We Back Builders. Founded by @Jason  Team behind   This Week in Startups: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisWeekIn  @twistartups    The LAUNCH Accelerator https://launchaccelerator.co/ @launchincubator    The Syndicate https://thesyndicate.com/ @thesyndicate415    Founder university: https://www.founder.university/ @founderuni    Remote Demo Day  https://remotedemoday.com/ @remotedemoday

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Pareto Holdings is an early-stage investment vehicle founded by Jon Oringer and Edward Lando. We execute on dozens of investments per month and are often the first to back exceptional entrepreneurs. We are industry and geography agnostic, and specialize in pre-seeding companies. We’ve made 500+ investments to date. Unlike others, we only invest our own money with a small and mighty team around the world.

Pareto Holdings

Brickyard is an early-stage capital and founder outpost backing builders. Founded in 2021, the company is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.

Brickyard

Front Porch provides accredited investors and family offices properly diversified exposure to the Southeast’s top venture capital firms and startups.

Front Porch Venture Partners

11 Tribes Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that proactively invests in the resilience of entrepreneurs. The fund is radical in its allocation of resources to fund founder wellbeing, putting real dollars towards their mental, emotional, and spiritual health. They are proving that healthy founders will lead to healthy returns without compromising mission or profitability.  Thesis-wise, 11 Tribes invests in entrepreneurs disrupting legacy industries. The company provides innovative, founder-focused venture capital investment to early-stage technology companies in non-traditional technology hubs across the county.  11 Tribes Ventures is disrupting the business model of venture capital. The traditional “growth at all costs” mentality produces founder burnout, unsettling ethics, and failed investments. By rejecting this status quo of dollars-driven, people-indifferent investing in lieu of an approach that centers around building businesses that are profitable and sustainable, they’re changing the narrative from burnout to flourishing by redefining the ecosystem of support around each founder.

11 Tribes Ventures

Broadshade Investment is an investment firm.

Broadshade Investments

Colabora Ventures is an angel investment firm that focuses on investing in entrepreneurs with scalable, global, and sustainable business concepts.

Colabora Ventures

Krepling

Krepling is the world's first no-code composable platform for e-commerce, offering merchants the tools and resources they need to build better buying experiences for their customers on the web. Merchants are given the ability to build and control their entire e-commerce stack, from their front-end facing store to building their entire marketing and consumer buying flows from scratch using clicks instead of code. Krepling was launched in early 2020 by brothers Liam Gerada and Travis Gerada, both former e-commerce merchants. Krepling offers a hybrid remote work model, which now operates in over 5 countries, with merchants across 35+ countries.

Krepling offers a no-code platform for merchants and retailers to develop their front-end and back-end ecommerce operations and integrate with other applications to offer an advanced buying experience to customers and automated marketing operations and sell products in borderless environments. The Krepling platform is offered on a subscription basis starting from USD 15 per month and can be used in 200+ countries.

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No-code Software

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Krepling offers a no-code platform for merchants and retailers to develop their front-end and back-end ecommerce operations and integrate with other applications to offer an advanced buying experience to customers and automated marketing operations and sell products in borderless environments. The Krepling platform is offered on a subscription basis starting from USD 15 per month and can be used in 200+ countries.Key customers and partnershipsKrepling’s technology partners include Weebly, GSuite, LiteSpeed, and cPanel. Its service partners that allow scalable collaboration and secure payment transactions with customers include Stripe, PayPal, Square, Coinbase, and Klarna.Funding and financialsIn November 2022, Krepling <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/14267?industryIds=14">raised USD 1 million </a>in a seed funding round led by Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH, Jon Oringer, and Brickyard to accelerate growth and expand operations. Moreover, in January 2024, the company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25964">raised an additional USD 3.3 million </a>in seed funding to expand its team.

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. 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. 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.

Index

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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;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 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

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.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.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20509">In July 2023 </a>, Universe launched the beta version of Generative Universe Sites (GUS), an AI-powered website designing tool. This solution provides a conversational interface for users to dictate their requirements for a website and then generates a customized web page.Funding and financialsIn December 2021, Universe raised USD 30 million in a Series B funding round led by Addition to develop the company’s block-based system for website building named “GRID,” expand its commercial offering for startups, and extend GRID to more platforms and devices. Additionally, the company used the funds to expand its reach in new markets and grow its employee base.

Universe

Readymag is a web-based drag and drop tool that enables users to create websites, presentations and digital magazines. Its customers include large enterprises such as AirBnB, Forbes, Esquire, and IDEO.

Readymag

UserGuiding is a user onboarding tool that helps create interactive guides for customers. Functions include user onboarding, feature adoption, in-product messaging, and customer feedback, among others. As of September 2020, the company had over 2,000 global enterprise clients. UserGuiding raised USD 1.1 million in seed funding in August 2020, which it intends to use to expand its operations by increasing its workforce, accelerating global expansion, and enhancing product development.

UserGuiding

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

Platforms that allow users to create online/mobile games in a no-code environment.

Platforms and tools that enable users to build mobile-based apps using templates and tools (widgets) in a visual environment.

Platforms that let users create workflow and process management systems in a spreadsheet format integrating with databases. This also includes data science tools, which enable users to run predictive analysis on data sets through drag-and-drop functions using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Tools that allow users to build websites, ranging from blogs to e-commerce sites, in a visual environment without the need for coding. Often has no-code tools to integrate with other online tools, such as payment gateways.

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

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 Krepling, a no-code e-commerce platform, secured USD 3.3 million in seed funding from investors including LAUNCH, Brickyard, Front Porch Ventures, and others. The startup aims to use this funding to expand its team, particularly in sales and development roles.
 Alongside the funding announcement, Krepling unveiled a centralized universal builder for merchants to streamline their tools, resulting in customised customer experiences.
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Krepling

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