Harvard Business School Alumni Angels New York
PORTFOLIO
Portfolio Highlights: 12 of our most recent investments have subsequently raised additional financing at an average increase in valuation of 2.7x.
INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO:
Luxtech is one of a new breed of manufacturing companies that are part of the Philadelphia Navy Yard innovative technology program. HBSAANY members invested in April 2014 and the company has since completed a Series A financing.
advisorCONNECT is an enterprise Marketing as a Service platform for financial advisory firms. HBSAANY members invested in September 2014 and then again in a subsequent round in September 2015.
Bookalokal is a booking platform for private dining experiences. Following HBSAANY investment and a successful launch in Brussels and Washington DC, Bookalokal completed a Seed round of funding in January 2015 to expand its presence to Boston, New York City, and beyond.
Culinary Agents is a job matching and career development tool for the food, beverage and hospitality industry. HBSAANY invested in December 2013 and more recently, Culinary Agents completed a successful Series A led by METRO GROUP.
Streetshares is a small-business funding platform aimed at veteran owned businesses. StreetShares unique affinity-lending technology reduces the risk of lending and borrowing members get fast, affordable loans and get in front of backers who can support their businesses.
Cups! is the “Starbucks App” for independent coffee shops, with over 150 of the best shops in NYC now in the network. HBSA led the first outside financing round, and Cups! subsequently raised a series seed round.
Enerknol provides U.S. energy policy research and data services to support investment decisions across all sectors of the energy industry. HBSAANY members invested in November 2014 and the company has since raised another round of funding.
Plated, a meal-kit startup based in New York, delivers recipes and pre-measured ingredients so that customers can cook their own meals in 30 minutes or less. HBSAANY members invested in January 2014. Since then, Plated has continued to expand and recently completed a Series B financing totaling $35M led by existing investors Greycroft Partners and Formation 8.
Kindara builds products that give women the tools, knowledge, and support to understand how their fertility works, take ownership of their reproductive health, and meet their fertility goals. Growing substantially since our investment in 2012, Kindara has raised an additional $5.3M in funding led by Boston Seed Capital.
Manicube delivers manicures direct to your office! HBSAANY members invested in Manicube’s seed round in August 2013. Manicube subsequently completed a $5 million Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures to expand from New York and Boston into San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago.
SeamlessDocs turns PDFs into smart, online documents that enable companies to automate use-processes. HBSAANY is not only an investor since July 2013, but also a satisfied user of the product! SeamlessDocs is now streamlining municipal government forms, providing a simple and intuitive UI through which to submit forms and applications. SeamlessDocs completed a Series A financing in 2015 with a significant increase in valuation.
After HBSAANY invested in a $1.6M Seed round in March 2013, Locality, which provides local marketplace data including pricing, hours and reviews, raised another $4.3M led by Matrix Partners, Cowboy Ventures and ff Venture Capital.
The National Restaurant Association named Dagda Technologies a 2015 Winner of the Kitchen Innovation Awards, which honor foodservice equipment products that best solve today’s culinary problems. Their flagship product, the FryerGate, protects workers from severe deep-fryer burns using a spring-loaded barrier against dropped objects. HBSAANY invested in November 2013, and participated in the seed-extension round in 2014.
Manicube is a new service that delivers manicures to your Manhattan office.
Plated, a meal-kit startup based in New York, delivers recipes and pre-measured ingredients so that customers can cook their own meals in 30 minutes or less.
Locality is an information platform providing a local marketplace that compares prices, hours and reviews on local services in the U.S.
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