# Gefinor Capital

> Gefinor Capital is a VC fund in New York backing Software and Manufacturing. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: Sep 2017
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gefinor-capital/about/
- Website: http://www.gefinorcapital.com/

Gefinor Capital is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Manufacturing. Gefinor Capital provides flexible debt and minority equity to growth-oriented companies. The firm takes a non-traditional approach to providing financing solutions, focusing on investments in innovative companies with products and services that are based on new technologies, business models, distribution systems or other disruptive elements thatare distinguishing factors from peers.With a long-term investment perspective, Gefinor’s investment team allocates substantial resources to portfolio companies. We employ a collaborative approach to investing, emphasizing on partnerships with management teams and shareholders. Gefinor Capital has capital under management through several funds, including two Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs).

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 22% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 11% |
| Mobile | 3 | 8% |
| Hardware | 3 | 8% |
| Analytics | 3 | 8% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 18 | 49% |
| Series A | 7 | 19% |
| Series B | 5 | 14% |
| Series C | 4 | 11% |
| Seed | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 27 | 73% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Davis | Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-davis |
| Rob Porell | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-porell |
| Ali Zamani | Partner – Public Securities | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-zamani-2 |
| Mohamed Ousseimi | Founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohamed-ousseimi |
| Reza Akhavan | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reza-akhavan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anokiwave | Anokiwave features silicon core chip solutions that reduce system cost and enable rapid technology adoption. Its proprietary chip architectures, feature-rich solutions, and complementary III/V products deliver unprecedented system performance. The company provides disruptive value by solving the toughest engineering problems with creativesystem architectures and the optimal selection of semiconductor technologies.It was founded in 1999 and is based in San Diego, California. |  | Series C | Sep 06, 2017 |  |
| GoNoodle | Currently, 14 million kids play GoNoodle each month. GoNoodle gets kids moving to be their smartest, strongest, bravest, silliest, bestest selves. Short, interactive movement videos make it simple and fun to incorporate movement into every part of the day with dancing, stretching, running and even mindfulness activities. At school, teachers useGoNoodle to keep students energized, engaged, and active inside the classroom. At home, GoNoodle turns screen time into active time, so families can have fun and get moving together. GoNoodle launched in 2013. | $5M |  | Dec 08, 2015 |  |
| SocialFlow | SocialFlow is a social distribution and monetization platform that is purpose-built for media companies. Their technology enables the world’s most successful publishers to easily distribute engaging social content while providing them monetization opportunities across multiple social networks. Their publishing software is used by tens ofthousands of journalists across the world and extends the reach and engagement of editorial content and stories to the social sphere. SocialFlow’s advertising products help publishers create new revenue streams from their social efforts. With native solutions and AttentionStream sponsored post ads, SocialFlow helps media companies leverage the unmatched scale and distribution of social channels. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, SocialFlow’s client roster includes half of the top 150 media companies including Condé Nast, Meredith, The Associated Press, CNN, and the BBC. | $7.5M | Series C | Dec 07, 2015 |  |
| Rheonix | Rheonix, Inc. operates as a biomedical device company. Its products include CARD (Chemistry And Reagent Device) system to miniaturize and automate new and existing assays in multiple fields. Its products and technology are used in human/veterinary in vitro diagnostics, food/water testing, SNP analysis for personalized medicineapplications, homeland security/defense applications, process control and final product QC, and tissue culture analysis in a research or production setting. Rheonix, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Ithaca, New York. | $28.6M |  | Oct 20, 2015 |  |
| Knoa Software | Knoa® Software delivers enterprise and cloud solutions that generate unique insights to increase the performance and optimize the end-user experience of SAP, Siebel and other platforms. Knoa's patented software provides CIOs and business executives the actionable metrics needed to ensure their organizations and users realize the full value oftheir enterprise application investment. Headquartered in Union Square, New York, Knoa’s solutions have helped hundreds of global corporations and government organizations make impactful, real-time, fact based decisions that enrich and maximize the experience for over a million end users. | $5.1M | Series B | Jul 29, 2014 |  |
