Access Ventures is a private operating foundation based in Louisville, Kentucky, founded in 2013. The organization is dedicated to fostering systemic change within communities to create an inclusive and creative economy that values all individuals. It collaborates with various partners to build a diverse portfolio of investments, targeting organizations of all sizes across the private, public, and social sectors. Access Ventures engages in impact investing by providing micro and secured loans, grants, and equity, as well as public and private debt. Its focus areas include creative arts, innovative finance, strategic real estate, and technology aimed at social good.
RADICL Defense focuses on providing military-grade cybersecurity solutions tailored for small and medium-sized businesses. The company specializes in safeguarding clients against advanced cyber threats and ransomware, particularly those associated with national security interests. By delivering robust protection against nation-state level cyberattacks, RADICL Defense aims to enhance the security posture of organizations that are critical to national defense and security sectors.
Locad
Series A in 2023
Locad is a logistics provider that supports e-commerce brands in the Asia-Pacific region by offering a cloud-based supply chain solution. Its technology platform enables seamless inventory synchronization across various online sales channels and facilitates end-to-end order fulfillment through a network of warehouses and carriers in countries such as Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Australia. By leveraging a geographically distributed warehousing infrastructure, Locad allows brands to store products closer to their customers, resulting in quicker delivery times and reduced shipping costs. The platform provides easy integration with sales channels and offers on-demand capacity, making it adaptable to the varied needs of clients. With hundreds of brands utilizing its services, Locad aims to enhance shipping efficiency, lower expenses, and support significant business growth.
Quota Lab
Series A in 2022
Quota Lab is a financial infrastructure company that connects the capital flows of all ventures & startups, general partners (GPs), and limited partners (LPs) to build a venture capital market infrastructure and create a new financial ecosystem.
CoolMate
Series A in 2022
Coolmate is a Vietnamese menswear brand that specializes in a diverse range of apparel and accessories for men, including sportswear, office attire, and everyday styles. The company operates exclusively online through its own e-commerce website and popular platforms within Vietnam. Headquartered in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Coolmate focuses on the design, weaving, dyeing, cutting, and finishing of products such as t-shirts, underwear, shorts, joggers, caps, and belts. By offering fashionable products at reasonable prices, Coolmate aims to provide a straightforward shopping experience for men seeking to enhance their style.
Pion
Series A in 2021
Pion Corporation is a marketing technology company specializing in video intelligence. It offers "Vispot," an AI-driven platform for video creation and ad automation. This application is designed to assist video creatives by providing automated services for video production and optimization. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Pion enables businesses to enhance their marketing capabilities and streamline the video advertising process.
Breef
Debt Financing in 2021
Breef is a marketing agency platform that connects brands with boutique agencies to fulfill their digital and creative needs. Founded in New York by George Raptis and Emily Bibb, Breef allows users to post projects and find suitable agencies for various purposes, including digital marketing, web development, paid advertising, branding, creative campaigns, and public relations. The platform streamlines the process of finding and engaging with agencies, enabling clients to save time and resources on their advertising campaigns.
Goldfinch
Venture Round in 2021
Goldfinch is a credit platform that offers crypto loans without collateral. It also offers capital in a digital currency by expanding access to capital in emerging markets and offers a stable yield to the lenders, enabling the empowerment of financial inclusion in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2020 by Mike Sall and Blake West.
EZ Chow
Venture Round in 2021
EZ Chow Inc. specializes in designing and developing digital ordering software tailored for restaurants and hospitality clients. Founded in 2015 and based in New Albany, Indiana, the company provides a multi-channel ordering platform that integrates seamlessly with existing point-of-sale systems. This application adheres to brand standards and guidelines, allowing for efficient order placement and management. Additionally, EZ Chow offers a hotel and resort ordering integration platform, enhancing the service experience for both customers and businesses. By enabling restaurants and hospitality organizations to control their ordering processes through dynamic tools, EZ Chow aims to elevate brand value and drive sales growth.
