Gaingels

Founded in 2014, Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate dedicated to supporting the LGBT+ community. It invests globally in companies led by LGBT+ founders or C-suite executives at all stages of growth, focusing on inclusivity and positive social change.
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Marc Baum

Investor

David Beatty

Managing Partner

Jesse Curran

Principal

Paul Grossinger

Investor

Todd Havill

Research Operations and Principal, Investment

Surya Jayaweera

Angel Investor

Jennifer Jeronimo

CEO and General Partner

Jake Prigoff MD

General Partner

Peter Steinberg

General Partner

Alexandra Tanner

Investor

Lorenzo Thione

Managing Director

Past deals in Business Development

Turing

Series E in 2025
Turing.com operates an online platform that connects tech companies with remote software developers for both short- and long-term projects. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company specializes in vetting candidates through comprehensive assessments that evaluate their technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and communication proficiency. This rigorous selection process allows Turing to provide its clients with access to the top 1% of remote engineers across a variety of skill sets, including full stack, backend, frontend, DevOps, AI/ML, and mobile development. Turing serves a diverse clientele, including startups and Fortune 1000 companies, and has become a popular choice for developers, with over 180,000 professionals across 10,000 cities utilizing the platform to find remote job opportunities. Backed by prominent investors, Turing aims to streamline the hiring process for companies, enabling them to quickly and efficiently acquire Silicon Valley-caliber talent.

Novel Capital

Seed Round in 2024
Novel Capital is a fintech funding platform that provides non-dilutive, revenue-based financing to B2B software companies. It centers on future recurring revenue, enabling entrepreneurs to access capital immediately without giving up equity. The platform pairs capital with data-driven insights and learning resources to help growth-stage businesses accelerate scale. Using key company data points and financial metrics, it delivers capital, resources, and strategic support tailored to recurring-revenue models, helping ventures grow faster while preserving ownership. The company aims to support entrepreneurs and growing businesses with flexible funding solutions aligned to revenue streams and momentum, contributing to a thriving startup ecosystem.

Momentum

Seed Round in 2024
Momentum is a behavioral-driven fundraising platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in Oakland, California. It enables users to make automatic donations that turn everyday activities into opportunities for charitable giving. By allowing individuals to set predefined giving rules, the platform facilitates donations to a selection of trustworthy nonprofit organizations aligned with users' interests, such as adding a percentage to their restaurant bills to support those in need. Momentum focuses on donor stewardship and impact tracking, ensuring that users can easily contribute to meaningful causes while managing their day-to-day tasks. The company emphasizes evidence-based charity recommendations to maximize the effectiveness of donations.

Dili

Seed Round in 2024
Dili is an artificial intelligence-powered platform designed to enhance the efficiency of deal teams in private equity and growth-stage venture capital firms during the due diligence process. By automating significant aspects of due diligence, Dili allows firms to complete more transactions in a shorter timeframe. The platform also provides features such as automated data visualization, financial analysis, and the generation of presentation outputs, which help users identify asset-liability mismatches and legal clauses. This combination of tools enables businesses to increase productivity while minimizing the risk of misconduct.

Magic

Venture Round in 2023
Magic is a company that provides high-quality virtual assistant services to help businesses and individuals streamline their operations and enhance productivity. By offering a range of personalized support, Magic enables clients to focus on their core activities while delegating tasks such as scheduling, research, and administrative work. The company's assistants are trained to adapt to various needs, ensuring a tailored experience that can scale according to the demands of different users. With a commitment to efficiency and excellence, Magic aims to empower clients to achieve their goals more effectively, making it a valuable resource for those seeking to optimize their time and resources.

Mundi

Series A in 2023
Mundi is a company focused on facilitating international trade for small and medium-sized enterprises through its innovative financial solutions. It operates an international factoring platform that allows businesses to access capital, exchange currencies, and mitigate the risks associated with cross-border trading. By offering services in trade development, strategy, and freight, Mundi helps manufacturers and traders navigate the complexities of global markets. The company's platform aims to streamline the process of currency exchange, enabling users to conduct transactions digitally and efficiently, without unnecessary bureaucracy.

