OpenSky Ventures
214 W 29th St Fl 2, New York City, New York, 10001, United States
Overview
OpenSky Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in category-disrupting companies in commerce. The firm focuses on partnering with founders at the earliest stages and has experience investing personal capital across dozens of startups. OpenSky Ventures provides support in fundraising, using a network of angels, family offices, and funds. It helps portfolio companies with operations, drawing on prior experience scaling businesses from early revenue to larger scale. The firm also advises on people, culture, and strategic decisions for its portfolio. Its portfolio includes software, commerce tools, consumer brands, and digital platforms.
- Total investments
- 5
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Business Development
- Consulting
- Consumer
- Digital Media
- E-Commerce
- Finance
- Software
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- dimensionOS
Participated · Seed · Aug 2026
dimensionOS is developing Seller OS, a platform intended to manage TikTok Shop operations including creator management, advertising, customer support, analytics, and order workflows. The company positions itself at the intersection of social commerce and operational software, aiming to codify channel-specific operating knowledge into reliable systems for agencies and merchants. Its approach emphasizes converting messy operational processes into standardized software workflows. dimensionOS completed a $1.65 million strategic seed round with participation from several investors, which provides early-stage capital and strategic support. The company’s public statements highlight a focus on becoming foundational commerce infrastructure for emerging social commerce channels.
- Feel Goods
Participated · Seed · Aug 2025
Feel Goods is a direct-to-consumer supplements brand that sells drink-mix remedies targeting gut health, immunity and hydration. The company launched in early 2021 and has built a large social following—nearly 200,000 followers and 5 million TikTok likes—helping drive awareness and revenue. It has shipped over 4 million servings in the past three years, with most orders coming from subscriptions, and co-founder Brian Wong says revenue is in the “eight-figure” range while the business is growing profitably. The founders reduced paid advertising and shifted to in-house content creation, leaning on TikTok as a primary growth channel. With fresh capital, Feel Goods plans to expand beyond powder mixes into new formats (light liquids or gummies) next year and to begin a physical retail rollout in early 2026.
- Levanta
Participated · Equity · Dec 2023
Levanta operates a marketplace-style affiliate marketing platform that enables Amazon sellers to form performance-based partnerships with creators and publishers. The platform claims thousands of vetted creators and is projected to generate $286 million in annualized gross merchandise value based on recent 30-day performance. Levanta supports five major Amazon markets — U.S., U.K., Canada, France and Germany — and plans launches in Spain and Italy in early 2025. The company was launched in 2023 and is positioned to help brands scale through creator-driven commerce, particularly around peak sales events like Amazon Prime Day. Levanta intends to use new capital to expand its business development team and invest in product development to enhance user experience and platform functionality. Trusted customers named in the article include HexClad, Kitsch, MaryRuth, Caraway and MANSCAPED. Levanta operates a marketplace that connects influencers and Amazon sellers for affiliate partnerships, enabling sellers to create affiliate programs, recruit creators, generate revenue reports, and make commission payments. Launched in March and founded last year, the Seattle-based startup's marketplace includes nearly 2,000 creators and more than 500 brands. The eight-person company surpassed $1 million in annual recurring revenue this fall and is profitable. Levanta is led by co-founders and University of Washington grads Ian Brodie (CEO), Rob Schab (CMO), and Spencer McKenney (CTO). The founders previously led Grovia.io, which grew to 26 employees and exited to a larger affiliate services company last year. The announced funding is intended to help Amazon sellers ink affiliate partnerships with creators and influencers via Levanta's marketplace.
- Siena AI
Participated · Seed · Nov 2023
Siena builds an "empathic AI" customer service platform designed to understand context, respond with empathy, and solve complex problems across email, text, social DMs, and comments. The company says its AI autonomously handles up to 80% of customer interactions in over 100 languages with a 99.7% alignment score and a 4.81 Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) score. Siena reports it already resolves 80% of conversations and matches or exceeds some customers’ top human agents. Customer-impact metrics cited include $46,340 in incremental revenue for Kitsch over 90 days, 79% ticket automation for Simple Modern, and 60% and 45% drops in first response and resolution time for Everyday Dose. Siena targets mid-market to enterprise e-commerce brands to convert shoppers and automate support at scale. The company plans to launch Siena AI Academy, a learning hub with courses on building AI agents, emotional intelligence in AI, and CX metrics.
- Daash Intelligence
Participated · Seed · Oct 2023
Daash Intelligence is an AI-powered predictive commerce intelligence platform that provides weekly retailer-specific updates for beauty and personal care brands across categories including color cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, haircare and personal care. Its proprietary AI combines multiple data sources to generate weekly sales and velocity estimates and highlight shifts in market share, products and SKUs so brands can identify emerging trends and competitive white space. Clients include Amika, Glow Recipe, Ilia and Tatcha, and the company says it has more than doubled its client roster since its initial funding round just over a year ago. Daash will use the new funding to rapidly scale its engineering and go-to-market teams and accelerate product development to meet strong demand for timely, actionable insights. Financially, the company announced a $5.5 million second seed round, bringing total funding to date to $8.25 million. The company is based in San Francisco. Daash Intelligence is a Miami-based provider of a predictive intelligence platform for retail markets. Its proprietary technology delivers market-dynamics insights that enable brands to identify which competitors are gaining or losing market share and to understand the factors driving those trends. Brands use the platform to inform new product development, fine-tune marketing strategies, and optimize channel sales efforts. The company raised USD2.75M in Seed funding. It intends to use the funds to continue improving the accuracy of its predictive intelligence platform and to scale go-to-market efforts across multiple CPG categories. The company is led by CEO Philip Smolin.
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