Right Side Capital Management

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage, pre-seed technology startups in underserved segments of the ecosystem. It invests in a high-volume, capital-efficient portfolio, typically funding rounds of 50,000 to 500,000 and making roughly 75 to 100 investments per year. The firm targets opportunities across the United States and internationally, including Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe, prioritizing companies with scalable products and prudent capital use outside major metro hubs. Since its inception, it has built a broad portfolio across many states. It commits to a fast decision process, often delivering a yes or no within two weeks to help founders establish momentum.

Kevin Dick

Managing Director

David Lambert

Founder and Managing Director

Jeff Pomeranz

Managing Director

Paul Swiencicki

Partner

Past deals in Messaging

Vengreso

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Vengreso offers a text expander tool, FlyMSG, which helps professionals eliminate repetitive messaging tasks with just a few keystrokes. Additionally, they provide virtual selling skills training and technology services to enhance prospecting and sales performance for sales teams and business owners.

ConnectOR

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Surgeries are complicated and ORs are some of the most expensive real estate in the world. Challenges come from all angles - from delayed start-times resulting in domino delays and overlapping cases to staff struggling to navigate complex, disconnected legacy systems, little frictions can lead to major ripples resulting in inefficiencies and unfavorable outcomes for providers and patients. At ConnectOR, we've developed a suite of simple, integrated solutions that solve critical pain-points across the surgical journey. We start with our interconnected scheduling portal and team messaging modules that seamlessly push critical data to our surgical coordination platform for teams to stay informed and in sync. From informing patient families with automated, real-time procedure updates to empowering OR managers with valuable metrics on what matters most to your team, our intuitive modular platform and a forward-thinking product pipeline addresses challenges across your surgical workflow - creating value and reducing frictions for all our users from caregivers to administrators. The future of surgery is Connected.

Lena Health

Seed Round in 2020
Lena Health operates a text-based virtual assistant for patients, enabling clinics and value-based care providers to streamline care tasks. The platform uses conversational AI with optional human support to help patients schedule appointments, coordinate care, navigate services, and support medication adherence, with a focus on individuals with chronic conditions. Through SMS-based interactions, Lena Health reduces call queues and offers a convenient self-service channel that supports providers in delivering value-based care and improving health outcomes.

MedAux

Seed Round in 2020
MedAux LLC, founded in 2017 and based in Bronx, New York, specializes in developing a patient education and messaging platform aimed at enhancing communication between healthcare providers and patients. The platform allows physicians to send daily educational materials, such as videos, messages, and images, tailored to patients' diagnoses and treatment plans. By facilitating secure, HIPAA-compliant interactions, MedAux enables patients to engage with their physicians at any time and from any location. The company utilizes evidence-based algorithms to assist hospitals and clinics in reducing costs, lowering readmission rates, and improving patient satisfaction. Additionally, MedAux’s automated system collects vital clinical data that is often unavailable in traditional electronic health records, enabling healthcare providers to conduct personalized outreach, gather actionable insights, and streamline patient follow-up processes.

Akia

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Akia is an AI-driven platform designed to enhance operations and improve guest satisfaction in the hospitality industry. It offers advanced automation, messaging services, mobile check-in, digital surveys, food & beverage menus, arrival guides, and more through Mini Apps, providing a personalized mobile experience without requiring developers or downloads.

Hellofriend

Venture Round in 2019
Hellofriend Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, operates a social networking platform focused on daily social activities. The company's core business is a social ordering platform that enables users to order ahead at local businesses, pay via the app, invite friends to order together for exclusive rewards and points collection, and communicate through an in-app messaging system and friends feed. Hellofriend also offers tools such as contactless in-store ordering and payment, mobile ordering, and guest loyalty programs to support local businesses in today's competitive market. The company has received backing from notable investors including Harvard Innovation Lab, Lighthouse Labs (Capital One), Accathon Capital, Right Side Capital Management, and CounterPointe Ventures.

Stackin'

Series A in 2019
Stackin' is a financial fitness platform aimed at empowering individuals to enhance their financial lives through engaging text messages. With over one million subscribers, it targets a younger demographic by offering tools and curated products that promote healthy financial habits in a fun and judgment-free environment. The platform leverages a custom messaging system, along with data, machine learning, and human interaction, to send personalized messages that educate users on saving money, reducing debt, and starting to invest. Additionally, Stackin' provides financial tips and content designed to inform and entertain its audience, helping them make informed decisions for their financial future.

Answerable

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Answerable enables brands to engage in conversational commerce at scale via trusted advocates. Its platform dynamically routes consumer queries to knowledgeable individuals from among the brand's employees, customers, or advocates, ensuring authentic and personalized interactions.

