Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate founded in 2014 and based in Burlington, Vermont, dedicated to supporting the LGBT+ community and its allies. The organization invests in companies led by LGBT+ founders and executives at all stages of development, as well as in established firms committed to enhancing their diversity and inclusivity. With a global portfolio comprising over 130 companies and $70 million in investment capital deployed, Gaingels plays a vital role in fostering an inclusive business environment. Additionally, the Gaingels network actively assists its portfolio companies in identifying and recruiting diverse talent for their leadership teams, while cultivating a vibrant community of industry leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs committed to driving positive social change through business initiatives.
Jericho Security is protect the world from the emerging dangers of generative AI cyberattacks. Jericho Security created proprietary generative AI, cyberGPT, to simulate attacks, create new defenses and educate to prevent serious losses from cyberattacks.
Path Robotics
Series D in 2024
Path Robotics, Inc., based in Cleveland, Ohio, specializes in the manufacture of autonomous welding robots. Founded in 2018, the company focuses on designing robotic welding systems that utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance precision and adaptability in manufacturing processes. These advanced systems automate repetitive welding tasks, helping manufacturers boost productivity while reducing initial costs. By addressing workforce challenges in the manufacturing sector, Path Robotics offers effective automation solutions that streamline operations. Their robots are engineered to autonomously locate and weld seams, significantly reducing production time and improving quality by minimizing errors and inconsistencies. This technology enables industries to simplify their production processes and enhance overall efficiency.
Vahan.ai
Series B in 2024
Vahan.ai is an AI-driven chatbot designed to streamline the hiring process for blue and grey-collar workers in India. By utilizing advanced technology, Vahan automates various aspects of recruitment, making it easier for employers to find suitable candidates across multiple industries. This innovative approach not only improves the efficiency of hiring on-demand labor but also helps reduce overhead costs in the labor market, ultimately enhancing the overall supply of workers.
Patlytics
Seed Round in 2024
Patlytics is a developer of an artificial intelligence-powered platform that streamlines the entire patent lifecycle. The platform provides a range of features, including patent drafting, prosecution, litigation readiness, competitive landscape analysis, and real-time alerts and reports. By leveraging advanced technology, Patlytics enhances patent workflow efficiency, helping businesses to effectively manage their intellectual property portfolios and maintain a competitive edge in the market.
ValidMind
Seed Round in 2024
ValidMind specializes in artificial intelligence governance and risk management, focusing on the financial services sector's need to manage risks associated with AI and machine learning models. The company's platform automates essential elements of the AI/ML model risk management process, enhancing accuracy and consistency in documentation, validation, testing, and audit tracking. This solution enables financial institutions to effectively navigate the complexities of AI technologies while ensuring regulatory compliance and risk mitigation. ValidMind aims to foster a secure and ethical AI ecosystem, positioning itself as a key partner for organizations seeking to responsibly adopt AI advancements, including large language models. The team at ValidMind comprises experienced professionals with strong technical and academic backgrounds, committed to guiding clients through the evolving regulatory landscape and promoting societal well-being.
Limbic
Series A in 2024
Limbic is a London-based company that specializes in mental healthcare technology. Founded in 2017, it develops a software development kit (SDK) that leverages machine learning to analyze heart rate data collected from wearable devices like the Apple Watch, allowing for the assessment of users' emotional states. Limbic also offers psychological therapies for adults, focusing on improving mental health through innovative solutions. Its platform supports healthcare professionals by providing tools for stress detection and facilitating clinical assessments, thereby enhancing the efficacy of psychological therapy. By combining AI technology with wearable devices, Limbic aims to address the growing challenges in mental health care and improve patient outcomes.
Leap AI
Seed Round in 2024
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Seismic Therapeutic
Series B in 2023
Seismic Therapeutic is a biotechnology company focused on accelerating immunology drug development through the integration of machine learning in the biologics discovery process. Its IMPACT™ platform addresses key challenges in biologics discovery by combining structural biology, protein engineering, and translational immunology. This innovative approach aims to create optimized therapies more efficiently, ultimately benefiting patients with autoimmune diseases and disorders linked to adaptive immune system dysregulation. With a robust pipeline of biologics, Seismic Therapeutic is committed to enhancing the speed and efficacy of drug development in the field of immunology.
