-class personal cybersecurity product.

Super Coffee

Venture Round in 2020
Super Coffee provides pods, grounds, creamer, espresso, and coffee. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser. The company was created to target health-conscious consumers seeking sugar-free bottled beverage.

ASAPP

Series B in 2020
ASAPP AI Native® products, driven by advances in fundamental AI research, make organizations highly productive and effective by augmenting human activity and automating the world’s workflows. The ASAPP Customer Experience Performance (CXP) platform provides Contact Center customer care and sales agents with a platform to know the right thing to say and the right action to take, in real-time. The ASAPP machine learning models are continuously learning and predicting from every customer interaction, effectively turning every agent into the best agent without the need for manual programming or extensive training. Many of the world’s largest companies in telecom, financial services, and travel use the solution. The company has offices in New York, Silicon Valley, London and Buenos Aires.

Higher Ground Education

Series B in 2019
Higher Ground is an organization dedicated to mainstreaming and modernizing Montessori education. Its purpose is to help children worldwide achieve just such elevation. The company focuses on expanding the reach and impact of the Montessori movement to creating systems, services, and resources that empower Montessori educators everywhere. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, California.

Shujinko

Seed Round in 2018
Shujinko is a software as a service (SaaS) that enables organizations to quickly build compliant environments, this allows customers to iterate on business capabilities quickly. Shujinko’s approach is to bring cloud compliance know-how together with automation to make compliance and audits easy for our customers. Shujinko helps its customers confidently prepare for an audit by using intuitive cloud compliance automation for the vast majority of the technical controls that are error-prone and time-consuming to set up, as well as the evidence collection and documentation that takes teams away from the work they love to do. Scott Schwan and Matt Wells founded it in June 2018, with its headquarters in Seattle in Washington.

Diamond Foundry

Series B in 2018
We are delivering the future of tetrahedrally crystallized carbon, aka diamond: a material with a dozen of the most extreme properties of any in the universe. Our proprietary manufacturing technology can now deliver diamond at mining scale -- without the social & environmental toll of mining. In our zero-emission foundry, we sustainably create diamond for the jewelry and semiconductor industries. Our VRAI brand brings iconic innovation in diamond jewelry direct to consumers. Our semiconductor solutions address the key challenge limiting the performance of everything from electric cars to 5G wireless to cloud & AI compute: heat dissipation.

Verb Energy

Seed Round in 2018
Verb Energy makes simple, healthy, tasty energy products anyone can enjoy. Verb Energy makes healthy and delicious energy products for every day. Our flagship product is the Verb Caffeinated Energy Bar.

Mighty

Seed Round in 2017
Mighty is a portal that supports the parties involved in personal injury lawsuits to help the victims in such cases get more justice. Mighty has received funding from a group of top investors, including IA Ventures and Tribeca Venture Partners. It was founded by Joshua Schwadron in 2014 and is based in New York City, NY.

Verb Energy

Convertible Note in 2017
Verb Energy makes simple, healthy, tasty energy products anyone can enjoy. Verb Energy makes healthy and delicious energy products for every day. Our flagship product is the Verb Caffeinated Energy Bar.

Clover Health

Series D in 2017
Clover Health is a provider of Medicare Advantage health plans to older Americans. The company operates a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) platform to improve the quality of life of its members and physicians. Its platform utilizes patient-centered analytics and a dedicated care management team to identify potential risks and directly provide preventive care, thereby enabling patients and their health care providers to reduce avoidable spending as well as identify and manage chronic diseases. Clover uses sophisticated analytics and custom software to direct its own clinical staff to proactively fill in gaps in the care of its members.

