Seed Fund 5 Newsletter — Q1 2022

Content at the intersection of entrepreneurship, venture capital, and our Seed Fund community.

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IN THIS ISSUE: Highlighting the newest investments to the Seed Fund 5 portfolio and recent news about portfolio companies.

New Investments

Since we raised Seed Fund 5, we’ve added several companies to the portfolio. The most recent investments are highlighted below.

  • Applied XL, an AI company monitoring massive databases and providing industry-specific updates in real time using digital sensors and their AXL intelligence platform
  • Colu, a mobile digital wallet app incentivizing local residents to take small actions to make city living more economically, environmentally, and socially responsible
  • Stark, an integrated and intelligent SaaS software compliance tool built for mid-market and enterprise companies

To Be Announced

These investments are still not public at this time.

  • A platform measuring 1000+ biomarkers to deliver personalized, evidence-based mental health care
  • Mobile financial platform offering no-cost banking to everyone, with features like free debit accounts, VISA debit cards, free ATM access, and more
  • B2B SaaS platform providing real-time visibility into key operational metrics, collaboration, and workflow automation across the e-commerce ecosystem
  • Entertainment platform combining real-life actors and AI to create virtual characters that can be deployed on social media to promote projects and pull audiences
  • Gaming company that allows users to earn tokens simply for logging hours on the games they already love playing
  • A platform that empowers music venues to provide a better customer experience, improve marketing efforts, and create new revenue streams
  • Marketplace for voluntary carbon offsets that allows high-quality carbon projects to access financing before certification
  • Company bringing the real-time payments network to the subscription economy by eliminating bounced payments and reducing chargebacks
  • Intelligent, HIPAA-compliant “front desk” platform automating the entire intake process with omnichannel capabilities across webchat, text, messaging, etc.

We look forward to sharing more information as companies publicly announce their funding rounds.

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