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Para

Series A in 2022
At Para we're building a better gig economy by focusing on the most important part - the worker. Our app helps drivers choose better trips, reduce downtime, and find the best opportunities more efficiently. With Para, workers gig smarter, work safer, and earn more.

Ledgebrook

Seed Round in 2022
Ledgebrook is a tech-enabled E&S MGA looking to provide the fastest, easiest quoting experience to wholesale brokers while delivering best-in-class pricing and risk selection via their innovative next-gen tech stack. Led by insurance industry veterans, the ultimate vision for Ledgebrook is to become a globally diversified reinsurer built from the ground up with modern technology.

Adgile Media Group

Seed Round in 2022
Adgile Media Group is a truckside advertising company that monitors the audience, reach, and effectiveness of digital exposure. They offer to expand its geographic presence, broaden its branding, advance the development of proprietary technology, and hire qualified new employees in sales, data science, and engineering.
Frame develops an evidence-based platform for early detection of risk and care navigation to inform family building and planning. Its approach alleviates a downstream and often costly health crisis for patients, employers, and payers.

BriteCo

Series A in 2022
Their cloud-based BriteCo Appraisal Management System is the gateway to making the jeweler’s life easier and more productive—-and customers happier and more secure with immediate insurance coverage of their fine jewelry and watches.

Returnity Innovations

Series A in 2022
Returnity replaces single-use shipping and delivery packaging by designing, manufacturing and implementing reusable packaging and circular logistics systems. They support Walmart, Rent the Runway, New Balance, Estee Lauder and others. The average Returnity bag or box is used for 20 shipments ( with a 95.5% return rate), and the company facilitates 500K+ shipments a month.

Relief

Series A in 2022
Relief is a mobile app that delivers on debt-elimination commitment. They aim to become the company that people come to for help getting back in the black. By developing products and services that are simple, effective, and easy to use, they will make financial relief accessible to those who need it.

Yumi

Series B in 2021
Yumi is the definitive source for parents seeking to understand what they are feeding their children and why, offering a science-based early childhood meal delivery program that is the most convenient and most nutritional option in the market.

Mixlab

Series A in 2021
Mixlab is a veterinary pharmacy. They provide veterinary medications and wellness products for pets. They deliver medicines. They enable pet owners to have custom medicines as per the requirements of their pets.

Hello Cake

Seed Round in 2021
Hello Cake is a sexual health and wellness brand that offers a line of prescription medication, supplements, lubricants, and devices. The company's products are inspired by real couples and tested across the spectrum of sexual preferences before launch.

ChannelApe

Series A in 2021
ChannelApe's enterprise fulfillment SaaS scales direct-to-consumer brands by separating supply chain software from physical operations.

Two Robbers Hard Seltzer

Series A in 2021
Two Robbers Hard Seltzer offers a range of hard seltzers, including watermelon and cucumber, orange and pineapple with ginger flavors.

You Go Natural

Seed Round in 2021
You Go Natural sells natural hair accessories, including pre-tied natural hair wraps in awesome prints and styles. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Small Door

Series A in 2021
Small Door provides veterinary services that are elevated, customer-centric, and hospitality-infused. The company offers superior care, unrivaled transparency, and tech-enabled convenience to help pets and pet parents live better lives together. Small Door operates 13 veterinary practices in New York City, Boston, and Washington DC and has delivered tens of thousands of member consultations.

Origin

Seed Round in 2021
Origin provides physical therapy services. They focus on pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and sexual health. They also offer physical therapy for the pelvic floor and the whole body.

Scratch Kitchen

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Scratch Kitchen provides burritos, vegetarian sandwiches, desserts, salads, chicken wings, chicken sandwiches, beverages, sandwiches, and soup. Their customer can order food online on their website.

Own Up

Series B in 2021
Own Up is a home loan marketplace intended to help clients find mortgages and lenders. They make sure no borrower overpays for their mortgage. Their technology provides clients with customized data so they know exactly what they should pay on their mortgage.

Parlor

Seed Round in 2020
Parlor is an online curatorial platform that helps collectors discover artwork worth investing in. It is committed to sharing insights and learnings on the rapidly growing ultra-contemporary art market.

Hello Cake

Seed Round in 2020
Hello Cake is a sexual health and wellness brand that offers a line of prescription medication, supplements, lubricants, and devices. The company's products are inspired by real couples and tested across the spectrum of sexual preferences before launch.

