K5 Global

K5 Global Advisor LLC, established in 2018 by Michael Kives and Bryan Baum, is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The company operates as an incubation studio, supporting founders across various stages of the business lifecycle, from seed to growth stage. K5 Global specializes in investments in Enterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and FinTech sectors. As of March 2024, it has deployed approximately $1 billion in capital. The firm has also enhanced its team by bringing on experienced investors from Tokyo Black Capital Advisors, who have a successful track record in early-stage SaaS investing. K5 Global aims to assist innovative companies in expanding their networks and positioning themselves effectively to achieve their growth objectives.

Bryan Baum

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Jessica Bixby

Associate Partner

Michael Kives

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Daniel Marcotte

General Partner

Keenan Rice

General Partner

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Khloud

Venture Round in 2025
Khloud is a consumer platform that offers healthy and high protein alternatives.

Loti

Series A in 2025
Loti is a pioneering identity management solution focused on protecting individuals' identities online. The platform employs advanced facial recognition technology and automated processes to detect unauthorized uses of an individual's likeness, including deep fakes and other privacy infringements. By scanning the internet for instances of identity misappropriation, Loti empowers users to maintain control over their digital identity, ensuring their images are not misused without consent. The system facilitates the monitoring, reporting, and issuing of takedown notices, allowing for prompt action against unauthorized content across various online platforms. Committed to privacy, security, and ethical practices, Loti prioritizes the rights and consent of individuals while implementing robust technology to combat identity misuse.

Carbon Arc

Series A in 2025
Carbon Arc is a developer of a data intelligence platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to collect and organize raw data into actionable insights. The platform offers forecasted data and analysis that aids businesses in identifying customers, gaining campaign insights, and enhancing brand engagement. By operating at the intersection of data suppliers and corporate enterprises, Carbon Arc facilitates informed decision-making for its clients through consumption-based insights.

Acki Nacki

Venture Round in 2025
Acki Nacki is an asynchronous blockchain technology that achieves probabilistic consensus via two communication phases. Acki Nacki is ready to support use cases such as payments, gaming economies, IoT networks, and AI applications.

Wise Layer

Seed Round in 2025
WiseLayer makes AI-powered digital workers for finance and accounting teams. It's AI digital workforce includes: - Angela, the AI agent for Accruals & Rev Rec (hire her at www.accruals.ai) - Dennis, the AI agent for Discrepancies & Financial Anomalies (hire him at www.discrepancies.ai) - … with the 4 newest AI agents eachspecializing in the following tasks: (1) bank reconciliations, (2) fixed asset depreciation & amortization, (3) lease accounting, and (4) prepaid expenses.

WiseLayer

Seed Round in 2025
WiseLayer specializes in creating AI-powered digital workers tailored for finance and accounting teams. The company offers a suite of AI agents, each designed to streamline specific financial tasks. These include Angela, who manages accruals and revenue recognition, and Dennis, who addresses discrepancies and financial anomalies. In addition, WiseLayer provides four other AI agents focused on bank reconciliations, fixed asset depreciation and amortization, lease accounting, and prepaid expenses. Furthermore, WiseLayer has developed an early warning system that leverages artificial intelligence and analytics to help companies identify and mitigate potential financial issues. This system features pre-built tools that provide notifications and alerts, enabling clients to resolve problems quickly and efficiently while reducing stress associated with financial management.

Hauler Hero

Seed Round in 2024
Hauler Hero is a software and waste management company focused on providing technology solutions for waste and recycling hauler operators. The company has developed a sustainable waste reprocessing platform that aims to educate users about the recycling process and promote community cleanliness. Its platform includes a range of features such as customer relationship management, dispatching, reporting, billing, a mobile app, a customer portal, and task management. These tools are designed to enhance operational efficiency for clients in the waste management sector, enabling them to streamline their processes and improve service delivery.

Germ Network

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Germ Network is a platform that makes building communities safe, fun, and secure through intuitive and innovative technology. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

Colorfull

Pre Seed Round in 2024
At Colorfull, we're reimagining workplace nourishment by merging culinary finesse with a touch of technology. Handpicked dishes from local restaurants cater to individual tastes, offering a fresh take on the daily dining ritual. With sustainability at our core, we guide users toward eco-conscious choices. Collaborating with renowned establishments, we enrich the local dining landscape. Embrace the future with us, where health, sustainability, and innovation converge on your plate.

Grafana Labs

Series D in 2024
Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

MEandMine

Venture Round in 2024
MEandMine is a Silicon Valley-based mental health startup focused on enhancing classroom wellbeing through innovative digital tools. By integrating neuroscience and gamification, MEandMine aims to transform social-emotional learning and provide real-time monitoring for early interventions. The company develops interactive educational games that make social-emotional learning accessible to children and families, offering customized learning plans tailored to individual developmental needs. Founded by a diverse team of psychologists, educators, data scientists, and parents, MEandMine empowers teachers and parents to support children's intellectual and emotional growth effectively.

