# WOCstar Fund

> WOCstar Fund is a VC fund in New York backing SaaS and Waste Management. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intent-manifesto
- Website: https://www.wocstar.com/

WOCstar Fund is an early-stage investment fund focused on women of color tech startups.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for WOCstar Fund. Shizune tracks 3 team members at WOCstar Fund. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/wocstar-fund?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |
| Waste Management | 2 | 20% |
| B2B | 1 | 10% |
| Video | 1 | 10% |
| AgTech | 1 | 10% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 60% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gayle Jennings O'Byrne | Co-Founder and General Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gayle-jennings-o-byrne |
| Jon Gosier | Limited Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-gosier-2 |
| Pialy Aditya | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pialy-aditya |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sound Games | Sound Games develops video games. Sound Games is making fun games that don't suck | $6.5M | Seed | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| Redactable | Redactable helps companies permanently redact their confidential documents. You can automate your redaction processes easily using our AI workflow. | $5.5M | Seed | Dec 14, 2023 |  |
| Community | Community is a new social engagement platform that makes two-way communication between influencers and their followers simple, effective, and scalable. It connects businesses, brands, governmental and public personalities, creators, singers, celebrities, and others to their consumers at scale via a unique 10-digit phone number. | $25M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 24, 2023 |  |
| FilmHedge | Fin-tech, Media Finance | $5M | Series A | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| FilmHedge | Fin-tech, Media Finance | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Flow | Flow solves the complexity of fund infrastructure. We connect information across investors, providers, investments and systems to realize our mission of empowering thought. Powered by dynamic tools and human centric interfaces, our cross platform SaaS technology networks and adapts to the myriad of ways funds operate to optimize productivity andincrease time invested into making decisions. By bringing Flow to the $10 Trillion alternative asset market, we are able to increase the speed of decisions, the speed of capital and the speed of growth that serve as the lifeblood for all market based economies. | $20M | Series A | Feb 17, 2022 |  |
| Infinite Objects | Infinite Objects offers creative video prints with artistic products to frame up with the best pictures and caters to online services. Its product is a permanently treated display - what we call a Video Print. No apps, no fussy configuration; just one video, looping forever. You are not buying a gadget, you are collecting a moving image. InfiniteObjects hold up to 24 hours of the video playing in a perpetual loop, delivering the same experience as art prints or photographs, in a beautiful 5" or 7” display, framed in modern acrylic or sustainably sourced bamboo. | $6M | Seed | May 27, 2021 |  |
| FilmHedge | Fin-tech, Media Finance | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 25, 2021 |  |
| Re-Nuble | Re-Nuble is an MWBE-certified agricultural technology company that uses organic cycling science™ technology to transform unrecoverable vegetative food byproducts into a platform of sustainable technologies for soilless farming. Our closed-loop process transforms unrecoverable food byproducts into organic goods while eliminating landfill waste andgreenhouse gasses. We were founded with the mission to help global agricultural communities reimagine localized food waste for more sustainable, environmentally-friendly growing practices. |  | Seed | Nov 23, 2020 |  |
| Zero Grocery | Zero Grocery provides a convenient zero-waste grocery delivery service. Zero Grocery's mission is to remove single-use plastics from the food system so customers will receive groceries in reusable containers. | $3M | Seed | Sep 23, 2020 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [GFR Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gfr-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SCADpro Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scadpro-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SGH CAPITAL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sgh-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TriplePoint Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/triplepoint-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does WOCstar Fund invest in?

WOCstar Fund invests primarily in SaaS, Waste Management and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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 WOCstar Fund?

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### Who are the partners at WOCstar Fund?

The team at WOCstar Fund includes Gayle Jennings O'Byrne (Co-Founder and General Partner), Jon Gosier (Limited Partner) and Pialy Aditya (Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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