Wedbush Ventures

Wedbush Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2020 and located in Santa Monica, California. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, particularly at the pre-seed and seed stages, targeting innovative companies that have the potential to redefine industries. Wedbush Ventures seeks to partner with founders who possess unique insights and perspectives, enabling them to tackle challenges in various sectors such as software, fintech, insurtech, martech, ad tech, cybersecurity, and consumer technology. The firm's mission is to harness these insights to unlock potential and collaboratively build value in the companies they invest in.

Petra Griffith

Founder and Managing Director

33 past transactions

Unicone Art

Seed Round in 2024
At Unicone Art, we offer high-quality art products such as Epoxy resin, Mica powder, Silicone mold-making kits, natural resin remover soap, and golden nuggets, for resin art, jewelry, geode paintings, and more.

Loop

Seed Round in 2024
Loop is a banking platform tailored for growing businesses and entrepreneurs, providing a comprehensive solution for their international banking needs. The platform offers a range of services, including corporate cards, payments, foreign exchange, and capital management, all accessible from a single interface. This streamlined approach aims to simplify financial operations, enabling businesses to efficiently manage their finances in a global context.

Auditive

Seed Round in 2024
Auditive is a technology company that specializes in streamlining vendor risk management for businesses. Its AI-powered platform enables enterprises to conduct security reviews of their vendors swiftly and efficiently, without the need for repetitive processes. This helps organizations to identify and mitigate potential risks, ensuring the security and compliance of their supply chain.

Bonfire Analytics

Series A in 2024
Bonfire Analytics provides an analytics platform aimed at enhancing decision-making for sales teams in the healthcare sector. The company specializes in assisting health tech organizations, including those in digital health, medical devices, and biotechnology. Through its services, Bonfire Analytics leverages artificial intelligence to deliver insights that identify which providers and plans are most likely to engage in purchasing before initial contact. This approach helps healthcare companies optimize their customer acquisition strategies and improve sales efficiency by utilizing claims-based targeting and AI-driven analytics.

Morty

Seed Round in 2023
Morty is an entertainment application that enhances social experiences by bringing the immersive world of escape rooms to users' fingertips. The app allows individuals to track their escape room adventures, coordinate upcoming games with friends, and easily book new experiences. By providing a platform for discovering and planning engaging activities, Morty aims to unite people through real-life, interactive experiences, thereby enriching their social outings and fostering a sense of community among users. The application positions itself as a tool for users to explore and record their adventures in the realm of experiential entertainment.

Arrive Recommerce

Series A in 2023
Arrive Recommerce specializes in transforming the resale market by providing brands and retailers with a sustainable and profitable solution for managing returns, excess inventory, and damaged goods. Through its Returns to Recommerce™ initiative, the company enables clients to convert these challenges into revenue-generating opportunities via a fully-branded resale channel. Arrive's technological offerings, including Recommerce Management Technology and Storefront Technology, enhance operational efficiency and drive customer engagement. By collaborating with partners in returns management, logistics, and e-commerce enablement, Arrive helps brands increase their margins and value. Recognized as the 4th Most Innovative Retail Company by Fast Company in 2022, Arrive Recommerce serves notable clients like YETI and Burton Snowboards, promoting circular commerce across various industries.

Joyn

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Joyn is a technology company that streamlines workflow management. It integrates with existing tools to track product progress, generating personalized summaries and reducing the need for frequent status meetings or constant communication on platforms like Slack. By identifying workflows and tool usage, and measuring their impact on key metrics, Joyn's AI-driven automation helps teams focus on high-impact work, rather than administrative tasks.

Kept

Seed Round in 2023
Kept specializes in compassionate offboarding services for employees transitioning between jobs. The company provides a comprehensive suite of support that includes compliance assistance, health insurance options, and financial resources. By focusing on the needs of departing employees, Kept ensures that clients can navigate post-employment benefits effectively, facilitating a smoother transition during career changes.

