2048 Ventures

2048 Ventures, established in 2018 and headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, is a thesis-driven early-stage venture capital firm. It invests in visionary founders across the United States and Canada, focusing on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, health tech, biotechnology, and cybersecurity. The firm leads pre-seed and seed rounds, writing checks ranging from $500,000 to $2 million, and actively supports portfolio companies in closing the rest of their rounds. With a team comprising founders, experienced operators, and technology enthusiasts, 2048 Ventures is committed to understanding and backing innovative startups before others, providing high conviction leadership and strategic guidance.

Zann Ali

Partner

Sandra Pérez Baos Ph.D

Associate

Minda Brusse

Venture Partner

Daniella Cohen

Senior Associate

Zach Johnston

Associate

Julie Wolf

Principal

Gil Zimmermann

Investor

Past deals in Pre-Seed Round

Rondah

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Rondah specializes in providing an AI-driven receptionist solution tailored for dental practices. Their platform, an AI-based receptionist, manages calls, schedules appointments, and performs various tasks, aiming to enhance efficiency, improve patient support, and elevate the overall patient experience across multiple dental locations.

Cobalt ID

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Cobalt ID is a technology company that specializes in business identity verification to combat B2B fraud. Its AI-driven platform uses extensive business data and collective network knowledge to provide robust verifications, helping organizations effectively address and mitigate business-to-business fraud throughout the customer lifecycle.

Ripple AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Design beautiful marketing emails with AI

KiraGen Bio

Pre Seed Round in 2023
KiraGen Bio is a biotechnology company focused on enhancing CAR-T cell therapies to effectively target solid tumors. The company utilizes an innovative platform that combines AI-driven, combinatorial gene editing with advanced machine learning techniques. This approach aims to address the challenges posed by the complex tumor microenvironment, thereby unlocking the full therapeutic potential of CAR-T cells. KiraGen Bio's mission is to develop cutting-edge solutions that improve cancer treatment outcomes through the strategic application of genetic engineering and artificial intelligence.

Pageport

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Pageport is a technology company that assists businesses in creating tailored videos and websites for each potential customer. Its platform generates personalized landing pages using video, tracks interactions, and automates lead conversion, marketing, and client communication processes. This enables businesses to generate more leads and engage prospects at the optimal time.

Caravel Bio

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Caravel Bio is a biotechnology company focused on developing innovative solutions for sustainable chemical production. The firm specializes in creating chemicals and materials from renewable sources using its synthetic biochemistry platform. By engineering enzymes and enzyme carriers, Caravel Bio aims to enhance the efficiency of biomanufacturing processes, thereby reducing costs and enabling the production of high-quality products at competitive prices compared to traditional bio-based alternatives. The company's technology supports sustainable catalysis on a larger scale, making it a key player in the transition to environmentally friendly manufacturing practices.

Passage

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Passage is a platform that matches international talents with workforce needs. Its mission is to provide access to life-changing educational and career opportunities. By offering financial solutions (such as student loans, grants and scholarships), Passage is able to best facilitate a newcomer’s transition when moving abroad. This transformative platform serves as a comprehensive tool and companion, providing guidance and resources for newcomers to begin their journey to a new life.

BioLM

Pre Seed Round in 2023
BioLM is a company focused on enhancing the capabilities of biotech and life science organizations through the adoption of artificial intelligence. It offers a biological algorithm-based platform that enables users to run protein and DNA sequence classifiers, inference models, and custom de novo sequence generators efficiently. The platform features a range of advanced neural network models, natural language processing tools, and tokenizers for DNA and amino acids, allowing clients to develop machine learning-powered synthetic biology applications. BioLM's services include ready-to-use protein and DNA large language models accessible via API or no-code applications, as well as fine-tuning and professional services. By simplifying the process of deploying and scaling AI solutions, BioLM helps companies improve classification performance and extract valuable insights from biological sequences cost-effectively.

MyPocketCFO

Pre Seed Round in 2022
MyPocketCFO is an integrated platform designed to streamline financial management for small and medium-sized consumer brand businesses, particularly in the eCommerce sector. The platform offers a comprehensive understanding of a company's financial landscape, facilitating easy management of accounting, analysis, financing, and fundraising. MyPocketCFO enables users to automate bookkeeping tasks, allowing for the quick generation of insightful reports and financial statements. This all-in-one solution aims to enhance efficiency and provide clarity in financial operations, helping businesses make informed decisions based on real-time data.