Ethic
Series B in 2021
Ethic is a company that develops a technology platform focused on simplifying financial planning and portfolio management. The platform utilizes data-driven investment consulting technology to create sustainable investment portfolios. It is designed to minimize tracking errors relative to established passive indices, allowing family offices, health advisers, and endowment foundations to offer tailored sustainability insights and efficient passive portfolio construction for their clients.
Resonate Recordings
Debt Financing in 2021
Resonate Recordings is a podcast production company based in Louisville, Kentucky, dedicated to simplifying the podcasting process for creators. Since its establishment in 2014, the company has focused on providing comprehensive services that cover all aspects of podcast production, including recording, editing, launching, and distribution. Resonate combines a skilled team of audio engineers and branding experts to ensure that clients can produce high-quality episodes with minimal hassle. Their approach emphasizes building lasting partnerships with clients rather than merely transactional relationships, further enhancing the podcasting experience. By leveraging innovative technology and a commitment to quality, Resonate aims to help podcasters effectively convey their unique creative visions to their audience.
Stay Clean
Equity Crowdfunding in 2021
Stay Clean is a cloud-based clinical treatment platform based in Louisville, Kentucky, founded in 2017. The company focuses on providing therapeutic counseling to individuals struggling with substance use disorder, including alcoholism and addiction. Its platform aims to enhance patients' health and wellness by offering clinical treatment that helps them manage negative emotions without turning to harmful behaviors, such as substance abuse.
FlavorCraft
Debt Financing in 2021
FlavorCraft is a provider of contract and private labeling services tailored for the foodservice industry, established in 2006 in Louisville, Kentucky. The company specializes in offering a comprehensive range of services, including startup guidance, product development, nutritional analysis, fulfillment, logistics, floor stock arrangements, and warehousing. These services are designed to assist restaurants, food producers, and retailers in adapting swiftly to market demands, managing operating costs, and enhancing overall business efficiency. By leveraging its expertise, FlavorCraft supports clients in navigating the complexities of the foodservice landscape.
Amplify Louisville
Debt Financing in 2021
Amplify Louisville is an organization focused on fostering entrepreneurship by providing a comprehensive ecosystem for startups and founders. The company assists clients in exploring innovative ideas, building effective solutions, and launching products, ultimately facilitating business growth. They offer consulting services tailored to meet the diverse needs of their customers, who can reach out for support via phone, email, and online applications.
Pav*r
Equity Crowdfunding in 2021
Pav*r is a web-based application designed to help small businesses optimize their calendar management by transforming calendar data into actionable insights. The platform allows users to categorize events, organize time efficiently, and export calendar information, including categories and labels, to an online sheet. Additionally, Pav*r provides visualization tools through reports that facilitate the management of essential event details in a centralized location. By leveraging valuable calendar data, Pav*r enables businesses to grow and scale effectively.
Studio HQ
Seed Round in 2021
Studio was designed to help creative freelancers take their careers to the next level with personal development, accountability, and community. Studio helps its members overcome self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and lack of clarity through expert-led workshops and Power Groups.
Along
Seed Round in 2021
Online video platform focused on creators
Clover Learning
Debt Financing in 2020
Clover Learning specializes in online medical education by offering video-based training, certification exam preparation, and continuing education products tailored for healthcare students and professionals. Founded in early 2017, the company has quickly emerged as a leading provider in its field, delivering an advanced learning platform that allows for asynchronous learning through various subscription models, one-time payments, and institutional licenses. Clover Learning's innovative courses utilize animations, images, and mental hooks to enhance comprehension of complex medical concepts. Its client base includes prestigious institutions such as MD Anderson, Mayo Clinic, and Concentra Health, as well as numerous colleges and health systems across the United States, Canada, and internationally.
