QED Investors

QED Investors, established in 2007, is a venture capital firm headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with an additional office in New York City. It specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on disruptive financial services and fintech companies. QED invests in seed, early venture, and mid venture stages across the United States, Latin America, and the United Kingdom. The firm provides not only capital but also strategic support to its portfolio companies, emphasizing the role of information in their success and fostering a collaborative, hands-on approach.

Gbenga Ajayi

Partner

Laura Bock

Partner

Matt Burton

Partner

Bill Cilluffo

Partner

Lauren (Connolley) Morton

Partner

Past deals in Marketplace

Capim

Series A in 2025
Capim is a Brazilian fintech company specializing in "Buy Now, Pay Later" (BNPL) solutions tailored for the dental sector. The company offers a financial management platform that equips dental clinics with digital tools to streamline operations and enhance patient access to treatments. By providing point-of-sale BNPL options, Capim allows patients to finance their dental care without relying on traditional credit card payment methods. Additionally, the platform enables clinics to manage invoicing and treatment financing, thereby facilitating better patient retention and operational efficiency for dental professionals.

Zubale

Series A in 2023
Zubale is a technology-driven company that serves as critical infrastructure for retailers in the e-commerce sector. It operates a marketplace that connects retailers with gig workers, facilitating efficient back-end operations and enhancing service quality through improved fill rates and timely deliveries. By leveraging a platform that allows businesses to crowdsource various digital tasks, Zubale enables independent workers to complete assignments and earn rewards. The company has achieved remarkable growth, completing over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores in Mexico, Colombia, and Costa Rica, with plans to expand further across Latin America. Co-founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy bring extensive retail experience from their backgrounds at Walmart and Procter & Gamble, enhancing Zubale's capabilities in the region.

Loft

Venture Round in 2023
Loft is a Brazilian real estate technology company that operates a transactional marketplace and online property platform. Founded in 2018 and based in São Paulo, Loft provides an end-to-end digital workflow to manage home buying and selling, facilitating transactions for individuals, brokers, and publicly listed REITs. The platform combines proprietary transaction data with a searchable property database and integrated services to streamline search, valuation, and deal execution, bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce era. It offers access to residential and commercial properties, with user feedback and ratings supporting transparent transactions. Loft aims to simplify real estate deals through digital tools and data-driven processes, reducing friction in buying and selling properties across the Brazilian market.

Remedial Health

Series A in 2023
Remedial Health is a company focused on enhancing the procurement and distribution of pharmaceuticals across Africa. It provides a platform that facilitates business-to-business access to medicines, enabling pharmacies and hospitals to order and access retail medications directly from manufacturers or distributors. This approach addresses the inefficiencies and risks associated with relying on open-air medicine markets, where healthcare providers often encounter counterfeit products. By improving the pharmacy operations and workflow management processes, Remedial Health aims to ensure that healthcare providers can more effectively stock their facilities, thereby contributing to a safer and more reliable healthcare environment.

Zubale

Series A in 2022
Zubale is a technology-driven company that serves as critical infrastructure for retailers in the e-commerce sector. It operates a marketplace that connects retailers with gig workers, facilitating efficient back-end operations and enhancing service quality through improved fill rates and timely deliveries. By leveraging a platform that allows businesses to crowdsource various digital tasks, Zubale enables independent workers to complete assignments and earn rewards. The company has achieved remarkable growth, completing over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores in Mexico, Colombia, and Costa Rica, with plans to expand further across Latin America. Co-founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy bring extensive retail experience from their backgrounds at Walmart and Procter & Gamble, enhancing Zubale's capabilities in the region.

Morado

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Morado operates as an online B2B marketplace for beauty businesses, professionals, and beauty lovers, facilitating connections and commerce within the beauty industry. It also offers revolving credit to merchants, providing entrepreneurs with financing that covers inventory month by month through a credit line repayable on a monthly basis, enabling clients to start, grow, and sustain their operations.

Stem Disintermedia

Venture Round in 2022
Stem Disintermedia Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2015 that provides a distribution platform and payment solutions specifically designed for independent musicians, artists, and their teams. The company's platform streamlines the management of revenue by aggregating earnings from various digital platforms, creating contracts, and managing payment splits among collaborators. It allows users to visualize their performance data across multiple services, thereby enhancing transparency in revenue management. By enabling artists to track and share their earnings, Stem Disintermedia facilitates a clearer understanding of finances within the music industry. The platform integrates with major music services such as Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube, fostering connections among users and supporting their growth in a complex digital landscape.

