Joanna (Jo) Riley

At Deep Fission, were reimagining nuclear power with a groundbreaking approach: placing small modular reactors (SMRs) a mile underground. Our mission is to deliver ultra-safe, affordable, and reliable power that fuels businesses, strengthens communities, and moves us toward a sustainable future. We want to leave the world in a better place than we found it.

Upside is revenue attribution and intelligence for B2B companies. Our platform helps teams that sell big-ticket items to other businesses figure out what influenced each deal, across marketing, sales, partnerships, customer success and so on, and what they should do next to make sure they win it as efficiently as possible.

Rebel Girls is a multi-platform empowerment brand dedicated to helping raise the most inspired and confident global generation of girls through content, experiences, products, and community. Originating from an international best-selling children’s book, Rebel Girls amplifies stories of real-life, extraordinary women throughout history, geography, and field of excellence. With a growing community of nearly 20 million self-identified Rebel Girls spanning more than 100 countries, the brand engages with Generation Alpha through its book series, award-winning podcast, events and merchandise. With the 2021 launch of the Rebel Girls app, the company has created a flagship destination for girls to explore a wondrous world filled with inspiring true stories of extraordinary women. For more information, please visit www.rebelgirls.com

Some people want more time. Others want more money. When it comes to laundry, we can help each other. Welcome to Sudshare, a platform that connects people who don’t want to do laundry with people who want to earn extra money. For some, Sudshare is a home-based business with a flexible work schedule. For others, it’s a time-saving service that makes laundry as simple as "click and done."​

As part of the Payscale portfolio of software, Agora is building a modern platform for total compensation. We help companies figure out how to pay their employees by making data-driven decisions. We are building a system of record for salary bands and job ladders with dashboards for analytics. We are disrupting old industry software and manual compensation surveys by leveraging technology and integrations to provide real-time analytics and data. Our mission is to bring transparency to compensation -- for companies, employees, and candidates.

Breinify is a powerful personalization engine that enables brands to create personalized digital experiences at an individual level across web, e-mail, SMS and app channels. Our solution is powerful, scalable and lightweight! We work with brands like BevMo!, Schwartzkopf, Hidden Valley Ranch, and Fresh Step to bring data science and predictive personalization into marketing campaigns. Our customers have seen quick results like 51% YoY online sales, 20x click rate, and 6x reaction rates within months of working with us. Our technology blends traditional machine learning and AI techniques with a complex temporal foundation so our engine can learn, react, and make extremely granular intelligent decisions that vary for each individual at any moment in time. Today, our AI has 100k+ distinct time-based patterns extracted to classify user behavior and our platform can be easily used with any marketing tool. Breinify was selected out of 1000s of startups to be a TC Disrupt 2016 Battlefielder. https://youtu.be/fX9dRmRJNCA Our team is led by passionate entrepreneur and CEO, Diane Keng and aPhD data scientist and CTO, Philipp Meisen.

Modern Health is the comprehensive global mental health solution offering employees access to one-on-one, group, and self-serve digital resources for their emotional, professional, social, financial, and physical well-being needs - all within a single platform. Whether someone wants to proactively manage stress or treat depression, Modern Health guides people to the right care at the right time. Modern Health empowers companies to help all their employees be the best version of themselves and believes in meeting people wherever they are in their mental health journey. Modern Health is backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, John Doerr, Y Combinator, and Battery Ventures and has raised more than $170 million in less than two years with a valuation of $1.17 billion, making Modern Health the fastest entirely female-founded company in the U.S. to reach Unicorn status.

Perksy is a next-gen, DIY consumer insights platform that powers real-time research with Millennials and Gen-Z through an immersive mobile app that rewards them for answering your questions.

Emerge - The first check for founders defining the future of work and learning Emerge is a global pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best future of work and learning operators. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity – by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders, providing first-cheque financial support, ongoing expertise and access to a community who have ‘been there and built it’ with unrivalled market-specific know-how. Founded in 2014 as Europe’s only edtech specialist fund, Emerge now invests in B2B and B2C startups across all categories enabling people to grow and fulfil their potential, from early childhood, K12 and higher education through to lifelong learning, workforce development, career navigation and the future of work. Emerge has invested in over 80 companies, now valued at over $2b and impacting more than 31M people worldwide, including Yoto, Causaly, Colossyan, Edurino, Mattilda, Unibuddy, MyEdSpace and Solvely. Emerge invests anywhere between $250k and $2.5M at pre-seed and seed. The team welcomes direct applications - apply through our website. Read more about Emerge’s investment thesis and the startup ideas we’re excited by in our Fund II manifesto linked below.

At Deep Fission, were reimagining nuclear power with a groundbreaking approach: placing small modular reactors (SMRs) a mile underground. Our mission is to deliver ultra-safe, affordable, and reliable power that fuels businesses, strengthens communities, and moves us toward a sustainable future. We want to leave the world in a better place than we found it.

Upside is revenue attribution and intelligence for B2B companies. Our platform helps teams that sell big-ticket items to other businesses figure out what influenced each deal, across marketing, sales, partnerships, customer success and so on, and what they should do next to make sure they win it as efficiently as possible.

Rebel Girls is a multi-platform empowerment brand dedicated to helping raise the most inspired and confident global generation of girls through content, experiences, products, and community. Originating from an international best-selling children’s book, Rebel Girls amplifies stories of real-life, extraordinary women throughout history, geography, and field of excellence. With a growing community of nearly 20 million self-identified Rebel Girls spanning more than 100 countries, the brand engages with Generation Alpha through its book series, award-winning podcast, events and merchandise. With the 2021 launch of the Rebel Girls app, the company has created a flagship destination for girls to explore a wondrous world filled with inspiring true stories of extraordinary women. For more information, please visit www.rebelgirls.com

Some people want more time. Others want more money. When it comes to laundry, we can help each other. Welcome to Sudshare, a platform that connects people who don’t want to do laundry with people who want to earn extra money. For some, Sudshare is a home-based business with a flexible work schedule. For others, it’s a time-saving service that makes laundry as simple as "click and done."​