The Fund

The Fund is a community-driven venture capital firm based in New York City, focused on early-stage investments in technology companies. Established in 2018, it is uniquely comprised of over 65 successful founders and operators who leverage their firsthand experience in building and scaling businesses to support the next generation of entrepreneurs. The Fund specializes in pre-seed and seed investments, primarily in the first financing round of startups within the greater NYC metro area. It emphasizes purpose-driven teams that aim to create a positive impact on society and the environment. By combining capital with mentorship and expertise, The Fund provides startups with significant access to a network of accomplished entrepreneurs, distinguishing itself as a pioneering model in the venture capital landscape.

Victor Bornstein

Investor

Lukas Erlebach

Partner

Javier Etxebeste

Limited Partner (Founders Group)

Hillary France

Partner

Kelsey Haley

Partner

Soren Larson

Partner

Malcolm McVay

Investor

Katie Russell

Associate

Allison Grabler Stein

Partner

Kimberly Teo

Investor

Jose (Pepe) Benito

Partner

Past deals in New York

Hazel

Venture Round in 2023
Hazel is a personal care brand focused on addressing the issue of female incontinence through innovative disposable underwear designed specifically for women. The company emphasizes fit, function, and aesthetics, utilizing new materials and techniques to create a product that resembles traditional underwear while offering the practicality of disposability. By incorporating natural fibers, Hazel aims to provide women with a discreet, fashionable, and functional alternative, ultimately enhancing their confidence. The brand is set to launch its products later this fall, catering to a growing market in the realm of women's health and personal care.

Modern Life

Seed Round in 2022
Modern Life is a tech-enabled life insurance brokerage. With a focus on empowering advisors, Modern Life offers advanced technology solutions to digitally streamline advisors’ practices and expert brokerage support. With Modern Life, advisors nationwide can compare quotes from top carriers in minutes, perform data-driven underwriting assessments, manage clients from an integrated dashboard, and receive comprehensive deal support.

Finalis

Seed Round in 2022
Finalis is a modern broker-dealer and deal technology platform based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on enhancing private market transactions. Founded in 2017, the company provides compliance and technology solutions tailored for investment banks, placement agencies, and fintech firms. By streamlining the deal execution process, Finalis enables M&A professionals to efficiently manage due diligence, track checklists, and access pertinent information at any time. Its innovative approach aims to significantly improve the efficiency of deal-making for a range of financial services professionals, including investment bankers, fund managers, and corporate executives, ultimately saving them time and money.

Hank

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a virtual connection platform designed to create connections and a community for retired adults. The company's platform is made up of active older adults looking to meet people, learn new things, and pursue old passions, enabling older people to meet new individuals with similar interests, host events, and get together.

Redactable

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Redactable is an automated patent redaction software provider. It offers features such as search automation, patterns redaction, manual redaction, workflow management, cloud collaboration, document scrubbing, two-way integrations, redaction logs, GDPA & HIPAA complaints. Redactable is an automated patent redaction software provider. It offers features such as search automation, patterns redaction, manual redaction, workflow management, cloud collaboration, document scrubbing, two-way integrations, redaction logs, GDPA & HIPAA complaints.

Efficient Capital Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Efficient Capital Labs specializes in providing fast, seamless, and cost-effective capital solutions for B2B SaaS businesses. The firm focuses on companies that have a significant presence in India while generating revenues from the United States and other leading markets. Efficient Capital Labs offers non-dilutive financing options, allowing businesses to secure funding without sacrificing equity. As a direct lender, the company streamlines the underwriting process, ensuring transparent and clear product terms that help clients achieve their financing goals. By catering specifically to the needs of SaaS businesses, Efficient Capital Labs positions itself as a valuable partner in fostering growth and innovation within the sector.

Audyo

Seed Round in 2022
Intelligent audio for the internet. In just one line of code, Audyo makes any publication listenable.

Radish Health

Seed Round in 2022
Provider of healthcare services intended to keep workforces productive and safe from health risks. The company offers to schedule an appointment, get examined by the in-office staff, consult doctors via video conference, get treatment as directed by a doctor, and get prescriptions via email, enabling patients to avail of medical services anywhere and anytime.

Minded

Seed Round in 2022
Minded offers a better way to renew and refill mental health prescriptions.

Vivvi

Series B in 2022
Vivvi, Inc. is a provider of employer-sponsored child care services, headquartered in New York, New York. Founded in 2018, the company offers on-site and near-site childcare solutions tailored for infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children. Vivvi's mission is to support working parents by equipping their children with a lifelong love of learning while addressing the logistical and financial challenges of childcare. The services are designed to enhance employee recruitment and retention, ultimately improving workplace productivity. By eliminating long-term commitments and capital expenditures, Vivvi makes exceptional full-time and backup care accessible and affordable for employers of all sizes, providing peace of mind to parents.

