Nextstage Capital

NextStage Capital, founded in 2003 and based in Audubon, Pennsylvania, focused on identifying and nurturing early-stage investment opportunities in the Mid-Atlantic region, particularly in technology software, hardware, and services. The company aimed to partner with talented entrepreneurs who possessed validated technology offerings, helping them to build significant company value. With partners who collectively invested over $175 million in early-stage capital, NextStage Capital brought a wealth of experience from numerous successful exits and challenging situations. Emphasizing the importance of talent acquisition, the firm integrated recruiting into its venture model, assisting portfolio companies in securing experienced executives to enhance their management teams. Through a partnership with TWC Group, a human capital firm, NextStage Capital provided valuable recruiting services to ensure that founders had the right people in place at critical moments. The company's commitment extended beyond capital investment to include strategic support and operational expertise, enabling entrepreneurs to focus on their core competencies while driving growth for their companies.

Robert Adams

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

25 past transactions

Sidecar

Series B in 2015
Sidecar Interactive, Inc. is an e-commerce technology company that specializes in providing software solutions for retailers to enhance their online marketing efforts. The company's primary offering is the Sidecar Predictive Bid Engine, which optimizes advertising bids for intelligent product groupings based on real-time data analysis. This system ensures that products receive appropriate bids to maximize visibility and return on advertising spend, while also allowing high-performing products to be managed individually. Additionally, Sidecar's solutions include dynamic product advertisements on social media platforms, enabling retailers to showcase their entire product catalogs effectively. By leveraging machine learning and extensive data analytics, Sidecar assists online retailers in managing their product listing advertisement campaigns, ultimately improving business performance and efficiency. Founded in 2007 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sidecar was previously known as Snipi, Inc. until its name change in 2011.

Agilence

Venture Round in 2015
Agilence, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based reporting solutions specifically designed for the retail, restaurant, and pharmacy sectors. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, the company offers innovative tools such as 20/20 Data Analytics and 20/20 Rx. These products facilitate intelligent reporting by automatically gathering and summarizing operational data, allowing organizations to identify anomalies and trends that can lead to fraud reduction and improved efficiency. Agilence's platform enables clients to gain comprehensive insights into their daily operations, making it easier for them to make informed decisions that enhance profit margins. The company has established strategic partnerships to further bolster its offerings in the market.

Agilence

Series C in 2014
Agilence, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based reporting solutions specifically designed for the retail, restaurant, and pharmacy sectors. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, the company offers innovative tools such as 20/20 Data Analytics and 20/20 Rx. These products facilitate intelligent reporting by automatically gathering and summarizing operational data, allowing organizations to identify anomalies and trends that can lead to fraud reduction and improved efficiency. Agilence's platform enables clients to gain comprehensive insights into their daily operations, making it easier for them to make informed decisions that enhance profit margins. The company has established strategic partnerships to further bolster its offerings in the market.

Sidecar

Series A in 2014
Sidecar Interactive, Inc. is an e-commerce technology company that specializes in providing software solutions for retailers to enhance their online marketing efforts. The company's primary offering is the Sidecar Predictive Bid Engine, which optimizes advertising bids for intelligent product groupings based on real-time data analysis. This system ensures that products receive appropriate bids to maximize visibility and return on advertising spend, while also allowing high-performing products to be managed individually. Additionally, Sidecar's solutions include dynamic product advertisements on social media platforms, enabling retailers to showcase their entire product catalogs effectively. By leveraging machine learning and extensive data analytics, Sidecar assists online retailers in managing their product listing advertisement campaigns, ultimately improving business performance and efficiency. Founded in 2007 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sidecar was previously known as Snipi, Inc. until its name change in 2011.

Ticketleap

Debt Financing in 2013
Ticketleap, Inc. is an online ticketing and registration platform based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 2003. The company offers self-service ticketing solutions that cater to a wide range of events, including fine art shows, musical concerts, haunted attractions, festivals, and theater performances. Ticketleap provides event organizers with an easy-to-use platform featuring branded event pages, built-in management tools, promotional capabilities, and flexible ticketing options. This comprehensive set of features allows organizers to create and manage events efficiently, facilitating ticket sales both in the United States and internationally. Through its innovative approach, Ticketleap enables event creators to engage effectively with their communities and enhance the overall event experience.

Sidecar

Series A in 2012
Sidecar Interactive, Inc. is an e-commerce technology company that specializes in providing software solutions for retailers to enhance their online marketing efforts. The company's primary offering is the Sidecar Predictive Bid Engine, which optimizes advertising bids for intelligent product groupings based on real-time data analysis. This system ensures that products receive appropriate bids to maximize visibility and return on advertising spend, while also allowing high-performing products to be managed individually. Additionally, Sidecar's solutions include dynamic product advertisements on social media platforms, enabling retailers to showcase their entire product catalogs effectively. By leveraging machine learning and extensive data analytics, Sidecar assists online retailers in managing their product listing advertisement campaigns, ultimately improving business performance and efficiency. Founded in 2007 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sidecar was previously known as Snipi, Inc. until its name change in 2011.

