Headline is a venture capital firm established in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It operates in seven cities around the world and invests in a diverse range of sectors including fintech, e-commerce, software, digital health, developer tools, open-source, media, digital innovation, and consumer services. The firm manages Early Stage Funds across the US, Europe, Asia, and Brazil, allowing for localized investments, while its Growth Fund targets global investments from Series B and beyond. By being closely connected to local markets, Headline can identify emerging trends and promising entrepreneurs. The firm has a notable portfolio featuring companies such as Sonos, The RealReal, Creditas, and Bumble, reflecting its commitment to supporting innovative and high-potential businesses.
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Jonathan Becker
Partner
Nicolas von Blottnitz
Investor, US
Conrad Chu
Partner
Jett Fein
General Partner
Andreas Haug
Founding and General Partner
Jake Horwitz
Investor, US
Joseph Huang
Partner
Brad Lu
Partner
Trevor Neff
Partner at Headline Growth
Ketul Patel
Investor, US
Shalini Rao
Partner at Headline Growth
Jonathan Userovici
General Partner
Anna Vershebeniuk
Principal
Dominic Wilhelm
Principal
Nancy Xiao
Partner, Growth
Kevin Zhang
Principal
King Goh
Partner, Growth and Fintech Investing
Gabriel Alves
Partner
Past deals in Mobile Apps
Natural Cycles
Series C in 2024
Natural Cycles is a digital health company that provides a contraceptive app designed to empower women in managing their reproductive health. The app utilizes an algorithm to analyze users' basal body temperature and other relevant data, such as luteinizing hormone levels, to determine fertility status throughout the menstrual cycle. By requiring daily temperature measurements with a basal thermometer, the app generates a color-coded calendar that informs users of their fertile days, allowing for informed decisions regarding unprotected sex. This non-invasive and non-hormonal approach enables women to plan or prevent pregnancies while avoiding the side effects associated with traditional contraceptive methods. Natural Cycles is at the forefront of digital contraception, offering a modern solution to female fertility tracking.
Braavo Capital
Series B in 2024
Braavo Capital, Inc. is a financial solutions company that specializes in providing capital-as-a-service financing to mobile app developers, primarily for marketing and user acquisition. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the company offers non-dilutive funding options, allowing developers to access capital without relinquishing ownership stakes. In addition to funding, Braavo Capital provides analytics tools that assist app businesses in monitoring performance and making informed, data-driven decisions.
Airvet
Series B in 2023
Airvet Inc. is a veterinary telemedicine platform that connects pet owners with veterinarians through a user-friendly application. Founded in 2018 and based in Beverly Hills, California, Airvet enables pet parents to schedule virtual appointments for general health checkups, medical inquiries, and behavioral concerns via live video, audio, and chat. This innovative approach fosters ongoing relationships between veterinarians and clients, enhancing the continuity of care that was previously difficult to maintain. By providing affordable access to veterinary services, Airvet aims to improve the health and well-being of pets, while also driving clinic revenue and integrating veterinarians into a modern veterinary community.
Natural Cycles
Venture Round in 2023
Natural Cycles is a digital health company that provides a contraceptive app designed to empower women in managing their reproductive health. The app utilizes an algorithm to analyze users' basal body temperature and other relevant data, such as luteinizing hormone levels, to determine fertility status throughout the menstrual cycle. By requiring daily temperature measurements with a basal thermometer, the app generates a color-coded calendar that informs users of their fertile days, allowing for informed decisions regarding unprotected sex. This non-invasive and non-hormonal approach enables women to plan or prevent pregnancies while avoiding the side effects associated with traditional contraceptive methods. Natural Cycles is at the forefront of digital contraception, offering a modern solution to female fertility tracking.
Plumery
Pre Seed Round in 2023
We provide a holistic digital engagement platform with the mission to enable banks of any size globally to implement delightful mobile and web experiences for their customers and provide them with the foundation for success beyond fast-time-to-market.
Five Lives
Seed Round in 2022
Five Lives is a London-based digital therapeutics company focused on enhancing cognitive health through its innovative mobile app, Sharp. This platform is designed to help users measure and mitigate their risk of cognitive decline by promoting healthier lifestyle choices. By offering an engaging and user-friendly tool, Five Lives aims to facilitate earlier detection of dementia and empower individuals to take proactive steps in maintaining their brain health. The company’s mission is to enable users to lead longer, healthier, and more fulfilling lives by improving their overall cognitive well-being.
Cineshort
Seed Round in 2022
Cineshort is a mobile application that specializes in streaming short films, catering to individuals who want to enjoy cinematic experiences during brief intervals in their day. Positioned as a convenient option for busy users, Cineshort offers an extensive library of films that can be watched in short segments, ideal for moments like commuting. The platform not only enhances viewer engagement by providing personalized selections but also connects filmmakers with a broader audience, facilitating exposure and support through a revenue-sharing model. This dual focus allows Cineshort to promote creative works while ensuring that filmmakers can sustain their projects financially.
Homa Games
Series B in 2022
Homa Games is a gaming technology platform based in Paris, France, that focuses on creating and publishing mobile games, particularly in the hyper-casual and idle genres. The company collaborates with over 200 carefully selected studios globally to develop games, having published more than 30 titles, including NERF Epic Pranks!, Sky Roller, and Idle World. Homa Games provides game creators with data-driven tools and human expertise, enabling them to transform their creative concepts into commercially successful games. The company also specializes in user acquisition, monetization, and offers automation and optimization services for app production and publishing, aimed at enhancing the gaming experience and supporting mobile game developers in growing their applications from inception.
