Venture-Backed Startups

Chef's Roll is a global culinary community and marketing agency that connects brands with culinary and food service professionals, from Michelin-starred chefs to students, mixologists, and sommeliers. It offers content creation, online contests, events, and custom brand programs, distributing work across social channels with a combined following of over 1.6 million.

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Chegg is an education technology company that helps students learn more efficiently and affordably, supporting them from learning through career development. The company focuses on improving the return on investment in education for students worldwide.

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Cheiron is a pharmaceutical AI platform that synthesizes scientific literature, clinical evidence, regulatory documents, and safety data to provide verifiable insights for drug discovery, clinical development, medical affairs, and regulatory workflows in the biopharma industry.

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Chek is a digital payment platform for nonprofits to distribute and manage funds to beneficiaries via cards, digital wallets, and ACH, with spend controls, transaction tracking, and compliance reporting. It serves organizations running financial assistance programs, including youth sports subsidies, military and first responder support, medical relief, emergency aid, and university student support.

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Chekin provides software for short-term rental and hotel property managers that automates online guest check-in, sends legally required traveler reports to local authorities, and issues virtual keys. Its platform also handles biometric identity verification, tourist-tax collection, digital rental-contract signing, online payments, and upselling of guest experiences.

3 investors

Chekkit provides product authentication and distribution tracking technology, offering labels that verify product genuineness for manufacturers and producers of consumer goods and pharmaceutical products. The company works with small, medium, and large enterprises, with a particular focus on Africa.

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Chekkit is a customer messaging and lead management platform that lets local businesses text back missed callers, send review requests, promotions, invoices, and payment links, and automate replies with AI. It also includes a CRM to track leads and follow-ups plus analytics on response times, conversions, and customer engagement.

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CHELA MEDIA is a creator-focused content ecosystem that produces and distributes content to millions of monthly users. The company partners with major media and entertainment brands and produces content cited by major news outlets.

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Chelsea Avondale develops Skynet, a risk-pricing technology for property and casualty (P&C) insurance that evaluates risk from the underlying scientific properties of events causing insurance claims rather than grouping common risks. The company applies this "Scientific Underwriting" approach to re-engineer insurance pricing and risk evaluation.

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CheMastery builds a chemistry-agnostic software and hardware platform that automates and standardizes organic chemistry workflows, connecting R&D and manufacturing through robotic synthesis, purification, and reaction monitoring. It serves chemical research and manufacturing operations of all sizes across applications ranging from drug discovery to advanced materials.

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ChemCloud is software for managing chemical supply chain transactions from supplier approval through delivery, automating tasks like document collection, quote analysis, delivery tracking, and certificate-of-analysis review. It serves procurement and supply chain teams that buy chemicals and materials.

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ChemFinity develops advanced chemical separation technologies for recovering critical minerals and other resources. The company aims to support a more secure domestic supply of these materials.

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Chemical.AI develops AI platforms, including ChemAIRS and SA Score, that generate synthetic routes, predict reaction impurities and byproducts, provide process chemistry insights, and screen compounds for synthesizability. It serves pharmaceutical companies, CROs, biotech firms, and research institutions in medicinal chemistry, process development, and high-throughput automation.

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Chemical Guys sells car care and detailing products, including cleaning chemicals, car wash accessories, buffing pads, and polishing machines. It markets directly to car enthusiasts and professional detailers.

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ChemID is a chemical and product data management platform that lets users upload, translate, compare, and secure product data through a universal data schema. It serves laboratories, producers, consumers, and regulators for tasks including quality tracking, authenticity verification, and regulatory compliance.

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