# 77

> 77 is a VC fund in Cambridge backing Health Care, Artificial Intelligence and Medical. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: Aug 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/77xyz
- Website: https://77.xyz

77 is a venture capital firm that provides seed funding and strategic support to MIT graduates and early-stage startups.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 13 | 28% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 17% |
| Medical | 6 | 13% |
| Software | 6 | 13% |
| Wellness | 5 | 11% |

84 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 31 | 66% |
| Seed | 7 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 4% |
| Series A | 1 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 38 | 81% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| Colombia | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Glaze | Glaze is an AI powered E-commerce platform for premium fashion clothing brands. |  | Seed | Aug 10, 2023 |  |
| Booth AI | Booth AI enables companies to supercharge their creative output with a generative-AI powered image production platform. Booth AI replaces complicated, labor intensive, time consuming and expensive commercial product lifestyle photoshoots. Brand managers, merchandisers, and marketers can produce beautiful lifestyle images in a matter of seconds at afraction of the cost of traditional photoshoots. | $2.2M | Seed | May 01, 2023 |  |
| Booth AI | Booth AI enables companies to supercharge their creative output with a generative-AI powered image production platform. Booth AI replaces complicated, labor intensive, time consuming and expensive commercial product lifestyle photoshoots. Brand managers, merchandisers, and marketers can produce beautiful lifestyle images in a matter of seconds at afraction of the cost of traditional photoshoots. |  | Seed | Apr 25, 2023 |  |
| Kadeya | Kadeya is a closed-loop water vending business that utilizes digitally connected reusable water bottles and tiny bottling equipment. Kadeya was founded by Manuela Zoninsein. |  | Seed | Apr 25, 2023 |  |
| Avoca | Avoca creates a client communication platform that enables business owners to concentrate on their core skills. |  | Seed | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| Palomma | Palomma is a tech company that saves merchants in the community money on card fees by allowing customers to pay directly from their bank at checkout. It enables users to make secure payments with their bank account with a single click and earn rewards in affiliated businesses. With secure, one-click bank payments, merchants can reduce processingcosts while increasing conversion. | $500K | Seed | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Upzone AI | The PropTech solution for identifying regulatory risk for multi-family housing projects | $100K | Pre-Seed | Mar 15, 2023 |  |
| Ontologic | Our product is a web-based platform with two sides. On one side, experimental researchers can run the latest analyses code written and shared by other researchers--at the click of a button and with no specialized training or configuration. On the other side, computational researchers can package up and deploy their code for others to use--withouthaving to learn Docker or other packaging tools.This allows experimentalists to analyze and improve on their data quickly and effortlessly keep track of their results. It allows computationalists to collaborate easily, get credit for their code, and improve it to build their portfolios. It also allows lab leaders to seamlessly continue projects through turnover, stay compliant with funders' data management and sharing policies, and set lab standards for best practice analysis. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 10, 2023 |  |
| Stratagen Bio | Stratagen Bio’s oxygen sensing technology was developed in labs at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. We are committed to developing high impact technologies to enable clinicians to make more informed treatment decisions and improve patient care. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 02, 2023 |  |
| XanderGlasses | Xander is a Boston-based startup using AR to improve interpersonal communication and mitigate the debilitating effects of hearing loss. Our first product is XanderGlasses—smart glasses that provide captions for conversations in real-time. When ambient noise or hearing loss prevents a person from hearing and understanding speech, the glasses displaycaptions to the wearer in real-time, enabling the wearer to look at the people speaking and participate fully in the conversation. Xander is positioned to help the 1.5 billion people with hearing loss who seek alternatives to hearing aids and other assistive devices. After wearing XanderGlasses, people reported feeling more confident and relaxed during conversations and described a decrease in cognitive load and improved mental state. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 29, 2023 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SBXi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbxi) — VC Fund, 28 deals together
- [FAST — by GETTYLAB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f-st) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [PROTOCOL — by GETTYLAB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prtcl) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does 77 invest in?

77 invests primarily in Health Care, Artificial Intelligence and Medical startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did 77 last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for 77 closed in Aug 2023. Shizune tracks 47 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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