Level Up Ventures
300 W. 57TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10019, United States
Overview
Level Up Ventures is an early stage investor in tech enabled startups lead by Black and Latino founders. We couple financial investment with a deep bench of in-house support to best position startup teams for success by exposing them to the diversity of thought, capabilities and expertise that drives innovation and tests the limits of what’s possible.
- Total investments
- 12
- Lead investments
- 3
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 4
Sector focus
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Greenshoe
Participated · Seed · Nov 2025
Greenshoe delivers the first AI-native platform designed specifically to automate the preparation of U.S. SEC disclosures. Its architecture blends agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), domain-specific benchmarking, and structured reasoning to handle complex document processing and drafting tasks. The system researches each filing, compares language to peer disclosures, and aligns content with evolving SEC expectations before generating suggested text. The product is already commercially available and in use by legal departments and capital-markets professionals. Backed by a $3 million seed round, the company plans to channel new capital into engineering improvements and accelerated go-to-market efforts. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the article.
- Tensor9
Participated · Seed · May 2025
Tensor9 converts a vendor’s code into the format required to deploy directly into a customer’s tech stack and creates a digital twin — a miniaturized model of the deployed infrastructure — to monitor and debug that software remotely. Its platform supports deployment across environments from cloud to bare metal, enabling vendors to sell into enterprises that cannot send sensitive data to third-party SaaS. The company launched in 2024 and was founded by Michael Ten-Pow with co-founders Matthew Michie and Matthew Shanker. Tensor9 found early traction with voice AI companies and is expanding into enterprise search, databases, and data management; customers include 11x, Retell AI, and Dyna AI. The team emphasizes technical differentiation versus competitors like Octopus Deploy and Nuon through its transfer and digital-twin monitoring capabilities. Tensor9 plans to use new funding to hire and build the next generation of its technology to support additional verticals.
- ClearCOGS
Participated · Seed · Apr 2025
ClearCOGS offers an AI-driven predictive analytics platform tailored to restaurant operations, providing forecasts to inform food prep, ordering, and staffing decisions. Its tools aim to reduce food waste, improve operational efficiency, and optimize profitability for foodservice operators. The platform is already used by leading restaurant brands. ClearCOGS is led by CEO Matt Wampler and is headquartered in Chicago, IL. The company raised a $3.8M Seed round to support growth. It plans to use the funding to accelerate product development, expand customer acquisition, and grow its presence in the food service sector.
- SuperScale
Led · Equity · Nov 2024
SuperScale is a game business analytics startup that has packaged its analytics tools into a single product called SuperPlatform. The platform brings together SuperScale’s prior models and tools, including predictive modeling and automated data health monitoring. It consolidates business data from over 40 sources across marketing, product, and finance to give a holistic view of games business performance. SuperPlatform’s ‘Command Center’ lets executives and investors model strategic shifts and execute them across organizations of varying sizes. The company soft‑launched the product in August 2024 and reports 60 studios are already using the platform. SuperScale raised $1.2M to support the launch, funded by a mix of existing and new investors. SuperScale offers a comprehensive SaaS analytics platform that helps game developers and publishers maximize revenue through predictive analytics, monetization, marketing and other services aimed at driving commercial success. Founded in 2015 by CEO Ivan Trancik, the company has worked with major publishers including EA, Fingersoft, and Big Fish Games. SuperScale has grown into a 70-strong team with offices in London, Bratislava and Gdańsk. The company raised $5.4M (EUR €5M) in a Series A funding round. It intends to use the funds to expand its services. The platform serves developers and publishers of all sizes seeking to optimize game monetization and player acquisition.
- Sunthetics
Participated · Seed · Nov 2024
Sunthetics offers a machine-learning platform that helps chemical and pharmaceutical companies accelerate R&D and cut time-to-market and costs. The platform is designed to work with very small datasets — as few as five data points — to create data-driven roadmaps for scientists. It guides experimentation and identifies viable product pathways to achieve faster, more efficient outcomes. Sunthetics plans to use newly raised capital to expand its team and enhance its ML platform. The company was founded by Daniela Blanco and is based in San Marcos, Texas. The product is positioned to shorten development cycles for partners in pharmaceuticals and chemicals.