XRC Labs

XRC Labs is an innovation accelerator for the next generation of disruptors in the retail and consumer goods sectors. We run two 14-week programs each year that bring together entrepreneurs, investors, brands and retailers to foster rapid innovation and unlock new opportunities in retail. Startups receive access to capital, mentoring, operational support and workspace in the heart of Manhattan, the epicenter of retail and consumer goods. We also work closely with best-in-class retailers, brands and technology companies to empower them to meet the needs of consumers today and for generations to come.

Pano T. Anthos

Managing Partner

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Rima Arumalla Reddy

Principal

Past deals in Retail

Boost

Seed Round in 2020
The future of commerce is everywhere.

Even Prime

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Even Prime is a skincare line company that provides affordable products for men. Designed for all skin types, its clinically-tested formulas are simple, safe, and ethical (sulfate, paraben, cruelty-free). The company is on a mission to help men everywhere dive deeper into the concept of ritual and routine. It was established in 2017 and is based in Culver City, California.

Savvy Society

Convertible Note in 2016
Strypes is an interactive 3D platform retail customers use to design and add custom embroidery, embossing or 3D printed elements to products. Retailers can embed the Strypes platform in e-commerce sites or leverage Strypes on in-store tablets.

Sanguina

Seed Round in 2020
Sanguina is a medical device and wellness tool company currently focused on the launch of our first product, AnemoCheck Mobile: the first smartphone application for tracking of hemoglobin levels that is completely non-invasive and does not require painful blood draws.

Furnishr

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Furnishr is a unique interior design platform that makes furnishing spaces easy and affordable. Furnishr is a turnkey furnishing platform that will completely furnish your empty home in one day. Purchase a room design on Furnishr.com, and all the furniture and accessories in the design will be delivered and assembled in your own room all at once.

Trademonday, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Trademonday, Inc. develops and operates a software-as-a-service machine learning market intelligence platform for retailers in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia. It offers Retail Experimental Platform (REP!) that turns market transaction data into customized actionable insights for retailers and brand owners. The company also provides REP Lite!, a mobile app that simulates the sales revenue and volume by visual search. Its solutions turn retail market transaction data into actionable insight for assisting retailers and brand owners in simulating the business strategy and control the operation risk. It serves fashion, cosmetic, food, grocery, electronic, and toys sectors. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Hong Kong.

CurieVision

Pre Seed Round in 2021
For over 3B people experiencing Shelter-at-Home, the new normal is order-ahead and delivery. Businesses have to find whole-new ways of reaching customers because customers are not going to stores. They can no longer rely on foot traffic or visual merchandising. Curie brings the stores home to shoppers. Curie looks to improve the at-home shopping experience as opposed to a list a-la Amazon. Curie brings the store to the home with a Shelf-to-Home Experience. With Curie, customers shop with AR, then make their purchases and receive them via delivery or pickup apps. Shopping has remained nearly unchanged for over 10K years. You go to the store, look around, and buy things. We are trained to look at shelves, the packaging, the prices, and deals. For many, ordering online is broken experience. There’s simply too much cognitive dissonance between the shelf and a mobile app or website.

Urbacraft

Convertible Note in 2015
Urbacraft, a digital and physical platform for mass customizable construction toys that allows users to imagine, manufacture, and sell their own designs. The company allows people to design and manufacture customizable construction craft toys; and urban spaces and structures, including building sets with the hackability of digital games and the physicality of traditional toys. It sells products online. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Beirut, Lebanon.

ēdn

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ēdn is on a mission to change the way the world experiences nature - We create products that enable everyone to grow fresh herbs, vegetables, and flowers at the push of a button. We combine advanced automation and app control with a deep understanding of horticulture to grow any type of plant with predictable and guaranteed results. Built from beautiful hardwood and aluminum, our products embody living art with nature as the focus.

Mxt

Convertible Note in 2021
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Nimbly

Convertible Note in 2017
Nimbly is an on-demand 3D-knitting platform that powers the one-off manufacturing of standard-size and custom-fit knit products in the U.S. Unlike the inefficient and slow knitwear supply chains, Nimbly matches supply with demand, making products in less than an hour – with no order minimums. It’s a turnkey solution for innovation-driven apparel brands that want to quickly react to demand and/or empower customer choice, and reap benefits like reducing excess inventory, discounting, lead-times and product development costs.

