Open Opportunity Fund is a venture capital firm established in 2020, focused on supporting Black, Latinx, and Native American founders. Operated by SoftBank Group Corporation, the firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida, with an additional presence in Atlanta, Georgia. The fund aims to invest in technology-based companies, providing financial backing and resources to promote diversity and inclusion within the entrepreneurial landscape. With a commitment of $100 million, Open Opportunity Fund seeks to empower underrepresented entrepreneurs and foster innovation in the technology sector.
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Subject
Series A in 2023
Subject is an innovative online education platform focused on delivering accredited courses for middle and high school students. It aims to engage today's learners through a cinematic curriculum that incorporates immersive multimedia experiences and concise video lessons, averaging 3 to 8 minutes in length. By adapting its content to resonate with digital natives, Subject ensures that education meets the needs of students rather than the other way around. The platform is designed to support diverse learners, including Spanish-speaking students, with culturally adapted content and full translation services. Subject's courses are accredited by recognized organizations and approved by various educational authorities, enabling schools to address teacher shortages, facilitate credit recovery, and expand course offerings regardless of geographic limitations. The company is committed to empowering school districts to enhance educational outcomes and achieve their goals through a collaborative partnership.
Cloverly
Series A in 2023
Cloverly is a clean-tech startup that offers a sustainability-as-a-service platform designed to help businesses and organizations achieve carbon neutrality. By connecting online buyers to local, high-quality renewable energy, Cloverly facilitates the purchase of carbon offsets for common activities such as e-commerce shipments, ridesharing, and on-demand deliveries. The platform employs real-time calculations powered by an API to assess the carbon impact of these activities. It enables users to view the source of their offsets and utilizes an algorithm to match customers with the nearest sources of carbon avoidance or sequestration, thereby promoting localized environmental impact.
Emerge Career
Seed Round in 2022
Emerge Career platform offers vocational training for people released from prison to get immediate jobs. Emerge Career provides training programs for government agencies looking to create high-paying jobs, reduce recidivism, and lift incarcerated people out of poverty. Emerge Career matches students with partner schools for accelerated hands-on training and eventually connects graduates with a network of employers.
Resilia
Series B in 2022
Resilia is a technology company that offers a business management platform specifically designed for nonprofit organizations. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, Resilia aims to enhance the operational capacity of nonprofits and improve their outcomes. The platform provides various services, including technical assistance, coaching, and capacity-building support, helping organizations focus on their core missions while maximizing the efficiency of their funding. Additionally, Resilia assists funders, such as corporations, cities, and private foundations, in measuring and scaling the impact of their grant initiatives beyond traditional funding methods. Through its software solutions, Resilia empowers nonprofits to become high-performing entities in their respective fields.
Lumu
Venture Round in 2022
Lumu is a cybersecurity company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Doral, Florida. It specializes in helping enterprises identify and isolate cyber compromises in real-time. The company's software enhances existing defense capabilities by providing actionable intelligence and features customizable activity clustering, compromise radar, and threat intelligence. Lumu employs Continuous Compromise Assessment principles to deliver a self-learning solution that enables security teams to accelerate the detection of compromises and gain real-time visibility across their infrastructure. By analyzing a range of network metadata, including net flows and access logs, Lumu aims to close the breach detection gap significantly, reducing detection times from months to minutes.
Raincoat
Seed Round in 2022
Raincoat specializes in creating scalable embedded climate insurance products, supported by an automated infrastructure. The company collaborates with insurers, governments, and financial institutions to develop parametric insurance solutions that provide immediate payouts for catastrophe policies. By unlocking new markets, Raincoat enables businesses to achieve financial resilience against the impact of natural disasters, thus promoting climate resilience on a larger scale.
Welcome Tech
Venture Round in 2022
Welcome Tech is a platform focused on supporting the 250 million global immigrant communities by connecting them with essential information, products, and services. The company serves over 9 million immigrants annually and has nearly 2 million active users. By utilizing a data-driven approach, Welcome Tech offers tailored solutions across various sectors, including finance, education, healthcare, telecommunications, and government services. Founded by experts in immigration and technology, the platform employs proprietary data and recommendation algorithms to deliver relevant services that empower immigrant families. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Welcome Tech aims to help immigrants become informed, confident, and active participants in their new communities.
