XFactor Ventures

Founded in New York in 2017, XFactor Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder. The firm prefers minority stakes and invests across various sectors including deep tech, B2B, SaaS, digital health, fintech, consumer tech, direct-to-consumer, and e-commerce.

Natalya Bailey

Investor

Amanda Bradford

Investor

Ooshma Garg

Investor

Charles Hazard Jr.

Co-Founder and Investment Partner

Jilliene Helman

Investor

Allison Kopf

Investor

Joanna McFarland

Investor

Danielle Morrill

Venture Partner

Amy Nelson

Investor

Aubrie Pagano

Investor

Jules Pieri

Investor

Katherine Ryder

Investment Partner

Nicole Sanchez

Investment Partner

Trina Spear

Investor

Elizabeth Whitman

Investment Partner

85 past transactions

PlantBaby

Seed Round in 2025
PlantBaby is a company dedicated to providing plant-based food and beverages for families, focusing on nutrition from birth to adulthood. Their product line is designed to nourish and empower future generations, ensuring access to wholesome, real food. PlantBaby offers a kid-friendly portfolio that includes healthy, dairy-free options that are free from gluten, refined sugar, GMOs, preservatives, and artificial flavors. Their offerings are scientifically backed and medically approved, allowing children to enjoy delicious and nutritious alternatives to traditional milk.

Vidoc Security Lab

Seed Round in 2024
Vidoc Security Lab is a developer of an artificial intelligence security engineer platform designed to address the challenges posed by AI-generated code. The company focuses on automating routine security operations, providing a comprehensive suite of services that includes monitoring and managing attack surfaces, conducting custom security checks, and generating detailed security reports. This platform enables businesses to streamline their security review processes and reinforces their commitment to maintaining secure practices in an evolving digital landscape. By leveraging advanced AI technologies, Vidoc Security Lab aims to enhance the effectiveness of cybersecurity efforts in response to emerging threats.

Buildstock

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace and fintech software company that connects buyers of construction materials directly with suppliers, specifically targeting the high-rise and industrial markets. The company offers a platform that enhances procurement processes by providing access to real-time lending options for material purchases and factoring services for purchase orders. This approach aims to improve material costs, streamline lead times, and enhance data accuracy, ultimately benefiting cash flow management for its clients. By facilitating direct connections between developers and suppliers, Buildstock enables significant savings and efficiency for large-scale construction projects, ensuring that customers can effectively manage their procurement needs.

Morf Health

Seed Round in 2023
Morf Health streamlines healthcare technology integration by collecting, structuring, and securely transmitting patient data between tools used for care delivery and business operations. This enables healthcare providers to efficiently manage patient intake data and send it to electronic health records.

Pow.bio

Series A in 2023
Pow.bio is a fermentation technology company that offers intelligent, AI-enabled fermentation solutions for industrial and synthetic biology. Its approach combines continuous fermentation with real-time process control to quickly optimize bioprocesses and achieve high yields at lower costs. The company supports scales from small laboratory setups to about 100 liters, handling bacteria, yeast, and filamentous fungi, and supplies bioreactor-agnostic hardware to fit diverse production lines. By replacing traditional fed-batch methods with AI-driven control, Pow.bio enables biotech, food, and industrial producers to reduce production costs, shorten development timelines, and scale sustainable bio-based products.

Blind Insights

Funding Round in 2023
Blind Insights is a technology company that specializes in data privacy and security. It offers a platform that enables organizations to extract valuable insights from sensitive data without compromising privacy or security. The platform operates by preserving the content of data, allowing it to be used for social good, business intelligence, and profit generation, all while maintaining compliance and security standards. This allows businesses to enhance their products and services without infringing on user privacy.

Hyfé

Seed Round in 2023
Hyfé is a feedstock processing company focused on transforming food waste into valuable chemicals and materials, thereby promoting sustainability in various industries. By utilizing fungal fermentation, Hyfé upcycles waste generated during food manufacturing, enabling the production of cost-competitive essential goods. This innovative approach not only maximizes profits for food manufacturers but also contributes to reducing the carbon footprint of the food industry. Through its commitment to creating sustainable chemicals, materials, fuels, and foods, Hyfé aims to unlock the full value of every crop while providing alternatives to petroleum-based products.

EMTECH

Seed Round in 2022
EMTECH is a fintech company that modernizes central banking infrastructure. It offers an API-First Platform connecting central banks with fintechs for embedded regulatory compliance and central bank digital currency, enabling financial inclusion and market resilience.

itselectric

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Itselectric specializes in providing curbside electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions tailored for urban environments, aiming to facilitate the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. The company addresses infrastructure challenges by offering affordable public charging services that enhance access to charging stations. Utilizing a behind-the-meter approach, Itselectric draws excess electrical supply from nearby buildings, allowing property owners to benefit financially while contributing to a cleaner environment. By increasing the availability of EV charging points, Itselectric supports the transition to electric vehicles, promoting healthier communities with improved air quality.