Higgsfield

Seed Round in 2024
Higgsfield is a video AI company focused on making social media content creation accessible to all individuals. It provides an AI-powered platform that facilitates the generation of professional-quality videos, removing traditional barriers to entry in video production. By offering user-friendly tools, Higgsfield enables customers to effortlessly transform their content ideas into engaging videos, regardless of their prior editing experience or technical skills. The company's mission is to empower everyone to participate in the evolving landscape of social media by simplifying the video creation process.

Paiv (formerly Gamify)

Seed Round in 2024
Your end-to-end field sales and service management platform, powered by AI. From lead to years of service, your teams can streamline their work in one single platform.

Koloma

Series B in 2024
Koloma is a geologic hydrogen company focused on identifying and commercializing geologic hydrogen resources. By utilizing its technology and proprietary data, Koloma develops data-driven solutions for energy transition resource development. The company's initiatives aim to reduce global carbon emissions, providing businesses with the tools to lower their carbon footprint and contribute to climate change mitigation efforts. Through its innovative approach, Koloma seeks to advance clean energy technology and support the transition towards a more sustainable energy future.

Splash Sports

Series A in 2024
Splash Sports is a real-money gaming platform that aims to modernize the sports pool industry by enabling friends and groups to engage in skill-based activities. Currently in private beta, the platform provides a legal and safe environment for contest organizers to run peer-to-peer competitions. It offers essential content and community management tools, as well as an integrated payment system that simplifies the process of collecting entry fees and distributing winnings. By focusing on skill-based contests, Splash Sports serves as a contemporary alternative to traditional betting options, giving gamers an opportunity to earn money while enjoying their favorite sports activities.

WiseLayer

Seed Round in 2023
WiseLayer specializes in creating AI-powered digital workers tailored for finance and accounting teams. The company offers a suite of AI agents, each designed to streamline specific financial tasks. These include Angela, who manages accruals and revenue recognition, and Dennis, who addresses discrepancies and financial anomalies. In addition, WiseLayer provides four other AI agents focused on bank reconciliations, fixed asset depreciation and amortization, lease accounting, and prepaid expenses. Furthermore, WiseLayer has developed an early warning system that leverages artificial intelligence and analytics to help companies identify and mitigate potential financial issues. This system features pre-built tools that provide notifications and alerts, enabling clients to resolve problems quickly and efficiently while reducing stress associated with financial management.

Relativity Space

Series F in 2023
Relativity Space is an aerospace company based in Long Beach, California, that designs, develops, and manufactures 3D-printed rockets. Founded in 2015, the company aims to revolutionize rocket production through a vertically integrated technology platform that combines 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and autonomous robotics. This innovative approach allows for a significantly simplified supply chain, enabling the production of rockets with 100 times fewer parts in less than 60 days. In addition to manufacturing rockets, Relativity Space provides comprehensive services for satellite production, testing, and launching. The company is supported by prominent investors, highlighting its potential in the rapidly evolving aerospace sector.

Copy.ai

Venture Round in 2023
CopyAI is a startup that offers AI-powered copywriting tools designed for business customers. Its platform allows users to generate various types of marketing copy, including social media text, headlines, link descriptions, and blog ideas, in a matter of seconds. This capability is particularly beneficial for digital agencies, copywriters, and eCommerce brands, as it helps them save time and enhance conversion rates. By focusing on the specific needs and pain points of customer segments, CopyAI's tools enable enterprise marketing teams to refine their go-to-market strategies and streamline their content creation processes.

Wise Layer

Seed Round in 2023
WiseLayer makes AI-powered digital workers for finance and accounting teams. It's AI digital workforce includes: - Angela, the AI agent for Accruals & Rev Rec (hire her at www.accruals.ai) - Dennis, the AI agent for Discrepancies & Financial Anomalies (hire him at www.discrepancies.ai) - … with the 4 newest AI agents eachspecializing in the following tasks: (1) bank reconciliations, (2) fixed asset depreciation & amortization, (3) lease accounting, and (4) prepaid expenses.

Rockset

Series B in 2023
Rockset, Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in developing a serverless search and analytics engine that facilitates the creation of applications without the need for data pipelines or extensive data preparation. The platform operates directly on raw data, enabling users to seamlessly integrate and continuously sync new data from various sources. By utilizing familiar SQL, Rockset allows clients to perform hybrid searches and real-time analytics on diverse data types, including vector, text, geospatial, and JSON data, without the constraints of a fixed schema. This approach streamlines the data management process and enhances the efficiency of interactive data science applications.

Roadway

Seed Round in 2023
AI-driven actionable analytics for growth marketing teams.

Knot

Series A in 2023
Knot is the first merchant connectivity platform offering card-on-file switching for hundreds of online merchant accounts. Major financial institutions and startups embed Knot’s SDK to power customer experiences. Headquartered in New York City, Knot was founded in 2021 by Rory and Kieran O’Reilly and is backed by leading investors, including Nava Ventures, 8VC, American Express, Plaid, and many more.

Parrot

Series A in 2023
Parrot is an AI-first technology company empowering attorneys to get more from depositions. Trusted by leading insurance companies, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies alike, Parrot blends the proficiency of 100% reliable, highly-trained reporters with cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence, ensuring smooth scheduling, immediate rough drafts, and real-time deposition summaries. As a trusted partner for efficient court reporting services and its leading technology platform, Parrot enables its customers to unlock faster and better outcomes for their clients.