Shikomel
Series B in 2022
Shikomel Food Tech Inc. is a Japan-based company that develops a mobile application designed for food ordering and recipe sharing. The app allows users to receive recipes from restaurants and offers the option to order from menus provided by various food establishments. By facilitating the exchange of recipes and utilizing artificial intelligence, Shikomel aims to streamline the food preparation process for restaurants and food providers. This innovative platform helps reduce labor hours and optimize ordering by promoting collaboration between restaurants and food factories, ultimately addressing common challenges in food preparation and delivery.
Fetch
Series E in 2022
Fetch is the leading mobile shopping platform that enables users to earn and redeem rewards. The platform provides users with the easiest way to save on everyday purchases by simply scanning their receipts. For their brand partners, the platform allows them to understand a 360-degree view of shopping habits, and to meaningfully reward a customer's individual loyalty.
UXCam
Seed Round in 2022
UXCam is a user experience analytics solution tailored for mobile applications, offering tools such as Session Replay, Heatmaps, Funnel Analytics, and Quantitative Analytics. These features enable businesses to gain deep insights into user behavior and interaction with their apps. UXCam operates seamlessly in the background, ensuring that there is no performance impact while it collects and analyzes comprehensive usage data. This functionality allows businesses to identify user frustrations, problems, and bugs within their applications, ultimately enhancing the overall user experience and optimizing interface design.
Acorns
Series F in 2022
Acorns is a financial technology company founded in 2012 and based in Irvine, California. It offers an application that automates micro-investments by rounding up users' everyday purchases to invest the spare change into a diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds. These funds are managed by reputable asset managers, providing users with exposure to a variety of investment options. In addition to this core feature, Acorns also provides services such as debit cards, personal checking accounts, investment accounts, and retirement accounts, enabling individuals to invest small amounts of money regularly. The platform aims to make investing accessible and straightforward for everyday users.
Zumper
Series D in 2022
Zumper, Inc. is an online and mobile platform that facilitates the search and listing of rental properties across the United States. Established in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a comprehensive suite of tools for landlords and agents to manage rental listings effectively, while also enabling multifamily communities to enhance their leasing success. Zumper's platform allows users to search for various rental options, including houses, rooms, condos, and apartments, with features that filter listings based on criteria such as location, price, and amenities. Additionally, it offers an application for renters to search and apply for rentals, along with Instarent, a digital leasing solution that simplifies the leasing process. With over 125 million site visits annually, Zumper aims to streamline the rental experience, making it as convenient as booking a hotel. The company has secured significant funding from various investors to support its growth and innovation in the rental market.
Swile
Series D in 2021
Swile is a French company founded in 2018 by Loïc Soubeyrand, focused on enhancing employee engagement and managing employee benefits. The company initially disrupted the traditional meal voucher market by offering an all-in-one smartcard that consolidates various employee benefits, including meal vouchers, gift vouchers, and mobility benefits. Swile's innovative super app aims to improve workplace culture through features such as employee recognition, event organization, collections, and peer-to-peer payments. Additionally, the company provides tools for conducting employee engagement surveys and delivering insightful analytics, enabling businesses to streamline expense management and simplify the distribution of benefits, ultimately contributing to the financial well-being of employees. Based in Paris, Swile continues to redefine the landscape of employee services.
Homa Games
Series A in 2021
Homa Games is a gaming technology platform based in Paris, France, that focuses on creating and publishing mobile games, particularly in the hyper-casual and idle genres. The company collaborates with over 200 carefully selected studios globally to develop games, having published more than 30 titles, including NERF Epic Pranks!, Sky Roller, and Idle World. Homa Games provides game creators with data-driven tools and human expertise, enabling them to transform their creative concepts into commercially successful games. The company also specializes in user acquisition, monetization, and offers automation and optimization services for app production and publishing, aimed at enhancing the gaming experience and supporting mobile game developers in growing their applications from inception.
UXCam
Venture Round in 2021
UXCam is a user experience analytics solution tailored for mobile applications, offering tools such as Session Replay, Heatmaps, Funnel Analytics, and Quantitative Analytics. These features enable businesses to gain deep insights into user behavior and interaction with their apps. UXCam operates seamlessly in the background, ensuring that there is no performance impact while it collects and analyzes comprehensive usage data. This functionality allows businesses to identify user frustrations, problems, and bugs within their applications, ultimately enhancing the overall user experience and optimizing interface design.
Kili Technology
Series A in 2021
Kili Technology specializes in providing software solutions for the annotation and management of data sets essential for artificial intelligence training. The company's platform facilitates the transformation of raw data into high-quality, annotated data suitable for AI projects, supporting various formats including images, videos, text, PDFs, and audio. Kili Technology's tools enable clients to efficiently manage their training data while ensuring quality control and collaboration among teams. The platform can be deployed online or on-premises, allowing businesses to scale their machine learning initiatives according to their specific needs.
Shopmonkey
Series C in 2021
Shopmonkey Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based shop management software tailored for repair shops. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Shopmonkey offers a comprehensive platform that facilitates workflow management, calendar scheduling, and customer communication through text and email. Its software includes features such as automated appointment confirmations, digital vehicle inspections, inventory management, and invoice tracking, which help eliminate double entry and streamline payment processes. The platform is designed for a variety of repair sectors, including auto repair, auto body, motorcycle repair, and more, allowing users to manage customer relationships and operational workflows efficiently. Additionally, Shopmonkey integrates with QuickBooks, enabling customers to make payments in person or online.
