Windforce Ventures

Windforce Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage social media and mobile technology investments. Headquartered in NYC, the firm is led by investment professionals and media technology entrepreneurs. We identify exceptional entrepreneurs with disruptive technologies and provide them with capital and guidance to help them build thriving companies.

Montoya, Mario

Co Managing Partner

Sullivan, Brian

Partner

16 past transactions

Kisi Security

Seed Round in 2015
Headquartered in New York City, KISI is a unified access control system -- SaaS and IT connected hardware that powers end user access to buildings and offices. Benefits include the extension of cyber security features to physical space, easy door compliance, end-to-end security and scale-ability.

Navdy

Seed Round in 2014
The creator of the world’s first device for your car to let you Look Forward© while Staying Connected©, Navdy’s mission is to reinvent the driving experience. At Navdy, we set out to solve a complex problem with a beautifully simple solution. To create the type of product you get and immediately forget how you ever lived without it. We believe you should be able to do all the things you do everyday simply and easily from the driver’s seat. So we set out to make driving something you Look Forward© to again. Navdy is more than a piece of hardware and more than an app—it’s an experience, and one we hope you enjoy every time you get behind the wheel. To learn more, visit www.navdy.com.

SocialChorus

Series B in 2014
Agility is the greatest advantage in the modern marketplace. Enterprises that can’t adapt quickly can’t win. So we’ve made it our mission to help companies act proactively and react rapidly to achieve their business goals. The SocialChorus FirstUp platform is the communications backbone of the enterprise, enabling organizations to reach every employee–from the front line to the C-suite—with targeted information at the right time, in the right place and in the right language. At the same time, it unifies the digital workplace, giving workers personalized access to all the systems, resources and applications they need to do their jobs. Employees get a simplified workflow that helps them be more productive, while companies get enterprise-wide analytics and valuable intelligence on their workforce. That’s why the world’s largest employers, like Amazon, Ford and ABInBev, choose SocialChorus to move their business forward.

Canvs AI

Venture Round in 2014
Canvs is an insights platform that transforms open-ended text from surveys, social media, transcripts, and product reviews.

BetterCompany

Seed Round in 2014
At BetterCompany, it is our mission to help companies connect with best candidates at the best time, when they're looking! We use a blend of art and science to match candidates to roles and companies and we understand that timing is everything.

Sightly

Seed Round in 2014
Sightly is the leader in real-time marketing and intelligence, as driven by each brand's unique perspective, positions and sentiments. Its revolutionary Brand Mentality™ platform combines speed with values, so companies can respond instantly and authentically to breaking news and emerging media moments without sacrificing ROI. Brands and agencies can use our platform independently or integrate with our smart, agile approach to media planning, buying and fine-tuning, which extends across YouTube, TikTok, CTV & OTT, Live Streaming video, Snap, Twitter, Meta, Pinterest and all premium publishers and networks.

Freak'n Genius

Seed Round in 2014
Problem: No way exists to track analytics for physical books, games, and toys beyond the point of sale. Solution: We're building Campfire, an Ecommerce platform for immersive audio/visual experiences around physical products.

Food Genius

Series A in 2013
Food Genius is a leading foodservice data provider specializing in gathering, preparing, and serving granular foodservice menu data and analytics. We support foodservice manufacturers, operators, and distributors with straightforward and digestible reports, services, and analytics. Our products are used to answer many complex foodservice business questions. From competitive price tracking for optimization to statistical analysis of current burger toppings for the development new offerings, Food Genius has smarter data and analytics. Food Genius serves nationally recognized companies and brands, including Kraft, Coca-Cola, Arby’s, and US Foods. As an industry leader in foodservice data and analytics, Food Genius is on a mission to provide foodservice manufacturers, operators, and distributors with the data analytics they need to make smarter, more informed decisions.

Lettuce

Seed Round in 2013
Lettuce is a simple order management system with a mobile sales app enabling your business to capture, track, and process orders anywhere in real time. We primarily focus on small and medium sized businesses.

Reactor Labs

Seed Round in 2013
Reactor Inc. (acquired in 2014) was a Boulder-based artificial intelligence company that developed preemptive search, knowledge graph and natural language interface solutions. Its mission was to empower human curiosity by designing a better relationship between people and information. Its patent-pending graph technology was a first-of-its-kind semantic search solution that leveraged billions of semantic relationships, social posts, news stories, and 3rd-party services to create a personal, contextualized information experience. Reactor Inc.’s direct-to-consumer product is Winston for iPhone, a heartwarming, speech-enabled conversational assistant that transforms and summarizes its users’ social feeds and news interests into a first-of-its-kind conversational information experience. Reactor Inc. was founded by Aaron Ting, Jarod Stewart, Luke Evans and Steve Kaschinske in Boulder, CO.