Instabase

Series C in 2023
Instabase, Inc. is a technology company that develops a platform aimed at automating document processing workflows and analyzing unstructured data. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides a range of services, including optical character recognition, data classification and extraction, and natural language processing. Its platform is designed to help organizations in various sectors, such as insurance, finance, and healthcare, streamline operations and improve decision-making. By enabling businesses to embed artificial intelligence into their systems and processes, Instabase facilitates the development of applications that address significant operational challenges, particularly in the realm of intelligent document processing.

LayerZero

Series B in 2023
LayerZero Labs is a developer of a blockchain messaging protocol that enables decentralized applications to function across multiple blockchains. The company's platform focuses on interoperability, facilitating data exchange between disparate blockchains. Unlike traditional methods that require sequential storage of all block headers, LayerZero employs an on-chain light node for validation, allowing block headers to be streamed on-demand by decentralized oracles. This innovative approach enhances speed, security, and cost-efficiency, providing clients with a low-level communication primitive necessary for cross-chain applications.

Few and Far

Venture Round in 2023
Few and Far is a next-generation platform focused on experiences in Web3, encompassing NFTs, decentralized finance (DeFi), and gaming. It provides a comprehensive suite of services to support NFT projects, including launchpad services, minting tools, and outbound marketing. By offering creators liquidity and opportunities to earn, Few and Far enables them to gain visibility alongside leading collections on the NEAR blockchain. The platform's advanced technology facilitates a marketplace for digital collectibles, enhancing functionality for various blockchain applications and reimagining aspects of rewards, creativity, and community engagement in the NFT space.

Quindar

Seed Round in 2023
Quindar offers a one-stop shop in the cloud for spacecraft analysis and operations.

Product Science

Seed Round in 2023
Product Science is a performance management platform focused on enhancing product metrics for mobile applications. Founded in 2021 and based in Los Angeles, the company specializes in analyzing code and runtime data to identify performance issues that affect user experience. Utilizing advanced AI technology, Product Science efficiently provides insights through data visualizations, enabling mobile developers to quickly diagnose and address problems. Its integrated development environment tools and plugins offer video recordings of applications alongside performance traces, allowing clients to gain a deeper understanding of app behavior and performance challenges. By delivering these insights, Product Science helps mobile applications operate more effectively and improves overall user satisfaction.

Parrot

Seed Round in 2022
Parrot is an AI-first technology company empowering attorneys to get more from depositions. Trusted by leading insurance companies, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies alike, Parrot blends the proficiency of 100% reliable, highly-trained reporters with cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence, ensuring smooth scheduling, immediate rough drafts, and real-time deposition summaries. As a trusted partner for efficient court reporting services and its leading technology platform, Parrot enables its customers to unlock faster and better outcomes for their clients.

ResortPass

Series B in 2022
ResortPass, Inc. is an online booking platform based in Santa Monica, California, that provides day access to luxury hotel amenities such as pools, spas, fitness centers, and more. Founded in 2016, the company partners with over 1,300 hotels and resorts, including well-known brands like Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons, Westin, and Fairmont. By offering individuals the opportunity to enjoy premium amenities without the need for overnight stays, ResortPass creates unique experiences for locals and visitors while generating additional revenue for its partner hotels. To date, the platform has facilitated access for over 3 million users seeking to enjoy the luxurious offerings of participating resorts.

Fizz

Series A in 2022
Fizz is a social platform that serves as a private discussion forum and news feed for schools. Fizz includes a comprehensive set of features including direct messages, polls, and photos. Fizz communities are secure, authentic, and welcoming, thanks to community-based moderation.

Nourish Ingredients

Series A in 2022
Nourish Ingredients is a food tech company based in Canberra, Australia, founded in 2019. The company specializes in creating animal fat molecules through proprietary precision fermentation, allowing for the mass production of these fats without involving animals. This innovative approach enables the development of alternative proteins that replicate the flavor, smell, and cooking experience of traditional animal fats. By providing these potent fat molecules, Nourish Ingredients aims to enhance the taste and quality of plant-based products, catering to consumers seeking delicious and authentic alternatives to meat.

Reworth

Seed Round in 2022
Reworth is a developer of a payment relationship marketing platform that facilitates interactions between banks and merchants to enhance customer engagement. By leveraging anonymous transactional data, Reworth enables financial institutions to offer personalized merchant-funded cashback programs, which help increase customer loyalty and drive revenue. The platform's API infrastructure supports various services, including credit scoring, fraud prevention, B2B payments, and personal finance management, contributing to the future of Open Finance. Reworth equips its partners with valuable first-party data, real-time business intelligence, and competitor analysis, allowing them to accurately predict consumer behavior and create tailored experiences that resonate with customers.

MynaSwap

Seed Round in 2022
Myna Swap is a platform built by collectors, for collectors, that empowers goods to be traded beyond their physical form. MynaSwap allows users to trade in real-time with other collectors around the globe without the hassle of managing the logistics of physical assets. Myna's Avalanche-native platform allows you to trade collectibles in real-time with both digital and fiat currencies, low latency, and industry-low fees. Support for other chains such as Ethereum, Polygon and more coming soon.

