Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in high-growth software, marketplace, and consumer businesses shaping the 'Digital Native Economy'.  Founded in 1999, the firm has the unique distinction of having multiple funds in the top 5% on realized performance. Typical check size is $500K to $8M. Select exits include Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB), BacklotCars, Tock, Ahalogy, and Teem. To learn more, visit www.originventures.com.

Origin Ventures

Amicus Capital is a seed stage information technology investment fund. They invest in entrepreneurs who are developing innovative information technology solutions to problems that affect large numbers of businesses or consumers. They like to invest early, typically in the first funding round, together with angel investors, friends and family. Over the past decade, they’ve invested in more than 60 seed stage information technology companies, many of which were subsequently funded by leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms and went public or were acquired by the most recognizable names in the industry.

Amicus Capital

Leo Capital Holdings, LLC is a privately funded venture investor making investments in early and later stage private companies.  Their focus is primarily in the wireless and consumer electronics sectors.  They like ventures that target very large markets, and consider investment opportunities across the United States.  Leo maintains a broad network of contacts, investors and advisors with whom they work after investing to help build value, and usually make investments that allow for their active involvement.

Leo Capital Holdings

Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California. The firm has been recognized for its commitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The five equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Chetan Puttagunta, Sarah Tavel, Victor Lazarte, Peter Fenton, and Eric Vishria. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion. Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, Amplitude, Confluent, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.

Benchmark

The DAG (Duff Ackerman & Goodrich) Ventures partnership began with investments in the cable TV, infrastructure, media, and wireless industries in the 1980's. The firm now invests in a variety of technology companies.

DAG Ventures

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm that specializes in financial services and software. Mesirow Financial understands, anticipates, and meets its clients' changing financial needs with a multitude of high-quality products and services. It was founded in 1937 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Mesirow Financial

Greenspring Associates is a global investment firm that provides commingled funds and customized partnership capabilities to a diverse group of institutions and individuals in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. Through a synergistic platform, the firm invests in established and emerging venture capital fund managers, in early and growth stage venture-backed companies and in secondary venture capital fund and secondary direct investments. Currently managing over $7.3 billion of committed capital, its dedicated investment team combines broad venture fund and direct investment expertise.

Greenspring Associates

T. Rowe Price is an investment management firm dedicated to funding technology startups. The firm serves individuals, financial intermediaries, and institutions and offers a full range of investment strategies across a broad spectrum: debt, equities, and private equities.

T. Rowe Price

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More important now than ever, telehealth will long outlast the pandemic that drove its growth.

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    Clearing is a membership-based platform that connects patients with a clinician to design a personalized, opioid-free treatment plan consisting of a prescription compound cream, home exercises, Cannabidiol cream, and customized supplements. Members will have access to a healthcare provider for follow-ups and the products are delivered directly to a patient&rsquo;s home. 
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Clearing is a digital healthcare platform built to serve the more than 50M chronic pain sufferers in the United States. In partnership with leading physicians and researchers at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the Hospital for Special Surgery, and with significant funding from top-tier investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders Fund, Breyer Capital, and a host of leading healthcare and consumer entrepreneurs (including the founders of Hims, Seamless Grubhub, Flatiron Health, Forward Health, Curology and more) we are on a mission to provide patients with access to comprehensive, opioid-free pain relief.

Realync empowers real estate professionals to connect with prospects and clients in real-time. Using nothing more than a smartphone or tablet, users can interact via live tours and open houses or HD pre-recorded videos to truly experience spaces.

Grubhub is an online platform that allows users to find and order food from local restaurants for delivery or pickup. It provides a wide variety of meal options, including snacks and groceries, while offering tools for restaurant owners to reach more customers.

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Just Eat Takeaway sells Grubhub for just $650m - after paying $7bn in 2021

Defining the future of the restaurant business.

Cloud Kitchens

Kitchen infrastructure companies that provide purpose-built commercial kitchens as a turnkey expansion solution and also manage end-to-end operations on behalf of restaurateurs and food entrepreneurs (e.g. recipe-based food preparation, staffing and day-to-day kitchen management).

Players in this segment focus on creating virtual restaurant concepts or digital food brands, usually chef-created or celebrity-inspired, for licensing or franchising by third-party kitchens. These companies do not usually have their own kitchen facilities but partner with restaurant franchisees that prepare the meals using underutilized space in their existing kitchens.

Players in this segment are companies that wholly own and prepare several delivery-only food brands. Meals are either prepared in an independently-owned kitchen facility or through underutilized third-party kitchens using the cloud kitchen’s own staff. These food brands are not available for licensing or franchising by third-party kitchens.

Kitchen infrastructure companies that offer restaurateurs and food entrepreneurs purpose-built commercial kitchens (both private and shared spaces) as a turnkey expansion solution.

From fast food to fine dining, everything but the kitchen sink is suddenly just a tap away.

Online Food Delivery

Platforms that offer ready-to-cook meal kits to individuals who are interested in cooking, but have limited time or skills. Meal kits usually include recipes with step-by-step instructions along with pre-portioned ingredients. Food delivery is often carried out by independent contract workers who are either registered with the platform or employed directly by the platform.

Platforms that prepare and deliver meals based on rotating menus that allow the customer to choose a meal plan of up to multiple dishes for a week with a low level of consumer involvement in cooking and plating. Food delivery is often carried out by independent contract workers who are either registered with the platform or employed directly by the platform.

On-demand delivery platforms that offer a wide range of items (such as various cuisines, groceries, etc)

On-demand delivery platforms that offer specific types of food or cuisine

Infrastructure providers that offer delivery or dispatch management systems

Infrastructure providers that offer white label online ordering websites and apps for restaurants to build their own in-house solutions

Infrastructure providers that offer solutions to help restaurants integrate and centralize online ordering and delivery systems from multiple third party vendors

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 <p>A US District Court judge has stated that New York City's law necessitating customer data sharing with restaurants by delivery platforms is unconstitutional. The platforms in question include DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, and their First Amendment rights, according to the ruling, are violated by this law. </p>
 <p>As per the judge's ruling, the requirement of providing customer data is equivalent to compelled speech, thus violating the rights of the delivery platforms. </p>
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