EMTECH

Seed Round in 2022
EMTECH is a fintech company that modernizes central banking infrastructure. It offers an API-First Platform connecting central banks with fintechs for embedded regulatory compliance and central bank digital currency, enabling financial inclusion and market resilience.

Pod Foods

Series A in 2021
Pod Foods is a logistics and technology-enabled B2B marketplace that connects brands directly with retailers to streamline food distribution. The company develops software that enables local retailers and suppliers to access products across categories such as fruits and vegetables, beverages, snacks and branded foods. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, Pod Foods offers national and marketplace-based distribution models, integrated logistics, real-time analytics, and support for financing and co-manufacturing, helping food distributors manage operations efficiently and scale with transparency.

Shiru

Series A in 2021
Shiru, Inc. is a food technology company based in Oakland, California, established in 2019. It specializes in the development and production of proteins aimed at replacing dairy products and eggs within the food industry. Utilizing artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and precision biology, Shiru focuses on the discovery and creation of novel, sustainable protein ingredients. By leveraging computational design, the company aims to provide enhanced protein solutions that support environmentally friendly practices while meeting consumer demands. Shiru's innovative approach positions it at the forefront of efforts to create sustainable and healthier food options.

Xata.io

Seed Round in 2021
Xata provides a serverless database platform that combines the capabilities of traditional databases with the user-friendly interface of a spreadsheet application. This service is designed to seamlessly integrate into users' development workflows, facilitating tasks such as data insertion, querying, aggregation, and searching across various development environments, including JavaScript and APIs. Xata's architecture ensures that data is automatically replicated in multiple global regions, which enhances performance by minimizing response times for end users.

Diem

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Diem is building a social search engine. It’s a dedicated place for people to search, collect, discover and share information, inspired by the way women have been passing knowledge to each other for centuries. Think of it like the best and biggest group chat you’ve ever been a part of, where all the important, silly, quick, private, and frenetic knowledge you share is organized and stored for everyone to benefit from. Diem incentivizes the community to generate content and harnesses this data to build proprietary search algorithms that will enable people to discover, and visualize, the collective knowledge of entire communities in just a few seconds. Diem was co-founded by Emma Bates & Divia Singh in 2020.

Starday Foods

Seed Round in 2021
Starday Foods is a company specializing in healthy and sustainable food products.

Arrange

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Arrange is a consumer platform designed to enhance calendar usage by transforming inspiration into actionable tasks. It offers a catalog of to-dos and reminders that users can browse, subscribe to, and easily integrate into their calendars. The platform aims to revolutionize reminder management by automating the scheduling of these tasks, ensuring users receive timely notifications for completing their activities. Through its user-friendly approach, Arrange facilitates efficient personal task management, helping individuals stay organized and focused on their goals.

August

Pre Seed Round in 2021
August is a lifestyle period brand dedicated to reimagining periods to be powerful.

Elektra Health

Seed Round in 2021
Elektra Health is a digital health platform focused on perimenopause and menopause. It addresses gaps in care by offering education, community, and access to medical expertise, helping women navigate hormonal changes with reduced stigma. The service provides telemedicine with clinicians, an evidence-based educational program, and a private community to support informed decision-making and ongoing management of menopause symptoms. By combining information, clinical care, and peer support, Elektra Health aims to empower women to maintain wellbeing as they transition through perimenopause and menopause.

Tiny Organics

Series A in 2021
Tiny Organics is a New York‑based company that creates 100% organic, nutrient‑rich baby and toddler meals. Using a digital platform, parents complete a quiz to receive personalized meal recommendations, which are then delivered directly to their door. The company’s menu features a wide variety of flavors, each formulated by neonatal nutritionists and Michelin‑starred chefs to support developmental milestones while limiting added sugars and salt. Products are prepared with plant‑based ingredients and contain no more than five grams of natural sugar per serving. Tiny Organics has been highlighted in national media and supported by prominent investors.

Park Place Payments

Seed Round in 2021
Park Place Payments, LLC is a fintech company based in Woodland Hills, California, that specializes in providing comprehensive payment processing solutions for businesses. Founded in 2019, the company offers a range of services, including countertop terminals, mobile payment systems, e-commerce shopping carts, payment gateways, and retail and restaurant POS systems. Park Place Payments distinguishes itself with a professional sales force and an in-house service team that evaluates clients' current processing rates and technologies in a matter of minutes, identifying hidden fees and service issues. The company's innovative platform integrates with Salesforce applications, allowing users to manage payment processing and workforce-related tasks seamlessly in real-time. Through its solutions, Park Place Payments aims to transform how businesses engage with their payment processing needs.