Bison

Convertible Note in 2022
Bison is the privately held energy solutions company in Oklahoma. The company provider of water midstream solutions in the state, and is a market leader in trucking and logistics, environmental services, pipeline construction

Airplane

Series B in 2022
Airplane is a software development company founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides a cloud-based platform designed to assist engineers in creating internal tools that facilitate recurring workflows within organizations. The platform enables users to transform scripts, SQL queries, and various functions into enterprise-grade applications, allowing teams to concentrate on essential backend operations. By streamlining the development of these tools, Airplane aims to enhance efficiency and save time for its clients.

Coral

Venture Round in 2022
Coral is involved in Solana as the architect of the network's Anchor development framework.

Papaya

Seed Round in 2022
Papaya offers a vehicle management system to source, run, and manage electric vehicles. Papaya offers a dashboard that provides a bird's-eye view of fleet location and availability. Papaya enables better fleet decision-making by optimizing vehicle uptime and utilization across hubs and service providers.

Grid.ai

Convertible Note in 2022
Grid.ai, Inc. is a technology company that provides a platform for training artificial intelligence (AI) models using cloud-based graphics processing units (GPUs) and tensor processing units (TPUs). Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, the company offers tools such as Grid Train, which facilitates AI research by simplifying model training and iteration, and Grid View, a web application for monitoring and managing infrastructure. Additionally, it provides Tensorboard for experiment analysis. Grid.ai aims to support machine learning engineers, data scientists, and AI researchers by enabling the development of advanced AI models and end-to-end machine learning systems, known as Lightning Apps, that are multi-cloud and fault-tolerant. The company gained significant funding in October 2020, which has bolstered its mission to enhance AI capabilities for users.

Rockset

Series B in 2022
Rockset, Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in developing a serverless search and analytics engine that facilitates the creation of applications without the need for data pipelines or extensive data preparation. The platform operates directly on raw data, enabling users to seamlessly integrate and continuously sync new data from various sources. By utilizing familiar SQL, Rockset allows clients to perform hybrid searches and real-time analytics on diverse data types, including vector, text, geospatial, and JSON data, without the constraints of a fixed schema. This approach streamlines the data management process and enhances the efficiency of interactive data science applications.

Roofr

Series A in 2022
Roofr is a marketplace for roofing and utilizes satellite imagery for instant roofing estimates. A technologically advanced roofing brokerage that uses revolutionary software to simplify roof replacement and repair. At Roofr, they aim to provide the highest quality workmanship and service in the roofing industry. By providing affordable pricing and revolutionary convenience, Roofr emphasizes the importance of customer experience over company profit.

Nordstar Partners

Seed Round in 2022
Nordstar Partners is a privately held management consulting firm based in London, United Kingdom. The firm specializes in partnering with transformational companies to offer strategic and operational expertise, advisory services, and capital solutions. Nordstar focuses on helping businesses achieve sustainable growth and navigate significant transformations, leveraging its extensive knowledge and experience to support clients in realizing their potential.

Sense Street

Seed Round in 2022
Sense Street Ltd. is a company based in Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, that specializes in capital market communications. Founded in 2019, it focuses on transforming unstructured market conversations into a detailed understanding of liquidity in over-the-counter (OTC) capital markets. The company employs supervised learning algorithms and neural networks to enhance data curation, enabling the extraction of complex information from market discussions. This innovative approach allows investment banks and capital markets to effectively manage intricate conversations with asset managers, facilitating the development of modern, data-driven business practices.

Quindar

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Quindar offers a one-stop shop in the cloud for spacecraft analysis and operations.

Immuna

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Immuna offers risk mitigation for digital asset investors. They monitor and defend investors’ digital asset investments from unexpected exploits and undesirable economic situations. They track on-chain and mempool events in real-time and notify institutional investors about various exploits and economic risks.

Fora

Series A in 2022
Fora is a modern travel agency focused on empowering travel entrepreneurs and enthusiasts by curating exceptional experiences for travelers. The company aims to support 100,000 travel entrepreneurs by providing personalized services that cater to individual travel styles. Fora assists clients in planning their trips from inception to booking, facilitating connections with advisors who understand their specific preferences and aspirations. This approach not only enhances the travel planning experience but also fosters a community of knowledgeable travel creators dedicated to delivering memorable journeys.

EquiLibre Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
EquiLibre Technologies is an IT firm that develops an algorithmic trading system using game theory and reinforcement learning.

Footprint

Seed Round in 2022
Footprint is an onboarding platform that solves KYC, Security, Auth, and Fraud with five lines of code. By utilizing novel technologies such as nitro enclaves, passkeys, and app clips, Footprint has helped companies generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in customer LTV by boosting their conversion while also preventing fraud attacks through propriety deterministic signals.

CloseFactor

Series A in 2022
CloseFactor is a company that leverages machine learning to enhance the business-to-business sales process. By providing automated sales research and contextual insights, CloseFactor enables sales teams to identify potential customers more effectively. The company specializes in gathering actionable information from various sources using natural language processing and information extraction techniques. This approach allows businesses to recognize important buying signals and engage with prospects before their competitors do. Ultimately, CloseFactor aims to help organizations scale their sales efforts and achieve their growth targets by minimizing the time account executives spend on research and maximizing their interactions with customers.