BrainSTEM University
Pre Seed Round in 2020
BrainSTEM University is an EdTech startup that provides a STEAM-based curriculum through its Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). The company focuses on enhancing education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by offering an online platform that teaches subjects such as programming, robotics, engineering, and aerospace. By utilizing a gamified approach, BrainSTEM University aims to engage students and enhance their learning experience, allowing them to connect with relevant technological advancements and the broader school community.
Stuccco
Seed Round in 2020
Stuccco is a virtual staging and interior design company that transforms how real estate professionals and homeowners approach property marketing and design. By allowing realtors to submit photos of vacant properties, Stuccco provides photo-realistic renderings of furniture and decor within 24 hours, enhancing the appeal of listings and facilitating quicker sales at higher prices. The company also offers online interior design services, where homeowners can connect with professional designers to create tailored room designs based on their preferences and budget, with a turnaround time of 14 days or less. Additionally, Stuccco creates 3D models of home goods for retailers, which are integrated into virtual staging to promote products precisely when potential buyers are most engaged. This innovative approach disrupts traditional in-person staging and interior design methods, providing efficient and cost-effective solutions for real estate teams, homeowners, and retailers alike.
Briocare
Pre Seed Round in 2020
BrioCare is a company that specializes in personalized engagement and care support for older adults. It offers a comprehensive range of services, including family care, elderly care, virtual home care, dementia care, and senior caregiving solutions. Utilizing an artificial intelligence-driven platform, BrioCare aims to enhance the quality of life for seniors by employing voice technology to alleviate caregiver anxiety. The platform provides caregivers with complete control and access to scheduled care events, along with daily reports on seniors' activities and well-being. Additionally, it offers health tips and relevant content, fostering increased social interactions for seniors in their daily lives.
MoxieGirl
Pre Seed Round in 2020
MoxieGirl helps to improve mental and behavioral health of teen girls.
SplitPass
Pre Seed Round in 2020
SplitPass operates a peer-to-peer marketplace that enables users to buy and sell unused memberships, packages, reservations, and appointments. By creating a secondary marketplace, the platform enhances flexibility for its customers, allowing them to monetize unused days of their existing memberships. SplitPass supports a variety of offerings, including gym and spa memberships, coworking memberships, travel passes, and dinner reservations. This innovative approach helps individuals make the most of their investments in services they may not fully utilize.
Unitonomy
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Unitonomy is a holding company focused on culture management software, aiming to enhance organizational culture and collaboration through its innovative startups, including Glvvv and OrgVitals. The company develops tools that augment communication and provide people analytics, allowing organizations to track collaborative performance, employee experience, and overall culture. By leveraging data-driven insights, Unitonomy enables companies to improve productivity and foster a more effective work environment.
Unitonomy
Equity Crowdfunding in 2020
Unitonomy is a holding company focused on culture management software, aiming to enhance organizational culture and collaboration through its innovative startups, including Glvvv and OrgVitals. The company develops tools that augment communication and provide people analytics, allowing organizations to track collaborative performance, employee experience, and overall culture. By leveraging data-driven insights, Unitonomy enables companies to improve productivity and foster a more effective work environment.
EdjSports
Series A in 2020
EdjSports is a data science and prescriptive analytics sports firm. EdjSports empowers smarter decision-making with proven predictive and prescriptive analytical models and custom software solutions in the sports industry.
EdjSports
Series A in 2020
EdjSports is a data science and prescriptive analytics sports firm. EdjSports empowers smarter decision-making with proven predictive and prescriptive analytical models and custom software solutions in the sports industry.
Seoul Robotics
Series A in 2020
Seoul Robotics specializes in developing advanced Lidar perception software and 3D computer vision devices aimed at enhancing the capabilities of autonomous vehicles, robots, and smart city applications. The company’s technology enables these systems to detect, classify, track, and predict the behavior of various targets and objects within their environment. By integrating sophisticated sensors and platforms, Seoul Robotics facilitates a deeper understanding of surroundings for self-driving cars and autonomous robots, ultimately contributing to safer and more efficient navigation and operation in complex settings.
