Unshackled Ventures

Unshackled Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, established in 2014. The firm specializes in supporting unrecognized and excluded immigrant founders in launching their companies in the United States. By providing not only capital but also assistance with visa and green card sponsorships, Unshackled Ventures enables these entrepreneurs to focus entirely on building their businesses. The firm has demonstrated its investment thesis by successfully backing a diverse range of sectors, including software, hardware, life sciences, and generative AI, among others. Since its inception, Unshackled Ventures has invested in approximately 80 companies and has collaborated with over 200 entrepreneurs, affirming its commitment to fostering innovation and driving strong investment returns through its unique focus on immigrant founders.

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Dosen

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Dosen is a personal development platform that provides users with live, one-on-one access to expert advisors and mentors across various fields. The platform facilitates personal growth by enabling users to receive tailored advice through video calls, integrating features such as scheduling, payment processing, and promotional tools. By connecting individuals with knowledgeable professionals, Dosen aims to enhance the personal development experience, allowing users to seek guidance and support in their specific areas of interest.

somi

Pre Seed Round in 2025
A social shopping app built to bring your friends on your shopping journey while marrying AI-driven personalization with aggregation to make shopping fun and time-saving!

Masa

Seed Round in 2024
Masa is a decentralized AI platform and data marketplace designed to transform the credit infrastructure landscape. By enabling users to be compensated for their data contributions, Masa aims to disrupt traditional centralized credit systems. Its innovative protocol includes a non-fungible credit report, composable credit primitives, smart contracts, and liquidity pools, all of which facilitate a scalable, interoperable, and standardized on-chain identity infrastructure tailored for the web3 ecosystem. This infrastructure supports developers in building web3 communities by allowing them to acquire, verify, and engage users, while also providing tools to launch advanced credit products that align with existing centralized credit paradigms.

TextQL

Pre Seed Round in 2023
TextQL is a virtual data analysis platform that streamlines the data-to-insight process for organizations. It integrates with various data catalogs and indexes business intelligence tools while documenting data efficiently. By utilizing language models and natural language processing, TextQL enables non-technical users to pose questions in their preferred work environments, such as Slack, Teams, or email, and receive swift, automated responses. The platform's incorporation of semantic layers, including those from dbt Labs, enhances the accuracy of its solutions. Additionally, TextQL facilitates seamless transitions to human analysts when necessary, thereby simplifying the overall question-to-answer process and empowering business teams to access insights rapidly.

Cache Energy

Seed Round in 2023
Cache Energy is focused on developing advanced energy storage technology aimed at providing a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels. The company specializes in ultra-long duration energy storage solutions through a thermo-chemical process that allows for the storage of energy for extended periods, with minimal loss. This non-toxic and non-flammable technology is designed for easy transportation, making it suitable for various industrial applications. By addressing the need for sustainable energy storage, Cache Energy aims to contribute to a more environmentally friendly energy landscape.

Maximus

Series A in 2022
Maximus is a consumer telemedicine company for men’s health and hormone optimization. Maximus is revolutionizing the performance enhancement space by democratizing doctor-prescribed protocols developed by some of the world’s leading experts in men’s health. Maximus’ King Protocol utilizes a convenient prescription medication capsule to stimulate natural testosterone production, proven by at-home lab tests. Maximus was established in 2020 by Cameron Sepah in Santa Monica, California.

Formally

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Formally is a legal collaboration company focused on enhancing access to justice through innovative technology and user-friendly design. It has developed an intuitive platform that simplifies the immigration and citizenship form-filling process, enabling users to prepare their applications in their native language. By automating these legal processes, Formally aims to eliminate bureaucratic barriers that often hinder immigrants. The platform also features a resource page that guides users through the asylum application process in the United States, allowing attorneys to devote more time to client representation rather than paperwork. Through its efforts, Formally seeks to make legal assistance more accessible to a broader audience.

Prismpop

Seed Round in 2022
Prismpop is an online beauty community that helps users in finding products that are personalized to their needs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

Masa

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Masa is a decentralized AI platform and data marketplace designed to transform the credit infrastructure landscape. By enabling users to be compensated for their data contributions, Masa aims to disrupt traditional centralized credit systems. Its innovative protocol includes a non-fungible credit report, composable credit primitives, smart contracts, and liquidity pools, all of which facilitate a scalable, interoperable, and standardized on-chain identity infrastructure tailored for the web3 ecosystem. This infrastructure supports developers in building web3 communities by allowing them to acquire, verify, and engage users, while also providing tools to launch advanced credit products that align with existing centralized credit paradigms.

