Portfolio · Fund I & Fund II

Companies reinventing their markets.

Thirteen companies, built by overlooked founders across the country — spanning our first fund, now in harvest, and Fund II, actively investing today.

Showing 1-13 of 13 companies

Novo Space

Fund I
Rodrigo Diez and Facundo Jorge · Co-founders
Modular, high-performance computer systems for large satellites — reducing time to orbit and cost.

Deep Tech

Miami, FL

Co-founders

Rodrigo Diez and Facundo Jorge

Novo Space

Novo Space, under the leadership of CEO Rodrigo Diez and CTO Facundo Jorge, specializes in the production of advanced, high-performance computer systems for large satellites. These systems are designed to be standardized, modular, and plug-and-play, ensuring seamless integration and flexibility. Novo Space’s innovative technology and standards enable the reuse of its hardware, firmware, and software, significantly reducing time to orbit, risk, and cost. The company’s ecosystem includes a wide range of products such as computers, signal processors, mass memory units, and more.

Before co-founding Novo Space, Rodrigo Diez spent a decade designing and leading teams in the development of advanced electronic systems for space and defense applications. His expertise includes machine learning, laser and RF communications, 3D radars, synthetic aperture radars, and various satellite subsystems. Recognized as the top graduate in his electrical engineering class in Argentina, Rodrigo was awarded a prestigious Fulbright-administered Presidential Fellowship in Science and Technology, allowing him to pursue a Master of Science in Engineering and Management at MIT. He then continued his academic journey at MIT with a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering.

During his time at MIT, Rodrigo was selected as one of 50 experienced engineers from around the world, chosen for their potential to make a significant impact on global technology. In 2019, he made the strategic decision to suspend his Ph.D. studies to focus entirely on building Novo Space.

As the co-founder and CTO of Novo Space, Facundo Jorge oversees product development, the technological roadmap, and engineering efforts. He has played a pivotal role in designing a substantial portion of Novo Space’s product ecosystem, supporting manufacturing processes, and conducting functional testing. With over a decade of experience in the field, Facundo previously worked as an electronics and subsystem engineer at INVAP in Argentina and Surrey Satellite Technology in the UK. His expertise spans FPGA firmware development and electronics design, with a strong proficiency in both radiation-hardened and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. Facundo holds a five-year Electronics Engineering degree from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology.

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GamerSafer

Fund I
Rodrigo Tamellini and Maria Oliveira · Co-founders
Trust-and-safety technology protecting gaming communities from fraud, toxicity, and abuse.

Gaming

San Jose, CA

Co-founders

Rodrigo Tamellini and Maria Oliveira

GamerSafer

Led by co-founders Rodrigo Tamellini and Maria Oliveira, GamerSafer is a leading-edge technology that helps game publishers and developers prevent the crime, fraud, and toxicity to which their gaming communities are too often subjected on their platforms. GamerSafer does so by providing an end-to-end solution that protects players on every step of their gaming experience — from pre-game biometric verification, to in-game use of gamer insights to moderate behavior, to post-game reinforcement of player accountability. It also provides services that particularly prevent the exploitation and abuse of children and facilitates parental engagement.

Rodrigo, CEO of GamerSafer, has 20 years of experience leading product, marketing and business strategy teams with global technology companies designing and launching over 100 products worldwide and driving billions in revenue. He started his career as a product engineer in Brazil but his ability to successfully drive business and consumer products led him to climb the corporate ladder and land an executive position in Silicon Valley as Product Director of Virtual Reality, Gaming and Esports at Intel. Rodrigo was also a General Manager at LG Electronics and started up ASUS operations in Latin America. He holds an engineering degree, an MBA in strategic business management, and received the prestigious Honorable Mention Award from the Brazilian Army.

Maria, COO of GamerSafer, is an award-winning impact entrepreneur who has been recognized by AWS as an Impact Fellow, and Headstream Innovation for enhancing digital spaces for youth. She excels at advising organizations driving positive change in online spaces, such as Common Sense Media and TheGameHers. She has also collaborated with research and other impact initiatives from the Anti-Defamation League, Take This, Stanford Reach Lab, WeProtect Global Alliance, and the Fair Play Alliance. Maria was born and raised in Brazil, is an alumna of Stanford LBAN and UC Berkeley Skydeck, and persistently advocates for women, Latinas, and other underrepresented groups in tech and games.
CareCar

Exited, Fund I
Josh Itano · Co-founder & CEO
A supplemental-benefit and medical-transport platform helping seniors live independently.

HealthTech

Newport Beach, CA

Co-founder & CEO

Josh Itano

CareCar

Led by co-founder Josh Itano, CEO, CareCar is a groundbreaking tech-enabled supplemental benefit manager and market network platform for home care and medical transport. It partners with health plans to support seniors living independently by connecting them with a reliable network of committed caregivers and currently specializes in providing high quality non-emergency medical transportation services.

