Venture for America
1420 Washington Blvd Suite 301, Detroit, Michigan, 48226, United States
Overview
Venture for America is an organization that prepares college graduates for careers in the startup community. Their mission is to revitalize American cities and communities through entrepreneurship, to enable their best and brightest to create new opportunities for themselves and others, and to restore the culture of achievement to include value-creation, risk and reward, and the common good.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Financial Services
- Non Profit
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Sendspark
Participated · Seed · Oct 2019
Sendspark provides a video outreach platform that enables businesses to record personalized videos from their browser and send them to buyers over email. Users can customize video landing pages and share videos via email or a public URL. The company was founded in January 2019 by Brandon Escalante and Bethany Stachenfeld and is based in San Antonio, Texas. It has 120 users, including Mailgun, Chargify, Keen.io, and Jungle Disk. Sendspark closed a $300K pre-seed funding round led by Active Capital with participation from Venture for America. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach.
- Balto
Participated · Equity · Oct 2018
Balto Software builds artificial-intelligence software that analyzes sales and call-center representatives' conversations in real time to help them avoid mistakes and close more sales. The product delivers live guidance to agents during customer interactions. The company was founded in 2017 by entrepreneurs with experience at TopOpps. Balto currently employs 13 people. After raising $1.2 million in capital, the firm is aggressively hiring for sales and engineering roles. The funding supports growth and go-to-market expansion while the company continues to develop its real-time coaching technology.