SafeGraph

Seed Round in 2017
SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI. Its high-precision places data covers business listings, building footprints, and aggregated foot traffic data for millions of points of interest (POI) and thousands of brands in the US and Canada. With detailed brand affiliation, spatial hierarchy, and other key business details, SafeGraph data informs market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more. It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lygos

Series A in 2016
Lygos is providing biotechnology solutions for today’s renewable chemical challenges. They engineer microbes to convert sugars into high-value, industrial chemicals, targeting compounds where biological production is cost-advantaged over petrochemical production. The company's throughput screening and strain construction facilitate the rapid optimization of pathways to convert cheap and renewable feedstock to high-value chemicals. Founded in 2011, Lygos is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Inverse

Series A in 2016
At Inverse, we obsess over one question: What could happen next? To provide answers — and there are many — we search out emerging ideas, new technologies, and simmering trends as well as fearless innovators, designers, and thinkers. We’re compulsively curious not only because we’re fans of progress, but also because we want a glimpse of the future and the chance to better plan for and enjoy tomorrow.

Troops

Series A in 2016
Troops.ai provides salesforce automation platform that gives real-time transparency around salesforce information. It serves as a Slackbot for sales team. Troops.ai allows its users to configure Salesforce reports, communicate deal wins, and pull salesforce data for all standard and custom objects through Slack. Its investors include First Round Capital, Founder Collective, Next View Ventures, Great Oaks Capital, Chicago Ventures, Vast Ventures, and other angel investors.

Phosphorus

Series A in 2016
Phosphorus provides the back-end infrastructure that enables ubiquitous integration of genetics in medicine by making it cost-effective, accessible, and actionable for our patients. Phosphorus’s suite of clinical-grade genomics tests use next-generation sequencing (NGS) and are available to patients through healthcare providers, hospitals, and directly to consumers through its website. The Phosphorus laboratory is CLIA and CAP certified and licensed for testing in all 50 states.

Planetary Resources

Series A in 2016
Planetary Resources is bringing the natural resources of space within humanity’s economic sphere of influence, propelling us into the 21st century and beyond…today. Asteroids will play a key role in the development of a space economy and be the main driver in allowing humanity to become a flourishing multi-planetary species. Water from asteroids will fuel the in-space economy and habitation, by creating rocket fuel and consumable water from space, for space.

Clover Health

Series C in 2016
Clover Health is a provider of Medicare Advantage health plans to older Americans. The company operates a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) platform to improve the quality of life of its members and physicians. Its platform utilizes patient-centered analytics and a dedicated care management team to identify potential risks and directly provide preventive care, thereby enabling patients and their health care providers to reduce avoidable spending as well as identify and manage chronic diseases. Clover uses sophisticated analytics and custom software to direct its own clinical staff to proactively fill in gaps in the care of its members.

Troops

Seed Round in 2016
Troops.ai provides salesforce automation platform that gives real-time transparency around salesforce information. It serves as a Slackbot for sales team. Troops.ai allows its users to configure Salesforce reports, communicate deal wins, and pull salesforce data for all standard and custom objects through Slack. Its investors include First Round Capital, Founder Collective, Next View Ventures, Great Oaks Capital, Chicago Ventures, Vast Ventures, and other angel investors.

Chameleon

Seed Round in 2016
Chameleon is a platform for better user onboarding. It's built to give designers, product managers, marketers, and customer success managers greater control over their product's user experience. With Chameleon, teams can quickly build, test, and deploy in-product tours using a WYSIWYG editor. It is simple to implement on any website or webapp (a few lines of code) and automatically collects analytics to enable a data-driven approach to improving user onboarding.

Juicero

Series B in 2016
Juicero is on a mission to help people consume more fresh produce every day. Starting with the first home, cold-press juicing system that makes raw, organic juice with the touch of a button, the Juicero system represents three years of hard work to bring cold-pressing technology (and nutrient-dense goodness) home. It’s all in the spirit of manifesting true health, and it’s just the beginning.

Good Uncle

Seed Round in 2016
Good Uncle offers an application that enables college students to find and order food. Good Uncle offers delivery services to its customers’ college. It prepares food according to recipes collected from restaurants. Good Uncle was founded by Matt Doumar and Wiley Cerilli in November 2015.

Siftery

Seed Round in 2016
Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.