Community Gaming
Series A in 2022
Community Gaming is an esports competition platform that provides advanced online tournament software and a cryptocurrency payment infrastructure. The platform is designed to support players, event organizers, and game developers by equipping them with the necessary tools to create, facilitate, and participate in automated esports tournaments. With a focus on user experience and scalable blockchain payment technology, Community Gaming aims to decentralize the financial gains of the esports and gaming industry, making them more accessible to a broader audience through web3 technology. This approach promotes the idea of "Earnings for Everyone," ensuring that participants are rewarded for their engagement and contributions within the gaming ecosystem.
Subject
Series A in 2022
Subject is an innovative online education platform focused on delivering accredited courses for middle and high school students. It aims to engage today's learners through a cinematic curriculum that incorporates immersive multimedia experiences and concise video lessons, averaging 3 to 8 minutes in length. By adapting its content to resonate with digital natives, Subject ensures that education meets the needs of students rather than the other way around. The platform is designed to support diverse learners, including Spanish-speaking students, with culturally adapted content and full translation services. Subject's courses are accredited by recognized organizations and approved by various educational authorities, enabling schools to address teacher shortages, facilitate credit recovery, and expand course offerings regardless of geographic limitations. The company is committed to empowering school districts to enhance educational outcomes and achieve their goals through a collaborative partnership.
DNABLOCK
Seed Round in 2022
DNABLOCK is leading the way to personalized entertainment, interaction, and inclusion by removing the barriers of 3D content creation. Our platform and REPLIKANT™ animation engine allows creatives, brands, and individuals the ability to generate bespoke, high-quality, digital beings without prohibitive post-production costs or specialized 3D programming knowledge. Our platform supports the exporting of content onto ANY device, making it simple to create fulfilling interactions with an enormous reach. We operate a scalable, high-end, computer graphics pipeline. This pipeline, combined with advanced machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis, is our recipe for engaging, real-time, interactive, digital beings and the future of digital interface. As a forward-thinking company, we have focused on likeness protection and ownership; adding authentication mechanisms to guarantee control and transparency.
Esusu
Series B in 2022
Esusu is a financial technology platform that leverages data solutions to help residents and improve property performance. Esusu was created on the premise that no matter where you come from, the color of your skin, and your financial identity should never determine where you end up in life. This allows renters to build and establish their credit scores while helping property owners mitigate against initiating evictions, powered by differentiated data and insights. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.
FortifyData
Seed Round in 2022
FortifyData, Inc. is a cybersecurity solutions provider based in Kennesaw, Georgia, founded in 2015. The company specializes in a cyber risk analysis and monitoring platform that helps organizations assess, identify, and manage cybersecurity threats. Its software enables businesses to evaluate risks associated with human factors, processes, and technology while tracking performance against key risk and compliance metrics. FortifyData's platform offers comprehensive features, including vendor risk assessment, network vulnerability management, and historical data breach checks, allowing companies to align with industry security standards. By effectively communicating business cyber risks in a quantifiable manner, FortifyData assists organizations in making informed decisions and investments to mitigate potential threats.
Runway
Seed Round in 2021
Runway is a mobile release management platform that manages the entire mobile release cycle from one place. It integrates with all the tools in the stack that serve as a central hub to manage the entire release cycle.
Lendtable
Series A in 2021
Lendtable is a financial services company that specializes in providing income-constrained individuals with wealth-building cash advances. The company also specializes in the fields of fintech, tech, investing, and wealth and it gives people cash advances to build their wealth. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Praxis Labs
Series A in 2021
Praxis Labs, Inc. specializes in developing virtual reality-based software aimed at enhancing diversity and inclusion training in the workplace. The company combines research-backed curriculum with advanced VR technology to create immersive training modules that address unconscious bias. Its offerings include designing educational content, producing high-quality training materials, and providing measurable metrics to assess improvements in understanding and empathy regarding implicit bias. Established in 2019 and headquartered in Stanford, California, Praxis Labs focuses on embedding equity and inclusion throughout the employee lifecycle, ultimately striving to improve workplace culture and outcomes.
