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BAG Collective

BAG Collective

Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

A collective of angel investors that invests intellectual, social and financial capital in early-stage startups.

About us

The BAG Collective is a collective of angel investors from top tech companies and startups that invests intellectual, social and financial capital in seed to Series A startups around the world. Our collective believes in and support founders who build ethical, high-growth technology companies.

Industry
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Company size
201-500 employees
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2021

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    AudioShake has raised $14M in Series A funding to make audio editable, searchable, and programmable. The round was led by Shine Capital, with participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures, Origin Ventures, Background Capital, Indicator Ventures, and Precursor Ventures, and prominent angels like Bradley Horowitz and Charlie Songhurst. Kerry Flynn at Axios delved into our Series A round and how it positions us to continue our trend of growth into new avenues. From film and TV studios isolating dialogue, music, and effects; music labels getting stems for sync and mixing; sports leagues removing unlicensed audio, and AI companies working with audio at scale, just in the past year, we’ve seen:  🤝 40+ enterprise customers across media, entertainment, Big Tech, and AI 🎧 Hundreds of millions of minutes of audio processed 📈Nearly 400% year-over-year revenue growth With AudioShake , sound is fully unlocked. This latest investment will help us accelerate product development, expand API access, and support next-gen applications across media, entertainment, and AI. Follow along for more news in the coming weeks. 👀

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  • 🎉 Exciting news! We’re thrilled to celebrate the successful acquisition of Syrup Tech by Thoma Bravo-backed Anaplan. This acquisition creates a powerful combination - Anaplan’s unified planning platform with Syrup Tech's cutting-edge AI forecasting capabilities will deliver unprecedented granularity and precision in retail decision-making. Congratulations to James Theuerkauf and the entire Syrup Tech team for building something extraordinary and challenging the status quo of retail planning. Your vision of fast, adaptive, and deeply connected intelligence is now on a fast-track to scale globally. This milestone showcases the incredible potential when innovative founders meet the right strategic partner. Excited to watch this next chapter unfold!

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    The future of retail planning is here ⏭️ Anaplan has acquired Syrup Tech, a cutting-edge AI-native supply chain platform 🚀 We’re combining Syrup’s forecasting engine with our best-in-class AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform to help retailers win.  The result for our customers? 📊 Enhanced forecasting precision  💰 More profitable pricing and demand strategies  ⏱️ Scaling efficiency  💪 Strengthened risk resilience     As our CEO, Charlie Gottdiener, said, "This deal signals that when it comes to AI, real impact outweighs hype." We're excited to bring this game-changing capability to today’s leading retailers to help them drive smarter and more precise decisions that boost margins, improve sell-throughs, and optimize inventory. Welcome to #LifeatAnaplan, Syrup Tech! Read the full announcement: https://apln.co/h1xg0x

  • ⏰ Final week reminder! Applications for the Global Pitch Competition at SaaStock Europe 2025 close on September 17th, 2025. The BAG Collective is proud to support this incredible opportunity for AI & SaaS startups to compete for up to €1M in equity investment. With just days remaining, now is the time to submit your application and join the competition in Dublin, Ireland. Don't miss out if you're a B2B AI or SaaS startup with: ▪️ Under 35 employees ▪️ Raised less than $3M ▪️ Generated less than $1.5M ARR The finalists will pitch live on October 14th to 15th, presenting to a panel of seasoned investors and industry leaders. This competition offers unparalleled exposure and the potential to secure significant funding for your startup's next growth phase. Time is running out to secure your spot among the most promising startups. Submit your applications here before the deadline: https://lnkd.in/g_cUUrnb

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    Excited to host the 12th Angel Fair Africa in New York City at Google’s 9th Avenue offices on September 19, 2025. The AFA@12 Investor Panel will bring together leaders shaping Africa's investment landscape from venture capital to angel investing: ✔️ Candice Morgan - BAG Collective ✔️ Steven Grin - Lateral Frontiers VC ✔️ Achumboro Ataande, Esq. - Ataande & Advisors ✔️ Dr Ola Brown - HealthCap ✔️ Moderated by: Tinyiko Valoyi - Chanzo Capital Together, they'll explore how capital, expertise, and partnerships can drive the next wave of African entrepreneurship. Chanzo Capital Five Two Five BAG Collective Google Ataande & Advisors Gentlemen's Factory