Suggestic

Seed Round in 2019
Suggestic, Inc. develops an application that provides automated and personalized lifestyle and nutrition coaching. Its application helps users in defining diet plans and provides recommendations for restaurant menu items. The company serves clinicians, nutritionists, patients, and healthcare teams, as well as publishers and authors. Suggestic, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Gather AI

Seed Round in 2019
Gather AI is a software-only autonomous inventory management platform developed for warehousing. Gather AI is an inventory management on auto-pilot that can automate tasks. Users can use off the shelf drones, and can do 24 hour replacement.The company is a team of PhD's and research engineers in the sector of autonomous vehicles and vision systems from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. Gather AI is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Fillogic

Seed Round in 2021
Fillogic is a New York-based technology company that provides retail and logistics services. The company is dedicated to maximizing efficiencies for retailers and freight delivery networks via mall-based micro-distribution hubs. It was so-founded by Bill Thayer and Rob Caucci in 2018.

Simplista

Convertible Note in 2018
Get products to consumers in a fraction of the time with significant and trackable savings. It’s time to fully digitize your retail operation with Simplista, a cloud-based B2B product listing platform that can radically improve your business. Maximize efficiency. Currently, retail product listing and upkeep is overly time-consuming with inaccuracies and delays that lead to lost revenue and unnecessary costs. By automating product listing and change management processes, Simplista produces efficiencies that impact your bottom line. Automate. Validate. Simplify. Collaboration, speed, and accuracy are the pillars of the Simplista platform. You’ll get product data right the first time and reap the benefits: transformative savings and increased revenues for both retailers and suppliers. A cloud-based platform that's secure. Simplista allows both traditional and digital retailers and their suppliers to collaborate for rapid product intake and upkeep in a secure manner - all in real time.

Lexset

Pre Seed Round in 2021
LexSet.ai LLC develops an artificial intelligence based visual search tool for interior design and the furniture industry. The company offers LexSet Visual Search, which enables customers and designers to feed in any image, identifies the existing objects in the scene, and returns products to make the look they want. It also offers LexSet NextGen Tools, including Mobile Vision AI, a mobile cross-platform software development kit that enables real-time recognition, 3D tracking, and contents listing; Real time attribution and descriptions; and LexSet Data Engine, a training data engine that uses 3D visualization and simulation technologies to generate training sets that can complement existing training sets or serve as the foundation for machine learning models. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

WEAR

Pre Seed Round in 2021
WEAR is Asia’s first luxury platform that combines a highly curated marketplace with purpose-built metaverses allowing users to purchase and showcase their NFT collections, and interact with other like-minded collectors in our community, ushering in a new era of digital ownership.

OrthoFX, LLC

Series A in 2020
OrthoFX is a San Francisco-based company that developed a dentist-delivered, consumer-driven orthodontic and teeth straightening service, as well as a doctor-friendly financial model. OrthoFX designs and develops clear aligner products and experiences for doctors and their patients.

MeliBio

Seed Round in 2022
MeliBio, Inc. operates as a wholesaler of food products. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Berkeley, California.

OLAM

Convertible Note in 2016
OLAM is a technology-enabled logistics platform that provides same-day availability of retail merchandise.

Lexset

Pre Seed Round in 2018
LexSet.ai LLC develops an artificial intelligence based visual search tool for interior design and the furniture industry. The company offers LexSet Visual Search, which enables customers and designers to feed in any image, identifies the existing objects in the scene, and returns products to make the look they want. It also offers LexSet NextGen Tools, including Mobile Vision AI, a mobile cross-platform software development kit that enables real-time recognition, 3D tracking, and contents listing; Real time attribution and descriptions; and LexSet Data Engine, a training data engine that uses 3D visualization and simulation technologies to generate training sets that can complement existing training sets or serve as the foundation for machine learning models. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

BorrowDécor

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Rent premium event decor with delivery anywhere in the continental U.S.
Returnity is the solution to rising packaging costs and consumer complaints around excessive shipping packaging. Our patented designs save you money, create enhanced consumer experiences, and reduce carbon footprints.

Fabulyst

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Fabulyst Pvt Ltd. develops an application that acts as a virtual personal stylist for women for the online fashion market. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Hyderabad, India.

