Morgan Polotan ⚡️

Founder and Managing Partner at Backpocket

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 24 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Board Member
Aug 2022
EeroQ is engineering the next generation of quantum computers, using eHe trapped electrons.
late stageSemiconductors
Board Member
Jul 2022
CornerUp is a fast growing, venture backed, NYC-based marketplace startup providing corner stores and other small food retailers a one-stop-shop platform for discovering and purchasing inventory for their stores. CornerUp’s mission is to enable these small businesses to compete with today’s large retailers by transforming the way in which they operate through technology and modernization, empowering independent retailers to do their best work and better serve their neighborhood communities. Headquartered in NYC and backed by some of the world’s leading investors, CornerUp is more than a startup — we are a team focused on supporting our community through our small businesses. We’re looking to add like-minded individuals who are excited to make a beneficial impact within our space and to grow from a company that transformed the procurement side of small businesses to one that will set a new standard in all operations of small businesses.
Board Observer
Mar 2022
We give DTC brands superpowers to compete in today’s competitive ecommerce environment.
Investor
Feb 2022
Enterprise financial services have not kept up with the evolution of the crypto economy. We intend to fill that gap. More coming soon.
Board Observer
Feb 2022
Anvyl connects global supply chain teams, systems and suppliers to improve collaboration and decision making from PO issuance through to warehouse delivery. As teams and technology communicate, real-time access to critical information is released as it happens, drastically improving visibility across the network. Through powerful automations, Anvyl maximizes efficiencies by doing the work of automating manual tasks and redundant processes to smoothly transition through order milestones. With intelligent PO management, our supply chain teams can harness the power of their own data to surface key insights and trends to make smarter decisions and know when to take action.
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Jan 2022
Glean.ai is Intelligent AP. We leverage untapped invoice data to surface relevant context, actionable insights, and savings recommendations that power great spend decisions.
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Nov 2021
AutoCloud allows DevOps teams to automatically generate secure, production-ready infrastructure as code that is customized to your business in minutes instead of months. Once workloads are deployed, AutoCloud gives users multi-cloud visibility and ensures that every cloud resource is aligned with your business.
Investor
Oct 2021
Centerpiece is a technology company dedicated to the US Foodservice Equipment and Supplies (FE&S) industry. Our initial product is a software platform that makes it easier for FE&S dealers to track, manage, and analyze their kitchen projects.
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Sep 2021
We’re solving the most difficult surface treatment and finishing challenges high-mix, high-variability manufacturers face with our advanced robotics and physics-informed AI technologies. We are transforming the future of manufacturing with robotics and our proprietary GMR-AI™, designed into smart robotic cells that assist humans in tedious and ergonomically challenging tasks. Our mission is to enhance human productivity and improve the quality of life by letting robots empower people. Based in Los Angeles, California, GrayMatter Robotics has been voted one of the top 50 Best Places to Work in LA by BuiltIn. We also won the RBR50 Award in 2022 as one of the top 50 innovators in the robotics market.
Board Observer
Sep 2021
Satori is a Data Security Platform (DSP) that enables self-service data and analytics. Unlike the traditional manual data access process, with Satori, users have a personal data portal where they can see all available datasets and gain immediate access to them. Satori’s DSP dynamically applies the appropriate security and access policies, and the users get secure data access in seconds instead of weeks. Satori’s comprehensive DSP manages access, permissions, security, and compliance policies - all from a single console. Satori continuously discovers sensitive data across data stores and dynamically tracks data usage while applying relevant security policies. Satori enables data teams to scale effective data usage across the organization while meeting all data security and compliance requirements.
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Apr 2021
Percent is unlocking private credit and providing unparalleled access through its modern private credit market, empowering investors, borrowers, and underwriters with innovative technology to increase the speed and frequency of transactions at a fraction of the cost. The company’s core infrastructure delivers public market efficiencies to the analog private credit market by powering the sourcing, structuring, syndication, surveillance and servicing of private credit transactions from beginning to end. Founded in 2018, Percent’s platform is becoming the market standard for asset-based and corporate lending, powering over $1 billion in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar private credit industry. For additional information, please visit www.percent.com.
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Aug 2020
SafeBase empowers organizations to develop a customer-facing, scalable Trust Center that automates the security review process between buyers and sellers. Fast-growing companies like LinkedIn, Asana, Palantir, and Jamf use SafeBase to reduce security questionnaires, create a better buying experience, accelerate sales velocity, and position security as a revenue driver. To learn more, visit drata.com.
Board Observer
Nov 2019
Together with our community, we engineer sparse LLM, CV, and NLP models that are more efficient and performant in production. Why does this matter? Sparse models are more flexible and can achieve unrivaled latency and throughput performance on your private CPU and GPU infrastructure. Check us out on GitHub and join the Neural Magic Slack Community to get started with software-delivered AI.
Board Observer
Sep 2019
Confetti helps people browse and book unforgettable team building and corporate experiences in just a few clicks. Through its global virtual event booking platform, Confetti empowers companies like Shopify, Amazon, Google, and others to build happier, more holistic teams. Thousands of businesses around the world use Confetti to plan amazing social gatherings.
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Jun 2019
goTenna is the worlds leading mobile mesh networking company and provider of off-grid connectivity solutions for smartphones and other devices. goTennas mesh networking protocol, Aspen Grove™, is embedded into lightweight, low-cost devices and paired with easy-to-use mobile apps enabling mobile, long-range connectivity even without cell, wifi, or satellite. goTenna’s mesh technology enables decentralized, programmable mobile infrastructure on a global scale in markets ranging from public sector to enterprise and IoT. The goTenna vision to create a resilient communications system was ignited during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when approximately a third of cell towers and power stations were knocked out. Based in Jersey City, New Jersey, goTenna is backed by investors including Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Bloomberg Beta. Learn more about our team and discover open positions at http://www.gotenna.com/jobs.
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Mar 2023
Monashee Investment Management LLC is a company based out of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
2022
Board Member
Aug 2022
EeroQ is engineering the next generation of quantum computers, using eHe trapped electrons.
late stageSemiconductors
Board Member
Jul 2022
CornerUp is a fast growing, venture backed, NYC-based marketplace startup providing corner stores and other small food retailers a one-stop-shop platform for discovering and purchasing inventory for their stores. CornerUp’s mission is to enable these small businesses to compete with today’s large retailers by transforming the way in which they operate through technology and modernization, empowering independent retailers to do their best work and better serve their neighborhood communities. Headquartered in NYC and backed by some of the world’s leading investors, CornerUp is more than a startup — we are a team focused on supporting our community through our small businesses. We’re looking to add like-minded individuals who are excited to make a beneficial impact within our space and to grow from a company that transformed the procurement side of small businesses to one that will set a new standard in all operations of small businesses.
Board Observer
Mar 2022
We give DTC brands superpowers to compete in today’s competitive ecommerce environment.
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