ZenStone Venture Capital

ZenStone believes a new era of technology innovation and business opportunity is emerging in the application layer, by leveraging massively connected people, sensors, data, and computing infrastructure. As the application revolution continues developing, AI, Blockchain, Cloud and Data technology becomes both extremely relevant and critical to success. ZenStone invests in mission-driven founders with the combined strength of vision and action, building game-changing companies in massive markets, i.e. Consumer, Real Estate, Financial Service, Internet of Things, and Small & Medium Business Service. ZenStone typically participates in post-seed rounds with proven track records, strong existing investors, and validated founder-product-market fits.

40 past transactions

DecorMatters

Venture Round in 2019
DecorMatters is building the world’s first blockchain-based creativity ecosystem to reshape the trillion-dollar interior design and furniture shopping industry. By using the power of creativity and converting the stressful home renovation process into a relaxing social gaming experience, DecorMatters is re-inventing the traditional customer journey for the massive industry. With 6,000,000+ active designers, 2,000,000+ creations, 30+ national brands, 1,000,000+ furniture items, and unlimited collaboration opportunities, the leading creativity platform continues its rapid growth by leveraging AR, AI and Data, and Blockchain technology.

Bolt

Series A in 2018
Bolt is on a mission to democratize commerce. Bolt strengthens retailers’ relationships with their customers by unlocking secure, logged-in, lightning-fast checkouts. The company’s rapidly growing network of one-click-checkout-ready shoppers visits Bolt merchants as if they are return customers. Hundreds of retailers including, REVOLVE, Casper, Badgley Mischka, and LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics leverage Bolt to offer their shoppers the seamless checkout experiences they’ve come to expect across the internet. Bolt was established in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

EquityZen

Series B in 2017
Since 2013, the EquityZen marketplace has made it easy to buy and sell shares in the private companies shaping the future. EquityZen brings together investors and shareholders, providing liquidity to early shareholders and private market access to accredited investors. With low investment minimums through our funds and with more than 37,000 private placements completed across 400+ companies, EquityZen leads the way in delivering “Private Markets for the Public”.

Nav

Series B in 2017
Nav is a free site and app that gives business owners the fastest, easiest and most trusted path to financing. The leading Business Financial Management app, Nav gives free access to personal and business credit reports from major consumer and commercial credit bureaus including Experian, Dun & Bradstreet, Equifax and TransUnion, and hosts a robust marketplace with more than 100 business financing products including loans and credit cards. The marketplace uses a unique, lender-neutral approach to help business owners find the best financing options for their needs. Nav's solution is also leveraged by other business service providers to enhance their customer experience.

DecorMatters

Seed Round in 2017
DecorMatters is building the world’s first blockchain-based creativity ecosystem to reshape the trillion-dollar interior design and furniture shopping industry. By using the power of creativity and converting the stressful home renovation process into a relaxing social gaming experience, DecorMatters is re-inventing the traditional customer journey for the massive industry. With 6,000,000+ active designers, 2,000,000+ creations, 30+ national brands, 1,000,000+ furniture items, and unlimited collaboration opportunities, the leading creativity platform continues its rapid growth by leveraging AR, AI and Data, and Blockchain technology.

Kinsa

Series B in 2017
Kinsa is transforming how people care for themselves, their families, and their communities using mobile technologies and products. These same products empower society with tools to track the spread of disease in real-time and stop it. Their first product is a low-cost smartphone-connected thermometer. It allows us to communicate with people who have just fallen ill. It does not simply tell the temperature, rather it transforms the way of caring of the family.

DecorMatters

Seed Round in 2016
DecorMatters is building the world’s first blockchain-based creativity ecosystem to reshape the trillion-dollar interior design and furniture shopping industry. By using the power of creativity and converting the stressful home renovation process into a relaxing social gaming experience, DecorMatters is re-inventing the traditional customer journey for the massive industry. With 6,000,000+ active designers, 2,000,000+ creations, 30+ national brands, 1,000,000+ furniture items, and unlimited collaboration opportunities, the leading creativity platform continues its rapid growth by leveraging AR, AI and Data, and Blockchain technology.

