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

Paul Grossinger

Co-Founder and General Partner

Todd Havill

Research Operations and Principal, Investment

Surya Jayaweera

Angel Investor

Jennifer Jeronimo

CEO and General Partner

Jake Prigoff

General Partner

Peter Steinberg

General Partner

Alexandra Tanner

Investor

Lorenzo Thione

General Partner

Past deals in Real Time

Innotap

Seed Round in 2025
Innotap is a prominent provider of energy trading and commodity trading software, specializing in real-time decision support applications for power traders. The company offers a suite of innovative tools, including DecisionDock, InstaTrend, RealDeal Dashboards, and PowerFeed for Excel, which facilitate the monitoring of market conditions and help traders make informed decisions. By leveraging cloud-based technology and aggregating data from Independent System Operators (ISOs) and Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs), Innotap enables energy traders to respond swiftly to market changes and seize profitable opportunities. With a focus on enhancing decision-making processes, Innotap combines data visualization and analytics, presenting users with a rich graphical interface that streamlines access to real-time market data.

OneRail

Series C in 2024
OneRail is a logistics company specializing in last mile delivery solutions through its OmniPoint™ platform. The company employs artificial intelligence to facilitate the connection between shippers and a vast network of couriers, enabling efficient order fulfillment and real-time visibility throughout the delivery process. OneRail's platform automates, optimizes, and manages the entire delivery supply chain, addressing the specific needs of clients from the initial demand signal to the final proof of delivery. By integrating with retail point-of-sale systems, OneRail enhances the delivery experience for businesses and their customers.

Operant

Series A in 2024
Operant is a developer of an application protection platform tailored for cloud-native environments. The company provides automatic discovery and analytics, enabling real-time risk assessments and intelligent runtime enforcement across various cloud infrastructures. Operant's platform offers comprehensive catalogs for APIs, services, and role-based access controls, facilitating swift visibility into API endpoints, service interactions, and security vulnerabilities. By employing risk-weighted scorecards that prioritize security gaps based on criticality, access, and exposure, Operant effectively highlights the most severe security concerns. Additionally, the platform implements contextual controls to enforce precise security measures on legacy endpoints, data storage, and APIs, ensuring seamless integration and optimization of system behavior at scale without the need for instrumentation or friction between development, security, and operations teams.

Resistomap

Seed Round in 2023
Resistomap is a company that specializes in monitoring antibiotic resistance through data-driven laboratory services. It focuses on mitigating the spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment by offering robust monitoring tools. The company integrates expertise in molecular genetics and data science with high-throughput real-time polymerase chain reaction technology. This combination allows Resistomap to deliver comprehensive laboratory and analysis services that facilitate environmental monitoring of antibiotic resistance, aiding customers in understanding and addressing this critical public health issue.

Ternary

Series A in 2023
Ternary is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in providing a multi-cloud financial operations (FinOps) platform focused on cloud cost optimization for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers. Founded in 2021, Ternary's solution simplifies the complexities associated with cloud billing, making costs transparent and manageable. The platform employs data optimization techniques to enhance collaboration and accountability among users, allowing clients to effectively monitor, prioritize, and track their cloud expenditures. By delivering real-time analytical tools, Ternary enables organizations to maximize their cloud investments and improve cost management strategies. As a certified partner of the FinOps Foundation, Ternary is dedicated to addressing the unique financial operations needs of its clients in the cloud landscape.

Polygraf

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Polygraf AI specializes in providing data integrity, monitoring, and governance solutions for organizations utilizing artificial intelligence tools. With a focus on a Zero Trust on-premises user interface, the company addresses emerging risks associated with AI, such as confidential data leakage, data breaches, and the proliferation of fake or altered AI-generated content. Polygraf's proprietary AI-powered software enables data-centric organizations to identify and mitigate these threats in real-time, ensuring the protection of sensitive information and compliance with regulatory standards. The company has earned recognition in the industry, being named the Top AI Governance Product at the 2024 Product Awards and ranked among the Top Analytics Startups to Watch Globally. Additionally, it was acknowledged as one of the Top 5 AI Trailblazers at SXSW 2024, underlining its commitment to enhancing data security and governance in an evolving technological landscape.

Spartan Radar

Series B in 2023
Spartan Radar is a developer of advanced radar technology that creates high-resolution real-time radar imagery, utilizing proprietary software algorithms. The company's approach incorporates machine learning and edge-processing, mimicking human perceptual abilities to enhance the detection and response to obstacles. Spartan's platform improves the performance of existing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) by increasing resolution, response time, and range, while maintaining affordability and minimizing computational demands. With a foundation built on decades of expertise in commercializing aerospace and automotive technologies, Spartan Radar provides cutting-edge radar solutions for various applications, including drones and vehicles.