Remedial Health

Series A in 2023
Remedial Health is a company focused on enhancing the procurement and distribution of pharmaceuticals across Africa. It provides a platform that facilitates business-to-business access to medicines, enabling pharmacies and hospitals to order and access retail medications directly from manufacturers or distributors. This approach addresses the inefficiencies and risks associated with relying on open-air medicine markets, where healthcare providers often encounter counterfeit products. By improving the pharmacy operations and workflow management processes, Remedial Health aims to ensure that healthcare providers can more effectively stock their facilities, thereby contributing to a safer and more reliable healthcare environment.

Bridge (bridgemarketplace.com)

Venture Round in 2023
Bridge is a SaaS-based technology platform owned by Foro Holdings, Inc. that optimizes the way businesses find, evaluate, and select commercial debt finance opportunities. It empowers growing companies, seeking commercial loans of $1M - $20M+ to access capital on their terms by connecting them with the right financial institutions. As former bankers at top commercial banks and business leaders at mid-sized companies, we understand all sides of the commercial lending process. With that experience, our platform removes unnecessary complexities and helps businesses compare and select from leading financial institutions tailored to a business’s specific size and industry. We’re also focused on guiding businesses with insights, data, and counsel at every step of the process, so they can select a partner with confidence, and spend more time running their business. For financial institutions, Bridge identifies businesses actively seeking growth capital that fit the institution’s lending criteria. Their platform eliminates perceived bias and increases access for underserved businesses, enabling financial institutions to facilitate introductions to new clients and markets.

Second Front Systems

Series A in 2022
Second Front Systems develops software that facilitates government access to innovative commercial technologies for national security missions. Its flagship product, Atlas Fulcrum, enables identification, assessment, and secure deployment of these technologies. The company also offers program management services and High Technology Council, an enterprise consortium fostering collaboration between market players.

Daylight

Series A in 2022
Daylight is a digital banking platform based in West Hollywood, California, specifically designed for the LGBTQ+ community. Founded in 2020, Daylight offers a range of services including prepaid cards, financial tools, and advice tailored to the unique needs of its members. The platform not only facilitates smarter financial habits but also provides cashback rewards for spending at queer bars and allied businesses. By fostering a supportive community, Daylight aims to empower individuals to navigate the financial system effectively and build a secure future without compromise.

Empower3d

Seed Round in 2022
Empower3d is a company dedicated to equipping modern athletes with essential tools, resources, and networking opportunities to achieve business success. The company operates an educational platform that offers workshops and seminars tailored for individual athletes, collegiate athletic programs, professional teams, leagues, unions, and other sports organizations. These sessions focus on various business and finance topics, allowing athletes to acquire valuable insights and skills. By facilitating connections with esteemed business leaders, Empower3d enhances athletes' professional networks, empowering them to expand their opportunities both on and off the field. Through its innovative approach, Empower3d plays a vital role in helping athletes navigate the complexities of the business world and develop their entrepreneurial ventures.

Evident

Venture Round in 2022
Evident is a global leader in business credentialing, operating in over 100 countries. Its platform connects insurers, enterprises, and businesses, verifying credentials to meet compliance standards using advanced AI technology.

Ceresa

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2017, Ceresa is a leadership development company based in Austin, Texas. It offers a data-driven platform that delivers personalized, whole-person leadership journeys tailored to diverse aspiring leaders.

Middesk

Series B in 2022
Middesk, Inc., founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, is an identity platform that specializes in automating business verification and enhancing decision-making processes for organizations. The company's platform offers comprehensive data on various businesses, allowing service providers to monitor changes in their customer base and gain a clearer understanding of client needs. By centralizing the credentialing process, Middesk enables companies to effectively manage risk and compliance with minimal friction, thus streamlining onboarding and increasing operational efficiency. Through its services, Middesk supports businesses in establishing, operating, and maintaining compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.