Diamond Foundry

Series A in 2015
We are delivering the future of tetrahedrally crystallized carbon, aka diamond: a material with a dozen of the most extreme properties of any in the universe. Our proprietary manufacturing technology can now deliver diamond at mining scale -- without the social & environmental toll of mining. In our zero-emission foundry, we sustainably create diamond for the jewelry and semiconductor industries. Our VRAI brand brings iconic innovation in diamond jewelry direct to consumers. Our semiconductor solutions address the key challenge limiting the performance of everything from electric cars to 5G wireless to cloud & AI compute: heat dissipation.

Mighty

Seed Round in 2015
Mighty is a portal that supports the parties involved in personal injury lawsuits to help the victims in such cases get more justice. Mighty has received funding from a group of top investors, including IA Ventures and Tribeca Venture Partners. It was founded by Joshua Schwadron in 2014 and is based in New York City, NY.

Eight Sleep

Seed Round in 2015
Eight Sleep is the first sleep fitness company. It leverages innovation, technology, and personal biometrics to restore individuals to their peak energy levels each morning. Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator, it was named by Fast Company in 2018 as one of the Most Innovative Companies in Consumer Electronics. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

ASAPP

Seed Round in 2015
ASAPP AI Native® products, driven by advances in fundamental AI research, make organizations highly productive and effective by augmenting human activity and automating the world’s workflows. The ASAPP Customer Experience Performance (CXP) platform provides Contact Center customer care and sales agents with a platform to know the right thing to say and the right action to take, in real-time. The ASAPP machine learning models are continuously learning and predicting from every customer interaction, effectively turning every agent into the best agent without the need for manual programming or extensive training. Many of the world’s largest companies in telecom, financial services, and travel use the solution. The company has offices in New York, Silicon Valley, London and Buenos Aires.

Ginkgo Bioworks

Series B in 2015
Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria to protect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets.

Guidebook

Series A in 2015
Guidebook is a simple yet powerful mobile application builder that lets you create an app in four easy steps -- no technical skills required. Just choose from a gallery of mobile app templates, select your features, and fill it with content. Then publish in minutes to Google Play and the Apple App Store.

Yieldify

Series A in 2015
Yieldify creates smart and simple marketing technology products that predict customer behaviour to optimize customer experience with brand revenue. Trusted by over 500 brands on more than 1,000 websites globally, Yieldify helps some of the world’s innovative companies drive incremental revenue, including Marks and Spencer, French Connection, Steiner Sports, Omni Hotels and Anthropologie. 3 years ago Yieldify only existed in the minds of its two founders. Fast forward to today and the company holds a position as one of the fastest growing tech startups in UK history with 5 offices spanning 3 continents, over 170 employees, 1000+ customers and 7 digit funding (from Google Ventures and Softbank). Plus a few awards thrown in for good measure.

Astro Digital

Seed Round in 2015
Astro Digital designs, builds and operates micro-satellite systems and infrastructure providing turn-key systems for applications including earth observation, communications, science and exploration, and In-orbit demonstrations. These turn-key systems provide our customers with access to proprietary datasets and services from space and are delivered under our Mission as a Service (MaaS) framework.

Reserve Media

Series A in 2015
Reserve Media, Inc. operates a digital dining concierge service that connects restaurants with diners. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, the company offers a platform that allows customers to discover restaurants, make reservations, receive personalized service, and facilitate seamless payment. By partnering with notable restaurateurs, Reserve aims to enhance the dining experience while helping restaurants manage their reservations more effectively, reduce cancellations, and gain valuable customer insights. The platform also enables restaurants to maintain customer databases and manage their tables, ultimately improving customer relationships. As of November 2018, Reserve operates as a subsidiary of Resy Network, Inc.

fitmob

Series B in 2015
fitmob is a provider of an online fitness platform designed to empower global community through wellness.The company's online fitness platform offers group workouts with trainers, gyms and studios, enabling consumers to workout to stay fit.

Kindara

Seed Round in 2014
Kindara is devoted to giving women the tools, knowledge, and support to understand how their fertility works, take ownership of their reproductive health, and meet their fertility goals.