Courier

Convertible Note in 2019
Courier is a developer of notification management software that enables businesses to efficiently route user notifications across multiple channels, such as email, SMS, and messaging platforms. Its API allows developers to optimize notification delivery by considering various factors, including user engagement history and real-time online status. This flexibility permits the creation of reusable messages that can be tailored for specific channels, ensuring relevant and timely communication. With a strong focus on customer success, Courier has established long-lasting relationships with its clients by continuously adapting to technological advancements and industry changes. The company is committed to maintaining stability in its management while pushing the boundaries of innovation to meet the evolving needs of its customers.

Kylie.ai

Convertible Note in 2019
Kylie.ai, Inc. develops advanced consumer data analytics software aimed at automating customer care conversations. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, the company employs artificial intelligence algorithms to interpret the context and sentiment of customer complaints. Its software monitors incoming communications to a company's help desk, generating automated responses that customer support agents can review and approve before sending. This solution significantly reduces the workload of support agents, allowing them to focus on more complex inquiries while relying on AI to predict customer needs and provide timely resolutions. Kylie.ai operates as a subsidiary of Directly Software, Inc.

Bitesize

Convertible Note in 2018
Bitesize, Inc. is a company that specializes in a two-way messaging platform designed to facilitate personal dialogue between brands and consumers. Founded in 2017 and based in the United States, the company utilizes artificial intelligence to enable rapid communication, allowing brands to send and receive messages efficiently while categorizing responses by context, keyword, and sentiment. Bitesize caters to various industries, including automotive, home services, healthcare, and entertainment. The platform empowers brands to engage in meaningful, interactive conversations with consumers, moving beyond traditional methods like personalized emails. By enabling genuine one-on-one interactions at scale, Bitesize aims to enhance customer relationships and drive sales for its clients.

Chatcast

Convertible Note in 2018
Chatcast turns Messaging Apps into your most powerful marketing tool.

Stackin'

Seed Round in 2017
Stackin' is a financial fitness platform aimed at empowering individuals to enhance their financial lives through engaging text messages. With over one million subscribers, it targets a younger demographic by offering tools and curated products that promote healthy financial habits in a fun and judgment-free environment. The platform leverages a custom messaging system, along with data, machine learning, and human interaction, to send personalized messages that educate users on saving money, reducing debt, and starting to invest. Additionally, Stackin' provides financial tips and content designed to inform and entertain its audience, helping them make informed decisions for their financial future.

Roof AI

Convertible Note in 2017
Roof AI Inc. is a Montreal-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in an artificial intelligence-driven online messaging platform designed for the real estate sector. The platform facilitates real-time conversations between real estate organizations and their customers, enhancing customer engagement and personalizing the digital experience at scale. By automating interactions through various channels, including social media, websites, and text messages, Roof AI enables real estate brokers to convert leads efficiently. The technology helps reduce operational costs, standardize customer responses, and minimize response times, ultimately generating new revenue from existing customer relationships.

Allie

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Allie is a platform that uses a Slack-integrated bot to promote inclusion and address unconscious bias in the workplace. It surfaces microaggressions and subtle interruptions in meetings, enabling timely intervention and preventing issues from surfacing only during exit interviews or reviews. The platform provides an anonymous feedback channel, surveys on diversity and inclusion topics, and access to educational content and training materials. By collecting data and measuring progress, Allie helps organizations identify areas for improvement and strengthen their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

Community

Convertible Note in 2017
Community is a messaging and engagement platform that enables two-way, direct communication between influencers, brands, public figures, creators, artists, and their audiences at scale. The platform connects businesses and organizations with consumers through a secure channel, including a unique 10-digit phone number, and aims to facilitate authentic interactions while addressing data privacy concerns and reducing the toxicity often associated with traditional social media.

On Second Thought

Convertible Note in 2017
On Second Thought is a messaging application that allows users to undo and edit messages before they reach the recipient. The iOS app supports sending and receiving SMS and MMS, group messaging, and automatic synchronization of contacts and existing conversations. Founded in 2014, the company also holds patented technology to delay or recall messages and payments, enabling users to correct errors before they are delivered or processed.

Drinkeasy

Convertible Note in 2016
Drinkeasy is a personalized shopping assistant that specializes in premium and craft spirits, facilitating purchases through a text-message-based platform. By combining artificial intelligence with human expertise, Drinkeasy offers a unique conversational shopping experience, allowing users to discover and buy hard-to-find liquors from distilleries around the globe. The service enables customers to access a curated selection of crafted spirits and beverages that are often unavailable at local liquor stores. From rare scotch priced at $2,000 to small-batch tequila, Drinkeasy provides tailored recommendations based on individual tastes, making it a valuable resource for both connoisseurs and casual drinkers seeking exceptional options.