Carenostics
Seed Round in 2023
Carenostics is a health technology company focused on addressing the underdiagnosis, undertreatment, and health inequities associated with chronic diseases. The company employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze patient data collected during routine care. Its detection models integrate seamlessly into providers' electronic health records (EHRs), allowing for the identification of chronic conditions that may have gone undiagnosed. By projecting the potential decline of patients with these conditions, Carenostics enables healthcare providers to prioritize care for individuals who need it most, ultimately aiming to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities in chronic disease management.
Superluminal Medicines
Seed Round in 2023
Superluminal Medicines is a generative biological and chemical company accelerating new possibilities in drug discovery and development. Its platform quickly creates candidate-ready compounds using a comprehensive combination of deep biology and chemistry expertise, machine learning, and proprietary big data infrastructure. They leverage cutting-edge computational and machine-learning techniques to accelerate identifying and optimizing novel drug candidates. Their approach combines high-throughput experimental data with advanced algorithms to uncover therapeutic compounds faster and more efficiently than traditional methods.
Aether Bio
Venture Round in 2023
Aether Bio is a developer of machine learning technology used to repurpose enzymes in order to create new compounds. Its technology utilizes machine learning combined with high-throughput robotic laboratories to create an entirely new compound and reinvent the production of previously discovered compounds that enable healthcare institutes to get the chemicals and materials they need that are cheaper and more sustainable. The company's proprietary hardware allows massively parallelized experimentation, generating datasets orders of magnitude larger than the competition.
ApertureData
Funding Round in 2023
ApertureData specializes in data management services, offering a platform that seamlessly handles large data objects, including images, videos, and documents, without relying on multiple disconnected systems. Its flagship product, ApertureDB, integrates knowledge graphs, multimodal data, and vector search into a single database, significantly reducing data infrastructure setup times by 6 to 12 months. This efficiency is particularly valuable for Chief Technology Officers and Chief Data Officers tasked with navigating the complexities of AI deployment. By centralizing relevant datasets and providing a uniform schema view, ApertureDB enhances data retrieval and query handling, thereby supporting various AI applications, such as chatbots and machine learning solutions. The platform is designed to boost the productivity of data science and machine learning teams by an average of ten-fold, improving performance and accessibility for AI initiatives.
Flyby Robotics
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Flyby Robotics is a developer of American-made autonomous drones designed to facilitate machine learning capabilities at the edge. The company focuses on eliminating critical Chinese electronic components from its products, ensuring a secure operating environment. Its platform streamlines the processing of machine learning applications on drones, enhancing the operational experience for users. This technology enables drone operators to execute complex autonomous missions across various sectors, including delivery, critical infrastructure, renewable energy, and public safety.
Mage
Venture Round in 2023
Mage develops an open-source data pipeline tool for transforming and integrating data. It integrates and synchronizes data from 3rd party sources. It enables users to build real-time and batch pipelines to transform data using Python, SQL, and R. Users can run, monitor, and orchestrate thousands of pipelines without losing sleep.
Speechlab
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Speechlab is focused on developing a pioneering platform for speech-to-speech translation aimed at professional creators, streaming media, and online education. Incubated at Andrew Ng's AI Fund, the company leverages its team's extensive experience in creating and commercializing advanced speech technologies. Its platform is designed to enhance accessibility for individuals who speak different languages by offering various services, including media accessibility, localization, live interpretation, and automated dubbing. These features are tailored to support professionally produced audio and video content, allowing creators to automate the translation process and reach a broader audience through a freemium model.