PolyGone Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2022
PolyGone Systems is a cleantech company that removes microplastic pollutants from waterways. PolyGone Systems was founded in 2021.

Parfait

Seed Round in 2022
Parfait is a brand-new wig customization platform aimed at disrupting the category by integrating facial recognition and artificial intelligence to provide buyers with customizable wig products.

WithOthers

Pre Seed Round in 2022
WithOthers is a music impact events platform founded in 2021 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It aims to connect artists and fans while facilitating activism through live events. The platform supports live creators by helping them establish networks of local event organizers and providing enhanced event support. Additionally, WithOthers utilizes token-based ticket technology to streamline the event creation process, making it more meaningful, profitable, and engaging for fans. By mobilizing communities, the company enables organizations across various fields to further their missions and foster active participation in social causes.

Hairtelligence

Seed Round in 2022
Hairtelligence is using computer vision technology that enables customers to customize their hair wigs and extensions, all from the comfort of their home. This is the first direct-to-consumer customization business model, eliminating the need for in person visits, and removing the costs associated with customization from traditional stylists. Our service generates customizable 3D hair models that match wigs and other hair extensions, such as clip-ins, braids, bundles, and closures that we manufacture, customize and sell, allowing the user to visualize realistic product results in real time. By capturing the dimensions of our customers facial features to measure wig, closure, and frontal fit, using color identification to match skin tone to lace tint, and allowing our customers to select the color and cut of their hairstyle, we provide fully customized wigs, weave bundles, frontals, and closures with a single purchase. The company was co-founded by Isoken Igbinedion and Ifueko Igbinedion.

Faeth Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
Faeth Therapeutics is a data-driven, evidence-based company that specializes in mechanistic understanding of the way that dietary nutrients influence tumor growth and cancer treatment. It fully focuses on matching specific diets with tumor genotypes and treatment regimens to improve the outcomes of cancer therapy. The company was founded to translate breakthrough discoveries, made by cancer research laboratories, into clinical practice. Its founding team includes some of the industry’s preeminent researchers and clinicians.

Pod Foods

Series A in 2021
Pod Foods is a logistics and technology-enabled B2B marketplace that connects food brands directly with grocery retailers, catering to both traditional and online delivery platforms. The company has developed supply chain software aimed at streamlining the distribution process of groceries. This software facilitates direct purchasing between stores and food makers, which helps food distributors deliver quality products to retailers nationwide while reducing costs. By focusing on the needs of growing brands and retailers, Pod Foods is positioned to support the evolving landscape of grocery distribution.

CatalyzeX

Seed Round in 2021
CatalyzeX provides a platform that assists engineers, developers, and technical leaders in discovering and applying machine learning techniques to their projects. The company offers a website featuring a search engine that allows users to look up various machine learning techniques along with their code implementations. Additionally, CatalyzeX has developed browser extensions that automatically identify and display relevant code implementations for machine learning papers encountered while browsing the internet. This functionality streamlines the process of finding applicable machine learning solutions, making it easier for professionals in the field to integrate advanced techniques into their work.

Plantible

Series A in 2021
Plantible Foods is a business-to-business food technology company that focuses on producing sustainable plant-based protein aimed at transforming the food industry. The company utilizes a proprietary and vertically integrated agricultural manufacturing platform, which enables food companies to innovate while optimizing costs. Plantible's protein is all-natural, organic, and free of major allergens, offering functional characteristics comparable to egg whites, whey protein, and casein. This allows clients to enhance product quality by incorporating a sustainable protein source while also reducing expenses. By prioritizing taste, texture, health benefits, and environmental sustainability, Plantible Foods is positioned to support food manufacturers in creating better products.

Pngme

Series A in 2021
Pngme is a financial data platform that aims to enhance access to finance for unbanked and underserved populations. It simplifies the processes of collecting, analyzing, and utilizing financial data, enabling banks, fintech companies, and credit bureaus to develop innovative financial products. The platform facilitates one-click data sharing and provides real-time insights and credit scoring, which empower financial institutions to scale their lending operations while managing risk effectively. By digitizing the credit scoring and capital procurement processes, Pngme helps these institutions access additional capital and improve their offerings. The company's mission centers on returning data ownership to individuals, thereby promoting equitable financial opportunities and fostering wealth creation for billions globally.