Homa Games
Seed Round in 2021
Homa Games is a gaming technology platform based in Paris, France, that focuses on creating and publishing mobile games, particularly in the hyper-casual and idle genres. The company collaborates with over 200 carefully selected studios globally to develop games, having published more than 30 titles, including NERF Epic Pranks!, Sky Roller, and Idle World. Homa Games provides game creators with data-driven tools and human expertise, enabling them to transform their creative concepts into commercially successful games. The company also specializes in user acquisition, monetization, and offers automation and optimization services for app production and publishing, aimed at enhancing the gaming experience and supporting mobile game developers in growing their applications from inception.
Rocket.Chat
Series A in 2021
Rocket.Chat is an enterprise communication and collaboration platform that serves over 12 million users on more than 500,000 servers globally. It offers an open-source solution designed for team collaboration and omnichannel customer service, enabling users to exchange messages, organize video calls, and share files. The platform supports integration with various external communication tools, allowing companies to customize their communication environment while ensuring data ownership and compliance. Rocket.Chat provides a secure space for both internal and external communications, with features such as individual and group messaging, video conferencing, file uploading, screen sharing, and LiveChat. The company aims to replace traditional email with a real-time federated communications platform and plans to establish a marketplace to facilitate app development and business services built around its core offerings. An active community of over 1,000 developer-contributors continuously enhances the platform, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of its users.
Kili Technology
Seed Round in 2021
Kili Technology specializes in providing software solutions for the annotation and management of data sets essential for artificial intelligence training. The company's platform facilitates the transformation of raw data into high-quality, annotated data suitable for AI projects, supporting various formats including images, videos, text, PDFs, and audio. Kili Technology's tools enable clients to efficiently manage their training data while ensuring quality control and collaboration among teams. The platform can be deployed online or on-premises, allowing businesses to scale their machine learning initiatives according to their specific needs.
Karma
Venture Round in 2020
Karma develops an application that helps restaurants, grocers and cafés reduce their food waste by selling their surplus to consumers at reduced prices. Its application serves as a sales channel via which merchants offer take away food items to registered users. Elsa Bernadotte, Mattis Larsson, Hjalmar Nordegren, Ludvig Berling, and Steven van Wel founded Karma on September 1, 2015. Its headquarters is in Stockholm in Sweden.
Fetch
Series C in 2020
Fetch is the leading mobile shopping platform that enables users to earn and redeem rewards. The platform provides users with the easiest way to save on everyday purchases by simply scanning their receipts. For their brand partners, the platform allows them to understand a 360-degree view of shopping habits, and to meaningfully reward a customer's individual loyalty.
Shopmonkey
Series B in 2020
Shopmonkey Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based shop management software tailored for repair shops. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Shopmonkey offers a comprehensive platform that facilitates workflow management, calendar scheduling, and customer communication through text and email. Its software includes features such as automated appointment confirmations, digital vehicle inspections, inventory management, and invoice tracking, which help eliminate double entry and streamline payment processes. The platform is designed for a variety of repair sectors, including auto repair, auto body, motorcycle repair, and more, allowing users to manage customer relationships and operational workflows efficiently. Additionally, Shopmonkey integrates with QuickBooks, enabling customers to make payments in person or online.
Airvet
Series A in 2020
Airvet Inc. is a veterinary telemedicine platform that connects pet owners with veterinarians through a user-friendly application. Founded in 2018 and based in Beverly Hills, California, Airvet enables pet parents to schedule virtual appointments for general health checkups, medical inquiries, and behavioral concerns via live video, audio, and chat. This innovative approach fosters ongoing relationships between veterinarians and clients, enhancing the continuity of care that was previously difficult to maintain. By providing affordable access to veterinary services, Airvet aims to improve the health and well-being of pets, while also driving clinic revenue and integrating veterinarians into a modern veterinary community.
Swile
Series C in 2020
Swile is a French company founded in 2018 by Loïc Soubeyrand, focused on enhancing employee engagement and managing employee benefits. The company initially disrupted the traditional meal voucher market by offering an all-in-one smartcard that consolidates various employee benefits, including meal vouchers, gift vouchers, and mobility benefits. Swile's innovative super app aims to improve workplace culture through features such as employee recognition, event organization, collections, and peer-to-peer payments. Additionally, the company provides tools for conducting employee engagement surveys and delivering insightful analytics, enabling businesses to streamline expense management and simplify the distribution of benefits, ultimately contributing to the financial well-being of employees. Based in Paris, Swile continues to redefine the landscape of employee services.
Zumper
Series D in 2020
Zumper, Inc. is an online and mobile platform that facilitates the search and listing of rental properties across the United States. Established in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a comprehensive suite of tools for landlords and agents to manage rental listings effectively, while also enabling multifamily communities to enhance their leasing success. Zumper's platform allows users to search for various rental options, including houses, rooms, condos, and apartments, with features that filter listings based on criteria such as location, price, and amenities. Additionally, it offers an application for renters to search and apply for rentals, along with Instarent, a digital leasing solution that simplifies the leasing process. With over 125 million site visits annually, Zumper aims to streamline the rental experience, making it as convenient as booking a hotel. The company has secured significant funding from various investors to support its growth and innovation in the rental market.
Fetch
Venture Round in 2019
Fetch is the leading mobile shopping platform that enables users to earn and redeem rewards. The platform provides users with the easiest way to save on everyday purchases by simply scanning their receipts. For their brand partners, the platform allows them to understand a 360-degree view of shopping habits, and to meaningfully reward a customer's individual loyalty.
Shopmonkey
Series A in 2019
Shopmonkey Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based shop management software tailored for repair shops. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Shopmonkey offers a comprehensive platform that facilitates workflow management, calendar scheduling, and customer communication through text and email. Its software includes features such as automated appointment confirmations, digital vehicle inspections, inventory management, and invoice tracking, which help eliminate double entry and streamline payment processes. The platform is designed for a variety of repair sectors, including auto repair, auto body, motorcycle repair, and more, allowing users to manage customer relationships and operational workflows efficiently. Additionally, Shopmonkey integrates with QuickBooks, enabling customers to make payments in person or online.
