We invest in companies built for and by people in marginalized communities.

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.

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 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 is a marketplace that partners with healthcare organizations to provide high quality, non-emergency medical transportation and other supplemental benefits.

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.

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 offers easy to use tools for searching and browsing the internet privately.

Esusu partners with property managers to report rental payment data into credit bureaus, enabling tenants to seamlessly increase their credit scores.

Flockjay identifies lower income workers with untapped talent and re-skills them for new, higher-paying, careers in tech sales.

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.

LoanWell’s automated lending and grant technology helps community lenders deploy more capital, more efficiently.

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 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.

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.

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.

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' peer-to-peer platform offers a fair and transparent alternative to payday lending whereby community members can support one another directly.

Techstars Impact Accelerator backs seed stage companies that are building technologies to solve the world's most pressing social and environmental problems.

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.

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.