We are excited to announce that we’ve co-led $3 million in seed funding in Givz with our friends at Vinyl.
We’re particularly pleased to be partnering with founders Andrew Forman, Jay Henderson, Eric Carlstrom, and their team to build a company that helps consumers give back while also increasing merchants’ top lines.
Givz is enabling the substitution of discounting for charitable giving. Charitable giving at the point of checkout has been proven to increase conversion for merchants while also having the added benefit of improvement in brand equity.
As ecommerce and broader retail become…
by Anthony Ha and Nihal Mehta
Welcome back to Ask a Seed VC, Eniac’s advice column about startup fundraising and investing. Today’s question comes from Caleb Madrigal, co-founder of the Latin American carpooling app Tranzee:
How much money should be required to fully test product/market fit? We have only spent somewhere in the area of $1000 on marketing thus far, and that has been enough to get us a little over a thousand users, and the users we have been getting are using the app and seem interested. However, we are running into the chicken-and-egg problem — we need enough…
by Lacey Wisdom, Tim Wang, and Nihal Mehta
Here at Eniac Ventures, we’re getting ready for the fall to be into one of the busiest periods ever for Series A funding — and that’s after a record-setting first half of the year.
Like any seed investor, we want to see our companies find product-market fit and successfully raise their Series A. In fact, it’s something we’ve been focused on for years.
One of the most reliable tools for converting to an A? A good data room.
If you’re just starting a company, you might only have the vaguest sense what…
by Anthony Ha and Kristin McDonald
Welcome back to Ask a Seed VC, Eniac’s advice column about startup fundraising and investing. Today’s question comes from a founder who requested that they remain anonymous:
My startup has seen some very strong growth recently, having gone from $0/mo -> $50k/mo in revenue in the past 6 months but as we bring a new model (content licensing) to what is still a nascent industry (digital wellness) we often get questions around market sizing.
Although some investors just get it, I have struggled to consistently answer these questions due to a lack of data…
After announcing plans to go public via SPAC earlier this year, it’s official: Our portfolio company Owlet is now trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OWLT.
Owlet is building an ecosystem of connected nursery products, starting with a Smart Sock that allows parents to monitor their baby’s heart rate, oxygen level, sleep patterns, and more. The Smart Sock can be paired with the Owlet Cam to provide a more complete picture of baby’s well-being.
It’s been quite a journey since our initial seed investment in 2014. We don’t want to pat ourselves…
Welcome to the first installment of “Ask a Seed VC,” Eniac’s new advice column all about startup fundraising and investing. We’re going to kick things off with a question from Matthew Perry, founder and chairman at The Traffic Channel:
How can I pitch my start-up to a VC if I do not have a warm introduction? Sending my pitch “blindly” via email is not working. How can I get my idea legitimately heard?
This, of course, is a question that many founders ask when they’re first trying to raise funding, and it can be particularly acute for those from underrepresented…
Eniac Ventures is still growing! We announced three new hires back in May, and we’ve added another two since then. That means there are now a grand total of eleven people on the team (soon to be twelve) — but of course, what really excites us is how impressive our new colleagues are, and how they’re already making Eniac better.
First up is Regan Gore, who’s joining our platform and operations team, where she’s working on everything from administration to HR to finance. …
As we announced in the latest Eniac Ventures newsletter, we’re launching a new feature called “Ask a Seed VC.” It’s a simple idea: We know that the world of early-stage startup funding can feel opaque and confusing, so we wanted to create a little more transparency about how it all works.
Eniac’s partners have already been sharing their tips via platforms like Twitter and Clubhouse, but those conversations can be difficult or impossible to track down afterwards. With Ask a Seed VC, we’re aiming to share knowledge that’s useful right now, but that a future founder could also read and…
At Eniac, we invest in the outliers — the Authentic, the Bold, the Curious, the Scrappy. We model our team after the same philosophy, and now we’re looking to bring on a new team member who also exemplifies our “ABCs.”
Eniac leads seed rounds in technical founders across consumer, enterprise, and deep tech. We make a relatively concentrated number of investments each year into high conviction founders and their companies. Now, after 10 years and launching our fifth fund, we’re looking to expand our team to support our investment process.
Position Overview
We are looking to bring on a new analyst into…
For Alloy, finding product-market fit boiled down to one thing: “Not dying.”
That’s what the startup’s co-founder and chief revenue officer Laura Spiekerman told us at Eniac’s most recent Annual General Meeting, where — in addition to interviewing NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang and Attentive co-founder and CEO Brian Long — we hosted a panel focused on that theme.
Along with Spiekerman (whose startup offers an identity operating system for financial services companies), we were joined by Zubin Bhettay (co-founder and CEO at veterinary telehealth startup Fuzzy Pet Health) and Mike Kijewski (co-founder and CEO at MedCrypt, which brings cybersecurity…
