# Windforce Ventures

> Windforce Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Mobile and Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: May 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/windforce-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/WindforceVC
- Website: http://windforceventures.com

Windforce Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage social media and mobile technology investments.Headquartered in NYC, the firm is led by investment professionals and media technology entrepreneurs.We identify exceptional entrepreneurs with disruptive technologies and provide them with capital and guidance to helpthem build thriving companies.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 4 | 31% |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| Analytics | 3 | 23% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 23% |
| SaaS | 2 | 15% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Sullivan | Advising Partner | 0 | — |
| Mario Montoya | Founder,President | 0 | — |
| Waiman Leung | Advising Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kisi Security | Headquartered in New York City, KISI is a unified access control system -- SaaS and IT connected hardware that powers end user access to buildings and offices. Benefits include the extension of cyber security features to physical space, easy door compliance, end-to-end security and scale-ability. | $1.5M | Seed | May 06, 2015 |  |
| Navdy | The creator of the world’s first device for your car to let you Look Forward© while Staying Connected©, Navdy’s mission is to reinvent the driving experience. At Navdy, we set out to solve a complex problem with a beautifully simple solution. To create the type of product you get and immediately forget how you ever lived without it. We believeyou should be able to do all the things you do everyday simply and easily from the driver’s seat. So we set out to make driving something you Look Forward© to again. Navdy is more than a piece of hardware and more than an app—it’s an experience, and one we hope you enjoy every time you get behind the wheel. To learn more, visit www.navdy.com. | $6.5M | Seed | Oct 02, 2014 |  |
| Canvs AI | Canvs AI is the easiest, fastest, and most accurate insights platform for analyzing open-ended text from virtually any source, including surveys, customer reviews and social media. Canvs is used by some of the world’s most admired brands, research agencies, and media & entertainment companies to accelerate time-to-insights, reduce cost, anddeepen the understanding of consumers. For more information or to request a customized demo, please visit https://canvs.ai/ or email sales@canvs.ai. | $1.5M |  | May 06, 2014 |  |
| BetterCompany | At BetterCompany, it is our mission to help companies connect with best candidates at the best time, when they're looking! We use a blend of art and science to match candidates to roles and companies and we understand that timing is everything. | $1.7M | Seed | Apr 10, 2014 |  |
| Sightly | Sightly is a marketing and media technology company, focusing on digital video advertising and analytics, that delivers unrivaled performance and client service. We use data science and expert human know-how to maximize outcomes and align each customer's Brand Mentality™ at speed, no matter what lies ahead. Our smart, agile approach to mediaplanning, buying and fine tuning extends across YouTube, TikTok, Connected TV and OTT live streaming video and all premium publishers and networks. | $4.3M | Seed | Jan 28, 2014 |  |
| Freak'n Genius | Problem: No way exists to track analytics for physical books, games, and toys beyond the point of sale. Solution: We're building Campfire, an Ecommerce platform for immersive audio/visual experiences around physical products. | $375K | Seed | Jan 23, 2014 |  |
| Food Genius | Food Genius is a leading foodservice data provider specializing in gathering, preparing, and serving granular foodservice menu data and analytics. We support foodservice manufacturers, operators, and distributors with straightforward and digestible reports, services, and analytics. Our products are used to answer many complex foodservice businessquestions. From competitive price tracking for optimization to statistical analysis of current burger toppings for the development new offerings, Food Genius has smarter data and analytics. Food Genius serves nationally recognized companies and brands, including Kraft, Coca-Cola, Arby’s, and US Foods. As an industry leader in foodservice data and analytics, Food Genius is on a mission to provide foodservice manufacturers, operators, and distributors with the data analytics they need to make smarter, more informed decisions. | $1M | Series A | Sep 17, 2013 |  |
| Lettuce | Lettuce is a simple order management system with a mobile sales app enabling your business to capture, track, and process orders anywhere in real time. We primarily focus on small and medium sized businesses. | $1M | Seed | Aug 01, 2013 |  |
| Reactor Labs | Reactor Inc. (acquired in 2014) was a Boulder-based artificial intelligence company that developed preemptive search, knowledge graph and natural language interface solutions. Its mission was to empower human curiosity by designing a better relationship between people and information. Its patent-pending graph technology was a first-of-its-kindsemantic search solution that leveraged billions of semantic relationships, social posts, news stories, and 3rd-party services to create a personal, contextualized information experience.Reactor Inc.’s direct-to-consumer product is Winston for iPhone, a heartwarming, speech-enabled conversational assistant that transforms and summarizes its users’ social feeds and news interests into a first-of-its-kind conversational information experience.Reactor Inc. was founded by Aaron Ting, Jarod Stewart, Luke Evans and Steve Kaschinske in Boulder, CO. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 01, 2013 |  |
| Nexgate | We are group of highly experienced technology, market, and business professionals who believe the Social Web is a critical evolution of the Web as a communication and interaction channel for businesses. We bring multiple decades of expertise in delivering enterprise class solutions in digital media, Web infrastructure, SaaS, and security.We arefunded and committed to delivering Enterprise Social Brand Protection and Compliance solutions. Our intent is to allow organizations to more safely utilize their new Social Web infrastructure to capture the opportunity and avoid the risks it presents.Nexgate delivers an intuitive way to find and understand your organization's social presence while matching and valuing it against its actual network of contacts, stakeholders, and influencers. This includes a complete security and compliance system, key aspects of content management and publishing, social account management, actionable and meaningful metrics, and the ability to leverage other key investments and enterprise infrastructure. Beyond these key capabilities, Nexgate allows your organization to mobilize your actual network on the Social Web and convert them into a mobilized and productive network of social advocates and topline business drivers. | $3.5M | Series A | Apr 09, 2013 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amicus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amicus-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hyde Park Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [IDEO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ideo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Pritzker Group Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pritzker-group-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Windforce Ventures invest in?

Windforce Ventures invests primarily in Mobile, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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 Windforce Ventures?

The team at Windforce Ventures includes Brian Sullivan (Advising Partner), Mario Montoya (Founder,President) and Waiman Leung (Advising Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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