Ryan Sells

Household name retailers use Bolts leading commerce platform to convert, retain, and delight more shoppers—all within the merchants existing tech stack and brand identity. Learn how it works here: https://www.bolt.com/bolt-ignite Apply to join us here: https://www.bolt.com/careers/

Carta powers interconnectivity in private markets — uniting data, people, and workflows in one connected system. We connect founders, investors, and limited partners through software purpose-built for private capital. Trusted by 50,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence. Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 8,500+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $185B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Carta has been included on the Fortune Best Large Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance and Best Workplaces in the Bay Area lists, Forbes’ list of the Worlds Best Cloud Companies, Fast Companys Most Innovative list, Inc.s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list, and is certified as a Great Place to Work for 2025-2026 (3 years running!). For more information, visit carta.com.

Pipe makes embedded financial solutions accessible to growing businesses inside the software they use every day. Underwriting is based on live transaction and business data, removing the hurdles of traditional business financing. How does it work? Eligible merchants: Receive a pre-approved or pre-qualified offer, based on their revenue Verify a few business and ownership details Then accept as much of their offer as they need and get back to doing what they love, running their business Pipe can help turn your software into a one-stop shop for your customers and help them gain access to the capital they need to thrive.

Main Street is building a modern, full-service platform that helps high potential individuals start home service businesses. Think of us as Lambda School for business ownership. We're 10x more affordable than a franchise and 10x less risky than starting a business on your own. We are live in our first market, raised $4.5~ million from top investors & entrepreneurs and are growing rapidly with nationwide expansion on deck. To sum up the opportunity: it’s an enormous addressable market, with highly attractive unit economics, where competition is deeply fragmented and notorious for delivering low-tech, subpar service. Our digital and operational platform combines the sophistication of a technology company with the personal touch of a local business, rethinking starting a business from the ground up for performance, efficiency, trust, and delight. We provide a seamless, full-service experience to help leaders across the country start a highly successful business. Our aim is to make the process of business ownership less risky and affordable. And in doing so, we become the modern operating system for the home services industry. Our team has built venture backed startups from the ground up, previously owned home service businesses and has led marketing for our biggest competitors. We are based in Brooklyn and we are well-funded by leading global investors including Khosla Ventures, Foundation Capital, Slow Ventures, Box Group, and top angels including Henrik Werderlin, Scott Belsky, Aniq Rahman and JD Ross. We were incubated out of Prehype, the studio behind BarkBox, ManagedBy Q and Ro.

Legacy is America’s largest at-home fertility clinic for people with sperm, empowering individuals to learn more about their sperm and proactively plan for their future with secure sperm freezing options. Partnering with leading health plans, fertility benefits providers, US military programs, and financing merchants, Legacy is making industry-leading sperm testing and freezing affordable and accessible.

We’re compliance experts, so you don’t have to be. Through easy software and hands-on services, we embed in your process to prepare you to pass any audit, every year, with flying colors. Thoropass makes it as easy to do the right thing as it is to check a box—because we want to build a world where compliance is never a barrier to progress. (p.s. We’re hiring!)

Swerve is a global community and competition platform that transforms underutilized rooms into packed, tech-forward, digitally enhanced fitness experiences. Swerve has created a unique experience and scientifically proven method that’s accessible, community-building, engaging, and data driven. Swerves partnerships with gyms bring them new clientele, engage existing members, and drive profitability. Where typical fitness investments can run stale, Swerve’s technology-based platform means we never stop evolving, so neither do our gym partners.

We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. The startups we back go far. Best-in-class founders do not come around every day. When they do, we jump at the opportunity to work together. Our approach is to work with just a small number of best-in-class founders so we can dig in and go deep.

First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.

Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency and efficiency, and fairness to markets. We help connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions that enable our customers to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration.     We challenge the status quo through constant innovation. We collaborate broadly because we know that other perspectives matter. We put our customers first, as a guiding beacon. And we believe doing the right thing – by our people, our clients, and our communities – is the best thing for our business.

Backing the next wave of category-defining FinTech founders and companies.

Household name retailers use Bolts leading commerce platform to convert, retain, and delight more shoppers—all within the merchants existing tech stack and brand identity. Learn how it works here: https://www.bolt.com/bolt-ignite Apply to join us here: https://www.bolt.com/careers/