SpotHero
Series D in 2019
SpotHero Inc. is a company that provides parking reservation services, allowing drivers to find, compare, and reserve discounted parking spots through its mobile application and website. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in Detroit, Michigan, the company also operates in Toronto, Canada. SpotHero serves as a consumer marketplace for parking in North America, connecting users with various parking facilities, including lots, garages, and valet services. The platform facilitates data exchange and payment processing, streamlining the parking experience for customers.
Acorns
Series E in 2019
Acorns is a financial technology company founded in 2012 and based in Irvine, California. It offers an application that automates micro-investments by rounding up users' everyday purchases to invest the spare change into a diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds. These funds are managed by reputable asset managers, providing users with exposure to a variety of investment options. In addition to this core feature, Acorns also provides services such as debit cards, personal checking accounts, investment accounts, and retirement accounts, enabling individuals to invest small amounts of money regularly. The platform aims to make investing accessible and straightforward for everyday users.
Fetch
Series A in 2018
Fetch is the leading mobile shopping platform that enables users to earn and redeem rewards. The platform provides users with the easiest way to save on everyday purchases by simply scanning their receipts. For their brand partners, the platform allows them to understand a 360-degree view of shopping habits, and to meaningfully reward a customer's individual loyalty.
Asana Rebel
Series B in 2018
Asana Rebel is a Berlin-based startup founded in 2015 by Pascal Klein and Robin Pratap, offering a Yoga-inspired fitness app that combines elements of yoga and traditional fitness. The app provides users with access to a variety of personalized workouts designed by fitness and yoga experts, along with curated collections aimed at helping individuals achieve specific fitness goals. Available in six languages—German, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian—the app has been well-received, consistently rated above 4.6 out of 5 stars on various platforms. Asana Rebel has also gained recognition from major app stores, being featured multiple times by both Apple and Google as one of the leading health and fitness applications.
Braavo Capital
Series A in 2018
Braavo Capital, Inc. is a financial solutions company that specializes in providing capital-as-a-service financing to mobile app developers, primarily for marketing and user acquisition. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the company offers non-dilutive funding options, allowing developers to access capital without relinquishing ownership stakes. In addition to funding, Braavo Capital provides analytics tools that assist app businesses in monitoring performance and making informed, data-driven decisions.
Karma
Series A in 2018
Karma develops an application that helps restaurants, grocers and cafés reduce their food waste by selling their surplus to consumers at reduced prices. Its application serves as a sales channel via which merchants offer take away food items to registered users. Elsa Bernadotte, Mattis Larsson, Hjalmar Nordegren, Ludvig Berling, and Steven van Wel founded Karma on September 1, 2015. Its headquarters is in Stockholm in Sweden.
Test.ai
Series A in 2018
Test.ai provides an AI-powered test automation platform to help organizations deliver quality mobile app experiences. The platform scales and can test thousands of apps in parallel without the need to code or maintain tests. Test.ai automates testing for the most impactful user experiences so that app teams can focus on improving them. The team at test.ai wrote the book on testing— having worked on some of the world’s most used software such as Chrome and Bing and co-authoring books such as How Google Tests Software and App Quality: Secrets for Agile App Teams. Test.ai is dedicated to elevating the quality of the world’s apps and is uniquely qualified to do so.
Azimo
Series C in 2018
Azimo Limited is a digital money transfer network that offers a fast, secure, and cost-effective solution for sending money internationally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in Amsterdam, Azimo provides an online platform that enables users to transfer funds to bank accounts or to over 270,000 cash pick-up points globally. The service is accessible via mobile apps for Android and iOS, as well as through desktop and social media applications, allowing customers to send money from any internet-connected device. Azimo's mission is to significantly reduce the costs associated with traditional remittance services, making international money transfers more accessible for users around the world.
Test.ai
Seed Round in 2018
Test.ai provides an AI-powered test automation platform to help organizations deliver quality mobile app experiences. The platform scales and can test thousands of apps in parallel without the need to code or maintain tests. Test.ai automates testing for the most impactful user experiences so that app teams can focus on improving them. The team at test.ai wrote the book on testing— having worked on some of the world’s most used software such as Chrome and Bing and co-authoring books such as How Google Tests Software and App Quality: Secrets for Agile App Teams. Test.ai is dedicated to elevating the quality of the world’s apps and is uniquely qualified to do so.
Asana Rebel
Series A in 2018
Asana Rebel is a Berlin-based startup founded in 2015 by Pascal Klein and Robin Pratap, offering a Yoga-inspired fitness app that combines elements of yoga and traditional fitness. The app provides users with access to a variety of personalized workouts designed by fitness and yoga experts, along with curated collections aimed at helping individuals achieve specific fitness goals. Available in six languages—German, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian—the app has been well-received, consistently rated above 4.6 out of 5 stars on various platforms. Asana Rebel has also gained recognition from major app stores, being featured multiple times by both Apple and Google as one of the leading health and fitness applications.
Natural Cycles
Series B in 2017
Natural Cycles is a digital health company that provides a contraceptive app designed to empower women in managing their reproductive health. The app utilizes an algorithm to analyze users' basal body temperature and other relevant data, such as luteinizing hormone levels, to determine fertility status throughout the menstrual cycle. By requiring daily temperature measurements with a basal thermometer, the app generates a color-coded calendar that informs users of their fertile days, allowing for informed decisions regarding unprotected sex. This non-invasive and non-hormonal approach enables women to plan or prevent pregnancies while avoiding the side effects associated with traditional contraceptive methods. Natural Cycles is at the forefront of digital contraception, offering a modern solution to female fertility tracking.