OnTop
Series A in 2021
OnTop is a platform designed to simplify the process of hiring and managing global teams. It provides a streamlined solution for companies to onboard, manage, and pay employees in US dollars, effectively removing the complexities associated with remote hiring. The platform features intelligent contracts and a global payment network that facilitates payroll management. Additionally, OnTop automates the filing of necessary documents and government forms during the hiring process, allowing businesses to efficiently find and integrate suitable candidates without the usual challenges. Overall, OnTop aims to enhance the experience of remote workforce management through its user-friendly software.
DNABLOCK
Seed Round in 2021
DNABLOCK is leading the way to personalized entertainment, interaction, and inclusion by removing the barriers of 3D content creation. Our platform and REPLIKANT™ animation engine allows creatives, brands, and individuals the ability to generate bespoke, high-quality, digital beings without prohibitive post-production costs or specialized 3D programming knowledge. Our platform supports the exporting of content onto ANY device, making it simple to create fulfilling interactions with an enormous reach. We operate a scalable, high-end, computer graphics pipeline. This pipeline, combined with advanced machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis, is our recipe for engaging, real-time, interactive, digital beings and the future of digital interface. As a forward-thinking company, we have focused on likeness protection and ownership; adding authentication mechanisms to guarantee control and transparency.
Opya
Series A in 2021
Opya, Inc. is a company based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in providing autism therapy services aimed at children with autism spectrum disorder. Founded in 2016, Opya is dedicated to transforming autism care by integrating technology with treatment. The company offers a data-driven therapy platform that facilitates early intervention autism therapy through in-home and telehealth services. These services include Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), speech therapy, and occupational therapy, all designed to enhance communication and collaboration between parents and clinicians. Opya's approach focuses on empowering families and clinicians with the necessary information to maximize the potential of children affected by autism.
Paystand
Series C in 2021
Paystand, Inc. operates an electronic payment portal designed to facilitate online payments for businesses and enable the setup of storefronts on websites and social media platforms. Founded in 2013 and based in Scotts Valley, California, the company aims to create a more open financial system, particularly in the realm of B2B payments. By leveraging blockchain and cloud technology, Paystand has developed a Payments-as-a-Service model that digitizes and automates the entire cash lifecycle. This software allows businesses to digitize receivables, automate processing, reduce time-to-cash, eliminate transaction fees, and create new revenue opportunities.
Cloverly
Seed Round in 2021
Cloverly is a clean-tech startup that offers a sustainability-as-a-service platform designed to help businesses and organizations achieve carbon neutrality. By connecting online buyers to local, high-quality renewable energy, Cloverly facilitates the purchase of carbon offsets for common activities such as e-commerce shipments, ridesharing, and on-demand deliveries. The platform employs real-time calculations powered by an API to assess the carbon impact of these activities. It enables users to view the source of their offsets and utilizes an algorithm to match customers with the nearest sources of carbon avoidance or sequestration, thereby promoting localized environmental impact.
eqtble
Seed Round in 2021
eqtble is a human resource analytics platform that aims to enhance HR efficiency by providing intuitive tools for tracking goals and metrics. The platform specializes in integrating various systems to offer comprehensive insights into workforce dynamics, talent management, employee engagement, and compensation structures. By connecting disparate data sources, eqtble enables organizations to analyze their employee data effectively, facilitating a more standardized approach to human resources. Additionally, eqtble is focused on transforming how companies address diversity and inclusion through innovative analytics that drive actionable change.
AllHere Education
Series A in 2021
AllHere is an attendance intervention management platform focused on chronic absenteeism in K12 school districts. It utilizes artificial intelligence and proactive messaging to engage with families. The platform accesses personal information from a school back-office system to facilitate communication. Parents can initiate conversations with a bot via text, receiving responses based on their child's attendance record.
Subject
Seed Round in 2021
Subject is an innovative online education platform focused on delivering accredited courses for middle and high school students. It aims to engage today's learners through a cinematic curriculum that incorporates immersive multimedia experiences and concise video lessons, averaging 3 to 8 minutes in length. By adapting its content to resonate with digital natives, Subject ensures that education meets the needs of students rather than the other way around. The platform is designed to support diverse learners, including Spanish-speaking students, with culturally adapted content and full translation services. Subject's courses are accredited by recognized organizations and approved by various educational authorities, enabling schools to address teacher shortages, facilitate credit recovery, and expand course offerings regardless of geographic limitations. The company is committed to empowering school districts to enhance educational outcomes and achieve their goals through a collaborative partnership.