Soma

Series A in 2014
Soma is a premium water filter service that includes a beautiful glass carafe and the world's most innovative water filters, which are delivered right to the door via subscription so customers never forget to change their filter on time. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Boostable

Seed Round in 2014
Boostable provides a cooperative digital advertising solution that enables ecommerce marketplaces, retailers and platforms to offer digital advertising as a service. Boostable offers a revolutionary model where costs, data and resources are strategically shared between companies to efficiently power high-performing digital ad campaigns. Boostable’s leadership team hails from some of the industry’s most well-respected digital advertising organizations including Amazon, Facebook, MediaMath, Turn and Merkle. Boostable is funded by leading investors such as Y Combinator, SV Angel, 500 Startups, Omidyar Network, and Morado Ventures.

Ginkgo Bioworks

Seed Round in 2014
Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria to protect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets.

BarkBox

Series B in 2014
BarkBox provides a monthly subscription service for dog owners. They offers members a monthly shipment of dog toys and treats, as well as additional products to gift a friend.

Ritual

Seed Round in 2014
Ritual is a social ordering app that taps into networks of co-workers and colleagues for fast and easy pick up and pay at a wide variety of local restaurants and coffee shops. With Ritual, users can mobile order and pay at all their favorite local eateries and coffee shops and have it ready to pick up when they arrive. By also uniquely giving friends and colleagues the ability to add their own food orders onto an existing order, Ritual gives customers the choice of either picking up themselves or having their food brought right to their desk. This ‘social ordering’ saves customers time and drives incremental orders for merchants. The best and busiest quick service restaurants and coffee shops in major cities across North America are using Ritual to give them a competitive, technological edge, driving profitability, and a more personalized way to connect with their customers.

Elite Daily

Convertible Note in 2014
Elite Daily was founded with a commitment to not only deliver content specifically targeted for Generation-Y, but also content shaped by talented media professionals of the same demographic. Elite Daily’s founding team grew tired of traditional media publications mandating that news coverage be presented in a dull, one-dimensional manner and set out to create a highly engaging, socially driven content platform that would radically change and redefine the meaning of a media publication. The site consistently delivers diverse content with a fresh, relevant voice that appeals to the divergent perspectives represented within our generation. With an audience of over 70 million monthly readers, Elite Daily has established the largest, fastest growing community of millennial voices on the web.

Triage

Seed Round in 2014
Triage integrates the SaaS tools you use everyday. Quickly connect your services, Triage syncs everything important into one mobile feed.

Badge

Seed Round in 2014
Mobile Contacts and Communication for Growing Companies

Reserve

Seed Round in 2014
Reserve is the country's premier hospitality technology platform, helping restaurants and guests connect. Reserve helps guests discover restaurants, make reservations, get personalized service and seamlessly pay the bill. Restaurant partners see fewer reservation cancellations, get better CRM and receive actionable data that helps them better understand their business. Our mission is to be the preferred booking method for all reservations. Reserve has partnered with hundreds of the country's best restaurateurs — from David Chang to Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Reserve is venture-backed and headquartered in New York City. The app is available to download for iOS and Android.

Recombine

Series A in 2014
Recombine is here to simplify genetic testing for you. We manage all aspects of genetic testing, from sample collection to genetic counseling. Our goal is to ensure genetic information is delivered in an accurate, informative and responsible manner.

Sweetgreen

Series D in 2013
Sweetgreen is an American fast-casual restaurant chain that serves simple, seasonal, healthy salads, and grain bowls made in-house from scratch, using whole produce delivered that morning. Founded in 2007, the company is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Kindara

Seed Round in 2013
Kindara is devoted to giving women the tools, knowledge, and support to understand how their fertility works, take ownership of their reproductive health, and meet their fertility goals.

Cambrian Genomics

Seed Round in 2013
Cambrian Genomics makes the first hardware/systems for laser printing DNA. Researchers in academia & industry order or clone >$1b/year of DNA. CGI delivers high quality sequence verified DNA to buyers in this existing/growing worldwide market.