Lumesis

Series A in 2012
Lumesis, Inc., founded in 2010 and based in Stamford, Connecticut, is a financial technology company specializing in regulatory and data solutions for the municipal market. It offers several key products under the DIVER brand: DIVER Analytics provides access to numerous datasets and analytical tools tailored to address challenges like stale financials and fiscal uncertainty; DIVER Advisor supports evolving regulatory needs related to time-of-trade disclosure, supervision, and suitability; DIVER Data Services delivers custom datasets formatted for client platforms; and DIVER Geo Score assesses the economic health of specific geographic areas. Lumesis serves a diverse clientele including U.S. banks, broker/dealers, asset managers, insurance companies, hedge funds, and financial advisors.

Ticketleap

Debt Financing in 2012
Ticketleap, Inc. is an online ticketing and registration platform based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 2003. The company offers self-service ticketing solutions that cater to a wide range of events, including fine art shows, musical concerts, haunted attractions, festivals, and theater performances. Ticketleap provides event organizers with an easy-to-use platform featuring branded event pages, built-in management tools, promotional capabilities, and flexible ticketing options. This comprehensive set of features allows organizers to create and manage events efficiently, facilitating ticket sales both in the United States and internationally. Through its innovative approach, Ticketleap enables event creators to engage effectively with their communities and enhance the overall event experience.

Sidecar

Series A in 2011
Sidecar Interactive, Inc. is an e-commerce technology company that specializes in providing software solutions for retailers to enhance their online marketing efforts. The company's primary offering is the Sidecar Predictive Bid Engine, which optimizes advertising bids for intelligent product groupings based on real-time data analysis. This system ensures that products receive appropriate bids to maximize visibility and return on advertising spend, while also allowing high-performing products to be managed individually. Additionally, Sidecar's solutions include dynamic product advertisements on social media platforms, enabling retailers to showcase their entire product catalogs effectively. By leveraging machine learning and extensive data analytics, Sidecar assists online retailers in managing their product listing advertisement campaigns, ultimately improving business performance and efficiency. Founded in 2007 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sidecar was previously known as Snipi, Inc. until its name change in 2011.

Ticketleap

Debt Financing in 2011
Ticketleap, Inc. is an online ticketing and registration platform based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 2003. The company offers self-service ticketing solutions that cater to a wide range of events, including fine art shows, musical concerts, haunted attractions, festivals, and theater performances. Ticketleap provides event organizers with an easy-to-use platform featuring branded event pages, built-in management tools, promotional capabilities, and flexible ticketing options. This comprehensive set of features allows organizers to create and manage events efficiently, facilitating ticket sales both in the United States and internationally. Through its innovative approach, Ticketleap enables event creators to engage effectively with their communities and enhance the overall event experience.

CipherOptics

Venture Round in 2011
CipherOptics, Inc. provides data security and network encryption, and compliance grade data protection solutions to security enterprises, financial institutions, health care, and government agencies. The company offers CipherEngine, which delivers network-wide encryption to customers by providing an approach to security policy and encryption key management; CipherView, which is a security gateway management application that provides security administrators with a device management tool; SoftRemoteLT, which offers features to remote access users connecting to the corporate VPN; and CipherEngine Enforcement Point family of encryptors that are encryption appliances designed for the carrier Ethernet and MPLS markets. The company also offers MPLS security, metro Ethernet security, disaster recovery and data replication security, and network application security services. The company has strategic partnerships with EMC Corporation, IBM, Intel, and Raza Microelectronics, Inc. CipherOptics, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Ticketleap

Debt Financing in 2010
Ticketleap, Inc. is an online ticketing and registration platform based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 2003. The company offers self-service ticketing solutions that cater to a wide range of events, including fine art shows, musical concerts, haunted attractions, festivals, and theater performances. Ticketleap provides event organizers with an easy-to-use platform featuring branded event pages, built-in management tools, promotional capabilities, and flexible ticketing options. This comprehensive set of features allows organizers to create and manage events efficiently, facilitating ticket sales both in the United States and internationally. Through its innovative approach, Ticketleap enables event creators to engage effectively with their communities and enhance the overall event experience.

KXEN

Series D in 2010
KXEN, Inc., founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a company specializing in data mining automation. It offers business analytics software tailored for customer lifecycle analytics, supply chain analytics, and business intelligence to support corporate decision-making. KXEN's products include various software packages for functions such as classification, regression, clustering, and segmentation, along with single-purpose analysis applications for forecasting, market basket analysis, prediction, and more. The company also provides technical support, education services including training courses and certification programs, and consulting services. KXEN serves clients primarily in the financial services, telecommunications, and retail industries, operating through systems integrators, software vendors, and original equipment manufacturers both domestically and internationally.

