Here are the newest startup raises that have been added to the KingsCrowd database. We’ve sorted them according to industry. For more information on a specific deal, just click the link provided.
Please note, these are not recommendations but are meant only to inform our readers of new investment opportunities.
Be sure and check back with KingsCrowd in the future. We will continue providing updates on each raise as it progresses, particularly if we feel they meet our criteria of being worthwhile as potential investments.
- Alcohol, Tobacco, & Recreational Drugs
- Business Services, Software, & Applications
- Consumer Products, Goods & Services
- Energy, Power, & Natural Resources
- Farming & Agriculture
- Financial & Insurance Products & Services
- Food, Beverage, & Restaurants
- Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
- Media, Entertainment & Publishing
- Security, Cybersecurity, & Defense
- Transportation, Automotive, Aviation, & Aerospace
Alcohol, Tobacco, & Recreational Drugs
Cornbread Hemp is a brand of cannabidiol (CBD) products based at an organic farm in Louisville, Kentucky. In 2022, the company claims it earned $6.5 million in gross revenue.
- Valuation: $10 million
- Platform: Wefunder
- Founders: Eric Zipperle and Jim Higdon
- Minimum Investment: $100
Business Services, Software, & Applications
Notiphy Corporation has developed work execution software that improves operational efficiency, helps users make data-informed decisions, and ensures compliance. It is initially focused on serving cannabis, manufacturing, and warehousing companies.
- Valuation: $5.1 million
- Platform: Netcapital
- Founder: Bob Wise
- Minimum Investment: $99.36
Pro Cloud SaaS provides technology services in cybersecurity, cloud migrations, business applications, and more. The company has more than 60 clients, including the U.S. Navy and Department of Energy.
- Valuation: $12.6 million
- Platform: Wefunder
- Founder: Shane Hannan
- Minimum Investment: $100
Otherweb uses artificial intelligence to filter out clickbait and fake news on the internet, allowing users to access more trustworthy information. It boasts a community of 101,000 active users.
- Valuation: $8 million
- Platform: Wefunder
- Founder: Alex Fink
- Minimum Investment: $100
Dark is developing a secure internet platform that helps users maintain their privacy. The initial product is a plug-in for Chrome, and users will pay a monthly subscription fee.
- Valuation: $10.8 million
- Platform: Netcapital
- Founder: Peter Schmidt
- Minimum Investment: $1.00
Consumer Products, Goods & Services
Nicole Comis Coaching offers life coaching services to business owners and professionals. The company will use this raise to increase its marketing budget.
- Interest Rate: 12%
- Platform: Honeycomb
- Founder: Nicole Comis
- Minimum Investment: $100
Besse Custom Creations is a custom print shop specializing in apparel and hard goods, such as sweatshirts, mugs, signs, and more. In its first four months of operation, the company reached more than $130,000 in sales.
- Interest Rate: 11%
- Platform: Honeycomb
- Founder: Ron Besse
- Minimum Investment: $100
HiveTracks created an app for beekeepers that collects about 50 points of environmental data, such as bee behavior, types of flora, and weather events. That data is then used to make data products that measure and monetize biodiversity. The company has tracked more than 225,000 hives since 2010.
- Valuation: $7.5 million
- Platform: Wefunder
- Founders: Max Rünzel, James Wilkes, and Laura Dye
- Minimum Investment: $100
Loop (previously Loop by California Labs)
Loop is a private photo-sharing app designed for families. So far, 4 million photos and videos have been shared using Loop.
- Valuation: $14 million
- Platform: Wefunder
- Founder: Brian Gannon
- Minimum Investment: $250
Knowtify is a freemium app that informs the user’s chosen contacts if the user has died. Features include a “vault” holding important information, estate planning, and a time capsule of keepsakes to leave behind for loved ones.
- Valuation: $4 million
- Platform: Wefunder
- Founder: André McDow
- Minimum Investment: $100
Energy, Power, & Natural Resources
Water on Demand, a subsidiary of OriginClear, is an outsourced water treatment company. It lets retail investors fund water projects, giving them the opportunity to generate continued revenue.
- Valuation: $30 million
- Platform: Castle Placement
- Founder: Riggs Eckelberry
- Minimum Investment: $1,000
Zero Carbon turns sewage, municipal waste, and agricultural waste into clean hydrogen energy. Its byproducts are fertilizer and natural bricks that can be used for low-income housing.
- Valuation: $50 million
- Platform: Wefunder
- Founder: Julien Uhlig
- Minimum Investment: $100
Flower Turbines creates a variety of sleek wind turbines that can fit in tight spaces and work better when packed closely together. Its turbines are currently being used for sustainable battery recharging at Coldplay concerts.
- Valuation: $124.6 million
- Platform: StartEngine
- Founder: Daniel Farb
- Minimum Investment: $600
Farming & Agriculture
Ponix develops smart indoor farming technology with a zero-waste approach, reducing land, water, and fuel use. The company claims it generated more than $550,000 in 2022 revenue.
- Valuation: $40.1 million
- Platform: StartEngine
- Founders: Michael Choi and Patrick McGowan
- Minimum Investment: $250.92
Financial & Insurance Products & Services
Mortgages for Good helps first-time home buyers in underserved communities find and receive a mortgage. It is initially focusing on Florida and plans to expand to California by 2024.
- Valuation: $3 million
- Platform: Microventures
- Founder: Chris Perry
- Minimum Investment: $100
Share Scoops is an app that provides gamified financial education, daily economic context and market charts, transparent company profiles, and more. Its goal is to educate users about the economy and increase corporate transparency.
