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.

Precursor Ventures

MGV is an early-stage venture capital fund that focuses on opportunistic investments in North America, Latin America, and Israel. The fund backs a limited number of founders per year in order to provide the highest level of counsel and advocacy. MGV brings unmatched, scalable sales support with genuine mentorship and guidance to early-stage startups, with the unique-to-seed intention that the portfolio companies realize their full potential. MGV looks for founders with infinite drive, humility, the capacity for leadership, and most importantly, the energy that motivates the people around them.

Rally Ventures invests exclusively in early-stage business technology companies, focusing on entrepreneurs creating major new markets or bringing transformative approaches to existing ones. Areas of investment include cloud infrastructure, fintech, SaaS+ and security. Since 1997, Rally Ventures' partners and venture capital industry veterans have invested in or run early stage enterprise business-to-business technology companies with a proven ability to deliver superior returns regardless of the overall market environment. From investing to operating, they have demonstrated a repeatable model that has delivered significant investment returns over the past 30 years.

Rally Ventures

m]x[v Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage B2B and SaaS investments. Bringing a founder and operator perspective to the cap table. The firm was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

m]x[v Capital

Gelt Venture Capital is an early stage venture capital firm with networks in LA, SF, NYC, and Ann Arbor. We invest globally across all sectors (except biotech, blockchain, and cannabis). Our initial investment sizes range from $25k to $250k. We’re not afraid to be a founder’s first investor, and welcome opportunities to come in late. We also provide early liquidity to investors, founders, and employees in the secondary market. We look for: - Exceptional products with differentiated distribution channels, and incumbents that are un-incentivized to react - Unique, capital efficient business models with clear revenue prospects and hints of large markets - Early evidence of sustainable competitive advantages - Ethical business practices, sound governance, and teams who take a stand for what’s right We ask ourselves: - “Would we be proud to tell our kids we were early backers of this company/team?” - “Would I want to work for this founder or company for the next 10 years?”  For founders: - We move fast - Act on our own conviction, and - Help spread the word.

Gelt VC

Epoch

Epoch is a software application that automates virtual and in-person internal events to enable employee experiences. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

<div>Epoch&rsquo;s platform centralizes a company&rsquo;s events, announcements, surveys, calendaring, and reporting. It provides data and analytics to measure employee engagement in company-wide learning programs; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; employee resource group (ERG) initiatives; and other internal events such as ask me anything (AMA) sessions and all-hands meetings. Epoch integrates with popular communication tools such as Slack, Gmail, and Zoom, and enables organizations to measure the impact of events using surveys.</div>

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 Epoch&rsquo;s platform centralizes a company&rsquo;s events, announcements, surveys, calendaring, and reporting. It provides data and analytics to measure employee engagement in company-wide learning programs; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; employee resource group (ERG) initiatives; and other internal events such as ask me anything (AMA) sessions and all-hands meetings. Epoch integrates with popular communication tools such as Slack, Gmail, and Zoom, and enables organizations to measure the impact of events using surveys. 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Since 2021, the platform has hosted 1,200+ events for over 42,000+ employees (as of February 2022) and its customers include Reddit, Asana, Zynga, Udemy, Stack Overflow, Affirm, Iterable, and Hinge.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
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 , Epoch raised USD 3.6 million in a seed funding round led by Rally Ventures. The fresh funds were earmarked to double its team to support the anticipated growth in customer demand.
 
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ActivTrak is a cloud-based productivity monitoring software provider. The platform offers data and analytics which can be used to detect workplace productivity gaps. The platform collects data from employee activity logs and computer screenshots, although it does not log keystrokes or record video of a user’s screen. ActivTrak also facilitates a range of tasks for admins such as blocking websites, flagging suspicious activities, IP address connections, and monitoring web, and app traffic.Other features offered include productivity reports and coaching, headcount and workload management and personal insights. In November 2023, the company added capabilities to measure the usage of AI tools, automatically detecting and classifying the use of such tools and websites to help organizations manage and improve AI adoption across the workforce.Activtrak generates revenue via monthly subscriptions (USD 10 and USD 17) per user, and custom pricing for larger enterprises.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, over 9,500 enterprises used ActivTrak’s platform, notably including Allstate, asembia and Nobu. ActivTrak closed 2023 with a 40% growth in its customer base (adding ~2,200 customers).Funding and financialsIn November 2020, ActivTrak raised USD 50 million in a Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures. Sapphire Ventures CEO and managing director joined ActivTrak’s board as part of the deal. The new proceeds were earmarked for scaling global sales and marketing campaigns, expansion of its platform using AI driven analytics, and improving integration with its technology partners.