Maximus

Seed Round in 2021
Maximus is a consumer telemedicine company for men’s health and hormone optimization. Maximus is revolutionizing the performance enhancement space by democratizing doctor-prescribed protocols developed by some of the world’s leading experts in men’s health. Maximus’ King Protocol utilizes a convenient prescription medication capsule to stimulate natural testosterone production, proven by at-home lab tests. Maximus was established in 2020 by Cameron Sepah in Santa Monica, California.

Simulon

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Simulon is a developer of innovative video production applications that cater to creators seeking to enhance their projects with professional-quality visual effects. The company's tools enable users to create high-quality visual effects in real-time, making it accessible for individuals without specialist skills or advanced technology. By focusing on affordability and ease of use, Simulon empowers users to achieve studio-quality results on consumer-grade hardware, thereby democratizing the video editing process for a broader audience.

Simulon

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Simulon is a developer of innovative video production applications that cater to creators seeking to enhance their projects with professional-quality visual effects. The company's tools enable users to create high-quality visual effects in real-time, making it accessible for individuals without specialist skills or advanced technology. By focusing on affordability and ease of use, Simulon empowers users to achieve studio-quality results on consumer-grade hardware, thereby democratizing the video editing process for a broader audience.

The Landing

Seed Round in 2021
The Landing is a social design platform that empowers everyone to create together. Our mission is to empower and enable the creativity of our community through an intuitive, fun, and social platform. We believe the future of product discovery is social, experiential, and creator-led. We provide our community with the tools to discover, remix, create and connect over fully customizable moodboards.

Strive FM

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Strive FM is an advertising technology platform that allows rideshare drivers to earn income by promoting Spotify artists through music played during rides. The platform facilitates organic growth for artists by providing passengers with exposure to their music. It employs QR-code remotes to enhance passenger interaction with the music, thereby gathering valuable data on fan engagement and preferences. This innovative approach not only benefits artists seeking to expand their audience but also creates a unique advertising avenue within the rideshare ecosystem, emphasizing modern methods of music endorsement.

Inspirit

Seed Round in 2021
Inspirit is an education technology company specializing in virtual reality tools for science and STEM education. Founded in 2019 and based in Palo Alto, California, Inspirit provides educational institutions with a next-generation learning platform that features a comprehensive library of immersive labs and simulations. Their offerings include virtual labs and gamified experiences aimed at enhancing student engagement and understanding of complex scientific concepts. The platform also incorporates no-code creator tools, allowing educators to design custom simulations, experiments, and assessments tailored to their curriculum needs. With capabilities for classroom management and collaborative lab sessions, Inspirit's tools foster active participation and critical reasoning among learners, transforming the way science is taught globally.

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.

Prismpop

Seed Round in 2020
Prismpop is an online beauty community that helps users in finding products that are personalized to their needs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

Faeth Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2020
Faeth Therapeutics is a data-driven, evidence-based company that specializes in mechanistic understanding of the way that dietary nutrients influence tumor growth and cancer treatment. It fully focuses on matching specific diets with tumor genotypes and treatment regimens to improve the outcomes of cancer therapy. The company was founded to translate breakthrough discoveries, made by cancer research laboratories, into clinical practice. Its founding team includes some of the industry’s preeminent researchers and clinicians.

Luminai

Seed Round in 2020
Luminai is a technology company that specializes in automating internal workflows to enhance operational efficiency. Its cloud-based platform is designed for helpdesks, offering automated alternatives for code documentation and streamlining multi-step processes into a single click. Key features of the platform include source code documentation, one-click integration, and comprehensive workflow documentation. By consolidating customer data in one centralized location, Luminai enables organizations to respond swiftly to customer inquiries and improve overall service quality. The company's solutions are tailored to simplify complex tasks, ultimately helping clients optimize their workflow and enhance productivity.

Dispo

Seed Round in 2020
Dispo is a mobile photo-sharing application that aims to bring back the joy of photography by mimicking the experience of using a disposable camera. The app does not feature a front-facing screen, allowing users to take photos without immediate feedback. Instead, it processes and develops these images over a period of one day, creating a sense of anticipation and encouraging users to capture genuine moments. By focusing on the simplicity and authenticity of photography, Dispo offers a unique platform for users to share their experiences and memories.

