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 Social Network

Alinea

Series A in 2025
Alinea is a mobile investing platform that simplifies personal finance for beginners. It enables users to create themed investment playlists, automate investments through recurring contributions, and make informed decisions using relevant insights. The platform also facilitates social trading by allowing users to view and share strategies with peers.

Happl

Seed Round in 2024
Happl is a technology company that develops a social platform aimed at fostering inclusivity and employee well-being in businesses worldwide. Its platform provides insights for HR leaders to understand their workforce's well-being, while also offering spend cards for streamlined expense management, empowering managers to engage with and support their teams effectively.

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.

Alinea

Seed Round in 2024
Alinea is a mobile investing platform that simplifies personal finance for beginners. It enables users to create themed investment playlists, automate investments through recurring contributions, and make informed decisions using relevant insights. The platform also facilitates social trading by allowing users to view and share strategies with peers.

Chptr

Seed Round in 2023
Chptr is a mobile-first platform dedicated to memorialization, focusing on collecting, sharing, and preserving the memories of loved ones for future generations. The platform allows users to create lasting legacies by curating a comprehensive narrative of a person's life. It offers features that enable individuals to select personality traits and interests, as well as send questionnaires to family and friends, encouraging contributions of memories and stories. This collaborative approach helps users to memorialize the full spectrum of their loved one's existence, ensuring that their stories can inspire and resonate with future generations.

Gatheround

Series A in 2023
Gatheround is a team bonding and community engagement platform that focuses on fostering authentic human connections within organizations. Designed for people-centric environments, the platform offers a video chat solution that enhances virtual meetings through interactive tools and pre-built templates. By prioritizing depth and authenticity, Gatheround enables teams to collaborate and brainstorm effectively, addressing the challenges of disconnection in a digital age. Its approach makes it easy for organizations to bring individuals together online in a manner that is both enjoyable and meaningful, ultimately strengthening team dynamics and relationships.

Fave

Seed Round in 2023
Fave is a social platform designed for superfans to connect and engage with one another. It facilitates the creation of immersive video content and encourages users to bond over shared interests, compete in challenges, and exchange both physical and virtual goods within a fan-driven marketplace. Users accumulate points to demonstrate their status as top fans, gaining recognition and earning exclusive rewards related to their favorite artists and creators. Additionally, Fave collaborates with creators to enable them to monetize fan engagement, enhancing the overall experience for both fans and artists. The platform aims to foster community, creativity, and commerce among fans worldwide.

Lex

Seed Round in 2023
Lex is a mobile application that facilitates meaningful connections through text-based social networking. It caters specifically to women, transgender, non-binary, and genderqueer individuals seeking romantic partners or friendships.

Somethings

Seed Round in 2023
Somethings is a digital platform focused on mental well-being for young people. It connects teenagers with trained peer mentors to provide mental health support, helping them manage stress, anxiety, and other wellness concerns.

Ownify

Seed Round in 2023
Ownify operates a real estate platform that enables fractional ownership of single-family homes for both first-time buyers and real estate investors. The service allows qualified first-time buyers to purchase homes through fractional ownership with zero debt terms, reducing upfront costs while preserving homeownership opportunities. At the same time, socially conscious investors can buy fractional stakes in the same properties, sharing rental income and potential home price appreciation. The platform aims to build equity, foster stability in local communities, and align investments with fair terms and social impact.

HUSSLUP

Seed Round in 2023
HUSSLUP is a platform designed to support creators in the media and entertainment industries by facilitating connections and collaboration. It provides users with personal profiles that feature verified credits and encrypted creative samples, helping to establish credibility within a diverse global community. The platform includes a Pro Search tool that allows executives, producers, and representatives to search for and connect with talent suited for their projects. Additionally, HUSSLUP enables creators to organize and share annotated contact lists by project, fostering networking opportunities. Through its marketplace, clients and brands can easily discover and engage with professionals, streamlining the hiring process and promoting collaboration on creative projects.

Bento

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Bento is a collaboration platform that allows users to share personal pages in one link. It bridges this gap by offering a platform for creators to showcase their skills, present their interests, and find collaborators outside of their immediate circle. Individuals looking for new opportunities can also find projects. They make it easier to find details like skills, interests, and timelines to facilitate those connections. Instead of relying solely on local circles or people you met at university, talented engineers, designers, and other content creators can find their next partners based on what really matters: the work itself, not professional prestige.

MoviePass

Seed Round in 2023
MoviePass is a subscription service that gives customers access to movies in theaters in the United States for a fixed monthly fee through a mobile app. The platform lets users browse theatres and showtimes, check into venues using location-based technology, rate films and theatre experiences, and share reviews with peers on social networks. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, it aims to provide access to a broad slate of theatrical releases with no blackout dates, along with discounts offered through the app.

