Advance Venture Partners

Advance Venture Partners (""AVP"") is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that combines the disciplined approach of an institutional equity investor with the strategic insights, access and impact of a strategic investor. AVP invests in early growth stage companies that can benefit from the Firm’s partnership with Advance Publications - one of the world’s premier global media franchises and the owner or substantial shareholder of media and technology businesses such as Conde Nast, Charter Communications, Discovery Communications, Reddit and 1010Data. AVP invests $10 million to $30 million in each of its investments, and is a hands-on partner to entrepreneurs in growing businesses and building value. AVP’s investments include Compass, Curology, Farfetch, Gigya, Mediamorph, Nativo, Rent the Runway and Vestiaire Collective.

Nomi Bergman

Venture Partner

Christ, Alex

Principal

Ameen Dalli

Senior Associate

David Ibnale

Founding and Managing Partner

Courtney Robinson

Partner

Mukund Subramanian

Senior Associate

Mukund Subramanian

Senior Associate

29 past transactions

Openly

Series C in 2022
Openly is an insurance company that specializes in premium home insurance sold through independent agents. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Alto Solutions

Series B in 2022
Alto Solutions delivers an easy-to-use, automated process for investing in alternatives with IRA savings. It aims to democratize alternative asset investing. AltoIRA offers an easy-to-use investing platform that empowers everyday investors to diversify their IRAs by investing in alternative assets such as private equity, venture capital, real estate, loans, and cryptocurrency. Offering Traditional, Roth, SEP, and Crypto IRAs, Alto is bringing alternative investments to the mainstream. Everyday investors can now easily and cost-effectively access their retirement savings to invest in assets once reserved solely for high-net-worth individuals. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Sawyer

Series A in 2021
Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning. Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educational institutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact. They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible. Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow.

Affinity

Series C in 2021
Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform built to expand and evolve the traditional CRM. Affinity instantly surfaces all of your team's data and shows you who is best suited to make the crucial introductions you need to close your next big deal. Using AI and natural language processing, Affinity helps your team curate and grow its network by unlocking introductions to decision makers and auto-populating your pipeline to increase deal flow. -- Leverage your network: Map out your team's relationship graph to most effectively source the next big deal -- VCs, level up your portfolio: Ally with your portfolio companies and discover how you can introduce them to key prospects and help them raise their next round -- Startups, get the intro: Map out your team's relationship graph. Discover the entire rolodex of prospects your investors and advisors are connected to and unearth valuable introductions -- Reduce complexity: Get rid of spreadsheets for contact management and receive instant updates related to your pipeline as your team works -- Effectively manage pipeline: Keep track of meetings, manage follow-ups, and receive instant updates related to your pipeline as your team works It's time to adopt a CRM that makes your job easier and maximizes your team and investor's most valuable asset - their networks. Affinity has raised $13.5MM led by 8VC (Joe Lonsdale: Palantir, Addepar, OpenGov), Sway Ventures, Pear Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital & Western Technology Investment.

Morning Consult

Series B in 2021
Morning Consult is a global decision intelligence company changing how modern leaders make smarter, faster, better decisions. The company pairs its proprietary high-frequency data with applied artificial intelligence to better inform decisions on what people think and how they will act. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Ergatta

Series A in 2021
Ergatta is a startup that believes in the power of technology, design, and human ingenuity to improve people's lives through daily fitness. It is the next generation of digital fitness equipment. They are on a mission to bring a regular fitness routine within reach for more people by making it irresistibly convenient and genuinely stimulating. Ergatta was founded by Alessandra Gotbaum and Tom Aulet in 2019 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Curology

Funding Round in 2021
Curology is a cosmetic company that provides actual prescription skincare customized for their skin and delivered to their door. It makes prescription skincare affordable and accessible online, offering virtual consultations and custom formulas for acne and anti-aging. Clinical trials tell us that certain prescription treatments may be more than twice as effective as using over-the-counter options for acne but they can also be twice as expensive, requiring in-person visits to the dermatologist and high drug costs. The company helps people see tremendous, long-term improvements previously accessible only to a small percentage of the population. Their technology enables 1:1 chats with real dermatology providers and lets users share their journeys with an engaged and growing community. Curology was founded by a mother-son team of dermatologists to bring effective acne care to more people, more affordably. The company assembled a committed team of dermatology providers and created a secure online platform, bringing professional acne care and prescription treatment to tens of thousands of people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to access or afford it.

Fi

Series B in 2021
Fi is a provider of next Generation of Smart Dog Collars.

Openly

Series B in 2020
Openly is an insurance company that specializes in premium home insurance sold through independent agents. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ginger

Series D in 2020
Ginger is a telemental health provider delivering evidence-based behavioral health coaching, therapy, and psychiatry from a smartphone. Ginger's on-demand system brings together behavioral health coaches, therapists, and psychiatrists, who work as a team to deliver personalized care, right through your smartphone. The app provides members with access to the support they need within seconds, 24/7, 365 days a year. Millions of people have access to Ginger through leading employers, health plans, and its network of partners.