Acorns
Series D in 2017
Acorns is a financial technology company founded in 2012 and based in Irvine, California. It offers an application that automates micro-investments by rounding up users' everyday purchases to invest the spare change into a diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds. These funds are managed by reputable asset managers, providing users with exposure to a variety of investment options. In addition to this core feature, Acorns also provides services such as debit cards, personal checking accounts, investment accounts, and retirement accounts, enabling individuals to invest small amounts of money regularly. The platform aims to make investing accessible and straightforward for everyday users.
SpotHero
Series C in 2017
SpotHero Inc. is a company that provides parking reservation services, allowing drivers to find, compare, and reserve discounted parking spots through its mobile application and website. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in Detroit, Michigan, the company also operates in Toronto, Canada. SpotHero serves as a consumer marketplace for parking in North America, connecting users with various parking facilities, including lots, garages, and valet services. The platform facilitates data exchange and payment processing, streamlining the parking experience for customers.
Karma
Seed Round in 2017
Karma develops an application that helps restaurants, grocers and cafés reduce their food waste by selling their surplus to consumers at reduced prices. Its application serves as a sales channel via which merchants offer take away food items to registered users. Elsa Bernadotte, Mattis Larsson, Hjalmar Nordegren, Ludvig Berling, and Steven van Wel founded Karma on September 1, 2015. Its headquarters is in Stockholm in Sweden.
PayKey
Series B in 2017
PayKey provides a mobile banking solution that allows banks to offer a variety of financial services, such as peer-to-peer payments, balance checks, and cardless withdrawals, directly within any mobile application. By integrating a banking button into the smartphone keyboard, PayKey enhances user engagement and simplifies the banking experience, enabling customers to access financial services seamlessly without switching apps. This innovative approach helps banks remain relevant in a competitive landscape where consumers demand instant and efficient access to their financial needs. By facilitating these services in a contextually relevant manner, PayKey aims to improve user experience and strengthen brand loyalty for banks.
CornerJob
Series C in 2017
CornerJob is a Barcelona-based startup that operates a job matching platform aimed at facilitating the recruitment process for both companies and candidates. Founded by Antai Venture Builder, it is part of a prominent digital ecosystem in Southern Europe. The platform allows users to search for geolocated job offers and apply directly, with a unique chat feature that enables communication between candidates and recruiters. This interaction helps candidates receive responses within 24 hours, enhancing the immediacy of the hiring process. For employers, CornerJob offers a straightforward and efficient recruiting channel, streamlining the selection process while minimizing delays. By integrating mobile technology and innovative features, CornerJob seeks to optimize job matching and empower businesses to find suitable candidates quickly.
Layer
Series B in 2017
Layer, Inc. is a communications platform company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2011. It specializes in enabling developers to integrate rich messaging, voice, and video capabilities into their applications. The company offers a range of products including Atlas, a customizable user interface kit designed for messaging functionalities, and software development kits (SDKs) for both iOS and Android platforms. Additionally, Layer provides a Client API for web-based applications to incorporate chat and communication services, as well as a Platform API that allows developers to automate, extend, and integrate their applications with other services. Through these offerings, Layer facilitates enhanced interactions between businesses and their customers.
Gopuff
Series B in 2016
Gopuff is an instant commerce platform that specializes in delivering a wide range of everyday products, including over-the-counter medicine, baby food, cleaning supplies, and alcohol. Founded in 2013 by Yakir Gola and Rafael Ilishayev, Gopuff aims to simplify the shopping experience by allowing users to browse and order items through a mobile app, eliminating the need to visit physical stores. The company is particularly popular for satisfying late-night cravings with snacks like Ben and Jerry's ice cream and Doritos, as well as essential items such as diapers and personal care products. Gopuff's network of Driver-Partners ensures that deliveries are made quickly, often within minutes, making it a convenient option for consumers seeking reliable and affordable delivery services across the United States.
PayKey
Series A in 2016
PayKey provides a mobile banking solution that allows banks to offer a variety of financial services, such as peer-to-peer payments, balance checks, and cardless withdrawals, directly within any mobile application. By integrating a banking button into the smartphone keyboard, PayKey enhances user engagement and simplifies the banking experience, enabling customers to access financial services seamlessly without switching apps. This innovative approach helps banks remain relevant in a competitive landscape where consumers demand instant and efficient access to their financial needs. By facilitating these services in a contextually relevant manner, PayKey aims to improve user experience and strengthen brand loyalty for banks.
Verse
Series A in 2016
Verse is a payments technology platform based in Barcelona, Spain, that simplifies the process of storing, spending, and sharing money. Its mobile application allows users to easily and instantly share payments without hidden fees, offering the option to keep transactions private or public. The platform enables users to pay and request money from friends using their phone contacts, facilitating global money transfers in less than two business days. Founded in 2016, Verse aims to enhance financial interactions by reducing friction in transactions. The application is available for both Android and iOS devices, catering to a wide user base.
CornerJob
Series B in 2016
CornerJob is a Barcelona-based startup that operates a job matching platform aimed at facilitating the recruitment process for both companies and candidates. Founded by Antai Venture Builder, it is part of a prominent digital ecosystem in Southern Europe. The platform allows users to search for geolocated job offers and apply directly, with a unique chat feature that enables communication between candidates and recruiters. This interaction helps candidates receive responses within 24 hours, enhancing the immediacy of the hiring process. For employers, CornerJob offers a straightforward and efficient recruiting channel, streamlining the selection process while minimizing delays. By integrating mobile technology and innovative features, CornerJob seeks to optimize job matching and empower businesses to find suitable candidates quickly.