Grayce

Seed Round in 2020
Grayce is a social care management platform that provides elderly care services to support and guide family caregivers. It focuses on personalized guidance and support for insurance, finances, legal plans, medical care, home care, housing, daily needs, and well-being. Each member receives dedicated support from a social worker who manages their comprehensive care needs—from planning and prioritizing to identifying resources, coordinating care, and advocating on their behalf.

Crown Affair

Seed Round in 2020
Crown Affair is a hair-care brand that specializes in luxury products and consumer goods. The company offers a variety of haircare products, including shampoos, conditioners, hair oils, and treatment masks. These products are formulated with natural ingredients and are free from harmful chemicals like sulfates, parabens, and silicones. Crown Affair emphasizes mindful practices and self-care rituals, aiming to transform the way people approach haircare.

Crown Affair

Seed Round in 2020
Crown Affair is a hair-care brand that specializes in luxury products and consumer goods. The company offers a variety of haircare products, including shampoos, conditioners, hair oils, and treatment masks. These products are formulated with natural ingredients and are free from harmful chemicals like sulfates, parabens, and silicones. Crown Affair emphasizes mindful practices and self-care rituals, aiming to transform the way people approach haircare.

Jinx

Seed Round in 2019
Jinx is a dog wellness brand that primarily sells dog foods online. It delivers optimal nutritional health dogs need to eat a high-quality protein medley from both animal and plant sources in the right proportions. Jinx online shop provides nutrition options with purposeful ingredients that they can recognize. The company was founded in 2019 with a mission to build a community of like-minded dog parents that take pride in how they care and connect with their fur babies.

Koio

Series A in 2019
Koio Collective is a consumer goods company that offers calf-skin leathers and hand-finished footwear for gents and ladies. The company is driven by its mission is to create their personal dream shoe, one that would accompany them on any quest and adapt to any situation. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Prefix

Seed Round in 2019
PreFix enables you to stop spending time worrying about your home and save 30-50% off annual maintenance costs.

Weller

Seed Round in 2019
Weller is a wellness company based in Boulder, Colorado.

Mixlab

Seed Round in 2019
Mixlab is a veterinary pharmacy. They provide veterinary medications and wellness products for pets. They deliver medicines. They enable pet owners to have custom medicines as per the requirements of their pets.

The Wonder

Venture Round in 2019
The Wonder’s design makes clear that the space has been created for families. Members enter to a Dyson-sponsored “stroller valet,” where they can park their strollers in a closet and return to oiled wheels and a full detailing. The parents-only lounge connects to the café—serving wine and “milk flights” of regular, chocolate, and strawberry—through a hidden entrance, so parents don’t have to run past their kids yelling “Mom!” to get a drink. The bathroom boasts a deeper-than-usual sink for cleaning up diaper emergencies and a hand-dryer at kid level. The track list will play clean versions of Beyoncé songs instead of the “Itsy Bitsy Spider.”

Small Door

Seed Round in 2019
Small Door provides veterinary services that are elevated, customer-centric, and hospitality-infused. The company offers superior care, unrivaled transparency, and tech-enabled convenience to help pets and pet parents live better lives together. Small Door operates 13 veterinary practices in New York City, Boston, and Washington DC and has delivered tens of thousands of member consultations.

Clove

Seed Round in 2019
Clove produces sneakers designed for healthcare professionals. The company collaborated with a network of healthcare professionals and innovative designers to create a stylish shoe that puts the needs of those on the front lines of healthcare first.

Kids on 45th

Seed Round in 2019
building a box of kid's everyday essentials with low prices on high quality nearly-new clothing.

HENRY The Dentist

Series A in 2019
HENRY rolls up to corporate offices with a state-of-the-art mobile dental practice and has a brick-and-mortar facility in New Providence, New Jersey. They deliver in-network dental services at your company site through a high-end, technology enabled mobile practice. We charge your company's insurance, not your employees. It's a win-win.

Eden Health

Series A in 2019
Eden Health is a primary care and insurance navigation company for employers, designed to elevate the health and wellbeing of employees everywhere. It helps employees navigate today’s complicated healthcare landscape across insurance, primary care and mental healthcare, so they can make smart, well-informed, and cost-conscious decisions.

StayTuned

Seed Round in 2019
StayTuned is building a suite of tools to help high growth e-commerce brands grow even faster. Our focus is on Shopify, the go-to platform for e-commerce brands. We are backed by top tier institutional VCs and well known angel investors.

