25madison is an early-stage venture platform: working with entrepreneurs to build companies from the ground up and investing in pre-seed to series A startups.  The platform is comprised of 4 segments:  (i) General studio: Builds companies across verticals (ii) 25m health: Builds and invests in healthtech startups in partnership with LifePoint Health (iii) Ventures fund: Invests in pre-seed to series A startups focused on B2B SaaS, fintech, and healthtech (iv) 25m create: Brand and experience agency with services including brand strategy, visual identity, experience design, and web & digital marketing

25madison

Bonfire Ventures leads Seed rounds for business software solutions company founders transforming the industries they target.

Bonfire Ventures

Differential Ventures invest in b2b tech startups with a unique advantage in data science and machine intelligence that will transform the way businesses operate. It is a seed-stage vc fund that invests in b2b data-oriented technology solutions.

Differential Ventures

Ground Up Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups in the United States and Israel.

Ground Up Ventures

Demoleap

Demoleap is the only AI-powered live demo assistant and sales discovery platform empowering sales teams available on the market. Demoleap is an Israeli-founded company with offices in Delaware, Israel, and Ireland backed by US investors and firms, such as 25madison , Ground Up Ventures , former Cisco CMO Blair Christie , Atrium Co-Founder Peter Kazanjy , Aforza CEO Dominic Dinard , Fourand CEO Chaim Lever , and David Magerman , managing partner and CTO at Differential Ventures.

<div><p>Demoleap offers a no-code platform that enables users to build AI-guided live product demos. The solution uses AI to act as a real-time demo assistant, mimicking a sales agent by driving the product demo. Demoleap also provides clients with supplemental material that enables them to learn and practice their skills in real time. The platform also integrates with any customer relationship management (CRM) software, application, conferencing software, and slide software. </p></div>

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    Demoleap offers a no-code platform that enables users to build AI-guided live product demos. The solution uses AI to act as a real-time demo assistant, mimicking a sales agent by driving the product demo. Demoleap also provides clients with supplemental material that enables them to learn and practice their skills in real time. The platform also integrates with any customer relationship management (CRM) software, application, conferencing software, and slide software. 
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    Notably, since its launch in January 2022, Demoleap increased its revenue by 500% by Q2 2022.
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    In August 2022, Demoleap 
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    Index offers a no-code platform for enterprises to build dashboards for internal use to obtain insights on business metrics, investor updates and operation overviews, among others. As of June 2021, the product remains at beta, with a limited early preview. The platform provides prebuilt templates, and also has tools for users to build their own dashboards.  
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    The dashboard can be integrated with multiple apps including Hubspot ((customer relationship management data), Stripe (payment data), and Postgres and MongoDB (databases), slack (remote working) and Google Sheets (spreadsheets), among others. 
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    The company raised USD 2.6 million in Seed funding in October 2020. It intends to invest the funds in hiring two engineers (in addition to the two founders) and continuing to refine and develop the product. The founders aim to reach USD 1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and expand their product distribution. 
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Index

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    Pico offers an audience management tool for media enterprises (newsrooms, trade publications, fan clubs, and others) which allows users to improve CRM. It provides a no-code platform to implement paywalls, checkouts, memberships payments, and analytics, among other functions. The tool is built for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to convert users from anonymous readers to paying customers with the goal of improving retention.
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    The company raised USD 4.5 million in Seed funding in May 2019, which it intended to invest in improving its analytics and revenue tools. 
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Pico

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    Stencyl offers a drag-and-drop no-code platform that enables users to create and publish web and mobile games. Users can build their game logic using the platform&rsquo;s pre-built code blocks, design visual elements via an in-built graphics editor, and publish across a range of platform&rsquo;s such as IoS, Android, Windows and Mac. Moreover,&nbsp; Stencyl also enables users to embed ads into their games as a secondary source of revenue.&nbsp;
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    As of February 2024, Stencyl was used by over 500,000 registered developers. Apps created on Stencyl have reached top slots in the Apple App Store and Google Play, and its most successful web games have been sponsored by major publishers including ArmorGames, Kongregate, and Newgrounds.
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Stencyl

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    PlugXR Inc offers a no-code platform for users to produce AR, VR, and MR (mixed reality) apps. Its platform offers cross-platform development for both Android and iOS and supports software development kits (SDKs), collaboration, and report and analytics on the apps. The company operates in the US, Sweden, and India.
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    As of 2019, its customer base rose to 37 clients (from 14 in 2016), while its workforce grew to over 30 people (from 14 in 2016). PlugXR raised pre-seed and angel funding in 2019.
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PlugXR

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    Universe offers a no-code platform for users to build websites that can be added to social media pages. Websites can be built using drag and drop blocks to add images, videos, and other content to create a mobile-first website. The Platform offers creative controls, 30 pre-made themes, and block features to allow users to create a custom site and/or open an e-commerce store directly from a mobile phone.&nbsp;
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    The company began as a landing page builder and progressed to developing websites, which include tools for adding shopping blocks. Universe targets micro businesses that are not tech-savvy.
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    In December 2021, Universe raised USD 30 million in a Series B funding round led by Addition to develop the company&rsquo;s block-based system for website building named &ldquo;GRID,&rdquo; expand its commercial offering for startups, and extend GRID to more platforms and devices. 
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Universe

Offers solutions for building internal applications and automations for enterprises

Many solutions enable users to leverage AI/ML for predictive analytics

Offers solutions for building enterprise-specific applications and automations

Some solutions leverage GenAI to enable users to build application and website templates without coding

Allows users to create apps for their own businesses by using their data and ideas and converting them into apps to improve their workflow.

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