Sidecar

Venture Round in 2013
Sidecar Technologies provides B2B delivery transportation network in the world. It is building the world's most convenient and affordable transportation network created for and powered by everyday people. All drivers are pre-vetted for safety and are free to give rides whenever they want. Sidecar safety system includes driver background checks, driver and rider rating systems, GPS tracking features, and the ability to share details of your trip in real-time. Sidecar was founded in San Francisco in 2011 and currently operates in ten cities and has facilitated more than half a million rides.

Soma

Seed Round in 2013
Soma is a premium water filter service that includes a beautiful glass carafe and the world's most innovative water filters, which are delivered right to the door via subscription so customers never forget to change their filter on time. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Ripple

Angel Round in 2013
Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain. It offers a global real-time payment system that enables banks and financial institutions around the world to directly transact with each other without the need for a central correspondent. The company also offers FX Market Making, a solution enabling enterprises to gain access to cross-currency liquidity through a distributed network that allows foreign exchange to be externally sourced from a competitive FX marketplace or an internal FX trading desk. This minimizes FX exposure thereby lowering the volatility and counter-party risk of trades. Ripple Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives, and in-depth market analysis.

Simply Measured

Series B in 2013
Simply Measured is a social analytics platform designed to help marketers do their best work, simply. Over 100,000 marketers and 50 percent of the Interbrand 100 companies use Simply Measured daily to identify new opportunities, plan their social campaigns, optimize activities for better results, and report on their programs to prove the value of social. Simply Measured is the only solution formally certified by both Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr to provide marketers useful insights from the world's most popular social platforms. With integrations that include more than a dozen other social networks and data enrichments, Simply Measured hosts the most robust analytics solution designed specifically for marketers. Simply Measured was recently named a 2015 Inc. 500 fastest growing company and has more than 130 employees in their Seattle, Washington headquarters.

Keychain Logistics

Seed Round in 2013
Keychain Logistics is a software marketplace that directly connects companies shipping products with independent semi-truck owner-operators. The platform effectively cuts out the traditional third-party logistics brokerage process by virtue of a software enabled network of virtual carriers (trucks on the go in our network). They understand where trucks in their network are at any given moment, their capacity, and if they would be an ideal match for a company shipping.

Modria

Seed Round in 2012
Modria is a developer of an online dispute resolution platform used to process and resolve customer disputes related to eCommerce. It serves tangible goods and service marketplaces, payment networks, medium and large online merchants, government agencies, and classified sites. Chittu Nagarajan and Colin Rule founded Modria in 2011, with its headquarters in San Jose in California with an additional office in Chennai in India. It operates as a subsidiary of Tyler Technologies as of May 30, 2017.

BarkBox

Seed Round in 2012
BarkBox provides a monthly subscription service for dog owners. They offers members a monthly shipment of dog toys and treats, as well as additional products to gift a friend.

Moat

Series B in 2012
Moat is a free search engine for display ads. Moat also offers heatmap analytics and resources for creative. Online ads tend to be transient: visible one second and gone the next. Whether you want to see the ads from a particular brand, discover new advertisers, or get inspiration from innovative creative campaigns, the need for a centralized ad search is evident. Enter: Moat. Moat Ad Search is a search engine that focuses entirely on ads instead of other kinds of online content. Similar to traditional search engines, its results are compiled using a web crawler that is specifically tuned to look for ads on the web and index them for later retrieval. Moat also accepts submissions from advertisers and agencies that wish to have their ads included.

StyleSeat

Seed Round in 2012
At StyleSeat, our mission is to help people look and feel their best. We are on the path to achieving this mission by being the go-­to platform for consumers to discover, book, and pay for beauty and grooming services (hair stylists, colorists, nail artists, estheticians, barbers, etc). We are also the premiere solution for all independent professionals in the industry to run and grow their business. We have powered over 100 million appointments booked and $7B in revenue for small businesses and are on the path to much more.