Pair Eyewear

Series B in 2021
Pair Eyewear makes wearing prescription and nonprescription glasses and sunglasses exciting, empowering and playful for children. Pair believes glasses for children can be more than a static medical device. Glasses can be a canvas on which children express their evolving interests and growing personalities. Through an e-commerce platform, Pair is redesigning the glasses experience, making it engaging for children and painless for parents. Pair Eyewear is redefining the eyewear experience for children by bringing continual customizability, freedom of choice, and affordability to kids' glasses.

Electric

Series D in 2021
Electric AI, Inc. is an information technology company based in New York that offers a chat-based support platform operating in real-time via Slack. Founded in 2016, Electric provides a range of services designed to assist small and mid-sized businesses with IT management. These services include troubleshooting, system administration, maintenance, security, and on-site assistance. The company aims to streamline IT processes and enhance the overall security and performance of its clients' technology environments.

Electric

Series D in 2021
Electric AI, Inc. is an information technology company based in New York that offers a chat-based support platform operating in real-time via Slack. Founded in 2016, Electric provides a range of services designed to assist small and mid-sized businesses with IT management. These services include troubleshooting, system administration, maintenance, security, and on-site assistance. The company aims to streamline IT processes and enhance the overall security and performance of its clients' technology environments.

Press Hook

Seed Round in 2021
The Press Hook is the first tech-enabled public relations platform that connects media to brands and publicists at scale. Our system helps thousands of brands, publicists, and journalists connect with each other to facilitate newsworthy stories in a modern world. By streamlining and digitizing the processes of an antiquated industry, we are making the news cycle stronger and more reliable. Our communication platform matches brands with top journalists who are more likely to write about their products and services. Journalists spend less time sifting through irrelevant pitches while diversifying their sources, and brands get the timely earned media coverage they deserve. The Press Hook unlocks a new marketing channel for the 70 percent of small businesses who need press but don't have the resources for proper media exposure. We are on a mission to help small businesses gain brand awareness in top media publications with our innovative technology-driven solutions.

Dash

Venture Round in 2021
Spektra is building APIs and tools that make it possible for businesses to accept and disburse Mobile Money payments from and to multiple providers and currencies within minutes, NOT months, without dealing with Mobile Network operators at all. With a few lines of code, a single tap or click, your customers can pay you with our seamless and easy to use products on the web, mobile, and in-app.

Flume

Seed Round in 2021
Flume is an internet service provider based in New York City, specializing in delivering gigabit bandwidth to residential users. The company utilizes a fiber network to offer high-speed internet services, allowing individuals and landlords to access faster connectivity. In addition to its internet offerings, Flume provides a suite of software tools that automate the monitoring and scaling of its entire ISP network. This includes Wi-Fi management solutions and customer support through a dedicated application, enhancing the user experience for both consumers and property owners.

Dollaride

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Dollaride offers a technology platform that connects people living in transit deserts to private ride-sharing networks called dollar vans. Its cashless platform offers operator business dashboard, fleet management system, automated fee collection, and territory expansion features, technical resources, web assistance for operators so that they can manage their fleets with transparency and legal compliance, insurance brokerage, scheduling, and dispatch services, enabling drivers to earn more and keep a track of their daily earnings from their phone and passengers to hail a van instantly and save time. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

CityRow

Series A in 2021
CityRow Holdings, Inc. specializes in health and fitness services, offering a unique blend of workouts that include yoga, strength training, and cardio, primarily utilizing water-based rowing machines. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, the company operates three locations in Michigan and New York. CityRow also provides a digital platform, Cityrow Go, which is a rowing-based fitness app designed for smartphones and tablets. This app features a variety of rowing classes aimed at delivering effective and motivating workouts for users at home. The studio's approach focuses on enhancing aerobic capacity and overall body efficiency through high-intensity interval training that emphasizes low-impact exercises, helping individuals achieve their fitness goals in a scientifically guided manner.

Cheres

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cheres is a New York-based company that offers a digital platform designed to enhance investment transparency among users by allowing them to view their friends' investment activities. The platform seamlessly integrates with users' existing accounts on various investing platforms. Additionally, Cheres operates a cross-functional collaboration tool that aims to eliminate silos between departments within organizations. By consolidating data from various operational sources, the platform provides an assistant that helps clients analyze crucial business metrics related to revenue, customers, expenses, products, marketing, and financial performance.

