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Trubify is an award-winning, disruptive live music streaming technology platform. The app’s features focus on building community through fan engagement to generate revenue across the user base. Á la carte income streams empower artists to make money by making music. For music lovers, Trubify puts a front-row live music experience in the palm of every fan’s hand.
EventHub is an event sponsorship platform with a virtual expo. Customers comprise mass participation events such as marathons, festivals, fairs, expos and trade shows, sporting events, and venues. Tens of thousands of sponsors use the platform to match with those customers’ sponsorship inventory, and events streamline partnership management with a best-in-class tool-suite. EventHub’s virtual expo offers an intuitive and rich engagement experience for attendees paired with powerful built-in digital sponsor assets, with features including live streaming, breakout sessions, and multimedia rich sponsor booths with built-in video chat.
Elude is a spontaneous travel search engine that allows users to discover and book unique travel packages based only on budget.
“Think: Where can you go for $800 dollars next weekend?”
Nimbus is the next evolution in city transportation, addressing an opportunity we see at the intersection of urban mobility and electric vehicles – reducing traffic, parking, and emissions while offering a superior driving experience. They have developed an enclosed 2-passenger autocycle that provides the maneuverability of a moped with the benefits of a car (steering, safety, cargo). This expands motorcycle-size vehicles to all drivers with a car license while removing weather and safety concerns. These vehicles are extremely affordable ($6400, $99/mo) and equipped for autonomous capability. All at half the price and size of early EV autocycles, Arcimoto ($750M) and Electra Meccanica ($620M).
Keela is a world-leading CRM solution for nonprofits. Affordable, built for the sector, and powered by intelligence tools to help guided decision making, Keela helps thousands of nonprofit professionals, every day, make enlightened data-driven decisions.
FixMyCar is the fastest & easiest way to get your car fixed, anywhere. Our technicians come to your house/office to fix your car, 7 days/week
Contact CI is a haptic human computer interaction company based in Cincinnati, focused on extending the hands’ sense of touch into VR, AR, and Telerobotic applications. Maestro, our first product, is a multi-force lightweight haptic wearable and SDK product that enables high fidelity simulations of tangible interactions. Hands-on learning from simulation training with spatial computing and tangible remote robotic interactions are not able to reach their respective incredible potentials without haptic interfaces that equal the compelling quality of audio and visual immersive simulation. Contact CI is working on solutions throughout the full stack of haptic human computer interaction to extend our hands capabilities into our physically unreal digital interactions
AllTheRooms (“ATR” or the “Company”) is the leading provider of Short Term Rental (“STR”) data and data analytics solutions. Our mission is to empower our customers, short term rental hosts and our enterprise clients, through the use of our data and insights.
An electric vehicle (EV) charging software platform that manages all EV charging operations for property managers in a way that makes the chargers profitable instead of a cost center. Smart, gritty, and fast-moving co-founders. Significant IP including patents on proprietary algorithms. In the LACI (Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator) program and has multiple active paying customers
Seatrec offers a family of energy harvesting technologies to power underwater robots (ocean floats and gliders), platforms, and sensors in support of ocean research, national defense, and commercial industries.
Daanaa developed an integrated circuit based power transfer system that eliminates all wires, cables, and connectors. Its first vertical: integration into solar cells and panels to produce >25% more energy, especially in sub-optimal conditions and reduce O&M costs by 50%. Daanaa targets Tier 1 Manufacturers.
Open Platform Video Surveillance And Cybersecurity Products. Opportunity to invest at a very reasonable valuation into a later stage (series C preferred shares) of a more mature technology company with top tier corporate and government clients. Company has gone thorugh some recent restructuring and is raising a round to enable the next stage of growth
Genecis patented technologies convert food waste into biodegradable plastics and other high value materials. Amazing smart Canadian team. Total full time team of 15, including several PhD’s. Co-invested in competitive seed-round. Founded in 2017, now on second, much larger Pilot and with $55MM in LOI’s, the deal is much de-risked, and a great valuation.
The Iowa-based startup developed SmartGuard, a farrowing platform for swine houses that monitors all things pregnancy and piglet related. The company’s technology is designed to monitor and analyze data around sow health and to identify any signs that trouble is brewing with her impending brood. This could be anything from a flux in temperature to signs that labor is imminent.
AIoT insight and intelligence for indoor people movement without violating individual privacy.
