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Orange Island participated in the $30mm seed round financing for Miami Based Cosmic Wire. Cosmic Wire is at the forefront of Web3 innovation and blockchain solutions. The company’s proprietary technology and decentralized applications form the backbone operating system for the Web3 ecosystem. Cosmic Wire’s technical advancements transform the fabric of Web3, revolutionizing the functioning of the Internet. The company prioritizes privacy and user empowerment, striving to create a decentralized, transparent, and secure digital Web3 ecosystem. Cosmic Wire enables users to have full control and sovereignty over their data and online interactions. With patented volumetric mesh technology and cutting-edge compression algorithms, Cosmic Wire allows high-fidelity live streaming of volumetric captured content within standard web browsers. Their platform-agnostic, scalable, and interoperable blockchain technology facilitates transparent and trustless business, communication, and exchange. Additionally, Cosmic Wire’s focus on immersive storytelling unlocks new monetization opportunities and enhances digital entertainment, metaverses, and community engagement. Led by Founder and CEO Jerad Finck, the Cosmic Wire team comprises experienced entrepreneurs, innovators, developers, blockchain experts, and creatives dedicated to meeting the evolving needs of the Web3 landscape. Cosmic Wire’s transformative technology will reshape various industries, including finance, logistics, supply chain, insurance, healthcare, education, gaming, sports, entertainment, travel, retail, and real estate. Cosmic Wire collaborates with global organizations to drive the widespread adoption of Web3 technologies.
Andrew Sturner co-founded Boatsetter in 2013 with the goal of bringing together boat owners, boat captains and renters seeking a way to experience boating with no ownership. Boatsetter exists to connect the boating world in a way it has never been connected before. It aims to make boating available to everyone by providing world-class insurance, 24-hour free cancellations and connection to our network of boat owners and certified captains, allowing everyone a chance to enjoy the luxury of boating.
Snag-A-Slip is a Baltimore-based company that connects boaters with available slips, while also showcasing marinas via digital channels in the same way that hotels are promoted digitally. The mobile-responsive website and mobile apps allow boaters to explore marinas by region, city or marina name and then search for slip availability based on travel dates, length, beam, draw and power requirements. Boaters can pick their preferred marina based on amenities, location and availability and book immediately with any credit card. There are no booking fees associated with the service, which is now available from Canada through the Caribbean. Snag-A-Slip mobile apps are now available for free download on the App Store and Google Play.
Orange Island Ventures was an early investor, advisor and Board member. iTopia has developed a new virtual infrastructure technology known as “Desktop as a Service” (Daas) or “Cloud Computing” that’s easier to manage and scale, less costly to operate, and more secure and reliable than traditional IT infrastructure. With itopia, you use your “real work computer” from any device, anytime, anywhere. You never have to worry about backing-up, upgrading servers or installing new software because it’s done for you…seamlessly and all at once. Employees bring their own devices Macs, tablets, etc. to work and your businesses doesn’t need to constantly purchase new equipment. And because everything is stored securely in the itopia cloud, a lost or stolen laptop no longer means lost or stolen data.
Orange Island Ventures is a seed investor and co-founder of Entourage Effect Capital, LLC (EEC was founded as Cresco Capital Partners, LLC in 2014). EEC is a United States private venture investment firm. EEC’s mission is actively leverage our sector and investment experience, networks, and investment process, to identify, invest and accelerate high quality emerging growth companies. EEC stands apart by taking an active role in adding value to the management teams of its companies. From early stage acceleration, to acquisition sourcing, to strategy, to creating exit opportunities, we aim to be the most valuable names on our founders cap tables.
StateHouse Holdings [STHZ (CSE) & STHZF (US OTC)] is a leading vertically integrated Cannabis company dedicated to elevating the heritage of the California cannabis market. StateHouse has brought together; leading California brand – Fuzzies; best-in-class Southern Californian retailer Urbn Leaf, innovative vertically integrated Loudpack and Harborside, the most historically impactful and respected Bay Area retailers; in their vision to become the dominant California Cannabis Operator. Harborside Inc. (CSE:HBOR) is one of the oldest and most respected cannabis retailers in California, operating three of the major dispensaries in the San Francisco Bay Area, a dispensary in the Palm Springs area outfitted with Southern California’s only cannabis drive-thru window, a dispensary in Oregon and a cultivation/production facility in Salinas, California. Harborside has played an instrumental role in making cannabis safe and accessible to a broad and diverse community of California consumers. Founded in 2006, Harborside was awarded one of the first six medical cannabis licenses granted in the United States and today holds cannabis licenses for retail, distribution, cultivation, nursery and manufacturing. Orange Island Ventures is an investor and strategic advisor both directly and through Entourage Effect Capital.
In 2019, EEC recapped The Arcview Group and Andrew Sturner joined the Board with an intention to reposition the business by leveraging the brand and network to firmly establish The Arcview Group as the pre-eminent early stage asset management business in the Cannabis industry. With deep industry experience, The Arcview Group has ushered in the next generation of cannabis-related businesses with The Arcview Investor Network, Arcview Market Research, Canopy Boulder (incubator), Cannasure Insurance Services, and other ground-breaking ventures. Cannabis is the next great industry. The Arcview Investor Network currently consists of 600+ accredited investors. Over 200 companies have raised more than $270 million as a result of their participation in Arcview.
