Sunstone Management

Established in 2015, Sunstone Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Irvine, California. It focuses on investing in early-stage tech companies within the United States.

Clark Hsu

Investment Associate

Mark Jacoub

Technical Business Analyst

Nathan Jia

Vice President

John Keisler

CEO and Managing Partner

Eric Romero

Director of Economic Development

Jayro Sandoval

Economic Development Associate

Mike Stone

Chief Investment Officer and Partner

Jing Sun

Associate Vice President

Lloyd Wei

Vice President

Queena Zhao

Partner

Past deals in Pre-Seed Round

Agentive

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Agentive is a technology company that specializes in streamlining the audit process for accountants. It offers an artificial intelligence-driven platform that automates audit testing and documentation. The platform uses natural language processing to interact with users, perform audit procedures, and generate reports. It can analyze various transaction details, such as bank statements, contracts, and invoices, to help detect accounting errors and enhance the overall audit process.

Kenko

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Kenko is a health technology company that develops a physical therapy management platform to connect physical therapists with patients. The platform enables instant exercise prescriptions, easy appointment scheduling, real-time messaging, and robust progression tracking, helping therapists deliver efficient, personalized care and improve patient recovery outcomes.

IndicatorLab

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Provider of a data stream platform designed to assist investors in hedging risks. The platform aggregates various indicators such as macroeconomic, microeconomic, technical, fundamental, and sentiment-based data, utilizing historical matching scores and automatic machine learning for investment protection and risk management.

Movig

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Movig is a technology platform designed to assist content creators in accelerating the process of securing brand partnerships. By centralizing contacts and automating the brand deal workflow through its artificial intelligence sales tools, Movig enables creators to manage collaborations and deliverables within a single workspace. The platform offers features such as customizable outreach templates and personalized pitch capabilities, allowing users to efficiently connect with brands and streamline their partnership efforts. As a result, content creators can save valuable time and focus more on producing content while enhancing their ability to scale brand deals effectively.

Class Chat

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Class Chat develops a communication platform that facilitates real-time, tailored conversations between students, teachers, and faculty. Its peer-to-peer messaging system aims to enhance academic engagement and social intelligence, replacing outdated mass notifications with personalized communication.

Creator-Sync

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Creator-Sync is a music app that connects artists with influencers to promote streaming and monetize content. The platform allows artists to publish original and new material and partner with influencers who stream and promote videos in exchange for a share of the revenue generated, enabling a revenue-sharing model for creators and influencers while delivering fresh music to listeners at an affordable cost.

Remmie

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2018, Remmie develops an AI-powered ear-nose-throat health platform. It offers an at-home digital monitor that visualizes symptoms via a mobile app, empowering families to actively participate in their healthcare and improving diagnostic accuracy for telemedicine providers.

Kinlia

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kinlia is an AI-driven platform addressing the growing social health crisis. It helps users discover local events they're interested in and matches them with small groups to attend together. Kinlia's AI Agents provide personalized event recommendations, real-time local event mapping, and group coordination. With over 55,000 users and $6,000 monthly GMV, Kinlia is expanding city by city, starting with NYC, LA, and the Bay Area.

bluDOT

Pre Seed Round in 2022
bluDOT, Inc. is a Denver-based company founded in 2018 that operates a platform designed to connect merchants with their customers through an innovative customer loyalty program. Utilizing advanced facial recognition technology and social networking, bluDOT enhances customer engagement by offering loyalty points that can be redeemed for future purchases. The platform integrates with point of sale devices, allowing merchants to gain valuable insights into customer loyalty and preferences. By simplifying the loyalty experience, bluDOT aims to transform retail interactions, making them more rewarding for both consumers and businesses.

Rentado

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rentado is a platform empowering individual property owners and renters by facilitating secure online rent payments via credit cards, Venmo, PayPal, and more. It enables renters to submit maintenance requests with photos and videos directly to landlords, while landlords can organize properties, assign tenants, auto-assign maintenance personnel, and manage deposits securely.