Natural Cycles
Series A in 2016
Natural Cycles is a digital health company that provides a contraceptive app designed to empower women in managing their reproductive health. The app utilizes an algorithm to analyze users' basal body temperature and other relevant data, such as luteinizing hormone levels, to determine fertility status throughout the menstrual cycle. By requiring daily temperature measurements with a basal thermometer, the app generates a color-coded calendar that informs users of their fertile days, allowing for informed decisions regarding unprotected sex. This non-invasive and non-hormonal approach enables women to plan or prevent pregnancies while avoiding the side effects associated with traditional contraceptive methods. Natural Cycles is at the forefront of digital contraception, offering a modern solution to female fertility tracking.
When I Work
Series B in 2016
When I Work is a workforce management platform founded in 2010 that focuses on employee scheduling and communication. The application is designed to improve collaboration between hourly employees and managers, enabling businesses to create work schedules quickly and efficiently. It offers features such as time tracking, team messaging, and customer support, which help organizations manage payroll hours and streamline payroll processing through cloud technology. By facilitating effective communication through various channels, including web, mobile apps, text messaging, and social media, When I Work enhances operational efficiency, promotes employee accountability through self-service options, and helps control labor costs.
Azimo
Venture Round in 2016
Azimo Limited is a digital money transfer network that offers a fast, secure, and cost-effective solution for sending money internationally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in Amsterdam, Azimo provides an online platform that enables users to transfer funds to bank accounts or to over 270,000 cash pick-up points globally. The service is accessible via mobile apps for Android and iOS, as well as through desktop and social media applications, allowing customers to send money from any internet-connected device. Azimo's mission is to significantly reduce the costs associated with traditional remittance services, making international money transfers more accessible for users around the world.
Acorns
Series D in 2016
Acorns is a financial technology company founded in 2012 and based in Irvine, California. It offers an application that automates micro-investments by rounding up users' everyday purchases to invest the spare change into a diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds. These funds are managed by reputable asset managers, providing users with exposure to a variety of investment options. In addition to this core feature, Acorns also provides services such as debit cards, personal checking accounts, investment accounts, and retirement accounts, enabling individuals to invest small amounts of money regularly. The platform aims to make investing accessible and straightforward for everyday users.
Passei Direto
Series B in 2016
Passei Direto is an academic network for university students whose mission is to connect students. Since 2012, Passeidireto.com already concentrates over 15 million students and is present in more than 2,500 universities. Through the site and our applications, students can connect with each other, follow specific courses, share study materials, and take questions with each other. Created by the then university students of PUC-RIO Rodrigo Salvador and André Simões, the platform offers content and tools that increasingly help students perform. To this end, in addition to the more than 3 million shared content, Passei Direto also offers through its Premium Plan exclusive content produced by specialists. There are thousands of exercises solved step by step of the books most used by teachers, study plans with videoaulas and summaries of the topics of each discipline and also tools to make their study routine even more simple and effective.
Housecall Pro
Series A in 2015
Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners. It is a full-service tool that enables service professionals to run their entire business on their smartphone and complimentary web portal. The tool is offered at a competitive low cost and supports service professionals with all aspects of their workflow, including job scheduling, customer database, invoicing and payment processing, and technician dispatch. Housecall Pro was established in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
TVSmiles
Series B in 2015
TVSmiles is a Berlin-based mobile application launched in 2013 that engages users by turning television and digital advertisements into interactive and rewarding experiences. The app allows users to earn "smiles" by participating in quizzes and games related to the advertisements they encounter. By recognizing the music played in these ads, TVSmiles creates a gamified second-screen experience that encourages viewers to interact with the content rather than passively watch it. This innovative approach aims to enhance the effectiveness of advertising, helping brands increase their visibility and connect with customers in a more engaging manner.
SpotHero
Series B in 2015
SpotHero Inc. is a company that provides parking reservation services, allowing drivers to find, compare, and reserve discounted parking spots through its mobile application and website. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in Detroit, Michigan, the company also operates in Toronto, Canada. SpotHero serves as a consumer marketplace for parking in North America, connecting users with various parking facilities, including lots, garages, and valet services. The platform facilitates data exchange and payment processing, streamlining the parking experience for customers.
When I Work
Series A in 2015
When I Work is a workforce management platform founded in 2010 that focuses on employee scheduling and communication. The application is designed to improve collaboration between hourly employees and managers, enabling businesses to create work schedules quickly and efficiently. It offers features such as time tracking, team messaging, and customer support, which help organizations manage payroll hours and streamline payroll processing through cloud technology. By facilitating effective communication through various channels, including web, mobile apps, text messaging, and social media, When I Work enhances operational efficiency, promotes employee accountability through self-service options, and helps control labor costs.
Natural Cycles
Seed Round in 2015
Natural Cycles is a digital health company that provides a contraceptive app designed to empower women in managing their reproductive health. The app utilizes an algorithm to analyze users' basal body temperature and other relevant data, such as luteinizing hormone levels, to determine fertility status throughout the menstrual cycle. By requiring daily temperature measurements with a basal thermometer, the app generates a color-coded calendar that informs users of their fertile days, allowing for informed decisions regarding unprotected sex. This non-invasive and non-hormonal approach enables women to plan or prevent pregnancies while avoiding the side effects associated with traditional contraceptive methods. Natural Cycles is at the forefront of digital contraception, offering a modern solution to female fertility tracking.