Crafty

Series A in 2022
Crafty, LLC is a Chicago-based company that specializes in providing snacks, beverages, and event programs tailored for workplaces. The company offers a diverse range of products, including beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, perishables, and pantry supplies. Crafty focuses on enhancing workplace experiences through its services, which include managing kitchen and pantry provisions, organizing events and happy hours, catering, and setting up in-office cafes. By partnering with global brands, Crafty aims to support in-office, remote, and hybrid teams, serving over 260 offices and catering to approximately 300,000 employees each month.

WeLoveNoCode

Seed Round in 2022
WeLoveNoCode is a program development firm that provides applications to firms faster and affordably with no-code developers. WeLoveNoCode is the creator of an automated platform for swiftly testing hypotheses and creating new applications. The company offers a subscription-based platform through which users can submit any task, such as the development of landing pages, mobile apps, web apps, automation, and design, and will be assigned a developer to complete those tasks, allowing businesses to get unlimited, high-quality app development services at a low cost.

Bambee

Series C in 2022
Founded in 2016, Bambee provides affordable HR management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Its platform offers access to an HR manager starting at $99 a month, along with tools like HR Autopilot and Guided Payroll to ensure compliance. Serving various industries, Bambee aims to help businesses run efficiently like Fortune 500 companies.

Metadata

Series B in 2022
Metadata, Inc. develops a marketing data analytics platform designed to streamline demand generation for B2B enterprises. The platform supports scheduling campaign amplification to targeted audiences, provides full profile information for new signups, and auto-generates buyer and user personas while offering access to a database of prospects. It enables prospect segmentation by industry, job function, technology stack, and interests, and monitors signups to accelerate pipeline creation and marketing campaigns by applying automation data to targeted advertising. The company also integrates with marketing automation systems such as Salesforce to reduce manual tasks for marketers. Founded in 2015, Metadata, Inc. is headquartered in California. By compiling historical sales data, the platform creates profiles of ideal customers and orchestrates the acceleration of existing opportunities while targeting new accounts, helping B2B teams optimize demand generation and drive more predictable outcomes.

Raydiant

Series B in 2022
Raydiant Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in designing, developing, and providing an experience platform that connects employees and customers with brands across various industries such as banking, retail, hospitality, and healthcare. The company's solution comprises kiosks, virtual agents, and multimedia devices for screen management, enabling businesses to create engaging in-store experiences through digital signage. Raydiant works with over 5,000 brands worldwide, including notable clients like Johnson & Johnson and Chick-Fil-A, helping them streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive sales growth.

Cart.com

Venture Round in 2022
Cart.com is a leading provider of comprehensive commerce and logistics solutions that enable B2C and B2B companies to operate seamlessly across various channels. The company supports over 6,000 customers, including well-known consumer brands and complex B2B organizations, by offering a unified platform for business planning, merchant financing, order fulfillment, and marketing services. With a workforce of more than 1,000 employees, including AI and data scientists, and a network of 14 warehouses nationwide, Cart.com is well-positioned to assist middle market and enterprise-level companies in scaling their online operations and enhancing revenue.

Conduit

Seed Round in 2022
Conduit is a payments platform that enables cross-border B2B transfers and invoice settlement between Latin America and the United States. It supports moving money between USD and multiple local currencies in emerging markets, providing faster settlement, increased visibility, and fewer steps than traditional payment rails. The platform aims to help global businesses execute cross-border transactions on the same day, offering transparent quotes and straightforward tooling for managing multi-currency transfers. By focusing on cross-border efficiency and scale between local fiat currencies and USD, Conduit seeks to simplify international payments and improve cash flow for customers operating in Latin America and beyond.

Data Mynt

Seed Round in 2021
Data Mynt is a financial technology company delivering borderless business banking and payment solutions for African businesses. It provides seamless global trade payments across multiple rails and enables users to deposit, accept, send and withdraw funds, as well as obtain and repay business loans, supporting easier cross-border and mobile transactions.

