• Leap

  Participated · Seed · Dec 2024

  Leap Financial combines a proprietary X-Border Payments Platform with a native AI super-agent called "Lola" to power instant, card-to-wallet domestic and international payments. Its white-label solution lets banks, fintechs, and even non-financial companies embed remittances and digital payments that cost under 1 % of the transfer amount, versus the 6–10 % typical of legacy money transmitters. By partnering with federal banks, Mastercard, and global aggregators, Leap removes intermediaries, reduces cash usage, and strengthens anti-money-laundering controls. The company targets immigrant workers who need to send money home, positioning social impact at the core of its business model. Seed funding will be used to meet demand from new customers generated through the Mastercard partnership and to hire additional AI talent. Founded by Lionel Carrasco and Marcela Henao, the startup operates from Miami and aims to expand its AI-driven, end-to-end payments infrastructure across the U.S. and Latin America. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the announcement.

• Pigeon

  Participated · Seed · Jun 2022

  Pigeon Loans provides a platform that helps friends and family set up, schedule, and manage interpersonal loans to reduce the emotional friction that often ruins relationships. The product guides both parties through payment schedules, sends gentle reminders to borrowers, and includes an education center with best practices for late payments and defaults. Founders Kaben Clauson and Brian Bristol built the first version during the pandemic based on personal experience with managing these kinds of loans. The company recently changed its business model to make the lending tool free of fees and plans to monetize by referring users to other fintech products and services. Pigeon has raised $2.5 million from a syndicate of investors and positions itself to serve a portion of the roughly $200 billion annual friends-and-family loan market by making small-dollar emergency lending more structured and less awkward.

• GOQii

  Participated · Series C · Feb 2022

  GOQii operates a smart-health ecosystem combining wearable fitness trackers, a mobile app, real-time personalized coaching, diagnostics, and an online health store. Its platform includes tools such as a health locker, scheduling for health checkups, and the GOQii Cash program that rewards healthy behavior with cash and insurance discounts. The company also offers insurance services and is building digital therapeutics across areas including women’s health, diabetes, and radiology. GOQii says it aims to drive a permanent shift to healthier lifestyles by integrating advanced wearable technology with expert coaches. Founded in 2014 by Abhishek Sharma, Sachin Janghel, Champ Alreja, and Vishal Gondal, the company is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. In India it competes with HealthifyMe, Cure.Fit, and Fittr. GOQii sells its own fitness trackers but centers on a cloud-based platform that sends users’ wearable data to real coaches who provide daily feedback. Subscriptions include a free wristband, and the platform is compatible with over 35 tracker brands, including Fitbit, Jawbone, and Misfit. GOQii uses big-data analytics to streamline coaching, enabling coaches to scale from handling about 5–10 clients a day to as many as 60–70. The company says it is the leading fitness tracker company in India and aims to reach one million users there. GOQii launched a U.S. beta in January and plans a public U.S. release by the first quarter of next year; it raised a $13.4M Series A to fund expansion in the U.S. and China. The company has not disclosed user or revenue figures but reports strong engagement on its coaching platform.

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