General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage and growth equity investments. The company provides ongoing momentum that accelerates ideas, careers, and companies toward standout success.

General Catalyst

Boost VC is an early stage venture capital firm with $200m AUM+, investing in deep tech: aerospace, VR/AR, energy, climate, robotics, crypto, bio/health, AI/ML & more. Boost VC leads the first round of $2M or less.

Boost VC

TriplePoint Ventures is a venture capital firm that finances seed and early stage investments of life sciences and technology sectors.

TriplePoint Ventures

Dimension 6 is a group of angel investors.

Dimension 6

Bullpen is a venture capital fund that invests in post-seed capital into early-stage companies. Bullpen Capital launched 10 years ago, the goal was to back overlooked entrepreneurs left behind by the latest Silicon Valley fads. The firm's portfolio spans all categories from fantasy sports to data center equipment to restaurant SaaS. Bullpen was founded in 2010 by Paul Martino and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Bullpen Capital

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investments are seed and series A. The investment range of the company is $50,000 to $5,000,000. It invests in Alibaba Group, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest.

FJ Labs

Nelstone Ventures is an investment fund founded by Rich Nelson.  Nelstone Ventures invests and syndicates investment opportunities in various stage technology companies with a focus on enterprise software, gaming, health care, consumer internet and technology enabled business-to business companies. Nelstone Ventures seeks strong management teams with a disruptive idea where there is a large market opportunity and competitive differentiation. Nelstone Ventures looks to nurture these opportunities by providing strategic capital, a network of relationships, investment insights, strategic M&A and exit related ideas and advice.

Nelstone Ventures

Mana Ventures invests in early-stage companies disrupting traditional industries and building the future of frontier technologies. Mana Ventures assists technology and consumer brands in honing their vision, building a great team, developing the right product, raising their next rounds, and celebrating their victories.

Mana Ventures

Octane AI

Trusted by 1,000+ Shopify and Shopify plus brands, Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation. Merchants use Octane AI to connect, convert, and retain customers by personalizing the customer journey and giving customers the confidence to purchase. Octane AI is backed by top Silicon Valley investors, including Bullpen Capital, General Catalyst, FJLabs, M Ventures, and the founders of Hipmunk, Hearsay Systems, and Articulate. The company is all-remote and employs team members in 10+ countries. It was founded in 2016 by Matt Schlicht, Ben Parr, and Leif K-Brooks.

<div><p>Octane AI is a real-time marketing platform for direct to customer (DTC) brands. Octane AI enables brands to run marketing campaigns on Facebook Messenger, SMS, and on-site with advanced tools for customer acquisition, advertising, retargeting, automation, and customer support. The platform has a range of integrations to assist users in creating their marketing platforms, which includes Klaviyo, Privy, Shopify (also a customer), and dashbot.io, among others.</p></div>

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    Octane AI is a real-time marketing platform for direct to customer (DTC) brands. Octane AI enables brands to run marketing campaigns on Facebook Messenger, SMS, and on-site with advanced tools for customer acquisition, advertising, retargeting, automation, and customer support. The platform has a range of integrations to assist users in creating their marketing platforms, which includes Klaviyo, Privy, Shopify (also a customer), and dashbot.io, among others.
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    The company claims its platform has increased website conversion rates and generated over USD 73 million in revenue for SME Shopify stores. Octane AI was present in over 14 countries, as of July 2021, and was used by large enterprise customers, including Warner Music Group, GoPro, and Proactive.
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    The company raised USD 5 million in funding led by Javelin Venture Partners in July 2021, to invest in accelerating product development and innovation. 
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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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