Agilence

Series B in 2009
Agilence, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based reporting solutions specifically designed for the retail, restaurant, and pharmacy sectors. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, the company offers innovative tools such as 20/20 Data Analytics and 20/20 Rx. These products facilitate intelligent reporting by automatically gathering and summarizing operational data, allowing organizations to identify anomalies and trends that can lead to fraud reduction and improved efficiency. Agilence's platform enables clients to gain comprehensive insights into their daily operations, making it easier for them to make informed decisions that enhance profit margins. The company has established strategic partnerships to further bolster its offerings in the market.

Ticketleap

Venture Round in 2009
Ticketleap, Inc. is an online ticketing and registration platform based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 2003. The company offers self-service ticketing solutions that cater to a wide range of events, including fine art shows, musical concerts, haunted attractions, festivals, and theater performances. Ticketleap provides event organizers with an easy-to-use platform featuring branded event pages, built-in management tools, promotional capabilities, and flexible ticketing options. This comprehensive set of features allows organizers to create and manage events efficiently, facilitating ticket sales both in the United States and internationally. Through its innovative approach, Ticketleap enables event creators to engage effectively with their communities and enhance the overall event experience.

Magnify.net

Venture Round in 2009
Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers.

AnySource Media

Series A in 2009
AnySource Media, founded in 2006, is an innovative technology company focused on enabling consumer electronics manufacturers to integrate Internet-delivered video into their devices. The company's flagship product, the Internet Video Navigator (IVN), serves as a comprehensive platform for silicon companies and HDTV manufacturers worldwide. This platform includes embedded software that facilitates the delivery of a diverse range of both branded and user-generated video content via a direct Internet connection. The IVN also features a targeted advertising system and a user management framework, all managed through the IVN data center. This data center interacts with multiple content providers to gather and enhance content description data, ensuring a seamless navigation experience for users. By offering a user-friendly interface, AnySource Media simplifies the process of accessing and enjoying Internet video on HDTVs, making it an essential player in the evolving landscape of connected television technology.

WayWire

Venture Round in 2008
WayWire operates an online video curation platform that enables companies to significantly expand their video offerings without increasing production costs. It offers services such as video discovery, delivery, encoding/transcoding, storage, hosting, CDN delivery, and monetization tools. WayWire also provides analytics solutions for visitor behavior analysis.

Agilence

Series B in 2008
Agilence, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based reporting solutions specifically designed for the retail, restaurant, and pharmacy sectors. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, the company offers innovative tools such as 20/20 Data Analytics and 20/20 Rx. These products facilitate intelligent reporting by automatically gathering and summarizing operational data, allowing organizations to identify anomalies and trends that can lead to fraud reduction and improved efficiency. Agilence's platform enables clients to gain comprehensive insights into their daily operations, making it easier for them to make informed decisions that enhance profit margins. The company has established strategic partnerships to further bolster its offerings in the market.

Evident Software

Series A in 2008
Evident Software's IT Service Intelligence platform helps drive IT value. Our software makes IT usage, costs and their business drivers evident, so our clients can manage IT as an investment. Evident's global reach and patented technology is helping some of the world's largest organizations, including IBM, Fidelity Investments, and British Telecommunications, measure and communicate the business value of IT.

Magnify.net

Series A in 2008
Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers.

WayWire

Series A in 2008
WayWire operates an online video curation platform that enables companies to significantly expand their video offerings without increasing production costs. It offers services such as video discovery, delivery, encoding/transcoding, storage, hosting, CDN delivery, and monetization tools. WayWire also provides analytics solutions for visitor behavior analysis.

WayWire

Series A in 2007
WayWire operates an online video curation platform that enables companies to significantly expand their video offerings without increasing production costs. It offers services such as video discovery, delivery, encoding/transcoding, storage, hosting, CDN delivery, and monetization tools. WayWire also provides analytics solutions for visitor behavior analysis.

Agilence

Series A in 2007
Agilence, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based reporting solutions specifically designed for the retail, restaurant, and pharmacy sectors. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, the company offers innovative tools such as 20/20 Data Analytics and 20/20 Rx. These products facilitate intelligent reporting by automatically gathering and summarizing operational data, allowing organizations to identify anomalies and trends that can lead to fraud reduction and improved efficiency. Agilence's platform enables clients to gain comprehensive insights into their daily operations, making it easier for them to make informed decisions that enhance profit margins. The company has established strategic partnerships to further bolster its offerings in the market.

HardMetrics

Series A in 2006
HardMetrics Inc. provides on-demand enterprise business analytics and reporting solutions for call centre driven businesses. The company specializes in optimizing sales, service, and operations by transforming enterprise data into actionable information for effective measurement and precise decision making.
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