DiG Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2020
DiG Labs focuses on enhancing brand experiences through the effective use of visual data, fostering a strong connection between companies and their consumers. Additionally, the company has developed a dog health application that offers personalized insights tailored to individual pets based on factors such as age, weight, and health concerns. This platform allows users to adjust nutritional formulas specific to their pets, ensuring that the products are developed with input from nutritionists to promote optimal pet care.

Copilot

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Copilot is a San Francisco-based company that offers a real-time artificial intelligence platform designed to enhance the effectiveness of sales representatives. Founded in 2020, it provides a software as a service (SaaS) solution that analyzes conversations during sales calls and video conferences, generating cue cards and delivering relevant content based on the context of the discussion. This platform addresses the inefficiency in content usage by ensuring that sales professionals receive timely and pertinent information, such as case studies and marketing collateral, integrated seamlessly into their workflow. By capturing live call transcriptions and notes, Copilot enables sales teams to improve their performance, shorten ramp-up times, and ultimately close more deals.

Inception Ops

Seed Round in 2020
Inception Ops is a stealth mode company based in San Francisco

Luminai

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Luminai is a technology company that specializes in automating internal workflows to enhance operational efficiency. Its cloud-based platform is designed for helpdesks, offering automated alternatives for code documentation and streamlining multi-step processes into a single click. Key features of the platform include source code documentation, one-click integration, and comprehensive workflow documentation. By consolidating customer data in one centralized location, Luminai enables organizations to respond swiftly to customer inquiries and improve overall service quality. The company's solutions are tailored to simplify complex tasks, ultimately helping clients optimize their workflow and enhance productivity.

On Deck

Series A in 2020
On Deck is a platform designed to support ambitious individuals globally by providing fellowship programs that accelerate career development and entrepreneurial ideas. The company fosters a collaborative community and offers action-oriented programming to help founders and aspiring entrepreneurs navigate the early stages of starting a business. By creating an environment conducive to growth, On Deck equips participants with essential guidance and resources, enabling them to refine their ideas and establish meaningful connections. Through its focus on personal and professional development, On Deck aims to empower individuals to achieve their goals more efficiently.

Prismpop

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Prismpop is an online beauty community that helps users in finding products that are personalized to their needs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

Lily AI

Series A in 2020
Lily AI is a developer of an e-commerce product discovery platform that enhances the sales capabilities of brands and retailers. The platform integrates customer-centric product attributes into various components of the e-commerce ecosystem, including site search engines, recommendation systems, and SEO/SEM functionalities. By improving on-site search and personalized product discovery, Lily AI supports retailers in the fashion, home, and beauty sectors, leading to significant increases in traffic, conversion rates, revenue, and brand loyalty. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company is backed by venture capital.

Hairtelligence

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Hairtelligence is using computer vision technology that enables customers to customize their hair wigs and extensions, all from the comfort of their home. This is the first direct-to-consumer customization business model, eliminating the need for in person visits, and removing the costs associated with customization from traditional stylists. Our service generates customizable 3D hair models that match wigs and other hair extensions, such as clip-ins, braids, bundles, and closures that we manufacture, customize and sell, allowing the user to visualize realistic product results in real time. By capturing the dimensions of our customers facial features to measure wig, closure, and frontal fit, using color identification to match skin tone to lace tint, and allowing our customers to select the color and cut of their hairstyle, we provide fully customized wigs, weave bundles, frontals, and closures with a single purchase. The company was co-founded by Isoken Igbinedion and Ifueko Igbinedion.

Passbird Research

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Passbird Research is at the forefront, re-writing the internet, the digital infrastructure, and economics. They provide software companies that would come to read about a decade later in internet history books.

LiveDocs

Pre Seed Round in 2019
LiveDocs is a document editing platform that enables teams to create self-updating documents featuring live data from various tools such as Stripe, Google Analytics, and Segment. By allowing users to track essential metrics like retention, monthly recurring revenue, and web traffic, LiveDocs simplifies the process of managing vital information. The platform is designed for ease of use, requiring no coding or database schema knowledge, making it accessible for all team members. LiveDocs documents can be built quickly and shared effortlessly, facilitating better collaboration and data-driven decision-making within organizations.

BounceTown

Pre Seed Round in 2019
BounceTown develops an application designed to make music production simple. It provides social graphs for creators to set up immediate feedback loops. It also helps creators build a reputation for their music skills. It helps them build a community, a following, and a fan base.