Acorns
Series C in 2015
Acorns is a financial technology company founded in 2012 and based in Irvine, California. It offers an application that automates micro-investments by rounding up users' everyday purchases to invest the spare change into a diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds. These funds are managed by reputable asset managers, providing users with exposure to a variety of investment options. In addition to this core feature, Acorns also provides services such as debit cards, personal checking accounts, investment accounts, and retirement accounts, enabling individuals to invest small amounts of money regularly. The platform aims to make investing accessible and straightforward for everyday users.
SpotHero
Series A in 2014
SpotHero Inc. is a company that provides parking reservation services, allowing drivers to find, compare, and reserve discounted parking spots through its mobile application and website. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in Detroit, Michigan, the company also operates in Toronto, Canada. SpotHero serves as a consumer marketplace for parking in North America, connecting users with various parking facilities, including lots, garages, and valet services. The platform facilitates data exchange and payment processing, streamlining the parking experience for customers.
Azimo
Series A in 2014
Azimo Limited is a digital money transfer network that offers a fast, secure, and cost-effective solution for sending money internationally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in Amsterdam, Azimo provides an online platform that enables users to transfer funds to bank accounts or to over 270,000 cash pick-up points globally. The service is accessible via mobile apps for Android and iOS, as well as through desktop and social media applications, allowing customers to send money from any internet-connected device. Azimo's mission is to significantly reduce the costs associated with traditional remittance services, making international money transfers more accessible for users around the world.
TVSmiles
Series A in 2014
TVSmiles is a Berlin-based mobile application launched in 2013 that engages users by turning television and digital advertisements into interactive and rewarding experiences. The app allows users to earn "smiles" by participating in quizzes and games related to the advertisements they encounter. By recognizing the music played in these ads, TVSmiles creates a gamified second-screen experience that encourages viewers to interact with the content rather than passively watch it. This innovative approach aims to enhance the effectiveness of advertising, helping brands increase their visibility and connect with customers in a more engaging manner.
asap54.com
Venture Round in 2014
Asap54 is an app that helps you find clothes that you like around you in the physical world. You take a picture of them with your phone, and let the app find you that exact piece, along with a bunch of others that are similar. Think of it as a Shazam for fashion.
When I Work
Series A in 2014
When I Work is a workforce management platform founded in 2010 that focuses on employee scheduling and communication. The application is designed to improve collaboration between hourly employees and managers, enabling businesses to create work schedules quickly and efficiently. It offers features such as time tracking, team messaging, and customer support, which help organizations manage payroll hours and streamline payroll processing through cloud technology. By facilitating effective communication through various channels, including web, mobile apps, text messaging, and social media, When I Work enhances operational efficiency, promotes employee accountability through self-service options, and helps control labor costs.
QuizUp
Series B in 2013
QuizUp is a mobile game developer known for its trivia game that fosters user interaction through features such as one-to-one messaging, discussion boards, and region-specific leaderboards. The game allows players to engage in trivia challenges organized by city, state, and country, enhancing the competitive experience. By combining social interaction with gaming, QuizUp creates a platform where users can not only test their knowledge but also connect with others in a dynamic way.
Housecall Pro
Seed Round in 2013
Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners. It is a full-service tool that enables service professionals to run their entire business on their smartphone and complimentary web portal. The tool is offered at a competitive low cost and supports service professionals with all aspects of their workflow, including job scheduling, customer database, invoicing and payment processing, and technician dispatch. Housecall Pro was established in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Lokata
Series B in 2013
Lokata.ru is a location-based service, providing brochures to retailers and offering business information online. Lokata is an innovative advertising channel, giving all retailers an opportunity to promote goods and services on its website, affiliates websites (sites with Lokata’s widget) and mobile Apps. Lokata is based on the innovative model of kaufDA (kaufda.de), a market leader among location-based brochure services in Germany. Lokata is consistently updated with the latest retail offers, empowering Russian shoppers with the information they need before they even step into a store. Lokata cooperates with large Russian, international and regional retailers based on a CPC concept whereby retailers pay for each brochure opened on Lokata’s web-site, affiliate’s web-sites or mobile apps. Lokata.ru covers the whole Russia, targeting men (forty per cent) and women (sixty per cent) aged between 28-45 years old, with a monthly household income of 40K-250K Rubles. Zhanna Shalimova (CEO) has more than 15 years of sales, marketing, e-commerce and managerial experience as well as proven record of successful start-up and International experience (USA, Ukraine). The initial funding of the company was made by Fast Lane Ventures and Bonial International Group (the founders and owners of www.kaufda.de, www.bonial.fr)
QuizUp
Series A in 2013
QuizUp is a mobile game developer known for its trivia game that fosters user interaction through features such as one-to-one messaging, discussion boards, and region-specific leaderboards. The game allows players to engage in trivia challenges organized by city, state, and country, enhancing the competitive experience. By combining social interaction with gaming, QuizUp creates a platform where users can not only test their knowledge but also connect with others in a dynamic way.
AdMoment
Series A in 2013
AdMoment is a mobile advertising company that offers an advertising platform which provides intelligent targeting solutions through smartphones. It leverages programmatic-buying and engaging formats to help major brands and their media buyers reach consumers through mobile applications. AdMoment’s platform allows mobile publishers to automatically identify the parameters of their target groups, including the time, location, device types, weather, and traffic. AdMoment was incorporated in August 2012 and is based in Moscow, Russia.
Azimo
Seed Round in 2013
Azimo Limited is a digital money transfer network that offers a fast, secure, and cost-effective solution for sending money internationally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in Amsterdam, Azimo provides an online platform that enables users to transfer funds to bank accounts or to over 270,000 cash pick-up points globally. The service is accessible via mobile apps for Android and iOS, as well as through desktop and social media applications, allowing customers to send money from any internet-connected device. Azimo's mission is to significantly reduce the costs associated with traditional remittance services, making international money transfers more accessible for users around the world.