Flare FS

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Flare is the all in one financial operating system for nonprofit organizations

Adaptis

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Adaptis is a decision-support platform focused on carbon reduction planning throughout the entire life cycle of building projects, including both existing and new constructions. The company aids building owners and consultants in enhancing return on investment and lowering costs associated with decarbonization, circularity, and resilience planning. By employing innovative methodologies, Adaptis generates design solutions while assessing them across various performance metrics from the early planning stages through to construction and maintenance. The platform offers features such as automated assessments of building conditions, material salvage value estimation, and deconstruction planning, thereby enabling clients to make informed decisions that reduce carbon footprints. Adaptis's approach leads to higher-quality design options at a significantly faster pace and lower costs compared to traditional consulting methods, ultimately resulting in enhanced economic performance and the achievement of decarbonization targets.

Stabl

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Stabl is a recovery services company focused on postoperative rehabilitation, providing a solution that transitions care from clinical settings to patients' homes. The company leverages real-time motion feedback technology to facilitate and monitor home exercise rehabilitation tailored to individual patients' goals, environments, and lifestyles. Stabl's platform includes a validated recovery protocol, comprehensive data analysis through custom reports and dashboards, and remote patient monitoring capabilities. This approach enables patients to receive timely recovery updates and share their progress with their medical teams, enhancing the overall rehabilitation experience.

Centro Commerce

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Centro is a tool designed to help merchants consolidate and synchronize operational data into a single dashboard. They automatically collect and consolidate data from multiple sources and also provide insights into inventory, purchases, and sales, enabling businesses to manage inventory efficiently and increase revenue.

Carma Community

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Carma Community is an early-stage startup focused on developing a comprehensive community management platform tailored for the Web3 ecosystem. The platform offers a centralized dashboard that allows clients to efficiently manage and grow their communities. By providing valuable insights, it aids users in making informed decisions to enhance community engagement and management. Carma Community aims to empower organizations to foster robust communities within the evolving landscape of Web3.

Alectify

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Provider of past construction project insights intended for electrical professionals. The company is developing a computer vision and natural language processing technology to extract meaningful insights from thousands of electrical documents and use a recommendation engine for equipment design reviews, enabling electrical contractors to use learnings from past projects to avoid expensive design mistakes and identify cost-saving opportunities

Basis Health

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Basis is a biofeedback platform for people to monitor and improve their health using wearables and health data. They transform the users health data into actionable insights and allow their users to do health planning on autopilot.

Combo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Combo is a video editing platform designed for content creators, enabling them to craft engaging clips for video-sharing platforms. The application facilitates the automatic import of video clips from various streaming sources, allowing users to edit their content by trimming, combining layers, and adding text, overlays, and watermarks. Additionally, Combo offers layout templates to enhance the editing process. By streamlining the creation and sharing of video content, Combo helps users build their communities and expand their social networking presence.

Inso Biosciences

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Inso Biosciences is an early-stage biotechnology company focused on developing innovative hardware platforms and tools for genomic sample handling. Utilizing patented microfluidic technology originally invented at Cornell University, Inso Biosciences enhances the efficiency of processing cellular material. The company's platform is designed to facilitate genomic analysis, including applications in long-read DNA extraction, multiomic sample processing, and pathogen surveillance. By enabling healthcare and biotechnology companies to effectively separate and isolate cellular components, Inso Biosciences aims to transform the landscape of biological sample preparation.

Daily Blends

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Daily Blends operates a network of smart fridges that provide a curated selection of chef-prepared meals and healthy snacks for on-the-go consumption. The company collaborates with food and beverage producers to stock its fridges with fresh ingredients and meals, including salad bowls, snacks, and beverages. By offering convenient access to nutritious food options, Daily Blends aims to make healthy eating affordable and accessible for customers.

Impilo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Impilo is a developer of digital health operating systems aimed at improving the infrastructure underlying remote healthcare. Through its full-stack middleware technology, the company's systems provide an e-commerce and application programming interface for handling purchases, logistics, and configuration, allowing hospitals and healthcare organizations to manage their digital health remote patient monitoring devices and supplies.

Aclid

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Aclid is a biotechnology security and compliance automation platform that provides essential services to companies involved in gene synthesis and related fields. The platform assists in verifying customers and screening DNA and RNA orders for pathogenic and hazardous elements. By automating compliance inspections, Aclid enables organizations such as governments and biotechnology providers to conduct responsible research. Its focus lies in ensuring safety and regulatory adherence in the handling of genetic materials, thereby supporting the integrity of the biotechnology sector.

Groundfloor

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Groundfloor is a club that gives members access to facilities and spaces that use design and community to bring people together, allowing members to help and elevate work, social life, and leisure.