A seasoned professional and empathetic entrepreneur, Josh has used his diverse experience to shape his mission: to have a positive impact on the lives of others. Before co-founding CareCar and delving into the healthcare industry, Josh began his career in the world of US Defense contracts. During his tenure there, he gained invaluable expertise and skills, working on critical projects that demanded precision, dedication, and a strong sense of responsibility. This early experience instilled in him a profound appreciation for service and a keen understanding of the importance of finding innovative solutions to complex challenges.

Driven by a desire to address pressing issues in healthcare, Josh transitioned to the healthcare sector, where he took on a pivotal role as an early hire at Alignment Healthcare, a tech-enabled managed care organization with an innovative and proactive clinical model. It was during his tenure there that Josh witnessed firsthand the barriers to care faced by the senior population. This eye-opening experience became a catalyst for his entrepreneurial journey and led to the cofounding of CareCar.
Agtools

Fund I
Martha Montoya · Founder & CEO
Real-time market intelligence across 500+ specialty crops for producers and buyers.

AgTech

Orange, CA

Founder & CEO

Martha Montoya

Agtools

Led by founder and CEO Martha Montoya, Agtools is a game changing, dynamic, analytic data service that delivers business-critical access to accurate, real-time, market intelligence for over 500 specialty crops and growing. Its SaaS platform provides such indicators as: crop volumes, weather, pricing, exchange rates, logistical costs, market disruptors and macroeconomic factors to optimize decision-making processes for producers and buyers. Agtools analytics are based on three decades of historical statistics, 6.1+ billion data points, and over 50 years of global weather patterns. All uploading at one billion transactions per second through its patented machine learning processes.

With over 30 years of worldwide IT/Telecommunications/Food/Agricultural and Supply Chain experience, Martha’s career in the agricultural industry started while sourcing ingredients from the Americas.This provided her with the knowledge of the product from the source to delivery and ultimately becoming a leader in the industry, traveling while delivering projects beneficial for the supplier and customers on four continents. Dealing with both small and industrial size farms, government entities and sophisticated buyers in Europe, Russia and the United States, she has set up production lines across many crops and commodities. Today she leads Agtools, a Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence award winner, that delivers food and agricultural financial and market intelligence data to customers around the world. Martha’s formal degrees are in Chemistry and Biology with post graduate courses at the University of Chicago, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, the Stanford University Entrepreneurial and Scalability program and the UC Davis Institute for Food, Agriculture and Health Entrepreneurship.
BeeReaders

Fund I
Ruben Arias · Founder & CEO
A Spanish-literacy platform for the ~100M K-12 Spanish-speaking students worldwide.

EdTech

Austin, TX

Founder & CEO

Ruben Arias

BeeReaders

Founder Ruben Arias is CEO of BeeReaders, a Spanish literacy digital program platform aiming to build literacy solutions to strengthen the cornerstones of learning for the ~100 million K-12 Spanish-speaking students worldwide, including the faster growing student cohort in the US. BeeReaders’ solution combines an integrated assessment, authentic Spanish content with monitoring capabilities and personalized learning solutions for students in a fun, easy-to-use, adaptive, game-like environment.

From Chile, Ruben is a seasoned Edtech entrepreneur with more than 12 years of experience having founded and led previous Edtech start-ups. Ruben comes from a humble background, a low-income household and is the first in his family to pursue a college education. Through sheer perseverance and a series of scholarships, he earned his university degree in engineering in Chile. He started his entrepreneurial journey with a strong commitment to empowering students facing struggles similar to his own, and developed various innovative products to enhance the learning experience of K-12 Spanish-speaking students in Latin America and the United States. To date, their Edtech solutions reach over half a million students.
Microvi

Fund I
Fatemeh Shirazi · Founder & CEO
A biocatalyst platform for water, wastewater, and bioprocessing at lower cost and energy.

Climate

Hayward, CA

Founder & CEO

Fatemeh Shirazi

Microvi

Fatemeh Shirazi, PhD is Founder and CEO of Microvi. Drawing on her innovative research and years of industry leadership, Fatemeh and her team are commercializing the proprietary MNE biocatalyst platform for water, wastewater, and bioprocessing. Featuring specially targeted, high-performance microorganisms that are completely incorporated into Microvi MNE biocatalysts, Microvi’s processes provide superior performance at significantly lower cost, reduced energy and chemical consumption, smaller footprint, and far less operator attention than existing alternatives. Microvi is currently deploying MNE solutions for customers across the US and UK.