Morty

Series B in 2021
Morty is on a mission to revolutionize the outdated mortgage industry by letting people shop, compare, and close on any mortgage from any lender, completely online. Purchasing a home is the largest, most important financial transaction of most people’s lives. They believe getting a mortgage should be just as simple, modern, and transparent as buying anything else online. We’re building the first-ever, fully digital marketplace to make this possible - like Kayak, but for mortgages.

Wagmo

Series A in 2021
Wagmo, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides monthly wellness insurance plans specifically designed for pets. Founded in 2017, the company offers reimbursement for routine care services, including vaccinations, grooming appointments, and preventive medications. By leveraging veterinary data, Wagmo enables pet owners to anticipate and manage the costs of care in their area, optimizing the health and well-being of their pets. The service is aimed at making regular pet care more accessible and affordable through its comprehensive wellness plans.

Elektra Health

Seed Round in 2021
Elektra Health is a next gen healthcare platform for the tens of millions of women currently and soon to be navigating perimenopause & menopause. 80% of women report that menopause significantly disrupts their life – symptoms include anxiety, depression, loss of libido/painful sex, brain fog, joint pain & more – but 75% of those who seek help don’t receive appropriate care. Elektra was founded to solve this problem.

Paloma

Seed Round in 2021
Paloma is a developer of a direct message-commerce platform that empowers brands to enhance their e-commerce capabilities through messaging channels. By facilitating sales via social media direct messages, Paloma enables businesses to manage inventory, create seamless shopping experiences, and streamline the checkout process. The platform is designed to drive higher conversion rates—ranging from 2 to 10 times those of traditional websites—by leveraging customer data to provide valuable insights back to brands. This comprehensive commerce software as a service (SaaS) solution not only helps clients transform customer interactions into sales but also supports sustainable growth by integrating catalog management and performance tracking.

Press Hook

Pre Seed Round in 2021
The Press Hook is the first tech-enabled public relations platform that connects media to brands and publicists at scale. Our system helps thousands of brands, publicists, and journalists connect with each other to facilitate newsworthy stories in a modern world. By streamlining and digitizing the processes of an antiquated industry, we are making the news cycle stronger and more reliable. Our communication platform matches brands with top journalists who are more likely to write about their products and services. Journalists spend less time sifting through irrelevant pitches while diversifying their sources, and brands get the timely earned media coverage they deserve. The Press Hook unlocks a new marketing channel for the 70 percent of small businesses who need press but don't have the resources for proper media exposure. We are on a mission to help small businesses gain brand awareness in top media publications with our innovative technology-driven solutions.

TalentHack

Seed Round in 2021
TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, NY, United States

CraftJam

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of handicraft workshops intended to support employees' health and wellness. The company uses the science of neuroplasticity and the technique of crafting, helping organizations and teams perform better and individuals feel and connect better in person, virtual, and hybrid.

Hazel

Seed Round in 2020
Hazel is a personal care brand focused on addressing the issue of female incontinence through innovative disposable underwear designed specifically for women. The company emphasizes fit, function, and aesthetics, utilizing new materials and techniques to create a product that resembles traditional underwear while offering the practicality of disposability. By incorporating natural fibers, Hazel aims to provide women with a discreet, fashionable, and functional alternative, ultimately enhancing their confidence. The brand is set to launch its products later this fall, catering to a growing market in the realm of women's health and personal care.

Nirvana Health

Seed Round in 2020
Nirvana Health, based in New York City and founded in 2020 by Kelvin Chan, provides an insurance intelligence platform designed to assist mental health care providers in managing complex insurance-related tasks. The company focuses on automating the processes involved in filing, managing, and following up on insurance claims, thereby allowing therapists to concentrate more on patient care. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Nirvana Health offers tools that facilitate coverage checks, client billing, payment plans, and reimbursement services, streamlining the financial management for providers. This comprehensive approach not only saves time and resources but also ensures that therapists can deliver reliable care without being hindered by administrative burdens.

Flume

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Flume is an internet service provider based in New York City, specializing in delivering gigabit bandwidth to residential users. The company utilizes a fiber network to offer high-speed internet services, allowing individuals and landlords to access faster connectivity. In addition to its internet offerings, Flume provides a suite of software tools that automate the monitoring and scaling of its entire ISP network. This includes Wi-Fi management solutions and customer support through a dedicated application, enhancing the user experience for both consumers and property owners.