RippleMatch

Venture Round in 2021
RippleMatch is a recruitment automation platform that connects early-career candidates with employers. It streamlines the job search process by replacing traditional job boards with personalized matching, recruiter connections, and interview preparation tools.

Malomo

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2018, Malomo is an Indianapolis-based technology company that specializes in transforming shipment tracking into a marketing channel for e-commerce businesses. Its platform enables brands to generate revenue and enhance customer loyalty by integrating branded communication with shipping providers.

Daylight

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Daylight is a digital banking platform based in West Hollywood, California, specifically designed for the LGBTQ+ community. Founded in 2020, Daylight offers a range of services including prepaid cards, financial tools, and advice tailored to the unique needs of its members. The platform not only facilitates smarter financial habits but also provides cashback rewards for spending at queer bars and allied businesses. By fostering a supportive community, Daylight aims to empower individuals to navigate the financial system effectively and build a secure future without compromise.

Raydiant

Series A in 2021
Raydiant Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in designing, developing, and providing an experience platform that connects employees and customers with brands across various industries such as banking, retail, hospitality, and healthcare. The company's solution comprises kiosks, virtual agents, and multimedia devices for screen management, enabling businesses to create engaging in-store experiences through digital signage. Raydiant works with over 5,000 brands worldwide, including notable clients like Johnson & Johnson and Chick-Fil-A, helping them streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive sales growth.

Imperative

Venture Round in 2020
Imperative Group, Inc., established in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, specializes in a unique assessment and learning system. Its core product, Imperative, is a digital platform that facilitates peer coaching, enabling employees to uncover and apply their intrinsic motivations and purpose at work. This platform, which requires no prior coaching experience, is designed to be accessible to a larger number of employees than traditional coaching methods, making it an efficient and cost-effective solution for employers. Imperative's offerings also include a Certified Purpose Leaders program, Individual and Team Purpose Profiles, and a Purpose Hiring Coach, all aimed at integrating purpose into talent strategy and employee experience. The company's clients span various industries, including Sony Music, MetLife, Zillow, and Airbnb, and its solutions are used for career development, team building, hiring, diversity advancement, and volunteer engagement.

MANSCAPED

Convertible Note in 2019
Manscaped, LLC is a manufacturer and marketer of personal grooming products specifically designed for men's below-the-waist care. Founded in 2016 and based in San Diego, California, the company offers a range of products including trimmers, hair and body wash, toner, refresher, and deodorant. Manscaped's product line addresses the unique grooming needs of men, providing specially formulated items that cleanse, moisturize, and deodorize, along with engineering tools designed for a close and refined appearance. The company serves customers primarily through its online retail store in the United States, as well as through various online retailers in Germany, Spain, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom. Manscaped aims to facilitate a straightforward and effective manscaping routine, promoting not only grooming but also prostate health awareness among men.

Katapult

Venture Round in 2017
Katapult is an omnichannel lease-to-own and point-of-sale fintech platform that enables retailers and e-commerce partners to offer lease-purchase options for everyday durable goods. The company integrates with online and in-store checkout to reach underserved U.S. consumers, providing a quick application and approval process, transparent terms, and tailored payment plans. By partnering with hundreds of retailers across the United States, Katapult helps merchants expand their customer base, increase sales, and drive revenue while giving non-prime buyers access to essential purchases.

Imperative

Seed Round in 2015
Imperative Group, Inc., established in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, specializes in a unique assessment and learning system. Its core product, Imperative, is a digital platform that facilitates peer coaching, enabling employees to uncover and apply their intrinsic motivations and purpose at work. This platform, which requires no prior coaching experience, is designed to be accessible to a larger number of employees than traditional coaching methods, making it an efficient and cost-effective solution for employers. Imperative's offerings also include a Certified Purpose Leaders program, Individual and Team Purpose Profiles, and a Purpose Hiring Coach, all aimed at integrating purpose into talent strategy and employee experience. The company's clients span various industries, including Sony Music, MetLife, Zillow, and Airbnb, and its solutions are used for career development, team building, hiring, diversity advancement, and volunteer engagement.
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