Impact Ventures
4621 Ross Ave Suite 210, Dallas, TX, 75204, United States
Overview
The Impact Venture’s a startup business accelerator and integrated capital fund designed to train and develop underrepresented women, minority-led enterprises. Impact Ventures provides flexible debt and patient equity capital to early stage ventures. It's multi-track accelerator programs are designed for high-growth technology and Consumer product-based enterprises.
- Total investments
- 14
- Lead investments
- 5
- Investments · 12mo
- 3
- Active investors
- 2
Investment portfolio
- Pulpos
Participated · Equity · Apr 2026
Pulpos provides a cloud-based POS and management platform that enables independent retailers to manage inventory, costs, margins, expiries, digital storefronts and suppliers through familiar communication channels like WhatsApp. The company builds tools for centralized inventory management, product catalogs with personalized links, and features to track informal credit and transaction cycles common among Mexican SMEs. Pulpos validated its model with a study of more than 5,000 merchants and over one million messages, finding high usage of cash and direct credit between merchants and customers. Founded in 2023, Pulpos serves over 5,000 active sellers concentrated in Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara and plans physical offices in those cities for localized support. The startup is integrating AI agents to automate customer interactions, debt reminders, receipt issuance and inventory updates to improve operational visibility for small merchants. Financially, Pulpos raised a US$4 million seed in April 2024 led by Andreessen Horowitz and has now secured an additional US$5 million led by Dalus Capital.
- SPEC Toolbox
Participated · Series A · Jan 2026
SPEC Toolbox is a Melbourne-based construction engineering platform founded in 2023 by structural engineers Adam Jones and Ringo Thomas. Originally launched as CLT Toolbox to serve the cross-laminated timber niche, the company rebranded after discovering similar design bottlenecks across a wider range of modern manufactured materials. Its cloud software automates complex engineering calculations, helping designers more easily specify affordable and sustainable materials in building projects. The product has attracted more than 6,000 user sign-ups and 35 product suppliers and has already expanded its footprint into Europe, the UK, and North America. CEO Adam Jones says the new capital will accelerate the product roadmap, onboard additional suppliers, and deepen technical infrastructure. To date, SPEC has raised multiple rounds, including a $1.5 million Seed round in October 2023 and a $1 million bridge round in 2024, prior to the current pre-Series A fundraise.
- Doctor.One
Participated · Seed · Sep 2025
Doctor.One is a medical technology company headquartered in Warsaw that is building a digital platform for healthcare. The platform’s precise features were not detailed in the article, but the company positions itself within the broader medtech space, aiming to improve care delivery through technology. Doctor.One recently attracted new capital to accelerate the next phase of its platform development. The company plans to deploy the funds to enhance product capabilities and prepare for future growth. Although no revenue, user, or adoption metrics were disclosed, the successful fundraise signals investor confidence in the team and market opportunity. No additional financial performance or profitability data were mentioned. The article likewise did not specify timelines for product launch or expansion beyond the immediate focus on development.
- scoutlabs
Participated · Equity · Jun 2024
Scoutlabs develops affordable, AI-powered digital insect monitoring aimed at giving farmers precise, field-level insights to combat pests sustainably. The company is building a dense network of digital traps to track insect migration and swarming and uses AI to identify pest insects affecting crops. Co-founded by farmers Jimmy Fong and Donat Posta and formerly known as Smapp Lab, Scoutlabs intends to turn field data into a decision-making co-pilot that replaces guesswork. Its product targets reduced pesticide waste and improved food security while enabling potential data monetization and upselling. The startup has secured initial funding to support scaling and expansion into new markets, including the U.S.
- Hedepy
Led · Equity · Jan 2024
Hedepy operates an online psychotherapy and psychiatry platform that connects verified and qualified therapists and psychiatrists and offers an advanced self‑help zone for preventative mental health. The service also sells therapeutic programs to workplaces and schools and launched online psychiatric services in 2023 in collaboration with Unicare Medical. Since beginning operations on the Czech market in 2020 the platform has expanded to ten other European markets (including Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Greece and Finland) and is the number one player in five of those markets. Hedepy delivers more than 60% of its therapies abroad, handled over 100,000 therapy sessions last year, and has grown over 200% year‑on‑year. Demand outstrips supply: the company reports more than 1,500 professionals on its waiting list across its markets. Corporate clients (which have roughly doubled in the past year) include Havel and Partners, Ford, Multisport, Oktagon, and Unicredit Bank. Hedepy operates an online psychological-assistance platform offering individual, couples, family and teen therapy across multiple countries. The platform employs over 250 therapists and covers a broad set of issues from anxiety and depression to burnout, leadership and multicultural parenting. Hedepy has developed a B2B product that already covers 15,000 employees and is pursuing inclusion in healthcare plans in some markets. The company promises faster access (a five-minute booking goal) and provides free sessions for those in need via partners such as Tchibo, including donations to Ukrainian citizens affected by the war. Hedepy is active in Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Romania and Italy and has expanded to Greece, Hungary and Ukraine following its latest investment. The team emphasizes product development and broad geographic expansion, targeting seven more countries by the end of 2023.