OneRoof

Seed Round in 2023
OneRoof connects people living in the same building to form a resourceful, fun, and supportive neighbor community. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Paway

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Paway is a company founded by Jason Meltzer, the former CEO of Wag, aiming to enhance the pet care community for the next generation of pet owners, particularly Gen-Z and Millennials. The company offers a pet tracking application that provides real-time safety alerts and neighborhood tips to ensure the safety of pets during walks. Its platform allows users to create and share pet profiles with a network of caregivers, facilitating communication and sharing of experiences. Paway also includes pet care professionals in its community, providing them with software to help manage and grow their businesses. By connecting pet care professionals with pet parents, Paway addresses consumer demand while lowering the costs of pet care services and fostering loyalty among pet professionals. The platform collects valuable user data, including pet details and location, to further enhance its offerings and community engagement.

Gabbi

Seed Round in 2022
Gabbi is a healthcare technology company that uses AI and clinical research to help women understand and proactively manage their health risks, with a focus on breast cancer risk, prevention, and early detection. The platform offers a lifetime risk assessment, personalized action plans, and virtual care options such as video appointments and chat, along with a community network that supports ongoing engagement and informed decision making.

CarpeDM

Pre Seed Round in 2022
CarpeDM is an online dating community platform designed specifically for singles seeking meaningful relationships with professional Black women. The platform serves as an exclusive member-only space where users can engage in personal matchmaking services. CarpeDM emphasizes a vetted community, ensuring that members meet specific dating criteria and compatibility rankings. Through its innovative video dating application, the company facilitates connections among users, allowing them to explore potential relationships in a supportive and focused environment.

Bento

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Bento is a collaboration platform that allows users to share personal pages in one link. It bridges this gap by offering a platform for creators to showcase their skills, present their interests, and find collaborators outside of their immediate circle. Individuals looking for new opportunities can also find projects. They make it easier to find details like skills, interests, and timelines to facilitate those connections. Instead of relying solely on local circles or people you met at university, talented engineers, designers, and other content creators can find their next partners based on what really matters: the work itself, not professional prestige.

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.

Adni

Seed Round in 2022
Adni streamlines career management for healthcare professionals via a single AI-powered app. It offers job matching, resource purchasing, credential updates, networking, and daily education. For employers, Adni facilitates recruitment and retention through a white-labeled gamified intranet.

Spectrum Labs

Series B in 2022
Spectrum Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in creating an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to identify and monitor online behavior. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers its flagship product, Guardian, which features an analytics dashboard and tools for community guidelines enforcement, model upgrades, data labeling, and policy consultation. Spectrum Labs serves a diverse range of clients, including those in dating, gaming, marketplaces, and social platforms, by enabling trust and safety teams to detect harmful behaviors in text and audio content. The company's solutions aim to reduce content moderation costs while enhancing the identification of toxic behaviors, ultimately contributing to a safer online environment.

Happl

Seed Round in 2021
Happl is a technology company that develops a social platform aimed at fostering inclusivity and employee well-being in businesses worldwide. Its platform provides insights for HR leaders to understand their workforce's well-being, while also offering spend cards for streamlined expense management, empowering managers to engage with and support their teams effectively.

Jet Media Network

Seed Round in 2021
Jet Media Network develops data-driven, next-generation media networks and creates bespoke mobile destinations that enable direct-to-fan experiences for high-profile athletes and celebrities, while empowering communities through digital platforms.

Groundfloor

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Groundfloor is a club that gives members access to facilities and spaces that use design and community to bring people together, allowing members to help and elevate work, social life, and leisure.

Chptr

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Chptr is a mobile-first platform dedicated to memorialization, focusing on collecting, sharing, and preserving the memories of loved ones for future generations. The platform allows users to create lasting legacies by curating a comprehensive narrative of a person's life. It offers features that enable individuals to select personality traits and interests, as well as send questionnaires to family and friends, encouraging contributions of memories and stories. This collaborative approach helps users to memorialize the full spectrum of their loved one's existence, ensuring that their stories can inspire and resonate with future generations.

Every Human

Seed Round in 2021
CLLCTVE is a portfolio platform designed to empower creators by providing them with essential tools, resources, and a supportive network to pursue their aspirations. The platform facilitates a community-driven experience, enabling freelancers to showcase their creative talents without needing to build websites or resumes. By connecting brands with a diverse pool of creators, CLLCTVE matches opportunities based on brand requirements and the skills and interests of its members. Additionally, the platform focuses on engaging college students, allowing them to create transmedia content for brands while connecting with a freelance community on campuses nationwide. Through this innovative approach, CLLCTVE fosters collaboration and provides valuable opportunities for both creators and brands.

ConnectCareHero

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ConnectCareHero operates a digital platform that curates local entertainment options and facilitates social engagement for older adults. This helps healthcare organizations enhance activity programming, reduce senior isolation, and improve overall health outcomes.

Sēkr

Seed Round in 2021
Sēkr is a crowdsourced mobile platform making every step of the outdoor travel planning experience easier, safer, and more social. The company is creating an inclusive community through access to 50K+ campsites, including the nation’s largest database of free campsites, and local outdoor events.
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