Participated · Series A · Mar 2024

OneNotary provides an online, on-demand notarization product and a nationwide marketplace of notaries accessible 24/7 via API and web. The company says its product is used across finance, real estate, law, health care, and government for secure remote notarizations. Since founding in 2020, OneNotary has grown rapidly — its marketplace now exceeds 30,000 notaries and the company reports revenue doubled over the past year. The new capital will be used to accelerate marketing and sales, strengthen partnerships, and further develop the product suite to meet rising demand for online verification services. OneNotary also announced a partnership with DocuSign to integrate OneNotary into DocuSign’s notary solutions, with the integration planned to launch early this summer. OneNotary is a San Francisco-based provider of online notary infrastructure offering a no-code, white‑label integration to enable Remote Online Notarization (RON) inside SaaS products. The platform connects a fleet of over 10,000 vetted notaries across the United States and provides 24/7 on‑demand notarizations and apostille services. Its core product is a seamless integration toolkit that enables businesses to add RON into workflows within hours, keeping customers inside existing tools. OneNotary also provides AI-based tools to assist notaries with document preparation and to autonomously verify document errors. The company plans to scale the platform for use in all fifty states and will pursue aggressive marketing and education to increase adoption of remote online notarization globally. Financially, OneNotary raised $1.75 million in a seed round to fund expansion and product development.

Led · Equity · Dec 2021

Moodmate is a digital mood‑improvement coach launched at the end of 2020 by a team of psychologists and developers from Belarus and described in the article as an American startup with Belarusian founders. Its core product uses a science‑based method of replaying life situations to correct destructive thought and behavior patterns; apps exist for iOS and Android, plus a Telegram bot and Facebook Messenger version. The startup plans a web version and integrations for Instagram, Twitter, and Slack, and is testing a B2B line and R&D on AI to monitor employees’ mental health. Moodmate reports 50,000 users and an international team of ten, with one third of users arriving via recommendations and 40% engaging 5–7 days per week; many users have used the service for more than ten months. The company intends to use new funds to expand in the US market and to hire a Chief Marketing Officer and a Product Manager while continuing development of its method.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2021

Narrative BI offers a no-code, user-oriented business intelligence platform that combines visual interfaces, natural language narratives, and advanced anomaly detection to make analytics accessible to non-technical growth teams. The platform consolidates product and marketing data from sources such as Mixpanel, Google Analytics, and HubSpot and transforms raw signals into shareable insights. It integrates collaborative features like Slack delivery to help teams spot issues early and distribute narratives quickly. Narrative BI emphasizes self-service reporting with no IT involvement, aiming to reduce reliance on engineering and legacy analytics stacks. The company soft-launched a public beta in August 2021 and reports it has already extracted insights from customer data derived from millions of unique users. Narrative BI plans to use its new capital to continue product development and expand its augmented-analytics capabilities for product-led companies.

Led · Seed · Apr 2021

Calmerry is a Wyoming-based online therapy platform that is HIPAA compliant and evidence-based. The company works with vetted therapists to provide care for those seeking a more convenient alternative to offline therapy. Calmerry intends to use new funds to accelerate platform user growth, expand the set of therapy tools available to clients and therapists, and add mental health professionals to the platform. The company raised $5M in seed funding. The round was led by Digital Future. The article does not disclose additional operating metrics or other investors.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2017

PromoRepublic bills itself as a “WIX for a small business’s social presence,” using AI to generate and recommend social media content tailored to specific businesses. The platform suggests what to post, when to post, how often, what copy, design, calls to action and hashtags to use across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. Users can customize and approve content for a whole month; the service integrates with Hootsuite, HubSpot, Buffer and Yext and provides access to 100,000+ templates and images. PromoRepublic charges from $20 per month and positions itself against visual design tools like Canva, Stencil and Adobe Spark as well as DIFM companies such as Main Street Hub, Boostability and RevLocal. To date the company reports 50,000 small- and medium-business owners registered on the platform. The product automates posting at the right time and frequency to reduce the manual work of SMB owners managing social media. PromoRepublic provides a Calendar of Content Ideas and an industry-specific template library that supplies daily facts, holidays, trends and creative text and visuals to help users produce engaging social media posts. The service targets freelance marketers, agencies and SMEs and has integrations with Hootsuite and Buffer, with additional integrations planned. The company claims to have the smartest library of templates in the world and focuses on surfacing only relevant content ideas for each business. PromoRepublic has more than one hundred paying customers, is targeting a 30% monthly growth rate and reports positive European market growth this year. Financially, it has raised approximately €150,000 over the three years since founding and completed a €500,000 investment round in July led by Sampo Parkkinen; an attempted Invesdor equity crowdfunding was halted after a financing-strategy change. The team is headquartered in Helsinki, with part of the team in Kiev and a virtual office in Palo Alto, and the founders have completed accelerators in Ukraine, Estonia, Chile and Finland. PromoRepublic plans to pivot in the US toward agencies and freelancers, use the new funds to pursue US traction, and is attending TechCrunch Disrupt and Slush as part of its growth and future fundraising efforts.