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Feb 2022
Founded in Brazil in 2012, Vela Bikes is now a global e-bike brand headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. Vela believes that micromobility and e-bikes can be beautiful. We design, engineer, produce and program our own bikes and the apps that connect to them. We have production facilities in São Paulo, Brooklyn, Detroit, and mainland China.
Investor
2021
Trubify is an award-winning, disruptive music streaming technology platform. Our app builds community through artist>fan engagement, generating revenue across the app. 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 fans hand.
Investors are welcome to contact our CEO, Stephen Tyszka: stephen@trubify.com.
Investor
2020
Autonomy is a technology company on a mission to make access to mobility easy and affordable through car subscriptions. The company was founded by auto retail, auto finance, and auto insurance disruptors Scott Painter and Georg Bauer, who founded Fair, the first-ever used-vehicle subscription offering, pioneering the Car-as-a-Service (CaaS) category. Building upon that experience, Autonomy has created a turnkey vehicle subscription platform for consumers and the automotive industry that enables vehicle subscriptions to scale profitably and become a mainstream alternative to traditional car buying. Autonomy is innovating through technology, finance, and insurance to power car subscriptions for the used-vehicle sector, as well as the battery electric vehicle and zero emissions vehicle sectors. Autonomy relies on partnerships with automakers and brick-and-mortar car dealerships to provide a benefit to both consumers and the industry. Autonomy represents freedom from long-term debt, freedom from long-term commitments, and even freedom from fossil fuels. It means new choices and more control over your financial well-being. Autonomy is based in Santa Monica, CA.
Investor
2019
Music.com exists to create strong, provocative relationships between artists willing to share insights into their music and culture-at-large with the fans that appreciate those insights.
Investor
2019
LÜK offers a modern solution for the production industry to manage both people and payments.
With LÜK, producers can:
- Set up and manage their complex production teams in one place, saving them up to 75% of their time.
- Pay 1099 contractors compliantly through the industrys first freelancer payroll product (at a fraction of the cost of traditional payroll providers).
Investor
2018
At Trueface, we teach computers to see like humans; interpreting the data they ingest. Once trained to understand the visual data in question, computers help businesses and agencies make instant decisions, allowing businesses to cut costs and agencies to redistribute human capital to higher-functioning tasks.
What sets our NIST-certified solutions apart? Since day one, Trueface has been focused on achieving equal facial recognition performance for all. We aren't there just yet, but we are getting close. Our on-premise technology allows for flexible deployments within our clients' environments on hardware, in their cloud, at the edge, and even offline.
Our clients choose Trueface because we are committed to the responsible deployment of computer vision technology and they want to ensure their businesses and their customers are benefiting from the advancements of artificial intelligence.
Investor
2018
Fair is an automotive FinTech company that’s revolutionizing car buying by offering unprecedented freedom, flexibility and an end-to-end mobile experience.
We believe fairness matters. That’s why we’ve created a game-changing new app that lets you shop, get approved and pay for a car all on your phone with just a driver’s license and bank account. Get in-app approval for a monthly payment amount that works for you, then head to the dealership and check-out in minutes. You can drive your car for as long as you want, and return it any time you’re ready. That’s the Fair way to drive!
Investor
2018
While billions of dollars in education funding exist, a simple way to manage and apply to awards has not. Scholarship and grant providers need a better way to navigate financial and operational complexity to help individuals access support for their education.
With Kaleidoscope, sponsors can benchmark the effectiveness of their financial support, gain relevant, current information about the applicants they are selecting, disburse funds directly to recipients – all while fostering meaningful, long-lasting relationships with those they support.
Investor
2017
PRÊTE is a members only service that uses idle time at top tier salons and spa's to book blowout appointments.
Investor / Advisor
2016
Vocate is the technological evolution of the university career center, fulfilling the brand promise where schools fall short. Our goal is to be the way that every university student engages with their career. We empower students to explore their passions and provide the tools to succeed in hunting them through our matching marketplace, where employers pay us to hire. In doing so, we democratize access, bridge the skill gap, and tear down barriers for employers.
Visit: http://vocate.me
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2022
Co-Founder & CEO
Mar 2022
VentureCarbon is a Startup Consultancy. We call ourselves a Startup Consultancy not because we only work with startups, but because we bring a startup mentality to everything we do. And through our suite of services, we don’t just consult, but we also execute for our clients as their partner.
VentureCarbon was created by the same team behind VentureDevs, a global software development firm that employs hundreds of tech specialists, and has helped countless companies create successful technology solutions. Through our experience building VentureDevs, we saw first-hand the many needs of our clients beyond “the tech,” and after years of helping build, shape, and grow companies as advisors, we launched VentureCarbon as a Consultancy to better help companies address these additional areas of need.
The element Carbon is essential for life as we know it to exist and evolve on our planet. VentureCarbon and our suite of services combine to provide all the essential support that a company needs to exist and grow successfully throughout its life. Today VentureCarbon offers full-service support to companies of all shapes and sizes - from idea-stage startups to growth-stage businesses to Fortune 500 corporations.
Investor and Advisor
Feb 2022
Founded in Brazil in 2012, Vela Bikes is now a global e-bike brand headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. Vela believes that micromobility and e-bikes can be beautiful. We design, engineer, produce and program our own bikes and the apps that connect to them. We have production facilities in São Paulo, Brooklyn, Detroit, and mainland China.
Investor
2022
The Ticket Fairy is a next-generation event ticketing, marketing, management, intelligence and revenue acceleration platform, providing event promoters and venue managers the tools necessary to increase attendance levels, social media exposure and consumer engagement, and provide an enhanced experience to their patrons.
The Ticket Fairy is helping large and small events maximise their revenue potential in Australia, New Zealand, India, the United States, and the United Kingdom and Europe, with closed beta trials in East Africa, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia.
The company was founded in 2011 by British-born serial entrepreneur brothers, Ritesh and Jigar Patel. Backed by both Y Combinator and 500 Startups, with an enviable list of notable tech and entertainment investors and advisors, the company is poised to bring a new level of sophistication and marketing power to organizers of live events worldwide.
2021
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2021
Trubify is an award-winning, disruptive music streaming technology platform. Our app builds community through artist>fan engagement, generating revenue across the app. 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 fans hand.
Investors are welcome to contact our CEO, Stephen Tyszka: stephen@trubify.com.
2020
Investor
2020
Autonomy is a technology company on a mission to make access to mobility easy and affordable through car subscriptions. The company was founded by auto retail, auto finance, and auto insurance disruptors Scott Painter and Georg Bauer, who founded Fair, the first-ever used-vehicle subscription offering, pioneering the Car-as-a-Service (CaaS) category. Building upon that experience, Autonomy has created a turnkey vehicle subscription platform for consumers and the automotive industry that enables vehicle subscriptions to scale profitably and become a mainstream alternative to traditional car buying. Autonomy is innovating through technology, finance, and insurance to power car subscriptions for the used-vehicle sector, as well as the battery electric vehicle and zero emissions vehicle sectors. Autonomy relies on partnerships with automakers and brick-and-mortar car dealerships to provide a benefit to both consumers and the industry. Autonomy represents freedom from long-term debt, freedom from long-term commitments, and even freedom from fossil fuels. It means new choices and more control over your financial well-being. Autonomy is based in Santa Monica, CA.
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