VeeFriends

Seed Round in 2022
VeeFriends is an NFT project focused on creating meaningful intellectual property and fostering a vibrant community. The VeeFriends characters were designed to inspire happiness and were initially launched as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. This initiative aims to offer unique opportunities for utility, collectibility, and community engagement. VeeFriends provides token holders with valuable experiences both online and offline, enhancing the overall value of the project. By curating these experiences, VeeFriends seeks to build a strong and extraordinary community around its intellectual property.

Socket

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Socket is a Web3 privacy infrastructure for social interactions for crypto-related purposes.

Better Stack

Series A in 2022
Better Stack is a developer of a downtime management platform designed to monitor and manage various technology stacks, facilitate issue debugging, and resolve incidents efficiently. The platform features SQL-compatible structured log management software and an infrastructure monitoring system that tracks uptime. In the event of issues, it sends alerts through voice calls, SMS, and other channels, accompanied by screenshots and error logs to assist in troubleshooting. By centralizing, securing, and simplifying the technology stack, Better Stack aims to enhance developer velocity, improve collaboration, and optimize technology expenditures.

Ghost

Series A in 2022
Ghost is the marketplace that connects leading retail brands with surplus distribution partners. Ghost combines real-time data with intelligent solutions to help brands monetize their excess inventory discreetly and sustainably. By providing liquidity, protection, and transparency, the Ghost platform serves as the backbone for retailers to diversify and optimize their inventory lifecycle.

Kreatures of Habit

Seed Round in 2022
Kreatures of Habit is a food brand focused on promoting healthy habits through nutritious meal options. The company offers a platform that features plant-based, gluten-free, and allergen-free porridge enriched with superfoods, oats, protein, vitamins, minerals, and Omega-3 fatty acids. Available in three flavors—chocolate, blueberry-banana, and vanilla—these meals are designed to support individuals in establishing positive routines related to exercise, nutrition, and overall wellbeing. By providing a convenient and healthy food option, Kreatures of Habit aims to facilitate the integration of beneficial habits into daily life.

Hintsa

Venture Round in 2022
Hintsa is a leading coaching company that focuses on evidence-based methods to support athletes and business professionals in achieving sustainable success. The company employs scientifically-driven approaches that have been tested in high-pressure environments, including sports and corporate settings. Hintsa's clientele includes Formula 1 champions, executives from Fortune 500 companies, consultants, and professionals in various fields such as healthcare and energy. By emphasizing both performance enhancement and well-being, Hintsa aims to help clients lead healthier, more balanced lives while excelling in their respective domains. The company is recognized as a thought leader in coaching, drawing attention from influential organizations such as the World Economic Forum and McKinsey Quarterly.

Spiderwort

Series A in 2022
Spiderwort is a company focused on developing innovative biomaterials for regenerative medicine, aiming to repair and regenerate human tissues. Founded in 2015 and based in Ottawa, Ontario, the company utilizes plant-derived cellulose to create various scaffold architectures, including powders, gels, membranes, and pastes. Currently in the pre-clinical stage, Spiderwort's novel biomaterials have shown promising results in terms of biocompatibility and their ability to induce angiogenesis, the generation of new blood vessels within the scaffolds. This approach seeks to advance applications in the healthcare industry, particularly for spinal cord injury repair and soft tissue regeneration, by utilizing plant-based materials rather than traditional synthetic substances.

OP3N

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2021 as a subsidiary of EST Media Holdings, OP3N is the global Web3 superapp that serves as a one-stop-shop for all communication, connection and commerce with on-chain interactions in a simple unified interface. With a mission to create a more frictionless, decentralized and democratized creator economy on a global scale, OP3N consolidates the tools needed to mint, share and engage with digital goods and digital tokens into one vertical stack. OP3N’s leadership team leverages its cross-industry expertise from the entertainment, gaming and tech ecosystems, to lay the foundations for a new era of community-driven, inclusive entertainment while bringing everyone together on a journey into Web3. OP3N is co-led by media executive, artist, and serial entrepreneur Jaeson Ma, who has a successful track record launching companies including EST Studios, Stampede Ventures, East West Ventures, and 88rising, and who’s raised capital and advised on transactions totaling over $1 billion; and Eric Tu, an award-winning development executive who’s worked with major brands including Nike, Beats by Dre and Google, and as an Executive Producer with Bjork, Radiohead, Kendrick Lamar and more. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit: https://op3n.world. OP3N’s portfolio of projects includes a partnership with Tokyo fashion label AMBUSH; an intergalactic children’s book from Grimes; a partnership with entertainment icon Simon Fuller to produce an innovative musical film with the global pop group Now United; and the “Maybe You’re the Problem” music video from the singer-songwriter Ava Max, directed by the celebrated music video director Joseph Kahn.

GetDynasty

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The first and only platform to create a Digital Living Trust in minutes. Easily add your assets and decide who should inherit them.