Sanguina

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Sanguina is a medical device and wellness tool company currently focused on the launch of our first product, AnemoCheck Mobile: the first smartphone application for tracking of hemoglobin levels that is completely non-invasive and does not require painful blood draws.

Affinity

Convertible Note in 2017
Affinity is an online fashion site that helps retailers start a dialogue with their shoppers. It offers personalized fashion recommendations for brands and retailers.

TRILL

Pre Seed Round in 2020
TRILL is an app connects streetwear lovers with unique independent brands and designers from around the world. The app allows them to purchase and easily discover new items that you can’t get anywhere else. TRILL is based in New York City.

Extra

Convertible Note in 2018
Marketplace connecting brands with hospitality

Raydiant

Series B in 2022
Raydiant, Inc. designs, develops, and offers experience platform that connects employees and customers with brands. The company's solution includes kiosk, virtual agent, and multimedia device for connecting and controlling the screens. It offers its solutions to industries such as banking, casinos, government, healthcare, schools, offices, real estate, restaurants, retailers, and universities. Raydiant, Inc. was formerly known as Mira. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Viveat

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Every one of us now owns a digital identity. A powerful tool for communication, simplifying our lives daily. Viveat was created to give a digital identity to all of the objects that surround us, making them smarter, safer and more interactive.

Perseus Mirrors

Convertible Note in 2016
Perseus engages in creating smart mirrors. The company's current flagship product is the Perseus Mirror, an interactive, connected device with stunning technical features and a user-centered design.

Bobblehaus

Pre Seed Round in 2021
For Gen z’ers who’re constantly discovering exclusive fashion statements, but understand that we only have 7 years to save the planet. Bobblehaus is the regenerative, unisex fashion community brand that offers limited-edition clothing, using only deadstock and recycled fabrics. Unlike Supreme, which caters to men, and Everlane, where sustainable options are restricted to cookie-cutter styles, Bobblehaus is a mission-driven, collective that designs for all.

The Lobby

Pre Seed Round in 2017
The Lobby is a video shopping platform that bridges the gap between online and offline shopping. By bringing together top fashion brands and influencers in a QVC-meets-TikTok shopping experience, The Lobby makes shopping as easy and inspiring as scrolling your Instagram feed. And with a unique try-before-you-buy payment option, The Lobby makes online shopping truly risk-free.

CARAA

Convertible Note in 2015
CARAA manufactures fitness handbags for woman that can be used inside and outside of the fitness studio. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York.

Gleem & Co

Convertible Note in 2015
Gleem & Co, Inc. provides an online marketplace to buy, sell, and discover fine estate and vintage jewelry in the United States. Its platform brings products from various brands, designers, and manufacturers. The company’s platform offers rings, necklaces, men's items, gifts, earrings, bracelets, bridal items, pins and brooches, watches, and engagement rings. Gleem & Co, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Snappy Gifts

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Snappy App provides Snappy Gifts, an all-in-one enterprise gifting platform that uses the power of experience and delight to connect people around the world. It sources products and experiences from various brands and retailers. Dvir Cohen and Hani Goldstein founded Snappy App in 2015. Its headquarters is in New York City.

Macondo Vision

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Macondo Vision offers a comprehensive system solution to measure, report on, and reward associates and supervisors. It provides business owners with a new way to assess labor force safety and effectiveness interacting with machines, products, and each other. The company's platform uses machine vision to collect data on your labor force and utilizes machine learning and artificial intelligence to highlight gaps between expected and actual results. Macondo Vision cutting-edge system installs easily, runs seamlessly, and is designed to continually gather data, monitor execution of a task, and provide AI-generated ways to improve. It also specializes in utilizing AI and machine learning to create an ever-evolving platform designed to bolster production. They enable to garner the best performance from the workforce in ways that benefit people, customers, and business. Macondo Vision was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Gender Reveal Game, LLC

Seed Round in 2019
Gender Reveal Game, LLC owns and operates online gaming operations. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

SAVR

Pre Seed Round in 2021
For Price Sensitive Shoppers, Renovators, and DIY’ers who want maximum savings on consumer electronics and home appliances, who are willing to consider factory seconds or returned merchandise. SAVR is an online marketplace that connects consumers with warrantied, returned, or cosmetically flawed inventory at deep discounts. We remove the friction in shopping this liquidated merchandise for consumers, decrease losses for merchants, and keep as much of this inventory out of landfills as possible. Unlike local Scratch and Dent shops, Ebay, or Craigslist, with unverified or stolen merchandise or auction houses with slow turnaround times, SAVR uses a custom API-first marketplace, proprietary omnichannel search, and years of experience in building marketplaces, to connect our members directly to exclusive inventory from over 50 leading Brands and Merchants.

