We invest in companies built for and by people in marginalized communities.
Afynia
Afynia offers a first-of-its-kind microRNA-based blood test for endometriosis.
Aja Labs
Aja Labs combines green chemistry and crop waste to produce biopolymers for hair extensions that mimic the intricacies of human hair and are more nourishing for customers and more sustainable for the planet than the dominant petroleum-derived products.
Alvee Health
Alvee uses AI to identify and act on upstream drivers of health, helping healthcare organizations close care gaps, drive revenue, and scale whole-person care.
Camino Financial
Camino Financial provides fast, affordable loans to Latinx-owned small businesses, which are outpacing the national average for startup and employment growth and account for one-quarter of entrepreneurs in the U.S.
CareAcademy
CareAcademy provides home-care agencies with the training, compliance, and administrative tools they need to support and retain caregivers, most of whom are low-income women of color.
CareCar
CareCar is a marketplace that partners with healthcare organizations to provide high quality, non-emergency medical transportation and other supplemental benefits.
ConnXus
ConnXus (acquired by Coupa) is a global procurement and supply chain management platform that connects corporations with women- and minority-owned small businesses, which are a key driver of the U.S. economy and jobs market.
District Cover
District Cover is a MGA insurance provider for small businesses in underserved neighborhoods.
Driver’s Seat Cooperative
Driver’s Seat Cooperative helps gig drivers track and optimize their hourly earnings while providing cities and development agencies with aggregated data for planning.
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo offers easy to use tools for searching and browsing the internet privately.
Esusu
Esusu partners with property managers to report rental payment data into credit bureaus, enabling tenants to seamlessly increase their credit scores.
Flockjay
Flockjay identifies lower income workers with untapped talent and re-skills them for new, higher-paying, careers in tech sales.
Guardians Collective
Guardians Collective’s messaging platform brings together parenting circles of 3-5 families for mutual support and curated activities, pairing them with an early childhood educator who acts as a guide and resource.
LitLab
LitLab makes foundational reading practice tools that are curriculum-aligned, differentiated, and joyful.
LoanWell
LoanWell’s automated lending and grant technology helps community lenders deploy more capital, more efficiently.
Mayvenn
Mayvenn is a marketplace that increases the income of independent hair stylists by providing them with their own websites and connecting them to new clients.
MindRight
MindRight is a SMS based service that offers free 24/7 socio-emotional coaching and support services to youth by partnering with health and education providers.
MochaCare
A managed service for home care agencies that combines AI systems with human virtual assistants to take on high-friction operational workflows like hiring and scheduling so operators can scale with less burnout and fewer mistakes.
Moneta Health
Moneta is building AI to provide telephone-based rehabilitation therapy for seniors with mild cognitive impairment and early dementia.
Namecoach
Namecoach embeds accurate, context-aware audio name pronunciations into the tools people use everyday at work and at school, improving the employee, student, and customer experience by helping people accurately pronounce names, a core tenet of an individual’s identity.
Nest Health
Nest makes health care radically accessible for families on Medicaid.
Schoolzilla
Schoolzilla (acquired by Renaissance in 2019) unifies data across K-12 classrooms, schools, and districts to make it easier for educators to anticipate student needs and improve their outcomes.
SMBX
The SMBX is a Small Business Bond marketplace that connects local small businesses with community members who want to invest in them while earning principal and interest monthly.
SoLo Funds
SoLo Funds' peer-to-peer platform offers a fair and transparent alternative to payday lending whereby community members can support one another directly.
Sonar
Sonar Mental Health is a mental health platform that helps young people feel seen and supported, offering 24/7 text-based wellbeing support that blends real human connection from trained Wellbeing Coaches with AI tools.
Techstars Impact
Techstars Impact Accelerator backs seed stage companies that are building technologies to solve the world's most pressing social and environmental problems.
Twentyeight Health
Twentyeight Health is a women’s telehealth platform that provides reproductive and sexual healthcare and medication delivery in 43 states.
Upswing
Upswing is a student services platform that helps colleges and universities reach, relate to, and retain non-traditional students, with a particular focus on historically black and hispanic serving institutions.
Voltpost
Voltpost retrofits lamp posts into EV charging stations to serve cities and neighborhoods where dedicated parking is scarce
Winnie
Winnie empowers parents to search for childcare that meets their specific needs, while giving provider businesses (especially small ones and individuals) the tools to run and grow their operations.