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DealMaker

30 East 23rd Street 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10010, United States

Overview

DealMaker’s innovative digital platform transforms the capital-raising process into simple eCommerce—empowering founders to raise capital from their own communities and through strategically marketed campaigns. Our mission is to make online capital raising mainstream with a sophisticated suite of primary issuance and shareholder management solutions, including investor ranking algorithms and data analytics tools. We put brands and founders in control, running streamlined, successful capital raises in one centralized platform for investors globally. With $2 billion in investments powered to date, DealMaker leads the industry in online capital raises. DealMaker has offices in Toronto, Canada; Austin, Texas; and Tampa, Florida.

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

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • FinTech
  • Software
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Investment portfolio

  • NavigateAI

    Led · Seed · May 2026

    NavigateAI offers an AI copilot service built to support field workers, contractors, and tradespeople in industries such as construction, real estate, data center development, and property management. Its platform provides real-time AI upskilling and coaching, AI-driven quality control and inspection using smartphone or wearable cameras, an on-demand knowledge base for codes and manuals, AI project scoping for scopes of work and materials lists, and video capture with synchronized site insights and action-item logging. Customers mentioned include Lennar, Roofstock, AIM and Tishman Speyer. The company is led by CEO Eric Wu and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Following the $25M financing, NavigateAI plans to expand operations and increase development efforts.

  • The Green Coffee Company

    Led · Equity · May 2026

    Green Coffee Company operates integrated cultivation, processing and export operations in Colombia and holds exclusive third-party distribution rights for the Juan Valdez brand in the United States and Canada. The company sells 100% Colombian coffee across retail, hospitality and direct-to-consumer channels and is headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois with subsidiary operations in Medellín, Colombia. It reported growing retail distribution to over 1,000 locations within 12 months and is targeting more than 3,000 locations by year-end. The business has raised over $100M in total capital to date. Following the $5.0M Regulation CF crowdfunding round, the company plans to use proceeds to build brand awareness and create community while expanding distribution across U.S. and Canadian retail, hospitality and e-commerce channels. No revenue or founding-year figures were disclosed in the article.

  • Pacaso

    Led · Equity · Oct 2025

    Founded in 2020 by Austin Allison and Spencer Rascoff, Pacaso enables buyers to purchase one-eighth to one-half shares of high-end vacation homes, bundling financing, professional management, scheduling and resale support into a single platform. The company has facilitated more than $1.2 billion in real-estate transactions and service fees and generated over $138 million in lifetime gross profit. In the first half of 2025 Pacaso produced $12.6 million in adjusted gross profit while improving margins and cutting cash burn, demonstrating operating leverage. The marketplace now covers 40+ destinations across the U.S., Mexico and Europe, and recently added listings in London, Paris, Italy and the Caribbean. Pacaso is augmenting operations with AI-powered tools and has introduced a new mortgage product through a $100 million credit facility from Texas Capital. Total equity funding has surpassed $300 million after the latest round, giving the company significant capital to scale inventory and international expansion. Management frames co-ownership as a movement that broadens access to luxury real estate for both families and investors.

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