Raise

Seed Round in 2021
Raise streamlines fundraising processes for startups, founders, investors, and law firms via its digital platform. It automates cap tables, securely stores legal documents, aids in data-driven fundraising decisions, and facilitates collaboration with potential investors.

Venus Aerospace

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2020, Venus Aerospace is a startup focused on engineering the future of hypersonic flight. The company specializes in developing rotating detonation rocket engines (RDRE) and high-speed vehicles for research, defense, and commercial missions, aiming to provide fast transportation with improved range and performance at a cost-effective rate.

Nalu Bio

Seed Round in 2021
Nalu Bio is a biotechnology company specializing in the chemical synthesis of cannabinoids (CBD), aiming to provide pure, safe ingredients that are environmentally sustainable. Unlike traditional plant-based methods, Nalu Bio's approach uses significantly less land, water, and energy, while maintaining high purity standards (0% THC) without relying on chemicals or pesticides.

Altrixbio

Seed Round in 2021
Altrixbio develops therapeutic drugs designed for controlled gastrointestinal targeting. Its flagship product, LuCI™, is an oral drug that mimics the effects of gastric bypass surgery in Type 2 diabetes patients by providing duodenal isolation and restricting fat and glucose absorption.

AllSpice.io

Seed Round in 2021
AllSpice.io is a Boston-based company founded in 2019 that offers a product design management platform for hardware developers. The platform integrates with native hardware engineering tools to provide revision control, a central collaboration hub, and design analytics. By applying software development principles to hardware, it helps engineers automate their development process and collaborate more efficiently.

Lantern

Seed Round in 2020
Lantern is a public benefit corporation that provides personalized, free roadmaps for navigating life before and after a death. It offers tools, resources, and services to help individuals manage the process of end-of-life planning or coping with loss.

Ceremonia

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Ceremonia is a modern haircare brand celebrating Latin heritage. It offers natural, sustainable products designed to nourish the scalp, combat frizz, promote hair growth, and enhance shine.

Kama

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in London in 2017, Kama is a wellness platform dedicated to enhancing love, sex, and intimacy experiences. It promotes body positivity and prioritizes pleasure, catering to diverse backgrounds, preferences, ages, and genders. The company employs a holistic approach combining scientific methods with ancient wisdom.

EMTECH

Seed Round in 2020
EMTECH is a fintech company that modernizes central banking infrastructure. It offers an API-First Platform connecting central banks with fintechs for embedded regulatory compliance and central bank digital currency, enabling financial inclusion and market resilience.

Hugh & Grace

Seed Round in 2020
Hugh & Grace is a pioneering brand dedicated to reducing chemical exposure through its thoughtfully designed self-care products. The company formulates products free from Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs), using high-quality, clean ingredients to promote skin immunity and beauty naturally.

Foodology

Convertible Note in 2020
Foodology operates delivery-focused digital restaurant brands across Latin America, specializing in scaling these brands via cloud kitchen networks. With over 80 kitchens in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru, the company leverages technology and infrastructure to streamline food processing, enabling brands to rapidly iterate concepts without substantial setup costs.

Lex

Seed Round in 2020
Lex is a mobile application that facilitates meaningful connections through text-based social networking. It caters specifically to women, transgender, non-binary, and genderqueer individuals seeking romantic partners or friendships.

Attn: Grace

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Attn: Grace, Inc. is a company dedicated to manufacturing and selling wellness products specifically for women's hygiene, focusing on urinary incontinence care. Established in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company offers a range of products, including pads, briefs, liners, and wipes. Attn: Grace distinguishes itself by utilizing innovative, plant-based materials derived from sugarcane waste, ensuring that its products are both effective and skin-safe. The company is committed to addressing the stigma surrounding urinary incontinence, providing reliable information and support for women facing this condition. By combining cutting-edge technology with an emphasis on health and wellbeing, Attn: Grace aims to deliver high-performance hygiene solutions that cater to the needs of women experiencing bladder leakage.

Nextmv

Seed Round in 2020
Nextmv provides a DecisionOps platform that supports deployment, testing, collaboration, and management of decision models for optimization AI teams. The platform enables developers to build scalable, custom decision services with API endpoints and to integrate with popular solvers and modeling tools.

