• Plend

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2022

  Founded in 2020, Plend is an FCA-authorised consumer lender that uses Open Banking data and its proprietary PLEND Score® to assess affordability based on customers’ real financial circumstances rather than traditional credit scores. The company focuses on serving near-prime borrowers overlooked by mainstream lenders, helping them consolidate multiple expensive commitments into a single, structured repayment plan. Plend describes its underwriting as technology-led and positions itself around responsible, transparent lending and financial inclusion. The business is a Certified B Corporation and plans to scale its lending platform, supported by the new committed facility to refinance existing lines and fund new originations. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the articles.

• grape

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2022

  grape is a Swiss insurtech founded in November 2021 by Gregory Inauen and Fabian Mächler. Its software enables customers to automate administrative insurance tasks such as claiming, reporting, and payroll adjustments and has built over 20 integrations into HR tools that sync in seconds. The product also reinvests into prevention services, coaching and online therapy sessions to support employees' physical and mental health as part of benefits. grape positions itself as the first employee insurer built around a full-stack technology platform with a focus on integrating into customers' underwriting and claims processes. The company plans to use new funding to continue expanding the product and to grow the team to bring its vision to more enterprises and markets. Financially, the startup has just raised a €1.7 million pre-seed round to support those plans.

• Pabio

  Participated · Seed · Dec 2021

  Pabio offers personalized interior-design proposals with photorealistic renders and generates a 3D model from customers' floor plans and photos, then supplies, installs and insures subscription furniture. Customers subscribe monthly (one-bedroom furnished often under €200/month) rather than buying disposable furniture. The company emphasizes durable, refurbishable furniture that is returned, refurbished and eventually recycled after multiple rental cycles. Founded in Switzerland a couple of years ago, Pabio has expanded geographically and today announced a launch in Germany. It is currently deploying its service to around 100 homes. The recent funding will be used to expand marketing and to enter additional European countries. Pabio is a Bern, Switzerland-based rent-to-own furniture tech startup that provides sustainable, long-durability furniture combined with personalized interior design. Customers upload a floor plan and photos; Pabio generates a 3D model and photorealistic renders of a fully furnished apartment. If customers sign up, Pabio delivers and installs the furniture and charges a monthly subscription fee that contributes toward ownership. The company offers full insurance on items and optional add-on services such as electricians and bi-weekly cleaning. When customers move out, Pabio takes back, renovates, and re-circulates furniture at discounted prices to maximize reuse. Pabio is backed by Y Combinator and aims to offer an affordable, sustainable alternative to fast furniture.

• Greenfly

  Participated · Equity · Aug 2021

  Greenfly provides a platform that streamlines short-form content workflows for sports, media, and brand organizations, enabling production, compilation, management, and sharing of short-form content across networks. The Greenfly Platform bridges leagues, teams, players, broadcasters, and sponsors to facilitate collaborative content creation and distribution. The company has expanded its global footprint, welcoming over 40 new partnerships worldwide in the past year and acquiring Miro AI to bolster contextual sports content analysis. Leadership emphasizes short-form video consumption on platforms like YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels as a primary engagement and monetization channel. Greenfly completed a $14 million equity funding round that exceeded its initial target. Management intends to use the capital to accelerate strategic partnerships and support continued growth after its fastest year in nearly a decade. Greenfly builds a content collaboration platform and digital media flow management system to source, create, curate and automate distribution of photos and short-form videos for social media. The product centers on event-based workflows that route, surface and curate media so athletes, teams, leagues and brands can find and share relevant content quickly. The company is investing in improved curation and data collection to surface media most relevant to users and provide insights for community relationship management. Greenfly plans to use new funding for growth and expansion, building additional collaboration tools and content as more players sign on. The platform is used across sports, media and entertainment, political campaigns, social causes and consumer brands and is now working with more than 30 sports leagues and over 500 organizations. The company reported over 100% growth so far in 2021. Greenfly provides a SaaS platform that integrates a mobile app with a private, web-based content production and orchestration system to enable brands to request, create, review, approve and post unified video and other media. The platform lets consumer brands collaborate with networks of endorsers, staff and customers to simultaneously share thematically unified content across individual social accounts and networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, as well as television. Greenfly has been used by leading brands, sports leagues, teams and media companies. Co-founded in 2014 by Shawn Green and Daniel Kirschner, the company focuses on building tools to activate and orchestrate content creator networks. The new financing will be used to continue building out technology, drive user acquisition and marketing initiatives, and bolster the team with new hires. The company is based in Santa Monica, Calif. Greenfly provides sports leagues, teams, and media companies with a system that pairs a mobile app with a private, web-based content production and orchestration platform. The product lets organizations leverage networks of influencers, brand ambassadors, and staff to produce and distribute video and other media content. The company was founded in 2014 by Daniel Kirschner and Chairman Shawn Green and is based in Santa Monica, CA. Greenfly announced a Series A financing of more than $6m. The company intends to use the funds to continue to scale and to address new verticals and markets. No operating metrics beyond the fundraise are reported in the article.

No current team members are available.