Dathic

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Dathic, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence and data analytics software for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. The company offers Dathic growth, Dathic locator, consultancy, and Dathic ads products and services. It helps companies sell and advertise their products to Hispanic consumer. Dathic, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

Curve Health

Seed Round in 2020
Curve Health, Inc. is an innovative online platform focused on enhancing senior care through a combination of telemedicine, health information exchange, predictive analytics, and smart billing. Established in 2020 and headquartered in New York, the platform allows physicians to provide remote care to patients in skilled nursing facilities, at home, or during transportation. By integrating these technologies, Curve Health has significantly reduced patient transfers from skilled nursing facilities to emergency departments by over 50%. The platform aims to streamline healthcare delivery, optimize staff allocation, and minimize readmissions while improving care quality and ensuring a seamless patient experience. Additionally, it facilitates efficient communication between hospital systems and post-acute facilities, accelerating reimbursements and enabling effective tracking of patient diagnoses and outcomes.

Curve Health

Seed Round in 2020
Curve Health, Inc. is an innovative online platform focused on enhancing senior care through a combination of telemedicine, health information exchange, predictive analytics, and smart billing. Established in 2020 and headquartered in New York, the platform allows physicians to provide remote care to patients in skilled nursing facilities, at home, or during transportation. By integrating these technologies, Curve Health has significantly reduced patient transfers from skilled nursing facilities to emergency departments by over 50%. The platform aims to streamline healthcare delivery, optimize staff allocation, and minimize readmissions while improving care quality and ensuring a seamless patient experience. Additionally, it facilitates efficient communication between hospital systems and post-acute facilities, accelerating reimbursements and enabling effective tracking of patient diagnoses and outcomes.

Audyo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Intelligent audio for the internet. In just one line of code, Audyo makes any publication listenable.

Hank

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a virtual connection platform designed to create connections and a community for retired adults. The company's platform is made up of active older adults looking to meet people, learn new things, and pursue old passions, enabling older people to meet new individuals with similar interests, host events, and get together.

Chartable

Seed Round in 2020
Chartable, Inc. operates a platform to track and analyze podcasts. The product can be used find, track, and share any podcasts or episode. The company provides charts, ranks over time, ratings, and reviews of different podcasts. The product can be used by podcasters to analyze data related to their podcasts and that of competitors and by the listeners to find out the ratings and recommendations. Chartable, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Nirvana Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Nirvana Health, based in New York City and founded in 2020 by Kelvin Chan, provides an insurance intelligence platform designed to assist mental health care providers in managing complex insurance-related tasks. The company focuses on automating the processes involved in filing, managing, and following up on insurance claims, thereby allowing therapists to concentrate more on patient care. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Nirvana Health offers tools that facilitate coverage checks, client billing, payment plans, and reimbursement services, streamlining the financial management for providers. This comprehensive approach not only saves time and resources but also ensures that therapists can deliver reliable care without being hindered by administrative burdens.

Cabinet

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Cabinet is a software-as-a-service platform designed to enhance the efficiency of executive assistants by facilitating better communication and collaboration among them. It serves as a dedicated hub where assistants can access, share, and discover unique insider information that is not readily available through other channels. The platform includes community forums, allowing users to pose challenging inquiries and gain insights from their peers. Cabinet operates on a freemium model with tiered offerings, making its resources accessible to a wide range of assistants, including those in Fortune 500 companies such as Facebook, Andreesen Horowitz, Salesforce, HBO, Disney, and NBC Universal. By fostering a global network, Cabinet enables executive assistants to exchange best practices, tips, and recommendations, ultimately improving their workflow and job performance.

Radish Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Provider of healthcare services intended to keep workforces productive and safe from health risks. The company offers to schedule an appointment, get examined by the in-office staff, consult doctors via video conference, get treatment as directed by a doctor, and get prescriptions via email, enabling patients to avail of medical services anywhere and anytime.

Remotely.works

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a talent acquisition platform designed to improve retention and higher employee satisfaction. The company's services range from providing top benefits, training, and development to workspace and community support, enabling startups to build and retain high-performing, remote engineering squads to scale faster and more competitively.

Every Mother

Seed Round in 2020
Every Mother is designed for women at all stages of motherhood, from those first moments of pregnancy to decades after giving birth. We offer an evidence-based pre and postnatal fitness exercise program (previously known as The Dia Method) proven to prevent and resolve diastasis recti and improve core strength and function while building total body fitness through safe, effective workouts. Diastasis recti is an abdominal separation that occurs in a majority of childbearing women and results in a protruding stomach and functional issues such as back pain and incontinence. The results of our scientifically proven method are extraordinary, and the workouts are scalable to fit into a mother’s life. But, there’s more.

EdSights

Seed Round in 2020
EdSights uses chatbots and Ai to help universities engage and retain their students.

Esembly

Seed Round in 2020
Esembly is a designer of baby products used for urban families who want to use cloth diapers. It specializes in baby products like soft cotton Inners, adorable outers, storage bags, organic skincare, and its proprietary washing powder providing parents with a wide range of options in baby accessories.

Minded

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Minded offers a better way to renew and refill mental health prescriptions.

