Findster
Seed Round in 2024
Findster is a pet technology company specializing in GPS tracking devices. Its flagship product, Findster Duo, introduced in 2016, offers real-time pet location monitoring without monthly fees. Powered by its proprietary Maze® technology, Findster Duo enables long-range, off-grid communication between modules, allowing features such as real-time tracking, virtual fence creation, and instant alerts. The product has gained significant popularity, ranking as the #1 bestseller in its category on Amazon.com and being used in over 80 countries.
Purchs
Convertible Note in 2024
Purchs is an omnichannel platform that streamlines the sourcing of goods and billing management for merchants. By utilizing conversational commerce and artificial intelligence, the platform allows merchants to scan product UPC codes with their smartphones and complete transactions via text, eliminating the need for logins or traditional checkout processes. For vendors, Purchs provides a comprehensive e-commerce solution tailored for B2B retail sales, enabling them to list products with customized pricing, manage inventory and delivery, handle customer relationships, and automate payment processes—all from a single interface. Additionally, the platform facilitates wholesale distribution and simplifies direct-to-store delivery, helping clients lower their distribution costs and reduce their carbon footprint.
Purchs
Convertible Note in 2023
Purchs is an omnichannel platform that streamlines the sourcing of goods and billing management for merchants. By utilizing conversational commerce and artificial intelligence, the platform allows merchants to scan product UPC codes with their smartphones and complete transactions via text, eliminating the need for logins or traditional checkout processes. For vendors, Purchs provides a comprehensive e-commerce solution tailored for B2B retail sales, enabling them to list products with customized pricing, manage inventory and delivery, handle customer relationships, and automate payment processes—all from a single interface. Additionally, the platform facilitates wholesale distribution and simplifies direct-to-store delivery, helping clients lower their distribution costs and reduce their carbon footprint.
Zoth is a retail-focused real-world assets ecosystem that tokens real assets and connects traditional finance with on-chain finance, accelerating capital flows between these sectors by enabling investment in tokenized real estate, art, and other alternatives with liquidity and ease for retail investors seeking portfolio diversification and long-term wealth.
ZOTH
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Zoth is a retail-focused real-world assets ecosystem that tokens real assets and connects traditional finance with on-chain finance, accelerating capital flows between these sectors by enabling investment in tokenized real estate, art, and other alternatives with liquidity and ease for retail investors seeking portfolio diversification and long-term wealth.
Purchs
Convertible Note in 2021
Purchs is an omnichannel platform that streamlines the sourcing of goods and billing management for merchants. By utilizing conversational commerce and artificial intelligence, the platform allows merchants to scan product UPC codes with their smartphones and complete transactions via text, eliminating the need for logins or traditional checkout processes. For vendors, Purchs provides a comprehensive e-commerce solution tailored for B2B retail sales, enabling them to list products with customized pricing, manage inventory and delivery, handle customer relationships, and automate payment processes—all from a single interface. Additionally, the platform facilitates wholesale distribution and simplifies direct-to-store delivery, helping clients lower their distribution costs and reduce their carbon footprint.
Purchs is an omnichannel platform that streamlines the sourcing of goods and billing management for merchants. By utilizing conversational commerce and artificial intelligence, the platform allows merchants to scan product UPC codes with their smartphones and complete transactions via text, eliminating the need for logins or traditional checkout processes. For vendors, Purchs provides a comprehensive e-commerce solution tailored for B2B retail sales, enabling them to list products with customized pricing, manage inventory and delivery, handle customer relationships, and automate payment processes—all from a single interface. Additionally, the platform facilitates wholesale distribution and simplifies direct-to-store delivery, helping clients lower their distribution costs and reduce their carbon footprint.
Purchs
Convertible Note in 2019
Purchs is an omnichannel platform that streamlines the sourcing of goods and billing management for merchants. By utilizing conversational commerce and artificial intelligence, the platform allows merchants to scan product UPC codes with their smartphones and complete transactions via text, eliminating the need for logins or traditional checkout processes. For vendors, Purchs provides a comprehensive e-commerce solution tailored for B2B retail sales, enabling them to list products with customized pricing, manage inventory and delivery, handle customer relationships, and automate payment processes—all from a single interface. Additionally, the platform facilitates wholesale distribution and simplifies direct-to-store delivery, helping clients lower their distribution costs and reduce their carbon footprint.