Alloy Enterprises

Seed Round in 2020
Alloy Enterprises is a Somerville, Massachusetts-based developer of 3D printing technologies and industrial-engineered products aimed at reducing inefficiencies in conventional manufacturing. The company has developed an aluminum additive technology that enables dense, low-cost parts without relying on expensive or hazardous powders, addressing limitations in traditional methods and supporting advances in lightweight components and emissions reduction.

AllVoices

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2017, AllVoices designs and develops an anonymous reporting platform that enables employees to safely report harassment, bias, and cultural issues directly to company leadership. Its platform aggregates data to provide insights into the true scale of these problems, helping companies identify trends early and improve workplace culture.

The Inside

Seed Round in 2020
The Inside is a home furnishings brand that specializes in offering a diverse range of products suitable for various styles and budgets. The company provides an extensive selection of items for bedrooms, living rooms, dining areas, outdoor spaces, and offices, including beds, chairs, lighting, wallpaper, benches, desk chairs, and room dividers. Additionally, The Inside offers online interior design services, allowing customers to personalize their selections with a variety of iconic fabric choices. The company is committed to a sustainable supply chain, utilizing digital printing and made-to-order manufacturing to deliver affordable, customized furnishings.

Day Made

Seed Round in 2020
Day Made is a technology company streamlining the wedding planning process. Its platform connects engaged couples with top venues and vendors, offering instant booking, transparent pricing, and innovative financing options.

Goss

Seed Round in 2020
Goss is a developer of a social gaming platform that allows users to place bets on events and items based on their personal preferences. The company's application is designed for both web and mobile environments, providing a user-friendly experience primarily targeted at women interested in wagering on social and fashion events. By fostering a fun and interactive setting, Goss aims to engage users in a unique social gaming experience that combines betting with their interests.

Forerunner

Seed Round in 2020
Forerunner is a developer of a floodplain management platform that assists communities in addressing the impacts of severe weather and adapting to future climate conditions. The company provides comprehensive tools and data, including firm maps, parcel information, elevation certificate data, and geospatial information, to give a detailed understanding of flood risk at the property level. Its platform also includes features for tracking substantial improvements and damages, allowing government agencies to more effectively manage floodplain compliance and outreach efforts. By equipping communities with actionable insights, Forerunner aims to enhance preparedness and resilience against climate change risks.

Tastemakers Africa

Seed Round in 2020
Tastemakers Africa is a New York City-based travel experiences marketplace that connects travelers with creative entrepreneurs in African cities. Launched in November 2018, the platform currently operates in Accra, Cape Town, and Johannesburg, offering unique experiences that allow visitors to engage deeply with local culture beyond typical tourist attractions. With a focus on enhancing the travel experience, Tastemakers Africa has successfully facilitated over 2,000 bookings for more than 400 travelers, enabling them to discover authentic activities and insights from local insiders.

Balloon

Seed Round in 2019
Balloon removes bias from group work and decision-making - across teams, both internal and external. Its platform levels the playing field and makes it possible to anonymously surface and prioritize information, feedback, and insights that companies can't get any other way.

Give InKind

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Give InKind operates a social platform that connects users to products and services they wish to give or receive during challenging times. Its platform enables users to create personalized pages, customize wish lists and calendars, share details with friends and family, and coordinate support efficiently. Give InKind was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tacoma, Washington.

DEV

Series A in 2019
Dev Community Inc. is a platform designed for software developers to collaborate and engage in networked learning. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the company provides an open-source application that allows users to examine and contribute to the code. The platform fosters a community where developers can support one another, facilitating knowledge sharing and collaboration within the software industry. Additionally, Dev is focused on enabling the creation of similar communities across various niches and interests, promoting a culture of collective learning and contribution.

Our Place

Venture Round in 2019
Our Place is a company focused on enhancing the experience of home cooking by designing cookware and dinnerware that simplify meal preparation. Their product line includes frying pans, side bowls, drinking glasses, and main plates, all inspired by contemporary multi-ethnic kitchen traditions. The company aims to foster connections among people through shared meals, celebrating diverse cultures and honoring culinary traditions. By creating functional and aesthetically pleasing kitchenware, Our Place encourages the joy of cooking and dining together, making family dinners a more enjoyable experience.

Shiru

Seed Round in 2019
Shiru, Inc. is a food technology company based in Oakland, California, established in 2019. It specializes in the development and production of proteins aimed at replacing dairy products and eggs within the food industry. Utilizing artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and precision biology, Shiru focuses on the discovery and creation of novel, sustainable protein ingredients. By leveraging computational design, the company aims to provide enhanced protein solutions that support environmentally friendly practices while meeting consumer demands. Shiru's innovative approach positions it at the forefront of efforts to create sustainable and healthier food options.