Heru
Series A in 2021
Heru, Inc. is a Miami-based company that specializes in artificial intelligence-driven vision diagnostic and augmentation software. Founded in 2018, Heru has developed patented technology that allows for autonomous diagnosis of vision defects using commercially available augmented reality and virtual reality devices. This innovative software not only provides real-time results for clinicians but also enables patients to conduct visual field tests through wearable devices. Heru’s platform stands out by offering a cross-platform solution that customizes vision augmentation based on individual needs, surpassing traditional standards of care in terms of usability, cost, and portability. The company originated as a spinout from the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and achieved FDA registration in December 2020, following a successful seed funding round led by notable investors in the medical technology field.
Zoe Financial
Series A in 2021
Zoe Financial, Inc., founded in 2016 and based in Scarsdale, New York, specializes in providing financial advisory services. The company focuses on connecting clients with independent, fiduciary financial advisors who are thoroughly screened to ensure they offer appropriate and trustworthy guidance. Zoe Financial employs a wealth planning platform that categorizes advisors based on their qualifications, expertise, and operational efficiency, facilitating personalized financial planning for clients. This approach helps individuals navigate their financial needs, promoting accountability and informed decision-making for stable wealth creation.
Welcome Tech
Series B in 2021
Welcome Tech is a platform focused on supporting the 250 million global immigrant communities by connecting them with essential information, products, and services. The company serves over 9 million immigrants annually and has nearly 2 million active users. By utilizing a data-driven approach, Welcome Tech offers tailored solutions across various sectors, including finance, education, healthcare, telecommunications, and government services. Founded by experts in immigration and technology, the platform employs proprietary data and recommendation algorithms to deliver relevant services that empower immigrant families. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Welcome Tech aims to help immigrants become informed, confident, and active participants in their new communities.
Greenwood
Series A in 2021
Greenwood is a financial technology firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, that operates a digital banking platform aimed at serving Black and Latinx individuals and business owners. Founded in 2020, Greenwood offers a range of financial services, including savings and spending accounts, mobile deposits, peer-to-peer transfers, and early payroll access. The platform emphasizes community reinvestment and provides access to a global network of automated teller machines. With a commitment to innovative banking solutions, Greenwood also features a distinctively designed black metal debit card for its customers.
Flutterflow
Seed Round in 2021
FlutterFlow, established in 2020, is an innovative low-code visual development platform that facilitates the creation of native mobile and web applications. With a user base exceeding 400,000 and a multitude of applications launched in app stores, FlutterFlow enables product teams to design impressive user interfaces and generate clean code efficiently. The platform features a one-click deployment option that accelerates project timelines while allowing for custom code extensions. It supports seamless integration with Firebase and provides a no-code tool for downloading generated Flutter code, making it easier for developers to create cross-platform applications swiftly. By streamlining the application development process, FlutterFlow helps businesses scale rapidly and effectively.
Cheqout
Seed Round in 2021
Cheqout is a mobile point-of-sale (POS) platform designed for brick-and-mortar businesses, enabling waiters and retail workers to efficiently manage orders and payments. Founded in 2020 by David Rincon-Cruz, Jamie Sunderland, and Tom Sharon, the platform allows customers to place orders directly from their own devices by scanning QR codes, which facilitates a seamless transaction experience. Cheqout collects orders into single tickets from the same table, preventing overwhelming the kitchen with multiple tickets. Additionally, it offers features that allow guests to browse menus, find their bills by resuming the QR code scan, and split their bills in various ways. This innovative approach streamlines the ordering process and enhances customer convenience.
PingPong
Seed Round in 2021
PingPong is a communication platform that enables remote teams to collaborate through video, voice, and screen recording sharing. The company's mission is to empower teams to get work done more efficiently and feel more connected. The company was founded in 2020 and has employees all around the world.