Purchs is an omnichannel platform that streamlines the sourcing of goods and billing management for merchants. By utilizing conversational commerce and artificial intelligence, the platform allows merchants to scan product UPC codes with their smartphones and complete transactions via text, eliminating the need for logins or traditional checkout processes. For vendors, Purchs provides a comprehensive e-commerce solution tailored for B2B retail sales, enabling them to list products with customized pricing, manage inventory and delivery, handle customer relationships, and automate payment processes—all from a single interface. Additionally, the platform facilitates wholesale distribution and simplifies direct-to-store delivery, helping clients lower their distribution costs and reduce their carbon footprint.
Giroptic
Convertible Note in 2017
Giroptic is a company that specializes in developing innovative imaging technology, specifically a patented real-time image fusion process that integrates multiple sensors. The firm gained recognition for its consumer product, the Giroptic 360cam, which was successfully funded through a Kickstarter campaign in 2014, raising over $1.4 million and becoming France’s largest crowdfunding initiative at that time. The Giroptic 360cam is a digital panoramic camera designed to capture high-quality, immersive 360-degree images and videos, allowing users to communicate and share their experiences in a more engaging manner. By providing a new way to capture visual content, Giroptic aims to enhance both personal and professional storytelling through immersive photography and videography.
LiqEase
Seed Round in 2017
LiqEase is a company that leverages modern blockchain technology to digitize assets, specifically focusing on invoice financing to enhance liquidity for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). By converting invoices into digital assets, LiqEase enables businesses to access working capital more efficiently, thereby addressing the liquidity gap that many SMEs face. The company's platform facilitates the sale of invoices to investors at a discount, making these financial instruments easily investable and tradable. This approach not only provides an alternative financing solution for underserved businesses but also promotes increased transparency and trust within the supply chain, benefiting both businesses and professional investors.
Out of X
Convertible Note in 2016
Out of X is a fashion crowdfunding platform that connects independent fashion designers with consumers, particularly focusing on the Chinese market. The company aims to make independent fashion accessible and affordable while supporting designers in their growth. It facilitates partnerships between these brands and Chinese retailers, enabling them to expand their customer base significantly. Out of X specializes in aligning designers with the right consumer segments, ensuring that curated collections from Western designers reach premier buyers. This approach not only helps designers gain visibility but also allows fashion-forward consumers to stay connected with the latest trends in independent fashion.
Giroptic
Seed Round in 2016
Giroptic is a company that specializes in developing innovative imaging technology, specifically a patented real-time image fusion process that integrates multiple sensors. The firm gained recognition for its consumer product, the Giroptic 360cam, which was successfully funded through a Kickstarter campaign in 2014, raising over $1.4 million and becoming France’s largest crowdfunding initiative at that time. The Giroptic 360cam is a digital panoramic camera designed to capture high-quality, immersive 360-degree images and videos, allowing users to communicate and share their experiences in a more engaging manner. By providing a new way to capture visual content, Giroptic aims to enhance both personal and professional storytelling through immersive photography and videography.
Giroptic
Seed Round in 2015
Giroptic is a company that specializes in developing innovative imaging technology, specifically a patented real-time image fusion process that integrates multiple sensors. The firm gained recognition for its consumer product, the Giroptic 360cam, which was successfully funded through a Kickstarter campaign in 2014, raising over $1.4 million and becoming France’s largest crowdfunding initiative at that time. The Giroptic 360cam is a digital panoramic camera designed to capture high-quality, immersive 360-degree images and videos, allowing users to communicate and share their experiences in a more engaging manner. By providing a new way to capture visual content, Giroptic aims to enhance both personal and professional storytelling through immersive photography and videography.