Sweetgreen

Series B in 2012
Sweetgreen is an American fast-casual restaurant chain that serves simple, seasonal, healthy salads, and grain bowls made in-house from scratch, using whole produce delivered that morning. Founded in 2007, the company is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Clipboard

Seed Round in 2011
Clipboard was founded by Gary William Flake in January 2011 with the simple goal of helping people save and share the parts of the Web that they care about. Since the Internet is more than two decades old, doesn't it seem strange that the typical way to save something online is to put it into an email or a document? We think so too, which is why we built an easy and powerful tool to help you. All of this may sound simple, but we think it's actually quite significant. We believe that someday soon everyone will be saving and organizing their online life in a way that is easy, fun and reflective of themselves. It is a world where everyone is highly engaged and active in saving their life experiences online. We are here for you and we are in this for the long haul. Our mission is to help you organize your online life. Please read more about us and our values at https://clipboard.com/about Stats on Clipboard: In close to 2 years before Clipboard was acquired in May 2013 140,000 people created 3 million clips.

Zocdoc

Series C in 2011
Zocdoc is a technology company that provides a better healthcare experience for millions of patients every month. Its online marketplace delivers the accessible, seamless, and simple experience patients expect and deserve. Zocdoc was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York.

FirstFuel Software

Venture Round in 2011
FirstFuel Software provides a customer intelligence platform that transforms energy providers into trusted advisors to their business customers. FirstFuel’s SaaS solutions accelerate customer acquisition, optimize energy efficiency and DSM programs, and boost customer engagement and satisfaction. The company draws on deep domain expertise in data analytics, building science, and software in its deployments with large utilities, energy service providers, and government agencies in North America and Europe. Requiring only electric or gas utility meter data and address, FirstFuel produces a remote set of building-specific performance benchmarks and custom recommendations that utilities and energy service providers use to target, guide and enable their sales, service and engagement activities with commercial customers. Founded in 2009 and privately held, FirstFuel is headquartered in Lexington, MA. For more information, please visit www.firstfuel.com.

Moat

Series A in 2011
Moat is a free search engine for display ads. Moat also offers heatmap analytics and resources for creative. Online ads tend to be transient: visible one second and gone the next. Whether you want to see the ads from a particular brand, discover new advertisers, or get inspiration from innovative creative campaigns, the need for a centralized ad search is evident. Enter: Moat. Moat Ad Search is a search engine that focuses entirely on ads instead of other kinds of online content. Similar to traditional search engines, its results are compiled using a web crawler that is specifically tuned to look for ads on the web and index them for later retrieval. Moat also accepts submissions from advertisers and agencies that wish to have their ads included.

Backplane

Angel Round in 2011
Backplane is a platform that allows like-minded people to connect across their shared interests. Our first community was around Lady Gaga's LittleMonsters.com, and is almost a million strong. They believe that consumers and brands want more meaningful ways to connect and engage with each other online. they are partnering with the world's best brands to create authentic community.

Simply Measured

Pre Seed Round in 2011
Simply Measured is a social analytics platform designed to help marketers do their best work, simply. Over 100,000 marketers and 50 percent of the Interbrand 100 companies use Simply Measured daily to identify new opportunities, plan their social campaigns, optimize activities for better results, and report on their programs to prove the value of social. Simply Measured is the only solution formally certified by both Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr to provide marketers useful insights from the world's most popular social platforms. With integrations that include more than a dozen other social networks and data enrichments, Simply Measured hosts the most robust analytics solution designed specifically for marketers. Simply Measured was recently named a 2015 Inc. 500 fastest growing company and has more than 130 employees in their Seattle, Washington headquarters.

OpenX

Series D in 2011
OpenX powers highly relevant advertising at global scale, delivering quality and value to brands, publishers and consumers across every type of connected screen and ad format. The company’s leading technology aggregates, curates and values consumer interest in real time on one of the world’s largest and highest quality ad exchanges to ensure marketers reach exactly the audience they want. OpenX serves more than 30,000 of the world’s most recognized brands, more than 1,200 websites and more than 2,000 premium mobile apps.

