Tamiami Angel Funds Invests in AI Platform Zenapse 

Startup that powers emotionally intelligent experiences for marketers secures an investment of $500,000 from Southwest Florida angel investors.

NAPLES, Fla., (June XX, 2024) — Angel investors from Southwest Florida led an investment in Zenapse, an AI-powered platform that helps marketers optimize campaigns through emotional intelligence to drive better customer engagement, acquisition, and retention.

Members of Tamiami Angel Fund V today announced it has invested $500,000 in Zenapse, the third portfolio company in the fund.

“Our AI platform empowers brands to understand what consumers want, and dynamically predicts how consumers will make choices and what’s important to them based on our unique Large Emotion Model and proprietary AI system,” says Matthew Bernardini, CEO and co-founder of Zenapse.

Zenapse has gathered insights from 1750 million consumers and collected more than 4.5 billion data points to help brands such as Sam’s Club, Aeropostale, Prosper, and Bread Financial create more emotionally intelligent marketing experiences.

“Today’s marketers need to improve revenue and performance. With Zenapse, marketers are able to connect with consumers on an emotional level, which is how a vast majority of decisions are made,” says Bernardini, a longtime data entrepreneur who has previously built and sold four companies. 

“Zenapse’s unique AI platform significantly boosts marketing results and our members immediately saw the opportunity to dominate this space with a seasoned leadership team,” says Timothy Cartwright, partner of Fifth Avenue Family Office and chairman of Tamiami Angel Funds in Naples.  Cartwright continued, “An added benefit was to invest alongside of Naples Technology Ventures continuing our long-term relationship of deal sharing and co-investment.”

Zenapse plans to use the proceeds to expand its sales. “We’re in a great position with our investors’ support to continue expanding our product offerings across platforms, channels, and screens, and we appreciate the strategic insights and financial backing of Tamiami Angels,” says Bernardini.  

Naples-based Tamiami Angel Funds are member-managed funds that allow high-net-worth individuals and families to invest in promising early-stage and expansion-stage companies located in the U.S., with a preference to those in the state of Florida. For more information about Tamiami Angel Funds, visit www.tamiamiangels.com. For more information about Zenapse, visit www.zenapse.com. 

About Tamiami Angel Funds

Tamiami Angel Fund I, Tamiami Angel Fund II, Tamiami Angel Fund III, Tamiami Angel Fund IV, and Tamiami Angel Fund V are member-managed funds that allow high-net-worth individuals and families to invest in promising early-stage and expansion-stage companies located in the U.S., with a preference to those in the state of Florida. Fifth Avenue Family Office, the administrator of the angel funds, caters their multi-family office services to high-net-worth entrepreneurs and their families. The funds are members of the Angel Capital Association and the Florida Venture Forum. For more information, visit www.tamiamiangels.com.

About Zenapse

Zenapse is an AI SaaS platform for dynamic marketing and CX optimization powered by emotional intelligence and the world’s first Large Emotion Model. We have created a new paradigm of human-centric understanding to accelerate results and performance for CMOs, CDOs, CX, and growth leaders. Our unique platform provides low-code, high-impact solutions to optimize marketing and each customer’s experience, based on insight, market intelligence, and ethical AI using our proprietary network knowledge graph. For more information visit www.zenapse.com.