John Maloney is the Managing Partner at Terrapin Bale Venture Fund & Studio, based in New York, New York, United States, North America. John Maloney studied BA  Film Studies @ Hunter College. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.

GroupMe is an app & service that helps you stay connected with your real life social network: your family, friends and coworkers.

Since we launched less than two years ago, we’ve processed billions of messages, grown the company to 25 people, won the Breakout award at SXSW, and been acquired. As part of the Skype division at Microsoft, our goal is to be the daily communications provider for *billions* of people. 

Even though we’re part of a huge company, we have a great deal of autonomy, and continue to operate like an independent startup. We’re a tight-knit team that works hard and iterates quickly in an entrepreneurial environment. 

GroupMe is located in New York City in a bright loft with lots of sunlight, a ping pong table, a pinball machine, a Sonos sound system, and a well-stocked kitchen. We sing karaoke across the street sometimes.

GroupMe

Storenvy is home to emerging brands and authentic goods. It’s a place where you can launch a custom store at your own URL in minutes, and a social Marketplace where you’ll discover amazing things you can’t find anywhere else.  Storenvy is changing the way consumers discover new brands and products by creating a social and community-driven experience fueled by inspired brands with stories to tell. Storenvy was founded in 2010 and has received $6.5 million in funding from Intel Capital, Spark Capital, First Round Capital and others. The company is based in San Francisco and is hiring. For more, take a peek inside at Storenvy.com.

Storenvy

Lua specializes in powering HIPAA compliant messaging for the healthcare industry. It offers a mobile coordination solution that provides immediate access to the people and information needed to get a job done, anywhere.

The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a unique format – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users.  Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.

Circa was founded by [Matt Galligan](/person/matt-galligan), [Ben Huh](/person/ben-huh) and [Arsenio Santos](/person/arsenio-santos) in 2011.

Circa

Sherpaa was co-founded by Dr. Jay Parkinson MD, MPH, trained in pediatrics and preventive medicine at St. Vincent’s and Johns Hopkins. He’s given talks for TED and The Clinton Global Initiative. He’s been referred to as “The Doctor of the Future”.

Cheryl Swirnow, Sherpaa’s co-founder, graduated from Cornell’s Hotel School with a concentration in HR. With fifteen years' experience in Human Resources, she has worked for the likes of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Quintessentially, Nike, The Barbarian Group and Rent the Runway.

Sherpaa

Chromatik connects the world's musicians. Their applications enable millions of musicians to play, learn, and share their favorite music through sheet music, guitar tabs, lyrics, and more. 

Chromatik was acquired by TakeLessons (https://TakeLessons.com) in April 2017.

Chromatik

VHX is a video distribution platform built to share, discover, and watch videos for everyone. Everything that used to be sold on DVD can be sold on VHX. They have helped publishers sell films, TV shows, comedy specials, live concert footage, lectures, web series, fitness, education, and more. Their publishers have grossed over $6.5 million and served over 1.2 million happy customers to date.

The platform provides an end-to-end technology solution that enables businesses, big and small, to sell content directly to their audience from their own websites and apps. VHX sellers get total control of their content, distribution, and customer data, so they can market effectively to their audience, scale quickly, and keep more revenue.

VHX was launched in 2010 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Socratic is an app for taking photos of homework questions and it helps with more than just math. It also supports science, history, English, and economics. The app says it uses artificial intelligence to help users find answers and detailed explanations. With a focus on the high school curriculum, Socratic is equipped with graphs and explainers. It also curates web videos from Khan Academy and other educational platforms. It’s free and available for both iPhone and Android.

Socratic

Twice is like a brick & mortar clothing resale store, but online.

Sellers send in their clothing (we pay shipping), and we make an offer for their items. We pay for everything upfront, so you get your cash right away!

Buyers purchase items from our store, where most of our items are available for 70-90% off retail. And we offer free shipping on orders over $49 ($5 otherwise) and flexible 30-day returns.

Twice

Epic writers travel the world searching for encounters with the unknown. Wartime romance, unlikely savants, deranged detectives, gentlemen thieves, and love struck killers: stories that tap into the thrill of being alive.

Epic publishes extraordinary true stories that get noticed. More than 25 of our articles have been optioned by Hollywood, including Argo, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Fox Film Studios has signed a first look deal with us.

Epic Magazine

Wag is a mobile application used to instantly find trusted and certified dog walkers. You’ll receive a push notification when the walk starts, followed by real-time GPS tracking of the walk. Once the walk is complete, you’ll receive a report card with a photo, notes, the distance traveled, and a pee/poop report.

Fly Labs creates apps getting creative with video.

Fly Labs

DRIP is a subscription-based music service that allows labels to send subscribers every album release via e-mail for a flat monthly fee. Its users have the ability to subscribe and support creators directly and get access to releases, artwork, ideas, and more. It provides users with music labels, musicians, artists, visual artists, non-profits, and more types of creators on DRIP.

DRIP is featuring direct feeds from the creators, personalized music catalogs, and a member’s area to connect. It pays creators directly, taking a small revenue share for maintenance of its service.

Founded by Miguel Senquiz and Sam Valenti IV, DRIP is based in New York, N.Y.

DRIP

Zype provides the infrastructure for digital video with a cloud-based platform to manage and distribute enterprise-grade video across the web, mobile, TV, and social media. Offering both developer-friendly tools such as customizable APIs as well as turnkey solutions for OTT apps and linear/FAST channels, Zype’s SaaS solutions enable video creators or distributors to quickly build, launch and manage superior video products at scale.

Zype

Two Hat’s AI-powered content moderation platform classifies, filters, and escalates more than 30 billion human interactions, including messages, usernames, images, and videos a month, all in real-time. With an emphasis on surfacing online harms including cyber-bullying, abuse, hate speech, violent threats, and child exploitation, we enable clients across a variety of social networks to foster safe and healthy user experiences.

More than just a filter, we also provide an all-in-one content moderation solution, with data analysis, content escalations, flexible workflows, auto-moderated user reports, and more. 

Two Hat’s Community Sift is an enterprise-level AI-powered content moderation platform with a full suite of customizable tools, including chat filter, username, image and video that automatically removes bullying, harassment, hate speech, adult content, and other disruptive behavior from your platform.

Powered by Two Hat, Sift Ninja is the world's smartest profanity filter for all social platforms. Powered by the same robust content classifiers as Two Hat’s Community Sift, think of Sift Ninja as “Community Sift Lite,” or “Community Sift for Startups”. An essentials-only profanity filter tool that automatically filters the worst content, including vulgarity, sexting, and racism

Two Hat Security

Sunrise is a free calendar app. Designed with love, Sunrise is a new experience that will make your life easier. Available on Android, iPhone, iPad & Web.

Sunrise

Svrf was founded with the vision to empower people to see the world differently. Today, the Svrf platform does this by making 3D searchable, shareable, and accessible on all platforms.

Svrf's iOS app enables anyone to create and share 3D filters on their phone. No prior 3D or game engine knowledge required!

Svrf's API supercharges your camera or messaging application with the largest cross-platform database of 3D face filters, objects, and more: developers.svrf.com.

Svrf

John Maloney

New York, New York, United States, North America

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Money Raised
Mar 31, 2017	Svrf	Angel Round - Svrf	700.0K
Jul 06, 2017	Pandascore	Pre Seed Round - Pandascore	2.9M
Jul 09, 2019	SIMULATE	Seed Round - SIMULATE	7.0M
Nov 02, 2021	Parabeac	Seed Round - Parabeac	685.0K

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John Maloney has made 32 investments. Their Latest investment was Seed Round - Parabeac on Nov 02, 2021

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