R/GA Accelerator
VC Fund
New York, United States
R/GA Accelerator is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Internet of Things. The R/GA Accelerator is a three-month, immersive, mentor-driven program for early-stage startups that are not only innovating products, services, and experiences, but also exploring new business models that exploit emerging technology.We amplify investment capital by leveraging the agency’s in-house teams of world-class designers, brandstrategists, and creative technologists as well as the agency’s mentor network of global brand leaders.The combination of investment capital, creative capital, and our global network gives our start-up partners an "unfair advantage" as they go to market and scale.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
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Industries R/GA Accelerator invests in
Stages R/GA Accelerator invests in
Countries R/GA Accelerator invests in
Contacts
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Bob Greenberg
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Kevin Menzie
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2 more contacts available
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (39%)
- Internet of Things 7 (23%)
- Mobile 5 (16%)
- Analytics 5 (16%)
- Smart Home 4 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (52%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (26%)
- Convertible Note 3 (10%)
- Series B 1 (3%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 23 (74%)
- United Kingdom 2 (6%)
- Puerto Rico 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Amol Sarva
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
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Bob Greenberg
Founder, Chairman and CEO
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Founder, Chairman and CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Kevin Menzie
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Clarifai
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Clarifai is a leading, full-lifecycle deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, and audio recognition. We help organizations transform unstructured images, video, text, and audio data into structured data at a significantly faster and more accurate rate than humans would be able to do on their own. Founded in 2013by Matt Zeiler, Ph.D. Clarifai has been a market leader in AI since winning the top five places in image classification at the 2013 ImageNet Challenge. Clarifai continues to grow with employees remotely based throughout the United States, Canada, Estonia, Argentina & India. | $30M / Series B / Oct 25, 2016 | |
Myagi
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Myagi is a maker of an online workforce training platform that aims to build a retail training network that boosts sales. | $1.8M / Convertible Note / Aug 01, 2016 | |
Jitsu
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Jitsu, formerly known as AxleHire, is a last-mile delivery service that helps brands like American Eagle, HelloFresh and Nespresso meet and exceed customer expectations. Jitsu uses a proprietary, AI-powered technology platform to achieve a 99+% on-time delivery rate and to support companies seeking greater customer lifetime value (CLV) throughsuperior doorstep delivery. Logistics teams can now provide a differentiated delivery experience at a competitive cost, overcoming the limitations of legacy delivery providers. Jitsu operates in urban areas across the U.S., enabling high-volume shippers to consistently cater to the rising needs and expectations of their customers. For more information, please visit gojitsu.com. | $120K / Convertible Note / Aug 01, 2016 | |
Onward
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Onward is a customer service automation platform that creates a range of automated customer service and sales tools for business usage. The platform helps its clients achieve Automation40 - 40% of tickets automated, 40% of messages automated, 40 second average response time. Onward’s solution could be directly integrated into systems such asZendesk, whilst simultaneously plugging into Salesforce and Hubspot to add leads.Onward’s enterprise chatbot platform leveraged natural language processing to extract meaning from customers’ messages. The platform can contextualize and personalize its responses to queries through drawing on signals such as historical activity, login status, and location. | $120K / Convertible Note / Aug 01, 2016 | |
Reply.ai
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We're on a mission to remove frustration and save people's time when interacting with a business.We build software that makes serving customers at scale more efficient by automating repetitive processes and delivering instant and personalized attention on the customer's preferred communication channels. Our goal is to save time,reduce cost and improve the overall customer experience. | $200K / Pre-Seed / Aug 01, 2016 | |
Flock
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Flock is a fully digital insurance company for commercial motor fleets. We're on a mission to make the world quantifiably safer with connected insurance that enables and incentivises safer driving. With Flock, safer fleets pay less. Iit's why hundreds of companies trust us to protect their vehicles and drivers including Virtuo andJaguar Land Rover's luxury leasing firm, The Out. We're proud to be supported by some of the world's leading VCs, including Social Capital and Anthemis. Our goal is to become the world's leading fully digital insurer for connected and autonomous vehicles. | $550K / Seed / Feb 01, 2016 | |
DOOR
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Latch makes spaces better places to live, work, and visit through a system of software, devices, and services. More than one in ten new apartments in the U.S. are currently being built with Latch products, serving customers in more than 35 states through its flagship full-building operating system, LatchOS. | $5.5M / Seed / Apr 29, 2015 | |
AWAIR
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Awair's mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely wherever they spend time indoors. The company provides cutting edge technology that is easy to use and understand, as well as an intuitive software platform with actionable insights for IAQ improvement, enabling users to mitigate their indoor air for health and safety, be it athome, school, the workplace, or any other indoor space. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has a second office in Seoul, South Korea. | $2.3M / Seed / Mar 10, 2015 | |
Kinetic
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Kinetic creates wearable devices and cloud-based software that reduces workplace injuries, for the industrial workforce.REFLEX, the company's product is a device that employs analytics to provide reminders and notifications to workers once the device detects a high-risk motion such as unsafe postures that could cause injuries in theconstruction, warehouses, and factories environment. It can also be used as a sensor that detects COVID-19 exposure.In 2014, Haytham Elhawary and Aditya Bansal established Kinetic in New York, New York. | $120K / Seed / Feb 12, 2015 | |
LISNR
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LISNR® powers transactions across the customer journey globally with the most advanced Ultrasonic Data Platform. Today, companies like Jaguar Land Rover, Ticketmaster, and Visa use this solution to create secure & frictionless moments for consumers around the world. Founded in 2012, LISNR is located in Oakland, CA and Cincinnati, OH. Majorinvestors include Intel, Jump Capital, Mercury Fund, R/GA, and Synchrony Financial. | Feb 12, 2015 | |
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FAQ
What does R/GA Accelerator invest in?
R/GA Accelerator invests primarily in Software, Internet of Things and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 31 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 R/GA Accelerator?
The team at R/GA Accelerator includes Amol Sarva (Mentor), Bob Greenberg (Founder, Chairman and CEO) and Kevin Menzie (Mentor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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