Sourceeasy

Seed Round in 2016
Operator of an apparel and textiles manufacturing platform intended to re-invent the way clothing is made. The company's web application helps merchants to develop and source their private label merchandise, bringing the process of apparel manufacturing all under one roof, enabling businesses to test new markets and focus on their business.

Wrapify

Convertible Note in 2016
Wrapify is an omni-channel advertising company for brands powered by the gig-economy. With a powerful combination of OOH, digital, and the gig economy, Wrapify empowers Fortune 500 brands to reach audiences in an omnichannel environment while delivering measurable, actionable analytics to prove its effectiveness. This high-recall ad tech platform combines the impact of out of home advertising with the scalability, targeting, and accountability of digital. Brands including AT&T, Coca-Cola, and Salesforce reach and engage audiences that interact with Wrapified vehicles across channels and devices, driving awareness, attribution, and conversion. It enables brands to target and scale ad campaigns nationwide, across screens and channels, as well as access to data in real-time to measure performance. 200,000+ drivers in the US use the Wrapify app to earn extra income simply by driving. Founded in 2015 and recently named #309 on the 2019 Inc. 500, Wrapify is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Roofstock

Series A in 2016
Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes in a transparent and low-friction way. The company provides its clients with research, analytics, and insights to evaluate and purchase independently certified properties at set prices. It enables its investors to treat their real estate investments more like stock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation, rather than researching, and buying vacant homes that need to be repaired and leased. Founded in 2015, Roofstock gets its funding from Bain Capital, Ron Conway, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, and other investment companies. It is headquartered in Oakland, California.

SchoolMint

Series A in 2016
SchoolMint provides a cloud-based student enrollment and school choice platform to PreK-12 school systems worldwide. Since its founding in 2013, more than 6,000 schools have chosen SchoolMint to streamline all aspects of student enrollment - student registration management, application, lottery, and school choice management, and digital forms and document uploads. Available online and on mobile devices, SchoolMint integrates with leading student information systems (SIS) and transforms the end-to-end enrollment experience for school staff and parents. Visit http://www.SchoolMint.com to learn more.

Branch

Series B in 2016
Branch is the linking and measurement partner for growth-focused teams, trusted to maximize the value of their evolving digital strategies. World-class brands like Instacart, Western Union, NBCUniversal, Zocdoc and Sephora rely on Branch to acquire users, retain customers and drive more conversions.

Rentlytics

Series A in 2016
Rentlytics is building the platform to transform the world’s real estate data into accessible information. Today, Rentlytics technologies are actively powering many of the largest real estate investment management firms in the world. Rentlytics is trusted to deliver the information and the tools necessary to make sustainable, high-return portfolio decisions in the increasingly complex market. The Rentlytics Team is a diverse, spirited group of technologists committed to addressing the needs of modern real estate investment management while fundamentally improving the industry through better technology. The Company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA with a satellite offices in Sacramento, CA and Denver, CO.

Boatbound

Venture Round in 2015
Provider of a peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace intended to create safe and unique boat rental experiences at any price. The company's online boat-rental marketplace enables users in cities around the world to rent out their personal boats to travelers, enabling them to offset their boat ownership costs.

Circle Medical

Seed Round in 2015
Circle Medical provides primary care Doctors in-person at your home or work. Your care will be led by one of their board-certified physicians, all of whom were selected for their experience and patient-centered approach. Doctor visits are insured under most plans. Using the app, you may scan your insurance card to check for eligibility and coverage. Doctors are available in San Francisco including evenings and weekends.

AutoFi

Seed Round in 2015
AutoFi is a commerce platform delivering point of sale solution for financing a vehicle online. The platform allows consumers to purchase and finance a vehicle entirely online through a seamless user experience and an automated application and approval process. The company's platform connects an auto dealer’s customers to a network of lenders, providing a fast, mobile-first checkout experience. It provides vehicle buyers instant full spectrum decisions with customizable terms.

Instamotor

Venture Round in 2015
Instamotor is a trusted used car mobile marketplace. With Instamotor, you can list, browse and transact for free. Buying a car in the private-party market has never been safer. Instamotor pre-screens every vehicle for fraud and helps buyers avoid getting scammed.

