Eniac Ventures

Eniac Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2009, specializing in seed and early-stage investments primarily in technology sectors. The firm focuses on high-growth opportunities within mobile technologies, augmented reality, virtual reality, robotics, mobile enterprise software, and consumer Internet. Eniac Ventures typically invests between $0.2 million and $1 million in seed-stage companies and is known for its hands-on approach, providing extensive support through its Eniac Platform. This includes assistance with talent recruitment, public relations, operations, business development, and fundraising strategies. The firm primarily invests in the United States, particularly in regions like Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York, and aims to partner with bold entrepreneurs to create transformative companies.

Sofia Badalamenti

Investor

Owen Chun

Investor

Hadley Harris

Co-Founder and General Partner

Dan Jaeck

Principal

Monica Lim

Principal

Kristin Mcdonald

Principal

Claire Rafson

Investor

Past deals in Mobile

Embrace

Series B in 2021
Embrace Mobile, Inc. specializes in developing software solutions that assist application developers in identifying and resolving issues related to mobile application performance. The company's platform offers unique capabilities for performance monitoring and debugging, allowing developers to track user sessions, analyze interactions leading up to errors, and detect various performance issues, including crashes and slow load times. By providing insights into user experiences and facilitating proactive analysis, Embrace enables mobile teams to quickly address problems that could lead to user churn or dissatisfaction. Founded in 2007 and based in Culver City, California, Embrace is recognized for its innovative approach to mobile app observability, making it an essential tool for developers aiming to improve user engagement and application reliability.

Slope

Series A in 2021
Slope.io, Inc. is a company based in Mobile, Alabama, that specializes in clinical trial logistics for sponsors, contract research organizations (CROs), and research sites across the United States. Established in 2016, Slope offers a platform that effectively connects clinical trials to their supply chains, managing the complexities of delivering devices, drugs, and supply kits to various locations. Their services include Slope.io Coordination, which organizes the logistics requirements of clinical trials into structured timelines and workflows. Additionally, Slope provides customizable supply kits tailored to the specific needs of sites, patients, or study time points, ensuring real-time coordination and complete traceability throughout the process.

Attentive

Series D in 2020
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

Attentive

Series C in 2020
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

Attentive

Series B in 2019
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

Universe

Series A in 2018
Universe is a mobile-based website builder established in 2014 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The platform aims to empower users to create customized websites quickly and easily, catering to the needs of small business owners and individuals who prefer mobile solutions. By offering a unique approach that eliminates complicated templates, Universe utilizes customizable website filters that allow users to arrange photos, videos, and icons on a grid pattern through a simple drag-and-drop interface. This enables users to build mobile-optimized websites in just minutes using the company's iOS app, providing them with full control over their online presence.

Attentive

Series A in 2018
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

ChatGrid

Seed Round in 2018
ChatGrid is a mobile application intended to offer consumer messaging platforms. The company's application offers a social hub, enabling users to give feedback on their business and brand through mobile messaging.

Universe

Venture Round in 2017
Universe is a mobile-based website builder established in 2014 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The platform aims to empower users to create customized websites quickly and easily, catering to the needs of small business owners and individuals who prefer mobile solutions. By offering a unique approach that eliminates complicated templates, Universe utilizes customizable website filters that allow users to arrange photos, videos, and icons on a grid pattern through a simple drag-and-drop interface. This enables users to build mobile-optimized websites in just minutes using the company's iOS app, providing them with full control over their online presence.

Dubsmash

Series B in 2016
Dubsmash, Inc. operates a web-based platform and mobile application focused on content creation and sharing, primarily through micro-videos. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company allows users to create and share dubbed videos by lip-syncing to audio clips from movies, speeches, and music. This innovative application has gained significant popularity, securing the number one spot in the App Store across 29 countries in Europe. Dubsmash serves as a vital tool for content creators and artists, providing an effective means for promoting music and engaging audiences through entertaining video content.

Attentive

Seed Round in 2016
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

mParticle

Series A in 2016
mParticle, Inc. is a customer data platform designed to assist multi-channel consumer brands in accelerating their growth strategies. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, the platform enables marketers, developers, product managers, and data scientists to unify data and streamline partner integrations with a focus on security and reliability. By collecting user data from various services, mParticle provides a comprehensive view that enhances marketing, advertising, and analytics efforts across web and mobile applications. Its solutions are utilized by notable companies such as Walmart, NBC Universal, and Airbnb to effectively manage their customer interactions throughout the buying process. mParticle serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, financial services, media, and travel, ensuring compliance with regulations like GDPR. The company also has offices in San Francisco, Bellevue, London, and Delray Beach.

