ENIAC Ventures

ENIAC Ventures is an independent seed and early-stage technology focused venture capital firm based in New York, with activity across North America and Western Europe. It leads seed rounds and invests in software, mobile, artificial intelligence, fintech, enterprise, consumer, healthcare, and other transformative technologies, partnering with bold founders to help them bring products to market and pursue follow-on rounds. The firm combines capital with a hands-on platform that provides talent recruitment, public relations and marketing support, operations resources, business development and networking opportunities, and fundraising guidance and syndicate building. The team emphasizes a collaborative approach, acting as a founding partner to portfolio companies and leveraging its network to open doors and accelerate growth.

Sofia Badalamenti

Investor

Owen Chun

Investor

Dan Jaeck

Principal

Monica Lim

Investor

Kristin McDonald

Principal

Kristin McDonald

Principal

Nihal Mehta

General Partner

Claire Rafson

Investor

Vic Singh

General Partner

Tim Young

General Partner

Rifki Zable

CFO

Past deals in Messaging

Mobly

Seed Round in 2025
Mobly is the first event-agnostic lead capture, enrichment and engagement app. Users can snap a photo of any attendee badge or business card, and have that person's contact info instantly enriched (25+ fields) and pushed to their CRM. THey can then follow up via text, email, phone or social from the app, and the activity actually logs back to the CRM. No card/badge? No problem. SImply search name + company in the search bar for the same result.

Comm Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Comm Technologies is focused on enhancing end-to-end (E2E) encryption through the development of a crypto-native messaging platform. This platform allows users to acquire non-fungible tokens (NFTs) while maintaining their online anonymity. By utilizing personal private servers and key servers, Comm Technologies offers a web3 chat solution that ensures secure communication and adheres to specific notification restrictions. This approach enables clients to manage their communications effectively through a unified inbox, while also facilitating the scaling of E2E encryption for enhanced privacy.

Attentive

Series D in 2020
Attentive is a leading provider of conversational commerce solutions, specializing in a personalized mobile messaging platform that enhances business-to-consumer communication. The company enables brands and organizations to engage with customers using behavioral data, allowing for the automatic delivery of tailored mobile messages throughout the customer lifecycle. This includes functionalities such as product recommendations, limited-time sales, payment processing, and real-time customer service. By focusing on SMS as a primary channel, Attentive helps e-commerce and retail businesses forge stronger connections with mobile shoppers, transforming the way they interact and communicate with their audiences.

Attentive

Series C in 2020
Attentive is a leading provider of conversational commerce solutions, specializing in a personalized mobile messaging platform that enhances business-to-consumer communication. The company enables brands and organizations to engage with customers using behavioral data, allowing for the automatic delivery of tailored mobile messages throughout the customer lifecycle. This includes functionalities such as product recommendations, limited-time sales, payment processing, and real-time customer service. By focusing on SMS as a primary channel, Attentive helps e-commerce and retail businesses forge stronger connections with mobile shoppers, transforming the way they interact and communicate with their audiences.

Attentive

Series B in 2019
Attentive is a leading provider of conversational commerce solutions, specializing in a personalized mobile messaging platform that enhances business-to-consumer communication. The company enables brands and organizations to engage with customers using behavioral data, allowing for the automatic delivery of tailored mobile messages throughout the customer lifecycle. This includes functionalities such as product recommendations, limited-time sales, payment processing, and real-time customer service. By focusing on SMS as a primary channel, Attentive helps e-commerce and retail businesses forge stronger connections with mobile shoppers, transforming the way they interact and communicate with their audiences.

Pulse

Seed Round in 2019
Presence and status have not evolved since ICQ. Skype made some improvements in 2008 with mobile, by making you online from your phone but otherwise, presence and status have remained a green dot. With teams now distributed, remote work challenges are front and center. Teams have reported less ad-hoc collaboration, more loneliness, more distraction, notification fatigue and more. Pulse makes remote work better. It goes beyond the green dot to signal availability, reduce interruptions, increase collaboration or however you choose to configure it. In the office, you see and feel presence. Your appearance is your status but while distributed all of that is lost. Automatic status keeps you in control while completely changing the workplace experience.

Shine

Series A in 2018
Shine is a developer of a self-care communication application designed to make well-being accessible. Their application is a messaging bot that gives out life advice and positive reinforcements including actionable tips based on confidence, daily happiness, mental health, productivity, and self-care audio challenges to grow on the go through sms texts on a daily basis, enabling people with anxiety and depression to get career and life advice to take proper care of themselves.

Mio

Series A in 2018
Mio, based in Austin, Texas, specializes in messaging interoperability solutions that facilitate collaboration across different communication platforms. Its flagship product, Mio Universal Channels, connects users on Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Webex Teams, allowing seamless interactions between employees from various organizations. Users can engage in chat, share files, and manage conversations through their preferred tools, enhancing productivity and teamwork. Founded by Tom Hadfield and James Cundle, Mio has secured $12 million in funding from notable investors, including Goldcrest Capital and Y Combinator. The company aims to streamline cross-platform communication, enabling efficient collaboration regardless of the chat application used.

