Techstars Oakland

⚡️ Techstars Oakland Demo Day - Company Spotlight ⚡️ Presenting at Techstars Oakland Demo Day 📆 May 30th, 2024 ⏱️ Doors at 4:15, pitches begin at 5:00 📍 BLOC15, 252 2nd St, Oakland, CA 94607 📲 Register here: https://lu.ma/oakdemoday24 Gohaus Gohaus is an AI powered platform that partners with retailers, connecting with their real time inventory to offer personalized and efficient space furnishing. In our pilot with Walmart Chile, over 3,000 consumers received personalized product recommendations. Over the last year, we have invoiced over US$300K from decorating more than 100 multifamily apartments. GyftGram (Techstars ’24) Technology has removed the personal connection restaurants once had with their guests. GyftGram is empowering restaurants with generative AI to retake that connection, building deeper relationships that make their guests want to return. Today GyftGram has established over 30 restaurant relationships and is on track to build an integration with one of the largest payment processors in LATAM. korzo Wealth (Techstars '24) korzo is your Gen AI Money Buddy, designed to help modern generations build and grow their wealth. It offers real-time conversations via video, voice, and text with your own AI wealth advisor. Manage budgets, spend smarter, and invest in AI-managed portfolios. With 24/7 financial advice, korzo makes money management easy and accessible for everyone. Thryft Ship Thryft Ship streamlines e-commerce logistics by providing a seamless shipping solution for small businesses. Our platform integrates with major carriers and automates label creation, saving merchants time and reducing errors. Recently, we increased our onboarding rate by 83%, demonstrating the growing effectiveness of our user acquisition and onboarding processes.

⚡️ Techstars Oakland Demo Day - Company Spotlight ⚡️ Presenting at Techstars Oakland Demo Day 📆 May 30th, 2024 ⏱️ Doors at 4:15, pitches begin at 5:00 📍 BLOC15, 252 2nd St, Oakland, CA 94607 📲 Register here: https://lu.ma/oakdemoday24 Daniel Pereira Blank Labs is an AI studio with one simple mission: Build products that allow us to become the best version of ourselves, IRL. This summer they’ll introduce Conductor, a Decision Relationship Manager (DRM) that aims to free employees from busy work and take care of tasks just like they would. Unlike a CRM, Conductor not only surfaces incoming requests and tasks, but uses context to complete the work just like you would. Instead of having to do the busy work, you just get to decide how it gets done. Afford Health 51% of adults struggle to stay on top of their healthcare expenses. That’s why Afford Health recently launched their direct-to-patient service to help people save both time and money on their medical bills. Afford Health helps people organize, error check, negotiate and settle their medical debt. Whether you’re an individual, a family, or a small business, let Afford Health help you manage your medical bills, so you can regain control of your financial life. ClubReq ClubReq addresses the frustrating inefficiencies in the hiring process. Companies struggle to find qualified candidates quickly, and applicants often receive no feedback. Our platform combines AI with industry expert interviews to streamline hiring, ensuring only top candidates move forward. Since joining Techstars, we've launched our BETA with two clients, gaining valuable traction and feedback. DubPrime (TechStars ‘24) DubPrime empowers Fintechs with AI-driven decisioning and growth capital, enabling lenders to confidently offer credit. Our platform leverages over 50 billion data points to provide secure underwriting models. Recently, we are finalizing deals worth $1.3M+ with leading American credit builder brands, facilitating their expansion into unsecured consumer credit cards.

⚡️ Techstars Oakland Demo Day - Company Spotlight ⚡️ Presenting at Techstars Oakland Demo Day 📆 May 30th, 2024 ⏱️ Doors at 4:15, pitches begin at 5:00 📍 BLOC15, 252 2nd St, Oakland, CA 94607 📲 Register here: https://lu.ma/oakdemoday24 Regfyl Powered by AI, Regfyl empowers fraud and financial compliance teams in Africa to identify, investigate and report bad actors. Regfyl’s client base has grown 300% in 2024, serving clients such as fintechs, fund managers, microfinance banks, and payment processors. TRAVARAS  TRAVARAS is a regenerative travel platform that helps travelers find and book hidden gems by curating unique, culturally immersive experiences that are good for people and planet. Access over 100 regenerative accommodations and activities now in Hawaii, with more destinations coming soon. Malc Miller is building Wage. Retail traders consistently lose money due to speculation rather than proper investing strategies.. Wage is a competitive finance platform built for these aspiring traders.The gameplay allows players to test their market knowledge and develop their skills as they compete head-to-head for real money. Since joining Techstars, Wage has grown its waitlist to nearly 250 people and is planning to launch in NYC this summer. TUX During down markets, companies issue more stock-based compensation to attract and retain talent. TUX helps retain talent without increasing stock-based compensation or shareholder dilution by offering financial downside protection for employees' stock compensation. Like an insurance product, employees pay a monthly premium and receive compensation if their stocks' value drops significantly. Since joining Techstars, hundreds of employees have urged their HR teams to adopt TUX, leading to sales pipeline conversations with numerous Fortune 500 companies for their pilot program launching this summer.