Kocomo

Seed Round in 2021
Kocomo is a proptech startup offering a co-ownership platform for luxury vacation homes. It provides a transparent, end-to-end marketplace that lets users jointly own and enjoy premium properties and manage ownership interests over time, beginning in Mexico. The platform enables browsing, purchasing co-ownership shares, and reserving visit dates, giving access to well-equipped homes at a subsidized price. By combining technology with shared ownership, Kocomo aims to make luxury vacation home ownership more accessible and flexible for a broader audience.

XpertSea

Series B in 2021
XpertSea is a Canadian technology company that develops hardware and software for aquaculture farming. It offers XperCount, a connected device for counting, sizing, and imaging small aquatic organisms, and a data platform for storing and analyzing aquatic population information. The company combines smart aquaculture equipment with an AI-powered farm management platform that delivers actionable insights to optimize feed efficiency, reduce environmental waste, and help prevent diseases. Its solutions include smartphone-compatible software with offline functionality and pond-specific forecasting to aid harvest planning and growth monitoring. With customers in more than 50 countries, XpertSea aims to improve profitability and sustainability across the global aquaculture supply chain.

Sundae

Series C in 2021
Sundae is a residential real estate marketplace designed to assist homeowners in selling their properties off-market. The company's platform caters specifically to individuals looking to sell dated or damaged homes without the hassle of traditional real estate processes, which often involve repairs, cleaning, and showings. Sundae allows sellers to list their homes as-is and on their own timeline, streamlining the selling experience. By connecting homeowners with a broad network of local investors, Sundae ensures that sellers receive competitive off-market prices for their properties, thus providing a fair alternative to conventional home sales.

Capim

Seed Round in 2021
Capim is a Brazilian fintech company specializing in "Buy Now, Pay Later" (BNPL) solutions tailored for the dental sector. The company offers a financial management platform that equips dental clinics with digital tools to streamline operations and enhance patient access to treatments. By providing point-of-sale BNPL options, Capim allows patients to finance their dental care without relying on traditional credit card payment methods. Additionally, the platform enables clinics to manage invoicing and treatment financing, thereby facilitating better patient retention and operational efficiency for dental professionals.

Loft

Series D in 2021
Loft is a Brazilian real estate technology company that operates a transactional marketplace and online property platform. Founded in 2018 and based in São Paulo, Loft provides an end-to-end digital workflow to manage home buying and selling, facilitating transactions for individuals, brokers, and publicly listed REITs. The platform combines proprietary transaction data with a searchable property database and integrated services to streamline search, valuation, and deal execution, bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce era. It offers access to residential and commercial properties, with user feedback and ratings supporting transparent transactions. Loft aims to simplify real estate deals through digital tools and data-driven processes, reducing friction in buying and selling properties across the Brazilian market.

Sundae

Series B in 2020
Sundae is a residential real estate marketplace designed to assist homeowners in selling their properties off-market. The company's platform caters specifically to individuals looking to sell dated or damaged homes without the hassle of traditional real estate processes, which often involve repairs, cleaning, and showings. Sundae allows sellers to list their homes as-is and on their own timeline, streamlining the selling experience. By connecting homeowners with a broad network of local investors, Sundae ensures that sellers receive competitive off-market prices for their properties, thus providing a fair alternative to conventional home sales.

Sundae

Series A in 2020
Sundae is a residential real estate marketplace designed to assist homeowners in selling their properties off-market. The company's platform caters specifically to individuals looking to sell dated or damaged homes without the hassle of traditional real estate processes, which often involve repairs, cleaning, and showings. Sundae allows sellers to list their homes as-is and on their own timeline, streamlining the selling experience. By connecting homeowners with a broad network of local investors, Sundae ensures that sellers receive competitive off-market prices for their properties, thus providing a fair alternative to conventional home sales.

Loft

Series C in 2020
Loft is a Brazilian real estate technology company that operates a transactional marketplace and online property platform. Founded in 2018 and based in São Paulo, Loft provides an end-to-end digital workflow to manage home buying and selling, facilitating transactions for individuals, brokers, and publicly listed REITs. The platform combines proprietary transaction data with a searchable property database and integrated services to streamline search, valuation, and deal execution, bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce era. It offers access to residential and commercial properties, with user feedback and ratings supporting transparent transactions. Loft aims to simplify real estate deals through digital tools and data-driven processes, reducing friction in buying and selling properties across the Brazilian market.

