Founders With The X Factors We Backed
Balloon
Noah Bornstein &
Amanda Greenberg
“Our mission is to enable all teams to harness the power of true insights.”
Balloon is a research-backed platform that unlocks ideas and feedback from a group by eliminating groupthink and amplifying voices. We’re rebuilding the way teams collaborate, making them more productive, innovative, informed, and inclusive.
Chatterworks
Shafiur Rahman
“Give recruiters the where, when & how to engage with candidates.”
ChatterWorks is leading the charge to apply Useful Artificial Intelligence (UAI) to solve the most important sourcing and engagement problems within recruitment. Aggregating multiple data sources to help recruiters save time and allow them to focus on quality engagement instead of endless internet searches and communication dead ends.
vertify
Matthew Klepac &
Wayne Lopez
“Building a company to not only breakdown the solos with technology but with people.”
Vertify is a company that’s designed to foster greatness. We empower our teams to work with very little in their way. We are a team of winners. A group of data artists, doers, customer focused problem solvers. Folks who get it. That’s why we have a positive, can-do attitude that emphasizes collaboration, and are passionate about your success.
staytuned
Serge Kassardjian &
Randy Jimenez
“On a path to revolutionize how ecommerce merchants grow their businesses.”
Staytuned are arming ecommerce merchants with a suite of tools that not only reduces their reliance on paid media but also helps them grow their business sustainably. To keep true to our word, we’re building and acquiring apps that provide direct ROI without beating the bush.
Chairman me
Sarah Lacy &
Paul Bradley Carr
“Our goal is to provide a platform that connects innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors, and helps them stay ahead of the curve.”
ChairmanMe is a disruptive media platform, dedicated to covering the latest trends and innovations in business, technology, and entrepreneurship. With a unique focus on stories that matter, ChairmanMe has quickly become a go-to source for industry leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs seeking fresh insights and bold perspectives.
compa
Charlie Franklin, Taylor Cone & Joseph Delmonico Malandruccolo
“Fair and competitive compensation for everyone.”
Compa is a software platform that helps enterprise-level Talent Acquisition teams excel in competitive job markets. With real-time compensation data and automated workflows, recruiters can save time and create winning job offers. The platform allows for quick access to pay guidelines, offer creation, and approval. Compa also offers powerful management tools and reporting for scaling offer automation. It helps teams collaborate effectively to make informed decisions and achieve better hiring outcomes, ultimately saving companies hundreds of millions of dollars in annual spend. Compa enables transparency, smarter work, and increased offer success.
Joshu
Roy & Shimi
“We wanted our company name to convey a sense of intelligence and wisdom, while still being somewhat playful and accessible.”
Joshu is an insurance product development and distribution platform that helps insurance product owners configure, launch and update their products without coding. Designed for insurance professionals and packed with features accelerating product setup, Joshu’s portals and Underwriter Desk come out of the box and support the full lifecycle of a policy.
North
Matt Biringer & Yassine Açoine
“We believe that anyone who still manages their finances with a spreadsheet can do better and have an actual dashboard with action items.”
The public cloud is home to $200b of annual technology spend. Although its one of the most complex licensing ecosystems ever made, over 95% of this spend is done with a credit card and a spreadsheet.
The AI boom will turbocharge this category over $1T by 2030.
SRTLabs
Gregory Scott & Karoline Pershell
“We bring together robotics and smart technologies that may not have been designed to communicate with each other as well as people from a variety of walks of life.”
SRT Labs recognizes the inherent value in a diversity of technologies, backgrounds, and approaches, and strives to connect these things through both code (our business) and ethical practices (how we do business).
From warehouses to classrooms and beyond, SRT Labs implements solutions that let companies reach higher potentials, and we pride ourselves on helping our employees reach their full potential as well.
Pardo
Jon Carter
“Enhance your food service business with subscriptions & rewards.”
Prado is the leading subscription & membership management platform designed for digital food service operators to set up and manage dynamic recurring billing. They integrate a subscription functionality, which ensures customers have compelling reasons to spend more and visit more often, fostering a loyal customer base eager to engage.
AQVC
Marius Weber, Oliver Oster & Marcus Börner
“Our mission is to democratize diversified access to innovation and create wealth for generations to come.”
AQVC’s mission is to democratize diversified access to innovation and create wealth for generations to come. We help allocators save time and make informed investment decisions by giving them access to funds, data, and actionable insights, bringing transparency and accessibility to the VC asset class.