Velvet Sea Ventures

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York, Velvet Sea Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed-to-growth stage investments across various sectors. With over $2.2 billion invested and notable past investments including Twitter, Square, SpaceX, and Facebook, the firm provides strategic support alongside capital.

John Giampetroni

Co-Founder, Managing Director, Partner and Investment Committee Member

Matthew Giampetroni

Partner

Kass Lazerow

Partner

Katherine Rosa

Partner

26 past transactions

Healthie

Series B in 2024
Healthie Inc., founded in 2016, operates Healthie, an online platform for nutrition professionals and patients. It offers automated office management, patient records, virtual care solutions, and a mobile app for health tracking.

KarmaCheck

Series B in 2024
KarmaCheck is a San Francisco-based software company that provides background screening and credential verification services for staffing and hiring. It offers both online and offline background checks, including criminal checks, employment and education verifications, motor vehicle records, reference checks, and drug testing, as well as lite checks. The company emphasizes an API-first platform with a mobile-friendly candidate experience, real-time status tracking, and AI-driven automation to accelerate screenings and reduce administrative burden. KarmaCheck integrates with applicant tracking systems and HRIS to streamline workflows and help ensure compliance across hiring processes.

Gynger

Series A in 2024
Gynger is a pioneering payments platform that facilitates technology purchases with embedded financing. It enables businesses to buy and sell technology seamlessly while offering flexible payment terms.

LeoLabs

Venture Round in 2024
LeoLabs, Inc. designs and operates phased-array radar systems to track objects in low Earth orbit and provides space situational awareness data and services. It offers LeoLabs Collision Avoidance, a platform that automates satellite operations and enhances conjunction assessment and collision risk management, along with foundational LEO mapping data and services such as rapid orbit determination and ongoing orbit awareness. The company serves commercial satellite operators, government regulators and space agencies, and satellite management services markets. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, LeoLabs provides a software platform with open API access that underpins space situational awareness and traffic safety services for safe and sustainable operations in space.

Splash Sports

Series A in 2024
Splash Sports is a real-money gaming platform that modernizes the sports pool industry by enabling friends and groups to engage in skill-based activities. Currently in private beta, the platform provides a safe and legal environment for contest organizers to run peer-to-peer contests. It offers essential content and community management tools, along with an integrated payment system that simplifies the process of collecting entry fees and distributing winnings. By focusing on skill-based competitions, Splash Sports presents a compelling alternative to traditional betting options, enhancing the gaming experience while allowing users the opportunity to earn money.

Tribble

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Tribble is a technology company that specializes in developing autonomous agents for businesses. These agents integrate with existing systems, learn from company data, and perform actions within the tools already in use. The company's cloud-based platform aims to automate repetitive tasks, streamline business processes, and manage customer relationships, thereby reducing manual effort and enabling clients to focus on core business activities to drive growth and revenue.

eToro

Venture Round in 2023
eToro is a multi-asset trading and investment platform that enables users to trade currencies, commodities, indices, crypto assets, and stocks, including derivatives related to underlying assets. It supports social trading through features that allow users to follow and copy the approaches of others. The platform serves a global community of investors and traders, offering access to markets and investment ideas. Founded in 2007 and based in London, the company focuses on making markets transparent and accessible for a broad user base.

Frame AI (acquired by HubSpot)

Series B in 2022
Frame Technology, Inc. develops a SaaS solution that enables companies to gain real-time insights from customer interactions across various communication channels. The company's platform, known as Frame, acts as an early warning system by identifying prioritized customer feedback, key themes, and team behaviors that require attention, ultimately enhancing the customer experience and reducing churn. Additionally, Frame facilitates the collection, unification, and analysis of chat and email content, thereby supporting improvements in sales, service, and customer retention. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, Frame Technology also has offices in Singapore, reflecting its commitment to enhancing business communications through structured analytics that inform decision-making and optimize performance in message-based interactions.

Xona Space Systems

Venture Round in 2022
Xona Space Systems develops and manufactures position, navigation, and timing satellite solutions for smart transportation and infrastructure. The company operates a constellation of low-cost, low-Earth-orbit satellites to deliver secure navigation and timing services with resilience and high location precision for autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, mobile robotics, and other location-critical applications. Founded in 2019 and based in San Mateo, California, Xona Space Systems aims to enable safe, scalable operation of intelligent systems at scale.

Healthie

Series A in 2022
Healthie Inc., founded in 2016, operates Healthie, an online platform for nutrition professionals and patients. It offers automated office management, patient records, virtual care solutions, and a mobile app for health tracking.

SuperNFT

Series A in 2022
SuperNFT is the developer of virtual event platform intended to organize decentralized music festivals and events.