KangarooHealth

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2015, KangarooHealth develops AI-powered software for post-surgery recovery care. Its platform tracks patient movements remotely, provides real-time feedback, collects objective measurements, and reports performance to providers, enhancing care accountability and improving recovery outcomes.

Zubale

Seed Round in 2019
Zubale is a technology-driven company that serves as critical infrastructure for retailers in the e-commerce sector. It operates a marketplace that connects retailers with gig workers, facilitating efficient back-end operations and enhancing service quality through improved fill rates and timely deliveries. By leveraging a platform that allows businesses to crowdsource various digital tasks, Zubale enables independent workers to complete assignments and earn rewards. The company has achieved remarkable growth, completing over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores in Mexico, Colombia, and Costa Rica, with plans to expand further across Latin America. Co-founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy bring extensive retail experience from their backgrounds at Walmart and Procter & Gamble, enhancing Zubale's capabilities in the region.

Aliro Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
Aliro Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform designed for coding within quantum environments. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company provides a hardware-independent toolkit aimed at developers of quantum algorithms and applications for quantum computers. Known as AliroNet™, this platform facilitates the emulation, piloting, and deployment of entanglement-based quantum networks, which can support a wide range of applications from secure communications to clustered quantum computing and distributed quantum sensing. With a foundation rooted in research from Harvard University, Aliro Technologies comprises experts in both quantum and classical networking, positioning itself as a leader in quantum network development. Its user base spans utility companies, telecommunications providers, public sector organizations, enterprises, and researchers engaged in building the first entanglement-based quantum networks. The company also collaborates with industry and academic partners through various consortiums and is actively involved in quantum networking standards groups.

Live Tinted

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2018, Live Tinted is a digital community based in Los Angeles, California. It aims to represent and include all shades of skin tones in the beauty industry, addressing the gaps felt by many despite progress made towards diversity. The company offers personalized beauty products that can be used as color correctors, eyeshadows, blushes, or lipsticks, catering to individual needs and promoting authentic representation.

Pod Foods

Seed Round in 2019
Pod Foods is a logistics and technology-enabled B2B marketplace that connects brands directly with retailers to streamline food distribution. The company develops software that enables local retailers and suppliers to access products across categories such as fruits and vegetables, beverages, snacks and branded foods. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, Pod Foods offers national and marketplace-based distribution models, integrated logistics, real-time analytics, and support for financing and co-manufacturing, helping food distributors manage operations efficiently and scale with transparency.

Mixlab

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2017, Mixlab specializes in veterinary pharmacy services. It offers customized medication ingredients, strengths, forms, and flavors for pets, ensuring pet owners have access to tailored medicines based on their pets' needs.

Advekit

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2017, Advekit operates an online platform that connects patients with mental health professionals. It uses user preferences, zip code, and insurance information to facilitate matches. The platform improves access to quality treatment, simplifies payment using insurance benefits, and offers a sliding-scale fee structure based on users' ability to pay.

Leo

Seed Round in 2019
Leo, formerly known as Surreal, is an augmented reality app that allows people to experience advanced augmented reality through realistic animated and 3D objects. The phone camera becomes a portal and tool that allows anyone to augment their world through Surreal. People can customize any surrounding environment into their wildest dreams: expressing themselves in a new mixed reality space, as well as sharing with family, friends and other social outlets. Surreal has hundreds of realistic animated 3D objects. In addition to that, Surreal has special effects like money falling, balloons flying or a rain of roses. People can customize the real world how they want, and whenever they want.

Steward

Seed Round in 2019
Steward is a plant guidance platform that assists users in nurturing their plants effectively. The company offers an application that analyzes a home’s unique environment to recommend suitable plants. Additionally, the app provides tailored reminders for watering and caring for the plants, helping users maintain optimal conditions for growth. This personalized approach enables plant enthusiasts to receive specific guidance, enhancing their ability to care for their plants successfully.

LawChamps

Pre Seed Round in 2018
LawChamps is a platform that connects consumers with local independent attorneys for on-demand, à la carte legal services at fixed rates.

BrainCheck

Seed Round in 2018
BrainCheck, Inc. is a Houston-based company that specializes in cognitive health solutions for healthcare and athletic organizations across the United States. Established in 2013, BrainCheck offers a comprehensive application designed to assist individuals in making informed decisions regarding their cognitive health. This application includes a screening tool and interactive tests that can be accessed on mobile devices or browsers, allowing users to evaluate their brain health and receive immediate results. The platform facilitates connections between patients and care teams, particularly in the concussion and dementia markets, enabling clinicians to monitor significant changes in cognitive health and share results efficiently.