Pair Eyewear

Seed Round in 2019
Pair Eyewear makes wearing prescription and nonprescription glasses and sunglasses exciting, empowering and playful for children. Pair believes glasses for children can be more than a static medical device. Glasses can be a canvas on which children express their evolving interests and growing personalities. Through an e-commerce platform, Pair is redesigning the glasses experience, making it engaging for children and painless for parents. Pair Eyewear is redefining the eyewear experience for children by bringing continual customizability, freedom of choice, and affordability to kids' glasses.

Ten Little

Seed Round in 2019
Ten Little, Inc. is a Brooklyn-based company that specializes in manufacturing children's shoes, focusing on healthy development and movement. Established in 2019, the company offers a range of vegan shoes that are cruelty-free and approved by PETA, utilizing materials such as PVC- and phthalate-free PU vegan leather for the uppers and natural rubber from the Hevea tree for the outsoles. The insoles are made with recycled rubber, and the linings consist of cotton, ensuring environmentally friendly production. Ten Little operates an online platform that assists parents in making informed decisions regarding their children's footwear needs, providing personalized reminders based on the child's size, color preferences, location, and season. This approach enables parents to easily find and purchase appropriate products for their children.

Wagmo

Seed Round in 2019
Wagmo, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides monthly wellness insurance plans specifically designed for pets. Founded in 2017, the company offers reimbursement for routine care services, including vaccinations, grooming appointments, and preventive medications. By leveraging veterinary data, Wagmo enables pet owners to anticipate and manage the costs of care in their area, optimizing the health and well-being of their pets. The service is aimed at making regular pet care more accessible and affordable through its comprehensive wellness plans.

Biotia

Seed Round in 2019
Biotia, Inc. is a health technology company based in New York, founded in 2016. The company specializes in developing software that utilizes DNA sequencing and artificial intelligence to identify and mitigate pathogens and antimicrobial threats before they can cause illness. By leveraging next-generation sequencing and advanced software solutions, Biotia enables clinicians and researchers to enhance patient treatment and improve health outcomes through rapid precision in infectious disease discovery.

ShardSecure

Seed Round in 2019
ShardSecure, Inc. specializes in encryption and cloud data security solutions, focusing on protecting sensitive information during storage and sharing in cloud environments. The company's innovative Microshard technology fragments sensitive data into small pieces, which are then distributed across multiple cloud platforms alongside decoy shards, making it nearly impossible for hackers to reconstruct the original data. This approach not only enhances data protection but also helps mitigate risks associated with cloud misconfigurations. ShardSecure's solutions are designed to be application-agnostic and can be deployed as a virtual storage appliance. The company integrates with major cloud service providers, including AWS, Azure, Google, and IBM, providing clients with simplified and effective data security alternatives. Founded in 2019, ShardSecure is headquartered in New York, New York.

(Re)vive

Series A in 2019
Hemster, Inc. is an on-demand tailoring service founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in garment alteration and hemming services, enabling customers to achieve their desired fit regardless of where they shop. Hemster partners with brand-name retailers nationwide, allowing them to offer tailored sizing solutions from off-the-rack inventory through its Perfect Fit Platform. This approach helps eliminate the common challenge of finding the right size, enhancing the shopping experience for customers. Hemster also operates in key markets such as the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York.

AllWork

Seed Round in 2019
AllWork, Inc. develops a platform that connects freelancer talent with brands and retailers. The company provides solutions, which includes recruiting, scheduling, training, communications, payments, budgeting, planning, reporting, and human resource administration. It also offers AllWork mobile application which gives managers the ability to improve coverage and make scheduling adjustments for their freelance talent. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

Wethos

Venture Round in 2019
Wethos is a developer of a virtual studio designed to support small business owners in pricing complex projects with confidence. Its platform utilizes agile methodologies to create brands, websites, digital content, and growth campaigns tailored to each client's unique requirements. By rapidly assembling flexible teams of vetted creative and marketing professionals, Wethos enables businesses to address quickly changing challenges and optimize their revenue potential.

Chartable

Seed Round in 2019
Chartable, Inc. operates a platform to track and analyze podcasts. The product can be used find, track, and share any podcasts or episode. The company provides charts, ranks over time, ratings, and reviews of different podcasts. The product can be used by podcasters to analyze data related to their podcasts and that of competitors and by the listeners to find out the ratings and recommendations. Chartable, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Biotia

Seed Round in 2019
Biotia, Inc. is a health technology company based in New York, founded in 2016. The company specializes in developing software that utilizes DNA sequencing and artificial intelligence to identify and mitigate pathogens and antimicrobial threats before they can cause illness. By leveraging next-generation sequencing and advanced software solutions, Biotia enables clinicians and researchers to enhance patient treatment and improve health outcomes through rapid precision in infectious disease discovery.

