Adams Capital Management II

Adams Capital Management, Inc. is a national venture capital firm established in 1994, based in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. The firm specializes in early-stage applied technology investments, focusing primarily on the information technology, networking infrastructure, and semiconductor industries. With a well-defined investment strategy that emphasizes the identification of market discontinuities, Adams Capital aims to support emerging growth companies that possess compelling value propositions and the potential to lead in their respective product categories. The firm's general partners bring extensive domain and operational expertise, facilitating a collaborative environment for entrepreneurs to develop their visions into market-leading companies. Adams Capital Management has a national presence and leverages its expansive resources and networks to foster innovation and growth in its portfolio companies.

Joel Adams

General Partner and President

Jennifer Parulo

CFO, Venture Capital

Jerry S. Sullivan

General Partner

Past deals in Pennsylvania

RoadRunner Recycling

Series C in 2020
RoadRunner Recycling, Inc. is a Pittsburgh-based company that specializes in recycling and waste management services for businesses. Founded in 2014, the company offers a range of services including cardboard and paper recycling, mixed recycling, waste management, compost services, dumpster rentals, and one-time pickups. RoadRunner Recycling employs technology-driven solutions to enhance the efficiency of waste recycling, helping businesses reduce their costs while minimizing their environmental impact. By implementing innovative logistics strategies, the company significantly lowers fuel expenses and carbon emissions, enabling clients to extract maximum value from their recyclable materials. This approach not only leads to substantial cost savings for businesses but also promotes improved environmental performance.

RoadRunner Recycling

Venture Round in 2017
RoadRunner Recycling, Inc. is a Pittsburgh-based company that specializes in recycling and waste management services for businesses. Founded in 2014, the company offers a range of services including cardboard and paper recycling, mixed recycling, waste management, compost services, dumpster rentals, and one-time pickups. RoadRunner Recycling employs technology-driven solutions to enhance the efficiency of waste recycling, helping businesses reduce their costs while minimizing their environmental impact. By implementing innovative logistics strategies, the company significantly lowers fuel expenses and carbon emissions, enabling clients to extract maximum value from their recyclable materials. This approach not only leads to substantial cost savings for businesses but also promotes improved environmental performance.

Innovu

Venture Round in 2016
Innovu, LLC, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, specializes in cloud-based data solutions for employers, benefit advisors, brokers, and associations. Founded in 2014, the company offers EmployerVault, which enables clients and their benefit consultants to integrate and manage various types of data, including payroll, medical, HRIS, and workers' compensation. Additionally, Innovu provides EmployerLens, which consolidates diverse healthcare and benefit data into a comprehensive view, facilitating better decision-making. By bridging the gaps between disparate data silos, Innovu supports organizations in optimizing the cost, quality, and effectiveness of their healthcare and benefits programs. The platform allows clients to gain insights into their total rewards and risk data, thereby enhancing their ability to manage and mitigate both business and population risks.

Dynamics

Series C in 2014
Dynamics designs and manufactures interactive payment cards that utilize programmable magnetic stripes to communicate dynamic information. The computer-in-a-card technology is completely customizable and offers enhanced choice, control, convenience, and security. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cheswick, Pennsylvania.

First Insight

Series A in 2014
First Insight, Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based predictive analytics solutions aimed at department stores, specialty retailers, manufacturers, and e-commerce businesses. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, First Insight provides tools to guide product design, assortment planning, pricing, and marketing decisions, enhancing sales, margins, and inventory turnover. Its platform allows retailers and manufacturers to gain insights into expected product performance and optimal pricing for new items lacking sales history within a rapid timeframe of 48 to 72 hours. By leveraging a scalable Big Data infrastructure, the company enables consumer evaluation of new products through gamification and crowdsourcing techniques. This approach involves engaging thousands of consumers via various digital channels, ensuring that retailers receive valuable feedback filtered through predictive analytic models that prioritize relevant consumer input. Additionally, First Insight offers a customer experience platform to further support its clients in navigating consumer demand and maximizing merchandise profitability.