KiraKira3D

Convertible Note in 2018
KiraKira3D is a First 3D Modeling Mobile Application. They are redesigning the way girls learn engineering, through online 3D printing classes. They offer a rich and unique experience with their 3D printed packages, combining both the online 3D print class + the tangible 3D printed reward. More broadly, KiraKira is an online community of learning, making and sharing. Through their 3D modeling and printing lessons, they teach engineering commands and transferrable skills to various STEM disciplines and careers, including but not limited to architecture, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and industrial design.

Pod Foods Co.

Series A in 2021
Pod Foods Co. develops a software for distribution of food for local retailers and suppliers. It offers products in various categories, including fruits and vegetables, beverages, snacks and branded food. Pod Foods Co. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

CONVRG Technologies, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2018
Convrg is an AI voice and messaging platform powering conversational experiences for brands and retailers such as Estee Lauder Companies, Sephora, Proactiv, Shopify and the GRAMMYs. Speakeasy™ by Convrg is AI-powered software that voice-enables your ecommerce website or mobile app, allowing consumers to shop by voice. What used to take multiple clicks now takes just one voice command, and your website or app is now an automated sales associate. Unlike a smart speaker, this software listens ONLY with explicit permission from the user. And because it lives on your website or app as opposed to a third-party platform, like Google or Amazon, it’s discoverable by all.

Frenzy

Convertible Note in 2018
Frenzy developed self-labeling image technology that trains computer vision systems to detect exact products in complex visual scenes even when no logo is present. We scale high-quality image datasets in a fraction of the time incurred by enterprises today and reduce manual labeling workforces by 99%. We're currently demonstrating Frenzy's efficacy in fashion with Fetch, an end-to-end content monetization plugin for fashion bloggers, and FES (Frenzy Enterprise solutions) which delivers automated catalog management and accurate image search for e-commerce sites.

Curie

Convertible Note in 2018
Curie is a premium personal care and lifestyle brand. We're a vertically integrated company making clean, affordable personal care products and fragrances. Curie makes plant-based products for healthier hair and skin. We started with everyday essentials including shower staples and an eau du parfum to offer customers better, more attainable choices for daily use. We know that clean products make for healthy bodies and improved wellbeing. After all, personal care is just that: personal. It's time we treat it that way.

Joymode, Inc.

Acquisition in 2020
Joymode, Inc. offers leisure equipment for periodic and short-term use on rent. It enables users to reserve and rent tents, sleeping pads, stoves, headlamps, etc. The company offers its services through its mobile applications and related services. Joymode, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Forge

Seed Round in 2016
Forge Technologies, Inc. develops and operates an online platform and application to hire, schedule, and retain hourly workforce. It also offers a shared labor pool and scheduling software. It serves retail, restaurant, dining, hospitality, logistics, entertainment, and healthcare sectors. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of February 19, 2020, Forge Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of WorkJam, Inc.

Gather AI

Seed Round in 2020
Gather AI is a software-only autonomous inventory management platform developed for warehousing. Gather AI is an inventory management on auto-pilot that can automate tasks. Users can use off the shelf drones, and can do 24 hour replacement.The company is a team of PhD's and research engineers in the sector of autonomous vehicles and vision systems from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. Gather AI is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Kid Things

Convertible Note in 2017
Kid Things is a machine learning powered, text-based concierge solution for parents of newborns to preschoolers who constantly need to keep up with the changing needs of their children. Parents simply text what they need, from apparel to baby gear, and Kid Things sends over options that fit their budget and brand preferences. Purchases are made over text. Based on a wealth of conversational data, Kid Things curates highly personalized choices for parents, saving them valuable time.

Clear Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Clear Health is the dermatologist for Gen-Z. It is skin care brand of Nefaire skin health.

Salesbeat

Pre Seed Round in 2020
For sales teams who are under pressure to meet and exceed their annual sales targets, Beat processes more than 50 different internal and external data points to make predictive recommendations of optimal orders, promotions and portfolio to sales teams for discussion with the buyer, eliminating lost sales due to out of stock.