Purple

Seed Round in 2016
Purple is a conversational media platform that connects individuals who are passionate about a topic, to curious people who want to learn about it. Their platform allows users to create channels about a topic where they send out interactive stories, and cover exciting events live through messaging. Here is a demo video of our politics channel so you can see how the service works on SMS.

Lifecycle

Convertible Note in 2016
Lifecycle is a customer engagement platform founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in creating intelligent communication solutions for businesses, enabling them to engage with customers through mobile messaging channels. Lifecycle's platform is designed for growth teams aiming to acquire, convert, and retain their initial customer base. It allows digital businesses to effectively test, measure, and send optimized messages tailored to individual users based on their interactions with web or mobile applications. By ensuring that the right content reaches the right users on the appropriate devices at the optimal time, Lifecycle enhances the overall customer experience and supports businesses in achieving their growth objectives.

Yosko

Seed Round in 2016
Yosko develops a hospital solution that enhances patient care coordination by providing a secure messaging system accessible from personal mobile devices and preserving conversations for review by off-duty or new team members; the platform interfaces with hospital electronic health record systems to offer on-the-go access to patient records, supports streamlined hand-offs, and improves staff communication across care teams; by consolidating patient information and communications on a single platform, Yosko aims to reduce administrative complexity and preventable medical errors while enabling clinicians to focus on patient care and safe transitions across shifts.

Tapglue

Convertible Note in 2016
Tapglue is a developer of an online application engagement platform that focuses on enhancing app engagement and user retention by adding a social layer to applications. With over twenty years of experience in product, growth, and engineering across notable tech companies, Tapglue aims to simplify the integration of social features, enabling mobile developers to implement these within hours. The platform allows users to create personal profiles, connect with friends, and engage more deeply with the application, thus leveraging network effects to foster community growth and maximize user interaction. By providing a plug-and-play experience, Tapglue offers developers a streamlined solution to enrich their apps and enhance user engagement.

Karmies

Convertible Note in 2016
Karmies develops a mobile advertising platform centered on branded interactive emojis. The platform provides publishers with an SDK to integrate custom interactive emojis into existing apps and enables brands to reach mobile users through referral-based branded emojis that include content such as traditional banner ads and sponsored content tied to physical locations. The company creates branded emoticons that are clickable on smartphone keyboards and offers features such as Secret Emojiallows that let users attach hidden pictures and text behind emojis. Founded in 2013 and based in Denver, Colorado, Karmies focuses on connecting brands with users who are resistant to traditional advertising by delivering engaging, shareable emoji-based experiences.

Spoken

Convertible Note in 2016
Spoken, Inc. is a company that has developed a mobile messaging application designed to connect users with native English-speaking coaches for personalized business English lessons. Founded in 2016 and based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Spoken aims to make English coaching more accessible through a technology-driven approach. The application allows users to schedule lessons at their convenience, enabling them to learn at their own pace and interact with coaches to receive tailored guidance and support. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Spoken enhances the efficiency of lessons, reducing downtime and ensuring that users only pay for valuable instructional time. This innovative model combines affordability with the benefits of one-on-one coaching from trained U.S.-based instructors, making it a compelling option for those seeking to improve their English skills.

Init.ai

Seed Round in 2016
Init.ai is a developer of a conversational application development platform that simplifies the creation of AI-driven and natural language conversational apps. The platform is designed to enable companies to build standalone, platform-agnostic applications that do not require downloads. Utilizing advanced machine learning techniques, Init.ai’s technology is trained on data rather than explicitly programmed, improving its performance as it encounters more training examples. The platform offers a comprehensive solution that integrates messaging, business logic, and third-party APIs, making it easier for organizations to deploy conversational applications powered by artificial intelligence and natural language processing. Init.ai was acquired by Apple.

Lifecycle

Seed Round in 2015
Lifecycle is a customer engagement platform founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in creating intelligent communication solutions for businesses, enabling them to engage with customers through mobile messaging channels. Lifecycle's platform is designed for growth teams aiming to acquire, convert, and retain their initial customer base. It allows digital businesses to effectively test, measure, and send optimized messages tailored to individual users based on their interactions with web or mobile applications. By ensuring that the right content reaches the right users on the appropriate devices at the optimal time, Lifecycle enhances the overall customer experience and supports businesses in achieving their growth objectives.

