Gaingels

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.

Marc Baum

Investor

Jesse Curran

Principal

Ashley Flucas

Venture Partner

Rachael Foo

Investor

Todd Havill

Research Operations and Principal, Investment

Surya Jayaweera

Angel Investor

Jennifer Jeronimo

CEO and General Partner

Chris Leiter

Venture Partner and Investor

Jake Prigoff

General Partner

Alexandra Tanner

Investor

Past deals in Marketplace

AbbeyCross

Seed Round in 2023
AbbeyCross operates a B2B compliance marketplace that enhances the market infrastructure for emerging market currencies. The company connects payment banks with suppliers of trading and settlement services, addressing inefficiencies within the market. By collaborating with global banks and financial service providers, AbbeyCross facilitates improved currency liquidity, price transparency, and access to market data. This approach aims to streamline the fragmented landscape of emerging market currency payments, ensuring that clients benefit from a more efficient and reliable trading environment.

Fave

Seed Round in 2023
Fave is a social platform dedicated to superfans enabling them to create immersive video content, connect and bond with like-minded fans, compete in fun challenges, exchange both physical and virtual goods in a fan-driven marketplace, and rack up points throughout it all to prove their top fan status, gain recognition in the fandom, and earn exclusive rewards around the artists and creators they love. They also partner with the creators to finally allow them to monetize their fans' activity directly.

Crediverso

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Crediverso operates a financial marketplace designed to assist the Hispanic community in the United States in achieving financial independence. The platform offers a range of services, including access to credit cards, credit checks, loans, and international money transfers. By providing essential financial information and products, Crediverso bridges the cultural gap for both Spanish- and English-speaking users, ensuring they can make informed decisions about their finances. The company aims to empower its users with the tools and knowledge necessary to navigate financial choices effectively.

Remedial Health

Series A in 2023
Remedial Health operates as a wholesale distributor of medicine, catering to the vast network of approximately one million pharmacies and hospitals across Africa. The company addresses the prevalent inefficiencies in the healthcare supply chain, where providers often depend on open-air markets to acquire pharmaceuticals, leading to risks of counterfeit products. By offering a pharmacy operations and procurement management platform, Remedial Health enhances business-to-business access to medications. This platform incorporates technology that simplifies the ordering process and facilitates direct access to retail medicines from manufacturers or distributors, thereby improving workflow management and ensuring a more reliable supply of genuine medications for healthcare providers.

Mythical Games

Series C in 2023
Mythical Games Inc. is a game technology studio that focuses on developing blockchain-based games for personal computers, mobile devices, and consoles. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California, with an additional office in Seattle, Washington, the company aims to revolutionize gaming by emphasizing true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets. Its flagship product, Blankos, is a casual multiplayer game that allows players to buy, trade, and sell their custom designs. Mythical Games also provides tools for content creators and brands to personalize and own game assets, fostering a collaborative environment for players, developers, and creators. The company is dedicated to creating innovative gaming experiences that leverage distributed ledger technology, thereby enhancing consumer engagement and participation in the gaming ecosystem.

HUSSLUP

Seed Round in 2023
HUSSLUP operates a marketplace designed for creators in the media and entertainment industry, facilitating the formation of a diverse global community. The platform allows users to create personal profiles that feature verified credits and encrypted creative samples. Through these profiles, creators can connect with one another, share annotated contact lists organized by project, and collaborate on creative endeavors. HUSSLUP also includes a Pro Search tool that enables executives, producers, and representatives to easily find and hire talent for their projects. In addition to fostering connections, HUSSLUP supports collaboration through encrypted project sharing and private messaging, enhancing opportunities for mentorship and representation within the industry.

Toybox Labs

Venture Round in 2022
Toybox Labs offers an innovative 3D printing experience designed specifically for children, allowing them to create a wide variety of toys at home with ease. By providing access to thousands of toy designs that can be printed at the push of a button, Toybox Labs combines technology and creativity, encouraging imaginative play. Additionally, the company operates an online marketplace for toys, broadening its reach and providing more options for consumers. This dual approach positions Toybox Labs as a unique player in the toy industry, merging the traditional concept of play with modern 3D printing capabilities.

VersusGame

Series A in 2022
VersusGame is a global entertainment platform that offers a mobile gaming experience where users can leverage their knowledge of mainstream culture. It allows individuals, brands, and creators to engage with an interactive audience, driving excitement through gamified content. The platform enables users to participate in 1v1 games for cash and prizes, making it a popular choice for entertainment. VersusGame serves as a marketplace for interactive content, embedding its technology into various platforms such as apps, websites, TV shows, and podcasts. By utilizing artificial intelligence, it creates an engaging and fair environment for users to test their knowledge while placing bets on their favorite celebrities, brands, and events. The VersusGame app, along with its mobile website and integrations with social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, positions it as a leading prediction platform worldwide.