Fatemeh is an engineer’s engineer with an abiding commitment to delivering global solutions for water, energy, health and the environment, having earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from The University of Tulsa, and an MS and PhD in Environmental Engineering with honors from Oklahoma State University. The Microvi team has received multiple industry honors and recognitions, including as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer.

Reinventure provided bridge funding.
Home Outside

Fund I
Julie Messervy · Founder & CEO
A 3D configurator helping homeowners design sustainable, low-carbon landscapes.

Climate

Brattleboro, VT

Founder & CEO

Julie Messervy

Home Outside

Home Outside is on a mission to combat climate change one beautiful landscape at a time.

Home Outside’s 3D digital configurator platform enables homeowners and DIY landscapers to envision, plan, and create beautiful, sustainable, enjoyable yards and projects that increase property value and decrease carbon footprint. The Home Outside 3D configurator will provide expert site-specific landscape design guidance; plant and other product selection; placement, planting, and maintenance support; and click-to-buy functionality that gives DIY homeowners the convenience, personalization, and confidence they seek — all while providing retailers with a sales lift of up to 30%. At scale, Home Outside aims to transform 50M US yards into thriving outdoor spaces that conserve over 50B lbs of carbon each year.

CEO Julie Moir Messervy is a world-renowned landscape designer, author, and pioneer in online/digital landscape design. She and her team are drawn together by the ambition to create meaningful climate impact by transforming residential landscapes at scale.
Livegistics

Fund I
Justin Turk and André Davis · Co-founders
Real-time software digitizing the construction industry’s paper-based material tracking.

Climate

Detroit, MI

Co-founders

Justin Turk and André Davis

Livegistics

Co-Founders Justin Turk and André Davis are respectively CEO and CFO of Livegistics, a real-time software platform transforming the archaic paper-based construction industry into a 21st century digital sector. Using the Livegistics platform, construction and demolition, trucking / hauling, landfill, recycling and quarry companies alike save time and money and eliminate fraud and litigation risks arising from incomplete, lost, or damaged paperwork. Livegistics customers further save vehicle emissions and fuel costs associated with idling and repeat trips, enabling people, vehicles, and facilities to be safer and more productive.

Justin is a third-generation professional in construction, with a Master’s in Civil Engineering from Lawrence Technical University and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science Specialization in Business Systems Operations from Bowling Green State University. André is a CPA and experienced financial officer and business owner, with a Master’s in Accounting and Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Accounting, both from Bowling Green State University. They both played Division I football for BGSU. Together, Justin and André won Pharrell Williams’ $1 million Black Ambition grand prize in 2021.

Livegistics is a Certified MBE.

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Adventr

Fund I
Devo Harris · Founder & CEO
An AI-powered platform that turns passive video into immersive, personalized, interactive experiences.

Media

New York, NY

Founder & CEO

Devo Harris

Adventr

Devo Harris is the founder and CEO of Adventr, an AI-powered streaming platform that connects smart media with data at scale. On its platform novice and professional video content producers alike can transform traditional, passive, watch-only video into immersive video that engages viewers in a highly personalized experience by bringing the full capabilities of the web to video. The Adventr platform also excels due to its low cost, extensive patented features and ease of use.

Devo is a serial media executive who merges world class creative with scalable business strategies . He started his career in technology by hacking YouTube to create some of the first interactive web video experiences in 2010, followed by time leading Product at Vimeo. Before pursuing a technology career, Devo worked in entertainment industry, helping found the popular record label, GOOD Music, with Kanye West. At GOOD, Devo discovered and signed EGOT winner John Legend and won a Grammy for Best Rap Song while producing and writing for artists from Britney Spears and Aretha Franklin to Jay-Z and more. Devo started his career in business strategy at PwC and is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Business School.
Zirtue

Fund I
Dennis Cail · Founder & CEO
Relationship-based lending that automates loans between friends and family, paid directly to creditors.

Fintech

Dallas, TX

Founder & CEO

Dennis Cail

Zirtue

Dennis Cail is the founder and CEO of Zirtue, a fintech company pioneering in the $200 billion relationship-based lending market segment by automating the loan process between family and friends with payments going directly to designated creditors. The service is provided free for borrowers and lenders on a patent-pending online app platform in collaboration with a network of creditor partners keen to reduce bad-debt losses. During 2021, Zirtue will also introduce a complementary debit card service targeted at the 25% of American households that are unbanked or underbanked.

Dennis began working with technology while serving in the Navy, then earned a computer science degree and MBA from Southern Methodist University. Before founding Zirtue, he served as Senior Director of Corporate Services at IBM Global Services, Managing Director at Uptown Financial Group and at PwC, and Managing Partner at Convince Capital Partners. Dennis founded Zirtue as a response to his own difficulty lending to family and friends. His mission became to provide a fair, transparent lending solution that empowers underserved individuals to change the way they lend, borrow and bank with friends and family.