My Dealer Service

Convertible Note in 2015
My Dealer Service Corp., also known as MODERN, specializes in developing automotive service management software designed to enhance communication and workflow for automotive service departments. The company offers MDS Notify, a web-based application that facilitates two-way text messaging between service departments and their customers, providing real-time updates on vehicle status throughout the repair process. In addition to improving customer engagement, the platform streamlines various aspects of repair order management and can seamlessly integrate with existing automotive repair management systems. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, My Dealer Service aims to elevate operational efficiency in automotive service centers while significantly enhancing the overall customer experience.

Gorgias

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2015, Gorgias is a leading customer service platform designed specifically for e-commerce businesses. It offers cutting-edge automation and AI capabilities to deliver personalized support across multiple channels, including email, voice, SMS, live chat, and social media. With over 250 employees across eight global offices, Gorgias serves more than 12,000 merchants worldwide, including prominent brands like Steve Madden and Glossier.

Stefan's Head

Convertible Note in 2015
Stefan's Head is an innovative e-commerce platform that specializes in facilitating online purchases through text messaging. The company operates a unique service that connects consumers with curated collections of desirable products, communicated directly via SMS. By subscribing to its text-message list, customers receive updates about new collections and product offerings, enabling them to order items conveniently through text. This approach caters to individuals who appreciate contemporary and appealing merchandise, transforming the shopping experience into a simple and engaging process.

Stream

Seed Round in 2015
Stream.io, Inc. specializes in developing an open-source platform that enables the creation of customizable newsfeeds and messaging applications. The company provides a range of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow product teams to implement chat features and activity feeds tailored to their specific needs. Its offerings include flat feeds for displaying followed content, aggregated feeds for grouping similar content, notification feeds for site alerts, and profile pages for user activity storage. Stream's solutions cater to various sectors, including finance, healthcare, dating, education, and social networking, facilitating community engagement. Established in 2014, the company is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with an additional office located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Stream’s products are recognized for their scalability and security, serving over a billion end-users globally.

PocketSuite

Convertible Note in 2014
PocketSuite offers a mobile platform for independent professionals to manage their businesses efficiently. It facilitates appointment scheduling, client communication via text message, payment acceptance, and more, all integrated into a single app.

Bawte

Convertible Note in 2014
Bawte is a customer engagement platform that enables brands to connect with actual customers. They do this by enabling manufacturers to drive value back to their customers through proactive alerts, messaging and hard to find content.

Naritiv

Convertible Note in 2014
Naritiv Inc. is a marketing and analytics company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in connecting brands with influencers on Snapchat. Founded in 2012, Naritiv leverages its mobile media platform to create engaging content and build large audiences for brands, generating over 20 billion views per month through its owned channels. The company offers a customized social content network and provides technology solutions that facilitate the development and management of Snapchat campaigns. Additionally, Naritiv equips its partners with analytics and reporting tools to enhance audience growth and measure campaign effectiveness across multiple platforms, including Twitter and Instagram.

Mainframe

Convertible Note in 2014
Mainframe Group, Inc. is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform based in Lehi, Utah, established in 2013. It specializes in enabling users to borrow against their cryptocurrency assets. The company's offerings include Onyx, a messaging tool designed for decentralized workplaces, and Mainframe OS, which serves as a developer tool for launching decentralized applications (dApps). Additionally, Mainframe Credit Protocol facilitates fixed-rate lending and borrowing within a decentralized framework. Mainframe operates a network focused on censorship-resistant message routing, addressing the growing demand for privacy and security in communications. This network is designed to resist censorship and surveillance, providing a reliable means for securely transmitting data.

Hollerback

Convertible Note in 2014
Hollerback Inc. is a mobile application company that specializes in enabling users to send video messages, providing a dynamic and engaging way to communicate. The application aims to enhance personal connections by making it easier and more enjoyable for individuals to stay in touch with one another. Hollerback is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and focuses on innovative solutions in the mobile messaging space.

Email Copilot

Seed Round in 2013
Email Copilot is a developer of an automated delivery platform focused on enhancing email messaging for marketers. The company offers a solution that seamlessly integrates with existing marketing automation tools and performs behavior analysis to optimize message delivery. By analyzing user preferences, Email Copilot ensures that emails are sent at times when individual users are most likely to engage, delivering content that resonates with them. This automated approach requires minimal setup and has demonstrated significant improvements in engagement metrics, including increases in open and click rates ranging from 5% to 20%.