Gobble

Venture Round in 2011
Gobble delivers gourmet 15-minute meal kits right to your doorstep. These chef-designed meals are easy to prepare, with simple recipe steps and fresh ingredients that have been chopped, portioned, and simmered so that dinner is both fast and flavorful. Gobble combines the convenience of takeout with the health, satisfaction, and freshness of a home-cooked meal. Our Executive Chef Thomas Ricci carefully curates each recipe so that anyone can create a dynamic meal at home in just minutes - think of us as personal sous chefs! New, seasonal menus are released weekly, and include dishes for every palate. Whether you're looking for global cuisine, low-calorie options, comfort classics, vegetarian recipes, or kid-friendly meals, we have you covered. Plus, we think beyond dinner with delicious options for breakfast, lunch, sides, desserts, and more! Our CEO Ooshma Garg was inspired to help people cook up happiness even on the busiest evenings, and since founding Gobble in 2010, she has graced Forbes’ Top 30 Innovators Under 30 list. Our operations have grown rapidly, serving 47 states and spanning offices in California, Pennsylvania, and Toronto. Find out why our customers call us a life-saver on busy weeknights. We're dedicated to helping households across the country spend less time working in the kitchen, and more time at the table with the people they love. Visit www.gobble.com to check out our latest culinary creations.

Kiip

Series A in 2011
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements. It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others. Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.
Pear is a leader in brand engagement advertising. Our platform delivers authentic, meaningful relationships with target consumers that brands can leverage to drive digital engagement metrics vital to fan acquisition, video distribution, content creation, CRM, and consumer insights initiatives. National reach, performance pricing and industry leading results.

Gobbler

Angel Round in 2011
Gobbler is the go to marketplace for subscription pro-audio plugins.Think of us as Shopify for creative tools. Gobbler was founded in 2010 by Chris and Jamie Kantrowitz.

Gobble

Seed Round in 2010
Gobble delivers gourmet 15-minute meal kits right to your doorstep. These chef-designed meals are easy to prepare, with simple recipe steps and fresh ingredients that have been chopped, portioned, and simmered so that dinner is both fast and flavorful. Gobble combines the convenience of takeout with the health, satisfaction, and freshness of a home-cooked meal. Our Executive Chef Thomas Ricci carefully curates each recipe so that anyone can create a dynamic meal at home in just minutes - think of us as personal sous chefs! New, seasonal menus are released weekly, and include dishes for every palate. Whether you're looking for global cuisine, low-calorie options, comfort classics, vegetarian recipes, or kid-friendly meals, we have you covered. Plus, we think beyond dinner with delicious options for breakfast, lunch, sides, desserts, and more! Our CEO Ooshma Garg was inspired to help people cook up happiness even on the busiest evenings, and since founding Gobble in 2010, she has graced Forbes’ Top 30 Innovators Under 30 list. Our operations have grown rapidly, serving 47 states and spanning offices in California, Pennsylvania, and Toronto. Find out why our customers call us a life-saver on busy weeknights. We're dedicated to helping households across the country spend less time working in the kitchen, and more time at the table with the people they love. Visit www.gobble.com to check out our latest culinary creations.

Fashism

Series A in 2010
Fashism is one of these entertaining websites where you can have others judge your looks and your fashion sense. The way this site works is straightforward enough, since all you have to do is upload a picture (or a couple) with you sporting the look that you need rated. You then provide some background information, and ask some specific questions that you want to have answered. Site users will then give you their own insight on that look that you had assembled. The will also give it either an up or a down vote, and that will be used to rate you on the provided Leader Board.

Kiip

Angel Round in 2010
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements. It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others. Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.