Pngme

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pngme is a financial data platform that aims to enhance access to finance for unbanked and underserved populations. It simplifies the processes of collecting, analyzing, and utilizing financial data, enabling banks, fintech companies, and credit bureaus to develop innovative financial products. The platform facilitates one-click data sharing and provides real-time insights and credit scoring, which empower financial institutions to scale their lending operations while managing risk effectively. By digitizing the credit scoring and capital procurement processes, Pngme helps these institutions access additional capital and improve their offerings. The company's mission centers on returning data ownership to individuals, thereby promoting equitable financial opportunities and fostering wealth creation for billions globally.

Plutoshift AI

Series A in 2019
Plutoshift is an operational data platform to monitor physical infrastructure. It leverages existing data collection systems to automate data workflows and provide a unified view of performance. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Prime Discoveries

Seed Round in 2019
Prime Discoveries LLC specializes in microbiome testing, discovery, and research services, focusing on the development of rapid diagnostics for emerging pathogen infections. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company utilizes a technology platform that combines automation, machine learning, and computational biology. This innovative approach allows for the creation of cost-effective and massively scalable assays that deliver results in under one hour, requiring minimal lab infrastructure and technical expertise. Prime Discoveries' products are designed to address a range of health concerns, including Covid, flu, sexually transmitted infections, and drug-resistant microbes. The company's assays, developed in the United States, aim to enhance understanding of the complex interactions between microbes and health, serving both the healthcare and agricultural sectors.

GrowthPlug

Pre Seed Round in 2019
GrowthPlug Inc. is a marketing platform designed specifically for healthcare practitioners, aimed at enhancing their online presence and optimizing practice growth. Incorporated in 2016 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with an additional office in Beaverton, Oregon, GrowthPlug provides a suite of services including customer acquisition strategies, online reputation management, and automation of front desk operations. Launched in 2017, the platform focuses on delivering a patient-first experience by offering tools such as search engine optimization, business listings management, and an insights dashboard. By working with hundreds of healthcare practices nationwide, GrowthPlug helps its clients improve their digital presence and drive revenue growth.

OXIO

Seed Round in 2019
OXIO is a telecom-as-a-service platform that provides brands and enterprises with a cloud-based solution to unbundle mobile telecom infrastructure. By leveraging a connectivity trading exchange and a proprietary multi-network smart client, OXIO enables clients to mix and match various wireless networks, facilitating the creation of customized, asset-light networks delivered in a matter of days. This innovative approach allows brands to gain unprecedented control over their wireless experience and access actionable data that was previously confined to telecom silos. Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Mexico City and Montreal, OXIO aims to enhance customer engagement by delivering a differentiated wireless experience tailored to the needs of each brand.

Inspirit

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Inspirit is an education technology company specializing in virtual reality tools for science and STEM education. Founded in 2019 and based in Palo Alto, California, Inspirit provides educational institutions with a next-generation learning platform that features a comprehensive library of immersive labs and simulations. Their offerings include virtual labs and gamified experiences aimed at enhancing student engagement and understanding of complex scientific concepts. The platform also incorporates no-code creator tools, allowing educators to design custom simulations, experiments, and assessments tailored to their curriculum needs. With capabilities for classroom management and collaborative lab sessions, Inspirit's tools foster active participation and critical reasoning among learners, transforming the way science is taught globally.

Career Karma

Seed Round in 2019
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.

Pod Foods

Seed Round in 2019
Pod Foods is a logistics and technology-enabled B2B marketplace that connects food brands directly with grocery retailers, catering to both traditional and online delivery platforms. The company has developed supply chain software aimed at streamlining the distribution process of groceries. This software facilitates direct purchasing between stores and food makers, which helps food distributors deliver quality products to retailers nationwide while reducing costs. By focusing on the needs of growing brands and retailers, Pod Foods is positioned to support the evolving landscape of grocery distribution.

HireClub

Pre Seed Round in 2019
HireClub is an exclusive career consulting firm that assists individuals in finding jobs and improving their professional skills. The company offers a range of services, including personalized career coaching, resume enhancement, interview practice, and salary negotiation support. By providing tailored guidance, HireClub aims to empower students and job seekers to navigate the job market effectively and make informed career choices.