Pitzi

Series D in 2019
Pitzi is a leading insurtech company based in São Paulo, Brazil, specializing in direct-to-consumer smartphone warranty services. The company leverages innovative customer experience design and a streamlined supply chain to enhance the way Brazilians engage with insurance products. Pitzi collaborates with major insurance companies to offer comprehensive smartphone protection, safeguarding over one million consumers across the country. Its platform allows users to easily access professional assistance in case of smartphone damage, providing efficient and effective support for unavoidable accidents.

Loft

Series B in 2019
Loft is a Brazilian real estate technology company that operates a transactional marketplace and online property platform. Founded in 2018 and based in São Paulo, Loft provides an end-to-end digital workflow to manage home buying and selling, facilitating transactions for individuals, brokers, and publicly listed REITs. The platform combines proprietary transaction data with a searchable property database and integrated services to streamline search, valuation, and deal execution, bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce era. It offers access to residential and commercial properties, with user feedback and ratings supporting transparent transactions. Loft aims to simplify real estate deals through digital tools and data-driven processes, reducing friction in buying and selling properties across the Brazilian market.

Resolve

Seed Round in 2018
Resolve Innovations, Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Oakland, California, operates a financial management platform. This platform enables users to explore and compare debt relief options, and facilitates connections with debt relief providers. Additionally, it offers tools to enhance credit scores, reduce expenses, increase income, manage and consolidate debt, lower interest rates, and negotiate with creditors. The company was founded by a team comprising financial advisors, debt experts, and technologists, aiming to provide accessible and unbiased assistance to individuals facing financial challenges.

QuintoAndar

Series C in 2018
QuintoAndar is a Brazilian digital platform that facilitates long-term residential rentals. It connects landlords with renters, streamlining the process through its marketplace which offers rental listings, visit scheduling, and paperless transactions. The platform also provides rental insurance and handles recurring payments without requiring guarantors.

Roofstock

Series C in 2018
Roofstock operates an online marketplace enabling investors to buy and sell single-family rental homes with existing tenants. Founded in 2015, the company provides research tools, analytics, and insights to facilitate informed investment decisions.

Roofstock

Series C in 2017
Roofstock operates an online marketplace enabling investors to buy and sell single-family rental homes with existing tenants. Founded in 2015, the company provides research tools, analytics, and insights to facilitate informed investment decisions.

ApplePie Capital

Series B in 2016
ApplePie Capital is a financing platform that serves franchise businesses by providing access to capital through a range of loan options. It assists entrepreneurs in starting new franchises, expanding existing locations, acquiring or remodeling units, refinancing debt, and financing equipment and growth initiatives. The company operates an online marketplace that connects franchisees with lenders and supports growth for established brands. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company was founded to increase financial efficiencies for franchise owners and help them meet capital needs to scale their franchises.

Roofstock

Series B in 2016
Roofstock operates an online marketplace enabling investors to buy and sell single-family rental homes with existing tenants. Founded in 2015, the company provides research tools, analytics, and insights to facilitate informed investment decisions.

ClearScore

Series A in 2016
ClearScore is a financial technology company that offers credit scoring services and a marketplace. It provides access to financial data, including credit reports, credit scores, and open banking data, helping users monitor and improve their financial well-being and make informed decisions about debt and personal finances.

CircleUp

Series C in 2015
CircleUp is a San Francisco-based company established in 2012, operating an online platform that connects early-stage consumer and retail brands with accredited investors. The platform facilitates capital raising and provides resources to these companies, enabling them to grow and scale. CircleUp's proprietary machine learning platform, Helio, evaluates and predicts the potential success of over 1.3 million consumer businesses, aiding in the discovery and selection of promising investment opportunities.

MMKT Exchange

Venture Round in 2015
MMKT Exchange LLC is a New York-based company founded in 2015 that provides an online platform designed to streamline the loan syndication and trading process for qualified institutional buyers and originators. The platform serves as a centralized marketplace where commercial lenders can list originated loans and institutional buyers can access loan listings from various originators. This enables sponsors and borrowers to monitor purchaser activity while facilitating a more efficient interaction between lenders and buyers. By focusing on the middle market, MMKT Exchange enhances accessibility and transparency in the loan trading process, allowing for smaller transaction sizes and broader participation in the loan syndication market.