Canopy

Seed Round in 2022
Canopy is an investment fund infrastructure platform that caters to a diverse range of investors, from emerging managers to large institutional firms. The company has also developed an online platform that transforms the hiring process by utilizing proprietary algorithms to connect companies with potential candidates. This system allows companies to find suitable matches on demand while ensuring candidate anonymity until a match is made. By streamlining the job search and hiring process, Canopy aims to be the primary resource for companies seeking exceptional talent, making it easier for professionals to explore new opportunities in a more efficient and confidential manner.

SumUp

Venture Round in 2022
SumUp is a financial technology company that specializes in mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) solutions, allowing businesses to accept card payments easily and securely. Founded in 2011, SumUp has established a presence in 13 countries, including Germany, Great Britain, and Brazil. Its offerings include a mobile card reader that supports magstripe, chip, and contactless payments, enabling small and medium-sized businesses to turn their smartphones or tablets into card terminals. The company also provides a suite of software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) for third-party integration of card payment functionalities. With a workforce of over 100 employees, SumUp has garnered support from prominent venture capital firms and financial institutions, positioning itself as a key player in the European mPOS market.

Pocus

Series A in 2022
Pocus is a revenue data platform designed for go-to-market teams, enabling them to analyze, visualize, and act on data regarding their prospects and customers without the need for engineering support. By providing insights at critical moments, Pocus assists companies such as Miro, Webflow, Loom, and Superhuman in prioritizing sales and success efforts, thereby enhancing their focus on high-value opportunities. The platform offers a comprehensive view of product usage, allowing teams to leverage insights effectively and optimize their sales funnels. With Pocus, sales teams can save significant time that would otherwise be spent sifting through data, ultimately uncovering substantial new revenue opportunities and facilitating the conversion of self-serve users into paying customers.

Riogrande

Series A in 2022
Riogrande operates as a developer of an e-commerce platform focused on acquiring, building, and scaling online brands in Latin America. The company's platform is designed to optimize and integrate operations, assisting e-commerce entrepreneurs in growing and strengthening their brands. By fostering collaboration and leveraging economies of scale, Riogrande aims to create the next generation of online businesses, enabling them to achieve higher targets and enhance their market presence. Through its innovative approach, Riogrande is contributing to the expansion of e-commerce in the region.

Snickerdoodle

Funding Round in 2022
Snickerdoodle is a developer of an enterprise platform that leverages blockchain technology to create a data economy focused on user privacy and equitable value distribution. The company aims to empower individuals by enabling them to take control of their data, allowing for secure ownership and monetization. By bridging the gap between Web2 and Web3, Snickerdoodle's platform facilitates a shift in how data is managed and utilized, ensuring that data owners can benefit from their information while maintaining privacy.

Here Not There Labs

Series A in 2022
Here Not There Labs develops a fully decentralized chat protocol for online communities. The company is composed of a team of web3 creators led by CEO Ben Rubin. Here Not There Labs is the developer of Towns, a protocol and a web-based chat app designed to facilitate self-owned and self-governed online communities.

SpaceX

Venture Round in 2022
SpaceX, Inc., founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hawthorne, California, specializes in the design, manufacture, and launch of advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company develops various products, including the Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Dragon, and Starship, with a focus on creating reusable launch vehicles. These vehicles are engineered for the transport of cargo, humans, and payloads into space, incorporating features such as multiple engines, an attached trunk, and parachute systems. SpaceX aims to reduce the costs of space travel, thereby making space exploration more accessible and advancing the capabilities of the space industry.

Zippi

Series A in 2022
Zippi provides financial services for microentrepreneurs in Latin America.

Nava

Series B in 2022
Nava is a health insurance brokerage based in New York, dedicated to providing high-quality and affordable healthcare solutions for employers and their employees. The company offers a range of services, including healthcare tools, year-round employee advocacy, and ongoing plan measurement. These services are designed to help clients select and manage their healthcare plans effectively, ensuring that they can offer necessary benefits while also reducing overall costs. Through its innovative approach, Nava aims to enhance the healthcare experience for both employers and employees.

Nectarine Credit

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a business credit application and analytics platform designed to simplify the credit process. The company's platform offers bank verifications, commercial credit checks, and vendor reference checks, and sends out credit applications as part of client onboarding and vetting, enabling clients to reduce risk and accelerate commercial onboarding and credit checks.

Kolors

Series A in 2022
Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.

Chainguard

Series A in 2022
Chainguard specializes in supply chain security by providing hardened, minimal container images that are continuously rebuilt from source in secure environments. These images are designed to eliminate known vulnerabilities and ensure end-to-end integrity, featuring built-in cryptographic signatures, Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), and Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) provenance. In addition to its container images, Chainguard offers a catalog of guarded Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries, which are also built securely from source in SLSA-certified infrastructure. The company emphasizes its commitment to the open source community by contributing to and maintaining several widely used open source projects. By applying zero-trust principles and utilizing compliant-build systems, Chainguard enables businesses to effectively manage their supply chain security risks throughout the software lifecycle.

Village Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Village Labs is a technology company focused on enhancing workplace efficiency through artificial intelligence. It develops a CRM platform that automates various aspects of customer relationship management, including segmentation, incentives, and communications. By integrating with existing SaaS tools, Village Labs creates no-code AI applications that streamline mundane tasks, allowing teams to concentrate on more critical activities. The platform aims to reduce customer acquisition costs, boost engagement, and improve retention rates by transforming inefficient manual processes into automated workflows. Ultimately, Village Labs seeks to empower businesses to operate more effectively and enhance the productivity of their employees.