Cornbread Hemp
Seed Round in 2020
Cornbread Hemp specializes in producing premium cannabidiol (CBD) consumer products designed to promote wellness. The company offers a range of full-spectrum and flower-only hemp products, including gummies, oils, and capsules. All products are made from organically grown hemp sourced from local farmers, ensuring adherence to health and legal guidelines. Cornbread Hemp aims to provide high-quality natural remedies in response to the oversaturation of the market with lower-quality corporate CBD offerings, believing that access to effective natural medication is essential for improving quality of life.
Handshake
Seed Round in 2020
Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol compatible. By using Handshake, one can participate in a decentralized open naming platform secured by a decentralized peer-to-peer network.
Eco
Seed Round in 2020
Eco is a financial technology company that focuses on enhancing the value of money through innovative software solutions. As a founding contributor to the Eco Protocol, it aims to reshape traditional banking and reward systems. The company has developed Bend, a platform that seeks to improve users' financial experiences by maximizing the utility and effectiveness of their money. Eco's mission centers on empowering individuals to expect more from their financial transactions, ultimately striving to redefine the relationship between people and their money.
VeXeRe.Com
Venture Round in 2019
Founded in 2013, VeXeRe.com is the largest online bus ticket platform in Vietnam. They help passengers book bus tickets conveniently thanks to their 1,000+ bus companies network and coverage for trips within Vietnam and from Vietnam to neighbor countries. Their payment channels include online payment, payment at 24/7 convenience stores, bank transfers, and other channels that provide customers with convenient booking experience.
Seoul Robotics
Seed Round in 2019
Seoul Robotics specializes in developing advanced Lidar perception software and 3D computer vision devices aimed at enhancing the capabilities of autonomous vehicles, robots, and smart city applications. The company’s technology enables these systems to detect, classify, track, and predict the behavior of various targets and objects within their environment. By integrating sophisticated sensors and platforms, Seoul Robotics facilitates a deeper understanding of surroundings for self-driving cars and autonomous robots, ultimately contributing to safer and more efficient navigation and operation in complex settings.
Nervos
Seed Round in 2019
The Nervos Network is an open source public blockchain ecosystem and collection of protocols solving the biggest challenges facing blockchains today. The Nervos CKB (Common Knowledge Base) is the layer 1, proof of work public blockchain protocol of the Nervos Network. Any crypto-asset can be stored, with the security, immutability and permissionless nature of Bitcoin, while enabling smart contracts, layer 2 scaling, and the capture of total network value through a unique crypto-economic "store of value" design and native token, the CKByte. The design of the Nervos Network is a sustainably secure, permissionless and decentralized Layer 1 blockchain that is built to scale with Layer 2 solutions, making Nervos the only PoW, multi-asset, store of value, smart contract platform.
Drivetime
Series A in 2019
Drivetime, Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in designing and developing interactive audio games for the entertainment industry. Founded in 2018, Drivetime offers a unique online platform that allows users to engage in trivia and other games while driving, promoting a hands-free and non-distracting gameplay experience. This innovative approach enables players to connect with friends, family, and co-workers through voice-driven challenges, making driving time more enjoyable and interactive.
Ethic
Series A in 2019
Ethic is a company that develops a technology platform focused on simplifying financial planning and portfolio management. The platform utilizes data-driven investment consulting technology to create sustainable investment portfolios. It is designed to minimize tracking errors relative to established passive indices, allowing family offices, health advisers, and endowment foundations to offer tailored sustainability insights and efficient passive portfolio construction for their clients.
Bolt Labs
Seed Round in 2019
Bolt Labs, Inc. is a company based in Baltimore, Maryland, that specializes in developing privacy-focused solutions for digital asset management. Founded in 2018, Bolt Labs provides a lightning network protocol that supports privacy-preserving micropayments and non-custodial trading with centralized exchanges, alongside private decentralized exchanges. The company's secure computation solutions, utilizing multi-party computation (MPC), protect users' assets by ensuring confidentiality and integrity while preventing misuse or theft. Additionally, Bolt Labs is working on the zkChannels L2 protocol, which aims to create a scalable and user-friendly payment infrastructure that integrates with existing payment networks, including public blockchains. This innovation is designed to help merchants comply with emerging privacy regulations while enhancing customer privacy through secure transactions. Overall, Bolt Labs is focused on building a secure, usable, and scalable infrastructure for digital asset management.