AiPrise

Seed Round in 2022
AiPrise is a global platform specializing in customer identity verification and KYC orchestration. It offers a suite of pre-integrated APIs for identity verification and fraud detection, allowing businesses to tailor their identity management processes. The platform enhances KYC onboarding by incorporating regional workflows, which improves customer experience and minimizes drop-off rates during the verification process. Its advanced workflow engine is particularly beneficial for fintech and cryptocurrency companies, as it helps make informed identity decisions by analyzing various data points, including phone numbers, email addresses, device attributes, and government databases. By enabling businesses to customize their verification workflows, AiPrise effectively aids in preventing fraudulent users from accessing their services.

Vested Finance

Series A in 2022
Vested Finance, established in 2018, is a San Francisco-based financial technology company that operates an online investment platform. It facilitates Indian investors' access to the U.S. stock and ETF markets, offering a user-friendly, low-cost, and commission-free platform. Vested Finance enables investors to start with no minimum balance and invest in fractional shares, providing educational resources and tools to aid decision-making. The company also offers curated portfolios tailored to different goals, themes, and risk levels. With offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru, India, Vested Finance aims to empower local Indian investors to participate in global markets securely.

Skippet

Seed Round in 2022
Skippet is a software developer that offers an AI-powered platform enabling users to create custom digital solutions without the need for coding. By simply describing their problems in plain English, users can leverage Skippet's advanced language models and system integration knowledge to generate or modify applications and workflows. This innovative approach allows individuals and organizations to effectively organize their work and adapt software to meet evolving needs. Additionally, Skippet's capabilities extend to health screening solutions that facilitate quick self-reporting for employees, helping organizations manage COVID-19 protocols and make informed decisions regarding workplace safety. Overall, Skippet empowers users to address their unique challenges through personalized technology solutions.

Aquifer Motion

Seed Round in 2021
Aquifer Inventions Inc. is a software company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in a SaaS-based augmented reality application designed for three-dimensional animation workflows. Founded in 2017, Aquifer offers its flagship product, Aquifer Motion, which utilizes augmented reality and machine learning to capture facial motions and voice, allowing users to create high-quality, render-ready animations. The platform simplifies the animation process by providing artist-crafted character and story templates, enabling individuals and teams, including game studios, animation studios, and creative agencies, to easily produce cinematic animated content. By focusing on storytelling and removing the technical complexities of animation, Aquifer aims to make professional-grade 3D animation accessible to a broader audience.

Spext

Seed Round in 2021
Spext is a company based in San Mateo, California, specializing in transcription and voice editing software services. It has developed an AI-powered platform that automates the transcription and voice-editing processes by integrating speech and text. This technology allows businesses to efficiently convert recorded audio into useful content, enhancing the speed and ease of voice media creation. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Spext aims to make the production of voice-related content as straightforward as traditional text creation.

Options MD

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Options MD is a telemedicine platform focused on delivering personalized care for individuals experiencing severe and treatment-resistant mental illnesses. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to match patients with innovative depression care options provided by psychiatric experts. By streamlining the referral process to in-house specialists, Options MD enables patients to access appropriate medical care more efficiently, aiming to improve their treatment outcomes.

Mirza

Venture Round in 2021
Mirza operates a FinTech platform focused on providing tax-efficient employer stipends to caregivers. The platform's tools facilitate family financial planning and childcare funding, supporting corporate policies related to parental leave, fertility options, and modern parenting advice. By integrating these services, Mirza aims to help working professionals achieve their financial goals while balancing their caregiving responsibilities.

Short Story

Seed Round in 2021
Short Story, Inc. is an online personal styling service dedicated to petite women, offering a curated selection of clothing that includes tops, jeans, dresses, and more. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company aims to provide a shopping experience tailored specifically to the needs of petite women, ensuring they have access to high-quality, on-trend styles without compromising on fit or quality. By listening to client preferences, Short Story delivers personalized style boxes directly to customers' doors, helping them discover new trends and evolve their personal style. The company seeks to empower its clients by enhancing their shopping experience, allowing them to look and feel fabulous while enjoying more time for their personal interests.