Able Lending

Series A in 2015
Able is the lowest-cost online lender to small businesses in the nation. Our passion is to fund businesses at any stage with a new kind of loan that lets borrowers get more capital at lower rates when they recruit some support from friends, family and fans. On average Able’s borrowers save $31,000 on loans between $25,000 and $1,000,000. Able is “more than a loan.” We connect extraordinary entrepreneurs with additional capital, community resources, and expert advice when it’s time to grow. To learn more, nominate your favorite business, or get pre-approved in 1 minute visit: www.ablelending.com

Popular Pays

Series A in 2015
Popular Pays is a platform connecting content creators with brands who want the content to tell their stories. It is a tech company, with an in-house built iOS app and dashboard that delivers direct communication, workflow tools, and powerful statistics.

Dwell

Series B in 2015
Dwell Media has been a champion and purveyor of modern design for over a decade. Through an expanding offering of 11 media platforms, including digital, events, and its award-winning magazine, Dwell offers smart and thoughtful ideas for modern living to more than 2.1 million people.

Crew

Series A in 2015
Crew is a curated platform that connects designers and developers with vetted clients that need a website, mobile app, or other design work. The company's highly trusted network of independent creatives has worked on products used by tens of millions of people for some of the industry's biggest companies, including Apple, Google, Uber, IDEO, and Dropbox. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.

Descomplica

Series C in 2015
Descomplica offers an educational platform that provides students with subject and course materials. It provides students with pre-recorded classes, live classes, online monitoring for math and science subjects. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

NewsWhip

Venture Round in 2015
NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term. NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies, including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social. NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.

Filament

Series A in 2015
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT. Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.

RealCrowd

Seed Round in 2015
RealCrowd builds relationships with commercial real estate companies and invests directly in their investment opportunities. This unique crowd-based equity platform was created by experienced commercial real estate investment professionals to allow to decide where the money is invested by offering direct investments. Pooling money with other like-minded investors and working with a seasoned real estate operator with the skills, knowledge, and experience to optimize the asset will remove the traditional barriers to entry that typically exist in commercial real estate investing.

Shyp

Series B in 2015
Shyp provides shipping services that range from picking-up the package to delivering it to the destination. It connects the package to USPS, FedEx, UPS, OnTrac, or other regional carriers - automatically figuring out the best carrier to use for each individual delivery. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Vacatia

Series A in 2015
Vacatia is the resort marketplace for vacationing families and friends. Our mission is to make family vacations better and to help family resorts thrive. We make it easy for guests to find and instantly book their perfect resort residence, combining the space of a home and the services of a hotel. Vacatia provides real-time rental listings, large photos, floor plans, and detailed resort information, supported by Vacatia Guest Care and multiple flexible payment options. We work with 600+ select professionally managed resorts and resort residence owners at leading hospitality, vacation ownership (timeshare) and premier independent resorts. No private homes or hotels allowed! Vacatia also partners with select brands to operate vacation ownership marketplaces. In addition, we are a growing property manager of independent vacation resorts throughout the country. Vacatia is a member of the Family Travel Association and the American Resort Development Association (ARDA), which named Vacatia the winner of the "ACE Innovator Award: Industry Partner" category of the 2017 ARDA Awards. Recently, we were named to the a16z Marketplace 100 list. Vacatia is venture-backed, was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cobalt Software

Seed Round in 2015
Cobalt Software enables private equity and venture capital firms can collect, analyze, and report on fund and portfolio company metrics the way they want. Cobalt works with management, finance, valuations, investor relations, and deal teams at private equity and venture capital firms to build a suite of data and reporting solutions that suit their firm size and investment style. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

AirDog

Seed Round in 2015
Airdog is an electronics manufacturing company that develops autonomous action sports drones intended to capture videos from the ground up. Their product uses a combination of unique motion prediction technologies and follows algorithms enabling users to capture the world around, them hands-free and in the perfect frame every time.

HomeLight

Series A in 2015
HomeLight is a real estate platform that helps you to purchase and sell homes. Their platform can help you find a real estate agent based on local market data. Their suite of innovative products enables agents, lenders, and their clients to upgrade to all-cash offers, buy a new home before selling their current home, or create certainty through a modern closing process.