Flexa
Initial Coin Offering in 2019
Flexa is a payment application that facilitates point-of-sale transactions using cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash, and litecoin. By utilizing a flex code, users can make purchases without needing liquid cash, thereby enhancing the payment experience while ensuring security through a fraud-proof network. The platform also emphasizes consumer control over personal data, allowing customers to share specific information for loyalty and marketing purposes on a voluntary basis. This innovative approach not only prioritizes customer autonomy in data sharing but also streamlines the transaction process, minimizing wait times at the point of sale. Overall, Flexa aims to create a seamless and compliant payment experience that centers on the needs of the customer.
Public Market
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Public Market is restoring the Commercial Commons by building an open, transparent, and competitive architecture for marketplace eCommerce.
Virtuous Software
Seed Round in 2018
Virtuous Software is a customer relationship management software solution that helps charities raise more money. Its platform aims to help organizations build better relationships with donors and streamline their fundraising efforts. Virtuous focuses on creating tools that enhance donor engagement, improve retention, and increase donations. Virtuous provides a customer relationship management (CRM) system specifically tailored for nonprofit organizations. This system helps manage donor data, track interactions, and segment audiences for targeted communication. Additionally, the platform allows nonprofits to track donor contributions, manage gift records, and analyze donor behavior to foster more meaningful relationships. Virtuous also offers tools to automate marketing campaigns, including email marketing, social media integration, and personalized communication strategies, enabling nonprofits to engage donors effectively.
Basis
Seed Round in 2018
Basis, founded in 2017 and located in Hoboken, New Jersey, is a company that develops an algorithmic cryptocurrency protocol. This protocol operates similarly to a central bank, designed to regulate the supply of cryptocurrency in a dynamic manner. By expanding and contracting supply, Basis aims to stabilize purchasing power, akin to how traditional central banks manage fiscal debt. The cryptocurrency associated with Basis incorporates this algorithmic approach, allowing for adjustments in response to market conditions.
Brushfire Interactive
Funding Round in 2017
Brushfire is a full service digital agency specializing in consumer-focused software development. Our team of industry leading technologists shares a passion for creating revolutionary mobile, web, and social experiences. Brushfire has helped redefine digital experiences for entertainment clients such as Showtime and TNT, Fortune 500 companies such as EDMC and Trimble, and non-profits like Compassion International and the International Justice Mission. Brushfire inspired products have received numerous awards such as Apple's App Design of the Year, NRB Mobile Initiative of the Year, 3 Apple Hall of Fame Apps, and a NY Times Top 10 App. Our work has also been featured on CNN, Forbes, USA Today, and Wired Magazine.
Ethic
Seed Round in 2016
Ethic is a company that develops a technology platform focused on simplifying financial planning and portfolio management. The platform utilizes data-driven investment consulting technology to create sustainable investment portfolios. It is designed to minimize tracking errors relative to established passive indices, allowing family offices, health advisers, and endowment foundations to offer tailored sustainability insights and efficient passive portfolio construction for their clients.
Fig Tech
Seed Round in 2016
Fig Tech is a financial firm dedicated to providing affordable loans and financial stability products for low-income families and small organizations. The company partners with non-profits, such as Family Houston, to offer loans that are significantly more affordable than traditional options, specifically designed to assist individuals in overcoming financial emergencies and managing debt. Fig Tech utilizes in-house loan management software to streamline its services, enabling flexible repayment plans tailored to the needs of low-income borrowers. By focusing on accessible financial products, Fig Tech aims to help users build credit and secure a more stable financial future.