Boomerang

Seed Round in 2022
Boomerang is a technology-driven service focused on reuniting individuals with their lost valuables. By utilizing an app, customers can report lost items by providing descriptions, which allows them to check if their belongings have been logged by partner businesses. These partners utilize specialized software to maintain an organized database of found items, facilitating the search process. Additionally, Boomerang offers a fully managed service that collects and stores lost items for larger organizations, such as airports and stadiums, which may handle significant volumes of lost property. This comprehensive approach streamlines the recovery process, making it easier for individuals to reclaim their possessions.

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.

LEX Markets

Series A in 2022
LEX Markets Corp. operates an online marketplace dedicated to commercial real estate securities, allowing users to search, buy, and sell shares of individual properties. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company facilitates the process of taking commercial buildings public through single-asset initial public offerings (IPOs). LEX Markets caters to both accredited and non-accredited investors, enabling transactions with a minimum investment of $250 and without lockup periods. The platform leverages technology from Nasdaq, ensuring robust trading features and performance comparable to major global markets.

Spectrum Labs

Series B in 2022
Spectrum Labs, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform designed to identify and moderate harmful online behavior across various formats, including text and audio. The company's primary product, Guardian, offers a suite of tools that includes behavior identification models, content moderation capabilities, and an analytics dashboard. Spectrum Labs serves clients in sectors such as dating, gaming, marketplaces, and social platforms. By enabling trust and safety teams to effectively identify toxic behaviors, the company helps reduce content moderation costs while enhancing the detection of potentially damaging actions that could harm brands.

NEXT Trucking

Venture Round in 2022
NEXT Trucking, Inc. is a technology-driven company that operates an online platform to connect shippers with carriers for freight and cargo transportation. Founded in 2015 and based in El Segundo, California, NEXT Trucking offers a mobile application and web solution that serves as a trucking marketplace. This platform allows truckers to post available routes and desired pay, while shippers can hire drivers based on a rating system that reflects performance and reliability. The company enhances efficiency by providing tools such as digital paperwork, fleet management, online payments, and real-time tracking. Additionally, NEXT Trucking employs predictive load offering technology, ensuring that shippers have access to ample capacity and transparency, while empowering drivers to select jobs that suit their preferences. The company is backed by notable investors and operates primarily in the North American market.

NewtonX

Series B in 2021
NewtonX, Inc. is a B2B research company based in New York, founded in 2016. It operates an online marketplace that connects professional services firms and financial institutions to verified senior professionals across various industries. Utilizing an advanced AI-driven algorithm known as the NewtonX Graph, the company custom recruits audiences tailored to specific business inquiries from a network of over 1.1 billion professionals. NewtonX provides decision-quality data through large-scale quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, long-term consultations, and personalized research plans. Its platform, NewtonX Prime, offers clients instant access to expert surveys and transcripts, empowering businesses to make informed decisions. The company collaborates with Fortune 500 companies, top consultancies, and investors to enhance the standard of B2B insights.

Rares.io

Seed Round in 2021
Rares.io operates a social investing platform that enables individuals to invest in the sneaker culture through fractional ownership of rare and collectible sneakers. By offering shares in specific sneakers, Rares eliminates the need for buyers to contend with traditional purchasing challenges, such as long lines or online bots. The platform provides educational resources, including videos and tools, to help users understand the value of their investments based on the unique stories and attributes of each shoe. Sneakers are made available through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), allowing users to buy and trade shares after the IPO closes. This model not only facilitates investment but also encourages community engagement among sneaker enthusiasts, enabling users to connect, share insights, and trade with one another. By fostering a social environment, Rares.io seeks to create a marketplace that reflects the culture and excitement surrounding sneaker collecting.

Pacaso

Series C in 2021
Pacaso is a company that modernizes the traditional concept of co-owning a second home by offering a streamlined marketplace for buyers. It assists individuals in identifying their ideal second home based on location, budget, and desired usage time. Once a buyer selects a property, Pacaso collaborates with real estate agents to establish a professionally managed limited liability company (LLC) for co-ownership. Buyers can purchase a share of the home, ensuring access for the time proportional to their ownership stake. Pacaso temporarily acquires the remaining share before reselling it to qualified buyers. The company also provides comprehensive property management and utilizes a mobile application to facilitate easy scheduling and equitable use among co-owners, thereby reducing the complexities and costs associated with property ownership.