Zocdoc

Series B in 2010
Zocdoc is a technology company that provides a better healthcare experience for millions of patients every month. Its online marketplace delivers the accessible, seamless, and simple experience patients expect and deserve. Zocdoc was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York.

klout

Series A in 2010
Klout measures influence based on the ability to drive action across the social web. Any person can connect their social network accounts and Klout will generate a score on a scale of 1-100 that represents their ability to engage other people and inspire social actions. Klout enables everyone to gain insights that help them better understand how they influence others. Klout also provides people with opportunities to shape and be recognized for their influence.

UpCompany

Venture Round in 2009
UpCompany is the parent company of RakedIn, a financial portal showing organized data on companies, their financial data, and business news; [Hashable](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hashable), a fun new way to post meaningful connections with people and see who else in your community is connecting, and [Tracked.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tracked-com), which is "what you get if you were to mash together Yahoo and Google Finance, with aspects of Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn."

Yieldmo

Seed Round in 2008
Yieldmo is an advertising platform that helps brands invent creative experiences through tech and AI, using custom ad formats, proprietary attention signals, predictive format selection, and privacy-safe premium inventory curation. Yieldmo believes all ads should be human-centered, tailored, and provoke users' emotions and actions. Yieldmo helps brands deliver the best ad for every impression opportunity, merging creative and media for proven results.

Zocdoc

Series A in 2008
Zocdoc is a technology company that provides a better healthcare experience for millions of patients every month. Its online marketplace delivers the accessible, seamless, and simple experience patients expect and deserve. Zocdoc was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York.

OpenX

Series A in 2007
OpenX powers highly relevant advertising at global scale, delivering quality and value to brands, publishers and consumers across every type of connected screen and ad format. The company’s leading technology aggregates, curates and values consumer interest in real time on one of the world’s largest and highest quality ad exchanges to ensure marketers reach exactly the audience they want. OpenX serves more than 30,000 of the world’s most recognized brands, more than 1,200 websites and more than 2,000 premium mobile apps.

Conductor

Series A in 2006
Conductor is the world's leading organic marketing company. Our content intelligence platform, Conductor Searchlight, generates customer intent insights that lead to compelling content, increased traffic, and higher organic marketing ROI. Conductor's technology enables marketers to understand their prospective customers' intent by revealing the trends and topics they are searching for at every phase of purchase process. Customizable dashboards and workflows guide marketers through the content creation process, empowering them to continuously measure, refine, and demonstrate the effectiveness of their SEO and content marketing efforts. Conductor's forward-thinking customers include global brands like Citibank and FedEx, emerging leaders like Birchbox and JustFab, and leading agencies like iProspect and Acronym. In December 2019, Conductor spun out of WeWork and is now an independent company.

Daylife

Series A in 2006
Daylife is a platform for curating, discovering, and combining high-quality content. Its platform serves some of the world's best-known media brands and consumer destination websites, including USA Today, Turner Sports, Sky News, and the Washington Post. The Daylife Platform also powers its own popular news and information website at www.daylife.com.

StreetEasy

Seed Round in 2005
StreetEasy is reimagining the way people buy, sell, and rent homes across New York City and New Jersey. Used more than any other local real estate platform, StreetEasy’s website and mobile apps provide vetted and verified listings, plus intuitive search tools and data-driven guides to help people unlock the opportunity of living here. Launched in 2006 and based in NoMad, Manhattan, StreetEasy is owned and operated by Zillow Group (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) and is a registered trademark of Zillow, Inc.

Fotolog

Series A in 2004
Fotolog is a social networking website based around photo sharing. Users set up photo diaries which allow them to share their photo filled lives via the internet by sharing access to their diaries. Fotolog signed up their 3 millionth user account during the spring of 2006 and has over 15 million hits a month. As of August 27, 2007 Fotolog was purchased by Hi Media for approximately $90 million in stock and cash.

Quigo

Series A in 2004
Quigo is an ad-targeting network that provides contextual advertising services for many large media websites including ABCNews.com, CNNMoney.com, Forbes.com, and USAToday.com. Quigo is a direct competitor to Google's contextual advertising program, Adsense. Quigo [sold](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/aol-buys-quigo-confirmed/) to AOL for $340 million and will become part of its Platform-A advertising solution.
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