Nexgate

Series A in 2013
We are group of highly experienced technology, market, and business professionals who believe the Social Web is a critical evolution of the Web as a communication and interaction channel for businesses. We bring multiple decades of expertise in delivering enterprise class solutions in digital media, Web infrastructure, SaaS, and security. We are funded and committed to delivering Enterprise Social Brand Protection and Compliance solutions. Our intent is to allow organizations to more safely utilize their new Social Web infrastructure to capture the opportunity and avoid the risks it presents. Nexgate delivers an intuitive way to find and understand your organization's social presence while matching and valuing it against its actual network of contacts, stakeholders, and influencers. This includes a complete security and compliance system, key aspects of content management and publishing, social account management, actionable and meaningful metrics, and the ability to leverage other key investments and enterprise infrastructure. Beyond these key capabilities, Nexgate allows your organization to mobilize your actual network on the Social Web and convert them into a mobilized and productive network of social advocates and topline business drivers.

Reactor Labs

Seed Round in 2013
Reactor Inc. (acquired in 2014) was a Boulder-based artificial intelligence company that developed preemptive search, knowledge graph and natural language interface solutions. Its mission was to empower human curiosity by designing a better relationship between people and information. Its patent-pending graph technology was a first-of-its-kind semantic search solution that leveraged billions of semantic relationships, social posts, news stories, and 3rd-party services to create a personal, contextualized information experience. Reactor Inc.’s direct-to-consumer product is Winston for iPhone, a heartwarming, speech-enabled conversational assistant that transforms and summarizes its users’ social feeds and news interests into a first-of-its-kind conversational information experience. Reactor Inc. was founded by Aaron Ting, Jarod Stewart, Luke Evans and Steve Kaschinske in Boulder, CO.

Kloudless

Angel Round in 2013
Kloudless abstracts away the differences between APIs without compromising functionality, creating a simple, unified interface for developers to build native integrations into their applications. Code once to our Unified APIs, and reuse that code for any service in that category. We support 100+ integrations across software categories like Cloud Storage, CRM, Calendar, Email, Chat, Accounting, ERP, Messaging, ITSM, and more. Our platform technology can quickly ingest new APIs and add support for new integrations, which makes Kloudless a great long-term partner for satisfying future product requirements and customer requests.

Food Genius

Series A in 2012
Food Genius is a leading foodservice data provider specializing in gathering, preparing, and serving granular foodservice menu data and analytics. We support foodservice manufacturers, operators, and distributors with straightforward and digestible reports, services, and analytics. Our products are used to answer many complex foodservice business questions. From competitive price tracking for optimization to statistical analysis of current burger toppings for the development new offerings, Food Genius has smarter data and analytics. Food Genius serves nationally recognized companies and brands, including Kraft, Coca-Cola, Arby’s, and US Foods. As an industry leader in foodservice data and analytics, Food Genius is on a mission to provide foodservice manufacturers, operators, and distributors with the data analytics they need to make smarter, more informed decisions.

Nexgate

Seed Round in 2012
We are group of highly experienced technology, market, and business professionals who believe the Social Web is a critical evolution of the Web as a communication and interaction channel for businesses. We bring multiple decades of expertise in delivering enterprise class solutions in digital media, Web infrastructure, SaaS, and security. We are funded and committed to delivering Enterprise Social Brand Protection and Compliance solutions. Our intent is to allow organizations to more safely utilize their new Social Web infrastructure to capture the opportunity and avoid the risks it presents. Nexgate delivers an intuitive way to find and understand your organization's social presence while matching and valuing it against its actual network of contacts, stakeholders, and influencers. This includes a complete security and compliance system, key aspects of content management and publishing, social account management, actionable and meaningful metrics, and the ability to leverage other key investments and enterprise infrastructure. Beyond these key capabilities, Nexgate allows your organization to mobilize your actual network on the Social Web and convert them into a mobilized and productive network of social advocates and topline business drivers.

SocialChorus

Series A in 2009
Agility is the greatest advantage in the modern marketplace. Enterprises that can’t adapt quickly can’t win. So we’ve made it our mission to help companies act proactively and react rapidly to achieve their business goals. The SocialChorus FirstUp platform is the communications backbone of the enterprise, enabling organizations to reach every employee–from the front line to the C-suite—with targeted information at the right time, in the right place and in the right language. At the same time, it unifies the digital workplace, giving workers personalized access to all the systems, resources and applications they need to do their jobs. Employees get a simplified workflow that helps them be more productive, while companies get enterprise-wide analytics and valuable intelligence on their workforce. That’s why the world’s largest employers, like Amazon, Ford and ABInBev, choose SocialChorus to move their business forward.
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