Participated · Equity · May 2026

Khloud produces protein-rich popcorn formulations that combine whey protein with olive oil, positioned as portion-controlled, modernly packaged snacks for consumers seeking higher-protein options. The brand targets women through marketing initiatives including college-focused promotions, digital creator campaigns, and sampling events such as distributing over 600 bags at Los Angeles Airport’s “Fuel Your Flight” event. Launched in early 2025 by Khloé Kardashian, Khloud aims to scale retail placement with ambitions to expand into Target, Walmart and Starbucks. The company intends to add new products to its lineup and broaden distribution across the U.S. and internationally using proceeds from the latest raise. Khloud operates amid a rapidly growing protein-products market projected to exceed $50 billion by 2031 and faces increasing competition as large brands introduce protein variants across snacks and treats. Packaging and visual design are emphasized as part of the brand’s positioning to drive repeat purchases and broaden its customer base.

Led · Series B · Sep 2025

Palm Tree Crew operates a diversified holding spanning a consumer brand, global live events, hospitality, and an investment platform. Since January 2024 the company has rapidly expanded its hospitality portfolio, opening four properties in under a year including Palm Tree Beach Club in Las Vegas, Palm Tree Club & Hotel in Miami, Palm Tree Club Kansas City, and Palm Tree Club Orlando. It hosts nearly 10 flagship festivals annually and has expanded its festival footprint with U.S. events in Montecito and Napa and European debuts in Saint-Tropez and Sardinia, underscoring growth as a global cultural platform. Palm Tree Holdings also invests in early-stage consumer and technology companies—recent investments cited include Ryl Tea, Cove Sodas, and SipMARGS—and leverages partnerships with brands such as Amazon, DraftKings, Tequila Don Julio, and Revolve. The company positions itself at the intersection of music, hospitality, lifestyle, and live experiences, with celebrity visibility for its merchandise among figures like Travis Kelce and Morgan Wallen. Palm Tree Crew highlights measurable local economic impact from its events, citing $88.3 million generated for the Aspen economy after its first Aspen festival. Palm Tree Crew operates a global live events and hospitality business, a lifestyle consumer brand, and a multi-stage investment platform, producing flagship experiences such as the Palm Tree Music Festival and bespoke events like Palm Tree Basel and Palm Tree Grand Prix. The company held eight festivals in 2023 across North America and internationally, drawing roughly 100,000 ticketed attendees and showcasing artists including Calvin Harris, Tiesto, Gryffin, Ellie Goulding, Jack White, and Kygo. It partners with consumer and hospitality brands such as Aviator Nation, Blade, Bumble, Celsius, Coach, Diageo, Matsuhisa, Route, Whispering Angel, and Wynn for its events. Palm Tree Crew also produces lifestyle merchandise collections independently and via collaborations with leading sports, culture, and fashion brands. The company said it will use the funding to accelerate growth and expansion of its global live events and hospitality businesses and to diversify into adjacent and synergistic verticals. Palm Tree Crew was founded by Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll (Kygo) and Myles Shear and is led by CEO Michael Diaz; it is based in Miami, FL.

Participated · Series B · Nov 2022

ResortPass operates a marketplace enabling users to buy day passes to more than 900 hotels and resorts, granting access to amenities such as pools, spas and fitness centers. The company also sells SaaS access-management and booking software to hotel partners to help manage day guests and amenity bookings. Since founding in 2016 it says it has matched 1.6 million guests with partner hotels and delivered over $1 million in new booking revenue to many individual properties. The business saw a 100% increase in gross booking volume in 2022 versus 2021 and reports it is not currently profitable. ResortPass currently operates primarily in the U.S. (35 states) with recent expansion into the Caribbean, Mexico and Puerto Rico. With new capital it plans to expand more fully across the U.S. and Caribbean in the short term and into Europe and the Asia-Pacific region longer term, while hiring across sales, marketing, product and operations.

Participated · Series B · Jun 2018

Influential builds social intelligence and activation tools that leverage AI (it is a developer partner with IBM Watson) to help brands and marketers find and activate influencers. Its Talent Pro product gives agencies like WME access to social data on a broader pool of talent, enabling deals that surround A-list celebrities with lookalike influencers. The company also offers a social intelligence product for competitive and audience insights and is working to map paid influencer posts to real-world consumer actions. Influential announced a $12 million Series B that included WME and existing investors Capital Zed, ECA Ventures, Paradigm Talent Agency, ROAR and Tech Coast Angels. With this round the company has now raised a total of $26.5 million. CEO Ryan Detert positions influencer marketing as one tactic within a broader social intelligence and activation offering aimed at both agencies and brands. Influential is a technology platform and social media influencer network powered by the cognitive computing capabilities of IBM Watson. The platform works with more than 7,000 top influencers across Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Vine and YouTube, representing more than 4.4 billion followers. Influencers are activated via a patent-pending app to run brand campaigns and create targeted conversations using age, gender, interests, ethnicity and more than 60,000 data points. The company plans to use the $5M Series A to ramp up hires and allocate resources toward developers, data scientists and data partners. The round was led by Capital Zed and included participation from Roar, Paradigm Talent Agency, Europlay Capital Advisors, MSMCi, Ace Fund and several angel investors. Influential operates from Beverly Hills, New York City and Las Vegas and is led by CEO and Co-Founder Ryan Detert; it has raised $9M to date. Influential operates a mobile-first marketplace that non-exclusively represents roughly 1,000 online influencers and connects them with about 25 brands or agencies. Brands post offers with messaging, legal requirements, and deliverable parameters; Influential selects 20–100 influencers to respond and collects submissions via APIs. The company bills itself as “100 percent brand-safe” because brands directly convey requirements and receive final submissions. Influential enforces a minimum brand spend of $50,000 for engagements and compares its model to competitors that act more like agencies or use different pricing approaches. CEO and cofounder Ryan Detert and cofounder/COO Dan Steele built the platform from Detert’s own influencer background. The new funding will be used for further platform development and sales efforts, and the company is undertaking a new round on FlashFunders.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2016

Within is a Los Angeles and San Francisco-based virtual reality content and technology company co-founded by Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin. It uses custom-built tools and a VR app to create and distribute story-driven VR experiences. The company also operates a production house that produces its VR films as well as VR experiences for corporate and non-profit clients. Within raised $12.56M in Series A funding and intends to use the funds to expand operations and hire new people. The financing supports scaling its production and distribution capabilities while continuing to develop VR storytelling tools and content.