LayerZero

Venture Round in 2022
LayerZero Labs is a developer of a blockchain messaging protocol that enables decentralized applications to function across multiple blockchains. The company's platform focuses on interoperability, facilitating data exchange between disparate blockchains. Unlike traditional methods that require sequential storage of all block headers, LayerZero employs an on-chain light node for validation, allowing block headers to be streamed on-demand by decentralized oracles. This innovative approach enhances speed, security, and cost-efficiency, providing clients with a low-level communication primitive necessary for cross-chain applications.

PayEngine

Series A in 2022
PayEngine is a payment platform that simplifies the process of building payment solutions for vertical market software vendors. By integrating payments and finance tools, PayEngine enables these companies to maintain greater control over their operations and achieve higher revenue splits. The platform offers features such as rate setting over interchange, margin control, and support for eliminating merchant of record liability and dispute management. It also emphasizes data security and provides customizable APIs, widgets, and user interfaces. Overall, PayEngine aims to reduce complexity for businesses while enhancing the customer experience.

Sentry

Series E in 2022
Sentry is an open-source platform focused on improving workflow productivity through application monitoring. It aggregates data on errors and crashes across software stacks, providing real-time visibility into each incident as it occurs. The platform delivers essential details needed to prioritize and identify issues, along with insights into deployments and guidance for reproduction and resolution of crashes. By allowing organizations to pinpoint which errors have the greatest impact on their operations, Sentry helps users understand how these issues affect their overall performance and profitability.

KiwiDrop

Series A in 2022
KiwiDrop operates an online retail platform that provides a diverse selection of products, including home decor, fashion accessories, and children's items. The company focuses on offering users both wholesale and community buying services, ensuring a wide variety of quality products at competitive prices. Additionally, KiwiDrop emphasizes customer support by providing online assistance, standard shipping, and hassle-free return options, making the shopping experience convenient for its users.

Routable

Series B in 2022
Routable, Inc. operates a business-to-business payments platform that facilitates the automation of invoicing and bill payments. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform enables accounts payable and receivable teams to streamline their processes by automating bill payments, identifying errors, and requesting necessary authorizations. Routable's solution is designed to enhance cash flow management and reduce costs for finance and accounting departments. The platform's API allows users to quickly build a payments infrastructure, making it easier for businesses to send and receive payments efficiently.

Baseten

Series A in 2022
Baseten provides a serverless backend designed to simplify the development of machine-learning-powered applications. It enables data science and machine learning teams to create applications without requiring extensive knowledge of backend, frontend, or MLOps. With features such as auto-scaling, GPU access, CRON jobs, and serverless functions, Baseten facilitates quicker and more informed decision-making within organizations. The platform offers reusable components that allow users to efficiently assemble workflows and deploy machine learning models in a scalable and cost-effective manner. By streamlining the transition from prototype to production, Baseten empowers engineers to maintain flexibility in their coding while ensuring high performance and rapid inference in response to varying traffic demands. The company aims to make machine learning accessible to organizations of all sizes.

Bobsled

Seed Round in 2022
Bobsled is a developer of a no-code data-sharing platform that simplifies and streamlines the process of sharing data across various cloud environments. The platform offers a comprehensive solution for managing essential aspects of data sharing, including distribution, security, updates, versioning, entitlements, and telemetry. By removing the complexities associated with traditional data sharing methods, Bobsled allows data teams to concentrate on more valuable tasks. Its intuitive interface enables clients to select the appropriate data, update it efficiently, and deliver it to their desired locations, making it a versatile tool for organizations seeking to optimize their data management processes.

Stablegains

Seed Round in 2022
Stablegains is an online financial platform that enables individuals and businesses to earn high interest on their cash through decentralized finance (DeFi). By leveraging DeFi lending markets, Stablegains provides a straightforward personal savings tool that allows users to access digital lending opportunities and generate passive income. This approach eliminates the need for traditional financial institutions, which often involve complex and costly processes. The platform aims to make the safest and most effective DeFi earning methods accessible to consumers, helping them optimize their capital and achieve their financial objectives efficiently.

HyperSpace

Series A in 2022
Hyperspace is a permanent ticketed experiential attraction developer that creates, builds, operates, and funds attractions. Founded in 2020 and is based inDubai, AE.

The Boring Company

Series C in 2022
The Boring Company is an infrastructure and tunnel construction firm focused on developing underground transportation networks. Its primary objective is to address traffic congestion by creating safe, efficient, and cost-effective tunnels for transportation, utility, and freight purposes. By providing tunneling services, the company aims to offer users affordable and rapid transit options, thereby alleviating urban traffic issues.

Hauler Hero

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Hauler Hero is a software and waste management company focused on providing technology solutions for waste and recycling hauler operators. The company has developed a sustainable waste reprocessing platform that aims to educate users about the recycling process and promote community cleanliness. Its platform includes a range of features such as customer relationship management, dispatching, reporting, billing, a mobile app, a customer portal, and task management. These tools are designed to enhance operational efficiency for clients in the waste management sector, enabling them to streamline their processes and improve service delivery.

