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 Self-improvement

Shimmer

Seed Round in 2024
Shimmer provides a platform for 1:1 remote ADHD coaching. Our platform matches users to an ADHD coach who helps guide them towards identifying and meeting goals, maintaining a positive approach to change, and improving productivity while providing a source of accountability.

Wave Life

Seed Round in 2023
Wave Life is a new kind of mental health platform that makes emotional wellbeing an achievable part of everyday life. The app's mental health coach and toolkit empower users to live each day with intention. Mental health coaching helps to build self-awareness, discover values, and cope with stress.

Shimmer

Seed Round in 2022
Shimmer provides a platform for 1:1 remote ADHD coaching. Our platform matches users to an ADHD coach who helps guide them towards identifying and meeting goals, maintaining a positive approach to change, and improving productivity while providing a source of accountability.

OYE

Pre Seed Round in 2022
OYE is a wellness app focused on enhancing emotional well-being through mind-body practices and community engagement. The platform offers daily emotional check-ins, personalized goal setting, and mindful notifications to help users transform their emotions into creative actions. Available in both Spanish and English, OYE provides guided reflections and expressive movement practices aimed at shifting moods and improving interpersonal relationships. By fostering a supportive environment, OYE enables members of the Latino community to enhance their mental health, experience personal growth, and build connections regardless of their location.

Lovewick

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Lovewick is a mobile application designed to enhance relationships by fostering communication, understanding, and shared experiences. It offers personalized question games and community-sourced date ideas, helping couples cultivate appreciation and novelty in their relationships.

SkillCycle

Seed Round in 2021
SkillCycle operates a subscription-based talent development platform offering personalized career coaching and learning. Its platform helps businesses upskill and reskill employees by providing tailored learning experiences, workflow management, workforce insights, and measurable metrics to track behavioral changes and outcomes. This enables companies to educate, empower, and retain their workforce effectively.

Breathwrk

Seed Round in 2021
Breathwrk develops a mobile application offering science-backed guided breathing exercises. Users can manage mental wellness by reducing anxiety, improving sleep, enhancing focus, and boosting energy.

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.

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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