Jim, cannot thank you enough for the support. I remember sitting in your office with a rendering and foam replica of an Urban Umbrella back in 2016. You guys committed the largest check at the time and I certainly pimped out the Chasella name after that to help raise more money.
Fermata is a female-founded software development firm. They create investigation performance and management tools at the intersection of software engineering, data science, and artificial intelligence. Fermata Discovery’s software tools automate and accelerate investigators’ problem-solving processes, enabling a sharper focus on higher-level case challenges. Their flagship product, VIXN, analyzes high volumes of data on-the-fly and solves complex puzzles related to financial fraud, security, and civil/criminal litigation – including missing persons, estate disputes, and even murder.
Thnks enables sales and customer success teams to build stronger business relationships through gratitude. They provide a digital gratitude platform that enables users to send thoughtful gestures of appreciation that foster better connections, save hours of time, and lead to faster business growth. Thnks is the only relationship building platform that provides full transparency and record-keeping and reporting, digitizing the entire process to ensure full financial and compliance control
Islide is a premium custom athletic slide company that does things differently. The company founded by Justin Kittredge, a 19 year footwear industry veteran, enables consumers to create their own design on high quality, athletic sandals enabling individual expression and self-representation with peers, family, and friends. Each sandal offers the newly designed Relief Pro Lining [pronounced ripple] technology – a wave-like, antimicrobial foam footbed designed to help feet recover after workouts. Each pair also includes the highest quality midsole EVA foam cushion, a signature sneaker inspired outsole and an ultra-soft, lycra adjustable strap to ensure a smooth, comfortable fit
BOXABL is a patented system that delivers factory built rooms which combine onsite to produce most residential and many light commercial construction solutions, with floor plans and architectural styles determined by the customer, at a price that demolishes the competition. The Boxabl mission is to significantly lower the cost of homeownership for everyone. Obsessively designed to the highest standards of quality, strength, and sustainability to last for generations.
Eterneva is a company that offers a way for your loved one’s remains or hair to be turned into a beautiful, personalized diamond. Eterneva began as a startup in 2017. Since its inception, the company has attracted investors including Goodwater Capital and Capstar Ventures. Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments also bought part of the business after its appearance on Shark Tank in 2019.
Since then, the Texas-based company has gained momentum in the funeral service industry, raising $10 million in a Series A investment round in 2021. In January, the company partnered with Green Bay Packers’ Aaron Jones to create a diamond for his father who passed away in 2021. Jones also invested his own money in the venture.
Exact Buyer is the new standard for B2B data – get real-time company analysis & verified prospect details for any company in the world. Exact Buyer provides audience intelligence data to Account Based Sales & Marketing teams. Go beyond list building and retargeting with ExactBuyer’s proprietary audiences across all of your digital channels for 2-3x increases in multi-channel campaign revenue.
Graphite is a technology platform that is powering the future of work. The best talent is going independent, and companies need to tap into this workforce to innovate and stay ahead of the curve. We make it fast, easy and safe for the two sides to connect, work together and get more done.
Graphite was founded in 2014 and has offices in San Francisco (HQ) and New York.
Trajekt Sports builds pitching robots that precisely replicate tracked ball trajectories. A pitcher’s delivery is projected onto the Trajekt Arc™ which helps batters familiarize the opposing pitcher’s tendencies from the wind-up and stretch through the integrated projection of LHP/RHP. They have also developed the first pitching machine to accurately impart gyro spin on the ball. The Trajekt Arc is currently used by teams around the MLB
Reza is a footwear brand and community aimed to connect and inspire. They have developed the most advanced light-up footwear in the world and currently have three patents granted and have procured several innovations in footwear technology. Also, Reza has manufactured the first sneaker to embed laser-diode and fibrance fiber. They have been featured in Forbes and Entrepreneur magazine
NYC based Urban Umbrella is the first company to design a safe, urban looking, scaffolding bridge. Granted an exemption by the Bloomberg administration and the NY Department of Buildings in 2010, the Urban Umbrella sidewalk bridge is technologically and aesthetically superior to the current dark, boxy scaffolding that is ubiquitous in New York City. Designed for today’s Urban City, Urban Umbrella’s goal is to create efficiency in the construction space for building owners and their tenants, while creating a safer environment for pedestrians.