CenSyn

Pre Seed Round in 2022
CenSyn develops a portable brain health assessment platform. It comprises a handheld EEG device for rapid neurological evaluation, a mobile app for real-time data viewing, and machine learning algorithms to detect mental status changes. This enables medical professionals to conduct cognitive assessments across various settings.

anthym

Pre Seed Round in 2022
anthym develops a team connection platform that fosters authentic, lasting human connections within teams to support cohesion and high performance. The platform enables members to surface and catalog important life moments, guides moment-sharing sessions, and creates ongoing team connection rituals by aligning members through shared life moments, experiences, and media inspirations, helping organizations keep employees engaged and connected.

Syntr Health Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2019 by Ahmed Zobi, Hugo Salas, and Justin Stovner, Syntr Health Technologies develops the SyntrFugeâ„¢ device for micro-fragmentation of adipose tissue, enabling body contouring procedures.

Pathloom

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Pathloom is an online platform that assists hikers, campers, and other outdoor enthusiasts in discovering unique outdoor locations and planning trips. The application streamlines the planning process by offering tailored recommendations for day trips, overnight stays, or longer excursions, helping users save time and effort. Its goal is to encourage more frequent outdoor activity by simplifying how people find and organize adventures.

Intellitech

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Intellitech specializes in providing tailored tracking and maintenance solutions across various industries. The company leverages Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to deliver a predictive maintenance platform that addresses the unique needs of different sectors. By offering customized key performance indicators (KPIs) and analytics, Intellitech enhances operational precision and productivity. This approach enables clients to make informed decisions, ultimately improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their maintenance processes.

Apsy

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Apsy is a company that has developed an innovative AI-driven mobile and web application builder, allowing users to create applications through simple conversations with an AI agent. This tool leverages machine programming to generate custom software solutions, effectively overcoming traditional constraints related to time, quality, and cost. Apsy's approach enables businesses to design and build applications tailored to their specific needs and specifications, akin to a bespoke suit. By streamlining the app development process, Apsy provides a new means for organizations to produce intelligent code quickly and efficiently, revolutionizing the way applications are created and implemented.

Rotender

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rotender designs and manufactures robotic vending machines for bars and restaurants. Their automated system enables customers to browse drink menus, pay online, and receive mixed cocktails by placing their cups in the machine.

Ocra

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Ocra is a parking management platform that simplifies the listing, search, and booking of parking spaces, including details on amenities and location, and supports short-term and long-term rentals. In addition, the company provides a revenue management solution that helps parking asset owners optimize yield and net operating income through dynamic pricing, occupancy analytics, and forecasting, enabling parking operators, real estate owners, and asset managers to improve revenue performance and operational efficiency. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Ocra combines space management with pricing optimization to streamline parking operations and maximize profitability.

Educational Vision Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Educational Vision Technologies develops AI-powered tools to automate video editing and course creation, making online learning more accessible, efficient, and engaging. The company offers Bloom, which converts user-uploaded videos such as Zoom recordings into enhanced online courses, and the EVT Learning System, an automated studio-in-a-box that transforms classrooms into online course studios. Its platform turns classroom content into interactive, personalized learning experiences by producing ready to use course materials from existing recordings and sessions, enabling educators to create useful content with reduced effort.

Seatrec

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Seatrec is a climatetech startup specializing in clean energy solutions derived from temperature differences in ocean waters. Founded in 2012 by Dr. Yi Chao, the company leverages technology developed at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create innovative energy harvesting systems. These systems use patented thermal engine technologies to generate renewable electricity, enabling oceanographic research equipment such as drones, floats, and gliders to operate sustainably. By utilizing Seatrec's technology, researchers can extend the operational life of their equipment, reduce costs, and enhance data collection capabilities with zero emissions and waste. The applications of Seatrec's solutions span various fields, including ocean data capture, seafloor mapping, offshore aquaculture, Arctic research, meteorology, and climate change mitigation.

Seatrec

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Seatrec is a climatetech startup specializing in clean energy solutions derived from temperature differences in ocean waters. Founded in 2012 by Dr. Yi Chao, the company leverages technology developed at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create innovative energy harvesting systems. These systems use patented thermal engine technologies to generate renewable electricity, enabling oceanographic research equipment such as drones, floats, and gliders to operate sustainably. By utilizing Seatrec's technology, researchers can extend the operational life of their equipment, reduce costs, and enhance data collection capabilities with zero emissions and waste. The applications of Seatrec's solutions span various fields, including ocean data capture, seafloor mapping, offshore aquaculture, Arctic research, meteorology, and climate change mitigation.