Morty

Seed Round in 2021
Morty is an entertainment application that enhances social experiences by bringing the immersive world of escape rooms to users' fingertips. The app allows individuals to track their escape room adventures, coordinate upcoming games with friends, and easily book new experiences. By providing a platform for discovering and planning engaging activities, Morty aims to unite people through real-life, interactive experiences, thereby enriching their social outings and fostering a sense of community among users. The application positions itself as a tool for users to explore and record their adventures in the realm of experiential entertainment.

Valora

Series A in 2021
Valora is a mobile crypto wallet that aims to simplify the use of cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance for individuals around the world. Its platform is designed for accessibility, allowing users, even those with basic smartphones, to send, save, and spend crypto with the same ease as sending a text message. Valora's application emphasizes user-friendly navigation while ensuring robust cryptographic security and privacy features, enabling secure money transfers across borders with a simple tap. By leveraging blockchain technology, Valora seeks to empower the estimated 6 billion smartphone users globally, making digital currencies practical and usable in everyday transactions.

Candid Wholesale

Seed Round in 2021
Candid Wholesale is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that facilitates the buying, selling, and payment processes for wholesale businesses. The company develops order and inventory management software that offers digital solutions tailored to the needs of wholesale operations. Its tools address gaps in existing software by providing features for inventory management, order processing, sourcing, data management, and invoicing. This comprehensive approach enables brands, showrooms, and retailers to enhance their business decision-making and improve relationships with their customers.

Vertalo

Series A in 2021
Vertalo is a digital transfer platform that facilitates the onboarding of investors and the management of capitalization tables while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. By connecting issuers and investors, Vertalo enables the tokenization of various assets, which can be stored in blockchain wallets and traded in real time according to smart contracts. The platform offers features such as cap table management, portable eligibility for digital assets, and keyless wallets, allowing investors to prepare their securities for trading on any compatible alternative trading system (ATS). Through its collaboration with issuers and a network of broker-dealers, Vertalo plays a significant role in the digital asset economy.

Cheese

Seed Round in 2021
Cheese Financial Inc., located in California, is a fintech company focused on assisting underbanked communities in building credit and improving savings through user-friendly and automated solutions. The company has developed a credit-building financial application that provides digital banking services and debit cards to individuals lacking a credit history or Social Security Number. By offering these services, Cheese empowers users to establish their credit scores and address their personal financial requirements effectively.

Sarna Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Sarna Technologies, a subsidiary of Sarna Holdings, specializes in developing advanced trading technologies and digital trading experiences. It offers brokerage services through its FINRA-licensed subsidiary, Sarna Finance LLC. The company's core product is a sophisticated buying power and risk monitoring engine, designed to provide real-time, intraday, and end-of-day pre-trade buying power and margin calculations for a wide range of securities and complex derivatives. This platform takes into account various inputs such as account type, existing and proposed positions, and balances to output calculations used for pre-trade monitoring and settlement. It caters to broker-dealers, professional traders, clearing firms, and exchanges, enabling them to leverage cutting-edge technology to meet evolving market demands.

West Tenth

Seed Round in 2021
West Tenth operates a digital marketplace designed to support women-led, home-based businesses by connecting them with local customers. Through its user-friendly mobile application, the platform enables users to discover a variety of services and products offered by independent entrepreneurs in their communities, such as home bakers, photographers, organizers, and florists. By promoting these local talents, West Tenth facilitates the growth of small businesses while providing consumers with access to unique, neighborhood-based services. This focus on community engagement helps women entrepreneurs elevate their businesses and reach a broader audience.

LEAD

Seed Round in 2021
LEAD.bot enhances operational efficiency in enterprises using AI, behavior science and Organizational Network Analysis (ONA). Integrating with Slack and Microsoft Teams, it identifies key influencers and experts, provides actionable insights, and promotes effective knowledge sharing. Trusted by over 2000 organizations, LEAD.bot drives performance and optimizes workforce management.