Spartan Radar
Series B in 2023
Spartan Radar specializes in advanced radar technology that creates high-resolution real-time imagery, utilizing proprietary software algorithms that incorporate machine learning and edge-processing. By mimicking human sensory perception, Spartan's solutions enhance the performance of existing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) by improving resolution, response time, and range while maintaining low computational demands. The company's expertise in signal processing, developed through years of experience in the aerospace and automotive sectors, enables it to offer cost-effective sensing solutions. Spartan's platform is applicable across various industries, including drone and automotive applications, positioning the company as a leader in innovative radar technology.
BeeHero
Series B in 2022
BeeHero is a company that has developed an innovative beehive technology platform aimed at enhancing crop yields through effective pollination. Utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, the platform employs low-cost sensors to gather data from within beehives. This information helps stimulate optimal productivity during critical pollination periods, assisting farmers in safeguarding their beehives against colony collapse and improving overall pollination efficiency. Founded in 2017 by Itai Kanot, Omer Davidi, and Yuval Regev, BeeHero operates from locations in Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley, with a workforce of 50 employees, including 30 at its research and development center in Israel.
PeakMetrics
Venture Round in 2022
PeakMetrics offers a narrative intelligence platform tailored for enterprises and governments to identify and counter emerging online narrative threats. Utilizing advanced machine learning technology, the platform analyzes over 1.5 million media sources and multiple social media channels in real-time to detect media manipulation and adversarial attacks before they escalate. This capability allows organizations to assess the credibility of sources, understand audience engagement with narratives, and evaluate risk scenarios without incurring substantial costs associated with traditional crisis communication and manual sentiment analysis. Through its services, PeakMetrics enables clients to effectively monitor media impact and make informed predictions regarding narrative developments.
Femtosense
Series A in 2022
Femtosense is a technology company focused on developing ultra-energy-efficient neural network models that facilitate large-scale neural network processing at the edge. By leveraging nonlinear dynamics and space-time sparsity inspired by biological neural networks, Femtosense's models optimize performance-per-joule for complex processing tasks. This innovation enables businesses to implement user interfaces that offer ultra-low latency, reduced power consumption, and enhanced user privacy.
Andi
Seed Round in 2022
Andi is developing a next-generation search engine that emphasizes visual, conversational, and factually accurate results. Recognizing the issues in traditional search, which often inundates users with advertisements, clickbait, and spam, Andi has introduced a pioneering conversational search assistant powered by generative AI. This innovative platform allows users to receive clear summaries and relevant answers, akin to interacting with a knowledgeable friend. It is designed to be free for everyone, ensuring an ad-free and completely anonymous experience without personal data tracking. Users can access a streamlined search experience that prioritizes their needs while safeguarding their privacy.
BigHat Biosciences
Series B in 2022
BigHat is a developer of an AI-guided protein therapeutic platform used to integrate antibody characterization lab with machine learning technologies to engineer molecules with more complex functions and better biophysical properties. The company is applying these design capabilities to develop new generations of safer and more effective treatments for patients suffering from today’s most challenging diseases.
Astral
Series A in 2022
Astral is an AI-powered content transformation platform that assists businesses in repurposing their existing content libraries into personalized digital experiences. It provides innovative features such as automated content generation for social media campaigns, emails, landing pages, and SEO-optimized blog posts. Additionally, the platform enables AI-driven interactions using "anti-hallucination" technology, allowing users to engage with their audience effectively. Astral also focuses on audience growth by helping users leverage their intellectual property across multiple channels, thereby creating new revenue streams and enhancing their digital presence. Targeting experts and content creators looking to monetize their intellectual property, Astral simplifies the process of expanding digital reach and maximizing the value of existing content with minimal effort.
Forma.AI
Series B in 2022
Forma.ai is a Toronto-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in a data-driven sales compensation platform. This solution allows organizations to design, implement, and optimize their sales compensation strategies effectively. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Forma.ai's software administers and monitors sales incentives in real-time, tracking individual performance and aligning with strategic business objectives. This approach enhances organizational agility and motivates sales teams, ultimately driving better customer interactions and higher performance levels. With teams operating across Canada and the United States, Forma.ai aims to provide businesses with a comprehensive tool for managing compensation processes efficiently.