⚡️ Techstars Oakland Demo Day - Company Spotlight ⚡️ Presenting at Techstars Oakland Demo Day 📆 May 30th, 2024 ⏱️ Doors at 4:15, pitches begin at 5:00 📍 BLOC15, 252 2nd St, Oakland, CA 94607 📲 Register here: https://lu.ma/oakdemoday24 Pardo W. is building Trinium Labs. Current investment tools are complex, intimidating, difficult to configure & understand, creating barriers for users at all levels. Trinium Labs is developing an AI-powered investment co-pilot and technical indicator tools that perform the work of over a hundred, empowering day traders and investors of all skill levels to identify and capitalize on profitable opportunities across all markets. Trinium Labs recently launched their voice-based technical analysis AI feature, which allows users to effortlessly interact with assets and trading charts using natural language. With more than 100 dynamic voice sessions during launch week, users are uncovering insights and opportunities previously obscured by complexity. Awear is a continuous EEG monitoring wearable and AI neuro-coach app that helps quantified-self consumers to manage their stress. It correlates users’ activities to their emotional states, and provides immediate actionable recommendations and automated mood journaling for emotional self-regulation. In the last 3 months, Awear has conducted comprehensive consumers’ research, released their AI coach mobile app MVP, completed their first hardware design of the wearable device, and is launching their pre-sale campaign on demo day. Awear empowers individuals to take control of their mental wellness. LexIQ (Techstars '24) The work of transactional lawyers is manual, time consuming, and hasn’t changed in the past 30+ years. LexIQ empowers lawyers to work faster and more accurately with a fully customizable, generative AI-powered contract drafting and analysis copilot. Since joining Techstars, LexIQ has successfully launched on the Microsoft 365 enterprise app store and onboarded a range of in-house lawyers and law firms as beta users. PairAnything (Techstars ‘24) PairAnything makes independent wineries stand out in the crowded grocery aisle through dynamic wine and food recommendations to increase sales. In a recent pilot, we increased sales by 16.7% for one of our customers. 

⚡️ Techstars Oakland Demo Day - Company Spotlight ⚡️ Presenting at Techstars Oakland Demo Day 📆 May 30th, 2024 ⏱️ Doors at 4:15, pitches begin at 5:00 📍 BLOC15, 252 2nd St, Oakland, CA 94607 📲 Register here: https://lu.ma/oakdemoday24 Rondah AI (Techstars '24) Rondah is an AI receptionist for healthcare practices. Currently 30% of incoming calls go unanswered and human receptionists are a bottleneck in the scheduling process. Our AI receptionist works around the clock, handles multiple calls at once, and integrates with existing systems, significantly reducing costs. In the 6 weeks since starting Rondah AI we’ve signed 5 practices ($36K ARR), built $7.8M in late-stage pipeline and launched an MVP. Positive Finance Positive Finance helps companies retain talents and meet sustainability goals by offering a new kind of employee benefits with social & climate-friendly financial products. Since joining Techstars, they have released their employee app, and they have launched their first enterprise client. Mindhelpa (Techstars ‘24) Mindhelpa improves access to mental healthcare by providing affordable online group therapy as a service. With a platform that is currently HIPAA compliant and sessions provided by licensed therapists, Mindhelpa serves both individuals and small organisations through a subscription-based, effective group therapy sessions. Circle+ | Techstars '24 Circle+ is an AI data tool that takes the drudgery out of tracking KPIs so that founders can focus on nailing them. From monthly updates to investors to due diligence material for a new round of funding, our platform makes venture metrics cleaner & easier to understand. To date, we have over 3,000 accelerator programs in our customer pipeline that represent over 45,000 startups globally.