Frikly

Seed Round in 2022
Frikly, a one-stop online store for everything a home needs, including furniture, home interior and renovation products. We are, in a sense, what a house needs to be a home. We are redefining the way people shop for their homes by using the technology and developing the tools that make shopping easier. We are setting the trends by allowing our customers to style their spaces with our modern, stylish, yet affordable collection and create a feeling of home regardless of where they are.

Pixel Vault

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2021, Pixel Vault is a media company that promotes crypto-native assets by creating intellectual property across various channels. It operates at the intersection of NFTs, DeFi, and gaming.

KarmaCheck

Series A in 2022
KarmaCheck is a San Francisco-based software company that provides background screening and credential verification services for staffing and hiring. It offers both online and offline background checks, including criminal checks, employment and education verifications, motor vehicle records, reference checks, and drug testing, as well as lite checks. The company emphasizes an API-first platform with a mobile-friendly candidate experience, real-time status tracking, and AI-driven automation to accelerate screenings and reduce administrative burden. KarmaCheck integrates with applicant tracking systems and HRIS to streamline workflows and help ensure compliance across hiring processes.

nameless

Seed Round in 2021
StealthTest provides a comprehensive sandbox for battle-testing Web3 experiences within private, secure and isolated testing environments.

Elementus

Series A in 2021
Founded in New York in 2017, Elementus is a data science company specializing in blockchain intelligence. It provides an enterprise platform that combines proprietary data with patented algorithms to deliver unique insights and enable fast, actionable decision-making within the crypto economy for institutional asset managers, financial service organizations, and government agencies.

Autograph

Series A in 2021
Autograph offers a platform for fans to engage with sports, entertainment, and cultural content through personalized digital experiences. It aggregates multimedia content like podcasts, blogs, videos, and social posts tailored to users' favorite teams and creators. Autograph also provides digital collectibles and curated experiences in collaboration with athletes, entertainers, and brands.

LeoLabs

Series B in 2021
LeoLabs, Inc. designs and operates phased-array radar systems to track objects in low Earth orbit and provides space situational awareness data and services. It offers LeoLabs Collision Avoidance, a platform that automates satellite operations and enhances conjunction assessment and collision risk management, along with foundational LEO mapping data and services such as rapid orbit determination and ongoing orbit awareness. The company serves commercial satellite operators, government regulators and space agencies, and satellite management services markets. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, LeoLabs provides a software platform with open API access that underpins space situational awareness and traffic safety services for safe and sustainable operations in space.

SuperRare Labs

Series A in 2021
SuperRare Labs operates an online digital art marketplace that specializes in non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The platform provides artists with the tools to issue limited-edition digital artworks, which are tokenized as unique crypto-collectible items. This enables collectors to buy, own, and trade single-edition pieces of art directly from the original creators. By facilitating this process, SuperRare Labs connects artists with collectors, promoting the acquisition and exchange of digital art in a secure and innovative manner.

Mercato

Venture Round in 2021
Mercato is an online grocery marketplace that connects local specialty food shops with consumers, allowing customers to order fresh groceries online for delivery. The company's platform enables users to purchase items from a single store or combine products from multiple merchants in one order. Mercato operates primarily in Brooklyn and Manhattan, providing a convenient way for customers to access their preferred local groceries. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Strigo

Series A in 2020
Strigo is a cloud-based platform that enables companies to create, manage, and deliver hands-on training. It offers virtual labs for efficient learning, supporting both internal and customer training.

Liquid Death

Series B in 2020
Liquid Death is a pioneering beverage company focused on health and sustainability. It packages water in infinitely recyclable tallboy cans, aiming to compete with the marketing of unhealthy brands while promoting environmental responsibility. The company donates 10% of its profits to nonprofits working on plastic pollution elimination and clean drinking water provision.

Liquid Death

Series A in 2020
Liquid Death is a pioneering beverage company focused on health and sustainability. It packages water in infinitely recyclable tallboy cans, aiming to compete with the marketing of unhealthy brands while promoting environmental responsibility. The company donates 10% of its profits to nonprofits working on plastic pollution elimination and clean drinking water provision.

Scopely

Series D in 2019
Scopely, Inc., established in 2011 and headquartered in Culver City, California, is a leading developer of mobile and tablet touchscreen-based games for casual and core gamers worldwide. The company creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games, including popular franchises like "Star Trek™ Fleet Command," "MARVEL Strike Force," and "Stumble Guys." Scopely offers a range of services, such as game design, live operations, marketing, analytics, and advertising, empowering a consumer-directed gaming experience. With a diverse portfolio and a proprietary technology platform, Playgami™, Scopely has operations in multiple markets across Asia-Pacific, EMEA, and North America, employing a world-class team to create long-lasting game experiences.
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