ēdn

Seed Round in 2019
ēdn is on a mission to change the way the world experiences nature - We create products that enable everyone to grow fresh herbs, vegetables, and flowers at the push of a button. We combine advanced automation and app control with a deep understanding of horticulture to grow any type of plant with predictable and guaranteed results. Built from beautiful hardwood and aluminum, our products embody living art with nature as the focus.

KiraKira3D

Convertible Note in 2017
KiraKira3D is a First 3D Modeling Mobile Application. They are redesigning the way girls learn engineering, through online 3D printing classes. They offer a rich and unique experience with their 3D printed packages, combining both the online 3D print class + the tangible 3D printed reward. More broadly, KiraKira is an online community of learning, making and sharing. Through their 3D modeling and printing lessons, they teach engineering commands and transferrable skills to various STEM disciplines and careers, including but not limited to architecture, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and industrial design.

Terra Kaffe

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Terra Kaffe is a new brand that will transform the in-home coffee experience, starting with a fully-automatic bean-to-cup espresso machine. By selling direct-to-consumer, we will be able to bring a new design language, a unique customer experience and best in class features to the market at an unbeatable price. Terra Kaffe will make premium in-home espresso coffee socially conscious, convenient, and affordable.

Mayawell

Convertible Note in 2018
For health conscious consumers looking for a low calorie, low sugar option that delivers a functional benefit, Mayawell is a refreshing alternative to Kombucha and fresh pressed juices.

Gather AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Gather AI is a software-only autonomous inventory management platform developed for warehousing. Gather AI is an inventory management on auto-pilot that can automate tasks. Users can use off the shelf drones, and can do 24 hour replacement.The company is a team of PhD's and research engineers in the sector of autonomous vehicles and vision systems from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. Gather AI is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Yuansfer

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Yuansfer is a cross-border payment gateway for brands and retailers who want to unlock sales opportunities to Chinese consumers. It seamlessly integrates Alipay and WeChat Pay to streamline checkout processes both online and in-store, increasing conversion and reaching new customers.

ShopShops

Seed Round in 2018
ShopShops is a livestream, interactive global shopping marketplace that connects brick and mortar retailers with consumers on their mobile devices. The new digital shopping channel breaks down geographical boundaries for fashion-savvy consumers, enabling them to shop from stores around the world from the palm of their hand. ShopShops was founded by Liyia Wu in 2016 and has headquarters in New York City and Beijing. To learn more, visit www.shopshops.com.cn.

Nuudii

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Nuudii is a producer of a unique featherlight technology that hugs natural shape with supreme comfort while offering maximum versatility. It features a stretch of 360, it's compact and lightweight, it's quick to dry, machine washable, and easy for any travel. Nuudii was founded in 2015, by Rebecca Zuber.

Cycles + Sex

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Allbodies is a platform for modern health education. Better health starts with knowledge.

FORMULA

Pre Seed Round in 2019
FORMULA is a personalized nootropics company that offers nootropic supplements for peoples' unique needs. The company safely provides improved focus, creativity, energy, and memory in capsule form. The company analyzes clinical trials and conducted research on 127 different ingredients and recommendations supported by the a large data set. FORMULA was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Proper Good Inc

Seed Round in 2021
Proper Good offers 90-second tasty meals with clean ingredients delivered directly to the customer's door. Its recipes include squash and sausage spaghetti, chicken cordon bleu, squash and brie bites, queso platter, keto cauliflower tortillas, potato leek soup, minestrone breakfast bake, savory pumpkin tarts, and more. The company is based in Bozeman, Montana.

ShopShops

Convertible Note in 2016
ShopShops is a livestream, interactive global shopping marketplace that connects brick and mortar retailers with consumers on their mobile devices. The new digital shopping channel breaks down geographical boundaries for fashion-savvy consumers, enabling them to shop from stores around the world from the palm of their hand. ShopShops was founded by Liyia Wu in 2016 and has headquarters in New York City and Beijing. To learn more, visit www.shopshops.com.cn.

