Participated · Equity · May 2025

ChurchSpace builds smart logistics and shared-space solutions that activate underutilized church properties for events, outreach, and last-mile delivery. The company is mission-driven, framed around economic justice and helping churches generate sustainable income to fund youth programs, food banks, and community outreach. In Texas, churches on the platform have earned up to $100,000 annually and reinvested that income into local services. ChurchSpace is relocating its headquarters from Houston to Detroit and is onboarding Detroit churches to launch a citywide partnership backed by the City of Detroit and Mayor Mike Duggan. Founders include Day Edwards (Founder and President) and Emmanuel Brown (Co‑founder and CEO); Brown led the recent fundraising. The company plans to use the momentum and local partnerships to expand operations and unlock the economic potential of sacred space.

Led · Seed · Nov 2024

Founded in 2020 by Daricus Releford, StoreCash is a mobile payment solution that lets users pay and receive cash-back rewards immediately. The app integrates its API with fintech partners and alerts users when retailers like H&M, Gap, or AMC offer cash back. In person, customers scan a QR code generated by the app; online, users manually enter a serial number and barcode to complete transactions. Cashback is primarily earned through affiliate marketing and card rewards, and StoreCash emphasizes faster, larger returns than competitors. The company reports StoreCash users earn around $900 annually just by using the app. StoreCash plans to add budgeting features to help users better track and organize their finances, and will use new capital to expand product development and the team.

Led · Seed · Aug 2022

Founded by Tiffanie Stanard in 2017, Stimulus provides a supply-chain SaaS product that enables establishments to discover, compare and match with suppliers and vendors in real time. The platform is designed to help businesses cut costs by avoiding mismatched suppliers while surfacing diverse and underrepresented vendors. Stimulus digitizes the procurement and vendor-relationship process based on Stanard’s 15+ years of buyer and vendor management experience. The company has attracted investor interest from strategic and institutional backers and recently closed an oversubscribed seed round. Stanard plans to use the funding to hire in sales, data and engineering and to expand partnerships and supplier diversity efforts.

Led · Seed · Jun 2022

Five to Nine offers a platform that helps enterprises plan ERG programs and provides attendance and feedback analytics to measure ERG effectiveness. Launched in 2018 by Jasmine Shells and Denise Umubyeyi, the product integrates with Okta, Workday and Slack. The company already counts Yahoo, UpWork and Expedia as clients. Founders created the company to consolidate tools used to run internal events and to surface data on ERG impact and leader burden. With the new funding, Five to Nine plans to expand engineering, build new products, increase hiring and double its clientele. The analytics aim to demonstrate ERG ROI and highlight the work of ERG leaders often shouldering a diversity tax.

Led · Seed · Apr 2022

Livegistics provides core construction companies with a cloud-based material management system that links project stakeholders, contractors, trucks and landfills in a real-time, GPS-tracked network. The platform is designed to improve day-to-day operations and ensure transparency across projects. Its technology is currently operating in six states and 13 landfills around the U.S. The company has over 25 employees globally and is led by CEO and co-founder Justin Turk. Livegistics plans to use recent funding to grow hiring and marketing, scale for national contracts, and launch the platform’s second edition in Q2.