Impacked

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Impacked is an innovative online marketplace specifically designed for primary packaging. The company aims to streamline the packaging sourcing process by providing a platform where brands and suppliers can easily connect and collaborate. Impacked equips suppliers with tools to enhance their sales and marketing efforts, while clients benefit from a user-friendly interface that allows them to search, filter, sample, quote, and purchase packaging options tailored to their needs. By modernizing the way packaging is sourced, Impacked positions itself as a comprehensive solution for all primary packaging requirements.

Kanary

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kanary provides solutions to assist people in protecting their digital identities. Kanary detects and removes unnecessary personal data from any website that could put people in danger. Kanary monitors the locations of people's data on the internet. Kanary specializes in data used in account takeovers, impersonation attempts, and spam.

H2Ok Innovations

Pre Seed Round in 2021
H2Ok Innovations specializes in the development of advanced water quality monitoring technology aimed at optimizing industrial liquid systems in manufacturing processes. The company employs data-driven optimization methods that leverage artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) techniques to monitor water quality. H2Ok Innovations offers a comprehensive range of software and hardware solutions, including sensors that collect real-time data on water chemistry. This technology enables industries to effectively assess water quality, manage contaminants, and enhance operational efficiency, ultimately supporting sustainable access to clean water.

Flyp

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Flyp is a company focused on addressing landfill waste by leveraging artificial intelligence to facilitate the resale of used goods through a decentralized network of online sellers. The company empowers everyday individuals, including stay-at-home parents and small entrepreneurs, to turn millions of items that would otherwise end up in landfills into profitable sales. Flyp's innovative platform includes AI-driven technology that matches pre-owned items with suitable resellers, optimizing the selling process. Additionally, Flyp offers a suite of automation tools that streamlines inventory and sales management, significantly reducing the time resellers spend on these tasks. This approach not only promotes environmental sustainability by recirculating items in the marketplace but also generates economic opportunities by creating jobs for a growing community of resellers. By transforming waste into a source of income, Flyp aims to establish a circular economy that benefits consumers, businesses, and the environment alike.

BioBox Analytics

Pre Seed Round in 2020
BioBox Analytics is a software company that offers smart biological search engine to harvest insights from thousands of public and own datasets. The company's software is designed to maximize the value of NGS data.

Dathic

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Dathic, Inc. is a technology company based in New York that specializes in artificial intelligence and data analytics solutions tailored for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. Founded in 2020, Dathic offers a range of products and services, including Dathic Growth, Dathic Locator, consultancy services, and Dathic Ads. The company focuses on helping brands effectively engage with the Hispanic consumer market, one of the fastest-growing demographics in the United States. Through its AI-driven platform, Dathic provides insights that assist research, marketing, and sales teams in understanding the unique needs and cultural characteristics of diverse communities. This enables CPG companies and their partners to develop and implement targeted sales and marketing strategies that resonate authentically with multicultural consumers.

Atlas

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Core benefits (health-care, life insurance and mental health) for all team members including contractors in 45 countries.

Ribbit

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Ribbit is developing an autonomous aircraft management platform aimed at establishing the world's first pilot-less airline. The company's technology utilizes a combination of off-the-shelf hardware and proprietary software to replicate all functions of a commercial pilot, including flying, takeoff, landing, taxiing, and voice communication. This innovation enables businesses to efficiently and cost-effectively transport goods, particularly to remote areas. Ribbit's mission is to enhance access to reliable transportation, thereby empowering individuals to improve their lives through better mobility options.

Nextmv

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Nextmv is a DecisionOps platform designed to enhance the efficiency of optimization AI teams by providing essential tools for deployment, testing, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), collaboration, and management of decision models. The platform enables developers to build scalable and customized decision services, featuring unique API endpoints and the ability to integrate with well-known solvers and modeling solutions. As a globally distributed startup, Nextmv has secured funding from notable investors, including FirstMark Capital and YCombinator, and is supported by leaders from various prominent tech companies.

Airspace Link

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Airspace Link, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing software solutions for the management of local government airspace for drones. Founded in 2018 and based in Michigan, the company offers a range of products designed to facilitate safe and efficient drone operations. Its key offerings include AirRegistry, which automates approvals for drone package deliveries; AirInspect, a set of tools for inspecting and approving drone delivery sites; AirHub, which generates necessary infrastructure for drone delivery networks, such as flight corridors and no-fly zones; and AirLink, enabling state and local governments to collaborate with drone delivery services. By digitizing local airspace, Airspace Link supports urban air mobility and promotes the responsible growth of drone operations for businesses, citizens, and government entities.

Hey Astro

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Hey Astro is a SaaS company that streamline day to day activities, assign bookings, and get real-time updates. It's a simple app that helps small business owners book more clients, get paid instantly, and organize their teams. Hey Astro was founded in 2019 and is based in New York.
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