Phhhoto

Seed Round in 2015
PHHHOTO® for iPhone, the free camera app that captures life in motion through its exclusive, multi-frame camera. Now anyone can shoot and share pictures that look and feel alive. The PHHHOTO format consists of a series of frames captured with a single touch. The frames are then looped back and forth in a way that brings subjects to life. In the world of PHHHOTO, waves crash, ice cream melts and suns set — forever. Download now for FREE: phhhoto.com/app PHHHOTO PRO® is the wildly popular social photobooth that shoots animated selfies of everyone at your party. With its glowing LightRing™ and exclusive iPad app, PHHHOTO PRO® detects your face and shoots several frames, then delivers an animated selfie to your phone via text message. Sleek, sharable and fully brandable, HYPERHYPER has created the most addictive, animated photobooth ever. Book PHHHOTO for your next event

Sochat

Seed Round in 2015
Sochat is an iOS and Android mobile messaging application and connection platform. It allows its users to publish groups nearby with a PIN to quickly gather up and share GIFs, photos, videos, disappearing messages, and drawings among its users. It also allows sending songs and YouTube videos, play rock paper scissors game, and poll friends and groups. Sochat is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Lukens Orthwein.

Mast Mobile

Venture Round in 2015
Mast Mobile (originally called Grid Mobile), a new software platform that makes it simple for businesses to leverage mobile services better, and, for individuals to manage both work and personal life on one device. It is a platform that places CRM into sales team's day-to-day activities that automatically loads all client communications into the database. Mast Mobile quietly shutdown services on June 15th, 2017. The business was reportedly struggling to raise additional funding.

Neumob

Series A in 2015
Neumob, Inc. develops application acceleration technology for application owners and developers worldwide. The company offers Neumob Accelerator, a software development kit that speeds up the load times, reliability, and performance of mobile application anywhere in the world. Its Neumob Accelerator facilitates custom-built, machine learning-driven Neumob protocol and 3-PoP WAN acceleration features to the user’s smartphone. The company’s Neumob Accelerator facilitates application owners and developers to accelerate traffic only where they need it most; and global acceleration network analyzes traffic and routing conditions in real time, and uses machine learning to find the fastest route between the user’s content and customer even on 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile networks. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. As of November 14, 2017, Neumob, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CloudFlare, Inc.

Dubsmash

Series A in 2015
Dubsmash, Inc. operates a web-based platform and mobile application focused on content creation and sharing, primarily through micro-videos. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company allows users to create and share dubbed videos by lip-syncing to audio clips from movies, speeches, and music. This innovative application has gained significant popularity, securing the number one spot in the App Store across 29 countries in Europe. Dubsmash serves as a vital tool for content creators and artists, providing an effective means for promoting music and engaging audiences through entertaining video content.

Swell

Venture Round in 2015
Swell is a mobile application aimed at simplifying the way individuals manage their tasks and to-do lists on smartphones. The app provides personalized recommendations and curated content, helping users efficiently tackle various activities, from purchasing books to planning travel experiences. By leveraging insights from a network of researchers, Swell alleviates the burden of extensive research, allowing users to receive tailored advice and price comparisons for their saved tasks. This approach is designed to enhance decision-making and streamline the completion of everyday activities, ultimately making the process more efficient and less time-consuming.

Neumob

Seed Round in 2015
Neumob, Inc. develops application acceleration technology for application owners and developers worldwide. The company offers Neumob Accelerator, a software development kit that speeds up the load times, reliability, and performance of mobile application anywhere in the world. Its Neumob Accelerator facilitates custom-built, machine learning-driven Neumob protocol and 3-PoP WAN acceleration features to the user’s smartphone. The company’s Neumob Accelerator facilitates application owners and developers to accelerate traffic only where they need it most; and global acceleration network analyzes traffic and routing conditions in real time, and uses machine learning to find the fastest route between the user’s content and customer even on 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile networks. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. As of November 14, 2017, Neumob, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CloudFlare, Inc.

Hinge

Series A in 2014
Hinge, Inc. is a social discovery network that operates a mobile application designed to help users meet new people within their social circles. Founded in 2011 and based in New York City, Hinge offers an alternative to traditional dating app swipe culture by facilitating meaningful connections through smart matches and promoting natural conversations. Users can browse profiles that are validated through Facebook, allowing them to view photos, full names, and shared interests, as well as mutual friends. As of 2018, Hinge operates as a subsidiary of Match Group, Inc.