Matrubials

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Matrubials is a biotechnology company focused on creating innovative antibacterial therapeutics to combat non-selectivity and the growing issue of antimicrobial resistance. The company harnesses artificial intelligence to identify and develop anti-pathogenic molecules derived from milk, transforming them into therapeutics aimed at addressing diseases affecting individuals of all ages. By targeting bacterial infections and their associated clinical complications, Matrubials aims to alleviate the healthcare and economic burdens these conditions impose. Their work supports researchers in advancing novel drug solutions for significant unmet medical needs, particularly in areas like bacterial vaginosis and other contemporary diseases.

Closed Loop Plastics

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Closed Loop Plastics specializes in manufacturing 3D printing filament derived entirely from post-consumer plastic waste, which it sources from local Materials Recovery Facilities. The company employs a patented process that begins with grinding discarded plastic into small pieces, which are then transformed into reusable filament through an integrated extruder system. By converting old plastic into a sustainable product, Closed Loop Plastics aims to reduce costs for the 3D printing industry while promoting environmental stewardship. Its mission is to facilitate sustainable living by offering low-cost, high-performance resources that leverage recycled materials.

Here Here Market

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Here Here Market is an online boutique marketplace and creator platform for culinary talent, including chefs, bakers, and small-batch artisans. The platform serves as a centralized hub that helps culinary creators generate revenue, expand brand exposure across multiple sales channels, and collaborate on unique food-focused ventures. It offers products organized by cuisine, activity, or ingredients, enabling consumers to access quality, locally inspired items while promoting community and sustainability. By pairing marketplace features with creator tools, Here Here Market supports independent cooks and emerging brands in building an online presence and monetizing their craft.

Zero Infinity One

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zero Infinity One specializes in immersive systems that facilitate telepresence and spatial entertainment beyond conventional screen-based formats. The company integrates holographic communication and shared interactive experiences, enabling users to connect, gather, and interact socially across distances with a heightened sense of presence.

Gritty In Pink

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gritty In Pink is a platform empowering women in music by connecting them with career opportunities, industry networks, live performance bookings, mentorships, and professional development resources. It aims to address the gender imbalance in the music industry.

Closed Loop Plastics

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Closed Loop Plastics specializes in manufacturing 3D printing filament derived entirely from post-consumer plastic waste, which it sources from local Materials Recovery Facilities. The company employs a patented process that begins with grinding discarded plastic into small pieces, which are then transformed into reusable filament through an integrated extruder system. By converting old plastic into a sustainable product, Closed Loop Plastics aims to reduce costs for the 3D printing industry while promoting environmental stewardship. Its mission is to facilitate sustainable living by offering low-cost, high-performance resources that leverage recycled materials.

StoryBolt

Pre Seed Round in 2021
StoryBolt is a marketplace platform that connects organizations with documentary filmmakers, enabling access to content that matters and offering traction data through organizational subscriptions. Filmmakers can monetize their short documentaries, while organizations use documentary storytelling to improve employee engagement and retention. The platform enables exposure to real and inspiring stories through documentary storytelling and live sessions, helping businesses address difficult topics, advance diversity and inclusion, and enhance communication, innovation and productivity.

Bump

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bump is an AI-driven platform that assists creators in managing microadvances for their businesses. It helps track and collect unclaimed revenue, determines eligibility for micro-financing, and facilitates personalized live sessions with industry executives.

Ocra

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Ocra is a parking management platform that simplifies the listing, search, and booking of parking spaces, including details on amenities and location, and supports short-term and long-term rentals. In addition, the company provides a revenue management solution that helps parking asset owners optimize yield and net operating income through dynamic pricing, occupancy analytics, and forecasting, enabling parking operators, real estate owners, and asset managers to improve revenue performance and operational efficiency. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Ocra combines space management with pricing optimization to streamline parking operations and maximize profitability.
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