StayTuned

Seed Round in 2019
StayTuned Digital, Inc. specializes in content delivery services for content creators, focusing on enhancing customer engagement through transactional notifications. The company offers a range of services, including platform integrations, content marketing, and impact analysis across various content types and channels. Headquartered in New York, New York, StayTuned aims to meet customers where they are, facilitating meaningful interactions and conversations that drive engagement and improve content effectiveness.

Routinely

Seed Round in 2019
Routinely is focused on helping busy people live a healthy lifestyle. We deliver premium rental workout clothes to peoples’ offices, hotels, gyms and studios in as little as 2 hours. We offer our users workout-saving moments and a new way to discover their favorite health & fitness brands!

Supergreat

Seed Round in 2018
Huddle is a video based peer-to-peer support community. A social platform that's focused on comfort, safety, and allowing users to pixellate themselves to their comfort. A support group community made up of real people, talking about real things, ready to connect, and support one another on the issues that matter to them.

Wagmo

Seed Round in 2018
Wagmo, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides monthly wellness insurance plans specifically designed for pets. Founded in 2017, the company offers reimbursement for routine care services, including vaccinations, grooming appointments, and preventive medications. By leveraging veterinary data, Wagmo enables pet owners to anticipate and manage the costs of care in their area, optimizing the health and well-being of their pets. The service is aimed at making regular pet care more accessible and affordable through its comprehensive wellness plans.

TalentHack

Seed Round in 2018
TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, NY, United States

(Re)vive

Seed Round in 2018
Hemster, Inc. is an on-demand tailoring service founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in garment alteration and hemming services, enabling customers to achieve their desired fit regardless of where they shop. Hemster partners with brand-name retailers nationwide, allowing them to offer tailored sizing solutions from off-the-rack inventory through its Perfect Fit Platform. This approach helps eliminate the common challenge of finding the right size, enhancing the shopping experience for customers. Hemster also operates in key markets such as the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York.

Lalo

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Lalo is a modern brand focused on providing essential products for babies and toddlers, designed to simplify the parenting experience. The company offers a range of thoughtfully designed items, including strollers and baby chairs, which cater to the needs of families. Lalo emphasizes an intuitive online shopping experience, delivering straightforward information about its products that are rigorously tested for safety. Each product is created with both parents and children in mind, ensuring quality and aesthetic appeal at honest prices. Lalo aims to support families through various milestones, adapting its offerings to grow alongside children and fostering convenience in their care.

Circle

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Circle is a developer of insurance sales and member retention products tailored for health insurance carriers and their sales channels. The company's platform enables brokers to efficiently quote and enroll clients in various Medicare Advantage, supplemental, and prescription drug plans across the country. Utilizing advanced customer relationship management features, Circle's tools include commission tracking, contracting, licensing, lead generation, and digital Statements of Understanding, all designed to streamline the insurance sales process. By enhancing benefit management capabilities, Circle aims to reduce the financial burden of out-of-pocket medical costs for beneficiaries and improve overall sales efficiency for insurance companies. In addition, the company is working on a platform to facilitate telemedicine access for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, further supporting healthcare needs in the community.

Cleancult

Seed Round in 2018
Cleancult is a company focused on creating sustainable cleaning products that reduce reliance on single-use plastics. It manufactures refillable items in aluminum bottles and offers all-natural laundry detergents in the form of cleaning pods. These pods contain powerful stain-fighting ingredients and a non-toxic formula, making them suitable for customers with sensitive or allergy-prone skin. By promoting eco-friendly practices and providing effective cleaning solutions, Cleancult aims to support a sustainable lifestyle for its consumers.

Cleancult

Seed Round in 2018
Cleancult is a company focused on creating sustainable cleaning products that reduce reliance on single-use plastics. It manufactures refillable items in aluminum bottles and offers all-natural laundry detergents in the form of cleaning pods. These pods contain powerful stain-fighting ingredients and a non-toxic formula, making them suitable for customers with sensitive or allergy-prone skin. By promoting eco-friendly practices and providing effective cleaning solutions, Cleancult aims to support a sustainable lifestyle for its consumers.

Playbook

Seed Round in 2018
Playbook is a mobile marketplace designed for trainers and professionals in the health, fitness, and wellness sectors. Launched in 2016 and based in New York, the platform enables creators to upload and share their workouts, diet plans, and fitness tips with clients and followers. By facilitating direct interactions between creators and their audience, Playbook allows instructors to establish their own terms and generate significant revenue through subscription-based income. This creator economy platform aims to empower fitness professionals to monetize their expertise while providing users access to a variety of health and wellness resources at an affordable price.

