Top 50 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United States in January 2025
A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United States in January 2025
Investor | Retail United States investments |
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Forerunner | 38 |
Right Side Capital Management | 18 |
Lerer Hippeau | 18 |
New Enterprise Associates | 17 |
SV Angel | 17 |
FJ Labs | 17 |
BAM Ventures | 16 |
RevTech Ventures | 16 |
Founders Fund | 13 |
Chicago Ventures | 13 |
General Catalyst | 13 |
Great Oaks Venture Capital | 13 |
Brand Foundry Ventures | 12 |
Social Starts | 12 |
37 Angels | 12 |
Slow Ventures | 12 |
QueensBridge Venture Partners | 12 |
Precursor Ventures | 11 |
First Round Capital | 11 |
Upfront Ventures | 11 |
Silicon Road Ventures | 10 |
Battery Ventures | 10 |
Commerce Ventures | 10 |
Andreessen Horowitz | 10 |
NextView Ventures | 10 |
Lightspeed Venture Partners | 9 |
Founder Collective | 9 |
Matchstick Ventures | 9 |
Serena Ventures | 9 |
Menlo Ventures | 9 |
Index Ventures | 9 |
Bullish | 9 |
Grace Beauty Capital | 9 |
Cowboy Ventures | 9 |
BBG Ventures | 9 |
RRE Ventures | 9 |
Reshape | 9 |
Harrison Metal | 9 |
Florida Funders | 9 |
VTF Capital | 8 |
8VC | 8 |
Gaingels | 8 |
Finn Capital Partners | 8 |
Maveron | 8 |
ATX Venture Partners | 8 |
XFactor Ventures | 8 |
RiverPark Ventures | 8 |
Greycroft | 8 |
Basis Set Ventures | 8 |
Bain Capital Ventures | 7 |
Forerunner is a venture capital firm focused on the modern consumer, investing at the intersection of culture and invention.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Roon — Your Trusted Guide for Health Conditions. Today we are focused on GBM, ALS, Dementia, and Fertility and Family Building.
- Leland — Leland is a marketplace that connects ambitious people with world-class coaches who can help them reach their career and educational goals via 1:1 coaching and small group classes.
- Table22 — The #1 restaurant subscription management platform
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
- UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform
- Hutsy — Hutsy helps you budget, spend less and offers a concierge service to handle tasks like negotiating bills, canceling subscriptions, saving you time and money.
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MOTORMIA — Meet Mia! MOTORMIA - Curated by auto enthusiasts, powered by AI. MOTORMIA is revolutionizing personalized discovery of aftermarket upgrades for your enthusiast vehicle
- Conflixis — Conflixis develops conflict monitoring platform intended to manage conflicts inside organizations.
- Symbiotic Security — Symbiotic Security revolutionizes cybersecurity with an AI-driven coach, offering real-time detection, remediation, and training within the developer's IDE.
Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
- FIRE1 — FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices.
- Ouro Medicines — Ouroboros Medicines is a biotechnology company that specializes in immunology and focuses on treating long-term immune-mediated illnesses. The company addresses chronic immune-mediated conditions directly by integrating scientific knowledge, a proven history of progressing cell-depleting treatments through clinical trials, and a strong pipeline.
- Orbis Medicines — Orbis Medicines is a novel macrocyclic chemistry and computational platform for high-throughput drug discovery.
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
- Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare
- Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Faks — Faks is an app development company. The company's application allows users to send faster requests, track the status of the requests, and settle any complaints, enabling the pharmacists to maintain a secure relationship with supplier laboratories.
- Wurthy — Get instant access to low cost credit using your accounts receivable, so you can keep your business running smoothly.
- Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.
BAM Ventures is an early-stage consumer-focused fund based in Los Angeles, CA.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Nectar AI — Social commerce platform for Brands
- Sway — Sway offers regenerative design solutions for plastic pollution using seaweed to create compostable replacements for single-use plastics. The company was co-founded by Julia Marsh, Matt Mayes, and Leland Maschmeyer and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
RevTech is a leading retail technology venture firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- FINDMINE — The most iconic brands trust FindMine. The #1 content engine powering Styling, Outfitting, Complete the Look, for ecommerce, marketing, remote selling, clientelling, and more in Fashion, Home, and Beauty
- Shelfleet — Join our fleet!