OneRail

Series B in 2022
OneRail is a logistics company specializing in last mile delivery solutions through its OmniPoint™ platform. The company employs artificial intelligence to facilitate the connection between shippers and a vast network of couriers, enabling efficient order fulfillment and real-time visibility throughout the delivery process. OneRail's platform automates, optimizes, and manages the entire delivery supply chain, addressing the specific needs of clients from the initial demand signal to the final proof of delivery. By integrating with retail point-of-sale systems, OneRail enhances the delivery experience for businesses and their customers.

Anything World

Seed Round in 2022
Anything World Limited is a London-based company founded in 2018 that develops a software platform for creating virtual 3D worlds in real time. The platform combines artificial intelligence, voice computing, and 3D rendering, allowing users to interact with virtual environments using voice and text commands. Among its products is Rabbids Playground, an augmented reality application that simulates a pet within a real-world playground, and Speak To Anything, which enables users to converse with any imagined creature. The platform utilizes publicly available 3D assets and machine learning to animate these assets based on user inputs, streamlining the process of crafting immersive virtual experiences.

PeakMetrics

Venture Round in 2022
PeakMetrics is a developer of a narrative intelligence platform that assists enterprises and governments in identifying and addressing emerging online narrative threats. Utilizing advanced machine learning technology, the company analyzes over 1.5 million media sources and various social media platforms to detect media manipulation and adversarial attacks in real-time, allowing organizations to respond before potential damage occurs. By providing insights into source credibility, audience dynamics, and risk assessment, PeakMetrics enables clients to efficiently monitor news coverage and measure media impact without incurring excessive costs associated with traditional crisis communication and manual sentiment analysis.

MindRight Health

Seed Round in 2022
MindRight Health, Inc. is a Newark, New Jersey-based company founded in 2019 that offers mental health coaching via text messaging. Its mission is to promote health equity by providing accessible and inclusive mental health care, particularly for communities of color and low-income families. MindRight partners with healthcare payers and providers to deliver culturally responsive coaching, assigning users to personal coaches who offer support year-round. This approach aims to create a continuum of care that addresses the unique needs of youth and communities that often avoid traditional clinical services due to stigma and limited access. Additionally, MindRight provides its partners with real-time data on community mental health needs, which helps in predicting and preventing mental health crises.

Rubik

Seed Round in 2022
Rubik, Inc. is an AI-powered platform designed to assist real estate investors in the acquisition of properties. Established in 2017 and headquartered in New York, the company focuses on providing comprehensive research and analytics for both on-market and off-market properties. By leveraging machine learning, Rubik delivers financial data on single-family homes, allowing investors to efficiently identify properties that meet their specific investment criteria. The platform streamlines the workflow for retail investors, enabling them to discover potential investments, assess renovation impacts on returns, and evaluate associated risks. Through its user-friendly interface, Rubik empowers clients to source properties and secure contracts with minimal effort.

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.

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.

Frost Giant Studios

Series A in 2022
Frost Giant Studios, Inc. is a video game development company founded in 2020 and located in Malibu, California. The studio specializes in creating real-time strategy (RTS) games aimed at competitive gaming on personal computers. With a focus on innovation and quality, Frost Giant Studios leverages the extensive experience of its founders, who have previously contributed to renowned titles such as StarCraft II. The company is dedicated to fostering a strong connection with its player base by incorporating feedback into its game development process. By maintaining the core mechanics of the RTS genre, Frost Giant Studios seeks to broaden its audience while remaining true to the existing fan community. Their latest project, Stormgate, exemplifies their commitment to enhancing cooperative gameplay and competitive esports, ultimately lowering the barriers to entry for new gamers.

The Round

Seed Round in 2022
The Round is a software as a service (SaaS) company that specializes in real-time animation streaming for virtual applications. It has developed an end-to-end media platform that focuses on creating and distributing live digital performances. By leveraging virtual reality and real-time technology, The Round transforms immediate surroundings into immersive, holographic venues, making it possible for users to experience live entertainment in augmented reality. This innovative approach aims to enhance the way audiences engage with theatrical performances, bringing a new dimension to live entertainment.

CareAlign

Seed Round in 2021
CareAlign is a developer of a real-time data system that enhances the management and coordination of clinical care for clinicians. The company offers an intuitive, patient-centric task management tool that allows healthcare professionals to assign tasks, set deadlines, and categorize them based on urgency. By aggregating data from multiple sources, CareAlign provides a comprehensive and clinically intuitive display of patients' clinical status, facilitating better understanding and decision-making in patient care. This system aims to streamline workflows and improve communication among clinicians, ultimately enhancing the quality of care delivered to patients.

Kentik

Series C in 2021
Kentik Technologies, Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco with a presence in Frankfurt, specializes in cloud-based real-time network visibility and analytics solutions. Its flagship product, Kentik Detect, is a big data-driven SaaS platform that transforms network data into actionable intelligence. Kentik serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, media, and telecommunications, offering solutions tailored to web enterprises and service providers. The company's portfolio includes Kentik Detect, My Kentik, and an AIOps platform, empowering network and security operators to enhance operations, optimize capacity, detect anomalies, and protect applications and services. Kentik's platform is renowned for its infinite granularity, AI-driven insights, and rapid search capabilities, making it an essential tool for network professionals across various sectors.

