GWC Innovator Fund
VC Fund
Santa Clara, United States
GWC Innovator Fund is a VC fund in Santa Clara focused on Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology. Their newly launched GWC Innovator Fund is a venture fund focused exclusively on investing in global innovators that are improving the world. Some of their recent investments include 3D Robotics in the US, Goqii in India, DayDayUp in China and Qraved in Indonesia. G-Startup Worldwide (https://angel.co/g-startup-worldwide) is theirglobal startup competition held around the world to find the most innovative, early stage startups, invest $1,000,000 in them, support them with a global network and enable them to change the world.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries GWC Innovator Fund invests in
Stages GWC Innovator Fund invests in
Countries GWC Innovator Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
4 more contacts available
Round size
- Seed
- $120k–$3M
- Series A
- $2.3M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (28%)
- Information Technology 7 (22%)
- Internet 5 (16%)
- Software 5 (16%)
- E-Commerce 5 (16%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (56%)
- Series A 4 (13%)
- Funding Round 4 (13%)
- Angel 2 (6%)
- Series C 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 16 (50%)
- China 4 (13%)
- India 3 (9%)
- Brazil 2 (6%)
- Israel 2 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Barrett Parkman
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 22 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
FriendlyData
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FriendlyData helps enterprise companies make data accessible for non-technical people by providing natural language interface to databases. FriendlyData is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company backed by 500 Startups and other Silicon Valley investors. | Seed / Aug 17, 2018 | |
BabyQuip
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Founded in May 2016, BabyQuip is the world's leading baby gear rental service, delivering clean, quality baby gear items—from car seats to strollers and more—to families who don't want to haul bulky gear while traveling. BabyQuip Cleaning, offers exceptional cleaning services for baby gear for local families and businesses, particularlyfor car seats, strollers, and high chairs. BabyQuip has served over 125,000 families in the US, Canada and beyondAs a managed marketplace, the BabyQuip platform enables its community of over 1500 independent contractors, called Quality Providers, the opportunity to build a business renting and cleaning baby gear on the BabyQuip platform. Mostly moms, the Quality Providers benefit from an active and supportive community, ongoing training, and leads generated from both online advertising and through strategic partnerships. | $1.3M / Seed / Apr 19, 2018 | |
Edwin
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In early 2020 Edwin merged with Buddy.ai. The resulting company kept the name “Buddy.ai”. Headquartered in San Francisco, it focuses on building a virtual English conversation partner for over 500 million children around the globe who are trying to learn English, but can't reach fluency because they lack genuine practice speaking the language.The company doubled down on its mobile app Buddy, the voice-based English tutor for kids, organically combining solutions developed by Buddy.ai and Edwin.Edwin built an AI-powered service for learning English as a foreign language. It combines the latest adaptive learning and Natural Language Understanding technology with pedagogical content as well as on-demand human instructors to offer its students affordable, personalized, 1:1 learning. Based in San Francisco, the company was funded by General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Google Assistant Investments Program, and several other investors. Over 800 thousand students have improved their English with Edwin. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 15, 2018 | |
LifeAssist Technologies
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LifeAssist creates connected solutions that promote active and independent living. It enables seniors to maintain a healthy and engaged lifestyle, while helping caregivers balance stress, schedules, and workload.LifeAssist provides home care agencies and senior housing operators with an enterprise SaaS care management platform known as Circura.Its enterprise SaaS care management platform streamlines communication and collaboration between caregivers and families. Its voice-controlled reminder device, Rosie, solves the daily challenges of memory loss and provides an inexpensive solution to remembering medications, appointments, and every-day tasks.Operated from San Francisco, California, LifeAssist was launched in 2014 by Val Ornoy and Gary Rotman | Jan 25, 2018 | |
EvaBot
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Eva is the easiest way to send personalized corporate gifts at scale. Never worry about preferences or delivery details again. Just cc Eva in an email or chat on Slack.Eva's machine intelligence matches hip product companies with the unique interests and attributes of the gift recipient. The result is a perfect automated gift from acurated list of vendors. | $1.6M / Seed / Dec 01, 2017 | |
Scoutible
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Scoutible is a game-based hiring platform, using immersive mobile games to pinpoint perfect-fit candidates for jobs. Scoutible’s patent-pending technology identifies players’ unique cognitive and personality traits through gameplay, then spots opportunities where players’ attributes match those of companies’ proven top performers. Play for free,learn your strengths, and get scouted. | $5M / Seed / Oct 25, 2017 | |
AssemblyAI
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Speech AI technology development and advancement are the main goals of the AssemblyAI company. Building and scaling extremely accurate, user-friendly, and secure speech recognition models is the main focus of their work. These models are made to interpret and comprehend human speech, and thousands of users, top businesses, and developers around theworld are already making extensive use of their technology. The company aims to expand speech artificial intelligence by developing sophisticated models that will open up whole new kinds of voice data-based applications and goods. In essence, they are trying to democratize and innovate the potential of speech artificial intelligence for a variety of use cases and sectors. | $120K / Seed / Aug 23, 2017 | |
Visabot
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Visabot is an AI-powered solution for streamlining U.S. visa process. Visabot helps complete visa applications and provides other immigration-related services. | Seed / Aug 01, 2017 | |
Forensic Alpha
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StockViews is an investment research platform. We have a singular focus on finding misplaced securities in the market using machine intelligence and high-performance investment analysts StockViews Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Reference number: 763770) | $655K / Seed / May 16, 2017 | |
Mama+
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MAMA+ aims to help more mothers "become a better mother," for the benefit of family and society as a concept, is committed to "serve for mothers"; the same time, Internet technology and family relations research as a dual-driven, brought together many passionate technical talent. Researchers who can feel empathy with theirmothers are all motivated by their mothers' needs and insist on using their strength to make their feelings come true so as to realize more value for their mothers. | Series C / Apr 07, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
Y Combinator
3 deals together
500 Global
2 deals together
Great Oaks Venture Capital
2 deals together
Radiant Venture Capital
2 deals together
StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
2 deals together
AME Cloud Ventures
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does GWC Innovator Fund invest in?
GWC Innovator Fund invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is GWC Innovator Fund's check size?
GWC Innovator Fund typically joins rounds of $120k–$3M at Seed and $2.3M–$40M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds GWC Innovator Fund participates in.
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Who are the partners at GWC Innovator Fund?
The team at GWC Innovator Fund includes Barrett Parkman (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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