# The Y Startup Index

> The Y Startup Index is a VC fund in New Haven backing Software and Blockchain. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Haven, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/y-startup-index/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ystartupindex
- Website: https://ystartupindex.com/

The Y Startup Index is a VC fund in New Haven focused on Software and Blockchain. The Y Startup Index provides a better way for Y Investors to gain access to Y founder deals, and a better way for entrepreneurs to access a broader group of Yale alumni angels.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 29% |
| SMS | 1 | 14% |
| Web3 | 1 | 14% |
| Banking | 1 | 14% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 86% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sean Glass | Founder and Partner | 24 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sean-glass |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Genia | Genia is revolutionizing structural engineering with its AI-powered generative design platform, the Structural CoPilot. This technology empowers engineering consultancies and real estate developers to generate optimal, physics-validated, and code-compliant engineering drawings in minutes, a process typically taking weeks. Genia enables users toachieve up to 10x faster design cycles, reduce errors by 40%, and save 10% on materials. By transforming architectural plans into multiple optimized structural solutions, Genia helps firms win more bids and enhance project efficiency without expanding their workforce. | $3M | Seed | Feb 07, 2025 |  |
| norahealth.ai | In August XTRA, a growing video-software early-stage startup has announced the launch of the largest suite of virtual engagement and gamification video features proven to provide better attendee experiences in VOD and live fitness sessions. The company has developed two primary features, leveraging AI and computer vision technologies to instantlyanalyze client biometrical data. Their motion tracking solution in on-demand workouts enables peer-to-peer interaction and real-time fitness analytics in every fitness category without needing hardware integration. Moreover, live class streaming sessions are powered by their proprietary trainer and user engine recommendation models ensuring a strong community feeling and the highest personalization. XTRA is the only AI solution working on 543 body marks, for more than 800 LIVE exercises and with more than 92% accuracy​. Their proprietary AI Fitness API is powered by world-leading human motion analysis, ​real-time performance analytics, completely hardware-independent​. Their goal is to build and reinforce customer loyalty among our partners with XTRA’s platform and value-added services. XTRA is committed to developing strong partnerships within the fitness industry to help deliver premium on-demand and livestreaming experiences to your clients’ member base worldwide.Be ready to experience the power of XTRA. Find more information about how XTRA is shaping the future of fitness and wellness at https://xtraininglive.com/ | $3.5M | Seed | Jun 04, 2023 |  |
| Jia | Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities. | $4.4M | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Shuttle Labs | Contributing to secure cross-chain orchestration | $3.7M | Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| MindRight Health | MindRight Health's mission is to advance health equity by making mental health care radically accessible and inclusive of communities of color and low-income families. MindRight partners with healthcare payers and providers to offer culturally-responsive mental health coaching over a text message. MindRight's members receive a personalteam of coaches who proactively support them 7 days/week, 365 days/year. Through its service, MindRight is creating a continuum of support that does not generally exist for youth. For communities who do not traditionally engage in clinical services due to high stigma and lack of access, MindRight serves as an ongoing source of culturally responsive, nonclinical support. MindRight provides its partners with real-time data on community mental health needs to predict and prevent mental health crises in the communities. | $1.8M | Seed | May 24, 2022 |  |
| Aspecta | Aspecta is a blockchain infrastructure enabling an open economy for illiquid assets at the trillion scale. It facilitates AI-powered intelligent attestation and unlocks lifecycle liquidity for pre-TGE token shares, locked tokens, private equities and RWAs, anchored in universal on-chain price discovery solution. |  | Seed | Apr 19, 2022 |  |
| Bloom AI | Bloom boosts e-commerce conversion rates by optimizing the merchant’s existing product content, showing the right photos to the right shopper based on the shopper’s device, location, and behavior. | $1.1M | Seed | Mar 07, 2022 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AIX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aix-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lifeforce Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lifeforce-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TSVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tsvcap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acumen America](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acumen-america-b7c1) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amplify.LA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-la) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does The Y Startup Index invest in?

The Y Startup Index invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and SMS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact The Y Startup Index?

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### Who are the partners at The Y Startup Index?

The team at The Y Startup Index includes Sean Glass (Founder and Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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