⚡️ Techstars Oakland Demo Day - Company Spotlight ⚡️ Presenting at Techstars Oakland Demo Day 📆 May 30th, 2024 ⏱️ Doors at 4:15, pitches begin at 5:00 📍 BLOC15, 252 2nd St, Oakland, CA 94607 📲 Register here: https://lu.ma/oakdemoday24 Runbear (Techstars '24) helps companies use custom ChatGPT in their communication platforms, like Slack and HubSpot, in 10 minutes without coding. Since joining Techstars, they've more than quadrupled their customer base and onboarded major customers like BCG. Cicada is generating a buzz in live music - having established themselves as the primary monetization tool for 38 musicians in 12 countries, they've now shifted focus to serving artist managers at the highest echelons of the industry. This week, they started talks with managers at Red Light Management, and with the manager of an up-and-coming artist with 1.4 billion views on TikTok. Webvizio is a collaboration platform for web professionals that bridges communication gaps between teams and clients while working on website projects and web-based applications. Webvizio has over 1,000 early adopters, including both agencies and in-house digital teams from 115 countries, and with the help of Techstars Oakland, has begun to identify market fit and convert customers to paid subscriptions. Lexir: The drink brand landscape is booming, yet traditional distribution methods have stagnated. Lexir is revolutionizing a $2 trillion industry by eliminating outdated importers and distributors, providing a platform for direct market entry and global expansion.

📢 Techstars Oakland Demo Day is fast approaching! 🎉 Over the last three months, we've seen pivots, first customers, fiftieth customers, international moves, new cofounders, and so much more. Join us to celebrate their progress in Oakland at Demo Day! 📆 May 30th, 2024 ⏱️ Doors at 4:15, pitches begin at 5:00 📍 BLOC15, 252 2nd St, Oakland, CA 94607 📲 Register here: https://lu.ma/oakdemoday24

📢 Network Asks 📢 Thanks for supporting our Techstars Oakland founders! Here's how you can help this week: TRAVARAS We’re excited to launch TRAVARAS TRIPS, offering off-the-beaten-path travelers personalized local recommendations on things to do and where to stay, access to exclusive experiences only available on TRAVARAS, and the ability to text a local companion while you’re in-destination. We are piloting in Hawaii, and would love to help you or your friends have the most memorable vacation possible! If anyone books a curated Trip in the next 4 weeks they get 20% off with the code: TRAVARAS20.  Check it out: https://lnkd.in/ggkAix8P DubPrime (TechStars ‘24) We’d love to connect with credit card fintechs like Kard, Paperchain, BezoMoney, Jupiter Card, Tomo, and RepairsCard. Due to their focus on low/no-credit borrowers, they are a perfect fit for our MVP and we are interested in a discussion around philosophy of credit if not a full partnership to enable them to service more customers with our underwriting. Contact: Dùane Scott Vincent Lucero GyftGram (Techstars ’24) We’re looking to connect with leads in the restaurant tech space that can help us with the integration of our digital gift cards in POS (Toast, NCR Aloha, Oracle) and/or reservation systems (Open Table, Sevenrooms) Contact: Marisel Polanco Kevin Malley Lexir  We’d love to get introduced to individuals with experience in B2B sales who founded or worked in early stage startups, especially if they’re involved with drink brands or have successfully grown a community related to B2B services. Contact: Dotan Shalev PairAnything (Techstars ‘24) We’re looking to connect with wine producers or other alcohol brands that have paid for shelf talkers or other shopper engagement tools to increase brand awareness and sell more of their products at retail stores. We want to better understanding Shopper Marketing and at what point does this function gets outsourced. Contact: 🍷Christy S. Runbear (Techstars '24) We'd like to connect with anyone on Zapier's partnership team to explore potential partnerships for our product, Plugbear. Contact: Snow W. Lee Gohaus We're looking to connect with Asset Managers and/or Property Managers in the multifamily real estate sector, especially those decorating apartments for STR and MTR. Contact: Felipe Acevedo Garrido Have a great weekend!

📢 Network Asks 📢 Inspired by Brad Schnitzer’s work with Techstars Chicago Accelerator Chicago, we’d love to open up our wider network to our founders! This week we have a few hiring asks: Awear is looking for a senior tech lead with experience with Flutter/Dart applications and backend systems. If you know anyone right for the role, feel free to pass along their job description or get them in contact with Antonio Forenza! Blank Labs is looking for a founding AI engineer with experience with LLMs. Check out the JD here for reach out to Daniel Pereira! Job Descriptions: https://lnkd.in/gJCW7mfD

We've added 24 new teams to the Techstars family! Please join me in welcoming them.