Leap

Seed Round in 2018
Leap enables brands to deploy modern, immersive retail stores that drive growth and acquire customers. By leveraging millions of data points and a platform strategy, Leap makes physical retail more productive and less risky for brands. Its platform also follows a technology-enabled approach and includes all aspects of store development and operations, including physical space, staffing, and managing all technology infrastructure that helps consumer brands to grow and deepen their customer brand experience. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

The Sill

Series A in 2018
The Sill offers ceramic planters potted with houseplants. It was created with a simple ambition, to inspire people to bring more of the outdoors in. Their mission is to make the experience of discovering the perfect potted plants as wonderful as the plants themselves. The Sill is the source that bridges the gap between plants and people - offering products and services that fit with your personal style, your lifestyle, and your budget.

Smilo

Series A in 2018
Smilo is the new direct-to-consumer brand for essential baby products lovingly perfected by doctors, scientists, and engineers. From fuss-free bottles to palate-supporting pacifiers, Smilo's got you and your baby covered! Web: https://www.smilobaby.com

LOLA

Series B in 2018
LOLA provides a subscription service intended to deliver feminine care essentials. It is the first lifelong brand for a woman’s body, providing the transparency and candor women deserve when it comes to products and content for their reproductive health. It was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Koio

Series A in 2018
Koio Collective is a consumer goods company that offers calf-skin leathers and hand-finished footwear for gents and ladies. The company is driven by its mission is to create their personal dream shoe, one that would accompany them on any quest and adapt to any situation. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Floyd

Series A in 2018
Floyd is a direct-to-consumer furniture brand that changes the way people consume, keep, and enjoy their furniture. Alexander O'Dell and Kyle Hoff co-founded the company in Detroit, Michigan in 2013.

HENRY The Dentist

Seed Round in 2017
HENRY rolls up to corporate offices with a state-of-the-art mobile dental practice and has a brick-and-mortar facility in New Providence, New Jersey. They deliver in-network dental services at your company site through a high-end, technology enabled mobile practice. We charge your company's insurance, not your employees. It's a win-win.

Floravere

Seed Round in 2017
Floravere is an integrated, direct-to-consumer wedding dress brand. The company takes the hassle out of the wedding dress buying experience. Instead of inefficient, lengthy bridal appointments, Floravere brings the the bridal dress buying experience in home. After a virtual consultation, the bride-to-be chooses 3 dresses (out of 14 options) she would like shipped to her home. The bride box arrives a few days later to the customer’s doorstep.

Rep the Squad

Seed Round in 2017
Rep The Squad is a subscription-based club that provides fans the power of choice with access to a wide range of officially licensed professional sports jerseys, making it easier to amplify their fandom. Based in Seattle, Rep The Squad is co-founded and led by veteran e-commerce executive Brian Watkins. The company was developed at Madrona Venture Labs and is backed by notable investors including Madrona Venture Group, Maveron, and Aspect Ventures, as well as champion athletes Doug Baldwin, Golden Tate and Russell Okung. An investment fund associated with the owners and executives of the San Francisco 49ers also join the Rep The Squad team as official partners. Starting at launch, Seattle’s All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman will serve as a brand ambassador.

The Sill

Seed Round in 2017
The Sill offers ceramic planters potted with houseplants. It was created with a simple ambition, to inspire people to bring more of the outdoors in. Their mission is to make the experience of discovering the perfect potted plants as wonderful as the plants themselves. The Sill is the source that bridges the gap between plants and people - offering products and services that fit with your personal style, your lifestyle, and your budget.

Revere

Seed Round in 2017
Revere is an elite sports nutrition company, but our products are different - we use only natural ingredients, so you never have to choose between better performance and better health. With formulas designed to meet the demands of the world’s most elite athletes to the weekend warrior, our mission is to maximize human performance for everyone. Our delicious formulas - plant-based and with no sketchy ingredients - come in on-the-go, single serving packets. Revere is a direct-to-consumer company that delivers products straight to your door with a best-in-class customer experience. Taking on the $82B nutritional supplement market, Revere has raised a $3.5M seed round from Lerer Hippeau, Brand Foundry, Sterling VC and a network of notable angels. Revere is elite sports nutrition, powered by nature.

Yumi

Seed Round in 2017
Yumi is the definitive source for parents seeking to understand what they are feeding their children and why, offering a science-based early childhood meal delivery program that is the most convenient and most nutritional option in the market.

Smilo

Seed Round in 2017
Smilo is the new direct-to-consumer brand for essential baby products lovingly perfected by doctors, scientists, and engineers. From fuss-free bottles to palate-supporting pacifiers, Smilo's got you and your baby covered! Web: https://www.smilobaby.com

LOLA

Series A in 2016
LOLA provides a subscription service intended to deliver feminine care essentials. It is the first lifelong brand for a woman’s body, providing the transparency and candor women deserve when it comes to products and content for their reproductive health. It was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Goby

Seed Round in 2016
BGLG, Inc., doing business as Goby, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of electronic toothbrushes. It sells its products online.