Aavia

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Aavia was born from a shared passion for solving problems in healthcare and improving female health and wellness. They chose Aavia because it evokes an image of a bird - powerful and free to soar. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

21labs

Pre Seed Round in 2019
21labs is a DevOps platform that uses production analytics to enable autonomous testing and release with confidence, backed by data.The self-learning, auto-maintenance test automation platform reduces manual and automated QA efforts by 90% and helps organizations truly leverage CI/CD in weeks vs. years. 21 Labs is a framework agnostic SaaS platform, integrated into its customers’ stack, requiring no lengthy setup processes.

Human

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Human is an e-learning platform to hear and follow voice notes from the greatest mentors. The company was founded by Yijen Liu and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Pilleve

Seed Round in 2019
Pilleve's aim is to fill in the gap between opioid prescription and addiction, which has affected millions of Americans and resulted in thousands of accidental overdoses. Pilleve decreases the costs of opioid abuse and addiction for insurance companies, providers, loved ones and patients. This ranges from accidental overdoses to long term treatment. We do that by detecting the signs earlier, intervening, and ensuring patients are using their prescription opioids safely. In doing so, pilleve decreases the social and financial burden that cripples patients and their stakeholders. Pilleve’s solution to opioid misuse and abuse starts with an integrated pill bottle, coupled with a smartphone application, that accurately monitor’s a patient's intake in real time and securely holds opioids at all times. Patients input passwords or use their phone’s biometric scanners to dispense a pill. Before dispensing their opioids, patients are asked about their pain levels and mood in order to assess if they’re showings signs of aberrant behaviors. Pill usage data at the point of intake is collected and analyzed. Physicians are then alerted if a patient is exceeding recommended dosages. Through their EHRs, physicians can see results in real time and intervene by changing a patient’s prescription, limiting dosages, or helping patients wean off their medication.

Career Karma

Pre Seed Round in 2019
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.

Sote

Convertible Note in 2019
Sote, Inc. is a technology company specializing in the logistics sector, focusing on digital customs clearing and freight forwarding solutions. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Nairobi, Kenya, Sote provides a platform that allows industrial cargo owners to efficiently manage freight clearing and forwarding processes. The platform includes a comprehensive dashboard that tracks shipment status, payment history, and estimated container arrival times, streamlining communication among all parties involved in logistics. Additionally, Sote is dedicated to enhancing trade finance in Africa by leveraging proprietary trade data to enable banks and financial institutions to lend to corporations and SMEs without traditional collateral requirements. By bridging the trade finance gap and offering reliable credit and risk management solutions, Sote aims to empower African businesses and facilitate growth in the continent's trade landscape.

Below the Fold

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Below the Fold, founded in 2018 and headquartered in West Hollywood, California, develops a browser plugin that enhances news reading by providing automatic context for news articles. Utilizing machine learning and natural language processing, the company's application analyzes users' reading histories to create an interactive, zoomable timeline of related articles. This innovative tool enables users to better understand evolving news stories without the need for extensive searches or multiple browser tabs, thereby streamlining the process of staying informed on current events.

Lynk Global

Seed Round in 2018
Lynk Global, Inc. is a mobile network technology company based in Falls Church, Virginia, founded in 2016. The company specializes in providing broadband communication services directly to Internet of Things (IoT) devices and mobile phones. Lynk Global offers satellite-based telecommunication services that enable standard mobile phones to connect globally without requiring any modifications to hardware or software. By utilizing low-earth-orbit satellites, Lynk Global aims to deliver universal connectivity, ensuring users can access communication services virtually anywhere in the world.

Plantible

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Plantible Foods is a business-to-business food technology company that focuses on producing sustainable plant-based protein aimed at transforming the food industry. The company utilizes a proprietary and vertically integrated agricultural manufacturing platform, which enables food companies to innovate while optimizing costs. Plantible's protein is all-natural, organic, and free of major allergens, offering functional characteristics comparable to egg whites, whey protein, and casein. This allows clients to enhance product quality by incorporating a sustainable protein source while also reducing expenses. By prioritizing taste, texture, health benefits, and environmental sustainability, Plantible Foods is positioned to support food manufacturers in creating better products.