Stark Bank

Series B in 2022
Stark Bank S.A. operates a banking platform designed to support companies in scaling their operations through efficient transaction management. Established in 2014 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, the company offers an open banking solution that allows businesses to execute transfers, payments, and charges seamlessly. Its platform features developer-friendly APIs that facilitate easy integration, helping organizations manage their financial transactions while eliminating excessive fees. By streamlining payment processing, Stark Bank enables companies to concentrate on their core activities, thereby enhancing their operational efficiency.

Stargazr

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Stargazr is a provider of AI-driven financial data forecasting software aimed at enhancing decision-making for CFOs and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams within industrial sectors. By integrating advanced and prescriptive analytics, the platform allows organizations to shift from traditional, reactive analysis to proactive, strategic approaches. Stargazr identifies real-time financial bottlenecks and offers actionable recommendations for improvement, thereby transforming data into valuable strategic assets. As industries increasingly encounter complexity and demand for precision, Stargazr plays a vital role in promoting profitability, operational efficiency, and strategic growth by connecting financial and operational data streams to highlight essential value drivers.

Claim

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Claim operates a social shopping application designed to enhance brand discovery for consumers, particularly targeting Gen Z. The platform allows brands to engage directly in customer acquisition through weekly promotional events known as Drops, which showcase new products. Users can earn rewards such as cash-back, exclusive event access, and free merchandise simply by shopping at their favorite brands. Additionally, Claim encourages social interaction by enabling users to share benefits with friends through gifting and trading rewards. This approach aims to create a fun and engaging shopping experience that connects consumers with brands in a meaningful way.

WeLoveNoCode

Seed Round in 2022
WeLoveNoCode is a program development firm that provides applications to firms faster and affordably with no-code developers. WeLoveNoCode is the creator of an automated platform for swiftly testing hypotheses and creating new applications. The company offers a subscription-based platform through which users can submit any task, such as the development of landing pages, mobile apps, web apps, automation, and design, and will be assigned a developer to complete those tasks, allowing businesses to get unlimited, high-quality app development services at a low cost.

Grafana Labs

Series D in 2022
Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

SeeMetrics

Seed Round in 2022
SeeMetrics in a cybersecurity performance management platform for security leaders to measure, track and improve operations

Summer Health

Seed Round in 2022
At Summer Health (formerly bookadoc), we're leveraging cutting edge technologies like AI to improve healthcare accessibility and affordability in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Astronomer

Series C in 2022
Astronomer, Inc. is a company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that specializes in developing a managed Apache Airflow platform for data engineering. Founded in 2014, Astronomer offers Astro, a modern data orchestration platform that helps data teams enhance the availability of trusted data. This platform empowers users to build, run, and monitor data pipelines-as-code, making it easier for data engineers, scientists, and analysts to manage their workflows. By providing a suite of products and services that facilitate the deployment, management, and scaling of data pipelines, Astronomer aims to streamline the process of data collection and preparation for business analytics. The company's solutions are designed to support isolated resource allocation, user access, and account management, positioning it as a key player in the data orchestration landscape.

Curacel

Seed Round in 2022
Curacel is an insurtech company founded in 2019 by Henry Mascot in Ikoyi, Lagos. It offers an AI-powered platform that automates the insurance claims process and enhances fraud management. By employing advanced artificial intelligence algorithms, Curacel enables insurance staff to efficiently process high volumes of claims while simultaneously detecting fraud, waste, and abuse. The platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with various systems and third-party applications, providing insurance companies with tools to improve operational efficiency and foster customer loyalty.

unspun

Series A in 2022
Unspun, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in the development of a platform that creates customized jeans using advanced body scanning technology, fit algorithms, and additive manufacturing. The company aims to address environmental concerns by reducing global carbon emissions through automated and localized manufacturing processes. Unspun’s innovative approach not only eliminates pattern-cutting waste and unsold inventory but also allows for the production of jeans in under ten minutes in a zero-waste manner. Their technology is showcased through the unspun.io platform, which provides digital customization solutions for various apparel brands. With a mission to make fashion more sustainable, Unspun is positioned at the intersection of robotics and digital apparel, striving to transform the industry with its unique approach to on-demand manufacturing.

Product Science

Seed Round in 2022
Product Science is a performance management platform focused on enhancing product metrics for mobile applications. Founded in 2021 and based in Los Angeles, the company specializes in analyzing code and runtime data to identify performance issues that affect user experience. Utilizing advanced AI technology, Product Science efficiently provides insights through data visualizations, enabling mobile developers to quickly diagnose and address problems. Its integrated development environment tools and plugins offer video recordings of applications alongside performance traces, allowing clients to gain a deeper understanding of app behavior and performance challenges. By delivering these insights, Product Science helps mobile applications operate more effectively and improves overall user satisfaction.

Canal

Series A in 2022
Canal is engaged in building a curated network of brands that are ready to unlock novel revenue streams wherein it reaches consumers at the point of purchase intent while shopping instead of post-purchase.

Mojo

Series A in 2022
Mojo is a platform for sports, entertainment, finance, and online betting.
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