- Gardenuity — Easy to grow Outdoor Herb + Veggie Gardens and Indoor Desktop Gardens. Improve your health and well-being through the restorative power of nature.
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
- Network Bio — Network Bio is a clinical and molecular data library enabling precision medicine approaches for common human diseases. Its platform delivers a centralized repository for clinical and molecular data that allows researchers to identify patterns and correlations that can be used to develop new treatments and diagnostic tools.
- Crusoe Energy Systems — Crusoe is on a mission to help the oil industry reduce routine flaring of natural gas. They are passionate about creating solutions that benefit the environment, local communities, and energy producers.Crusoe Energy Systems provides oil and gas companies with a fast, low cost and simple solution to natural gas flaring. As the energy industrystruggles with pipeline constraints and increasing regulations around flaring and combusting, Crusoe is here to help. Their service lets operators preserve or regain regulatory compliance, maintain existing production and facilitate future development.
Chicago Ventures leads seed investments in overlooked teams.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- OneRail — OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform providing real-time visibility, actionable data, and data-driven optimization capabilities for its enterprise clients. OneRail’s cloud-based “delivery switch” simplifies same-day and on-demand delivery execution by connecting the demand signal (POS, eCommerce, ERP) with the ecosystem ofdelivery networks and internal fleets in real-time. The result of OneRail’s centralized view of disparate final mile data enables data-driven optimization, positively impacting the dependability, speed, and cost of final mile fulfillment.
- GoodShip — Streamline your shipping with Goodship. Discover efficient, cost-effective solutions and optimize your logistics for better results.
- GreenLite Technologies — GreenLite makes getting a construction permit fast, predictable, and transparent. Let the GreenLite Platform handle your permitting needs so you can focus on growing your business.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
- Current — Current is a financial technology company that offers mobile payments, online banking, and financial services. The company's mission is to enable members to change their lives by creating better financial outcomes. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, United States.
- Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare
Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
- Amulet — Amulet is shining a light on invisible threats in our food system. Amulet has two core brands: - Allergy Amulet helps consumers determine whether their foods are safe by detecting potentially life-threatening allergenic ingredients. - Amulet Scientific equips businesses and manufacturers with tools to help ensure the safety of their food supplychain. Learn more: www.allergyamulet.com www.amuletscientific.com
- Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.
Brand Foundry Ventures they invest in early-stage companies operating in the consumer and business sectors.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vizit — Vizit is the Visual Brand Performance Company.Vizit enables leading brands and retailers to simulate the visual perspective of consumer audiences with patented AI technology. The company’s Visual Brand Performance Platform measures, optimizes and monitors visual content at scale, driving increased traffic, conversions, and sales, while providingproduct and design teams a powerful new source of visual insights to bring products to market more efficiently and effectively than ever before
- Ledgebrook — Best in class service and pricing from industry veterans delivered at the speed of InsurTech
- Lucky Energy — LUCKY F*CK is a better-for-you energy drink company.
Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hey Jane — Get safe, effective and affordable abortion pills delivered fast to your home. Hey Jane is the first digital abortion clinic, connecting you to licensed providers in your state through telemedicine.
- Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
- Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.
Community of women angel investors that offers angel investing training for investors
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Liberare (Formerly Intimately) — Intimately sells adaptive bras and underwear for women with disabilities. We sell the easiest bras to put on that are also fashionable. Front opening bras with the newest technology allow for easy dressing for everyone.
- Cartwheel — Cartwheel is the fastest growing on-demand delivery management software for restaurants and beyond. We help businesses to launch a delivery program in-house or upgrade their third-party delivery infrastructure.
- Just Enough Wines — You deserve quality wine, whenever, wherever. Premium, great-tasting wine in the convenience of a can.
Slow Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in companies central to the technology industry as well as those operating at the intersection of science, society, and culture. The firm seeks to support innovative ideas and solutions that shape the future across various sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Prospinity — Prospinity provides the technical and legal infrastructure to make these success pools work.
- Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.