Shoreline Biosciences

Venture Round in 2021
Shoreline Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in La Jolla, California, founded in 2020. The company specializes in developing cell-based immunotherapies aimed at treating seriously ill patients. Shoreline utilizes a proprietary technology platform that focuses on induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) differentiation and the genetic programming of the IL-15/CISH pathway. This approach enhances the metabolic fitness and persistence of engineered natural killer (NK) cells, thereby improving their anti-cancer activity. In addition to NK cells, Shoreline is also advancing the development of iPSC-derived macrophages for oncology and disease-modifying therapies. The company's innovative solutions aim to provide healthcare professionals with effective and cost-efficient treatment options for patients facing serious health challenges.

Vested Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Vested Finance, established in 2018, is a San Francisco-based financial technology company that operates an online investment platform. It facilitates Indian investors' access to the U.S. stock and ETF markets, offering a user-friendly, low-cost, and commission-free platform. Vested Finance enables investors to start with no minimum balance and invest in fractional shares, providing educational resources and tools to aid decision-making. The company also offers curated portfolios tailored to different goals, themes, and risk levels. With offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru, India, Vested Finance aims to empower local Indian investors to participate in global markets securely.

Arnie

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Arnie builds modern 401ks for the modern workforce. They blend the flexibility of a brokerage account with quantitative modeling to optimize performance and minimize risk.

Aquifer Motion

Venture Round in 2020
Aquifer Inventions Inc. is a software company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in a SaaS-based augmented reality application designed for three-dimensional animation workflows. Founded in 2017, Aquifer offers its flagship product, Aquifer Motion, which utilizes augmented reality and machine learning to capture facial motions and voice, allowing users to create high-quality, render-ready animations. The platform simplifies the animation process by providing artist-crafted character and story templates, enabling individuals and teams, including game studios, animation studios, and creative agencies, to easily produce cinematic animated content. By focusing on storytelling and removing the technical complexities of animation, Aquifer aims to make professional-grade 3D animation accessible to a broader audience.

Lance

Seed Round in 2020
Lance, established in 2017 and based in New York, specializes in expense management and tax prediction software tailored for freelancers. Its platform offers integrated services including financing, legal, and taxation assistance, enabling freelancers to centralize invoice tracking, payments, and accounts. Lance's software also streamlines expense organization, maximizes deductions, and facilitates business registration for freelancers.

Verified

Seed Round in 2020
Verified is a developer of a digital identity platform that facilitates the onboarding process for users in the fintech sector. The platform offers a single identity solution that consolidates multiple verifications about an individual into one cohesive identity. This integration allows businesses to streamline user signups by replacing traditional password systems with a more efficient and secure method. By creating a network of verified individuals, Verified enhances the user experience while ensuring robust identity management across different companies, both online and offline.

Repeat

Seed Round in 2020
Repeat, Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that assists consumer-packaged goods (CPG) brands in converting one-time buyers into repeat customers. The platform, integrated with Shopify, enables sellers to personalize the ordering experience by sending customers replenishment reminders based on their purchase history and usage patterns. By utilizing analytics, Repeat helps sellers understand order continuity, allowing them to optimize their inventory and customer engagement strategies. The company, which was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Venice, California, was previously known as UNDR, Inc. before rebranding in January 2020. Repeat's technology streamlines the reordering process, making it easier for customers to manage, track, and replenish their everyday goods from a single interface.

Cheese

Venture Round in 2020
Cheese Financial Inc., located in California, is a fintech company focused on assisting underbanked communities in building credit and improving savings through user-friendly and automated solutions. The company has developed a credit-building financial application that provides digital banking services and debit cards to individuals lacking a credit history or Social Security Number. By offering these services, Cheese empowers users to establish their credit scores and address their personal financial requirements effectively.

Vertalo

Series A in 2019
Vertalo is a digital transfer platform that facilitates the onboarding of investors and the management of capitalization tables while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. By connecting issuers and investors, Vertalo enables the tokenization of various assets, which can be stored in blockchain wallets and traded in real time according to smart contracts. The platform offers features such as cap table management, portable eligibility for digital assets, and keyless wallets, allowing investors to prepare their securities for trading on any compatible alternative trading system (ATS). Through its collaboration with issuers and a network of broker-dealers, Vertalo plays a significant role in the digital asset economy.
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