Reinventure participated in the company’s first institutional capital round of investors.
OpConnect

Fund I
Dexter Turner · Founder & CEO
Turnkey EV-charging solutions for fleet managers and multi-unit property owners nationwide.

Climate

Portland, OR

Founder & CEO

Dexter Turner

OpConnect

Dexter Turner is the founder and CEO of OpConnect, Inc., a provider of turnkey electric vehicle fueling solutions. Its comprehensive solution includes: 1) smart charging ports, 2) a bluetooth interface with its mobile app enabled software platform for payment processing and energy management, 3) high quality customer services and 4) product white-labeling options. The OpConnect solution enables it to scale its customer base on lean operations while offering among the best “high value for price” to its customers. It specializes in providing these solutions for EV fleet managers and multi-unit property owners throughout the nation and several international locations.

Dexter began his professional career as an aerospace engineer at Boeing followed by a tenure at Honeywell Aerospace. After 17 years of servicing corporate America, Dexter used his acquired expertise to launch his entrepreneurial career by first founding Optimization Technologies, Inc., a software company producing cockpit displays and software targeted at private aircraft. Optimization Technologies experienced a successful exit when it was sold in 2007 to Aerosonic Corp. Dexter subsequently founded OpConnect in 2012. In the process of developing the software platform for OpConnect, Dexter was awarded nine patents.

Reinventure led the company’s first institutional capital round of syndicate investors.
Canela Media

Fund I
Isabel Rafferty Zavala · Founder & CEO
A digital media-tech company connecting brands with multicultural audiences, including free-to-stream Canela.TV.

Media

New York, NY

Founder & CEO

Isabel Rafferty Zavala

Canela Media

Isabel Rafferty Zavala is the Founder and CEO of Canela Media, a leading digital media tech company that effectively connects brands with multicultural audiences through various touchpoints including its newly launched free-to-stream platform, Canela.TV, influencer marketing, branded content, and more than 180 exclusive Spanish-language sites. In its first year of operation, 2019-2020, the majority-female and majority-Hispanic/Latinx Canela team went from launch to #4 in Hispanic audience reach according to Comscore. The company further validated its distinctive value proposition by growing and gaining traction during a turbulent industry interval marked by intense competition for shifting, shrinking, or frozen advertising budgets.

Isabel is recognized in the industry for her avant-garde approach and success launching digital marketing companies and is regarded as one of the most accomplished Hispanic business leaders in advertising. Isabel previously founded Mobvious Media in 2016, to reach U.S. Hispanic and African American audiences through mobile advertising. Under her leadership, Mobvious became the second largest Hispanic-focused ad network according to Comscore and was acquired by PRISA Group in 2017. From 2012-2016, she was Vice President at Adsmovil, leading the company’s expansion in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, driving annual sales from zero to ten million dollars. Isabel was Culture Marketing Council’s 2019 Rising Star Award recipient.

Reinventure led the company’s first institutional capital round, with co-lead BBG Ventures and a closely aligned syndicate: Angeles Investors, Portfolia Rising America Fund, Mighty Capital, and Alumni Ventures Group.
ANRA Technologies

Fund I
Amit Ganjoo · Founder & CEO
Software that lets businesses and governments plan, track, and control drone operations safely at scale.

Deep Tech

Chantilly, VA

Founder & CEO

Amit Ganjoo

ANRA Technologies

ANRA Technologies, led by founder and CEO Amit Ganjoo, develops advanced platforms that make it possible to manage drones safely and at scale. With offices in Washington, D.C., London, Tallinn, and New Delhi, the company provides software that helps both businesses and governments plan, track, and control drone operations while meeting regulatory requirements. ANRA’s technology is designed to be flexible and modular, allowing organizations to integrate it easily, reduce risk, and operate more efficiently. Its ANRA MMX product suite supports activities ranging from package delivery and surveillance to traffic management for drones in shared airspace.

Before founding ANRA in 2015, Amit Ganjoo built his career at the intersection of aviation, telecommunications, and defense. A licensed pilot and engineer, he served in senior technical roles, including co-chairing an advisory council for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He previously led teams developing secure communications networks for the U.S. Department of Defense, including some of the earliest large-scale wireless systems used by the Navy.

Since establishing ANRA, Amit has positioned the company as a global leader in drone management and digital airspace infrastructure. ANRA’s platforms are in use across the U.S., Europe, India, and Southeast Asia, supporting organizations such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), NASA, and the UK Civil Aviation Authority.

Amit also contributes to shaping international standards for drone operations. He has served on advisory committees for the FAA, co-chaired working groups on drone and urban air mobility integration, and plays an active role in global industry associations. In 2024, ANRA became the first company certified in Europe to provide official digital services for drone operations, a milestone that underscores its leadership and credibility in the field.