• Bumo

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2025

  Bumo operates a tech-driven, on-demand child care marketplace offering instant booking for vetted and licensed providers, camps, enrichment, and educational programs. Founded in 2019 by Joan Nguyen and Chriselle Lim, the company evolved from a physical co-working space to a virtual learning product (BumoBrain) during the pandemic and fully launched its marketplace in 2024. The platform emphasizes ease of use (users are three button clicks away from booking), removes subscription fees, and lists over 17,000 searchable child care programs serving children aged 0–17. Bumo currently operates in almost 200 cities from Orange County and Los Angeles through the Bay Area and has facilitated nearly half a million hours of booked child care. The company partners with national organizations such as Learning Care Group, Boys & Girls Club of Metro Los Angeles, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern Munich, and Drawn2Art to broaden program offerings. Management says the business is experiencing accelerated growth with an anticipated 15x increase within 2025 and plans to use new capital to expand into additional cities, grow its team, and enhance the platform.

• Toothio

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2024

  Toothio is a digital staffing marketplace that connects private dental practices and Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) with credentialed dental hygienists, assistants, and receptionists via a proprietary matching algorithm. It maintains a vetted pool of over 30,000 dental professionals and reports a 97% fill rate for open shifts. The platform added more than 15,000 professionals in 2024 and has driven 300% year-over-year growth since founding. Toothio’s product focuses on on-demand shift matching to streamline operations and maintain patient care quality while offering dental professionals flexible work. The company announced expansion into eight additional U.S. markets—Chicago, Los Angeles, San Jose, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore, Charlotte, and Orlando—to unlock access to thousands of practices and professionals. Founded in 2021, Toothio positions itself as a class-leading labor option for the dental industry. Toothio operates an on-demand staffing platform that gives dental practices quick access to hygienists and assistants to boost office production and patient support. Led by CEO Ian Prendergast, the company has facilitated thousands of completed shifts and expanded into Phoenix, Denver, Dallas, and Austin since founding in 2021. Toothio plans to enter three additional U.S. markets by the end of 2023 to increase access for practices, professionals, and DSOs. The company intends to use new capital to enhance its technology, grow its network of dental professionals, expand into key U.S. markets, and scale its sales team. To advance commercialization and scaling, Toothio appointed Keith Clements as Chief Commercial Officer to lead commercial expansion. The business model centers on alleviating staffing challenges for dentists through on-demand staffing solutions.

• teachme.to

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2024

  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.

• Morty

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2023

  Morty builds a community‑driven discovery and review platform that helps users find and book escape rooms and haunted attractions. The company markets itself as a social copilot for friends looking for unique interactive IRL experiences. Its recommendations are powered by enthusiast communities; Morty’s escape room community is the dominant review and tracking app in that vertical. Morty drives over $500,000 in escape room bookings each month, and users have logged over 400,000 escape rooms with more than 300,000 ratings and reviews. The company recently launched a haunted‑attraction community and maintains a database of roughly 4,000 haunted attractions. Planned future verticals include immersive art/theatre, experiential food and beverage, conventions, arcades/barcades/pinball, murder mystery events, and experiential museums. The product focus is on enabling authentic, interactive real‑world experiences rather than passive consumption.

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