Welcome Cogsy and The Refund Company, Sugar Capital Fund II
Dear Sugar Capital Community,
Please join us in welcoming two new companies to our portfolio: Cogsy and The Refund Co. See below for more on each. We also launched our fundraising efforts for Sugar Capital Fund II this month.
Congratulations to all of our portfolio companies for making it through a record-breaking Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend.
Please see below for more details and updates and visit sugarcap.com to see our full portfolio.
Portfolio News
Archive Archive.ai aims to free marketers from their monotonous workflows, announces funding led by Stripe with participation from Sugar Capital - TechCrunch
BlackWolf The Best Skincare for Men of 2021 - InTouch
Caraway Caraway’s New Brick Red Color Will Bring Even More Heat to Your Kitchen - Yahoo!
Chptr Congrats to the Chptr team for announcing and launching their waitlist! Chptr believes every single person deserves the ability to memorialize their lost loved ones properly.
Dent Reality Dent Reality raises $3.4M to bring augmented reality into the grocery store - TechCrunch
Dent Reality A Quest Record, HaptX Funding and AR for Grocery Lists - The Information
Exponent - Exponent is raising the bar for effective, clinical skincare by focusing on what products are FULL OF, not just what they’re FREE OF. Check out their research and tools for finding skincare that works - Exponent
Fast - Cleveland Cavaliers Partner with Fast to Integrate One-Click Checkout With Online Team Shop and at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse - Business Insider
Fast - The online checkout page is broken. These 3 companies are fixing it - Fast Company
House of Wise - House of Wise celebrates its one year anniversary, launches merch and candles - House of Wise
Judy - Disaster Prep Kits Get a Makeover - The New York Times
Jupiter - Jupiter launches at Bergdorf Goodman and sells out of their shampoo line in less than 72 hours - Bergdorf Goodman
Snif - Snif Is Now Giving You The Best Digital Experience In Luxury Scented Candles - Snif
Industry News
Shopify Merchants Understood the Assignment, Smashing Black Friday / Cyber Monday Records with $6.3 Billion in Sales - Yahoo Finance
Online sales over holidays on track to top $200 billion after Thanksgiving Day kickoff, Adobe says - CNBC
Meet the typical Gen Zer, who is quitting their job, has over $17,000 in student debt, and is influencing nearly everything you buy - Business Insider
Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal will replace Jack Dorsey as CEO - CNBC
Sugar Capital News
Over the past month, we welcomed Cogsy and The Refund Co to the Sugar Capital portfolio. We also kicked off our fundraising efforts for Sugar Capital Fund II.
Cogsy empowers retail brands to reach operational excellence. Their first product is an inventory planning solution that helps companies forecast and automate purchasing. Sugar Capital participated in Cogsy's Series Seed funding round which was led by Accel.
Based in Tel Aviv, The Refund Co makes refunds better for eCommerce and retail merchants by helping them re-engage and re-convert their customers. Sugar Capital participated in The Refund Co's Seed round of funding