Debrief
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Debrief is a company established in 2020 by Ned Rockson and Nicolas Salhuana, specializing in audiovisual recording software that facilitates effective communication within teams. The platform allows users to create and share recorded videos for various purposes, such as product demonstrations, bug reports, and marketing campaigns. By replacing traditional meetings and emails with video, Debrief enhances communication without the need for synchronizing schedules, thereby increasing productivity. The software offers an interactive technology that simplifies video recording and sharing, enabling organizations to maintain connectivity while optimizing their communication processes.
Clay
Seed Round in 2021
Clay is a software company that designs 3D models in real-time. The company helps teams create better 3D models by letting artists upload a 3D model, share a link, and provide and view feedback in real-time. Clay was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
ProcessLabs.ai
Seed Round in 2021
ProcessLabs Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing software to enhance coordination across multiple engineering teams and tools. Founded in 2019, the company's platform aims to provide organizations with comprehensive visibility into their software development processes, enabling them to identify inefficiencies and improve predictability. By analyzing a company's digital footprint, ProcessLabs offers meaningful metrics and visualizations of workflows, helping to pinpoint bottlenecks and root causes of quality issues. The software is designed to align engineering work with business goals, reduce costs, and accelerate the delivery of high-quality software. It serves a diverse range of professionals, including executives, CIOs, DevOps teams, managers, and product leaders, facilitating data-driven decision-making and process optimization.
seer
Seed Round in 2021
Seer is a SaaS-based platform designed for luxury retailers to enhance the sales experience for both associates and customers. The platform enables sales associates to effectively connect with clients by providing access to relevant inventory, thereby facilitating more meaningful interactions. By utilizing email and SMS, Seer allows retail salespeople to create and distribute personalized shoppable lookbooks, which can drive sales and attract new customers. This approach not only helps sales associates meet and exceed their sales goals but also fosters stronger customer engagement in the luxury retail sector.
Logica
Seed Round in 2021
Logica is a financial forecasting platform founded in 2020 and based in Omaha, Nebraska. The company specializes in developing software that facilitates collaboration among finance teams and the broader organization. Logica's offerings include financial planning, scenario analysis, dynamic planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Its platform provides transparent and controlled reporting and consolidation, which supports management, investors, and stakeholders in making informed decisions by allowing the creation and comparison of multiple financial scenarios.
Lumu
Series A in 2021
Lumu is a cybersecurity company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Doral, Florida. It specializes in helping enterprises identify and isolate cyber compromises in real-time. The company's software enhances existing defense capabilities by providing actionable intelligence and features customizable activity clustering, compromise radar, and threat intelligence. Lumu employs Continuous Compromise Assessment principles to deliver a self-learning solution that enables security teams to accelerate the detection of compromises and gain real-time visibility across their infrastructure. By analyzing a range of network metadata, including net flows and access logs, Lumu aims to close the breach detection gap significantly, reducing detection times from months to minutes.
Praxis
Seed Round in 2021
We are in a moment in history where entrepreneurs have disproportionate influence on everything from the social problems they work on to what they consume, practice, believe, and desire. As Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square, recently declared on the cover of Forbes, "the most efficient means to spread an idea today is corporate structure." Moreover, according to the Kauffman Foundation, 54% of millennials have started an organization or have the desire to start one. Given all of this, we believe the future of our world depends largely on the ventures the next generation creates. To create an institution for this context, we've created Praxis as a venture group, structured as a non-profit, that focuses on equipping and resourcing a growing portfolio of faith-motivated entrepreneurs who have committed their lives to cultural and social impact, renewing the spirit of their age one organization at a time. Praxis was conceived in 2010 by Dave Blanchard, then a Principal Designer at IDEO and Josh Kwan, the Director of International Giving for the David Weekley Family Foundation, and developed in collaboration with Q, a learning community that mobilizes Christians to advance the common good in society. Each year, Praxis welcomes 12 businesses and 12 nonprofits into their two Accelerator programs, where they provide the top-decision makers in these organizations with the knowledge, network, and personal discipleship necessary to build sustainable, high-impact organizations. In summer of 2014, they'll also launch Praxis Academy, a summer program focused on training Christ-following undergraduates at the intersection of faith, startups, and culture. Academy graduates will have a chance to apply for their Future Founders program, where they'll have an unique opportunity to do a summer apprenticeship with their Accelerator alumni.
