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 Pre-Seed Round

CO/AI

Pre Seed Round in 2025
CO/AI is a platform that connects individuals and businesses to learn and collaborate on artificial intelligence (AI) skills, preparing them for an AI-driven economy. It offers a unified, omnichannel contact center platform with AI-powered features, helping customers streamline customer interactions, boost agent productivity, and enhance customer experience across voice, chat, email, and social media channels.

Glober AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Revolutionizing SaaS Platform that magically crafts authentic and multicultural contents at lightning speed

1up

Pre Seed Round in 2023
1up is a New York City-based developer of a sales knowledge automation platform that helps sales and IT teams answer questions about product security and compliance, RFPs, and security questionnaires more quickly. The platform employs a Slack chatbot to generate immediate, contextually relevant responses, enabling sales representatives to obtain complete answers on the first try while maintaining data control and visibility. Trusted by enterprise customers worldwide, the solution supports faster, consistent information delivery across departments and industries.

TaxGPT

Pre Seed Round in 2023
TaxGPT is a technology company that specializes in automating tax filing processes using artificial intelligence. It leverages AI and tax data to provide accurate insights and maximize tax deductions for clients. The company offers personal tax and finance-related advisory services, automatically filing taxes and helping clients make informed decisions.

Crediverso

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Crediverso is a digital platform that connects the US Latino community with tailored financial products. It offers services such as credit card comparisons, credit checks, international money transfers, and financial education resources.

CapStack Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2023
CapStack Technologies is a financial technology company that provides an integrated operating system for banks and financial services providers. Its platform facilitates collaboration among these institutions, enabling them to manage loan and deposit exposure more effectively, mitigate risks, and ultimately drive profitability and asset diversification.

Alnair Therapeutics

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Alnair Therapeutics is a preclinical stage company specializing in precision oncology, dedicated to developing innovative solutions for challenging malignancies. The company has pioneered a unique drug delivery technology that harnesses the distinctive characteristics of cancer metabolism to enhance the targeting and penetration of therapeutic agents directly into cancer cells. This approach aims to improve treatment outcomes for patients suffering from difficult-to-treat cancers, addressing a significant need in the oncology field.

Speechlab

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Speechlab is a platform for speech-to-speech translation designed for professional creators, OTT media, and online education. It provides speech-to-speech translation with features such as media accessibility, localization, live interpretation, and automated dubbing for professionally produced audio and video, offered on a freemium basis to automate translation workflows and enable multilingual content creation and distribution.

Mavity

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Mavity is an AI-driven platform designed for creative teams, sales development representatives (SDRs), and marketers. It streamlines workflows from project requests to final asset delivery by combining intelligent task management, automated brief processing, and AI-generated content. This enables teams to focus on driving results while Mavity handles the heavy lifting.

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.

Sonic Wallet ( SonicWallet )

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Sonic Wallet, your comprehensive solution for seamless global payments and the opportunity to earn high interest. Experience the ease of international transactions coupled with the financial advantage of high-yield accounts—all in one user-friendly app, designed to elevate your financial experience.

Paisa

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Paisa is a financial technology company focused on enhancing the financial security of families that receive remittances. It operates a credit platform aimed at improving financial health through the remittance cash economy. By leveraging this economy, Paisa develops a robust digital financial services infrastructure, offering business-to-business lines of credit to remittance agencies to address liquidity gaps. Additionally, the company provides microloans directly to remittance recipients, facilitating easier access to loans for individuals and families reliant on these funds.

Hyfé

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Hyfé is a feedstock processing company that converts food waste and crop byproducts into feedstock for chemicals, materials, fuels, and foods using fungal fermentation. By upcycling waste generated in food manufacturing, Hyfé creates cost-competitive, sustainable alternative inputs that reduce reliance on petroleum and lower the carbon footprint across multiple industries.

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.

Zoog

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Zoog is a visual communication platform that brings books alive through interactive videos. It offers asynchronous communication experiences with built-in AR masks, filters, sound effects, and animations, enabling users to create engaging content for families.

Science On Call

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Science On Call is a subscription-based tech support platform for restaurants. Help with POS, internet, Wi-Fi, online ordering & more—just one call or text away, even on nights & weekends! A Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator portfolio company (2021), Food Foundry (2020)

Cinapse

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cinapse is a collaborative workspace where assistant director teams can edit stripboards, crossboards, and manage production schedules.