Urban Umbrella has been operating in Toronto where they have been successfully deployed in-front of the largest real estate development in Canada and other high-profile construction projects. After being bootstrapped for the last four years, Urban Umbrella is now launching in NYC after completing a strategic seed round of financing in December of 2016.
The Vermont Lake Monsters are a Professional Baseball team located in Burlington, Vermont. The season runs from mid June until the beginning of September during which we play a 76 game schedule (38 home games, 38 away games). The team, originally founded in 1994, annually draws roughly 100,000 fans – an impressive feat for a state with a population of just over 600,000 people. All home games are played at historic Centennial Field
EquityZen is a marketplace for private investments, with over $380 million in equity value for sale in pre-IPO companies.
EquityZen’s mission is to improve the way startup employees are paid by unlocking the value of their equity compensation in a way that benefits all key players: the shareholder, the company, and the investor.
EquityZen has been covered in tech and financial media, including Yahoo! Finance, CNBC, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Crain’s.
Alcova builds on its longstanding real estate industry relationships to source, evaluate, underwrite, execute on and manage real estate bridge loans.
Alcova provides commercial real estate developers flexible bridge lending solutions and offers investors robust, uncorrelated and contractual income.
Jackpocket is the first mobile app in the US that allows users to purchase official state lottery tickets via their smartphone. It brings the $300 Billion lottery industry into the new age of technological innovation through beautiful design, social elements, and gamification. Thanks to new federal regulation changes and the emergence of the privatization of state lotteries, Jackpocket is completely complian
Founded in 2011 in New York, SevenRooms is a hospitality platform that helps top operators acquire, engage and understand their guests. The platform offers reservation, seating and guest management tools for restaurants, nightclubs and hotels that drive revenue and superior guest experiences.
The Agency is a global, boutique real estate brokerage representing a portfolio of properties across the world’s prime markets and celebrated destinations.
Named the Top Luxury Brokerage by Inman, The Agency is one of the fastest-growing premier, boutique brands in the world. Our clients and agents benefit from the shared resources of our international team, including in-house, cutting-edge creative, public relations, and tech divisions. Wherever you’re going, we can take you there.
Suffolk Technologies is a venture capital platform funding the next generation of companies solving built environment challenges. To pave the way for a more productive and sustainable future, we deploy capital, resources, and networks to help daring founders grow and scale new technologies in construction, architecture, engineering, real estate, and infrastructure.
Icon is a minority-owned and operated business consisting of over 1,100 team members that are highly passionate, committed, and diverse. The team is represented by 30 different countries with 99% of the field team members minority and 64% in our Support Center.
We take great pride in elevating the customer experience for parking customers, while generating more revenue and profits for clients by embracing our aspiration to simplify city life, one customer at a time by connecting people where they live, work and play. Icon seeks to expand nationally,growing its footprint, creating rewarding career opportunities, and supporting the economy in cities such as Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.
An international, high school and post graduate sports performance training and education academy, located within a world class event and wellness complex. At SPIRE, we are inspiring the best expression of the human spirit through athletics, academics and service to others.
Socks and Apparel made of alpaca wool. We strive to make the world’s coziest clothes from the earth’s most versatile fiber, all while giving back to the animals and communities that make our existence possible.
Max My Interest is a software platform that allocates individuals’ cash among their own bank accounts so that they earn the most interest possible while staying within the limits for FDIC government-deposit insurance.
Magic Leap is a proprietary wearable technology that enables users to interact with digital devices in a completely visually cinematic way.
In 2013, Bevi began when three friends, Sean Grundy, Eliza Becton, and Frank Lee, wondered why people prefer to buy bottled water over drinking tap water, and often trashing bottles after a single use. That question evolved into an idea of using design and technology to promote behavioral change. Several embarrassingly terrible prototypes later (seriously, folks, we’re talking cardboard box market tests and gigantic vending machines – for giants), the Bevi machine was born.
Today, Bevi’s mission is to turn back the hands of time (sort of) and eliminate waste from the production, shipping, and disposing of bottled beverages. It’s a vision of a future where a smarter platform (powered by the municipal water supply) transforms how beverages are delivered. It is an ambitious goal, but Bevi is on it!
