• Dyspatch

  Participated · Series A · Nov 2017

  Dyspatch provides a no-code email production platform that lets marketing teams collaboratively build dynamic, AMP-enabled interactive emails. The product focuses on production (it does not send emails) and integrates with email service providers such as Mailchimp, SendGrid, and SparkPost. Customers include major companies such as Canva, and the platform supports AMP for email functionality (Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Mail.ru and others). Use cases cited include embedding shopping carts or live-updating inventory and enabling recipients to complete forms without leaving the message. Dyspatch was founded in 2013 in Canada, rebranded from Sendwithus in 2019, and is a Y Combinator alum. With the new funding, the company plans to build additional ESP integrations such as Oracle and Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

• Teachable

  Participated · Seed · May 2016

  Teachable provides a SaaS platform for experts to create branded online courses, host content, and run an independent teaching business with domain control and tiered pricing. The product supports instructors who want more than marketplace distribution, offering free and paid tiers, transaction fees, subscription plans up to $299/month, and advanced tools like reporting and priority support. The company reports around 10 million students across 125,000 courses and about 12,000 paying customers. Teachable says it is aiming to generate more than $200 million in sales this year and notes rapid growth from $5 million in 2015 to around $90 million in 2017. Management expects the company to be profitable by the end of Q4. Future plans include expanding into adjacent content verticals such as coaching and services to deepen instructor engagement and create more diversified revenue streams. Teachable is a New York-based platform that lets instructors set up their own branded storefronts to sell courses and connect with learners online. Formerly known as Fedora and led by founder and CEO Ankur Nagpal, the company positions itself as an "anti-marketplace"—more like Shopify for course creators—so teachers control pricing, payments and their customer lists. The product supports paid and free courses; Teachable charges subscriptions for software access (from $39 to $299 per month) and takes a $1 fee plus 10% of every sale for courses shared on the platform, while free courses are not charged. Instructors can connect payouts to their own bank account or PayPal. The company has attracted notable customers including Carrie-Anne Moss. Teachable plans to use new funding for hiring, product development, sales and marketing as it grows its team of 18 employees.

• Dil Mil

  Participated · Series A · Apr 2016

  Dil Mil is a dating and matchmaking app designed for South Asian singles seeking long-term relationships. The app enforces a 5-second timer on viewing profile pictures and limits daily profile views, with an option to subscribe for unlimited access. Users can link LinkedIn and Instagram profiles; the company says it has made more than a million matches and averages three marriages a week. Dil Mil soft-launched in India in October 2015 and is currently present in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia. The startup plans to introduce video and virtual reality dates and will use new funding to expand its team and improve its technology infrastructure. Recent fundraising provides the capital to accelerate those product and team goals. Dil Mil is a matchmaking app designed for South Asian singles seeking long-term relationships, offering features such as a 5-second timer on profile photos, limited daily profile views, and a subscription for unlimited access. Users can link LinkedIn and Instagram profiles to their accounts. The app reported a soft launch in the Indian market in October and has since seen double-digit growth; India is now its third-largest market after the US and the UK. Dil Mil claims to have reached a 1 million match benchmark recently and is averaging two marriages per week. The company leverages a reported 20% NRI market share to connect Indians across markets. Operational details and broader monetization beyond subscriptions were not disclosed in the article.

• SchoolMint

  Participated · Series A · Feb 2016

  SchoolMint offers a software-as-a-service platform for digital student enrollment, letting parents register children via desktop or mobile. The product targets kindergartens, pre-schools, elementary schools and high schools around the country. SchoolMint raised $5.6 million in its latest funding round. The round was led by Runa Capital and drew participation from education- and government-focused investors. Other participants named in the article include Reach NewSchools Capital, Fresco Capital, the Govtech Fund, Kapor Capital and institutional investor Crosslink Capital. Maiden Lane Ventures and CSC Upshot also participated; the article notes those are the American and Chinese venture funds affiliated with AngelList. SchoolMint is an online and mobile enrollment platform for K-12 schools that helps manage applications, school choice, registration forms, waitlists, run lotteries, communicate deadlines and send notifications. Launched in 2013 by Jinal Jhaveri and Forum Desai and based in San Francisco, the solution is used by hundreds of public and charter schools across more than 21 cities and 10 states. The platform enrolls hundreds of thousands of K-12 students. In September 2014 SchoolMint raised $2.2M in seed financing led by New School Ventures Fund, Runa Capital and Crosslink Capital, with participation from Kapor Capital, Imagine K12, Romulus Capital, Fresco Capital, EdMentor VC and angels including Jared Kopf. The company intends to use the funds to expand the team, enhance product offerings and increase its presence across the country.

• Super

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2015

  Super offers repair and maintenance coverage for electrical and mechanical systems, appliances and plumbing through a monthly subscription. It operates a marketplace of licensed service businesses and individual contractors who use its platform and are remunerated based on call-outs, which are included in subscribers' plans. The company uses pricing algorithms and app features for issue reporting, call-outs and, in some cases, automated adjudication, and it is investing to enhance the AI that underpins its service and pricing. Super is San Francisco–based and active in Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio and Washington, D.C. It has grown revenue 7x since April 2019 but is not disclosing actual revenue or user numbers. The company plans to use new funding to expand into new markets, hire more staff, add more maintenance and repair services and partnerships, and continue building its home-warranty-by-subscription proposition. Super operates a subscription service that links U.S. homeowners to vetted providers for maintenance and repair work. It offers tiered plans priced at $20, $60 and $90 per month with a $75 copay on repairs today, covering categories such as appliance, home and premium home services and expanded/breakdown coverage. The company primarily sells directly to homeowners but is exploring bundling opportunities with home purchases, insurance and appliance sellers. Founder and CEO Jorey Ramer says the long-term vision is to cover 100% of repair and maintenance so customers pay nothing out of pocket. Super reports it has been growing its business 400 percent each year for the past two years. The startup is using new funding to continue scaling its business across the U.S. Super is a subscription-based service that reinvents the homeownership experience by covering breakdowns in systems and appliances and providing a service concierge to find and schedule vetted providers. The product includes centralized home service records, a maintenance schedule, service discounts, and breakdown coverage. Super uses a data-driven approach that catalogs every maintenance and repair event to provide individualized care and anticipate preventative maintenance. The company launched service in the Maryland/DC area and plans a U.S. rollout in 2016. Super emphasizes flattened costs for repairs and aims to reduce the hidden annual costs homeowners face, which the article cites as roughly $6,822 on average. The company was launched by entrepreneur Jorey Ramer and is available online at HelloSuper.com.

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