Praxis Labs
Seed Round in 2021
Praxis Labs, Inc. specializes in developing virtual reality-based software aimed at enhancing diversity and inclusion training in the workplace. The company combines research-backed curriculum with advanced VR technology to create immersive training modules that address unconscious bias. Its offerings include designing educational content, producing high-quality training materials, and providing measurable metrics to assess improvements in understanding and empathy regarding implicit bias. Established in 2019 and headquartered in Stanford, California, Praxis Labs focuses on embedding equity and inclusion throughout the employee lifecycle, ultimately striving to improve workplace culture and outcomes.
QuickNode
Seed Round in 2021
QuickNode is a blockchain development platform founded in Miami in 2017 that provides essential infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. It offers fast and reliable application programming interfaces (APIs) that facilitate the development of decentralized applications. The platform is designed to help developers and businesses efficiently build, test, and scale their Web3 projects, thereby streamlining the process of executing blockchain strategies. QuickNode's tools and customer support are aimed at making blockchain development more accessible, enabling users to effectively navigate and innovate within the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Altro (fka Perch)
Seed Round in 2020
Altro, formerly known as Perch, is a company based in Los Angeles, California, that focuses on helping individuals enhance their credit scores by leveraging recurring expenses. Founded in 2019, Altro provides a platform that allows users to link everyday payments and subscriptions, such as bills and monthly services, to their credit history. By recognizing these often-overlooked payments, the Altro app enables users to build their credit more effectively, turning regular financial commitments into a tool for improving their creditworthiness. The service is offered for free, aiming to empower users to maximize their financial potential through better credit management.
HealNow
Seed Round in 2020
HealNow is a New York-based company that provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to streamline the online ordering and payment process for pharmacies. Established in 2018, the company partners with pharmacies to facilitate prescription delivery and enhance patient engagement. By allowing patients to pay co-payments online, schedule deliveries, and submit necessary medical information without the need for a mobile app, HealNow significantly reduces the volume of phone calls and faxed enrollment forms that pharmacies typically handle. The platform is adaptable to various pharmacy types, including independent stores and larger grocery chains, ensuring a more efficient onboarding and outreach process for both pharmacies and their patients.
Squire
Series C in 2020
Squire is a comprehensive booking and payment platform designed for the barbershop industry, enabling users to find, book, and pay for haircuts and shaves with ease. The Squire app serves a diverse clientele, including independent barbers, stand-alone shops, and multi-location franchises, offering features such as point of sale, scheduling, payroll, and customer relationship management. This software streamlines operations for barbers and shop owners by facilitating cashless and contactless transactions, managing waitlists, and establishing loyalty programs. As one of the fastest-growing technology platforms in the barbershop sector, Squire is positioned within a global market valued at approximately one hundred billion dollars.
Career Karma
Series A in 2020
Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. Over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching. By offering free coaching and peer mentorship, Career Karma has grown to over 150,000 members from every background and profession. Through its directory of 9,000 boot camps and trade schools, career switchers discover training programs by comparing courses and reading student reviews. The Career Karma mobile app makes your decision even easier. In the app, you can connect with current students and alumni to find your ideal program and get prepared for admission.
DNABLOCK
Seed Round in 2020
DNABLOCK is leading the way to personalized entertainment, interaction, and inclusion by removing the barriers of 3D content creation. Our platform and REPLIKANT™ animation engine allows creatives, brands, and individuals the ability to generate bespoke, high-quality, digital beings without prohibitive post-production costs or specialized 3D programming knowledge. Our platform supports the exporting of content onto ANY device, making it simple to create fulfilling interactions with an enormous reach. We operate a scalable, high-end, computer graphics pipeline. This pipeline, combined with advanced machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis, is our recipe for engaging, real-time, interactive, digital beings and the future of digital interface. As a forward-thinking company, we have focused on likeness protection and ownership; adding authentication mechanisms to guarantee control and transparency.
Arcus Financial Intelligence
Venture Round in 2020
Arcus Financial Intelligence, Inc. is a New York-based company that develops and operates an application program interface (API) platform designed for banks and financial institutions. The platform focuses on managing consumer bills and financial data, offering real-time bill management and payment services. Users can gain insights into their family finances, including details about outstanding bills, amounts owed, and due dates. Additionally, Arcus provides a multi-rail payment platform that facilitates various payment methods, making payments more accessible for consumers. Founded in 2012 and originally known as Regalii Inc., the company rebranded to Arcus Financial Intelligence, Inc. in June 2018.