Atomos Space

Convertible Note in 2018
Atomos Space is an aerospace company developing orbital transfer vehicles and space propulsion technologies, including space nuclear options, to enable flexible and cost-efficient access to space. The company's systems are designed to provide maneuverability and a sustainable orbital environment, allowing satellite operators to reach diverse orbits and destinations without relying on heavy, costly propulsion. By simplifying access to space and reducing propulsion burdens, Atomos Space seeks to lower operating costs and expand the range of viable mission profiles for payloads in orbit.

Chief

Seed Round in 2018
Chief is a private membership network founded in 2019 by Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan that connects senior women executives across the United States. It describes itself as the largest community of senior women leaders, with representation from more than 10,000 organizations and 77% of Fortune 100 companies; more than 40% of members hold C-suite roles. Membership offers executive coaching in one-on-one or small-group formats, including Core peer groups and individualized coaching, plus year-round programming such as roundtables, conferences, and editorial content. The network provides a built-in community through physical clubhouses in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., with partnerships with Industrious and Soho House for members outside clubhouse cities. Chief also runs a grant program to reduce financial barriers for executives facing identity-based inequity and nonprofit sector employees, having provided nearly $10 million in grants since inception. It has been recognized by TIME and Fast Company for influence and innovation.

Re:Store

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Re:Store is a co-working and retail space located in San Francisco, California, designed for popular online brands and independent designers. The company provides a shared storefront where small brands can pay a monthly fee to showcase and sell their products. In addition to retail space, Re:Store offers inventory services and co-working facilities, facilitating a collaborative environment for brands to engage with customers. Operating as a subsidiary of b8ta, Inc., Re:Store focuses on creating a unique retail experience that emphasizes interaction between makers and consumers, reflecting the evolving landscape of retail.

SnappyScreen

Seed Round in 2018
SnappyScreen, Inc. is a company that specializes in touchless sunscreen application systems, providing an innovative solution for sunscreen application. Founded in 2008 and based in Locust Valley, New York, SnappyScreen's devices dispense a fine mist of sunscreen, ensuring complete coverage for users. Designed to be weatherproof, these systems are capable of operating in extreme climates, making them suitable for diverse environments, from deserts to tropical locations. Additionally, SnappyScreen incorporates a data-tracking system that enables owners to monitor usage in real time, offering valuable analytics about customer engagement and preferences. The company's products are distributed through various channels, allowing for broader accessibility to their unique sunscreen application technology.

Live Tinted

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2018, Live Tinted is a digital community based in Los Angeles, California. It aims to represent and include all shades of skin tones in the beauty industry, addressing the gaps felt by many despite progress made towards diversity. The company offers personalized beauty products that can be used as color correctors, eyeshadows, blushes, or lipsticks, catering to individual needs and promoting authentic representation.

Zubale

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Zubale is a technology-driven company that serves as critical infrastructure for retailers in the e-commerce sector. It operates a marketplace that connects retailers with gig workers, facilitating efficient back-end operations and enhancing service quality through improved fill rates and timely deliveries. By leveraging a platform that allows businesses to crowdsource various digital tasks, Zubale enables independent workers to complete assignments and earn rewards. The company has achieved remarkable growth, completing over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores in Mexico, Colombia, and Costa Rica, with plans to expand further across Latin America. Co-founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy bring extensive retail experience from their backgrounds at Walmart and Procter & Gamble, enhancing Zubale's capabilities in the region.

Athena Security

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Athena Security is a security technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas, that develops AI-powered threat detection and crowd-entry solutions. The company offers a weapons detection system that screens people and their bags for concealed firearms and other metal threats, providing real-time alerts to authorities. Its platform includes a visitor management system that streamlines check-in and performs background checks, integrating with existing systems such as electronic health records or hospital Epic to strengthen site security. Athena's solutions are designed for entryways across healthcare, education, casinos, retail, and other public spaces, enabling faster screening and safer environments. The technology combines cloud-enabled cameras, rapid scanning, and contactless screening with video management and analytics to identify threats and support incident response. Headquartered in Austin with additional offices in San Francisco and an Experience Center in Jacksonville, Athena Security focuses on creating proactive, AI-driven protection for patients, students, staff, customers, and visitors.

One Step Software

Seed Round in 2018
One Step Software Inc. is a technology company based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in software solutions for the behavioral health sector. Founded in 2017, the company focuses on providing tools that assist house managers in effectively managing sober living environments. Through its innovative software, One Step aims to streamline operations and enhance the overall management of sober living facilities, addressing the unique needs of the behavioral health community. The company's commitment to improving the efficiency of sober living management positions it as a fast-growing player in this niche market.

