Propel Capital
VC Fund
New York, United States
Propel Capital is a VC fund in New York focused on Education and Non Profit. Propel Capital supports bold leaders creating a just and equitable future. Through creative use of capital, we accelerate innovative, durable social impact solutions to the world's most pressing challenges.Propel Capital invests in organizations at critical junctures in their development with flexible, patient capital. It places significanttrust in its partners and operates with a high risk tolerance for new approaches and big bets at catalytic moments.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 9%
Last updated:
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Industries Propel Capital invests in
Stages Propel Capital invests in
Countries Propel Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 more contact available
Round size
- Grant
- $50k–$2.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 3 (27%)
- Non Profit 3 (27%)
- SaaS 2 (18%)
- Software 2 (18%)
- Agriculture 2 (18%)
Stage
- Grant 4 (36%)
- Seed 2 (18%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (18%)
- Series A 2 (18%)
- Funding Round 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 8 (73%)
- Sweden 1 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jeremy Mindich
Co-founder
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Co-founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Katya Levitan-Reiner
Portfolio Director
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Portfolio Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Magda Socha
Operations and Project Management, Impact Investing
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Operations and Project Management, Impact Investing | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Hypertype
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Hypertype is a full-stack automation platform built for industrial aftersales. It combines three connected modules — Data Governance, AI Agents, and a Co-pilot + Management Layer — all powered by HyperBrain, a self-learning intelligence layer that continuously adapts to each customer’s data, feedback loops, and workflows to deliver end-to-endautomation and real-time operational insights. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / May 04, 2022 | |
Care in Action
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Care in Action is an organization that fights for the dignity and fairness of domestic workers. | Grant / Apr 23, 2020 | |
A/B Partners
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A/B Partners run by the people systematically excluded from the professional communications industry to grow the influence. | Seed / Jan 01, 2020 | |
Opus
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Opus is a hospitality training platform purpose-built for the frontline that provides digital tools to help service staff learn skills, complete training modules, and access performance resources. The platform offers structured learning pathways, micro-lessons, and interactive content tailored to operational roles such as servers, housekeepers,bartenders, and guest services teams. It supports onboarding, upskilling, and continuous education by enabling employees to engage with training materials on mobile devices and track progress through competency checklists. Opus also includes features for managers to assign courses, monitor completion rates, and align training activities with service standards and operational needs. The platform integrates assessment and feedback mechanisms that help learners reinforce knowledge and demonstrate proficiency in core hospitality tasks. Through its digital training infrastructure, Opus supports workforce development and skill alignment within hospitality environments. | Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2020 | |
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Dan Mindich Teacher Project
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Dan Mindich Teacher Project provides teachers with experiential learning opportunities in education and sustains practicing educators. | $2.3M / Grant / Jul 30, 2019 | |
Mursion
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Mursion provides immersive simulated practice for essential skills in the workplace powered by humans and assisted by AI. Its virtual reality platform uses a combination of artificial intelligence and live actors to deliver powerful and personalized simulations. It provides a wide range of immersive and authentic workplace environments in which tosimulate challenging interpersonal on-the-job exchanges. | $8M / Series A / Mar 26, 2019 | |
Selected
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Selected helps teachers get jobs at schools they love. We match K-12 teachers with 1,200+ public and private independent urban schools throughout the Northeast US (including NYC, Newark, Philly, DC, and Boston) and Los Angeles. Selected is 100% free for teachers.Our mission is to improve teacher retention and hiring, especially in high needcommunities, through more purposeful matching. | $1.2M / Seed / May 17, 2018 | |
Mijente
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Mijente combines digital and offline organizing with creative media to inspire activists. A new political home for Latinx and Chicanx organizing. | Jan 01, 2018 | |
Sister District Project
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Sister District Project is an NGO that creates programs to win elections, develop legislators, educate and empower communities. | $50K / Grant / Dec 10, 2017 | |
Stony Creek Colors
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Stony Creek Colors is engaged in the production of bio-based dyes together with farmers, mills, and brands, in partnership with small farmers in the Southeast U.S. Stony Creek Colors was founded by Sarah Bellos in 2012 and is based in Tennessee, United States. | $3.3M / Series A / Oct 12, 2017 | |
| See all 11 investments → | |||
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1 deal together
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1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Propel Capital invest in?
Propel Capital invests primarily in Education, Non Profit and SaaS startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Propel Capital's check size?
Propel Capital typically joins rounds of $50k–$2.3M at Grant. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Propel Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Propel Capital?
The team at Propel Capital includes Jeremy Mindich (Co-founder), Katya Levitan-Reiner (Portfolio Director) and Magda Socha (Operations and Project Management, Impact Investing). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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