LOOMIA

Convertible Note in 2016
Circuit boards power the world but are built for hard goods. LOOMIA makes a new form-factor of circuit—a soft circuit (e-textile) system—that can be used to power soft goods. From automotive to apparel, our soft circuit systems can be used when standard PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards) aren't up to the task—bringing heating, lighting, and sensing to car seats, medical apparel, outdoor gear, and more. Three years of research went into developing the LEL technology, resourcing Stanford’s SNSF lab for analysis and characterization. The resulting, patented technology can be designed to execute a wide range of functionalities.

Chute Laundry, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Chute Laundry, Inc. offers laundry services. The company offers its services to residents, and commercial industry. The company also develops its laundry delivery application. The company's services includes online scheduling, personalized services, turnaround delivery, and pickup services. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in State College, Pennsylvania.

FINDMINE

Convertible Note in 2015
FINDMINE specializes in using machine learning to automate manual and tedious tasks in the retail industry. It provides 3-10% total revenue lift and helping brands scale their unique POV. FINDMINE's Complete the Look product shows shoppers how to use each product across e-commerce, email, marketing channels, and in-store. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York.

MakerBrane

Seed Round in 2017
MakerBrane is a peer to peer content creation platform that allows anyone anywhere to design, share, and discover new toy worlds. MakerBrane is building the future of toys on a software-first platform. They’re on a mission to democratize and diversify the global toys market by letting anyone anywhere participate in the creation of toys.

Natalia, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
Natalia, Inc. designs and manufactures clothing for women. The company ships to various countries, including Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, the Russian Federation, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. Natalia, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

By Reveal

Convertible Note in 2016
by REVEAL gives emerging designers and established brands access to consumers in-person. They reveal brands to the right consumers in the right place at the right time. Their trained concierges operate their small-format REVEALS, appearing in unique locations for a limited time. They make it easier for consumers to find products they love and easier for designers to be in retail.

unknown

Convertible Note in 2016
Seashells is an online rewards platform. The company provides an online platform which allows users to earn rewards for shopping online using any credit or debit card.

Returnity Innovations, Inc

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Returnity is the solution to rising packaging costs and consumer complaints around excessive shipping packaging. Our patented designs save you money, create enhanced consumer experiences, and reduce carbon footprints.

Cartogram Inc

Seed Round in 2017
Cartogram provides healthcare wayfinding software which enables patients and staff to navigate from anywhere to anywhere - inside, outside, and between buildings. Learn more at https://www.cartogram.com

Reefill

Convertible Note in 2018
Reefill is a low-cost, environmentally friendly alternative to bottled water. The Reefill network provides members with unlimited access to cold, filtered tap water on the go. Using the Reefill app, members find the nearest station -- conveniently located around town in local businesses like coffee shops and bakeries -- activate it with their phone, and fill their reusable bottle in seconds.

Garbi

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Garbi is a smart recycling bin that helps users sort finished products and reorder them at the press of a button . Garbi Recognizes what you throw away, helps sort, and reorders products via 3rd party services.

FFORA

Convertible Note in 2017
FFORA, Inc. designs and manufactures wheelchair attachable products primarily for the disabled community. The company offers lifestyle products and accessories, including cup holders and tumblers, bags and purses, active bags, attachments, hats, and candles. It markets its products through its online shop. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Wondermile, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
Wondermile, Inc. provides an application that allows retailers to display products and storewide sales. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

ChatQuery

Convertible Note in 2017
ChatQuery Limited, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software company, provides AI based virtual data analyst that interprets normal language requests into data queries for retailers and e-commerce sites, and analyzes their numbers and data. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Telegraph Bay, Hong Kong.

StoreDNA

Convertible Note in 2018
StoreDNA is the integrated decision-making platform which delivers dramatically improved performance through better product assortments, store layouts, visual merchandising, and associate optimization.

VisuWall Technologies Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
VisuWall is computer vision technology applied in the physical world of commercial real estate. It measures traffic, consumer engagement and response to advertising. VisuWall is accessible through the marketplace we created to feature eye level media and to provide access to the user dashboard giving access to the effectiveness of their campaign in real time.

benja: the merchandise ad platform

Convertible Note in 2017
Benja is an information technology company that offers an online-based marketplace for branded products such as shoes, shirts, and others. The company specializes in the fields of advertising, e-commerce, and mobile apps. Benja was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Monolith

Convertible Note in 2018
Monolith is an in-store decision-making platform for retailers. Its solution enables retailers to optimize and automate their decision-making through real-time actionable insights about their stores. Monolith is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Billie

Convertible Note in 2017
Billie is a wellness company that offers high-quality shaving supplies and body products at a fair price, without the pink tax. Billie is committed to designing products that are uniquely built to provide women everyday TLC from top to toe. Shaving companies have always been created for men which may explain why people are still overpaying for women's razors and referred to as a goddess for shaving. Billie believes that women shouldn't be an afterthought in the shaving category and that they deserve to have a great shave without having to pay more for it. Billie was founded in 2017 and is based in New York.

