GainGels is a venture capital firm that invests in startups and early-stage companies with LGBTQ+ founders and allies. The firm aims to support diversity and inclusion within the business world while seeking to generate competitive returns for its investors.

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Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of and representing the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space. Gaingels also supports its companies with a diverse talent and capital pipeline and provides an internal diverse board member recruitment advisory to help bring more diversity and representation within private boards. Gaingels invests in companies with diverse/LGBTQIA+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in other  high-growth companies resolved on building more inclusive teams. Gaingels is an ardent supporter the Diversity Term Sheet Rider Initiative to increase access to venture funding events for non-traditional check writers, and regularly co-invests with select VC leads across a variety of sectors, from technology, to B2B, healthcare and consumer, in competitive and over-subscribed rounds from Seed to Growth/pre-IPO. For more information visit www.gaingels.com.  

Outlogic

YayPay

ZenSports

Kit.com

Legalpad

MoviePass

Banyan

ATAI Life Sciences

Teckst

BlockFi

Candy Digital

Citus Health

Augmedix

Katapult

Frank Financial Aid

Freebird

Included Health (acquired by Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand)

Senti Biosciences

Nines

Osmosis

Phosphorus

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📢 Gaingels' Job of the Week📢

10,816+ jobs at the Gaingels Jobs Board. Featuring this week...

- 11+ Engineering jobs at Anduin Transactions

- 27+ Sales jobs at Stripe

- 6+ Marketing jobs Rubrik⚡

Find out more below at: jobs.gaingels.com

🔵Board Placement Alert🔵

We are excited to announce that Heidi Jackson Everett has joined the board of CreatorUp, led by Michael Tringe through the Gaingels Board Diversity Program.

CreatorUp offers a one-click, on-demand marketplace for diverse video production, serving major brands and organisations globally, including USC, Google, Twitter, and the Special Olympics.

Thank you to our placement partner Black Corporate Board Readiness, and welcome, Heidi.

#boarddiversity #venturecapital

We have some big news! Today we're announcing our new direction: Sealed Pro is a software platform empowering contractors to sell more energy-saving projects, allowing us to have a bigger impact on decarbonizing homes.

Earlier this month I spoke with Todd Woody at Bloomberg to discuss our pivot, and how Sealed is accelerating our mission to stop energy waste at home.  As you will see in the article, we’ve now put contractors at the forefront of our business. https://lnkd.in/eBPSdcx8

Nico Arguelles [one of our first customers] says that Sealed invested considerable time in learning how contractors do business. “I would say not only that Sealed Pro has allowed us to increase our customer base, but it's also allowed us as a business to scale quicker because we're able to incentivize people to purchase the higher priced equipment,” he says. Prior to Sealed Pro, one of Pacific Aire’s employees’ sole job was to handle rebate paperwork.

If you want to read more about our pivot to Sealed Pro, check out our essay, “Same Mission, New Approach to Home Decarbonization” that we published here: https://lnkd.in/e4Q3p7zP 

We are thrilled to announce that ValidMind has raised $8.1 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round, led by Point72 Ventures, with participation from Third Prime, New York Life Ventures, AI Fund, Notion Capital, FJ Labs, Angel Invest, and Gaingels. Details: https://lnkd.in/g-HbrTS9

With their support, we advance our go-to-market plans and establish ourselves as a long-term partner to our customers in financial services. We’re here to modernize model risk management. 

Our investors agree that the ValidMind #AiRiskManagement platform is the most efficient solution for organizations to automate testing, documentation, and model risk governance for AI and statistical models. 

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We are very excited to welcome Brett Adcock back to the Gaingels family with his new company Figure AI joining the portfolio! We are grateful to be investing in Brett's new company after supporting Archer, which focused on building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

I look forward to seeing the incredible advancements in the humanoid space with Figure's new funding round :) 

Find out more at Gaingels.com/join to learn about our amazing investing community! 

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