Skritswap

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Skritswap is a technology company founded in 2015 and based in Sault Ste. Marie, Canada. It specializes in artificial intelligence that simplifies complex information by replacing jargon with everyday language. The company's platform utilizes natural language processing and machine learning to enhance understanding of various documents, including contracts. By advising users on which clauses to modify and substituting complicated terms with clearer alternatives, Skritswap aims to improve information equity and increase literacy rates. Its human-in-the-loop model ensures that users can comprehend content regardless of its complexity, facilitating easier access to important information.

CatalyzeX

Pre Seed Round in 2018
CatalyzeX provides a platform that assists engineers, developers, and technical leaders in discovering and applying machine learning techniques to their projects. The company offers a website featuring a search engine that allows users to look up various machine learning techniques along with their code implementations. Additionally, CatalyzeX has developed browser extensions that automatically identify and display relevant code implementations for machine learning papers encountered while browsing the internet. This functionality streamlines the process of finding applicable machine learning solutions, making it easier for professionals in the field to integrate advanced techniques into their work.

Tailored Industry

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Tailored Industry is transforming the apparel industry by streamlining the transactions between clothing brands and factories while enhancing factory operations. The company specializes in on-demand knitwear apparel, focusing on sustainability through the use of 3D knitting technology. This innovative approach enables the production of a variety of clothing items, including sweaters, dresses, beanies, cardigans, blazers, tops, scarves, and knit ties. By minimizing production waste, Tailored Industry provides clients with the ability to access high-quality, fashionable options tailored to their needs.

Arise Travel

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Modern infrastructure for the travel industry. We leverage distributed ledger technology and build distribution technology that helps hotels cut out intermediaries and connect directly with travel sellers.

Sote

Convertible Note in 2018
Sote, Inc. is a technology company specializing in the logistics sector, focusing on digital customs clearing and freight forwarding solutions. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Nairobi, Kenya, Sote provides a platform that allows industrial cargo owners to efficiently manage freight clearing and forwarding processes. The platform includes a comprehensive dashboard that tracks shipment status, payment history, and estimated container arrival times, streamlining communication among all parties involved in logistics. Additionally, Sote is dedicated to enhancing trade finance in Africa by leveraging proprietary trade data to enable banks and financial institutions to lend to corporations and SMEs without traditional collateral requirements. By bridging the trade finance gap and offering reliable credit and risk management solutions, Sote aims to empower African businesses and facilitate growth in the continent's trade landscape.

Lily AI

Seed Round in 2017
Lily AI is a developer of an e-commerce product discovery platform that enhances the sales capabilities of brands and retailers. The platform integrates customer-centric product attributes into various components of the e-commerce ecosystem, including site search engines, recommendation systems, and SEO/SEM functionalities. By improving on-site search and personalized product discovery, Lily AI supports retailers in the fashion, home, and beauty sectors, leading to significant increases in traffic, conversion rates, revenue, and brand loyalty. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company is backed by venture capital.

Grid Raster

Seed Round in 2017
GridRaster provides the underlying compute and network stack to power high-end VR/AR experiences on mobile platforms by leveraging the edge cloud. The solution provides high-performance graphics at ultra low latency, while improving the overall performance by 10x. Our vision is to drive the mass adoption of VR/AR by dramatically improving the reach of exciting content and bringing breathtaking immersive experiences to users.

Bluefield

Seed Round in 2017
Bluefield Technologies Inc. specializes in the development of microsatellite sensors aimed at monitoring methane emissions. The company employs advanced artificial intelligence for imaging and analysis, allowing for precise and continuous detection of methane leaks, particularly in the oil and gas sector. Its technology not only aids in identifying emissions but also provides insights into environmental monitoring and livestock management. By offering a subscription-based platform, Bluefield enables its clients, including oil and gas companies, government agencies, and environmental organizations, to access real-time alerts and analytics, thereby supporting efforts to track climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Founded in 2017, Bluefield is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Bluefield

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Bluefield Technologies Inc. specializes in the development of microsatellite sensors aimed at monitoring methane emissions. The company employs advanced artificial intelligence for imaging and analysis, allowing for precise and continuous detection of methane leaks, particularly in the oil and gas sector. Its technology not only aids in identifying emissions but also provides insights into environmental monitoring and livestock management. By offering a subscription-based platform, Bluefield enables its clients, including oil and gas companies, government agencies, and environmental organizations, to access real-time alerts and analytics, thereby supporting efforts to track climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Founded in 2017, Bluefield is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Plutoshift AI