CookUnity

Series B in 2021
CookUnity LLC is a personalized meal subscription platform that connects independent chefs with food enthusiasts. Founded in 2015 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the company offers a service that allows customers to customize their meals from a diverse selection of fully prepared dishes made with sustainably sourced ingredients and seasonal produce. The platform caters to busy individuals seeking healthy dining options, enabling them to order handcrafted meals that are delivered directly to their doorsteps. Chefs curate a rotating menu based on seasonal ingredients, ensuring a fresh and varied dining experience for subscribers.

Orchard

Series D in 2021
Orchard is a real estate development company that focuses on simplifying the home buying and selling process through a digitally enabled marketplace. The company offers services that help clients find and purchase homes while also providing cash offers to facilitate contingency-free transactions. Orchard's platform combines technology and human-centered design to deliver accurate home valuations and manage the sale of clients' previous homes. Additionally, the company connects customers with various vendor partners, offering services such as cleaning, landscaping, photography, flooring, roofing, and plumbing, ensuring a comprehensive and stress-free experience for those navigating the real estate market.

Scopio

Venture Round in 2021
Scopio, LLC is an image search engine and licensing platform that connects photographers and visual artists with businesses, brands, and organizations seeking visual content. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, Scopio specializes in user-generated images and videos sourced from social media. The platform allows users to license photographs with customizable messages and build libraries of content, while also streamlining the copyright process for these images. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Scopio enhances accessibility for diverse artists from around the world, enabling them to showcase their work and connect with potential clients. Scopio aims to create the largest repository of visual talent, allowing users to easily search, license, and utilize creative content.

CareRev

Series A in 2021
CareRev is a healthcare staffing marketplace that connects medical facilities directly with per diem healthcare professionals, eliminating the need for vendors or agencies. Its online platform allows hospitals and outpatient facilities to efficiently fill shifts by accessing a pool of flexible clinical talent. This model not only expedites the staffing process but also helps facilities reduce costs and maintain appropriate nurse-to-patient ratios, ultimately enhancing the quality of patient care. By facilitating direct communication between healthcare providers and staff, CareRev empowers professionals to choose their work schedules and locations, promoting greater flexibility in the healthcare workforce. The company has received funding from notable investors, including Y Combinator and several prominent business angels.

Alphaa.io

Seed Round in 2021
Alpha'a is a B2B marketplace that connects companies with visual artists, facilitating the sale and promotion of art products online. The platform enables artists to showcase their work and reach global audiences through a crowdsourcing model. Additionally, Alpha'a provides a framework for brands and creators to issue multi-utility NFTs, linking physical and digital assets via a white-labeled smart contract solution. This innovation includes digital certificates of authenticity powered by NFTs, allowing individuals and organizations to earn resale royalties, enhance community engagement, and offer unique value propositions. By bridging the gap between artists and businesses, Alpha'a makes visual arts more accessible and fosters a vibrant creative ecosystem.

Workchew

Seed Round in 2021
WorkChew Inc. operates a marketplace platform that connects mobile and remote workers with coworking spaces in restaurants and hotels located in Chicago, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Founded in 2018, the company offers a flexible work environment that includes food, drinks, and essential amenities such as high-speed Wi-Fi. WorkChew caters to both businesses and individual users, allowing enterprises to secure workspaces for their remote employees while also providing a self-serve option for individuals to book spaces for short durations. Restaurants and hotels featured on the platform retain all revenue from food and beverage sales, while WorkChew earns a commission from conference room bookings in hotels. This model enables professionals to find affordable and productive workspaces without incurring high costs, making it a valuable resource for remote workers.

West Tenth

Seed Round in 2021
West Tenth operates a digital marketplace designed to support women-led, home-based businesses by connecting them with local customers. Through its user-friendly mobile application, the platform enables users to discover a variety of services and products offered by independent entrepreneurs in their communities, such as home bakers, photographers, organizers, and florists. By promoting these local talents, West Tenth facilitates the growth of small businesses while providing consumers with access to unique, neighborhood-based services. This focus on community engagement helps women entrepreneurs elevate their businesses and reach a broader audience.

Pepper

Seed Round in 2020
Pepper is an eCommerce platform for food distributors, convenience stores, and other marketplaces. The company's eCommerce platform, which features a suite of AI-powered tools for the distributor sales rep and customers to grow their market share, enables food distributors to find new customers, deepen relationships, grow revenue, and run more efficiently.