- Sublime Security — Sublime lets you write, run, and share rules to block phishing attacks, hunt for threats, and more.
QueensBridge Venture Partners invests in technology companies in highly competitive and visible markets.The company's collective experience has shaped our approach to investing by allowing us to quickly recognize and capitalize on key trends. Furthermore, by focusing on co-investment opportunities with leading venture capital funds and angelinvestors in Silicon Valley, we have unique access to very attractive companies.Successful venture capital investing is highly influenced by a network of reputable investors. QBVP aligns itself with firms that have proven their ability to source and invest in the next generation of leading technology companies in Silicon Valley and emerging markets. We bring capital along with our network of industry veterans and corporate relationships to accelerate the development of the companies in which we co-invest. We seek to partner with firms that generate the most value among VCs and back the companies that reach enterprise value of over $1 billion on a regular basis.The general partners of QBVP are industry veterans in consumer products & services, media & entertainment, and financial services. We have (i) advised tech, media, and entertainment companies in raising over $20 billion of capital at bulge bracket Wall Street firms (e.g. Goldman Sachs; Deutsche Bank) (ii) started over twenty businesses, (iii) produced and/or recorded six number 1 albums on the Billboard 200, (iv) sold over 25 million records worldwide, (v) have products in over 3,000 stores.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, China
Portfolio highlights
- Edyn — The Edyn smart garden system lets you know what’s happening in your garden at all times. Whether you’re a novice gardener or managing a small-scale organic farm, Edyn is there to take the guesswork out of gardening. Inserted in the soil, the Edyn Garden Sensor gathers and analyzes data about changing weather and soil conditions. The Edyn Appdisplays this data as a real-time snapshot of your garden, and pushes alerts and suggestions to maximize plant health.
- Matternet — Matternet is a technology platform for urban aerial delivery. In March 2017, Matternet became the first company in the world to be authorized for urban drone delivery operations in Switzerland. In May 2018, the company was selected to participate in the FAA's Drone Integration Pilot Program for operations in North Carolina and San Diego. InMarch 2019, Matternet and UPS announced a partnership to implement drone delivery services at US hospitals and launched the first ongoing revenue drone delivery operation in US history at Wakemed in North Carolina.Founded in 2011, Matternet is headquartered in Mountain View, California
- ALL DAY — All Day is building an editorial media brand and publishing technology for mobile-first Millennial audiences. The company leverages a network of owned and partner Social Media properties for content distribution and audience engagement, driving content sharing and virality. All Day’s network partners, writers, and editors manage posts, trackanalytics, and grow engagement through its CMS and Social distribution dashboard.Today, All Day maintains and engages a growing audience on Social Media channels through owned and operated content brands with over 28 million followers, as well as a distribution network reaching over 200 million followers across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Included among the company’s more popular social accounts are HistoryinPics and EarthPix on Twitter. Through these owned and partner accounts, All Day distributes highly visual and shareable editorial content, which is often featured on its destination site AllDay.com.
Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware.
Precursor Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Grw AI — Grw AI offers scalable 1:1 coaching solutions that leverage AI to assist B2B sales teams complete deals.
- Nectir — Nectir is an instant chat tool that engages campus communities and reduces burnout.
- Dopl Technologies — Dopl is improving access to healthcare through telerobotic ultrasound procedures.
First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Reducto — Reducto is an API that provides high quality data ingestion for large language models (LLMs). It works with any vector database or embedding system. It can parse PDFs, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
- Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
- Prepared — We are harnessing the power of everyday technology to enhance the way that people communicate during emergencies.
Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
- Grove — AI-accelerated Participant Relationship Management (PRM) for Clinical Research
- Arcade — Arcades are super easy to create. Build interactive product tours to embed within websites, blogs, and social media.
Silicon Road Ventures is a vertical fund exclusively focused on commerce tech.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Trinidad and Tobago
Portfolio highlights
- Knit — Knit helps researchers run agency-quality quant + qual research at DIY costs, by taking the most time-intensive research tasks off their plate through Researcher-Driven AI.
- Pitchit.ai — Monetize your company's greatest asset: your trusted sales network. Execute your Go-To-Network Strategy on the #1 Sales Network Monetization Platform.