Choosy

Seed Round in 2018
Choosy is an on-demand social shopping platform where users influence every collection to match their favorite style inspirations. Through social tagging and a team of Style Scouts, Choosy identifies and manufactures trend-driven fashion delivered to shoppers in as little as two weeks. It’s the modern-day equivalent of the ultimate window-shopping experience, creating a new generation of social commerce. All looks are designed and produced in-house, so women sizes 0-20 can get today’s most covetable looks without the ticket price of labels. You see it, you like it, we make it - it’s time to #GetChoosy with your wardrobe.

Censia

Seed Round in 2018
Censia is a talent intelligence company that provides an AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform to transform recruitment and workforce planning. The platform analyzes skills data and enables candidate modeling, intelligent passive sourcing, instant candidate comparisons, ranking, talent landscapes, internal mobility matching, and optimized talent decisions. By contextualizing large data points, it helps HR teams scale quickly, improve operational excellence, and reduce time and cost in hiring. Founded in 2017, Censia is based in San Francisco with an office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

RoadSync

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2015, RoadSync specializes in developing an online payment platform tailored for various industries within the logistics sector. Its platform enables users to provide instant receipts, view billing activities, and facilitate recurring transactions. Serving warehouses, repair services, drivers, and other logistics professionals, RoadSync aims to automate financial solutions and modernize commerce within the $800 billion logistics industry.

The Riveter

Funding Round in 2018
The Riveter is a membership-based coworking and community platform focused on women and allies. It provides shared workspaces and office services, including individual offices, floating and dedicated desks, and private offices, as well as wellness amenities such as fitness studios and meditation rooms. The company offers event and pop-up retail spaces for members to host and sell, and delivers programming through daily workshops, skill-building sessions, and conversations aimed at supporting women entrepreneurs and professionals. By combining workspace with a curated wellness and community experience, The Riveter supports members in running their businesses and pursuing professional development. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Apostrophe

Seed Round in 2018
Apostrophe, Inc. is a fintech company based in Denver, Colorado, specializing in healthcare savings solutions for self-insured employers. Founded in 2016, Apostrophe provides an intelligent health benefits platform that negotiates competitive rates for healthcare services and pays providers directly, ensuring that savings are passed on to its customers. The company's offerings include a streamlined, plug-and-play health plan that allows self-insured employers to efficiently implement best practices in managing healthcare costs. Apostrophe primarily serves self-insured employers in rural Colorado and other regions, delivering both financial savings and member support to enhance the overall healthcare experience.

Hyr

Seed Round in 2018
Hyr is a mobile platform that connects restaurants, hotels, retailers, and other businesses with independent labor to fill hourly paid shifts on demand. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company enables employers to staff shifts at any time and lets workers select their hours and pick up shifts as needed. The model emphasizes flexible scheduling and provides portable benefits for 1099 workers.

Zibrio

Venture Round in 2018
Zibrio specializes in advanced balance diagnostics. It leverages NASA technology originally used on astronauts, along with machine learning, to measure subtle changes in balance. Incorporated in 2017, Zibrio aims to empower users to manage their health proactively by providing insights into their balance profiles.

Choosy

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Choosy is an on-demand social shopping platform where users influence every collection to match their favorite style inspirations. Through social tagging and a team of Style Scouts, Choosy identifies and manufactures trend-driven fashion delivered to shoppers in as little as two weeks. It’s the modern-day equivalent of the ultimate window-shopping experience, creating a new generation of social commerce. All looks are designed and produced in-house, so women sizes 0-20 can get today’s most covetable looks without the ticket price of labels. You see it, you like it, we make it - it’s time to #GetChoosy with your wardrobe.

Maude

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Maude is a sexual wellness brand that offers body-safe intimate care products, including latex-based condoms, lubricants formulated from natural ingredients, and a range of personal massagers, vibrators, and massage candles. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Maude pursues quality, simplicity, and inclusivity to make intimacy better for all people. The company partners with carefully selected manufacturers to produce easy-to-use items designed to elevate everyday experiences while destigmatizing sexual health. Its product platform focuses on body-safe solutions for intimate care, aiming to provide accessible options that minimize side effects and support well-being. Maude emphasizes transparent formulations, modern design, and a straightforward approach to personal wellness, seeking to simplify choosing and using products that enhance comfort, pleasure, and confidence.

