Christopher Deutsch

Common Tide empowers founders who are dedicated to building exceptional companies, despite the high personal and financial risks of startup life. By enabling founders to pursue ambitious goals without risking their entire financial future, we’re creating a more sustainable and supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem. Common Tide was created to provide VC-backed startup founders with a way to diversify their financial risk while building their companies. By allowing qualifying founders to invest a small percentage of their own equity into a shared fund, Common Tide transforms the founder’s personal stake into part of a diversified portfolio. This tax-advantaged approach helps founders avoid the “all-or-nothing” financial outcome that often accompanies startup life. Beyond to financial diversification, Common Tide cultivates a powerful community of like-minded founders who provide mutual mentorship and guidance. By bringing together driven entrepreneurs in a collaborative network, we strengthen each founder’s journey, making it easier to navigate the challenges of building a successful company.

kommu is a connected home-sharing and travel platform that links users with their personal network and empowers them to host trusted friends, interest groups, and communities in their home on their terms. Through kommu, users manage their home-sharing preferences, find affordable stays through those they know, and learn when friends are in the same city, fostering real-life connections during their trips.

PairUp is a digital platform designed to eliminate inefficiencies in the workplace. Harnessing the power of generative AI, our B2B software saves companies time and resources that are often lost due to silos and ineffective knowledge sharing. With PairUp, employees have easy, personalized, and dynamic access to the information they need to be successful in their roles.

ReloShare builds technology that helps social service agencies secure safe, dignified accommodations for people in crisis. Our platform is trusted by nonprofit and government partners supporting survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and individuals experiencing homelessness. We work alongside frontline providers to reduce barriers, improve coordination, and bring greater predictability to emergency housing systems. Our tools include Safe Stays, which allows agencies to book emergency hotel stays under an alias with no credit card required at check-in, and The Grove, a collaborative platform for sharing and reporting real-time shelter bed availability. We also offer Safe Stays+, an optional protection plan that simplifies and caps common hotel damage-related costs. Many of our team members come from direct service backgrounds, and that lived experience shapes how we build, communicate, and partner—with an emphasis on trust, accountability, and real-world impact. We believe technology should meet people where they are, strengthen existing systems, and support the people doing the hardest work every day.

Gamerjibe is the immersive events platform for the digital generation. We built a unique web platform where brands, influencers, and fans can easily organize and attend immersive and engaging 3D events from a web browser. By leveraging immersion and gamification, Gamerjibe takes todays webinars and video conferencing to the next level by enabling you to create rich event experiences like networking events, exhibitions, and conferences that participants will love and remember.

Radical innovation at the core. Resonado Labs is an audio technology company revolutionizing the industry and introducing the world to powerful raw sound in smaller than ever form factors with their patented speaker designs.

We are Bridge, the only fintech company focused on boosting the "asset side of the ledger" for the 100M low-to-middle income consumers in America. Consumer financial services in America are in the early stages of a tectonic shift to digital-first offerings. However, much of the innovation to date has centered almost exclusively on providing better credit "products" like Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), early wage access, cash advances, and early direct deposit. These products are all repackaged, forms of debt or credit, which unfortunately don't do much to improve the financial position of the low-to-middle income American consumer, and more importantly, don’t solve for their core problem: *a lack of money.* With all the focus on personal credit and liability management, where is the innovation on the asset side of the ledger? Bridge is that innovator. How do we do it? First, we help our members monetize their data through our app and card products, enabling you to share your anonymized data with third party businesses and make money. All of this is done on a strictly opt-in basis, meaning that you can choose what data to share and when, so you can stay in control of your data while you #MakeBank. Some members are earning over $200 per month. But we don’t plan to stop there. Over time, our goal is to help you uncover even more opportunities to earn money and place you on the path to building wealth. Think of us simply as: the money-maker in your pocket.

Education and career development software service. Upkey is a comprehensive toolbox built to fundamentally change the way students think about their careers.

teaBOT makes a customized cup of loose leaf tea. We are creating an engaging experience through tea, design and robotics. Show your patrons or employees that you care about giving them the best quality and experience by treating them a customized cup of tea from teaBOT. Find out more at www.teabot.com

Built on the foundations of a production studio, L Street Collaborative is an agency focused on creative strategy and design. To learn more about us, check out www.lstreetc.com

Society uses pictures as a way to simplify communication. Why aren’t businesses doing the same? Pixits platforms specializing in lost and found, maintenance, and security, simplify procedures, streamline communication, and quickly show improvements.

Built on the foundations of a production studio, L Street Collaborative is an agency focused on creative strategy and design. To learn more about us, check out www.lstreetc.com

Crowdfind an enterprise software company improving companies'​ lost and found and maintenance departments with our Image-Led Workflow technology. It all started with our Lost and Found software which integrates onto our client’s website so their customers can search and file claims for their items 24/7. This saves employee time spent on lost and found management. Other features include inventory tracking, automated reporting, digital customer communication via our chat function, and integrated shipping. In 2018, we released our new CMMS work ticket management software, FixIt. Utilizing our Image-Led Workflow technology to create work tickets, FixIt will completely modernize facility maintenance software. Take a picture of the issue, the maintenance team gets notified, fixes it, and uses a picture to mark as complete. Some of our clients include Navy Pier, Live Nation, Virginia Tech, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Salt Lake City International Airport, LA Coliseum, University of Michigan. For more information, visit crowdfind.com.