Wheeli

Seed Round in 2018
Wheeli Corporation develops a carpooling application for college students. Students with cars split driving costs, make new friends, and reduce their carbon footprint by selling their empty car seats to students needing a ride to the driver's destination. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Bronx, New York.

Pair Eyewear

Seed Round in 2018
Pair Eyewear makes wearing prescription and nonprescription glasses and sunglasses exciting, empowering and playful for children. Pair believes glasses for children can be more than a static medical device. Glasses can be a canvas on which children express their evolving interests and growing personalities. Through an e-commerce platform, Pair is redesigning the glasses experience, making it engaging for children and painless for parents. Pair Eyewear is redefining the eyewear experience for children by bringing continual customizability, freedom of choice, and affordability to kids' glasses.

Vivvi

Seed Round in 2018
Vivvi, Inc. is a provider of employer-sponsored child care services, headquartered in New York, New York. Founded in 2018, the company offers on-site and near-site childcare solutions tailored for infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children. Vivvi's mission is to support working parents by equipping their children with a lifelong love of learning while addressing the logistical and financial challenges of childcare. The services are designed to enhance employee recruitment and retention, ultimately improving workplace productivity. By eliminating long-term commitments and capital expenditures, Vivvi makes exceptional full-time and backup care accessible and affordable for employers of all sizes, providing peace of mind to parents.

Chartable

Seed Round in 2018
Chartable, Inc. operates a platform to track and analyze podcasts. The product can be used find, track, and share any podcasts or episode. The company provides charts, ranks over time, ratings, and reviews of different podcasts. The product can be used by podcasters to analyze data related to their podcasts and that of competitors and by the listeners to find out the ratings and recommendations. Chartable, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

DEV

Seed Round in 2018
Dev Community Inc. is a platform designed for software developers to collaborate and engage in networked learning. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the company provides an open-source application that allows users to examine and contribute to the code. The platform fosters a community where developers can support one another, facilitating knowledge sharing and collaboration within the software industry. Additionally, Dev is focused on enabling the creation of similar communities across various niches and interests, promoting a culture of collective learning and contribution.

Headway

Seed Round in 2018
Headway is a New York-based mental healthcare system provider that connects patients with therapists through a health insurance advisory platform. Founded in 2019 by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan, the company aims to make mental healthcare more accessible and affordable. It operates a virtual network of therapists who accept insurance, allowing patients to schedule video or in-person sessions online. In addition to its mental health services, Headway also offers administrative support to therapists who typically do not accept insurance, thereby facilitating the expansion of their practices. By streamlining the connection between patients and providers, Headway seeks to improve the overall accessibility of mental health services.

Reply.ai

Seed Round in 2018
Reply.ai is a company that specializes in developing a chatbot platform aimed at enhancing communication between retailers and their customers. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the company focuses on automating repetitive customer service processes to provide instant and personalized support across various communication channels. Its platform is designed to improve efficiency in customer service by enabling organizations to swiftly address common inquiries, thereby saving time and reducing operational costs. Two of its primary offerings, Deflect for Ticketing and Deflect for Chat, allow brands to scale their customer service capabilities while minimizing consumer frustration. As of May 2020, Reply.ai operates as a subsidiary of Kustomer, Inc.

Circle

Venture Round in 2018
Circle is a developer of insurance sales and member retention products tailored for health insurance carriers and their sales channels. The company's platform enables brokers to efficiently quote and enroll clients in various Medicare Advantage, supplemental, and prescription drug plans across the country. Utilizing advanced customer relationship management features, Circle's tools include commission tracking, contracting, licensing, lead generation, and digital Statements of Understanding, all designed to streamline the insurance sales process. By enhancing benefit management capabilities, Circle aims to reduce the financial burden of out-of-pocket medical costs for beneficiaries and improve overall sales efficiency for insurance companies. In addition, the company is working on a platform to facilitate telemedicine access for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, further supporting healthcare needs in the community.

Ripe

Seed Round in 2018
Ripe is a meal service that caters to companies by offering delicious, freshly-prepared food for office environments. The company focuses on sustainability by utilizing local, seasonal, and organic ingredients to minimize its carbon footprint and protect natural resources. By prioritizing healthy meal options, Ripe aims to support employee well-being and motivation in the workplace.

Journey Live

Seed Round in 2018
Journey Meditation, Inc. specializes in providing a meditation application aimed at individuals and organizations. The company offers the Journey LIVE app, which features group meditation led by live instructors through real-time classes accessible to the public. Users can participate in scheduled video live streams throughout the day, guided by teachers from diverse backgrounds and meditation styles. Founded in 2015 by Stephen Sokoler, Journey Meditation is headquartered in New York, New York. The application is designed to make meditation relatable and accessible to a broad audience, incorporating six impactful Life Lessons to enhance the overall experience.