Court Buddy

Seed Round in 2017
Court Buddy is an online platform that connects clients with attorneys for various legal services tailored to their specific needs, expertise, and location in the United States. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a marketplace where clients can find vetted solo attorneys for personal and business legal matters, including civil and criminal defense. Court Buddy allows clients to engage attorneys based on their budget, providing a range of a-la-carte legal services at flat rates. The platform features tools such as instant messaging, video chat, and secure payment options through its 'CourtBuddy Chat' app and 'CB Direct Pay' service, enhancing communication and transaction efficiency between clients and attorneys. Recognized for its innovative approach, Court Buddy has received accolades, including the American Bar Association’s Legal Access Award and praise from notable figures in entrepreneurship.

Nomiku

Venture Round in 2017
Nomiku Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 that specializes in the development and manufacture of immersion circulators for sous vide cooking. Initially gaining attention through a successful Kickstarter campaign for its first product, the Nomiku Immersion Circulator, the company has since released a second, smaller and more powerful device equipped with a companion app. Nomiku's appliances are designed to turn any pot into a temperature-controlled water bath, making sous vide cooking accessible to home cooks and professional chefs alike. The company's mission is to empower individuals to create high-quality meals effortlessly by providing them with innovative cooking tools.

Everywear

Seed Round in 2017
Everywear is a U.S.-based company that specializes in B2B eCommerce software. It enhances the customer shopping experience by leveraging data-driven editorial expertise, auto-styling, and deep data analytics to boost conversion rates, lifetime value, and average order value.

Court Buddy

Seed Round in 2017
Court Buddy is an online platform that connects clients with attorneys for various legal services tailored to their specific needs, expertise, and location in the United States. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a marketplace where clients can find vetted solo attorneys for personal and business legal matters, including civil and criminal defense. Court Buddy allows clients to engage attorneys based on their budget, providing a range of a-la-carte legal services at flat rates. The platform features tools such as instant messaging, video chat, and secure payment options through its 'CourtBuddy Chat' app and 'CB Direct Pay' service, enhancing communication and transaction efficiency between clients and attorneys. Recognized for its innovative approach, Court Buddy has received accolades, including the American Bar Association’s Legal Access Award and praise from notable figures in entrepreneurship.

O.School

Seed Round in 2017
O.School is a platform dedicated to sexual wellness education. It provides live streaming sessions and moderated chats, fostering a shame-free, LGBTQ-friendly space for individuals to explore their desires, communicate effectively, and heal from past traumas.

Clara Labs

Series A in 2017
Clara Labs is a technology company that specializes in developing Clara, an online platform designed to facilitate meeting scheduling via email for enterprises and their employees. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Clara Labs has been recognized for its innovative contributions to human-in-the-loop natural language processing systems and for creating one of the earliest successful conversational user experience products. In 2019, the company was acquired by Third Street Data, Inc., which subsequently became a subsidiary of TopFunnel. This acquisition allowed TopFunnel to continue operating Clara's services, while Twitter secured the research and development talent along with certain intellectual property for its content moderation efforts.

Dark

Seed Round in 2017
Dark Inc. is a technology company founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in developing a new programming language that is closely integrated with its own editor and compiler, as well as providing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions. Dark's offerings enable engineers to build distributed applications using high-level programming primitives, streamlining the development process. By combining a holistic programming language with hosted infrastructure, Dark aims to simplify the complexities associated with application development and enhance the efficiency of software engineering.

The Beans

Seed Round in 2017
The Beans develops a financial planning platform that creates personalized cash flow plans. Headquartered in the United States, it simplifies users' paths to financial balance through design and technology.

Bountiful

Seed Round in 2017
Bountiful is an agtech company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in developing a platform that offers yield forecasting and actionable information for farmers. The company's tools provide real-time analytics and yield forecasts at various levels, from country to field-specific data, months before harvest. Bountiful utilizes machine learning along with weather, satellite, geographic, and historical data to deliver precise insights, helping farmers understand factors impacting crop production. Additionally, Bountiful Marketplace allows farmers to sell their products directly to vetted buyers through multi-year contracts based on unique forecasts. The company's technologies include crop classification via satellite imagery and hyper-localized weather modeling techniques, aiming to enhance agricultural sustainability and profitability.

Clara Labs

Convertible Note in 2016
Clara Labs is a technology company that specializes in developing Clara, an online platform designed to facilitate meeting scheduling via email for enterprises and their employees. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Clara Labs has been recognized for its innovative contributions to human-in-the-loop natural language processing systems and for creating one of the earliest successful conversational user experience products. In 2019, the company was acquired by Third Street Data, Inc., which subsequently became a subsidiary of TopFunnel. This acquisition allowed TopFunnel to continue operating Clara's services, while Twitter secured the research and development talent along with certain intellectual property for its content moderation efforts.
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