Orchard Platform

Series B in 2015
About Orchard Orchard Platform has built a centralized marketplace where loan originators and institutional investors can come together to explore and evaluate opportunities for funding, buying, and selling loans. By providing a global network of institutional buyers and sellers with high-quality data services, advanced analytics and reporting, and robust capital management tools through an innovative, end-to-end platform, Orchard has created a smarter way for participants in the private credit markets to interact, evaluate deals, and move forward with simple and complex transactions more efficiently. Orchard Platform does not provide legal advice, tax advice, or accounting advice. Before making any investment or executing any transaction, you should consult with your legal, tax, and accounting advisors with respect to the suitability, value, and risk of such investment or transaction. Investment advisory services are provided to clients by Orchard Platform Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in New York, N.Y. Orchard produces the Orchard U.S. Consumer Marketplace Lending Index—the only industry-wide direct lending performance benchmark—and has been named one of the Next Billion Dollar Startups by Forbes. The commentary and insights posted on its blog, and the data and research available to everyone on its platform, have cemented Orchard as a thought leader in its industry. For more information, visit www.orchardplatform.com. About Orchard Platform Markets, LLC Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orchard App Inc., and is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. The mission of Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is to provide a transparent, technologically optimized platform for loan originators and institutional investors to safely and securely connect, evaluate potential deals, and move forward with multiple types of transactions. For more information, visit www.orchardplatformmarkets.com.

ApplePie Capital

Series A in 2015
ApplePie Capital is a financing platform that serves franchise businesses by providing access to capital through a range of loan options. It assists entrepreneurs in starting new franchises, expanding existing locations, acquiring or remodeling units, refinancing debt, and financing equipment and growth initiatives. The company operates an online marketplace that connects franchisees with lenders and supports growth for established brands. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company was founded to increase financial efficiencies for franchise owners and help them meet capital needs to scale their franchises.

Orchard Platform

Series A in 2014
About Orchard Orchard Platform has built a centralized marketplace where loan originators and institutional investors can come together to explore and evaluate opportunities for funding, buying, and selling loans. By providing a global network of institutional buyers and sellers with high-quality data services, advanced analytics and reporting, and robust capital management tools through an innovative, end-to-end platform, Orchard has created a smarter way for participants in the private credit markets to interact, evaluate deals, and move forward with simple and complex transactions more efficiently. Orchard Platform does not provide legal advice, tax advice, or accounting advice. Before making any investment or executing any transaction, you should consult with your legal, tax, and accounting advisors with respect to the suitability, value, and risk of such investment or transaction. Investment advisory services are provided to clients by Orchard Platform Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in New York, N.Y. Orchard produces the Orchard U.S. Consumer Marketplace Lending Index—the only industry-wide direct lending performance benchmark—and has been named one of the Next Billion Dollar Startups by Forbes. The commentary and insights posted on its blog, and the data and research available to everyone on its platform, have cemented Orchard as a thought leader in its industry. For more information, visit www.orchardplatform.com. About Orchard Platform Markets, LLC Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orchard App Inc., and is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. The mission of Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is to provide a transparent, technologically optimized platform for loan originators and institutional investors to safely and securely connect, evaluate potential deals, and move forward with multiple types of transactions. For more information, visit www.orchardplatformmarkets.com.

ApplePie Capital

Seed Round in 2014
ApplePie Capital is a financing platform that serves franchise businesses by providing access to capital through a range of loan options. It assists entrepreneurs in starting new franchises, expanding existing locations, acquiring or remodeling units, refinancing debt, and financing equipment and growth initiatives. The company operates an online marketplace that connects franchisees with lenders and supports growth for established brands. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company was founded to increase financial efficiencies for franchise owners and help them meet capital needs to scale their franchises.

Storyblocks

Series A in 2012
Storyblocks operates as an online subscription-based service offering unlimited downloads of stock media assets, including videos, audio tracks, graphics, and templates. Founded in 2001 and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company aims to provide affordable access to high-quality, royalty-free content for creatives. Through its platforms VideoBlocks.com, GraphicStock.com, and AudioBlocks.com, Storyblocks enables users to download an extensive range of assets without pay-per-clip constraints, fostering creativity and efficiency in storytelling projects.

Prosper Marketplace

Venture Round in 2010
Founded in 2005, Prosper Marketplace is a leading online lending platform that connects borrowers with investors. It facilitates fixed-rate, unsecured personal loans through its transparent marketplace, benefiting both parties financially and socially.

Prosper Marketplace

Venture Round in 2009
Founded in 2005, Prosper Marketplace is a leading online lending platform that connects borrowers with investors. It facilitates fixed-rate, unsecured personal loans through its transparent marketplace, benefiting both parties financially and socially.
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