Options MD

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Options MD is a telemedicine platform that employs AI-driven algorithms to match individuals with severe or treatment-resistant mental illnesses to personalized care options. It then connects these patients with in-house psychiatric experts for appropriate medical assistance.

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.

For Them

Pre Seed Round in 2021
For Them operates a clothing brand focused on redefining wellness for the queer community. It offers a range of products and services tailored to queer individuals, providing gender-fluid options not typically found in mainstream stores.

Jupiter

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Jupiter enables food creators on TikTok and Instagram to launch their own grocery-powered recipe stores. It integrates these stores with social shopping tools, allowing followers to shop directly from creators' feeds. Jupiter processes orders through delivery APIs and facilitates brand sponsorships for creators' monetization.

Scout - Make Money Moves

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Scout is an investing platform that enables individuals to construct investment portfolios tailored to their interests, whether it's eco-friendly brands, women-led companies, Bitcoin, or popular Gen Z stocks. With Scout, users have the freedom to select their preferred investment options, while we diligently manage the portfolio to ensure safety and risk management.

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.

Yaza

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We are a mission-driven public benefit corporation creating tools for the secure exchange of factual information through video. We are disrupting TV News in partnership with news organizations to help them transition to a post-television world.

DIBS Capital (Registered as SDIB Inc), Formerly SolidBlock

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SolidBlock Ltd is a company that offers a comprehensive platform designed for real estate developers and fund managers to facilitate fundraising through digital securities. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel, SolidBlock focuses on the intersection of finance and real estate, providing innovative solutions in tokenization and fintech. The platform enables users to efficiently connect with investors, streamlining the process of raising capital for various real estate projects.

Dock Health

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Dock Health is a healthcare-focused productivity platform that provides HIPAA-compliant task management and collaboration tools for clinicians and care teams. The platform aims to streamline workflows and reduce administrative burden by integrating with electronic health records and other clinical systems, enabling secure communication and coordinated care. It incorporates AI-driven insights to support decision making and operational efficiency, helping teams complete tasks more reliably and improve patient care quality. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

norahealth.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
In the next decade, expect a revolutionary redesign of healthcare for instant guidance. Starting from joint & muscle care, Nora is the first AI knowledge assistant that delivers precise and medically sound guidance right when you need it. Leveraging a seamless fusion of conversational AI and proprietary computer vision models to automatize patient intake and physical examination, we unlock immediate guidance and care access for acute pain in less than 10 minutes.

Lessonbee

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Lessonbee Inc. is an educational technology company that specializes in providing an online learning platform and digital curriculum focused on health and wellness for students in grades K-12. Founded in 2017 and based in Mount Vernon, New York, Lessonbee offers a cloud-based reflective learning system that includes adaptive lessons and a shared content library. This platform enables teachers to access up-to-date, culturally responsive, and medically accurate health education content, track student assignments, and foster student engagement through regular reflection. Additionally, Lessonbee incorporates its proprietary HealthIQ analytics to evaluate student health goals and school climate, recommending personalized content from its extensive library of self-paced classes and video-based lessons aligned with state and national health education standards. By promoting collaboration among educators, parents, and healthcare providers, Lessonbee aims to enhance student well-being and health literacy.

Leda Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Leda Health is a healthcare services company focused on transforming systems related to sexual assault prevention, care, and justice to better support survivors and their communities. The company is developing a holistic care program that includes innovative solutions for forensic evidence collection and testing. Utilizing modern technology, Leda Health offers a mobile application that guides users through the evidence collection process, along with early evidence kits and access to a dedicated care team. Additionally, Leda Health provides healing circles, creating a comprehensive support system aimed at enhancing the overall experience for survivors. Through these services, the company seeks to facilitate a more accessible and user-friendly approach to care in sensitive situations.

Circle

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Circle is a developer of insurance sales and member retention products tailored for health insurance carriers and their sales channels. The company's platform enables brokers to efficiently quote and enroll clients in various Medicare Advantage, supplemental, and prescription drug plans across the country. Utilizing advanced customer relationship management features, Circle's tools include commission tracking, contracting, licensing, lead generation, and digital Statements of Understanding, all designed to streamline the insurance sales process. By enhancing benefit management capabilities, Circle aims to reduce the financial burden of out-of-pocket medical costs for beneficiaries and improve overall sales efficiency for insurance companies. In addition, the company is working on a platform to facilitate telemedicine access for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, further supporting healthcare needs in the community.
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