ActivTrak

inFeedo is a people predictive analytics company based in India. The Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2013 is currently focused on “Amber” (launched in 2016), an AI-enabled bot that helps manage employee engagement, predict attrition, and get a pulse on company culture in real time. The company also offers AI-driven exit surveys and analytics to improve retention.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, over 700,000 users across 250 organizations utilized inFeedo’s platform. Notable clients included GE Healthcare, Puma, Tata Group, and Lenovo.Funding and financialsIn its latest funding round (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9099">March 2022</a>) inFeedo raised USD 12 million in Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures, reportedly tripling its valuation from less than 18 months ago. The fresh funds will be used for its second employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) buyback for all employees and its go-to-market activities in North America. Further, the company claims it has achieved annual revenue of USD 1.6 million as of November 2020.

inFeedo

Donut provides solutions to keep employees engaged with casual conversations. Its first product, Intros, makes connections between teammates via Slack to emulate quick meetups and in-person introductions at work, which are now virtual.Donut’s new product, Watercooler, launched in October 2020. It attempts to reinvent the micro-interactions between employees at the office watercooler online. The product will integrate with Slack, where a newly-designated channel for Watercooler will be created. The product will post questions automatically within the customers’ desired frequency and pre-selected topics.The company uses a freemium subscription model with paid plans starting at approximately USD 2 per user per month.Key customers and partnershipsThe company claims it has supported four million connections (one million since the Covid-19 pandemic) across its 12,000 customers, including companies such as Okta, Zapier, Slack, The New York Times, and Invision.Funding and financialsDonut announced a USD 12 million funding round led by Accel, along with its new product, Watercooler. The USD 12 million raised was accumulated over multiple rounds before the Covid-19 pandemic, with proceeds earmarked for product development.

Donut

Matter is an employee feedback platform founded by Brett Hellman. Hellman was the founder of messaging app “Hall”, which was founded in 2011 and later sold to Atlassian for USD 20 million in 2015.Matter uses 360-degree feedback to evaluate skills in employees which are linked to career success. The platform links skills such as influence, inclusiveness, empathy, resourcefulness, and multitasking to evaluations. Matter is currently available in beta.

Matter

Mesh is a Y Combinator-backed company that allows employees to set goals, track tasks, share feedback, and engage in one-on-ones. The company also offers an AI coach (Mesh Maven) to help employees stay in line with their key objectives, improve the quality of feedback provided and summarize 1:1s. Mesh also offers nudges and surveys to improve employee engagement alongside relevant analytics.The company generates revenue via monthly subscriptions per user, priced at USD 4 (Base) and USD 7 (Premium).&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, the company served over 100+ enterprises, including NTT Data, Grant Thornton and Groww. The platform also offers integrations with third-party software such as Gmail, Microsoft Teams and Slack, among others.Funding and financialsIn its most recent funding round (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9768">April 2022</a>) Mesh raised USD 11 million in Series A funding led by RTP Global. The fresh funds were earmarked to expand its global footprint across the US and APAC regions. In line with this, the company planned to expand its headcount across the engineering and sales departments.

Mesh

Companies offering tools to infer employee morale (through surveys and quick assessments) and productivity, including functions for goal setting, review, and feedback.

Companies that offer the entire spectrum of HR tools including payroll processing benefits, onboarding, compliance, analytics, scheduling etc

Companies providing either standalone or combined payroll and benefits services to businesses.

EoR - Companies that assist businesses in hiring distributed teams globally in compliance with foreign labor laws. EoRs become the legal employer of offshore employees. Solutions include payroll, benefits, and taxes.

PEO - Companies that offer similar services to EoRs but establish a co-employment arrangement with businesses and do not become the legal employer.

Companies offering tools such as chatbots, surveys, games, and other activities to infer, assess and improve employee morale and sentiment.

Companies that provide a centralized space for employees to access internal and external resources, enterprise applications, and enable workers to communicate across departments, and stay up to date on organizational announcements.

Solutions in this industry hub are predominantly offered under a B2B SaaS model

Employee and performance management solutions use AI/Ml to infer engagement insights and sentiment analysis

Offers tools for companies to hire contractors globally, and conduct employee and performance management

Epoch

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