2021 - One AngelList Deal Per Week!
Happy New Year! I just reviewed my 2021 AngelList deals. Between my syndicate, DVC, and the Rob Ness (Asymmetry Ventures) syndicate, I wrote 60 deal memos this year. Collectively these deals raised over $11M.
I'd like to thank all of these incredible startups for allowing me the opportunity to support them in their fundraising:
Proptech:
Acoutera (home renovation)
Green Canopy Node (fast green home construction)
Invown (fractional real estate investment marketplace)
Globe (WeWork for hotel rooms)
Kredi (Rocket Mortgage for LATAM)
FarmTogether (farmland investing marketplace)
Stownest (Indian self-storage network)
Deep Sentinel (automated home security monitoring)
Fintech:
CapConnect (corporate bond offering marketplace)
Paymob (turn any phone into a Point-of-Sale service for merchants)
Mono (B2B neo-bank for LATAM)
Klasha (borderless payments for African e-commerce)
Plentina (offline Buy Now Pay Later for Southeast Asia)
Fonbnk (converts mobile airtime to crypto in Africa)
Swan Bitcoin (easy recurring BTC investing app)
Volopay (corporate credit cards for Southeast Asia)
Health / Medical:
Gradient Health (Scale.AI for medical diagnostics - data aggregation and labeling)
Tuli Health (turns pharmacies into testing clinics)
Clear Gene (fast lab-grade COVID testing - replacing PCR with an order of magnitude faster procedure)
Caire Health (ML-powered brain bleed diagnostics)
Cytoreason (cell-level models for drug discovery)
Genomelink (app store for your genome data)
Inhalon Bio (Inhaled antibiotics for acute respiratory infections)
Oncoxome (using exosomes to target CRISPR for killing cancer cells)
Pirouette Medical (literally reinventing the needle, starting by disrupting the Epipen)
Promakhos (curing inflammatory diseases using the innate immune system)
SFA Therapeutics (cures for autoimmune disorders)
Supply Chain:
Boundary Layer Technologies (fast hydrogen-powered hydroplane cargo ships)
Corvus Robotics (drones for warehouse inventory management)
Drop Party (backend management of D2C brand merchandise drops)
Flux Auto (self driving trucks and forklifts for businesses)
Tortoise (robotic carts delivering groceries on sidewalks)
FENIX (MENA-based scooter subscription, rideshare, and fast last mile delivery service)
Sendbox (e-commerce last mile delivery in Nigeria)
Trained Eye (autonomous freight trains)
ODWEN (marketplace for Indian businesses and warehouse spaces)
Pipedream Labs (E-commerce delivery in minutes via robots in tubes underground)
Suplias (B2B food distribution in Nigeria)
B2B SaaS:
Eva (automated repricing and logistics for e-commerce marketplace sellers)
Cashbook (mobile accounting for Indian SMBs)
Sound Credit (tracking music rights from recording session to final distribution)
Gaming:
Arcadia Games (mixed reality sports aka people running around with VR headsets on)
Overplay (turn any video into a casual mobile game)
Players' Lounge (bet on your own video game matches)
Lootlocker (Shopify for indie game developers)
Yodo1 (B2B services for mobile games to maximize revenue)
Adtech:
Kahoona (implicit 1st party demographic data using machine learning)
Miles (frequent flier miles for everything)
Energy:
Ecolectro (new electrolyzer for cost competitive green hydrogen production)
HQV ("torquoise" hydrogen production with useful solid carbon byproducts)
Quaise Energy (drilling to geothermal energy miles underground using mm-wave energy)
Electronics/Hardware:
Leia (glasses-free 3D for phones/tablets/cars)
Quantum Designed Materials (room-temperature superconductors)
ESG:
Orbillion Bio (platform for developing lab grown meat)
BERKM (new bottles with less plastic)
Heimdal (trapping CO2 in concrete and glass)
HILOS (B2B - recyclable shoes for the circular economy)
unspun (the perfect fitting 3D-printed jeans from a cell phone scan)
iMicrobes (programmable microbes that eat methane and make useful stuff)
Rito (distributed autonomous cloud kitchens aka robotic hot food vending machines)