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Interplay Ventures

363 Lafayette Street, New York, NY, 10012, United States

Overview

Interplay is a startup ecosystem where ideas scale. Our mission is to accelerate humankind’s potential by streamlining the journey of the entrepreneur. Our ecosystem consists of five business lines that fall under three divisions: Capital, Studio, and Platform. Capital: Our venture capital arm invests in early stage, technology-enabled businesses in North America. We back startups that have demonstrated quantifiable financial and operational fundamentals, including a scaling customer base, early product-market fit and real revenue growth. Separately, our family office provides members full-service portfolio construction and investment management, with an emphasis on alternative assets via direct and fund investments. Additionally, members receive advisory-services for estate planning, philanthropic engagement, emergency planning, and tax optimization. Studio: We cofound and incubate companies. When we cofound a company, we’re typically starting from scratch – taking our own ideas and building them out of our foundry. Through our incubator, we support the growth of other teams by providing mentorship, enabling them to scale their company. Platform: Our platform consists of five service companies that provide core operating business solutions, including accounting, marketing, legal, professional development and outsourcing. In addition to the above services, we create educational content to help founders turn their vision into reality. Our two flagship pieces of content are a podcast that focuses on integral startup lessons for founders and a book about the rules of fundraising. We also manage a number of startup communities, including the largest entrepreneurship community associated with Columbia University called the Columbia Venture Community. To learn more visit our website and engage with us at interplay.vc/engage.

Total investments
32
Lead investments
2
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
7

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Pepper

    Participated · Series C · Feb 2026

    Pepper is a New York City–based company offering a unified software platform that helps independent food distributors manage ordering, sales and marketing, accounts receivable, and embedded payments in one place. Its AI-driven tools aim to boost distributor revenue, increase workforce productivity, and optimize daily operations. The platform currently powers more than 500 distributors that collectively represent approximately $30 billion in annual gross merchandise volume. Pepper also supports over 100,000 active restaurant and operator customers nationwide. With its all-in-one approach, the company positions itself as critical infrastructure for the independent food distribution ecosystem. Newly raised capital will be directed toward further product innovation and the deepening of its AI capabilities to accelerate adoption across the market.

  • teachme.to

    Led · Seed · Sep 2025

    TeachMe.To operates a platform where learners can discover, book, pay for, and manage local in-person lessons across categories such as pickleball, golf, tennis, music, yoga, soccer, and more. The marketplace hosts roughly 5,000 active instructors and serves over 30,000 students, having facilitated nearly 100,000 lessons to date and hundreds of sessions each day in more than 250 U.S. cities. Its technology stack includes AI-driven personalized lesson plans, swing analysis, automated scheduling, and predictive analytics that enhance both the student and coach experience. These AI tools have also helped the company scale without adding headcount, putting it on a path to profitability ahead of schedule. TeachMe.To reported a 46 percent year-over-year increase in completed lessons during the first half of 2025. Instructors set their own rates, with top earners making thousands of dollars per month through the platform. The fresh capital will be used to accelerate marketplace growth and develop new AI features that further improve learning outcomes and operational efficiency.

  • Plenty

    Participated · Seed · May 2024

    Plenty provides a collaborative financial platform for modern couples to merge money, set shared and private goals, and track cashflow, spending, saving, and investing. The product includes flexible account labeling to show “what's ours” versus “what's mine,” goals‑based planning with personalized portfolios, and shared or private funding options. Its investment offering is a next‑generation robo‑advisor with direct indexing, advanced tax‑loss harvesting, and values‑based customization. The company is led by CEO Emily Luk, CPA, CFA, alongside Channing Allen. Plenty plans to use the new funding to expand operations and continue product development. The company raised $5M in the disclosed round. Plenty is a goals-based wealth-building platform that lets users join as individuals or couples, connect financial accounts, choose which accounts to share with a partner, and plan for joint milestones. It operates as an SEC-registered investment adviser and offers automated forecasting, an AI-powered direct indexing strategy (historically requiring a $500,000 minimum), and a cash-management portfolio backed by money-market funds currently offering a 4.83% APY. The product requires a $100 initial deposit and charges an annual membership fee of $150 for individuals or $200 per couple, with each person receiving their own Plenty account. Co-founders Emily Luk and Channing Allen, who conceived Plenty while at Even, have been using the product since January; the company says it is already generating revenue and has a growing waitlist for early access. Much of the new capital will be used for hiring and product development, and upcoming offerings include treasury bills and other savings products. Plenty positions itself toward median households earning over $90,000 to low $100,000s annually and aims to help 1 million households add $1 million to their retirement.

  • Fuel Me

    Participated · Series A · Mar 2024

    Fuel Me operates a fuel procurement and management platform that uses technology to streamline fuel management, distribution, and purchasing workflows for commercial customers. The company completed over 20,000 fuel deliveries and now serves an expanding roster of Fortune 500 clients, indicating significant operational scale. Co-founded by CEO Carlo Passacantando and COO Boy Schook, Fuel Me combines technology and services to drive operational efficiency, cost savings, and sustainability for clients. The company plans to use new capital to accelerate development of advanced technology while continuing to deliver services to existing customers. Leadership has stated the funding will support rapid market-share expansion as the company targets evolving needs in the U.S. and global energy markets. No revenue figures or prior funding rounds were disclosed in the article.

  • OnsiteIQ

    Participated · Series B · Oct 2023

    OnsiteIQ is a construction intelligence platform that captures 360-degree jobsite imagery and uses AI to deliver progress tracking and risk analytics for commercial real estate investors, developers, and owners. Its network of capture specialists walks projects to capture complete site footage, which is automatically mapped to floor plans to create an objective, centralized record accessible from any device. The platform analyzes visual data to track progress across 18 major milestones, flag patterns of inactivity to predict delays, and generate portfolio-wide trend reports. OnsiteIQ acts as a single source of truth to document projects, monitor progress, and verify payments—particularly valuable in an industry where more than 70% of projects fall behind schedule and delays can cost roughly $2 million per month on a typical development. The company says it currently monitors projects across more than 65 U.S. and Canadian markets, has captured over three billion square feet of footage, and is tracking over 1,600 projects valued at a cumulative $17 billion. It completed a $14 million Series B to fund product improvements, expand its analytics suite, refine payment verification, and deploy an elevated portfolio dashboard. Founded in 2017 by Ardalan Khosrowpour, OnsiteIQ positions itself as an analytics-driven monitoring and risk-management layer for geographically dispersed real estate portfolios. OnSiteIQ is a New York–based provider of a visual documentation and risk assessment platform for construction job sites. Its platform leverages computer vision to automatically map 360-degree walkthrough imagery to building floor plans, enabling clients to inspect progress, quality, and safety. Data collectors capture imagery with a 360-degree camera, upload it to the system, and the platform maps walkthroughs to associated floor plans and provides dozens of 360-degree views along a path. Users can navigate back and forth in time to monitor progress at a single point, document specific items in images, and track annotations. An AI module will make visual content searchable and automatically flag potential hazards and progress milestones. The company raised new funding to scale U.S. operations and sales and to improve its artificial intelligence capabilities for automatic progress reports and risk assessment.

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