Billie

Seed Round in 2017
Billie is a wellness company that offers high-quality shaving supplies and body products at a fair price, without the pink tax. Billie is committed to designing products that are uniquely built to provide women everyday TLC from top to toe. Shaving companies have always been created for men which may explain why people are still overpaying for women's razors and referred to as a goddess for shaving. Billie believes that women shouldn't be an afterthought in the shaving category and that they deserve to have a great shave without having to pay more for it. Billie was founded in 2017 and is based in New York.

Mirror That Look

Seed Round in 2017
Artificial intelligence has long been considered the next game changer in process efficiency. But being notoriously computational intensive, artificial intelligence won't be able to deliver unless it runs fast enough and accurate enough. At lacelook, they have developed a network structure that is efficient and scalable enough to process fashion products from the entire internet and every single web store at once and return real-time results to consumers. They are also the only one that can accurately detect fashion products worn on persons in real-life settings, in other words fashion products in user-generated contents, instead of just singulated fashion items in clean stock photos.

REINGE

Convertible Note in 2015
High-end Streetwear for Athletes ( @reingeclothing | reingeclothing.com). Follow us @reingeclothing Facebook: facebook.com/reingeclothing Instagram: instagram.com/reingeclothing Twitter: twitter.com/reingeclothing Angel List: angel.co/reingeclothing

ShopShops

Series A in 2019
ShopShops is a livestream, interactive global shopping marketplace that connects brick and mortar retailers with consumers on their mobile devices. The new digital shopping channel breaks down geographical boundaries for fashion-savvy consumers, enabling them to shop from stores around the world from the palm of their hand. ShopShops was founded by Liyia Wu in 2016 and has headquarters in New York City and Beijing. To learn more, visit www.shopshops.com.cn.

Mayawell

Pre Seed Round in 2019
For health conscious consumers looking for a low calorie, low sugar option that delivers a functional benefit, Mayawell is a refreshing alternative to Kombucha and fresh pressed juices.

makeena, inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Makeena is a mobile and web-based platform that connects healthy and eco-friendly brands with shoppers who are looking for good for them, good for their family, and good for the planet products. For the Brand, Makeena provides a streamlined, location-aware mobile and web consumer engagement platform for natural and sustainable brands, automating tracking and redemption for the shopper across multiple platforms, brands, and retailers at the point of purchase (online or in-store) for a single shopper account. By pushing location and context-aware incentives to shoppers, then tracking and rewarding their engagement, brands build new shoppers, and increase loyalty and repeat purchases. On the backend, brands upload their own information and decide where, when, and how much to offer. Makeena then collects the shopper data and provides the brands with a way to analyze and manage that data, delivering to the brands deeper shopper insights, where their products are located (in what stores and where on the shelf), and what encourages their shoppers to stay loyal to them.

QUINN Style

Convertible Note in 2015
QUINN Style offers a subscription-based on-demand personal shopping and styling service. The company is based in New York, New York.

Ziel

Convertible Note in 2017
Ziel provides athletic apparel designed to help athletes stay fit. The company's athletic apparel includes all apparel on-demand right here in the USA and uses machine learning to generate bespoke brand designs, enabling athletes to browse, find and purchase sports apparel and accessories.

Feather & Bone

Convertible Note in 2017
Feather & Bone sells personal care products that are simple, pure and portable.

Endear

Funding Round in 2019
Endear gives associates the resources they need to proactively reach out to customers over e-mail and text. The company transforms the store associates into digital marketers with clienteling tools that empower them to engage customers across channels. Endear allows the user to target customers with real-time data, send personalized messages in bulk, and track and optimize performance over time.