Geili Giving
Convertible Note in 2015
Geili Giving is a company based in Beijing, China, that develops an online crowdfunding application specifically designed for charitable campaigns and NGOs. Founded in 2015 by Elyse Ribbons and Bart Grasza, Geili Giving connects Chinese citizens with pre-vetted charities through a mobile social platform. The application offers a gamified experience that encourages users to engage with charitable programs by playing games, donating, and volunteering. Users can donate digital cash via WeChat's wallet, and they earn additional points for motivating others to contribute. This innovative approach fosters a sense of community and trust between donors and NGOs, enhancing the overall charitable giving experience in China.
Artable
Venture Round in 2015
Artable is a social enterprise established in 2015, evolving from its predecessor, CreatingBox, founded in 2013. The organization operates an online marketplace designed to connect independent artists, designers, and researchers with customers and businesses. By facilitating fundraising and promoting innovative projects, Artable aims to empower creators to achieve independence and foster public engagement. The platform supports a diverse community of mature artists and creative individuals, encouraging collaboration and the sharing of ideas. Artable is dedicated to identifying and nurturing projects that have the potential for significant social impact, thereby contributing to a vibrant and creative ecosystem that benefits both creators and the wider community.
Alpine Labs
Venture Round in 2015
Alpine Labs is a company dedicated to making motion time-lapse photography attainable for photographers at all skill levels. Established with the launch of Radian, a precision rotary motion time-lapse device through a successful Kickstarter campaign, the company later merged with Vivo Labs in 2014, bringing the Michron device into its product lineup. Both Radian and Michron enable photographers to create stunning stationary and motion time-lapse imagery. Headquartered in San Diego, California, with an additional office in Boulder, Colorado, Alpine Labs designs all its products and software in-house in the United States. The company focuses on innovation in photography, providing user-friendly tools that enhance creative expression.
Crowd Supply
Seed Round in 2015
Crowd Supply, Inc. is a crowdfunding platform that specializes in supporting the development and launch of physical products. Founded in 2012 and based in Portland, Oregon, the company assists creators in launching their projects by providing a range of services including campaign creation, fundraising, and product feedback. It facilitates connections with manufacturers, suppliers, and collaborators through its service provider directory, while also offering resources for media outreach and logistics. Crowd Supply caters to companies at various stages of product development, from pre-launch and crowdfunding to pre-order and fulfillment of completed products. As of October 2018, Crowd Supply operates as a subsidiary of Mouser Electronics, Inc.
Idea Market
Seed Round in 2015
Idea Market is a crowd-sourced marketplace that matches entrepreneurs with pre-funded concepts to create companies. It brings together ideas, talent, and money to build successful companies. The company’s aim is to help create 1 million companies in the next 20 years, creating 10 million jobs, and positively impacting a billion people and resulting in 1 trillion dollars in value added to the global economy.
Idea Market was founded in 2014 by Bill Gross and is headquartered in San Francisco, C.A.
Amp Your Good
Seed Round in 2015
Amp Your Good is a technology-driven company that facilitates charitable giving by simplifying the process of food donations through its crowdfunding platform. It empowers individuals and organizations to organize food drives, allowing supporters to select and pay for specific food items that are then delivered directly to local food pantries, soup kitchens, or shelters. By making the act of helping others more social, efficient, and impactful, Amp Your Good aims to amplify the positive intentions of individuals and communities. The company is also a co-founder of the #GiveHealthy Movement, which collaborates with various stakeholders, including hunger relief organizations and public health entities, to enhance access to healthier food options for those in need.
Geili Giving
Seed Round in 2015
Geili Giving is a company based in Beijing, China, that develops an online crowdfunding application specifically designed for charitable campaigns and NGOs. Founded in 2015 by Elyse Ribbons and Bart Grasza, Geili Giving connects Chinese citizens with pre-vetted charities through a mobile social platform. The application offers a gamified experience that encourages users to engage with charitable programs by playing games, donating, and volunteering. Users can donate digital cash via WeChat's wallet, and they earn additional points for motivating others to contribute. This innovative approach fosters a sense of community and trust between donors and NGOs, enhancing the overall charitable giving experience in China.