Fosbury

Seed Round in 2013
Fosbury is a privately held company based in The Netherlands, established in December 2012. It specializes in creating mobile promotions that enhance customer engagement and drive repeat business through mobile wallets. The company develops campaigns such as coupons, loyalty cards, and gift cards for platforms like Apple Passbook and Google Wallet, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of mobile devices. Fosbury's offerings include a mobile couponing application that allows users to design, manage, and distribute Passbook campaigns effectively. Additionally, the company provides tools for tracking campaign performance, user engagement, and pass updates, thereby enabling businesses to optimize their promotional strategies.

Kato

Seed Round in 2013
Kato is fixing the problem of business communication - enabling teams to communicate faster and more efficiently, reduce email overload and easily access their organizational knowledge. We're on a mission to make life a little better -- to make our jobs easier and more pleasurable, to help businesses work more efficiently, to improve how we communicate with each other. Kato brings the power of text, voice and video to team communication and intelligently manages information coming from other services, preventing data silos while reducing organizational noise. Companies large and small are more efficient and productive using Kato, both internally and with external partners, vendors and customers. Kato makes it possible to bypass the email blackhole and communicate with customers and partners in real-time. Organizations send less email and leverage knowledge better with Kato’s best-in-class search. We're built for business, with enterprise-grade security and administrative control. No hardware to maintain, software to update, or database to backup. It’s for distributed teams and remote workers, small businesses and large multi-nationals, and everything in between.

Storytime Studios

Seed Round in 2013
Storytime Studios, Inc. is a Massachusetts-based company founded in 2012 that specializes in developing an animated messaging application designed for smartphones and tablets. The company's flagship product, the SKIT! app, enables users to create animated shorts, including memes and remixes, using their own photographs alongside a variety of ready-to-use backgrounds, props, and stickers. The app features several tools such as StoryStarter, which helps users generate ideas for their skits; SKIT! Outfits, which allows users to dress up their friends; SKIT! Text, for adding custom phrases; and SKIT! Gallery, which facilitates photo importing and image searching. This user-friendly platform encourages creativity and collaboration, making it an ideal choice for both children and adults to share animated video messages within the community. Users can easily share their creations via social media or through direct messaging, offering a fun and engaging way to tell stories and express themselves.

Nveloped

Seed Round in 2012
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Leanplum

Pre Seed Round in 2012
Leanplum Inc. is a mobile marketing platform that specializes in enhancing engagement for brands through a unified, multichannel approach. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York, London, Bulgaria, and Amsterdam, Leanplum enables businesses to optimize their mobile applications and marketing efforts. The platform offers a range of services including messaging, automation, app editing, personalization, A/B testing, and analytics, allowing product teams to conduct real-time optimization tests and analyze results effectively. Renowned global brands such as Tinder, Grab, Tesco, and Zynga utilize Leanplum to orchestrate integrated campaigns that foster customer loyalty and drive growth. By transforming data into actionable insights, Leanplum helps companies understand user needs, delivering relevant experiences that enhance brand engagement and establish long-term customer relationships.

Apptentive

Seed Round in 2012
Apptentive, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in mobile customer engagement through its software platform, which enables businesses to listen to and interact with their customers effectively. Founded in 2011, Apptentive's platform integrates with thousands of mobile applications, allowing brands to capture actionable customer feedback and insights using in-app messages, surveys, ratings prompts, and analytics. The software is designed to engage user segments and enhance customer retention by understanding behavior and preferences. By facilitating proactive communication, Apptentive helps companies track customer sentiment, improve app ratings, and foster loyalty. Its client base includes well-known brands such as Buffalo Wild Wings, eBay, and Viacom, processing millions of customer interactions each month. Apptentive's capabilities empower businesses to create seamless customer experiences and validate product strategies effectively.

Lua Technologies

Seed Round in 2012
Lua Technologies, Inc. provides enterprise collaboration solutions that empower mobile workforces by giving users access to the people and information they need to complete tasks from the field or the office. The platform enables cross-department access, real-time messaging and conference calling with read receipts, and secure file sharing with data stored in secured colocation facilities alongside government, banking, and Fortune 500 data. It serves Hollywood sets, professional sports franchises, technology and financial companies, and supports HIPAA compliant messaging for healthcare workflows. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York.

We Sparkle

WeSparkle is a tool that allows entrepreneurs to create a custom site with links and downloads, a scheduler platform that allows for collecting payments, and an AI assistant via text messaging and Facebook Messenger — making everything from scheduling meetings to marketing their product easier and faster.

Arishti CyberTech

Arishti CyberTech specializes in secure enterprise communication. It offers a cloud-based messaging platform equipped with quantum-encrypted messaging, anti-spoofing measures, and secure file sharing to protect sensitive information.
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