WinWin (Acquired)

Seed Round in 2018
WinWin has been acquired and repurposed.

CityRow

Seed Round in 2018
CityRow Holdings, Inc. specializes in health and fitness services, offering a unique blend of workouts that include yoga, strength training, and cardio, primarily utilizing water-based rowing machines. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, the company operates three locations in Michigan and New York. CityRow also provides a digital platform, Cityrow Go, which is a rowing-based fitness app designed for smartphones and tablets. This app features a variety of rowing classes aimed at delivering effective and motivating workouts for users at home. The studio's approach focuses on enhancing aerobic capacity and overall body efficiency through high-intensity interval training that emphasizes low-impact exercises, helping individuals achieve their fitness goals in a scientifically guided manner.

Particle Health

Seed Round in 2018
Particle Health Inc. specializes in providing blockchain-based technology solutions that enable the anonymization and sharing of clinical information for research and payment purposes. The company has developed a Smart Consent tool that facilitates the tracking and unlocking of patient information, catering to needs in clinical trials and life insurance underwriting. By offering a HIPAA-compliant application programming interface (API), Particle Health connects digital healthcare solutions to essential patient health data, serving various sectors including telemedicine, pharmacy, and virtual health companies. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Manhattan, New York, Particle Health's platform supports healthcare organizations, including those involved in COVID-19 screening, by streamlining access to vital medical data and managing patient consent without relying on third parties.

Radformation

Seed Round in 2018
Radformation LLC focuses on developing automation solutions for radiation oncology workflows, aiming to enhance the efficiency and safety of cancer treatment planning. The company's flagship products include ClearCheck, which eliminates planning errors and ensures compliance by automating dose constraint checks and documentation; EZFluence, an automated 3D planning software that creates optimal fluence files compatible with Varian Eclipse TPS; and QuickCode, a billing quality assurance tool that reviews charges for radiation oncology treatments within Varian's Aria OIS. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, Radformation addresses common challenges in radiation therapy, allowing healthcare providers to deliver faster and more accurate treatment plans for patients.

API Fortress

Seed Round in 2018
API Fortress Inc. is a Brooklyn-based company that specializes in API testing as a service. Founded in 2015, it offers a comprehensive platform that allows businesses to automate the testing of their application programming interfaces. The platform provides functionalities for creating and automating functional tests, virtualizing APIs, and conducting load tests, which help developers and testers identify and resolve issues before they affect end-users. Additionally, API Fortress includes features for automated test generation and an intuitive interface for collaboration among teams. The company also provides an open-source tool called 3loa Helper, which streamlines the automation of three-legged OAuth 2.0 flows. As of December 2020, API Fortress operates as a subsidiary of Sauce Labs Inc.

Carbon-12 Labs, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Carbon-12 Labs, Inc. is a New York-based company, founded in 2017, that focuses on simplifying the transition from fiat currency to cryptocurrency. The company provides API-driven on-ramps that facilitate access to the blockchain economy, enabling users to convert traditional currency into digital assets with ease.

Paloma

Seed Round in 2018
Paloma is a developer of a direct message-commerce platform that empowers brands to enhance their e-commerce capabilities through messaging channels. By facilitating sales via social media direct messages, Paloma enables businesses to manage inventory, create seamless shopping experiences, and streamline the checkout process. The platform is designed to drive higher conversion rates—ranging from 2 to 10 times those of traditional websites—by leveraging customer data to provide valuable insights back to brands. This comprehensive commerce software as a service (SaaS) solution not only helps clients transform customer interactions into sales but also supports sustainable growth by integrating catalog management and performance tracking.

WinWin (Acquired)

Seed Round in 2017
WinWin has been acquired and repurposed.

Wethos

Venture Round in 2017
Wethos is a developer of a virtual studio designed to support small business owners in pricing complex projects with confidence. Its platform utilizes agile methodologies to create brands, websites, digital content, and growth campaigns tailored to each client's unique requirements. By rapidly assembling flexible teams of vetted creative and marketing professionals, Wethos enables businesses to address quickly changing challenges and optimize their revenue potential.

Getro

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Getro is a quickly scaling start-up building white-label job boards and talent networks for venture capital funds and startup accelerators across the world. Customers use our platform to save time when making high-value introductions between portfolio companies and professionals in their networks. As a remote company operating from 7 countries, we understand remote work and are constantly investing in our team by encouraging autonomy, clear communication, and discipline. We’ve recently closed our seed round and are prepared to scale our offering with current customers as we develop new products.
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