Rubik
Seed Round in 2022
Rubik, Inc. is an AI-powered platform that specializes in providing real estate investors with comprehensive research and analytics on both on-market and off-market properties. Incorporated in 2017 and based in New York, the company utilizes machine learning to deliver financial data on single-family homes. Rubik's technology streamlines the property acquisition process, allowing investors to quickly identify properties that fit their investment criteria, assess potential renovations for optimizing returns, and evaluate associated risks. This digital approach enables clients to easily source properties and secure contracts with minimal effort, enhancing efficiency in the real estate investment landscape.
DNABLOCK
Seed Round in 2022
DNABLOCK is leading the way to personalized entertainment, interaction, and inclusion by removing the barriers of 3D content creation. Our platform and REPLIKANT™ animation engine allows creatives, brands, and individuals the ability to generate bespoke, high-quality, digital beings without prohibitive post-production costs or specialized 3D programming knowledge. Our platform supports the exporting of content onto ANY device, making it simple to create fulfilling interactions with an enormous reach. We operate a scalable, high-end, computer graphics pipeline. This pipeline, combined with advanced machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis, is our recipe for engaging, real-time, interactive, digital beings and the future of digital interface. As a forward-thinking company, we have focused on likeness protection and ownership; adding authentication mechanisms to guarantee control and transparency.
Base64
Seed Round in 2022
Base64.ai automates all document processes using Generative AI and Large Language Models. The startup is disrupting the $100 billion Intelligent Document Processing market with its unique capability to understand any document without training. It has four patent applications, supports over 2,800 document types, and has 400+ no-code integrations. It's at $1.2m GAAP ARR with 1.5x growth in the last three months. The startup was funded $2m in Q2 2022 by Long Journey Ventures, Prime Zero, and Sequoia Scout. The founder, Ozan Bilgen, was a software engineer/manager at Microsoft, Netflix, PayPal, Uber, and Palantir.
Fama
Series B in 2022
Fama Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based software solutions designed to enhance hiring decisions by automating the analysis of social media and web presence. Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, California, Fama's platform utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to process publicly available online information, enabling employers to gain insights into candidates' online identities. This analysis helps identify problematic behaviors that could pose risks to workplace culture and brand integrity. By filtering social content and eliminating irrelevant data, Fama provides actionable insights that assist organizations in making informed hiring choices and managing current employees more effectively. The company caters to a diverse clientele, including small businesses, mid-market enterprises, and large corporations.
Petal
Series D in 2022
Petal is a credit card company that is built to help people financially succeed. It aims to make credit honest, simple, and accessible. The company uses machine learning to analyze a customer’s full digital financial record—not just their credit score. Petal has pioneered cash flow underwriting, as an alternative to credit scores, to make credit more accessible, and offers a simple, modern digital experience that encourages members to build credit, avoid debt, and spend responsibly. Petal is based in New York, New York, and Richmond, Virginia. The Petal credit card is issued by WebBank, Member FDIC.
Prevedere
Venture Round in 2022
Prevedere, Inc. is a predictive analytics company that specializes in business performance forecasting software. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with an additional office in Sunnyvale, California, Prevedere provides a range of services including industry outlook reports, consumer behavior data, and predictive insights. The company's platform helps businesses monitor economic, environmental, and consumer behavior data to identify leading indicators for revenue and profit, thereby aiding in informed decision-making. Prevedere's offerings include predictive marketing analytics, financial forecasting intelligence, and demand planning solutions. The company also develops proprietary systems and APIs that integrate diverse data sources to ensure data accuracy and relevance. With a team comprising industry experts, data scientists, and economists, Prevedere supports organizations in navigating an ever-evolving market landscape.
Hyperscience
Series E in 2021
Hyperscience is a technology company that specializes in AI-based enterprise software aimed at automating office work processes. The software utilizes machine learning to handle structured and semi-structured documents, facilitating tasks such as data entry, extraction of key details from invoices, and reconciliation of compliance-driven data. By automating these complex processes, Hyperscience helps organizations and governments enhance productivity and modernize essential operations.