Rockets of Awesome

Seed Round in 2016
Rockets of Awesome is a direct-to-consumer kids' apparel brand, designing and selling over-the-top clothes. Rockets of Awesome is reinventing the way parents shop for kids by leveraging technology, data, brand, personalization, and exceptional merchandise.

Koio

Seed Round in 2016
Koio Collective is a consumer goods company that offers calf-skin leathers and hand-finished footwear for gents and ladies. The company is driven by its mission is to create their personal dream shoe, one that would accompany them on any quest and adapt to any situation. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Allbirds

Seed Round in 2016
Allbirds is an apparel and fashion company that specializes in manufacturing eco-friendly wool shoes. It is dedicated to making the most sustainable footwear using premium natural materials, designed for the to and fro of everyday life. The company is driven by a mission to prove that comfort, good design, and sustainability don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Its commitment to making better shoes in a better way is fueled by a belief that the shoe industry needs to focus less on flash and more on thoughtfulness. Allbirds is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2015.

Jewelbots

Seed Round in 2015
Jewelbots are a customizable mesh network of programmable jewelry aimed at cultivating the interest of teenage girls in engineering and coding. Using basic engineering logic, you can create personal alerts and communicate with your friends using lights and slight vibrations. Jewelbots allow you to customize your jewelry and its behavior to reflect unique personalities and friendships. They believe by using fashion and teenage friendships as our vehicle, they can empower the next generation of female engineers and coders.

Barnraiser

Angel Round in 2015
Barnraiser is a collaborative community & social marketplace for the 80M producers & consumers driving the $195B new food & wellness economy. Barnraiser makes it easy to find, shop & contribute to emerging brands & projects based on lifestyle (ie, gluten-free), passions (ie, chocolate) & interests (ie, healthy kids). The Barnraiser community thrives via the unique combination of data-driven discovery + social connections + commerce/giving.

The Wing

Seed Round in 2015
The Wing is a network of work and community spaces designed for women with locations in New York, California, and Washington, D.C. The Wing’s mission is the professional, civic, social, and economic advancement of women through the community.

LOLA

Seed Round in 2015
LOLA provides a subscription service intended to deliver feminine care essentials. It is the first lifelong brand for a woman’s body, providing the transparency and candor women deserve when it comes to products and content for their reproductive health. It was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Harry's

Series C in 2015
Harry's is a developer of an online platform used to sell shaving equipment and accessories for men. It designs and manufactures its own line of razors and replacement blades, as well as other shaving consumables, and offers its products a-la-carte via its online store or through a subscription model that enables consumers to meet their grooming essentials needs online.

Brilliant

Seed Round in 2015
Brilliant designs and manufactures handmade bicycles. They also sell bicycle accessories including helmets, pumps, wall mounts, lights, bells, locks, and bicycle additions. They also provide financing options for bicycles.

Cricket's Circle

Seed Round in 2015
Cricket's Circle is a retail company that offers a shoppable solution for mothers. It uses personalized content and data The company specializes in the fields of content, E-commerce, and personalization. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Cotopaxi

Series A in 2015
Cotopaxi is a direct-to-consumer, outdoor gear, and apparel company with a social-focused mission of eradicating extreme poverty. Every piece of gear is tied to a humanitarian cause in the world’s poorest countries. Every pack provides between one and three weeks of education to a child, the sale of a water bottle provides six months of clean water and all apparel is tied to health related projects. Cotopaxi's aim is to help the world's poorest of the poor and to provide transparency by showing the exact impact of donations. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Nineteenth Amendment

Seed Round in 2015
Nineteenth Amendment is a product development and production management platform that helps brands produce sustainably on-demand with no minimums. With its smart PLM, brands can pre-sell items directly to their shoppers, connecting with a network of manufacturers, and produce transparently on-demand. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.