Upsie
Seed Round in 2016
Upsie Technology Inc. operates a mobile application that simplifies the process of purchasing extended warranties for consumer electronics and durable goods. Founded in 2015 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Upsie allows users to buy warranties for a range of products, including televisions, laptops, home appliances, and more, at competitive prices without the typical sales pitches or markups. The app provides users with transparent pricing and coverage options, enabling them to easily compare warranties. Additionally, it allows for the storage of digital receipts and tracking of warranty expirations, streamlining the management of product protection. Users can purchase coverage, initiate claims, and even scan barcodes while shopping to check warranty availability for specific items.
Virtuous Software
Seed Round in 2016
Virtuous Software is a customer relationship management software solution that helps charities raise more money. Its platform aims to help organizations build better relationships with donors and streamline their fundraising efforts. Virtuous focuses on creating tools that enhance donor engagement, improve retention, and increase donations. Virtuous provides a customer relationship management (CRM) system specifically tailored for nonprofit organizations. This system helps manage donor data, track interactions, and segment audiences for targeted communication. Additionally, the platform allows nonprofits to track donor contributions, manage gift records, and analyze donor behavior to foster more meaningful relationships. Virtuous also offers tools to automate marketing campaigns, including email marketing, social media integration, and personalized communication strategies, enabling nonprofits to engage donors effectively.
Hot Chicken Takeover
Funding Round in 2016
Hot Chicken Takeover operates a chain of fast-food restaurants that specializes in serving Nashville-style hot chicken with various sides. The community-focused restaurant serves juicy, perfectly-fried Nashville Hot Chicken to Central Ohio residents. HCT attracts a mix of customers eager to gather around long communal tables and sip free iced tea, making the Hot Chicken Takeover experience feel more like a backyard block party than a restaurant. It was founded in 2014 in Columbus, Ohio.
MobileServe
Seed Round in 2016
MobileServe is a mobile application developer that enables its users to manage volunteerism within their organizations through interactive mobile and web-based applications. It developed a mobile application that allows organizations to communicate their social impact and service to the community quickly, easily, and efficiently. Through its application, users are able to record and verify service work, allowing easy tracking, aggregation, and reporting by individuals, companies, school-groups, fraternities, and more. MobileServe was launched in 2015.
Quotanda
Seed Round in 2015
Quotanda is a lending as a service (LaaS) platform that specializes in providing student loan services. Its technology allows various organizations, including lenders, educational institutions, and foundations, to establish affordable education loan programs swiftly and efficiently, without the need for additional resources. Quotanda manages all facets of these online lending programs, encompassing program setup, marketing, compliance, loan origination, automated credit decision-making, loan disbursement, and ongoing servicing, including interest and principal collection as well as default management. By facilitating the creation of student financing options, Quotanda aims to enhance access to education and make it more affordable for students across different countries and currencies.
Vault
Seed Round in 2015
Vault is a technology company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in a comprehensive platform designed to address the challenges of student loan management. Founded in 2013, Vault offers an intuitive web-based tool that provides a secure experience for employees, helping them navigate their student loan debt and achieve financial freedom. The platform allows employers to contribute to their employees' debt repayment, enhancing talent acquisition and retention strategies. By simplifying repayment scenarios and assisting in the identification of suitable plans, Vault empowers both employers and employees to foster enduring relationships. Additionally, the company supports employees in managing their student debt while simultaneously building their retirement savings.
Gowild
Seed Round in 2015
Shenzhen Gowild Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., established in 2013 and headquartered in Shenzhen, China, specializes in the manufacturing of consumer electronics. The company produces a range of innovative products, including smart speakers, artificial intelligence-based housekeeping robots, and holographic AI devices. With a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence and advanced technologies, Gowild aims to blend technology and design, creating fashionable and functional products. The company is committed to exploring the potential of AI to enhance everyday life and believes that the integration of artificial intelligence will play a crucial role in shaping the future.
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