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Popcall is a platform that allows users to communicate with creators via text, voice, or video messages. It turns social media interactions into paid text threads, offering instant access to creators for real-time communication.

Airpals is an AI-powered shipping platform that offers multi-carrier shipping solutions, same-day courier services, and parcel management software for businesses. It aims to streamline logistics and automate shipping processes for corporate and industrial clients.

The #1 wealth-building banking platform for creators by creators, providing financial tools tailored to the needs of content creators.

Gildform is an on-demand design-to-production platform that helps creators, brands, and CAD designers bring their ideas to life. It offers tools for designing, prototyping, and manufacturing custom products like jewelry, fashion hardware, home décor, and collectibles, powered by AI.

Omega 3 Nutrition offers delicious plant-based products rich in omega-3 fatty acids, promoting brain health and mental wellness.

Fanfare is a platform that transforms product launches into immersive experiences, focusing on hype-driven, bot-free events that enhance customer engagement and loyalty.

Noise is a user-generated content (UGC) creator platform that helps brands achieve explosive growth by leveraging an army of pay-as-you-go UGC creators.

Rivet develops mobile, connected toolsets for frontline professionals in defense and industrial sectors, focusing on integrated task systems that enhance operational capabilities.

Kribi Coffee specializes in small batch custom roasted coffee, focusing on air roasting techniques to produce smooth and naturally sweet coffee. They emphasize sourcing from smallholder farmers in Cameroon to ensure quality and fair practices.

Hanahana Beauty offers skincare products that promote healthy, glowing skin, with a focus on inclusivity and addressing the needs of diverse skin tones.

Talawa.ai provides AI-powered branding solutions, enabling businesses to create and enhance their brand identity through personalized AI agents and daily actionable insights.

Founded by Arlan Hamilton while homeless with no finance or tech background, Backstage Capital requires at least one founder to be a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ. The fund treats capital allocation as activism and argues that 'underestimated' founders are systematically mispriced assets that create alpha rather than requiring concessionary returns.

Bridges historically overlooked, untapped founders to resources and pathways that democratize entrepreneurship and advance sustainable equity and economic inclusion. Based in Los Angeles, the fund invests in Pre-Seed and Seed stage companies in CPG/D2C, Marketplaces, SaaS, and Transportation.

Pre-seed–Series A accelerator investing in consumer-behavior technologies with small 10–15 cohorts, 330+ mentors acting as team extensions, and corporate partners (Mastercard, Estée Lauder, TJX) driving commercial outcomes. XRC Labs operates as both a venture fund and startup accelerator, maintaining an unusually deep corporate network that drives direct commercial outcomes for portfolio companies. The firm focuses on "technologies that change and are changed by consumer behavior" through four investment pillars detailed in public whitepapers.