Naja

Seed Round in 2014
Naja is a brand of luxury lingerie. It offers a range of bras: eco-friendly, t-shirt bras, bralettes, unlined, lace, and basic; and knickers: eco-friendly, cheeky knickers, bikinis and briefs, hi-waisted, lace, and basic. It also offers collections such as Courtesan, Summer Whites, Isle of Scilly, Kaleidoscope, Get Happy, Swinging London, Andalusia, Noir de Noirs, Secret Life of Sparrows, Swim, and more. Naja was founded by Catalina Girald and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Naja

Seed Round in 2014
Naja is a brand of luxury lingerie. It offers a range of bras: eco-friendly, t-shirt bras, bralettes, unlined, lace, and basic; and knickers: eco-friendly, cheeky knickers, bikinis and briefs, hi-waisted, lace, and basic. It also offers collections such as Courtesan, Summer Whites, Isle of Scilly, Kaleidoscope, Get Happy, Swinging London, Andalusia, Noir de Noirs, Secret Life of Sparrows, Swim, and more. Naja was founded by Catalina Girald and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Harry's

Series B in 2014
Harry's is a developer of an online platform used to sell shaving equipment and accessories for men. It designs and manufactures its own line of razors and replacement blades, as well as other shaving consumables, and offers its products a-la-carte via its online store or through a subscription model that enables consumers to meet their grooming essentials needs online.

Keen Home

Seed Round in 2014
Keen Home develops proactive hardware and software products to protect and enhance your home's core systems. Keen Home’s products provide homeowners with increased comfort, improved efficiency, and a better maintained home. The company’s first product, the Smart Vent, seamlessly controls a home’s heating/cooling airflow on a room-by-room level, resulting in improved comfort and efficiency. The Smart Vent launched in Lowe’s Home Centers in November 2015 and began shipping direct to customers in January 2016. Keen Home’s software platform will serve as the world’s first proactive home health dashboard while offering partners data for lead generation, actuarial insight for risk pricing, and control for peak load management. Keen Home was founded by Ryan Fant, Nayeem Hussain, and Will Mcleod in 2013 and is based in New York City.

Cotopaxi

Seed Round in 2014
Cotopaxi is a direct-to-consumer, outdoor gear, and apparel company with a social-focused mission of eradicating extreme poverty. Every piece of gear is tied to a humanitarian cause in the world’s poorest countries. Every pack provides between one and three weeks of education to a child, the sale of a water bottle provides six months of clean water and all apparel is tied to health related projects. Cotopaxi's aim is to help the world's poorest of the poor and to provide transparency by showing the exact impact of donations. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Caeden

Seed Round in 2014
Caeden is a startup focused on the intersection of fashion, wearable technology, and mobile applications, based in Soho, New York. Our team is developing hardware and software innovations in a $1.4 billion market that is projected to grow to $19 billion in the next 4 years. We are changing consumer expectations of wearables through new data metrics, contextualized mobile applications, and fashion ­focused hardware. We believe the devices we wear today do not have to compromise between aesthetics and functionality. Caeden's approach is the creation of multiple lines of jewelry-inspired hardware that naturally fits into the everyday lives of our consumers. By seamlessly integrating the hardware and software, we will deliver a unified offering that will improve the everyday lives of our users. Built by a team of industry veterans from fashion, design, manufacturing, and electronics, Caeden's team has a proven track-record of delivering products that are compelling, beautiful and feature-rich. Leveraging our existing retail relationships we have a clear and proven sales and revenue story.

Birchbox

Series B in 2014
Launched in 2010, Birchbox is the discovery commerce platform redefining the retail process by offering consumers a personalized way to discover, sample, shop, and learn about the best products and brands available. Birchbox members have first-touch experiences with products each month and access to educational content to help them get the most out of their products. Top brands like Kiehl’s, Benefit, Deborah Lippmann, and Stila have partnered with Birchbox.

Trace

Seed Round in 2014
Trace is a software platform that automatically edits and delivers personalized moments for each player. Trace is a ground-breaking technology that automatically films and edits video into moments for every player on the field. With Trace, players, parents, and coaches are delivered the edited moments that matter to them instead of the whole game.

Harry's

Venture Round in 2014
Harry's is a developer of an online platform used to sell shaving equipment and accessories for men. It designs and manufactures its own line of razors and replacement blades, as well as other shaving consumables, and offers its products a-la-carte via its online store or through a subscription model that enables consumers to meet their grooming essentials needs online.

KITE Scouting

Angel Round in 2013
Kite Solutions Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in providing a social network and marketplace for agencies, brands, media companies, and startups. Its platform facilitates engagement between emerging companies and enterprises, allowing organizations to identify, evaluate, and curate potential partnerships while enabling startups to connect with industry leaders and investors. Kite's Startup Relationship Management (SRM) tool is specifically designed for enterprises, consultants, and accelerators, offering powerful resources to manage numerous startup interactions and navigate the evolving startup landscape. The company is trusted by notable clients such as Comcast NBCUniversal, Estee Lauder, FIFA, P&G, and Visa, as it simplifies the tracking of startup relationships and provides access to industry experts, ensuring businesses remain informed about the startup ecosystem.
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