Attentive

Series A in 2018
Attentive is a leading provider of conversational commerce solutions, specializing in a personalized mobile messaging platform that enhances business-to-consumer communication. The company enables brands and organizations to engage with customers using behavioral data, allowing for the automatic delivery of tailored mobile messages throughout the customer lifecycle. This includes functionalities such as product recommendations, limited-time sales, payment processing, and real-time customer service. By focusing on SMS as a primary channel, Attentive helps e-commerce and retail businesses forge stronger connections with mobile shoppers, transforming the way they interact and communicate with their audiences.

ChatGrid

Seed Round in 2018
ChatGrid is a mobile application that facilitates consumer messaging platforms aimed at enhancing business-to-customer communications. The application serves as a social hub, allowing users to provide feedback on businesses and brands through mobile messaging. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine-learning technology, ChatGrid's platform automatically connects businesses with their customers across various social media messaging apps. This innovative approach enables businesses to efficiently gather feedback and interact with their customers, streamlining the communication process.

Shine

Seed Round in 2017
Shine is a developer of a self-care communication application designed to make well-being accessible. Their application is a messaging bot that gives out life advice and positive reinforcements including actionable tips based on confidence, daily happiness, mental health, productivity, and self-care audio challenges to grow on the go through sms texts on a daily basis, enabling people with anxiety and depression to get career and life advice to take proper care of themselves.

Attentive

Seed Round in 2016
Attentive is a leading provider of conversational commerce solutions, specializing in a personalized mobile messaging platform that enhances business-to-consumer communication. The company enables brands and organizations to engage with customers using behavioral data, allowing for the automatic delivery of tailored mobile messages throughout the customer lifecycle. This includes functionalities such as product recommendations, limited-time sales, payment processing, and real-time customer service. By focusing on SMS as a primary channel, Attentive helps e-commerce and retail businesses forge stronger connections with mobile shoppers, transforming the way they interact and communicate with their audiences.

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.

Chatous

Series A in 2015
Chatous, Inc. is an online chat platform that facilitates social discovery through conversation. Founded in 2012 by three students from Stanford University, the company leverages big data algorithms to optimize user interactions. By utilizing a data-driven approach, Chatous predicts compatibility among users, enabling meaningful conversations. The platform continuously learns from user engagement, enhancing its ability to match individuals based on shared interests and conversational styles. This innovative methodology positions Chatous as a unique player in the social networking landscape.

Minus

Series A in 2014
Minus Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing and operating online communication platforms. Founded in 2010, Minus is known for its mobile application, MeowChat, which was launched in March 2013. This application enables users to engage in chat and share photos with friends, catering to the growing demand for social interaction through mobile devices. Co-founded by Carl Hu and John Xie, Minus focuses on enhancing user experience in the realm of mobile communication and photo sharing.

WUT

Seed Round in 2014
WUT, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. It specializes in developing a social messaging application that allows users to send anonymous and ephemeral messages to their friends. The application is designed to facilitate spontaneous and free-spirited interactions, enabling users to capture and share moments of banter with their social circle directly on their mobile devices. By focusing on anonymity and the temporary nature of messages, WUT aims to enhance the social messaging experience, catering to users who seek a more playful and casual form of communication.

Message Bus

Series B in 2012
Mail Bypass, Inc., doing business as Message Bus, provides a cloud-native application service for enabling and powering messaging across email and mobile channels. Its service enables enterprises and application developers to deliver transactional and marketing messages, including emails, SMS, push mails, and social messages. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Corte Madera, California.

Hashable

Series A in 2010
Hashable is a digital networking platform that helps users manage and remember their professional connections. It offers a mobile application for both iPhone and Android devices, allowing users to create a unified address book that consolidates all their relationships. The app enables users to send virtual business cards to initiate connections without the need for paper. Users can also make private notes about their contacts and set follow-up reminders to maintain relationships effectively. Additionally, Hashable provides a scrollable history of interactions with each contact, enhancing the networking experience by making it easier and more efficient to keep track of professional engagements.

Fast Society

Seed Round in 2010
Fast Society, Inc. is a New York-based company established in 2009 that specializes in developing a group messaging and communication application. The platform facilitates interaction among users by combining various features such as group text messaging, conference calling, voice messaging, location sharing, and photo sharing, all within a user-friendly interface. Designed to enhance connectivity during social events like concerts or outings, Fast Society enables users to remain in touch with friends in real-time. The application is available natively on both iPhones and Android devices, while it also accommodates participation via SMS, ensuring accessibility for users regardless of their smartphone capabilities.

NearVerse

Seed Round in 2009
NearVerse Inc. is a technology company based in New York that specializes in mobile application platforms for instant messaging and rich media sharing. Its primary product, LoKast, allows users to communicate and share various media types, including photos, videos, and music, while engaging in activities and events. The platform enhances user experiences by providing real-time messaging and proximity-based functionality, making it appealing to a diverse range of users, including event organizers, businesses, and retailers. Additionally, NearVerse develops the NearCloud tech platform, which integrates device-to-device and wireless networking to deliver significantly faster internet speeds and improved location identification services. Founded in 2008, NearVerse has established itself as a key player in the mobile communications space.
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