Loginhood LLC

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Loginhood LLC develops e-privacy and data monitization software for marketers. The company is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Dough

Convertible Note in 2017
Dough is a membership community where people can discover and save on products made by women. The company's mission is to drive purchase power and awareness towards women owned businesses to create economic equality. It also build an inclusive movement, representing all female entrepreneurs and the brands that are built to create a society where women are equally represented in the boardroom, c-suite, and beyond. Dough was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Axius

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Axius provides athletes with a functional training tool that helps improve core strength, balance, and joint health. It offers a connected training board, AXIUS Core, which enhances human movement in just 15-minutes per day.

Aduri

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Aduri Cushion is a multi-sensory meditation system designed to build users’ consistency and deepen engagement with their practice. Picking up where digital-only apps leave off, the Aduri system consists of a meditation pillow that gently vibrates, integrated on-demand content (guided sessions, music, soundscapes) and group-based sessions + accountability.

Convey Clothing

Convertible Note in 2017
Convey gives brands a stake in the secondhand market, to unlock additional revenue and keep customers in their ecosystem. Founded by Steve Zerneri in 2017, Convey Clothing is backed by investors that include XRC Labs and is headquartered in New York.

Facenote

Convertible Note in 2017
Facenote allows any organization to transform their physical stores customer experience by enabling face recognition personalization and customer service. Simply by providing a selfie, customers can opt-in to be recognized any time they enter the store, before they complete a purchase, providing them with personalized benefits by connecting with the store existing CRM and their previous purchases.

Hemster, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
Hemster is an on-demand tailoring service that empowers customers to create their own size no matter where they shop. It offers and provides alteration and tailoring services to brand name retailers across the country. Hemster eliminates the most frustrating part of shopping: finding that perfect size. Instead of making shoppers look for their perfect size, retailers can now create a tailored size from off-the-rack inventory using Hemster’s Perfect Fit Platform. It was founded in 2015 and operates in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York.

Billie

Seed Round in 2018
Billie is a wellness company that offers high-quality shaving supplies and body products at a fair price, without the pink tax. Billie is committed to designing products that are uniquely built to provide women everyday TLC from top to toe. Shaving companies have always been created for men which may explain why people are still overpaying for women's razors and referred to as a goddess for shaving. Billie believes that women shouldn't be an afterthought in the shaving category and that they deserve to have a great shave without having to pay more for it. Billie was founded in 2017 and is based in New York.

Stryx

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Stryx Men, Inc. manufactures and sells skincare cosmetics for men. Its products include concealer stick, moisturizers, tinted face creams, and gel cleanser. It also sells its products online. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Lawrence, New York.

Pathr.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
AI-powered Spatial Intelligence platform using anonymous location data to derive actionable real time insights for operations and marketing.

Snappy Gifts

Seed Round in 2017
Snappy App provides Snappy Gifts, an all-in-one enterprise gifting platform that uses the power of experience and delight to connect people around the world. It sources products and experiences from various brands and retailers. Dvir Cohen and Hani Goldstein founded Snappy App in 2015. Its headquarters is in New York City.

Cherry Pick

Convertible Note in 2017
Cherry Pick AI, Inc. develops and offers marketing automation platform that provides consumer insights from social media for purchase of beauty products. The company is reinventing the business of beauty by offering predictive solutions focusing on purchase intent across the beauty industry. Cherry Pick AI, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Banter

Convertible Note in 2016
Banter, Inc. develops Banter, a conversational commerce platform that helps customers to find and buy what they’re looking for. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Billie

Series A in 2019
Billie is a wellness company that offers high-quality shaving supplies and body products at a fair price, without the pink tax. Billie is committed to designing products that are uniquely built to provide women everyday TLC from top to toe. Shaving companies have always been created for men which may explain why people are still overpaying for women's razors and referred to as a goddess for shaving. Billie believes that women shouldn't be an afterthought in the shaving category and that they deserve to have a great shave without having to pay more for it. Billie was founded in 2017 and is based in New York.

Swivel Beauty, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Swivel creates a mobile app that help black women find the perfect hairdresser. The company's app lets women of color discover and book a stylists for their individual hair type and desired style, enabling women of color the missing resource for finding the right salon or stylist.

Mystore-E

Convertible Note in 2017
Mystore-E operates an online platform that provides insights on product performance for retail brands to update and improve in-store displays in real-time. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

WearAway

Convertible Note in 2016
WearAway, Inc. develops and operates an online wardrobe rental portal for film, TV, music, and advertising professionals. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York. As of January 14, 2019, WearAway, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Grin, Inc.