QuizUp
Series A in 2013
QuizUp is a mobile game developer known for its trivia game that fosters user interaction through features such as one-to-one messaging, discussion boards, and region-specific leaderboards. The game allows players to engage in trivia challenges organized by city, state, and country, enhancing the competitive experience. By combining social interaction with gaming, QuizUp creates a platform where users can not only test their knowledge but also connect with others in a dynamic way.
AdMoment
Seed Round in 2013
AdMoment is a mobile advertising company that offers an advertising platform which provides intelligent targeting solutions through smartphones. It leverages programmatic-buying and engaging formats to help major brands and their media buyers reach consumers through mobile applications. AdMoment’s platform allows mobile publishers to automatically identify the parameters of their target groups, including the time, location, device types, weather, and traffic. AdMoment was incorporated in August 2012 and is based in Moscow, Russia.
SpotHero
Venture Round in 2012
SpotHero Inc. is a company that provides parking reservation services, allowing drivers to find, compare, and reserve discounted parking spots through its mobile application and website. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in Detroit, Michigan, the company also operates in Toronto, Canada. SpotHero serves as a consumer marketplace for parking in North America, connecting users with various parking facilities, including lots, garages, and valet services. The platform facilitates data exchange and payment processing, streamlining the parking experience for customers.
AdMoment
Seed Round in 2012
AdMoment is a mobile advertising company that offers an advertising platform which provides intelligent targeting solutions through smartphones. It leverages programmatic-buying and engaging formats to help major brands and their media buyers reach consumers through mobile applications. AdMoment’s platform allows mobile publishers to automatically identify the parameters of their target groups, including the time, location, device types, weather, and traffic. AdMoment was incorporated in August 2012 and is based in Moscow, Russia.
Lokata
Series A in 2012
Lokata.ru is a location-based service, providing brochures to retailers and offering business information online. Lokata is an innovative advertising channel, giving all retailers an opportunity to promote goods and services on its website, affiliates websites (sites with Lokata’s widget) and mobile Apps. Lokata is based on the innovative model of kaufDA (kaufda.de), a market leader among location-based brochure services in Germany. Lokata is consistently updated with the latest retail offers, empowering Russian shoppers with the information they need before they even step into a store. Lokata cooperates with large Russian, international and regional retailers based on a CPC concept whereby retailers pay for each brochure opened on Lokata’s web-site, affiliate’s web-sites or mobile apps. Lokata.ru covers the whole Russia, targeting men (forty per cent) and women (sixty per cent) aged between 28-45 years old, with a monthly household income of 40K-250K Rubles. Zhanna Shalimova (CEO) has more than 15 years of sales, marketing, e-commerce and managerial experience as well as proven record of successful start-up and International experience (USA, Ukraine). The initial funding of the company was made by Fast Lane Ventures and Bonial International Group (the founders and owners of www.kaufda.de, www.bonial.fr)
DropGifts
Seed Round in 2012
DropGifts is a web-based platform that enables its users to send gift cards from a variety of brands via [Facebook](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook) and mobile applications. The platform reminds its users about upcoming birthdays, holidays, and other events listed on Facebook. Users are able to choose free or paid gift cards from a variety of winning brands to send to their friends. Gift cards are posted on recipients’ Timelines and appear in the News Feeds of both senders and recipients. Mutual friends of the sender and recipient can view the post and opt to chip in on the value of the gift card. Recipients collect gift cards posted on their Timelines by clicking on a link provided in the Timeline post. After installing the DropGifts platform, recipients are able to select the Wallet tab in the app and choose gift cards to redeem. DropGifts gift cards can be redeemed online or in person, depending on the requirements of the retailer providing the card. DropGifts was launched on February 14, 2012, and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Domgeo.ru
Seed Round in 2011
Domgeo.ru is a property search website providing up-to-date, reliable information on properties for sale and rent in the Russian market. It tries to make the property selection process less challenging and time consuming for Russia and CIS citizens. Domgeo is a real estate market place which is on course to establish itself as Russia’s No1 property website. We are transforming the way consumers make home-related decisions and connect with real estate professionals. Launched in June 2011, consumers now have access to information on over 100,000 properties available for sale and for rent in Moscow and Moscow region. With over $900m spent annually on property advertising in Russia, and an increasing share being spent online, the business is positioning itself to be the key beneficiary of this structural shift. The site provides visitors with a unique tool for geo-searching . House hunters are able to search for properties using a range of criteria including price, location and size and can view photos of the property and make contact with the real estate agents through the website or using its mobile applications. Co-founder Carlo Walther previously spent 5 years at Rightmove where he was part of the management team that grew the business into the most successful property website in the UK and listed the company on the London stock exchange in 2006. Other members of the team bring expertize in Russian real estate, web usability, and IT Development. Domgeo.ru is a Fast Lane Ventures portfolio company. For more information, please visit www.domgeo.ru
Dolphin Browser
Venture Round in 2011
Dolphin is a personalized mobile browser created and optimized for Android and iOS mobile phone and tablet users. It helps its users browse with customizable settings, voice and gesture control, and sharing features. Dolphin was developed and launched in 2009 by MoboTap, a mobile technology developer engaged in the development of mobile applications and services.
Pulse
Seed Round in 2010
Pulse is an elegant news reading application for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. It incorporates colorful panning story bars and fills them with content from your favorite sources. Pulse redefines news, giving you the opportunity to experience the news you desire from traditional sources, your favorite blogs and social networks all in one beautiful interface. Pulse is developed by Alphonso Labs.
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