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Rainfall Ventures

200 Park Avenue South Suite 1615, New York, NY, 10003, United States

Overview

Rainfall is an early-stage investor founded in 2011 and committed to partnering with world-class founders to help them change industries. Rainfall invests globally and follows a generalist strategy, pursuing opportunities across sectors with an emphasis on FinTech, No-Code, SaaS, Dev Tools, Gaming, and Digital Health with additional investments in Web3 and AI.

Total investments
37
Lead investments
5
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
2

Sector focus

  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Stendr

    Led · Seed · Apr 2026

    Stendr is building a vertically integrated technology stack that combines hardware and software with artificial intelligence at its core, headquartered in Oslo. Its initial focus is drone defence, leveraging AI-driven multi-sensor systems embedded in cost-efficient hardware platforms for detection, tracking and situational awareness. The founding team has experience in scaling technology companies and delivering complex engineering projects across AI and hardware. The company recently raised $5.4 million in a pre-seed round to fund product development and deployment efforts. Stendr intends to expand its engineering and hardware capabilities and accelerate deployment of its platform to support sovereign defence capabilities in Europe.

  • Lexington Bakes

    Led · Seed · Aug 2025

    Lexington Bakes produces chilled oat bars formulated with sprouted oats, maple syrup, brown butter, dates, vanilla and salt. The company launched two flavors — maple brown butter and raspberry crumble — and says the sprouted oats are easier to digest, contain no refined sugar, and have 50% less sugar than its indulgent treats. Its chilled oat bars have been distributed through San Francisco-based online grocer Good Eggs for the past two months. Lexington is focused on growing its direct-to-consumer business and has hired part-time staff and agency support to scale. The startup recently raised funding intended to support a transition from self-manufacturing to co-manufacturing.

  • Curri

    Participated · Series B · Jun 2023

    Curri operates a platform that provides last-mile logistics for construction and industrial supplies, using a nationwide elastic fleet of cars, trucks and flatbeds. Founded in 2018 by Matt Lafferty and Brian Gonzalez, the company matches customers with drivers to deliver loads ranging from heavy machinery to pipes, pallets, appliances and water heaters. Customers arrange orders in the Curri app; drivers pick up, verify and deliver shipments while the platform provides live updates, proof-of-delivery signatures and photos. Curri recently launched an API that lets companies book vehicles from their tooling of choice and plan routes to reduce unnecessary miles. The company says it has a 110-person workforce, serves customers including Sherwin-Williams, Johnstone Supply and United Rentals, and has grown revenue over the last year with a line of sight to profitability. Curri is prioritizing an ambitious product roadmap and using external capital to expand product development, infrastructure and sales and marketing. Curri operates a delivery platform for construction materials, leveraging its own network of contractors and a variety of vehicle types (car, truck, flatbed, box truck). The company is Los Angeles-based. Curri raised $6M in a funding round announced in April 2021. The round was led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and also included Rainfall Ventures and Initialized Capital. The article does not disclose the instrument(s) or additional financial terms. No other operating metrics or past financings are provided in the article.

  • Unito

    Participated · Series B · Oct 2022

    Unito provides a workflow automation platform and two-way integrations that let information flow between SaaS apps, including Trello, Jira, Asana, GitHub, and Google Sheets. The company’s connectors currently support tools such as Asana, Excel, Github, Google Sheets, Hubspot, Jira, Salesforce, Trello, Wirke, and Zendesk. Customers named in the article include Atlassian, Corpay, Teamwork, the Cincinnati Reds, Trello, and Wrike. Led by CEO Marc Boscher, Unito was created to enable workflows that cross the boundaries of tools, teams, and organizations. The company intends to use the new funding to solidify market traction, expand its connectors across the suite of digital productivity solutions, and grow operations. The article reports that Unito raised $20M in funding. Unito builds software that connects major workplace productivity tools and automatically translates actions and updates across apps. Its product integrates with Jira, Asana, Trello, GitHub, Basecamp, Wrike, ZenDesk, Bitbucket, GitLab and HubSpot to sync updates, comments and due dates. The company aims to let teams keep their favorite tools while preventing data and process silos. Unito faces the challenge of convincing startups paying for many subscription tools that they need another layer to make those tools work together. The company is led by CEO Marc Boscher and recently closed a $10.5 million Series A. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round and said the product's ability to let teams choose tools attracted the firm.

  • Unstoppable Domains

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2022

    Unstoppable Domains operates a blockchain naming system and identity platform that lets users create usernames for crypto and build decentralized digital identities. It mints each domain as an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain and offers TLDs such as .crypto, .coin, .bitcoin, .x, .888, .nft and .dao. Since launching the platform in 2019 the company has helped register over 2.5 million domains and has generated more than $80 million in sales. Domains are sold for as little as $5 and the platform integrates with over 300 applications, including OpenSea, Coinbase Wallet, Rainbow, Chainlink, Brave and ETHMail. More than 150 dApps support its Login with Unstoppable single sign-on for Ethereum and Polygon, addressing wallet-address usability issues. CEO Matthew Gould said the company aims to onboard billions of people onto Web3 through NFT domains that unlock user-owned, private, and portable identities. Unstoppable Domains builds domain names on blockchains and sells its own extensions directly to consumers. The company recently launched its first extension, .zil, with pre-orders open and a public auction beginning June 20th. Blockchain domains replace crypto addresses with human‑readable names and enable uncensorable websites by storing domains in users’ wallets and content on IPFS or other decentralized storage. Unstoppable Domains removed renewal fees for blockchain domain purchases and sells domains at unstoppabledomains.com. The company announced a $4 million Series A led by Draper Associates and previously raised a $730,000 seed in December 2018 from Boost VC; it has also received grants from the Ethereum Foundation and the Zilliqa Foundation. The firm plans to use the funds to expand its product team, build integrations with more wallets and exchanges, and hire sales and marketing talent.

Team

  • Ron Rofe

    Founder & General Partner

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  • Matthew Fagan

    General Counsel & Principal

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