Glide

Series A in 2013
Glide Talk, Ltd. provides video texting applications for iPhone and Android mobile users worldwide. It offers Glide, a video messenger application that allows its users to send and receive short video messages that are seen live or later; and browser toolbars for the Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari browsers. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Jerusalem, Israel.

mParticle

Seed Round in 2013
mParticle, Inc. is a customer data platform designed to assist multi-channel consumer brands in accelerating their growth strategies. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, the platform enables marketers, developers, product managers, and data scientists to unify data and streamline partner integrations with a focus on security and reliability. By collecting user data from various services, mParticle provides a comprehensive view that enhances marketing, advertising, and analytics efforts across web and mobile applications. Its solutions are utilized by notable companies such as Walmart, NBC Universal, and Airbnb to effectively manage their customer interactions throughout the buying process. mParticle serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, financial services, media, and travel, ensuring compliance with regulations like GDPR. The company also has offices in San Francisco, Bellevue, London, and Delray Beach.

Jump Ramp

Series B in 2013
Considered one of New York City’s fastest growing mobile-first companies, Jump Ramp is the leader in delivering innovative promotions, rewards and instant winning experiences through free mobile casual gaming. Connecting consumers with our top partners in mobile gaming, commerce, branding and product discovery. We are backed by premiere VCs including SoftBank Capital, Bullpen Capital. Founders Collective and LeadEdge Capital. Our flagship app Lucktastic launched on Android in 2014 and has quickly built an engaged, enthusiastic and loyal customer base attracting nearly 10 million installs in the US on Android and iOS. Lucktastic is consistently ranked in the top 3 within the lifestyle category on the Google Play Store alongside brands like Tinder, Zillow, and Starbucks as well as top 10 respectively in the Apple Store. With a dominant social footprint that includes nearly 2 million Facebook fans, the Lucktastic brand has a reach that extends 12 million weekly unique American consumers. We have a strong focus on extending our brand and becoming a household name in the US. Jump Ramp looks to grow a network of apps and innovative content beyond our flagship app with an eye on expanding to Asia and other International markets. Jump Ramp prides itself on being a close knit team with nearly 40 employees, and looking to double in the next 18 months. We look for talent that thrives in an innovative entrepreneurial environment, is excited about consumer products that touch millions of Americans and who embrace our exciting diverse NYC culture. We’re not afraid to move fast and break things as we release, launch, iterate, update and announce - sometimes all in the same day! So if you thrive on solving problems in the mobile space that have never been tackled before, come join our team!

Marfeel

Venture Round in 2013
Marfeel Solutions, S.L. is a Barcelona-based company founded in 2011 that offers an ad-optimized mobile design solution for publishers and professional bloggers. The company specializes in helping clients monetize mobile traffic by creating and optimizing mobile websites tailored to user habits and behavior. Marfeel's proprietary technology dynamically adjusts site layouts to enhance readership, engagement, and page views, ultimately driving ad revenue. Its platform ensures consistency between mobile and desktop content without the need for extensive IT support, as all updates are managed through the cloud. With partnerships involving over 20,000 global ad networks, Marfeel provides access to premium advertisers, reaching more than 500 million readers monthly. Recognized by Google and named a Top 100 European Startup by WIRED Magazine, Marfeel has also received accolades from Gartner and Forrester, solidifying its position in the mobile marketing sector. The company is backed by notable investors, including Nauta Capital and BDMI.

Workflow

Seed Round in 2013
Workflow connects your apps and services together to automate things you do every day. The company also builds DeskConnect: the missing link between your devices.

Metaresolver

Seed Round in 2012
Metaresolver is a provider of a mobile advertising platform that enhances media buying on mobile platforms through improved targeting capabilities. The company utilizes proprietary data to connect media and marketing intelligence with consumer attributes, such as device model, location, content, connection, and carrier. This approach enables advertisers to execute more effective campaigns by leveraging detailed insights about their audience. Metaresolver was acquired by Millennial Media, further expanding its reach and resources in the mobile advertising landscape.

OnSwipe

Venture Round in 2011
OnSwipe is a platform designed to enhance the presentation of content and advertising for publishers on touch-enabled devices through web browsers. By enabling media companies to deliver a magazine-like experience, OnSwipe allows their content to appear and function similarly to native applications, catering to the increasing prevalence of tablet usage. The platform simplifies the process of publishing across various touch devices, addressing the evolving needs of the media industry.