- Pull Logic — Optimize your Inventory and Maximize Product Availability across locations with our advanced AI driven platform.
Battery Ventures is a global investment firm with a 40-year history of backing innovative technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cleerly — Cleerly is a healthcare company whose mission is to create digital care pathways to prevent heart attacks. The company develops a new standard for coronary artery disease by integrating quality clinical science with the latest-generation AI, in order to offer actionable clinical insights to every stakeholder in the heart care pathway.Throughthese data-driven solutions, the company aims to provide a comprehensive solution for cardiovascular disease evaluation that offers value to the healthcare system and improves heart health for patients at risk of heart attacks.
- Galileo — Galileo's Evaluation Intelligence Platform empowers AI teams to evaluate, iterate, monitor, and protect generative AI applications at enterprise scale.
- Second Front Systems — The continuous accreditation and deployment of commercial software is crucial for U.S. national security missions. With Second Front Systems' Game Warden platform, you'll be achieving exactly that.
At Commerce Ventures, they are building a new and different type of venture capital firm. Their investors are a unique and strategic blend of leading entrepreneurs, senior executives, and corporates from their focus sectors (mobile, retail/e-commerce, payments, fin-tech, insurance). In addition to providing capital, they are committed tohelping their portfolio companies succeed in scaling their commerce-related innovations.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cardless — Cardless is a credit card company. They help brands launch custom cobrand credit card products. They handle the program creation, card underwriting, lending, issuance, and top-notch customer service, while brands focus on delivering rewards truly valuable to their superfan cardholders.Cardless was founded in February 2019 by Michael Spelfogel andScott Kazmierowicz (ex-Stanford CS / Data Science, ex-Lyft, ex-Visa, ex-Goldman) and is backed by top VCs including Accomplice, Greycroft, Clocktower Ventures, as well as founders of Plastiq, SeatGeek, Flatiron Health, and FiveStars
- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
- Cimulate AI — Cimulate AI: Revolutionize commerce and optimize customer experiences with intent-based search and Gen AI.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
- Anysphere — Anysphere is a company that builds Artificial Intelligence tools and assistants to help humans.
- Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare
NextView helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence to shape a future of collective prosperity. https://nextview.vc/
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Theo Ai — THEO AI operates as a legal prediction engine to forecast the outcome of legal dispute.
- KarmaCheck — KarmaCheck has reimagined background checks with a tech-first, AI-driven approach that provides the fastest background check for employment needs. Employers and employees benefit from real-time, actionable notifications, so hiring decisions come sooner. Our mobile-first background check platform is easy to access, reliable, and compliant.
- Form Health — Form Health's tele-health program takes a medical & personalized approach to weight loss. Get weight loss expertise wherever you are & improve your health today!
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
- Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
- Seekho — Learn from 10,000+ bite-sized videos on Technology, Money, Youtube, Instagram, and 10+ more categories with Seekho Experts. Start Now
Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Cephable — Assistive technology platform that extends digital controls to head movement, voice, gestures, facial expressions and more.
- AirOps — Deploy task specific AI where you need it most with AirOps Apps. Install and configure in minutes, scalable and available everywhere.
- Regal — Regal is the first branded, event-driven phone & SMS sales platform. Regal's Journey Builder and Branded Caller ID drive 35%+ answer rates, 25%+ revenue increase.
Matchstick is an early stage venture fund in the North and Rockies. We invest where innovative ideas, huge markets and, most importantly, diverse founders strike. We are honored to support "underdog" founders who will stop at nothing to succeed. Matchstick exists to act as a catalyst for our founders, our partners, and our startup communities.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Two Boxes — The future of optimized and sustainable ecommerce returns has arrived. Two Boxes powers the processing of returns and captures critical data from the returns process, no matter the SKU count or SOP.
- Frate — First-of-its-kind automated peer-to-peer returns solution. Demonstrate your commitment to sustainability while also saving money on every return.
- Tab Commerce — Tab Commerce helps restaurants of all sizes consolidate, analyze, and better manage every single expense they have.