- Valuation: $10 million
- Platform: Republic
- Founder: Augustus Christensen
- Minimum Investment: $100
Zeehaus’ platform helps someone purchase a house with the help of equity investors. Homeowners can then pay rent to investors who partially own the property. Zeehaus aims to make buying a house more affordable.
- Valuation: $11.2 million
- Platform: StartEngine
- Founder: Justin Lee
- Minimum Investment: $269.18
Food, Beverage, & Restaurants
Mama Noy’s Kitchen is a catering business in Austin, Texas that offers a fusion of Laotian and Tex-Mex cuisine. In December 2022, it provided hundreds of meals for people in Austin’s cold shelters.
- Interest Rate: 13%
- Platform: Honeycomb
- Founder: Noy Keomorokot
- Minimum Investment: $100
Loba Pastry + Coffee is a small-batch bakery that offers a variety of bread, pastries, and drinks, including vegan and gluten-free options. It is reopening at a new location in Chicago, Illinois.
- Interest Rate: 12.75%
- Platform: Honeycomb
- Founder: Valeria Taylor
- Minimum Investment: $100
Scooby Dogs is a Scooby-Doo-themed food truck in Seattle, Washington that sells Venezuelan-style hot dogs. Funds from this raise will be used to purchase additional food trucks.
- Interest Rate: 11%
- Platform: Honeycomb
- Founders: Angelbert Munoz and Gian Bellotto
- Minimum Investment: $100
SoulFully Vegan is a vegan food truck in Connecticut that sells American comfort food with a Caribbean flare. It aims to ensure customers don’t have to choose between delicious and healthy food.
- Investment Multiple: 1.5x
- Platform: MainVest
- Founders: Allison Vaughan and Calvin Vaughan
- Minimum Investment: $100
Rock N Roll Donut Bar is a plant-based restaurant specializing in donuts and donut dishes. It has a location in Monterey, California and wants to open another in Santa Cruz.
- Investment Multiple: 1.5x
- Platform: MainVest
- Founder: Scott Kirkpatrick
- Minimum Investment: $100
Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
De3 has developed artificially intelligent technology that can detect, identify, and eliminate pathogens and contaminants, including bacteria and some viruses. It recently developed a more automated version of its technology that can be integrated with drones, robots, and liquid tube systems.
- Valuation: $25 million
- Platform: StartEngine
- Founder: Keith De Santo
- Minimum Investment: $500
Aura Health has developed a mental wellness app that offers a personalized library of mental health resources and services, including coaching from therapists and coaches. The app has 7 million users and more than 100,000 paying subscribers.
- Valuation: $60 million
- Platform: Dealmaker Securities
- Founders: Steve Lee and Daniel Lee
- Minimum Investment: $100
Loosid is a sobriety app that provides virtual help, community and professional support, dating services, and more to users fighting addiction. The company has also created a solution that helps treatment centers stay connected after a patient has left..
- Valuation: $24 million
- Platform: Wefunder
- Founders: MJ Gottlieb and Zhanna Basina
- Minimum Investment: $250
Meta-Brain Labs has designed a headset and companion app that help golfers overcome self-defeating thoughts that affect their performance. The company has a potential sales pipeline of more than $227,000.
- Valuation: $9 million
- Platform: Wefunder
- Founder: Alexandrea Day
- Minimum Investment: $100
Media, Entertainment & Publishing
Distributed Media Lab created a platform that enables publishers, marketers and content creators to provide curated content collections of articles, videos, and more. The company aims to help local news businesses, nonprofit journalism organizations, and more grow their audiences.
- Valuation: $18.2 million
- Platform: Netcapital
- Founders: David Gehring and Sam Parnell
- Minimum Investment: $99.16
LootMogul is a sports metaverse platform featuring stadiums, multiplayer games, real shopping opportunities, and more. It has 84,000 active users and 24,000 games played each day.
- Valuation: $65 million
- Platform: Republic
- Founders: Raj Rajkotia and Kuntal Sampat
- Minimum Investment: $100
Coming Together is a romantic comedy film about a woman who becomes romantically interested in someone with opposite political views and helps her gay roommate get in shape. The film’s writer and director is Erik Bork, a two-time Emmy winner and Golden Globe winner who wrote and produced for Band of Brothers and From the Earth to the Moon.
- Investment Multiple: 1.2x
- Platform: Wefunder
- Minimum Investment: $100
Three Years Gone is a coming-of-age film about a girl who gets kidnapped by her war veteran father and sets out on a journey with him. The film is written and directed by John Gutierrez, who debuted with Sons of the Sea, a film that was recognized at Durban International Film Festival.
- Investment Multiple: 1.2x
- Platform: Wefunder
- Minimum Investment: $100
MVP Kids Media creates children’s media featuring sixteen original characters, including books and videos. It has partnered with Chic-Fil-A to make kids’ meal promotions and plans to distribute through Costco, Amazon, mass retail, and MVP Kids’ website.
- Valuation: $6 million
- Platform: StartEngine
- Founder: Mel Sauder
- Minimum Investment: $100
Security, Cybersecurity, & Defense
Atsign has developed an open-source technology platform that makes Internet of Things devices more secure. In 2022, the company received an award from the IoT Security Foundation.
- Valuation: $35 million
- Platform: Republic
- Founders: Barbara Tallent, Colin Constable, and Kevin Nickels
- Minimum Investment: $150
Transportation, Automotive, Aviation, & Aerospace
Power Hero develops electric vehicle charging technology. Its PowerPac charges electric vehicles overnight at apartments and condos. Cameo, another product, turns chargers that aren’t part of a network into a connected station anyone can find and use.
- Valuation: $14.8 million
- Platform: Netcapital
- Founders: Esmond Goei and Rob Kent
- Minimum Investment: $100
