• Silvernest

  Participated · Seed · Jun 2017

  Silvernest is a Denver, CO-based online roommate-matching platform that uses a proprietary algorithm to match boomer homeowners with housemates for long-term home sharing. The platform offers a comprehensive tool set including identity verification, background checks, lease creation, automated payments, mediation and legal support. Launched in late 2015 and led by CEO Wendi Burkhardt, the company has expanded to all 50 states. To date it has made nearly 40,000 qualified matches. Silvernest raised $3M in a Series A led by Incenter, bringing total funding to date to $4.45M. The company intends to use the new funds to expand its user base, acquire new talent and build out its digital platform with new features and functionality. Silvernest is a Denver, CO-based online platform that matches boomers, retirees, empty nesters and other aging adults with compatible long-term housemates. The service pairs homeowners and housemates using behavioral profiles and demographic preferences and supports full background checks, secure in-platform communication, state-specific leases, and rent processing. Silvernest says users can earn an average of $10,000 a year and remain in their homes longer. Launched in late 2015 and led by CEO Wendi Burkhardt, the company has expanded to all 50 states and reached nearly 20,000 registered users with 16,000 matches. The company has added product and advisory talent—hiring Ben Beierwaltes as VP of product development and adding Eddie Thomas to its advisory board. Silvernest intends to use the new funding to scale the business and invest in product advancements.

• iSideWith

  Participated · Seed · Apr 2013

  ElectNext builds embeddable political-data widgets and profiles that give news readers contextual information about politicians. The product consolidates disparate political datasets—campaign finance records, legislation, roll call votes, press releases and speeches—and packages them into data-driven content for publications to embed. ElectNext pulls data from sources such as The Sunlight Foundation, GovTrack, Follow The Money and open-data friendly cities, and works with partner cities (including Philadelphia) to convert offline files into accessible formats. Founder and CEO Keya Dannenbaum, who has worked on 18 political campaigns including Hillary Clinton’s, frames the company as a “CrunchBase for politics.” Embedded profiles began appearing on PBS NewsHour, The Philadelphia Inquirer, NBC Politics and other launch partners; the six launch partners represent 15M monthly unique visitors. The company is accepting submissions for more publication partners and has attracted interest from figures including former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. ElectNext offers a free, refined online survey that helps users discover where they stand on the political spectrum and which candidates best match their views. The platform asks users to rank the issues that matter most, indicate how strongly they agree or disagree with statements, and browse comments and discussion threads for context. The founders built a political database and algorithm to power candidate matches, and roughly 2 million people across all 50 states have taken the survey. Users register by signing in with Facebook or Twitter; the site notes it does not post political views to users' feeds. The founders cite declining youth turnout and aim to increase access to information and stimulate civic engagement. Onstage reviewers at DEMO praised the product and suggested mobile features and inter-election issue updates as potential improvements.

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