Serena Ventures focuses on early-stage companies and giving them the opportunity to be heard. Serena Ventures extends relationships, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies, and expands partnership opportunities across my vast network.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Rebelstork — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.
- KLIQ — Fitness Coaches, launch the app you've been dreaming of with no upfront costs. Build, manage and grow your community based business using our fully managed product.
- Pixeltable — Open Source Python framework that enables AI Engineers to focus on modeling and experimentation.
Menlo Ventures is a Bay Area venture capital firm that pursues companies with the potential to disrupt huge markets. We invest in all stages, across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- nChroma Bio — nChroma Bio's integrated product engine allows for safe, accurate, and targeted in vivo administration, addressing major shortcomings of current genetic medicine techniques.
- Crosswise — The Compliance Management System that Builds Itself
- Bluenote Health — Accelerate innovation with AI built for and trusted by leading life sciences companies.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
- Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com
- Sublime Security — Sublime lets you write, run, and share rules to block phishing attacks, hunt for threats, and more.
We are a marketing operating partner, blending the worlds of capital, consulting and creation to design the most remarkable businesses in the world.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Goodhood — FixMyCar is a mobile auto repair platform that offers car repair services to every car owner. FixMyCar provides affordable and trusted rates, convenient service locations, sends in mobile car mechanics to homes, offices, or parking lots, and has flexible hours, thereby enabling customers to book their highly-rated mobile car repair services attheir convenience.
- Daisy — Make your life easier with smart spaces. Learn how these innovative solutions enhance technology usage at home and work.
- Captain Experiences — Choose from the largest selection of fishing charters in the U.S., book online, and head out with verified guides in your destination of choice.
Grace Beauty Capital is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to the consumer & retail sectors founded on the core belief that deep domain and industry knowledge, operating expertise and extensive networks are essential to support early stage entrepreneurs and generate superior investment returns. Our mission is to become the premierpartner for early stage digital brands, consumer and retail technology startups on the journey from kitchen table to household name.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Voray — Voray is a community of professionals who gather for small networking dinners (15 or so people) on a regular basis. The purpose of each Voray is to develop more authentic relationships and build value for each other in the long run. The community is enabled through a web platform that helps members identify interesting events, suggest others, andcontinue communicating and connecting. The goal of Voray is to build a more authentic professional network of people you have actually met (over dinner) so connections are more longstanding and meaningful.
- Eloquii — Eloquii is your one-stop shop for the latest fashion styles and trends in Women's Clothing! Unbeatably low prices. Shop brand new dresses, tops, pants, sweaters, denim jackets, lingerie, jumpsuits, activewear, shoes, and more!
- Bravo Sierra — Bravo Sierra creates performance body care products for the most active individuals. Every formula undergoes rigorous field-testing to meet strict standards of quality and efficacy. Designed and manufactured in the U.S.A, a portion of every purchase directly supports military veterans and their families.
Palo Alto-based VC supporting extraordinary seed-stage founders of all backgrounds to build legendary technology companies.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany
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- Uplimit — Unlock the potential of your organization with scalable, high-impact learning experiences.
- Homebase — 100,000+ small (but mighty) businesses use Homebase to manage their hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, and more.
- Portex — Portex makes freight procurement more efficient by eliminating emails, spreadsheets and pdfs, while instantly unlocking insights to lower freight spend.
BBG Ventures is an early-stage, generalist fund focused on startups with a female or diverse founder.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Ukraine
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- Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance
- Grayce — Grayce helps employees to care for loved ones or themselves. Personalized care journeys with dedicated expert care, resources, and guidance.
- MaxHome — MaxHome is an AI-native platform for real estate agents and brokerages. It offers AI-powered tools for real estate agents to streamline lead management and enhance customer experience.
RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters
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- Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, China
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- Avina — Signals-based AI copilot for B2B sellers that's with them from their first meeting to their last email. Extract buying signals, get real-time account alerts, draft the perfect communication, prep for every meeting, and get questions answered.
- TrueX — TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
- Autoplay — Autoplay is an AI-powered platform that improves digital adoption by offering real-time, context-aware guidance. It learns from user interactions and software interfaces, adapting to help enterprises optimize usage, streamline workflows, and boost engagement across teams.
