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 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 company that provides an AI-driven platform designed to enhance the efficiency of sales and IT teams. The platform enables users to quickly answer sales questions, respond to requests for proposals (RFPs), and complete security questionnaires, significantly reducing the time required for these tasks. By gathering and analyzing competitive information, 1Up helps organizations understand their competitors' activities, thereby streamlining efforts across product, sales, and marketing teams. With over $8 million raised in funding, 1Up is trusted by prominent companies such as WalkMe, Gladly, and Deliveroo to deliver a faster and more effective sales experience.

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 operates a digital financial marketplace tailored for the U.S. Latino community. It provides access to various financial products like credit cards, loans, international money transfers, and credit score tracking, along with relevant financial information. The platform aims to bridge cultural gaps by offering services in both Spanish and English, empowering users to make informed decisions towards achieving financial independence.

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 company focused on developing a leading platform for speech-to-speech translation, catering to professional creators, over-the-top media, and online education. Incubated at Andrew Ng's AI Fund, it is composed of a team with extensive experience in creating and commercializing advanced speech technologies. The platform aims to enhance accessibility for individuals who speak different languages by offering features such as media accessibility, localization, live interpretation, and automated dubbing for professionally produced audio and video. By providing these services on a freemium basis, Speechlab enables professional creators to automate translation processes effectively.

Mavity

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Mavity is an AI-powered creative collaboration platform that enhances the creative workflow for teams, sales development representatives, and marketers. It offers a comprehensive solution that includes intelligent task management, automated brief processing, and AI-driven asset creation, all aimed at streamlining processes and improving efficiency. By addressing challenges in creative staffing, Mavity allows creatives to build dynamic profiles showcasing their skills and work, thereby facilitating connections with businesses in music, media, and entertainment. This innovative platform aims to save time, reduce bottlenecks, and enable teams to produce high-quality, on-brand content at scale, positioning itself as a key player in the future of creative operations.

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 focused on transforming food waste into valuable chemicals and materials, thereby promoting sustainability in various industries. By utilizing fungal fermentation, Hyfé upcycles waste generated during food manufacturing, enabling the production of cost-competitive essential goods. This innovative approach not only maximizes profits for food manufacturers but also contributes to reducing the carbon footprint of the food industry. Through its commitment to creating sustainable chemicals, materials, fuels, and foods, Hyfé aims to unlock the full value of every crop while providing alternatives to petroleum-based products.

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 enables users to create engaging and interactive videos, making it particularly appealing for families, educators, and military personnel. The platform allows users to bring stories to life through features such as augmented reality masks, filters, sound effects, and animations. With a user-friendly interface, Zoog simplifies the video creation process, allowing individuals to effortlessly add creative elements to their narratives. This not only fosters meaningful connections among loved ones but also provides educational and entertaining content for children. Zoog aims to inspire storytelling and facilitate memorable family moments through its innovative technology.

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 focused on delivering personalized care for individuals experiencing severe and treatment-resistant mental illnesses. The company operates a treatment-matching system that utilizes artificial intelligence to pair patients with tailored treatment options. By connecting users with psychiatric experts, Options MD aims to streamline the process of finding effective depression care, ensuring that patients receive the appropriate medical attention more efficiently. Through its innovative approach, Options MD addresses the challenges faced by those seeking specialized support for their mental health conditions.

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 is a clothing brand focused on redefining wellness specifically for the queer community. The company provides a range of products and services tailored to the unique needs of queer and gender-fluid individuals, offering items that are often not readily available in mainstream stores. By prioritizing inclusivity and affordability, For Them aims to create a supportive environment where queer individuals can access products that resonate with their identities and experiences.

Jupiter

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Jupiter, Inc. is a digital platform that connects food brands with creators to promote recipe content and facilitate online grocery shopping. Founded in 2000 and based in San Francisco, the company enables food creators to launch their own grocery-powered recipe stores, allowing followers to shop directly from their social media feeds. By analyzing customer preferences and needs, Jupiter builds personalized shopping carts for users. The platform integrates delivery APIs to streamline order processing and has successfully collaborated with prominent food creators, enhancing brand visibility through engaging and trusted content. Jupiter's innovative approach supports food creators in monetizing their influence while providing consumers with easy access to curated grocery options.

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 is a digital community platform focused on enhancing social engagement among older adults. The platform facilitates activity programming by providing curated entertainment options tailored to the interests of senior citizens. By managing activities and utilizing culturally relevant content, ConnectCareHero helps organizations foster meaningful connections within the aging community. This approach aims to combat social isolation among seniors, promoting healthy aging and improving 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 Boston-based company established in 2016 that develops a HIPAA-compliant task management and collaboration platform specifically for the healthcare sector. The company aims to address significant workflow challenges and inefficiencies faced by clinicians and their teams by providing a reliable and secure system for communication and task management. Through its thoughtfully designed platform, Dock Health empowers healthcare professionals across various settings and specialties to enhance collaboration, ultimately improving patient care. By streamlining processes and facilitating effective teamwork, Dock Health is committed to transforming the organizational and operational dynamics of healthcare providers.

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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