Nabis

Series A in 2020
Nabis is a licensed wholesale marketplace specializing in the distribution of cannabis products to retailers. The company operates a platform that utilizes a rapid distribution network to facilitate the fulfillment, storage, and sales of wholesale cannabis products. This service caters to a diverse range of clients, from small delivery services to large dispensary chains, enabling them to manage wholesale cannabis orders efficiently. Nabis also offers sales, marketing, financing, and data analytics services, coordinating the entire cannabis distribution lifecycle from production to delivery.

Orchard

Series C in 2020
Orchard is a real estate development company that focuses on simplifying the home buying and selling process through a digitally enabled marketplace. The company offers services that help clients find and purchase homes while also providing cash offers to facilitate contingency-free transactions. Orchard's platform combines technology and human-centered design to deliver accurate home valuations and manage the sale of clients' previous homes. Additionally, the company connects customers with various vendor partners, offering services such as cleaning, landscaping, photography, flooring, roofing, and plumbing, ensuring a comprehensive and stress-free experience for those navigating the real estate market.

Meaningful Gigs

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Meaningful Gigs is a tech-enabled marketplace that up-skills and connects African digital designers with enterprise companies looking for highly-skilled, diverse designers.

Hungry

Series B in 2020
Hungry Marketplace Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based platform that connects independent chefs with businesses seeking high-quality catered meals. Founded by Eman Pahlavani, Shy Pahlevani, and Jeff Grass, the company aims to revolutionize the $60 billion business and events catering market by offering a diverse range of curated menus from local chefs. Hungry's platform facilitates the ordering of office lunches and other meal services. The company is committed to community welfare through its 'Fight Against Hunger' initiative, which donates one meal for every two purchased, and its 'WeRecycle' program, which emphasizes environmental sustainability by using biodegradable serving materials. With operations expanding rapidly in cities such as Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, and New York City, Hungry aims to broaden its reach to a total of 23 U.S. cities by the end of 2021.

Shipfix

Seed Round in 2019
Shipfix is a collaborative workflow and data platform tailored for the maritime and trade sectors, utilizing advanced AI tools to enhance efficiency. The platform focuses on streamlining maritime workflows and providing market and operational intelligence specifically for shipowners, commodity traders, industrials, freight forwarders, and shipbrokers. By facilitating the sharing of offers, leads, contacts, and business opportunities, Shipfix enables teams to manage their daily communications more effectively, transforming overwhelming email volumes into a clear and searchable market overview. This approach allows maritime and trade professionals to make informed decisions and operate more swiftly, ultimately driving chartering and operational efficiency within the industry.

VideoElephant

Series A in 2019
VideoElephant Limited specializes in providing ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers globally. The company operates an online marketplace that offers a diverse library of video content, including short and long-form videos such as TV shows, movies, and documentaries. Users can select a content-only solution or an comprehensive video package that includes a video player, premium content, content delivery network (CDN) services, and monetization options. VideoElephant also simplifies the content acquisition process by aggregating and licensing videos from multiple providers under a single contract. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the company has additional offices in London, Berlin, New York, and Los Angeles.

Borrowell

Series B in 2019
Borrowell Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Toronto, Canada, is a financial technology company that specializes in providing credit education and personal financial services. The company offers free credit scores, credit monitoring, and personalized financial product recommendations through its online marketplace-lending platform. Borrowell helps Canadians access various financial products, including personal loans, credit cards, and mortgages, while also providing tools for debt management and financial improvement. By integrating innovative digital solutions such as personalized credit coaching and AI-driven recommendations, Borrowell aims to enhance the financial well-being of its customers and promote responsible borrowing practices.

Orchard

Series B in 2019
Orchard is a real estate development company that focuses on simplifying the home buying and selling process through a digitally enabled marketplace. The company offers services that help clients find and purchase homes while also providing cash offers to facilitate contingency-free transactions. Orchard's platform combines technology and human-centered design to deliver accurate home valuations and manage the sale of clients' previous homes. Additionally, the company connects customers with various vendor partners, offering services such as cleaning, landscaping, photography, flooring, roofing, and plumbing, ensuring a comprehensive and stress-free experience for those navigating the real estate market.

LandscapeHub

Series A in 2019
LandscapeHub is a digital B2B marketplace that connects buyers and suppliers in the landscaping industry through a centralized online platform. By aggregating inventory and pricing from quality suppliers across the country, LandscapeHub enhances efficiency and fosters network building among participants. The platform provides valuable market insights, enabling users to streamline the procurement process for landscaping materials. This approach allows buyers to access a comprehensive selection of products in one convenient location, thereby improving operational efficiencies for nursery and landscape supply distributors.
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