Seed Round in 2017
Plutoshift is an operational data platform to monitor physical infrastructure. It leverages existing data collection systems to automate data workflows and provide a unified view of performance. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Starsky Robotics

Seed Round in 2017
Starsky Robotics, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, is focused on developing technology to automate vehicles, particularly in the trucking sector. Recognizing that trucking is essential to the American economy, transporting 70% of all freight, the company aims to enhance safety and efficiency by creating autonomous trucks for highway use, while allowing drivers to remotely control the vehicles for the initial and final segments of delivery. This approach not only seeks to improve road safety but also offers drivers the opportunity to work closer to home, thereby addressing the challenges faced by long-haul truck drivers who often spend extended periods away from their families.

Kwant

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Kwant they are connecting workforces, materials, and equipment's to improve productivity and safety for construction sites.

Brite Health

Seed Round in 2016
Brite Health Co., founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, specializes in an artificial intelligence platform focused on brain health and drug development. The company's technology is designed to monitor and prevent cognitive impairment through a proprietary data-driven engine. This platform utilizes personalized communications and relevant content tailored to specific therapeutic areas and clinical trial protocols. It incorporates techniques such as stratification and natural language processing to provide users with recommendations for physical exercise plans aimed at enhancing brain health.

Lily AI

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Lily AI is a developer of an e-commerce product discovery platform that enhances the sales capabilities of brands and retailers. The platform integrates customer-centric product attributes into various components of the e-commerce ecosystem, including site search engines, recommendation systems, and SEO/SEM functionalities. By improving on-site search and personalized product discovery, Lily AI supports retailers in the fashion, home, and beauty sectors, leading to significant increases in traffic, conversion rates, revenue, and brand loyalty. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company is backed by venture capital.

Pine Park Health

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Togg, founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, develops a smart device that integrates into the infrastructure of new homes. This device can execute simple commands such as controlling lights, providing weather updates, and delivering jokes, enhancing the living experience in modern homes.

Plutoshift AI

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Plutoshift is an operational data platform to monitor physical infrastructure. It leverages existing data collection systems to automate data workflows and provide a unified view of performance. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

GraphLI

Pre Seed Round in 2016
GraphLI is a developer of automated delivery management software tailored for the logistics industry. The company's platform enables transportation companies to optimize their existing fleet, reduce fuel and labor costs, and enhance customer satisfaction by meeting delivery expectations. GraphLI's software provides comprehensive control over the delivery process, featuring functionalities such as load planning, routing, and streamlined communication through standardized digital workflows. It supports a mobile workflow that allows real-time tracking and notifications, facilitating workload management and reassignment. Additionally, GraphLI's monitoring tools transform location-specific data into actionable insights, enabling logistics providers, consumer packaged goods brands, retailers, and service companies to digitize and automate essential business processes while measuring key performance indicators for continuous improvement.

Starsky Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Starsky Robotics, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, is focused on developing technology to automate vehicles, particularly in the trucking sector. Recognizing that trucking is essential to the American economy, transporting 70% of all freight, the company aims to enhance safety and efficiency by creating autonomous trucks for highway use, while allowing drivers to remotely control the vehicles for the initial and final segments of delivery. This approach not only seeks to improve road safety but also offers drivers the opportunity to work closer to home, thereby addressing the challenges faced by long-haul truck drivers who often spend extended periods away from their families.

SenseiHub

Angel Round in 2015
SenseiHub LLC is an educational technology startup based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2014 by Sameep Sheth and Aditya Sudhakar. The company operates a platform that connects organizations with university students for short-term internship projects. This platform facilitates the hiring process, allowing companies to access and employ emerging talent while providing students with opportunities to apply their skills in real-world scenarios prior to graduation. By bridging the gap between academic learning and practical experience, SenseiHub aims to enhance the internship experience for both students and employers.

Kwant

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Kwant they are connecting workforces, materials, and equipment's to improve productivity and safety for construction sites.

Grid Raster

Pre Seed Round in 2015
GridRaster provides the underlying compute and network stack to power high-end VR/AR experiences on mobile platforms by leveraging the edge cloud. The solution provides high-performance graphics at ultra low latency, while improving the overall performance by 10x. Our vision is to drive the mass adoption of VR/AR by dramatically improving the reach of exciting content and bringing breathtaking immersive experiences to users.

Immediately

Seed Round in 2015
Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce. Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, to sending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows. We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.
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