| Rheonix | Rheonix, Inc. operates as a biomedical device company. Its products include CARD (Chemistry And Reagent Device) system to miniaturize and automate new and existing assays in multiple fields. Its products and technology are used in human/veterinary in vitro diagnostics, food/water testing, SNP analysis for personalized medicineapplications, homeland security/defense applications, process control and final product QC, and tissue culture analysis in a research or production setting. Rheonix, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Ithaca, New York. | $2M | Debt Financing | Dec 13, 2013 |  |
| SciAps | SciAps is a Boston-based portable analytical instrumentation company that offers field-hardened and portable analytical instruments that measure compounds, minerals, and elements. They are dedicated to inventing, engineering, providing, and servicing field-hardened, portable instruments to measure any compound, any mineral, any element anyplace onthe planet.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts. | $2.5M |  | Nov 21, 2013 |  |
| Knoa Software | Knoa® Software delivers enterprise and cloud solutions that generate unique insights to increase the performance and optimize the end-user experience of SAP, Siebel and other platforms. Knoa's patented software provides CIOs and business executives the actionable metrics needed to ensure their organizations and users realize the full value oftheir enterprise application investment. Headquartered in Union Square, New York, Knoa’s solutions have helped hundreds of global corporations and government organizations make impactful, real-time, fact based decisions that enrich and maximize the experience for over a million end users. | $7.5M | Series A | Dec 03, 2012 |  |
| BinOptics | BinOptics Corporation manufactures monolithically integrated optoelectronic components. It offers directly modulated fabry-perot, directly modulated distributed feedback, and ring lasers; and custom integrated chips, such as edge- and surface-emitting lasers, monitoring and high-speed photodetectors, electroabsorption modulators, semiconductoroptical amplifiers, beam couplers/splitters, waveguides, and on-chip lenses. The company offers its products for use in datacom and telecommunication applications, such as gigabit ethernet and PON applications, as well as advanced non-telecomunication applications. BinOptics Corporation was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ithaca, New York. | $13.3M |  | Dec 15, 2011 |  |
| Cel-Fi by Nextivity | Nextivity is the developer of Cel-Fi, a high tech smart signal booster that greatly improves indoor reception and data rates for wireless devices.Cel-Fi is a carrier-grade, consumer-friendly smart signal booster that maximizes a user’s indoor wireless experience by eliminating in-building dead zones. It can more than quadruple wireless dataspeeds and eliminate dropped calls for wireless subscribers in their homes or offices by boosting signal strength from one bar to five bars. Cel-Fi is fully compliant with the new Report and Order for signal boosters as defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Cel-Fi relies on intelligent, self-organizing algorithms to maximize the area of coverage for users and ensure it does not compromise or interfere with mobile operator networks or impede other subscribers’ signals. Cel-Fi does not require any new equipment or changes to existing network infrastructure, or mobile devices. Recognized for its superior design and effectiveness, Cel-Fi is the only consumer booster authorized and approved by the communications commissions in Australia and the United Kingdom. Cel-Fi is ideal for small and medium-sized businesses and for use in multi-level homes. It provides one of the largest coverage footprints in the market – up to 13,000 square feet – with up to 60 simultaneous calls and up to 42 Mbps high-speed data connections. As a completely plug and play solution, Cel-Fi eliminates the need for external antennas, cables, ladders, and drilling, ensuring that even the most non-technical customer can install the system in a matter of minutes.Cel-Fi have garnered accolades from FierceWireless, CITA, Red Herring, and CONNECT.Cel-Fi Smart Signal Booster. Designed by Nextivity in California. | $9.5M |  | Nov 16, 2011 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [Advantage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advantage-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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- [Ascent Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascent-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FA Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fa-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Gefinor Capital invest in?

Gefinor Capital invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Mobile startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 37 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Gefinor Capital?

The team at Gefinor Capital includes Chris Davis (Partner), Rob Porell (CFO) and Ali Zamani (Partner – Public Securities), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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