Bialla Venture Partners

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Golden, Colorado, Ascent360 is a software company specializing in cloud-based multi-channel communication solutions. Its platform transforms customer data into actionable insights to drive revenue growth and enhance customer engagement.

Hookit is a sports analytics and valuation platform based in San Diego, California, founded in 2001. It specializes in helping brands optimize their sponsorship investments by providing insights into the value derived from athletes, teams, leagues, venues, and events across social and digital media platforms. Hookit's technology measures engagement and brand promotion, including mentions, hashtags, keywords, and logos within photos and videos, to quantify previously unknown sponsorship value. The platform is used by major entities such as Major League Soccer, the Canadian Olympic Team, Monster Energy, and Liverpool FC to enhance their return on investment in sponsorships. Hookit tracks nearly 500,000 sports entities, making it an essential tool for companies aiming to maximize their digital sponsorship strategies.

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Golden, Colorado, Ascent360 is a software company specializing in cloud-based multi-channel communication solutions. Its platform transforms customer data into actionable insights to drive revenue growth and enhance customer engagement.

CashBet is a mobile-first platform specializing in real-money, social, and skill-based interactive gaming. Founded in 2012 by veterans of the gaming industry, the company provides a comprehensive software solution that enables operators to establish and manage legal and profitable iGaming businesses. Its highly scalable and customizable platform supports mobile, tablet, and desktop devices, ensuring a seamless experience for users. CashBet offers a vertically-integrated turnkey operation that includes compliance assistance, player banking, app and site management, marketing automation, customer support, and robust data analytics. The platform is licensed by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission and the UK Gambling Commission and is currently utilized by multiple operators to manage over 450 games worldwide. Additionally, CashBet leverages blockchain technology to enhance the online gambling experience, allowing for legal transactions using exclusive cryptocurrency and improving player engagement across various game genres.

Inverse is an online media platform focused on curating content for a millennial male audience. It specializes in original reporting, news coverage, and insightful analysis, exploring emerging ideas, new technologies, and trends. By highlighting the perspectives of innovative thinkers and creators, Inverse seeks to engage its audience with unique insights into pop culture and everyday life. The platform aims to answer the question of what the future may hold, fostering a sense of curiosity and encouraging its readers to better understand and prepare for upcoming developments.

zyBooks is an educational company founded in 2012 by Smita Bakshi and Frank Vahid, aimed at enhancing learning for college students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. Recognizing that over half of STEM students do not complete their degrees, zyBooks addresses the shortcomings of traditional textbooks, which often do not engage students effectively. The company creates web-native learning materials that emphasize interactivity, using minimal text and incorporating question sets, animations, and embedded homework. This approach allows students to learn through active participation rather than passive reading. zyBooks is developed collaboratively by a team of professors, content developers, and software engineers, ensuring high-quality educational resources. Initially adopted by a few universities, zyBooks has expanded its reach to over 200 colleges and universities, as well as several high schools, providing an accessible and engaging alternative to conventional educational materials.

ClientSuccess, Inc. is a developer of customer success management software tailored for Software-as-a-Service companies globally. Founded in 2014 and based in American Fork, Utah, the company offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to enhance post-sales customer relationships and improve retention and growth. Key offerings include SuccessScore, which assesses overall customer health, and SuccessCycle, which helps define and manage success throughout the customer lifecycle. The platform also features solutions for subscription management, customer engagement, and analytics, allowing users to track and mitigate risks while identifying expansion opportunities. Additionally, ClientSuccess provides integrations with customer relationship management and support tools, ensuring seamless communication and support for clients. The company's holistic approach aims to foster a culture of customer success by delivering actionable insights and best practices.

Safe Cash is a company that enhances the security, convenience, and profitability of cash transactions for banks, merchants, and consumers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Safe Cash offers a digital payment service that enables the sending and receiving of money and tokens globally. The company’s Safe Cash Platform utilizes cryptographic technology to facilitate the exchange of digital tokens, while retaining key advantages of cash transactions such as immediate settlement, non-repudiation, and privacy. By allowing users to transact securely, Safe Cash aims to modernize the way financial interactions occur, making them more efficient and reliable.

MagicCube develops and operates a software platform that secures data exchange between devices and the cloud, embedding into applications used for banking and shopping to protect digital transactions across devices, hardware or operating systems. It positions itself in the software defined trust category with a trusted execution environment based platform that enables large scale deployment and management of IoT and mobile secure solutions for consumers, and provides a payment acceptance platform that turns any mobile or smart device into a secure point of sale terminal with tokenization and encryption, compliant with major card networks, and with remote updates to address evolving security needs, helping merchants improve customer experience.

Gameface Media, Inc., established in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in providing free, high-resolution professional photos of amateur athletes participating in various sporting events. The company's primary service, offered through MarathonFoto, is the largest of its kind in the U.S., catering to endurance race participants. Gameface allows users to download, share, and print these photos, while also facilitating brand engagement by featuring sponsored logos. Additionally, the company publishes the Six Minute Mile newsletter, a popular and rapidly growing resource for endurance athletes, covering training, nutrition, and gear.