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  • 🎉 We’re excited to announce our partnership as an investment partner for the Global Pitch Competition at SaaStock Europe 2025 in Dublin, Ireland! The Global Pitch Competition applications are officially open, and best fit for the most ambitious AI & SaaS startups ready to scale globally. This is your opportunity to showcase your innovation on an international stage. Who should apply: B2B AI & SaaS startups that have: ▪️ Less than 35 employees ▪️ Raised less than $3M ▪️ Less than $1.5M ARR Finalists will pitch LIVE October 14th to 15th with the chance to win an equity investment of up to €1M. This competition represents a unique opportunity to connect with leading investors, gain valuable exposure, and accelerate your startup's growth trajectory. Ready to take your startup to the next level? 🚀 Apply by September 17: https://lnkd.in/gJ49ZN5V

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    Holy sh*t. €1,000,000. 🤑 🚨 Applications are now open for the #SaaStockEurope Global Pitch Competition 🚨 and the search for the best AI/SaaS startup is on. 💥 €1,000,000 investment package (our biggest yet!) 💥 Europe’s top VCs watching 💥 One game-changing AI or SaaS startup Who we want: The game-changers. The disruptors. The AI & SaaS startups that make VCs sit up and take notice. This is your shot to go from “promising startup” to “must-watch company” - live on stage at SaaStock Europe. Think you’ve got what it takes? 🔥 Apply now - link in the comments. 👇 Hear from previous winners and get ready to make VCs come to you. Thanks to our VC Partners: BackFuture, BAG Collective, HEARTFELT_, OPUS. Quadri Ventures and Plug and Play Tech Center, and our Launch Partner: Mountside Ventures 🙌 Thank you also to our incredible judges: Kitty Harris Ben Gammon Frank Appeldoorn Al Russell Jebran Raashed Nadja Carina Reischel Stephen Fahy Ciara Gumsheimer Menno Axt Imtiyaz Basharat 伊迪 Dominik Hörner Rich Bolton Maria Wagner Sarah Finegan Elliot Schouten Dylan Scully Christopher Polligkeit Andrea Gurnari Chris Wilkinson Chris Pistorius Ana Fernandez Jaren S. Alex Reed Ties Hagemeijer Olamide Ogunrinola Sam Tidswell-Norrish Vanesa Pazos Isabella Vahdati #startups #SaaS #AI #funding #VC #pitchcompetition #SaaStock #founders

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    Co-Founder/CEO at Home From College

    This might be one of the most exciting (and important) roles we're hiring for at H\FC. Seriously — it's one of the coolest jobs out there. Head of Partnerships: https://lnkd.in/gezbpRew TL;DR You’ll: - Lead strategic partnerships across iconic events — think music festivals,FIFA, and the Olympics - Build and scale a high-impact referral program - Grow and support agency partnerships - Work hand-in-hand with RevOps to drive growth

  • Congratulations to Daydream on the public beta launch! 🚀 BAG is proud to be on this journey with you! 🤝🏾 🙌🏾 👗 🤖 🛒

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    Today we’re launching Daydream’s public beta. The future of online shopping starts now, with the world’s first AI-powered, chat-based shopping agent built exclusively for fashion. We have the largest fashion catalog of our kind, with 8,000+ global brands and retailers. Our AI fashion agent listens, understands, and adapts to your style preferences, becoming like a trusted personal shopper. Built on advanced natural language understanding and multimodal AI, Daydream enables true personalization at scale. You’ll find that no two search queries return the same results. We provide you with a deeply curated experience, powered by our platform’s ability to learn and adapt across millions of interactions. Today is just the beginning. Daydream is still in beta – to improve, we need your inputs! If a search doesn’t work the first time, try it again. Our model will continue to evolve, growing stronger with every query. We’ll keep you updated. Head over to www.daydream.ing to get started. Finally, thank you Kirsten Green (Forerunner), Jon Callaghan (True Ventures), Vlad Loktev (Index Ventures), and Frederique Dame (GV (Google Ventures) for your support and conviction. Let's do this!

  • Congratulations to the BAG Ventures team for their third event in the AI Convergence Series, hosted in LA! 🚀 Spun out of the BAG Collective, BAG Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on investing in visionary founders building transformative AI startups that enhance enterprise productivity and redefine industries. Their latest AI Convergence Series event featured insights from Ammanuel Zegeye, a partner at McKinsey & Company and Company, and a fireside chat between Van Jones, CNN host, New-York-Times-bestselling author, and Founder of Dream Machine Innovation Lab, and James Manyika, Senior Vice President for Research, Labs, Technology & Society, Alphabet and Google. The event brought together leaders across sectors such as media and entertainment, tech, venture capital and the like for a discussion on the frontier of AI and its transformative potential. Members from the BAG Collective were also in attendance 🔥 Be sure to follow the BAG Ventures page for more updates on the firm and their progress! 👇🏾