AdeptID
Seed Round in 2021
AdeptID is the developer of machine-learning-powered talent matching software to support hidden talent in the workforce. The company's models and API make it easy for any application to match talent to demand and training by surfacing underlying, transferable skills earned in seemingly different jobs.
Pryon
Funding Round in 2021
Pryon Inc. is an artificial intelligence company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, that focuses on enhancing enterprise knowledge management. Founded in 2017 by Igor Jablokov, Pryon develops an augmented intelligence platform that combines human and machine capabilities to streamline access to information across various channels and sources. The platform employs natural language processing and automated machine learning to transform unstructured data into actionable insights, thereby boosting productivity and decision-making accuracy. By utilizing a no-code approach, Pryon enables organizations to quickly harness the value of their information assets without disrupting existing operations. The company's solutions aim to simplify AI adoption, reduce complexity, and lower costs for businesses seeking to improve their workflows and knowledge utilization.
Aether Bio
Seed Round in 2021
Aether Bio is a developer of machine learning technology used to repurpose enzymes in order to create new compounds. Its technology utilizes machine learning combined with high-throughput robotic laboratories to create an entirely new compound and reinvent the production of previously discovered compounds that enable healthcare institutes to get the chemicals and materials they need that are cheaper and more sustainable. The company's proprietary hardware allows massively parallelized experimentation, generating datasets orders of magnitude larger than the competition.
BeeHero
Series A in 2021
BeeHero is a company that has developed an innovative beehive technology platform aimed at enhancing crop yields through effective pollination. Utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, the platform employs low-cost sensors to gather data from within beehives. This information helps stimulate optimal productivity during critical pollination periods, assisting farmers in safeguarding their beehives against colony collapse and improving overall pollination efficiency. Founded in 2017 by Itai Kanot, Omer Davidi, and Yuval Regev, BeeHero operates from locations in Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley, with a workforce of 50 employees, including 30 at its research and development center in Israel.
CryptoMate
Seed Round in 2021
CryptoMate is a developer of an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to simplify the transition to cryptocurrency for businesses. It offers a guided decentralized ecosystem that enables companies to adopt crypto business models seamlessly. Through its Crypto APIs, CryptoMate allows businesses to leverage blockchain technology and access various financial services, including wallet creation, cryptocurrency purchasing, and protocol engagement. Additionally, the platform features conversational AI that assists and engages users in the Web3 environment, ensuring that company workflows remain unaffected. By providing these tools, CryptoMate aims to facilitate financial inclusion through decentralized finance, enabling any company to operate within the evolving crypto economy.
Substrata
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Substrata is a developer of social signal intelligence software that focuses on optimizing B2B sales and high-value deal-making. The platform analyzes various layers of communication, including verbal and nonverbal cues, to provide actionable insights into the dynamics of deal-related interactions. By continuously assessing the dealmaker's position, Substrata enhances win rates, reduces sales cycles, and improves goal achievement. Utilizing advanced deep-learning technology, the software uncovers hidden intentions, emotions, and power dynamics that influence sales conversations. It delivers transformative insights into factors such as social status perceptions, seller competence, and contextual elements like urgency and relevance. Additionally, Substrata offers tailored recommendations for deal-closing strategies based on specific market conditions and relationship histories, empowering dealmakers to navigate complex negotiations more effectively.
Qualytics
Seed Round in 2021
Qualytics is a company that specializes in data quality surveillance technology aimed at monitoring and preventing data pipeline corruption. Founded in 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland, it offers a robust data firewall that captures erroneous data at the source, ensuring that flawed information does not infiltrate downstream data platforms. The technology integrates data pipelines, data flows, and a surveillance hub, utilizing machine learning to automatically generate and adapt data rules through supervised workflows. This allows organizations to detect and respond to anomalies in real-time, employing active measures such as message-level quarantining to safeguard data integrity.
Hyperscience
Series C in 2020
Hyperscience is a technology company that specializes in AI-based enterprise software aimed at automating office work processes. The software utilizes machine learning to handle structured and semi-structured documents, facilitating tasks such as data entry, extraction of key details from invoices, and reconciliation of compliance-driven data. By automating these complex processes, Hyperscience helps organizations and governments enhance productivity and modernize essential operations.