Reshape is a next-generation investor in technology-enabled companies that need real estate to scale.
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- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Colombia, Singapore
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- Koppiku — Our CoffeeYour Way Our CoffeeYour Way Discover your new fave drinks From full-bodied coffees, to refreshing coolers View Menu View Menu koppiku latte (Hot/Iced) Cereal latte (Iced) koppiku milk tea (Iced) snow black (Iced) Americano (Hot/Iced) latte (Hot/Iced) cappuccino (Hot/Iced) Koppiku coconut latte (Hot/Iced) There is no Koppiku without You
- MedsNow — SaaS for independent pharmacies
- Good Weird — A new genderless approach to beauty. Be you, it's good
Harrison Metal invests in early stage technology companies led by exceptional founders.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
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- Quilter — Physics-based automated circuit board design tools for professionals and the masses.
- Crowdbotics — It's not low-code, it's full code made easy. Build business-ready software, apps, integrations, and more with the Crowdbotics App Builder. Hire certified PMs and developers to help build your project at any time.
- Vital Interaction — Vital Interaction uses patient engagement insights & intelligent medical scheduling to improve practice profitability & patient satisfaction
Florida Funders is a hybrid of a venture capital fund and an angel investor network that discovers, funds & builds early-stage tech companies.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada
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- Homee — HOMEE is the technology-enabled claims management company connecting policyholders, insurance and warranty companies, and premier pro networks.
- Manifest — Manifest is an anchor for a generation seeking direction.
- Marco — Marco provides access to fast, flexible financing so you can manage cash flows and invest in growth. Factoring made easy.
We Invest In The Future of Commerce
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- E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Ireland
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- Ross & Snow — Alexia Fashion Clothing
- The/Studio — Manufacture high-quality custom products in small batches with fast turnaround and free shipping online from The/Studio. Browse our custom products, here.
- ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.
8VC seeks to enable industry transformation. In a wave of creative destruction, they believe emerging platforms will replace the decades-old technology infrastructure behind many industries, promoting greater innovation and prosperity.
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Surglogs — Surglogs streamlines and automates the administration of logbooks, medications, supplies, in-services, and drills in healthcare facilities. The outdated pen-and-paper method is replaced with a HIPAA compliant state of the art digital application, complemented with a desktop portal that serves as an administrative dashboard.Surglogs was founded in2015 and headquartered in California, United States.
- Seen Health — We are building a culturally-focused, technology-enabled healthcare organization that integrates comprehensive medical care and social support with a high-touch, interdisciplinary approach. We plan to augment a proven home and community based services model by embracing the unique cultural and healthcare needs of the communities we serve, and empowering our staff with thoughtfully designed technology to scale the highest quality care to many more older adults.
- Reveal Technology — Reveal Technology is the next-generation defense technology platform, delivering a suite of products that generates critical intelligence and autonomy value at the tactical edge.
Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Mexico
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- OneRail — OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform providing real-time visibility, actionable data, and data-driven optimization capabilities for its enterprise clients. OneRail’s cloud-based “delivery switch” simplifies same-day and on-demand delivery execution by connecting the demand signal (POS, eCommerce, ERP) with the ecosystem ofdelivery networks and internal fleets in real-time. The result of OneRail’s centralized view of disparate final mile data enables data-driven optimization, positively impacting the dependability, speed, and cost of final mile fulfillment.
- Holly — Holly operates as an AI company that modernizing government hiring.
- Qnovia — Respira Technologies is a platform device and biotechnology company focusing on aerosol science. The company is creating breakthrough aerosol devices and formulations that safely deliver a broad range of pharmaceuticals and nicotine.Respira Technologies' mission is to create novel medical devices of unparalleled efficiency and to advance theprotection of public health with consumer devices through novel innovation, responsible sourcing, draft legislative proposals, transparent product information, and common sense oversight.
Finn Capital Partners is a family fund born out of a third generation family business and a deep-seated family tradition of entrepreneurship. Led by Founder and Managing Partner Patrick Finn.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Builder.io — Builder is the only Visual Development Platform that offers an AI-powered design-to-code tool, a visual editor and an enterprise CMS.
