UrbanStems
Series B in 2019
UrbanStems Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based company that specializes in on-demand flower delivery services. Founded in 2014, it offers a variety of fresh flowers and seasonal stems for different occasions, along with floral arrangements tailored for businesses. UrbanStems provides hand-crafted bouquets that are designed for quick delivery, often arriving within minutes to the recipient's location. The company's offerings include personalized notes and specific care instructions for each arrangement, enhancing the gifting experience. Additionally, UrbanStems features a subscription service for regular flower deliveries and provides an iOS application for convenient ordering. The company's services are available in major cities such as New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
READY Robotics
Seed Round in 2016
READY Robotics Corp., established in 2016, is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. The company specializes in developing ForgeOS, an industrial operating system designed to simplify robotics and automation deployment and management. ForgeOS leverages patented technology and low-code apps, enabling manufacturers to automate high-mix/low-volume production efficiently. READY Robotics' platform connects various robotic devices and thousands of industrial automation tools via a cloud computing unit, allowing operators to control and program them collectively with minimal training.
UrbanStems
Series A in 2016
UrbanStems Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based company that specializes in on-demand flower delivery services. Founded in 2014, it offers a variety of fresh flowers and seasonal stems for different occasions, along with floral arrangements tailored for businesses. UrbanStems provides hand-crafted bouquets that are designed for quick delivery, often arriving within minutes to the recipient's location. The company's offerings include personalized notes and specific care instructions for each arrangement, enhancing the gifting experience. Additionally, UrbanStems features a subscription service for regular flower deliveries and provides an iOS application for convenient ordering. The company's services are available in major cities such as New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
Workbench Platform
Seed Round in 2016
Workbench's content platform packages your content into custom, engaging learning and get-active experiences that drive continuously fresh content and value to education and consumer learners, makers, and doers. At Workbench, we love to tinker, explore, make, create and discover using robots and circuitry and gardens and drones and all sorts of materials we can work into projects. This kind of project-based learning and exploration is what we’re is all about, so we created a community where like-minded people can come together to engage and inspire each other with their own ideas. Workbench has partnered with some of the most forward-thinking maker-product companies in the world to be on the leading edge of innovation. We will continue to add product partners and introduce dynamic new tools for learning to our community. Here on the Workbench platform, maker-educators, students, hobbyists—anyone, really—can discover engaging projects created by Workbench and the Workbench user community. Members of the community can create and post their own projects and share their unique creations and successes in the Gallery. We know that educators are just as excited about project-based learning as we are, so the Workbench platform gives educators the tools to connect with other educators, create classes, assign hands-on lessons and monitor student progress in real time. Workbench is excited to partner with top product companies to create unique communities focused on using specific products in project-based learning. Find our partner platforms by clicking here.
Tessemae's
Series A in 2015
Tessemae's, LLC is a food company based in Essex, Maryland, founded in 2009. The company specializes in producing salad dressings and sauces that are clean-label and made with high-quality, organic ingredients. Tessemae's is dedicated to promoting healthy eating through its mission to simplify food for a better quality of life. Its products are manufactured in the United States and are available for purchase both online and through a wide range of retail partners, including major grocery chains. By focusing on flavor and health, Tessemae's aims to enhance access to nutritious food options for consumers.
ScoreStream
Seed Round in 2015
ScoreStream, Inc. is a communication platform that specializes in mobile applications designed for sharing information about sporting events, particularly high school sports. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company’s platform includes both iOS and Android applications, as well as a website. ScoreStream engages fans by allowing them to crowd-source scores, photos, videos, and conversations from numerous games each week. This user-generated content not only enhances the experience for fans but also provides accurate reporting and coverage of local sports, catering to consumers and media companies alike. The company's former name was Crowdscores, Inc., and it has collaborated with notable clients such as ESPN and Walt Disney Internet Group.
UrbanStems
Seed Round in 2015
UrbanStems Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based company that specializes in on-demand flower delivery services. Founded in 2014, it offers a variety of fresh flowers and seasonal stems for different occasions, along with floral arrangements tailored for businesses. UrbanStems provides hand-crafted bouquets that are designed for quick delivery, often arriving within minutes to the recipient's location. The company's offerings include personalized notes and specific care instructions for each arrangement, enhancing the gifting experience. Additionally, UrbanStems features a subscription service for regular flower deliveries and provides an iOS application for convenient ordering. The company's services are available in major cities such as New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.