Orange Island Ventures was an early investor and co-led their Series A round. I As Kate Boyer, co-founder of Anatomie describes her company: “If Prada and Lululemon had a baby.. it would be Anatomie” ;-). Anatomie is growing exponentially and is the official luxury travel clothing brand of Forbes Travel Guide. Kate and Shawn Boyer founded Anatomie in 2006 after years in the activewear business. Budapest-born Kate got a MBA in International Trade in France, while working as a girls’ gymnastics coach and dressing the team in outfits she designed herself. From there, the self-taught designer developed private label collections for many exclusive resorts in St. Barth. She met her husband Shawn in Miami, where the Ohio native was designing customized clothing for hard-to-fit athletic men. The two joined forces to design sportswear for brands such as Elite Models, Cigarette Boats, Lamborghini and Nikki Beach clubs. With Kate as CEO and Shawn as Creative Director, they launched Anatomie, a name that speaks to the impeccable fit and sleek tailoring of the brand’s designs. “We know a woman’s body—all the different types and fits that flatter each shape the best,” explains Kate. The duo transitioned their activewear background into the athleisure category, taking it to the next level as a travel-specific luxury line with exclusive distribution and marketing partnerships. Today the brand is carried in more than 400 specialty stores, private clubs, resorts, golf shops, and spas nationwide. Although Kate and Shawn regularly travel all over the world for trade shows, sales events and factory visits, they live in Miami with their daughter Charlee and their dog George.
Orange Island Ventures is an early investor in the franchisor of Duff’s CakeMix locations. Just a few years out of culinary school, Duff quit his day job and launched a custom cake business out of his one bedroom apartment in Baltimore, Maryland. Duff and his team at Charm City Cakes pushed the limits of cake decorating, sculpting a dazzling array of awe-inspiring works from life-sized elephants to racecar replicas. The wild creations and off-beat company culture soon became the subject of the hit Food Network show, Ace of Cakes, inspiring an entire generation to roll up their sleeves and decorate. Pursuing his passion for inspiring creativity in others, Duff founded the first ever do-it-yourself cake and cupcake decorating studio in Los Angeles. At Duff’s Cakemix, we believe there are artists in all of us and that cake decorating is an act of love, especially when done with or for others. The world wants to create, the world needs to create, and more than anything, the world needs cake. We’re here to help.
Founded by two dads on a mission to revolutionize the medicine aisle, Genexa makes medicine with the same active ingredients people need, but without the artificial ones they don’t. We believe people deserve better. That’s why our business is built on the commitment to put people over everything. All of our products are made to the highest standards of medicine with no artificial dyes, common allergens, or unnecessary inactive ingredients. It’s real medicine, made clean.
Druid Ventures is an Early-Stage Web3 Venture Fund. In a landscape fraught with cash grabs and rug pulls, it can be difficult to see the vast potential that a web3 future holds. Druid Ventures isn’t distracted by the shiny things. We’re bringing the strong emphasis on fundamentals from our collective history into a forward-looking fund focused on the evolution of blockchain. The value shift towards builders and creators is happening quickly, but they need sound infrastructure, scalable architecture, and strong interoperability in products and protocols. Druid intends to be some of the first partners at the table supporting fundamentally strong companies who fit this profile, driving the creation of better products, and accelerating the accessibility needed for broad adoption of decentralized applications.
Versus Game is a consumer prediction marketplace that presents timely and relevant interactive games, giving users the opportunity to get paid for being right. Players can predict the outcome of their favorite brands, celebrities, musicians, movies, athletes and more for cash prizes, with the platform being the first of its kind to bring power to the masses and allow consumers to capitalize on their knowledge of mainstream culture. To date, the platform has over 3 million users and has given away over $8.5 million in cash prizes.
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way.
Founded in 2012, Interplay Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in New York, New York. The firm seeks to invest in information technology, manufacturing, and commercial services sectors across United America, Canada, and Israel. The firm invests in technology-enabled businesses between Seed and Series B.
Pacaso is a technology-enabled marketplace that modernizes real estate co-ownership to make owning a second home possible and enjoyable for more people. Pacaso curates luxury listings with premium amenities and high-end contemporary interior design, offers ⅛ to ½ ownership with integrated financing, and, after purchase, professionally manages the home and supports seamless resale. Co-founded by Austin Allison and Spencer Rascoff in 2020, Pacaso operates in 40 top second home destinations around the world. Pacaso has been certified as a Great Place to Work and is recognized as one of Glassdoor’s 2022 Best Places to Work.
Autonomy (founded as NXCR by Scott Painter) is on a mission to create a profitable platform that enables vehicle subscription to thrive as a sustainable business model in automotive retail. NextCar is innovating through technology, operations and infrastructure, and strategic partnerships in order to advance the vehicle subscription model and marketplace
Founded in 2014, GrubMarket is a San Francisco-based food technology company operating in the space of food supply chain eCommerce for both business customers and end consumers, as well as providing related software-as-a-service solutions to digitally transform the American food supply chain. Currently, GrubMarket operates in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Missouri, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and British Columbia (Canada), with plans to expand to other parts of the U.S., Canada, and other parts of the world.
Founded in 2015, InvestBev Group has grown to be a top adult beverage private equity firm. Helmed by a 3rd generation industry veteran Brian Rosen, IBG has raised nearly $100M with AUM of over $500M. They specialize in short return windows while offering non correlated investing as a cornerstone of their strategy.
Haoma is a clean skincare brand that believes in reconnecting people to nature through their products, inspiring individuals to take care of themselves and the planet. Haoma’s plant-based, cruelty-free beauty products are truly one-of-a-kind.
Wesana Health is a data-driven life science company pioneering drug development and clinical therapies utilizing psychedelic medicine for mental health care.