- Hello Cake — 18K Followers, 6,705 Following, 859 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Cake (@hellocake)
- Adgile Media Group — Adgile Media Group is the nation’s leading tech-enabled, data-driven out-of-home media company
Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm focused on partnering with world-class entrepreneurs building standout consumer brands.
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Singapore
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- Roon — Your Trusted Guide for Health Conditions. Today we are focused on GBM, ALS, Dementia, and Fertility and Family Building.
- Sage — Sage is an app helps to improve care with better caregiver tools that ensures older adults receive individual care.
- Rebelstork — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.
ATX Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm in Austin Texas with funds investing in B2B software, marketplaces, and applications.
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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
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- Inpleo — Inpleo provides an enterprise AI-driven procurement platform that allows buyers and vendors to match in a reverse auction setting with a wide range of controls and analytics. Data analytics are provided live for customized metrics, and custom implementations are provided free of charge. Inpleo offers multi-level access and 256-bit encryption for astate-of-the-art security system.
- LUXUS — Luxus partner with premium brands to unlock fractional ownership in precious gems and other bespoke accessories.
- Light Frame — Light Frame is a Swiss American financial technology company building advanced technologies for private banks, wealth management firms, and banks offering investment and wealth services. The company was founded in January 2024 by Schuyler Weiss, Mathieu Clement, Philippe Kernevez, and Gregory Bataille, and it maintains offices in Providence, RI andLausanne, VD. Light Frame completed its Pre-seed round of financing in April 2024, with ATX Venture Partners and New Stack Ventures co-leading the round. Other investors include Rogue Venture Partners, Halfcourt Ventures, Studio Alpha, and Underdog Labs.
XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.
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- Software, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Mexico
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- Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
- Morf Health — Morf Health is making it 10x faster for healthcare providers to setup and maintain integrations across their tech stack, e.g. easily structure data from patient intake and send to an EHR. We pull data out of the tools they use to deliver care and run the business, unify and normalize the data, and then send it to the tools that need it.
- Vidoc Security Lab — Ethical Hacking Automation platform for security teams
RiverPark Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund, founded by entrepreneurs to invest in entrepreneurs. RiverPark Ventures is part of the RiverPark family of funds, a multi-strategy portfolio management firm. RiverPark Funds collectively manage over $3 billion in assets.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Aerflo — Aerflo a transportable method of carbonating sparkling water.
- point.me — Search and book award flights and maximize the value of your points. Travel on points for less with point.me's flight award search tool.
- Solace — Connect with expert patient advocates who can help you navigate the healthcare system and solve any medical problem, no matter what you need.
Venture capital and technology investments
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
- Reflexivity — Say goodbye to stodgy terminals and clunky, decades-old interfaces. By asking questions in natural language, our institutional-grade analytic tools come alive and at your service.
- Thread AI — Thread AI makes infrastructure simple for enterprises and can drive adoption and innovation in AI.
Basis Set Ventures invests in early-stage startups that are harnessing the opportunities for artificial intelligence to enable people to perform more productively. We believe artificial intelligence (AI) delivers core value to businesses by improving the current business workflow and uncovering new opportunities.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Japan
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- Nowadays — Nowadays acts as your in-house event planner, taking away the hassles of organizing while factoring in your company's unique tastes and needs.
- Seen Health — We are building a culturally-focused, technology-enabled healthcare organization that integrates comprehensive medical care and social support with a high-touch, interdisciplinary approach. We plan to augment a proven home and community based services model by embracing the unique cultural and healthcare needs of the communities we serve, and empowering our staff with thoughtfully designed technology to scale the highest quality care to many more older adults.
- Path Robotics — We create manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position, and weld your parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.
Bain Capital Ventures helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Homebase — 100,000+ small (but mighty) businesses use Homebase to manage their hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, and more.
- Gather AI — The world's first software-only autonomous inventory management platform for modern warehouses./.
- Loyal — Loyal is a biotechnology company developing medicines to extend dog lifespan. By developing drugs with the potential to slow the aging process, they aim to delay or prevent age-related diseases like cancer and dementia.
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