First Insight

Series A in 2012
First Insight, Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based predictive analytics solutions aimed at department stores, specialty retailers, manufacturers, and e-commerce businesses. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, First Insight provides tools to guide product design, assortment planning, pricing, and marketing decisions, enhancing sales, margins, and inventory turnover. Its platform allows retailers and manufacturers to gain insights into expected product performance and optimal pricing for new items lacking sales history within a rapid timeframe of 48 to 72 hours. By leveraging a scalable Big Data infrastructure, the company enables consumer evaluation of new products through gamification and crowdsourcing techniques. This approach involves engaging thousands of consumers via various digital channels, ensuring that retailers receive valuable feedback filtered through predictive analytic models that prioritize relevant consumer input. Additionally, First Insight offers a customer experience platform to further support its clients in navigating consumer demand and maximizing merchandise profitability.

First Insight

Series A in 2011
First Insight, Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based predictive analytics solutions aimed at department stores, specialty retailers, manufacturers, and e-commerce businesses. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, First Insight provides tools to guide product design, assortment planning, pricing, and marketing decisions, enhancing sales, margins, and inventory turnover. Its platform allows retailers and manufacturers to gain insights into expected product performance and optimal pricing for new items lacking sales history within a rapid timeframe of 48 to 72 hours. By leveraging a scalable Big Data infrastructure, the company enables consumer evaluation of new products through gamification and crowdsourcing techniques. This approach involves engaging thousands of consumers via various digital channels, ensuring that retailers receive valuable feedback filtered through predictive analytic models that prioritize relevant consumer input. Additionally, First Insight offers a customer experience platform to further support its clients in navigating consumer demand and maximizing merchandise profitability.

SnapRetail

Series A in 2011
SnapRetail, Inc. provides a software-as-a-service marketing automation solution tailored for independent retailers and small businesses. Founded in 2009 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, SnapRetail offers a comprehensive platform that enables store owners to promote their products and engage with customers through various channels, including email, social media, and responsive websites. The platform features a content library with diverse email templates and social media posts, allowing businesses to create, manage, and automate their marketing efforts efficiently. By simplifying online marketing, SnapRetail helps small business owners enhance customer connections, drive traffic to their stores, and ultimately increase sales while saving time and resources.

Helomics

Series D in 2010
Helomics Corporation is a personalized healthcare company focused on oncology, providing innovative tools to assist physicians and patients in making informed decisions throughout the cancer care continuum. It has developed a Precision Cellular Analytical Platform that analyzes cellular data over a 25-35 day period. Among its key products are ChemoFx, which aids in selecting effective treatments for gynecologic cancer patients; BioSpeciFx, offering biomarker tests for evaluating tumor responses at the molecular level; and GeneFx products, which use gene signatures to inform treatment options for colon and lung cancer patients. Additionally, Helomics provides tumor profiling services, including bioinformatics and patient-derived tumor models, which enhance clinical research and drug development. The company employs artificial intelligence through its D-CHIP platform to create personalized oncology roadmaps for patients. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Helomics operates as a subsidiary of Predictive Oncology Inc.

BioLeap

Series A in 2010
BioLeap is an emerging drug discovery company enabled by the next generation of computational fragment-based design technology. BioLeap's design platform quickly predicts binding affinity based on thermodynamic principles giving drug designers new insights to efficiently create non-obvious molecules and improve existing molecules. Lack of chemical diversity has blocked the progress of many high-priority targets during the lead identification and lead optimization phase for failure to provide either a suitable chemical starting point or a replacement structural class to a doomed lead series. BioLeap's technology provides a viable alternative to high-throughput screening and traditional shape-based “docking” approaches. BioLeap has identified lead compounds in four collaborative ventures and is seeking new partners who are interested in exploiting its compelling compound design and engineering platform.

Dynamics

Series A in 2009
Dynamics designs and manufactures interactive payment cards that utilize programmable magnetic stripes to communicate dynamic information. The computer-in-a-card technology is completely customizable and offers enhanced choice, control, convenience, and security. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cheswick, Pennsylvania.

Helomics

Venture Round in 2008
Helomics Corporation is a personalized healthcare company focused on oncology, providing innovative tools to assist physicians and patients in making informed decisions throughout the cancer care continuum. It has developed a Precision Cellular Analytical Platform that analyzes cellular data over a 25-35 day period. Among its key products are ChemoFx, which aids in selecting effective treatments for gynecologic cancer patients; BioSpeciFx, offering biomarker tests for evaluating tumor responses at the molecular level; and GeneFx products, which use gene signatures to inform treatment options for colon and lung cancer patients. Additionally, Helomics provides tumor profiling services, including bioinformatics and patient-derived tumor models, which enhance clinical research and drug development. The company employs artificial intelligence through its D-CHIP platform to create personalized oncology roadmaps for patients. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Helomics operates as a subsidiary of Predictive Oncology Inc.