Elevate

Seed Round in 2011
Elevate Labs, LLC, based in San Francisco, offers a mobile application that serves as a personal brain trainer, focusing on enhancing various cognitive skills. The app features training activities that target areas such as memory, processing speed, communication, and analytical thinking. Users benefit from a personalized, game-based training program that adapts over time to their performance, thereby promoting continuous improvement. Elevate has gained recognition for its effectiveness, receiving accolades such as Apple's App of the Year in 2014 and Google Play's Editor's Choice. Since its launch in May 2014, the app has been downloaded over 21 million times, helping more than 50 million individuals improve their cognitive abilities and communication skills through engaging and interactive exercises.

MindSnacks

Seed Round in 2011
MindSnacks, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010 that specializes in developing mobile educational games aimed at students and lifelong learners. The company offers a diverse array of learning solutions across multiple subjects, including languages such as Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, as well as topics like biology, math, history, and more. MindSnacks employs a unique approach by delivering content through engaging, bite-sized lessons that can be accessed at any time and place, leveraging mobile technology to enhance the learning experience. Its multiplayer learning games focus on improving vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening skills, making education more interactive and enjoyable for users of all ages.

Breezy

Angel Round in 2011
Breezy is a cloud-based mobile printing solution that makes it easy to print anything from any device to any printer. Breezy's architecture supports hundreds of file types and all printers, regardless of whether the printers are wifi or Bluetooth-capable. The free Breezy Connector software acts as a bridge between users' printer and the company's servers, which keep an up-to-date list of printers available to each user; documents are then sent securely from a user's mobile device, through the server and to the printer selected by the user.

Thumb

Angel Round in 2011
Thumb is the easiest way for people to express themselves and to discover people like them. The simple act of ‘thumbing’ brings people together in a purpose-driven community that allows people to express what matters most to them, generates instant feedback, and helps people make meaningful connections. Thumb is available on iOS, Android, and via Website at www.thumb.it.

OnSwipe

Seed Round in 2011
OnSwipe is a platform designed to enhance the presentation of content and advertising for publishers on touch-enabled devices through web browsers. By enabling media companies to deliver a magazine-like experience, OnSwipe allows their content to appear and function similarly to native applications, catering to the increasing prevalence of tablet usage. The platform simplifies the process of publishing across various touch devices, addressing the evolving needs of the media industry.

TapToLearn

Seed Round in 2011
When we began our first experiments with using Mobile devices a few years ago we were very excited by the possibility of learning in nontraditional manner. The beauty of effectiveness of the iPhone first and the iPad platforms gave shape to our vision of building beautiful apps, designed to build learning for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Devices. Each of our apps are extremely easy to use, focus on just one area of learning using interactivity and add an element to fun while learning.

MightyMeeting

Seed Round in 2010
With MightyMeeting you can manage a library of PowerPoint presentations directly from your smartphone. You can share them via email, blog, Twitter, or Facebook. You can start or join web meetings directly from your laptop, iPhone, iPod Touch, or an Android phone.

Localytics

Seed Round in 2010
Localytics is a mobile app analytics and marketing platform that helps businesses enhance their mobile app acquisition, engagement, and retention strategies. It offers a suite of tools that integrate marketing capabilities—such as push notifications, in-app messaging, and email marketing—with robust analytics features. This allows companies to utilize real-time user data for personalized and automated marketing campaigns. Localytics serves over 6,000 apps across more than 2 billion devices, catering to notable clients like Live Nation, HSN, Comcast, and The New York Times. By focusing on mobile and web app engagement, Localytics equips organizations with the insights and tools necessary for improving user interaction and loyalty.

MightyMeeting

Seed Round in 2010
With MightyMeeting you can manage a library of PowerPoint presentations directly from your smartphone. You can share them via email, blog, Twitter, or Facebook. You can start or join web meetings directly from your laptop, iPhone, iPod Touch, or an Android phone.

NearVerse

Seed Round in 2009
NearVerse Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in mobile application platforms for instant messaging and rich media sharing, particularly through its flagship product, LoKast. This application allows users to communicate and share various media types, such as photos, videos, and music, in real-time while engaging in activities and events. NearVerse also develops the NearCloud technology platform, which enhances wireless Internet delivery and location identification services by integrating device-to-device and wireless networking. The company's offerings cater to a wide range of users, including businesses, event organizers, retailers, and performers, facilitating improved experiences in social and professional settings. Founded in 2008, NearVerse continues to innovate in the realm of mobile connectivity and communication.
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