OneRail

Series A in 2021
OneRail is a logistics company specializing in last mile delivery solutions through its OmniPoint™ platform. The company employs artificial intelligence to facilitate the connection between shippers and a vast network of couriers, enabling efficient order fulfillment and real-time visibility throughout the delivery process. OneRail's platform automates, optimizes, and manages the entire delivery supply chain, addressing the specific needs of clients from the initial demand signal to the final proof of delivery. By integrating with retail point-of-sale systems, OneRail enhances the delivery experience for businesses and their customers.

Spartan Radar

Seed Round in 2021
Spartan Radar is a developer of advanced radar technology that creates high-resolution real-time radar imagery, utilizing proprietary software algorithms. The company's approach incorporates machine learning and edge-processing, mimicking human perceptual abilities to enhance the detection and response to obstacles. Spartan's platform improves the performance of existing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) by increasing resolution, response time, and range, while maintaining affordability and minimizing computational demands. With a foundation built on decades of expertise in commercializing aerospace and automotive technologies, Spartan Radar provides cutting-edge radar solutions for various applications, including drones and vehicles.

Qualytics

Seed Round in 2021
Qualytics is a technology company based in Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 2020, that specializes in data quality surveillance. The company has developed a platform designed to monitor and protect against data pipeline corruption. Its core technology includes a data firewall that captures erroneous data at the source, preventing it from affecting downstream data platforms. This system integrates with data pipelines and flows, alongside a surveillance hub, to ensure comprehensive monitoring. Additionally, Qualytics leverages machine learning to automatically generate and refine data rules through supervised workflows, enabling organizations to detect and respond to anomalies in real time. The platform includes active measures such as message-level quarantining to address potential issues swiftly.

Circadian Risk

Seed Round in 2020
Circadian Risk is a company that specializes in physical risk assessment through its proprietary software platform. This platform employs a score-based methodology to analyze risk data across various sectors and locations, enabling enterprises to evaluate and improve their physical security measures. By digitizing security and safety information, Circadian Risk identifies potential threats and incidents, helping organizations to generate, resolve, and communicate critical data effectively. This innovative approach allows businesses to mitigate vulnerabilities in the workplace and enhance overall safety.

Outlogic

Series A in 2019
Outlogic is a company that specializes in providing location data for sectors such as retail, real estate, and finance. The firm has developed a location data platform that emphasizes privacy while offering a scalable solution for clients. Outlogic's platform leverages real-time location information to support various applications, including advertising, market research, and safety initiatives. By adhering to high standards for data collection and usage, Outlogic enables its partners to create innovative tools grounded in reliable data, thereby enhancing safety, convenience, and overall operational efficiency.

Teckst

Series A in 2018
Teckst, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a text messaging platform designed to facilitate real-time, human-to-human communication between brands and their customers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the platform enables businesses to send and receive text messages seamlessly, integrating with popular CRM systems such as Zendesk, Salesforce, and Microsoft Dynamics. This integration allows support agents and sales representatives to manage SMS and chat communications directly within their existing workflows, enhancing customer engagement and operational efficiency. Teckst's mobile application ensures that all messages sent on the go are recorded in the CRM for comprehensive visibility and tracking. The platform is utilized by various leading brands across multiple industries, including ESPN, Lyft, and T-Mobile, to drive sales, build customer loyalty, and improve brand engagement. In December 2019, Teckst became a subsidiary of LiveVox, Inc.

Teckst

Seed Round in 2016
Teckst, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a text messaging platform designed to facilitate real-time, human-to-human communication between brands and their customers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the platform enables businesses to send and receive text messages seamlessly, integrating with popular CRM systems such as Zendesk, Salesforce, and Microsoft Dynamics. This integration allows support agents and sales representatives to manage SMS and chat communications directly within their existing workflows, enhancing customer engagement and operational efficiency. Teckst's mobile application ensures that all messages sent on the go are recorded in the CRM for comprehensive visibility and tracking. The platform is utilized by various leading brands across multiple industries, including ESPN, Lyft, and T-Mobile, to drive sales, build customer loyalty, and improve brand engagement. In December 2019, Teckst became a subsidiary of LiveVox, Inc.

Frost Giant Studios

Frost Giant Studios, Inc. is a video game development company founded in 2020 and located in Malibu, California. The studio specializes in creating real-time strategy (RTS) games aimed at competitive gaming on personal computers. With a focus on innovation and quality, Frost Giant Studios leverages the extensive experience of its founders, who have previously contributed to renowned titles such as StarCraft II. The company is dedicated to fostering a strong connection with its player base by incorporating feedback into its game development process. By maintaining the core mechanics of the RTS genre, Frost Giant Studios seeks to broaden its audience while remaining true to the existing fan community. Their latest project, Stormgate, exemplifies their commitment to enhancing cooperative gameplay and competitive esports, ultimately lowering the barriers to entry for new gamers.
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