Helomics

Funding Round in 2006
Helomics Corporation is a personalized healthcare company focused on oncology, providing innovative tools to assist physicians and patients in making informed decisions throughout the cancer care continuum. It has developed a Precision Cellular Analytical Platform that analyzes cellular data over a 25-35 day period. Among its key products are ChemoFx, which aids in selecting effective treatments for gynecologic cancer patients; BioSpeciFx, offering biomarker tests for evaluating tumor responses at the molecular level; and GeneFx products, which use gene signatures to inform treatment options for colon and lung cancer patients. Additionally, Helomics provides tumor profiling services, including bioinformatics and patient-derived tumor models, which enhance clinical research and drug development. The company employs artificial intelligence through its D-CHIP platform to create personalized oncology roadmaps for patients. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Helomics operates as a subsidiary of Predictive Oncology Inc.

Timesys Corporation

Venture Round in 2005
Timesys Corporation specializes in embedded Linux software solutions, providing a range of tools and services for developers in various industries. Its flagship product, LinuxLink, is a cloud-based platform that facilitates the design, prototyping, and deployment of custom embedded Linux environments, including the creation of board support packages and software development kits. The company also offers Timesys Factory, a modular builder for customization, and a comprehensive Source Code Repository containing essential components like kernels, drivers, and libraries. Additionally, Timesys provides application development tools, including TimeStorm, an IDE that streamlines development processes, and a variety of training programs. The company supports a wide array of processors and programming languages, catering to diverse applications in consumer electronics, medical devices, automotive, telecommunications, and more. Founded in 1995 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Timesys helps organizations reduce development costs and speed up time-to-market for their embedded systems and IoT applications through its expertise in open source software security and engineering consulting.

Timesys Corporation

Venture Round in 2003
Timesys Corporation specializes in embedded Linux software solutions, providing a range of tools and services for developers in various industries. Its flagship product, LinuxLink, is a cloud-based platform that facilitates the design, prototyping, and deployment of custom embedded Linux environments, including the creation of board support packages and software development kits. The company also offers Timesys Factory, a modular builder for customization, and a comprehensive Source Code Repository containing essential components like kernels, drivers, and libraries. Additionally, Timesys provides application development tools, including TimeStorm, an IDE that streamlines development processes, and a variety of training programs. The company supports a wide array of processors and programming languages, catering to diverse applications in consumer electronics, medical devices, automotive, telecommunications, and more. Founded in 1995 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Timesys helps organizations reduce development costs and speed up time-to-market for their embedded systems and IoT applications through its expertise in open source software security and engineering consulting.

Helomics

Series C in 2003
Helomics Corporation is a personalized healthcare company focused on oncology, providing innovative tools to assist physicians and patients in making informed decisions throughout the cancer care continuum. It has developed a Precision Cellular Analytical Platform that analyzes cellular data over a 25-35 day period. Among its key products are ChemoFx, which aids in selecting effective treatments for gynecologic cancer patients; BioSpeciFx, offering biomarker tests for evaluating tumor responses at the molecular level; and GeneFx products, which use gene signatures to inform treatment options for colon and lung cancer patients. Additionally, Helomics provides tumor profiling services, including bioinformatics and patient-derived tumor models, which enhance clinical research and drug development. The company employs artificial intelligence through its D-CHIP platform to create personalized oncology roadmaps for patients. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Helomics operates as a subsidiary of Predictive Oncology Inc.

Timesys Corporation

Venture Round in 2002
Timesys Corporation specializes in embedded Linux software solutions, providing a range of tools and services for developers in various industries. Its flagship product, LinuxLink, is a cloud-based platform that facilitates the design, prototyping, and deployment of custom embedded Linux environments, including the creation of board support packages and software development kits. The company also offers Timesys Factory, a modular builder for customization, and a comprehensive Source Code Repository containing essential components like kernels, drivers, and libraries. Additionally, Timesys provides application development tools, including TimeStorm, an IDE that streamlines development processes, and a variety of training programs. The company supports a wide array of processors and programming languages, catering to diverse applications in consumer electronics, medical devices, automotive, telecommunications, and more. Founded in 1995 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Timesys helps organizations reduce development costs and speed up time-to-market for their embedded systems and IoT applications through its expertise in open source software security and engineering consulting.

eToll

Series B in 2000
eToll is a provider of integrated digital solutions for the consumer commerce sector.
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