Boost VC is an accelerator in California that focuses on Sci-Fi technologies. Founded 2012 in San Mateo, California, United States by Adam Draper and Brayton Williams, it invests in seed, series A, initial coin offerings, and pre-seed rounds. Its portfolio companies include Yac, Virtuleap, Elektra Labs, The Sun Exchange, and 3DLOOK. As of March 2020, Boost VC has made 174 investments. Their most recent investment was on November 12, 2019, when Elektra Labs raised $2.9M. Boost VC has had 17 exits, the most notable of which include Down, Pillow, and Favor.The company has raised two funds, their latest being Boost VC Fund III. This fund was announced on February 7, 2017 and raised a total of $38.6M.
Portfolio companies
Abra
Tribe 4
Airenvy
Tribe 3
Align Commerce
Tribe 4
Arbiter
Tribe 2
Atlas Card
Tribe 4
Ava
Tribe 4
Bagaveev Corporation
Tribe 3
BitBox
Tribe 2
BitPagos
Tribe 2
BitProof
Tribe 5
BitQuick
Tribe 5
BlockCypher
Tribe 4
BlockScore
Tribe 4
Timeline
Funded Companies
7shifts
Ontario
Bleximo CorpCompany building "quantum accelerators” a type of computing system that work in conjunction with classical computers to solve problems that are impractical or impossible to solve on classical computer alone.
Berkeley, California
AuditFileAuditFile is a San Francisco-based company founded by Steven Bong, Kevin Bong and Gary Bong.
San Francisco
Kubos (company)A satellite software company improving developer productivity and flight software quality.
Denton, Texas
United States
Roam Robotics
Tamarin HealthTamarin Health is a developer of digital health tools for Caregivers to create remote patient support networks.
Brighton, Boston
Boston
Good MoneyGood Money is a banking platform owned by the banks users.
Los Angeles
Skale Labs
The Block
New York
NearGroupNearGroup is a San Francisco-based company.
Amun (company)Amun is a Switzerland-based company founded by Hany Rashwan.
Switzerland
YUR (company)
InterVennAssociated investment funds
San Mateo, CaliforniaAccelerator batches
Hijro
Coinage (company)
BlinkTrade
CleverCoin
SuredBits
Coinjar
Bitproof
Lawnmower
Fiend.fm
BitMesh
BitLendingClub
Verse
BitRefill
Sand Hill Exchange
Checkbook.io
Coinprism
WorkingOn
BitQuick
Aquaai
Tri-D Dynamics
MindGlow
TruSource
Scout (blockchain company)
Wisdom (company)
Teleporter VR
Radix Motion
BehaviorMe
Pawprint
BlockCluster
Voiceflow
Kodama (3d company)
Expressive
Relax VR
Etho
Arthur Technologies
GIBLIB
FitXR
Sketchbox
3DLOOK
ObserVR
Acuratio
Northstar Robotics
Melodrive
Keep (blockchain)
Myetherwallet
SFOX
Abra (company)
BlockCypher
Hashed
ZapChain
Honeybadgr
Willow (company)
gun (company)
HashRabbit
Palarin
Hedgy
CoinHako
Electroloom
Critica
Seeds (company)
Flipside (VR company)
Dimension10
Beast (game company)
Waylo
Visabot, a DoNotPay company
VirtualSpeech
LeadFlip
Airboard
Kriya AI
Ubby
SimplyVital Health
TensorFlight
PopChest
Casino VR
Waves VR
EvaBot
theConstruct
Etherscan
rainvow
Volt Markets
The Sun Exchange
Shakepay
Artie (company)
Virtualities
Atomic Fund
LQDEX
Slide Financial
Where Thoughts Go
Virtuleap
Apex Officer
Tribe XR
Listen Notes
Softspace
PanoMoments by Moment Capture
skritswap
Nextbiotics
Streamloots
Deco.Network
Casa (blockchain)
Vantage point
DeepGram
Surreal VR
Ease VR
Beloola
COINUT
Vizor
Joystream
VRChive
Virt (company)
Unimersiv
Pixel Ripped
LingoLand
Binary VR
Meshable
Bouncy
Stampery
Magic. In Bits
3D-SensIR
V (company)
Jigspace
orosim
One Caring Team
imgnation
Realities.io
BitBox
EmailBox
CourseOff
CommitChange
Gneo
DreamBox (company)
Gliph
Mirror (company)
Cycle
TestLegends
AppSpin
Limitless (company)
PayTagz
meVu (company)
Bagaveev Corporation
Gigawatt
Globevestor
Fairmint Inc
Privacy (company)
Agnostiq
Drapr
Down (dating company)
Rebel Coast Winery
Vectera
Gumball (service)
Favor
ZiibraPeople
Adam Draper
Founder
Adam Ludwin
Mentor
AJ Forsythe
Mentor
Ajay Singh
Mentor
Alexander Wong
Employee
Amos Ben-Meir
Investor
Andrew Flachner
Mentor
Andrew Ogawa
Investor
Andrew Simon
Investor
Ankit Agarwal
Mentor
Ben Davenport
Investor
Ben Lovell
Employee
Bill Barhydt
Mentor
Blake Commagere
Mentor
Brad Stephens
Investor
Brayton Williams
Founder
Collin R West
Mentor
Daniel Neukomm
Investor
Dave Strigler
Investor
David Chen
Mentor
Frank Willemsen
Investor
Grant G.
Investor
Hrach Simonian
Mentor
Jeff Wasson
Investor
Jens Christensen
Mentor
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Amun
Aquaai
BehaviorMe
Elektra Labs
Fairmint
Guesser
New Culture
Unstoppable Domains
Yac
YUR
References
Boost VC
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Bitcoin
Blockchain
Virtual reality
Silicon Valley
Brayton WilliamsVenture Capital Firm attributes
New CultureOther attributes
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Tianchang He
Stanford EE MS, interested in machine learning, front-end and all things tech. - 2
Lax Mariappan
Technopreneur, Open source enthusiast, author, speaker. Co-founder of Eternus Global. Crafting applications for the medical industry. - 3
Jude Gomila
Founder and CEO of Golden, Entrepreneur. Investor in 200+ companies. Cantabrigian (Gonville and Caius). Interested in the universe. - 4
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME - 5
Henry Ogolla
Passionate about reading and writing.