Bluecore
Series D in 2020
Bluecore is a multi-channel marketing platform that leverages predictive intelligence to enhance retail marketing efforts. The platform unifies and analyzes consumer behavior and product data, allowing businesses to understand each shopper's past interactions and anticipated future behavior with brand products. By managing nearly 500 million shopper IDs and a vast product catalog, Bluecore enables marketers to personalize customer interactions across various channels, including email, websites, display ads, and social media. This data-driven approach empowers businesses to effectively acquire, retain, and grow their customer base.
Shiprocket
Series C in 2020
Shiprocket is an eCommerce shipping platform based in New Delhi, India, founded in 2017. It provides direct-to-consumer retailers with a cost-effective solution for shipping by utilizing a machine-learning-based data engine. This technology helps businesses select the most suitable courier service, generate shipping labels, and track orders from a centralized dashboard. In addition to its shipping services, Shiprocket also offers high-quality packaging materials through Shiprocket Packaging, ensuring brands and businesses of all sizes have access to necessary resources for their operations. With a focus on efficient and reliable service, Shiprocket aims to simplify the shipping and returns management process for its users across India.
Aiera
Series A in 2020
Aiera, Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a platform for research automation and insights tailored for institutional investors. Founded in 2017, Aiera utilizes adaptive deep learning and advanced linguistics to enhance fundamental investment strategies. Its platform provides real-time analysis of individual equities, industry categories, and investor themes, allowing users to automatically monitor public earnings calls, broker research, media, SEC filings, and other relevant events. Aiera's solutions include features such as real-time alerts for buy, sell, or hold recommendations, target prices on equities and crypto assets, and automation tools that streamline workflows and enhance data utilization. The platform aims to empower investment managers by offering intelligent indicators and predictive modeling capabilities, enabling them to make informed decisions based on comprehensive financial insights.
Digifabster
Seed Round in 2020
Digifabster, Inc. is a software as a service company based in Pasadena, California, that specializes in AI and machine learning-powered tools for the manufacturing sector. The company offers a comprehensive platform designed to automate the quoting, order entry, and customer support processes for machining and additive manufacturing shops. Digifabster's software enables users to generate accurate quotes quickly, facilitating instant online quotes and orders available 24/7. Additionally, the platform includes features like a flexible pricing calculator and streamlined payment processing, allowing clients to enhance operational efficiency and improve business growth through automation.
Sepsis Scout
Seed Round in 2019
Sepsis Scout is a developer of a wearable patch aimed at predicting the onset of sepsis in high-risk patients in a home care setting. The device utilizes proprietary deep learning technology to enhance the accuracy of sepsis predictions compared to current standards of care. By enabling patients to monitor their health more effectively, Sepsis Scout's solution helps manage chronic illnesses and reduces the need for hospital visits, alleviating the fear and uncertainty associated with serious health conditions.
Drop
Series B in 2019
Drop is a personalized commerce platform that enhances consumer experiences by connecting users with over 400 partner brands to earn rewards for their purchases. The platform utilizes machine learning to tailor offers and recommendations, ensuring that consumers receive relevant rewards at optimal times. With a focus on serving Millennials and Generation Z, Drop facilitates a seamless shopping experience, allowing users to earn points on both online and offline transactions, as well as through survey completions. Headquartered in Toronto, Drop has expanded its reach to over 4 million members across North America and the UK, aiming to improve everyday consumer lives through its innovative e-commerce and fintech solutions.
Weights & Biases
Series A in 2018
Weights & Biases provides performance visualization tools specifically designed for machine learning practitioners. The company focuses on helping teams track their models and visualize performance metrics, thereby facilitating the transition of deep learning research projects into deployed software. Its offerings include a dataset optimization tool that allows users to automate the training process and enhance model performance. By streamlining these aspects, Weights & Biases aims to support companies in developing high-quality software solutions that leverage deep learning technologies.
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