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.

David Beatty

Managing Partner

Jesse Curran

Principal

Nancy Fechnay

Venture Partner

Paul Grossinger

Founder

Todd Havill

Research Operations and Principal, Investment

Past deals in Non-Profit

Cofertility

Series A in 2025
Cofertility is a human-centered fertility ecosystem that offers egg donation and egg-freezing services for fertility care and third-party reproduction. The platform connects women who wish to store eggs with families unable to conceive, providing a scalable model for egg donation and enabling free egg freezing when donors donate half of their eggs to another family. By matching candidates with donors, coordinating freezing and donation, Cofertility supports individuals and families throughout the fertility journey and aims to improve access to family-building options.

Crowded

Series A in 2025
Crowded is a fintech company that specializes in digital banking solutions tailored for membership groups. Its platform streamlines financial management by offering tools for online officer handovers, group expense tracking, payment collection, and donation management. Crowded's embedded finance platform reduces the need for multiple fund transfers between different platforms, enhancing security and giving group leaders full control over their funds. The company aims to simplify financial transactions, allowing groups to concentrate on their core missions rather than administrative tasks.

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.

Pair Team

Series A in 2023
Pair Team provides healthcare coordination services focused on underserved and vulnerable communities. It deploys a dedicated, tech-enabled care team—including community health workers, registered nurses, and behavioral health clinicians—to offer personalized, holistic support to Medicaid and Medicare patients and other low-income individuals facing barriers to care such as transportation, housing and food insecurity, and limited mobile access. The company acts as an extension of safety-net primary care systems, helping them deliver patient-centered care while integrating with community-based organizations. It is building a care delivery platform to standardize clinical practices, streamline administrative tasks, and enable clinicians to spend more time with patients.

Resilia

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2016, Resilia is a New Orleans-based company that develops a SaaS platform for nonprofit organizations. Its technology helps nonprofits enhance performance and enables funders to measure and scale their grant impacts beyond financial support.

RoundlyX

Seed Round in 2022
RoundlyX is a Richmond, Virginia-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in spare change roundups within the Giving and Alternative Investment sectors. The company offers a digital asset wealth management platform that enables consumers to save, invest, and donate by rounding up their purchases. It also provides a roundup functionality-as-a-service, catering to investing platforms and non-profit organizations. RoundlyX's platform allows users to manage multiple digital asset exchanges through a single dashboard, offering features such as roundup investing, curated content, and access to aggregated services. This infrastructure supports users in making informed investment decisions, particularly in the realm of digital assets like Bitcoin.

Instil

Seed Round in 2022
Instil develops a donor management platform designed to help non-profit organizations streamline operations. Their cloud-based solution offers data-driven dashboards with real-time visualizations and insights for every interaction, along with an easy-to-use customer relationship management interface.

Pico

Venture Round in 2021
Pico, founded in 2016 and based in New York, designs and develops software solutions focused on managing audience relationships for online businesses. The company provides pre-made templates with high-converting sign-in buttons for platforms like Facebook and Google. Pico's offerings cater to various needs, including newsletters, e-commerce, subscriptions, memberships, and donations.

Omaze

Series B in 2020
Omaze operates a unique online platform that combines fundraising for charitable initiatives with exciting prize experiences. It hosts auctions where donors can bid for chances to win once-in-a-lifetime opportunities such as celebrity encounters, luxury items, or exclusive travel packages. Omaze provides comprehensive services including marketing, content creation, technology support, and fulfillment to facilitate these experiences while raising funds for various causes.

Hungry

Series B in 2020
Hungry is a Washington D.C.-based company that operates a food catering and delivery marketplace. Founded by Eman Pahlavani, Shy Pahlevani, and Jeff Grass, Hungry connects independent chefs with businesses seeking high-quality catered meals. The platform offers a variety of prepared meals for different occasions, allowing businesses to order office lunches from a network of local chefs with curated menus. Hungry is committed to community improvement through initiatives like the ‘Fight Against Hunger’ program, which donates one meal to those in need for every two purchased, and the ‘WeRecycle’ program, which promotes environmental waste reduction by offering biodegradable plates and cutlery. The company has operations in several major U.S. cities, including Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, and New York City, with plans to expand its footprint to 23 cities by the end of 2021.
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