Eight Sleep
Series C in 2020
Eight Sleep, Inc. is a sleep technology company based in New York, founded in 2014. It specializes in the manufacturing and sale of smart mattresses that feature advanced temperature control, allowing users to cool or heat each side of the bed according to their preferences. The products are designed to enhance comfort and support optimal rest, health, and daily functioning by tracking heart rate and other health metrics. In addition to smart mattresses, Eight Sleep offers a range of accessories, including sleep trackers, pillows, organic sheets, foundations, waterproof protectors, blue wave glasses, and gravity blankets. The company primarily sells its products online and is recognized for its innovation in the sleep industry, having been named one of the Most Innovative Companies in Consumer Electronics by Fast Company in 2018.
Atomic
Seed Round in 2020
Atomic is a provider of personalized investment management services that lets companies embed investment accounts into their services. It allows companies to offer their end-users a disciplined way to invest with them. Atomic was founded in 2020 by David Dindi in San Francisco, CA.
Epihub
Seed Round in 2020
Epihub, Inc. is a New York-based company that designs and develops application software focused on online education services. Founded in 2017, the company offers a platform that automates assessments and streamlines the educational process for both students and educators. Its services allow users to schedule sessions, conduct virtual or in-person classes, and manage billing for tutors and trainers. By leveraging data collection and a backward design approach, Epihub enables teachers to provide more effective and convenient instruction tailored to individual student needs.
Lendtable
Seed Round in 2020
Lendtable is a financial services company that specializes in providing income-constrained individuals with wealth-building cash advances. The company also specializes in the fields of fintech, tech, investing, and wealth and it gives people cash advances to build their wealth. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Gather
Seed Round in 2020
Gather provides automating workflows to help People Operations teams scale employee experience. Gather removes manual coordination with smart, automated communication powered by a deep integration with Slack.
Nestybox
Seed Round in 2020
Nestybox creates software that enables Linux containers to act as virtual machines. This increases the use of cases for containers and gives enterprises a less expensive and more flexible alternative to virtual machines in many scenarios.
Daybreak Health
Seed Round in 2020
Daybreak Health Inc. offers online counseling services specifically designed for teenagers, addressing issues such as achievement pressure, stress, social isolation, self-esteem, anxiety, and depression. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California, the company utilizes a mobile app to connect teens with specialized therapists who provide individual counseling and group sessions. Additionally, Daybreak Health offers wellbeing tools to help stabilize mental fitness among young people. The platform aims to facilitate quick access to mental health support, enabling teens and their parents to maintain a positive state of mind.
Blissway
Seed Round in 2020
Blissway is a developer of tolling-as-a-service, providing a comprehensive suite of traffic management solutions that includes tolling hardware, user experience design, customer billing, and payment processing. Unlike traditional toll technologies that aim to reduce demand, Blissway's approach organizes traffic flow to enhance vehicle throughput and eliminate rush-hour congestion. This innovative system allows customers to enjoy shorter and more reliable commutes, with charges based on the time saved compared to drivers in general-purpose lanes. By focusing on efficiency and customer experience, Blissway positions itself as a key player in the tolling industry.
Valence Community
Series A in 2020
Valence is an internet company that connects, showcases, and empowers the global black professional community. It helps demystify professional advancement pathways through inspirational storytelling and structured community-driven mentorship. It is driven by its mission is to unlock the global combined power of black professionals to create massive economic and social progress. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Welcome Tech
Series A in 2020
Welcome Tech is a platform focused on supporting the 250 million global immigrant communities by connecting them with essential information, products, and services. The company serves over 9 million immigrants annually and has nearly 2 million active users. By utilizing a data-driven approach, Welcome Tech offers tailored solutions across various sectors, including finance, education, healthcare, telecommunications, and government services. Founded by experts in immigration and technology, the platform employs proprietary data and recommendation algorithms to deliver relevant services that empower immigrant families. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Welcome Tech aims to help immigrants become informed, confident, and active participants in their new communities.
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