Pillow

Venture Round in 2015
Pillow provides Internet-based management services. It offers information about a property, essential amenities, and other apartments and houses. The company is an Expedia group that solves short-term rentals for multifamily properties, allowing building owners and property managers to have control and transparency over short-term rentals while enabling their residents to rent their units short-term on listings sites such as Homeaway, VRBO, and Airbnb.

Kinsa

Series A in 2014
Kinsa is transforming how people care for themselves, their families, and their communities using mobile technologies and products. These same products empower society with tools to track the spread of disease in real-time and stop it. Their first product is a low-cost smartphone-connected thermometer. It allows us to communicate with people who have just fallen ill. It does not simply tell the temperature, rather it transforms the way of caring of the family.

UpCounsel

Seed Round in 2014
UpCounsel operates an online marketplace for businesses to find and hire legal help based on their preferences in the United States. Its marketplace allows the users to access lawyers for legal need. UpCounsel provides services in the areas of agreements, business formation, patents, trademarks, immigration, general counsel, labor and employment, and securities and finance. It serves legal departments, executives, HR departments, and startups. Mason Blake and Matthew Faustman founded UpCounsel in 2011. It has its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Peer5

Venture Round in 2014
Peer5 operates the world’s largest peer-to-peer (p2p) content delivery network. Peer5's P2P CDN improves content delivery for live and on demand video streams. As video streaming continues to become more mainstream and the streams themselves become HD and 4K, traditional CDNs struggle to deliver high quality viewing experiences. Many publishers try to keep up with peak demand by paying for more servers, many of which are almost never used and struggle with video playback. Not only is this expensive, but it's also inefficient, which is why at Peer5, they have created a P2P CDN to boost your video streaming capabilities.

LeadGenius

Series A in 2014
LeadGenius is an end-to-end sales solution that provides companies with a way to generate, qualify, deliver, and convert leads. It helps sales teams grow and scale across all levels of the sales process. LeadGenius was launched by Anand Kulkarni, Prayag Narula, and Dave Rolnitzky in 2011.

Cobalt Software

Seed Round in 2014
Cobalt Software enables private equity and venture capital firms can collect, analyze, and report on fund and portfolio company metrics the way they want. Cobalt works with management, finance, valuations, investor relations, and deal teams at private equity and venture capital firms to build a suite of data and reporting solutions that suit their firm size and investment style. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Lenda

Seed Round in 2014
Lenda is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of home loan, no fee, and cash-out refinancing. It offers an online platform that enables individuals to refinance their home loans online. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MoviePass

Series A in 2014
MoviePass Inc. was a subscription-based service that allowed customers in the United States to attend movies in theaters for a fixed monthly price. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the service utilized a mobile application to enable users to check into their chosen theaters, browse showtimes, and share their movie experiences on social networks. MoviePass offered access to a wide range of theatrical releases with no blackout dates, aiming to enhance the movie-going experience. The company had strategic partnerships, including one with Flix Brewhouse, to expand its offerings. However, MoviePass faced financial difficulties and filed for voluntary liquidation under Chapter 7 in January 2020, ultimately becoming a subsidiary of Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.

Enevo

Series A in 2014
Enevo works with its customers to transform the financial, environmental and social impact of waste. Founded in 2010, Enevo began providing waste data from dumpster sensors using its proprietary analytics software. Enevo now provides full management of waste and recycling services for restaurant, retail and commercial property customers throughout North America. It provides the first predictive end-to-end solution that automates the whole planning and operations of waste and recycling logistics. Enevo has raised more than $34M in private equity funding to date and continues to invest in technology and new processes to deliver the peace of mind its customers need.

Life360

Series C in 2014
Life360 is a platform for today’s busy families, bringing them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate with, and protect the people they care about most. Their mobile app provides millions of families in over 140 countries with services such as private location sharing, location history, drive details, crash detection, roadside assistance and help alerts through our free and paid membership subscription. Life360 has raised +$100M from Bessemer Venture Partners, DCM, Fontinalis Partners, BMW iVentures, Allstate, Bullpen Capital, Founders Fund (FF Angel), Launch Capital, Kapor Capital, and 500 startups. Founded in 2008, Life360 is based in San Francisco with offices in San Diego, Las Vegas, and Ft. Lauderdale.
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