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    In partnership with Van Jones, the Dream Machine Innovation Lab and McKinsey & Company, BAG Ventures recently hosted our third AI Convergence Series event in Los Angeles. As an early-stage venture firm backed by Google and founded by former Google operators, we're dedicated to fostering inclusivity in tech. With that mission in mind, the event brought together founders, VCs, AI experts, and leaders across sectors like media and entertainment and tech to explore AI's transformative potential. Key insights from Ammanuel Zegeye of McKinsey and a fireside chat with Van Jones and James Manyika highlighted AI’s rapid advancements over the years, its societal impact accelerating progress in sectors such as healthcare, finance and education, and how it democratizes access and potential for more communities. A big thank you to our guests, speakers and partners. We’re in deep gratitude to our sponsors–Amazon, Andersen, Citizens Private Bank, Cooley LLP, and McKinsey and Company–for helping make this event happen. The energy in the room was truly magical and inspiring–something we’ll take with us as we collectively navigate this technological shift. 

  • Exciting news from our portfolio company, AudioShake ! Their latest update is a game-changer for those driving workflows in music and voice: with the AudioShake SDK, developers can isolate speech from background noise or unlock music separation for DJ hardware, recording apps, and the like. At the BAG Collective, we back founders building impactful, scalable technology—and AudioShake is doing just that by elevating audio through AI.

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    Introducing real-time, on-device audio separation—now available to developers. 🎧 Ever missed the play-by-play in a loud stadium? Struggled with garbled captions because of background noise? What if your app could pull vocals out of a song—or isolate a speaker from the roar of a crowd—in real time? Now, it can. With just a few lines of code, you can: 🎤 Isolate speech in noisy environments 🎼 Remix stems or mute instruments on the fly 📱 Deploy across iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux 🚀 Power better experiences for streaming, translation, captioning, remixing, and more Built on the same core tech trusted by major music labels, broadcasters, and tech platforms—now optimized for edge devices and real-time use. Proud to launch with partners like AutoTune, Tuned Global, AI-Media, Voloco, MashApp Music, and Backtrackit. 🎬 Watch the SDK in action below—and see what your app could sound like.

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    🎉 It's once again Friday 🎉 ... and we are kicking off our final weekend in May '25 with a #Global25 spotlight of two founders building a platform that is making global commerce possible for scaling brands! 📦 🤖 ✨ Meet Audrey Djiya and Peter Nsaka, the founder team behind 💡 Zimi (YC S24) – the startup reimagining the post-purchase infrastructure for modern commerce! 🚀 Today’s brands and 3PLs are drowning in operational complexity as they scale — juggling dozens of disconnected tools just to keep orders moving, customers updated, and warehouses in sync. 😫 Managing orders, returns, and customer inquiries can be overwhelming, leading to costly delays and customer dissatisfaction. 💸 Enter Zimi - on a mission 🎯. The company aims to be the ultimate commerce automation platform, revolutionizing post-purchase operations to improve customer experience while saving brands time and money. 📈 📦 Zimi aims to create a future where every scaling brand can achieve seamless post-purchase excellence, delivering delight to customers and eliminating operational chaos. ✨ 🛠️ 🛒 Just as Shopify transformed storefronts, Zimi's operating system is upgrading the entire workflow after the buy button with: 1️⃣ Unified Order & Inventory Management 🌐 : Zimi centralizes both D2C and B2B orders, automatically routing them to the best warehouse or 3PL. It tracks stock across multiple locations in one intelligent system, proactively preventing stockouts. 📋 2️⃣ Automated Fulfillment & Smart Returns 🔄 : Zimi automates order fulfillment and shipment tracking, providing real-time status updates directly to buyers. Plus, a custom-branded Multi-Channel Returns Portal reduces fraud, generates labels, and routes returns efficiently for processing, inspection, and re-fulfillment. ✅ 3️⃣ AI-Powered Customer Support & Prediction 💬 : Zimi unifies communication channels and uses AI chatbots to handle inquiries and automate issue resolution. Its AI even predicts customer needs, boosting satisfaction and driving repeat purchases! 🤖 By providing unparalleled automation and insights, Zimi's technology empowers scaling retail and commerce businesses to: ✓ Drastically improve operational efficiency, saving an average of 80+ hours per month on manual tasks. ⚡📈 ✓ Deliver exceptional customer experiences, leading to a 60%+ increase in customer satisfaction and increased repeat purchases. 💖 ✓ Achieve significant cost savings, with brands reporting an average annual cost saving of $120,000+. 💰 ✓ Eliminate logistical hurdles, reduce fraud, and prevent stockouts, allowing businesses to focus on strategic growth rather than operational chaos. 🚀 Zimi is transforming the e-commerce landscape, where automation meets customer delight. 🤯 🙌 "Zimi: Defender of post-purchase peace." 💪 ✨ #Zimi #LogisticsTech #SupplyChain #FounderSpotlight #Global25 #FiveTwoFive

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