Real-time surface monitoring, machine learning, and AI for process optimization of membrane-based water treatment (for large industrial and municipal water treatment plants). Proprietary technology developed at UCLA. Highly experienced executive team. Great testimonials from large municipal clients. SAAS model (recurring revenue on 1-3 year contracts) $500k in 2019 revenue, solid pipeline projecting $3.5MM in 2020 revenue.
World’s first unmanned warehouse inventory drones. GP co-invested with another angel investor a small amount in late 2018 in the seed round. Company has made tremendous progress, and is preparing for a large series-A later in the year. To accelerate growth, they are raising a seed-extension at this time. The valuation is just slightly above the 2018 seed round, despite the progress which de-risks the investment, and has favorable conversion terms into the next priced round.
Aptivio Intelligent Market Monitor for Sales creates a simple dynamic digital sales playbook from billions of buying signals. Maximizing CRM investment, we provide the missing link that fuels efficient growth.
The first and only Cargo Drone built on AI. Operate in places that are hard to reach Danger to people Costly transportation High-volume logistics needs Fully functional, fully autonomous, contract with US air force and major corporations, over $1MM in revenue. Opportunity to invest in small round prior to larger A-round planned for later this year, at steep discount and favorable terms.
Platform to crowdsource a companies personal “X-prize”
“One platform for all your online orders” The Your Fare platform helps manage all 3rd party delivery services. Integrates all the orders into one simple user friendly platform. Mr. Mandel invested in prior round. Company was preparing to raise a larger series A later this year, however due to COVID-19 and the lockdown, sales pipeline overflowed and they decided to raise a quick and aggressively priced bridge round to hire sales and implementation staff to deal with the demand surge. We took the opportunity to participate.
Saasuma lets you search across your clouds and devices from a single search box on web, mobile and desktop app.
Process Bots for the CFO organization Opportunity to invest in early round at very attractive initial valuation of a startup which is gaining amazing traction with enterprise clients in a competitive space of process automation. World-class founding team and product, as evidenced by the initial traction. Tremendous potential to grow to a very large company really fast. This one could be a “rocket ship”!
At YBVR, we deliver where it matters! We provide premium quality CR 360 video streams of your LIVE events in REAL-TIME over any bandwidth! We invested in a bridge round along-side Verizon ventures. They have contracts in place with NBA teams, The Australian Open, and others. While YBVR officially lists itself as a “Silicon Valley” business, the team is actually in Spain, with significantly lower labor costs, and has made extraordinary progress on a much tighter budget than many other A/R and V/R startups, which have raised and burned significantly more money from investors to accomplish less.
A platform for next-gen mobile games, Artie’s technology serves high-quality, Unity-made games from the cloud and them as the edge on players’ phones inside of apps like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Top-flight mobile games can now circumvent app stores and their 30% fees and be delivered directly to consumers where they naturally discover content. Our platform enables optional next-gen gameplay features – voice, texting, and camera input – to drive deeper emotional engagement than ever before and to blur the lines between players and games. Our team includes AI scientists, engineers, and interactive storytellers from Activision/Blizzard, Infinity Ward, Disney, DreamWorks Animation, Snap, Mozilla, and Facebook. Early Investors (including Emerging Ventures) include Scooter Braun’s Raised in Space, WnderCo, Founders Fund, Warner Music Group, Shrug Capital, Chad Hurley, Cyan Bannister, and executives from Twitter, Amazon, and Square.
Authenticate offers a unified authentication experience for enterprises by providing a complete all-inclusive solution. Our products include a smart door reader, a smartphone app, security software, and an administrative portal. Local So-Cal distributed team, base on eight years of post-doc work including research at the MIT Lincoln labs, by Ph.D. founder, Chad Spensky, as an expert on Smart-Phone based computer security. He holds patents for the underlying tech he developer, and them builts to commercialize the product.
Homebound is the first homebuilder to overhaul the building process and create a new experience that is designed entirely around the customer. We personally advocate for our homeowners at every step of the process, bringing together everything you’ll need to build under one roof and leveraging modern technology to make building a custom home dramatically simpler, more transparent, and human.
PRENAV is leveraging drones, LiDAR, 3D analytics, and deep learning to identify critical damage structures automatically. To date, our technology has been used to inspect bridges, dams, and cell towers. We even completed the first-ever automated flights inside a nuclear reactor.