Oncam is the new definitive video calling app for the modern world...

Common Tide empowers founders who are dedicated to building exceptional companies, despite the high personal and financial risks of startup life. By enabling founders to pursue ambitious goals without risking their entire financial future, we’re creating a more sustainable and supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem. Common Tide was created to provide VC-backed startup founders with a way to diversify their financial risk while building their companies. By allowing qualifying founders to invest a small percentage of their own equity into a shared fund, Common Tide transforms the founder’s personal stake into part of a diversified portfolio. This tax-advantaged approach helps founders avoid the “all-or-nothing” financial outcome that often accompanies startup life. Beyond to financial diversification, Common Tide cultivates a powerful community of like-minded founders who provide mutual mentorship and guidance. By bringing together driven entrepreneurs in a collaborative network, we strengthen each founder’s journey, making it easier to navigate the challenges of building a successful company.

kommu is a connected home-sharing and travel platform that links users with their personal network and empowers them to host trusted friends, interest groups, and communities in their home on their terms. Through kommu, users manage their home-sharing preferences, find affordable stays through those they know, and learn when friends are in the same city, fostering real-life connections during their trips.

PairUp is a digital platform designed to eliminate inefficiencies in the workplace. Harnessing the power of generative AI, our B2B software saves companies time and resources that are often lost due to silos and ineffective knowledge sharing. With PairUp, employees have easy, personalized, and dynamic access to the information they need to be successful in their roles.

Sandalphon leads, co-leads or meaningfully participates in Pre-Seed and Seed stage rounds for B2B SaaS, Marketplace and Consumer startups, primarily in Chicago and the Midwest. Primary industries of interest: B2B/Enterprise SaaS, FinTech, InsurTech, RegTech, PropTech / Real Estate Tech, Tech-Enabled Healthcare Services or Healthcare IT, Consumer Tech, FoodTech, EdTech, GovTech, IoT / Hardware with Recurring Revenue Geographic focus: Chicago and the Midwest, and other markets opportunistically. Portfolio Companies: FinTech / InsurTech / RegTech: - Anasova (Chicago) - BreachRX (DC) - TBA (Chicago) - Kin Insurance (Chicago) - Oliver (Austin/DC) - exited - LogicGate (Chicago) - exited - MyCOI (Indianapolis) - TBA (Milwaukee) - RealKey (San Francisco) - Stere (New York) - Supernova (Chicago) PropTech / Real Estate Tech: - Avail (fka Rentalutions) (Chicago) - exit to realtor.com - CRE Simple (San Francisco) - exit - HappyCo (San Francisco) - OpenVia (Birmingham, AL) - RealVision (Toronto/Minneapolis) - Structurely (Ames) - The Minte (Chicago) - exit to Spruce - Truss (Chicago) - exit to Avison Young - Visual Feeder (Chicago) Healthcare IT / Tech-Enabled Healthcare Services: - Array Behavioral Care (fka Regroup) (Chicago) - Metopio (Chicago) FoodTech: - Chowly (Chicago) - Provi (Chicago) GovTech: - Ascent Integrated Tech (Chicago) - Daupler (Kansas City) - eHawk (Lees Summit, MO) EdTech: - Invoke (Indianapolis) - Levered (Santa Cruz) Other B2B SaaS: - Backstitch (Kansas City) - Balto (St Louis) - Clearbox Decisions / Cloverpop (Chicago) - Page Vault (Chicago) - QuickHire (Wichita) - Tenacity (Ann Arbor) - Vertex (Ames) - TBA (Minneapolis) - WeSolv (Chicago) Consumer: - Character (Chicago/New York) - CoPilot (Pittsburgh) - Jiobit (Chicago) - exit to Life360 - Pacas (Chicago) - Sofie (Chicago) - Throne (DC) - TripScout (Chicago/DC) - Quevos (Chicago)

ReloShare builds technology that helps social service agencies secure safe, dignified accommodations for people in crisis. Our platform is trusted by nonprofit and government partners supporting survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and individuals experiencing homelessness. We work alongside frontline providers to reduce barriers, improve coordination, and bring greater predictability to emergency housing systems. Our tools include Safe Stays, which allows agencies to book emergency hotel stays under an alias with no credit card required at check-in, and The Grove, a collaborative platform for sharing and reporting real-time shelter bed availability. We also offer Safe Stays+, an optional protection plan that simplifies and caps common hotel damage-related costs. Many of our team members come from direct service backgrounds, and that lived experience shapes how we build, communicate, and partner—with an emphasis on trust, accountability, and real-world impact. We believe technology should meet people where they are, strengthen existing systems, and support the people doing the hardest work every day.