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Communitas Capital

575 Lexington Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY, 10022, United States

Overview

Founded by three former public company CEOs who have each been investors, operators and financial service industry pioneers, Communitas seeks to invest in and partner with some of the most exciting and impactful FinTech and marketplace companies. Communitas will also help democratize the world of venture capital through its crowd-syndication solution that will provide accredited investors, family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals a simple way to invest in these same companies on the same terms as their.

Total investments
17
Lead investments
3
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
7

Sector focus

  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Vend Park

    Participated · Series A · Nov 2025

    Vend Park offers a single platform that combines agentic AI with an in-house operations team to replace the traditional two-vendor parking model for commercial real estate owners. Its software automates daily parking management, unifies access, billing, and reporting, and delivers a seamless driver experience while boosting property net operating income by about 30 % and trimming operating costs by 30–50 %. Over the last 24 months, the company says it has achieved 35× growth, scaling from 3 to 15 U.S. cities and winning customers such as Nuveen, Jamestown, Federal Realty, and Harwood International. The system is deployed across office towers, mixed-use sites, healthcare facilities, hotels, campuses, event venues, and airports. Vend positions parking as “digital infrastructure” that can unlock trapped revenue and real-time data for owners. The new capital will fuel national market expansion, accelerate its AI product roadmap, and support hiring across sales, engineering, and customer success teams. Headquartered in Boston, the firm markets itself as turning parking into a strategic lever for property value creation.

  • SimSpace

    Participated · Equity · Oct 2025

    SimSpace builds sophisticated cyber ranges that mirror a customer’s live network, enabling continuous, AI-powered training, live-fire exercises, detection engineering, and technology performance measurement. The platform supports use cases such as AI model training, agent validation, and security-tool optimization, helping organizations move beyond compliance check-boxes to stress-test people, processes, and technologies in lifelike attack scenarios. Clients include federal, state, and local governments, large state universities, and Fortune 100 companies. Led by CEO Peter Lee and headquartered in Boston, the company positions its range as a means to model attack surfaces and validate human/agent teams under high-stress conditions. With its latest capital infusion, SimSpace plans to accelerate global expansion and develop additional use cases tailored to large enterprise and public-sector needs. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the article, but the company has previously attracted support from investors such as L2 Point Management.

  • Gravity

    Participated · Series A · Jan 2025

    Gravity provides an end-to-end carbon accounting and energy management platform that automates data collection, generates audit-ready sustainability reports, and integrates with customers' existing energy tracking and ESG systems. The platform leverages AI (including LLMs) and bill-scanning to reduce manual disclosure work—one customer reported saving an estimated 4,600 hours annually—and has convinced over 60% of its customers to switch from other providers. Gravity serves Fortune 500 companies, global enterprises, and private equity portfolios, citing customers such as WM, Autodesk, MiddleGround Capital, McCarthy Holdings, TTI, and Wisconsin Aluminum Factory. The company has driven 400% year-over-year revenue growth and reports project-level outcomes including a $2M annual savings from an HVAC optimization and $1M in federal incentives secured for a construction project. Gravity combines automated reporting with a marketplace, financing partnerships, and energy audits to turn carbon accounting into cost-saving actions. The company plans to use the Series A proceeds to invest in product R&D, expand its energy-efficiency marketplace, and grow its team in the US and EU to meet regulatory reporting needs.

  • Abstract

    Led · Seed · Jan 2025

    Abstract has built an artificial-intelligence platform that ingests and synthesizes millions of legislative, regulatory, social-media, and news data points to deliver real-time intelligence for enterprises. Drawing from more than 145,000 government bodies and a proprietary database of over seven million regulatory records, the software uncovers nuanced connections and implications that traditional manual review often misses. The system integrates directly into existing corporate workflows, surfacing the most relevant external risks and opportunities tailored to each organization’s specific risk profile. Abstract’s technology is used by over 200 organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, AMLaw 200 law firms, non-profits, and government bodies. The newly secured capital will be directed toward further enhancing the platform’s analytical capabilities to deliver deeper contextual insights. No revenue figures were disclosed, but the company’s traction with hundreds of large-scale customers underscores strong early market adoption.

  • Vortexa

    Participated · Series C · Jan 2024

    Vortexa provides real-time global energy and freight analytics, combining human intelligence with AI-driven insights to help traders, analysts, and freight professionals make better trading decisions. The company operates hubs in London, Geneva, Singapore, Houston, New York City and the UAE and employs over 160 people. Vortexa received $25M in strategic debt financing from CIBC Innovation Banking. That financing followed a $34M Series C funding round led by Morgan Stanley to drive further growth in energy and freight analytics. The company says it will allocate the $25M to expand operations and development efforts. Vortexa is led by CEO and Founder Fabio Kuhn. Vortexa provides market-leading real-time data and advanced analytics for energy and freight markets, covering crude oil, refined products, LPG and LNG across all vessel classes. Its platform helps traders, analysts, charterers and data scientists make high-stakes, real-time decisions and improve efficiency in global energy flows. The company employs a multidisciplinary team of over 120 people with hubs in London, Singapore, Houston, New York City, Geneva and the UAE. Vortexa reports growth three times faster than the median SaaS business over the past year and says it has nearly reached profitability. Management says the business has doubled its valuation since its Series B in 2021 and sees a large untapped market opportunity ahead. The company plans to use new capital to accelerate international expansion, advance its technology and maintain high quality of service to clients and partners. Vortexa combines AI and deep industry expertise to provide real-time data and analytics tools for waterborne energy and shipping markets. Its product set includes a highly intuitive web-based app and programmatic API/SDK that track more than $1.8 trillion of waterborne energy trades per year. The company serves oil supermajors, commodities trading houses, investment banks, brokers and ship owners across all continents. Vortexa has experienced strong commercial traction—tripling revenues in 2020 since its Series A in 2019—and has expanded operations by opening offices in Singapore and the U.S. and growing to more than 70 employees. The new capital will be used to accelerate international expansion and further product development. Vortexa combines proprietary AI algorithms with deep energy‑sector expertise to provide real‑time intelligence for energy trading. Its system processes data at scale, including multiple satellite constellations and industry datasets, to map global energy flows. The company plans to use the new capital to continue global expansion and to scale its proprietary AI technology. Vortexa has a team of 30 located in London and Singapore and expected to open a Houston office in 2019. The business was founded by Fabio Kuhn (CEO, formerly Head of Trading Technology and Analytics at BP) and Etienne Amic (Chairman, formerly Head of European Energy at J.P. Morgan and Mercuria).

Team

  • Tom Glocer

    Co founder

  • Thomas Glocer

    Co-Founder & Partner

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  • Doug Atkin

    Managing Partner

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  • Duncan L. Niederauer

    Partner & Co-Founder

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