DemandStar Corporation

Seed Round in 2020
DemandStar is driven by a mission to connect businesses to government opportunities. It empowers state and local governments to do their best work for the people they serve, by connecting them to a vibrant community of qualified suppliers through a powerful, easy-to-use marketplace that is free for all government partners. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Morning Consult

Series A in 2020
Morning Consult is a global decision intelligence company changing how modern leaders make smarter, faster, better decisions. The company pairs its proprietary high-frequency data with applied artificial intelligence to better inform decisions on what people think and how they will act. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Curology

Series D in 2019
Curology is a cosmetic company that provides actual prescription skincare customized for their skin and delivered to their door. It makes prescription skincare affordable and accessible online, offering virtual consultations and custom formulas for acne and anti-aging. Clinical trials tell us that certain prescription treatments may be more than twice as effective as using over-the-counter options for acne but they can also be twice as expensive, requiring in-person visits to the dermatologist and high drug costs. The company helps people see tremendous, long-term improvements previously accessible only to a small percentage of the population. Their technology enables 1:1 chats with real dermatology providers and lets users share their journeys with an engaged and growing community. Curology was founded by a mother-son team of dermatologists to bring effective acne care to more people, more affordably. The company assembled a committed team of dermatology providers and created a secure online platform, bringing professional acne care and prescription treatment to tens of thousands of people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to access or afford it.

Brandable

Series B in 2019
Brandable is a next generation consumer packaging goods group that creates, manufactures, and sells relevant, modern consumer focused brands across toys, wellness and food. Founded in 2017 by 2X Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree Oliver Bogner, Brandable is quickly growing into a vertically integrated manufacturing group. Now a key supplier to the largest and most respected retailers in North America, Brandable is behind multiple exclusive programs across categories at Walmart and Target. Brandable is reimagining how to package and launch new consumer product brands for mass retailers using it’s unique influencer created, omni channel, demand creation techniques.

Modsy

Series C in 2019
Modsy combines advanced 3D graphics, computer vision, and creative curation to provide its customers with home design guidance and plans. It allows its customers to see inspirational designs and decor within the context of their own home and shows ideas for their space before making any changes. Modsy helps new homeowners, remodelers, and renters create an ideal, personalized design. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sawyer

Series A in 2019
Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning. Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educational institutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact. They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible. Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow.

Affinity

Series B in 2019
Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform built to expand and evolve the traditional CRM. Affinity instantly surfaces all of your team's data and shows you who is best suited to make the crucial introductions you need to close your next big deal. Using AI and natural language processing, Affinity helps your team curate and grow its network by unlocking introductions to decision makers and auto-populating your pipeline to increase deal flow. -- Leverage your network: Map out your team's relationship graph to most effectively source the next big deal -- VCs, level up your portfolio: Ally with your portfolio companies and discover how you can introduce them to key prospects and help them raise their next round -- Startups, get the intro: Map out your team's relationship graph. Discover the entire rolodex of prospects your investors and advisors are connected to and unearth valuable introductions -- Reduce complexity: Get rid of spreadsheets for contact management and receive instant updates related to your pipeline as your team works -- Effectively manage pipeline: Keep track of meetings, manage follow-ups, and receive instant updates related to your pipeline as your team works It's time to adopt a CRM that makes your job easier and maximizes your team and investor's most valuable asset - their networks. Affinity has raised $13.5MM led by 8VC (Joe Lonsdale: Palantir, Addepar, OpenGov), Sway Ventures, Pear Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital & Western Technology Investment.

Bellhop

Series C in 2018
Bellhop is the fastest growing moving services company in the US, transforming the $18B industry with a tech-enabled model that delivers far better customer experiences at prices that are untouchable by traditional movers. Serving local and long-distance moves in 55 cities. Expanding to 70+ in 2019.

Clippings

Series B in 2018
Clippings is an online source for furniture and lighting, where you can discover and buy over a million products from 850 high-end design brands including Vitra, Knoll International, Flos, HAY, Gubi, Moroso, Normann Copenhagen and many more. It's the go-to destination for product discovery – already used by thousands of interior designers to specify furniture and lighting for their projects, and by thousands of customers buying that perfect piece for their own home.

PebblePost

Series C in 2018
PebblePost is the leading digital-to-direct mail marketing platform. They capture online interest and intent data to send relevant direct mail that activates buying decisions at home and drives conversions everywhere. The company invented Programmatic Direct Mail to help brands convert more shoppers into buyers using advanced targeting, algorithmic optimization, attribution, and quantitative analysis. PebblePost is a venture-backed company based in New York.

Modsy

Series B in 2017
Modsy combines advanced 3D graphics, computer vision, and creative curation to provide its customers with home design guidance and plans. It allows its customers to see inspirational designs and decor within the context of their own home and shows ideas for their space before making any changes. Modsy helps new homeowners, remodelers, and renters create an ideal, personalized design. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

UrbanSitter

Series C in 2017
UrbanSitter is an app and website that’s making it easier than ever for families to find, book and pay trusted care for the entire household, from backup child care to experienced nannies, tutors, pet sitters, housekeepers, and senior care. Only UrbanSitter taps into a parent’s personal network to connect them with caregivers of friends, co-workers, moms groups and parents from their kid’s school—to find a caregiver they trust. When parents need a last-minute sitter, UrbanSitter comes to the rescue with average response times under three minutes. UrbanSitter is solving the child care and caregiving dilemma for families everywhere.

Sawyer

Series A in 2017
Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning. Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educational institutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact. They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible. Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow.

HyTrust

Series E in 2017
HyTrust was founded by veterans in the enterprise infrastructure and security space who recognized early on not only that virtualization and the cloud were going to dramatically transform the data center, but also that security would be a critical inhibitor to cloud adoption. The mission behind HyTrust has always been to mitigate the risk of catastrophic data center failure and data breaches — especially in light of the concentration of risk that occurs within virtualized and cloud environments. Organizations can now confidently expand virtualization to mission critical applications and take full advantage of the cloud. HyTrust has assembled a world-class team of company builders and innovators and has earned venture backing from the biggest players in the next-generation datacenter: Cisco, VMware, Intel, Fortinet, and In-Q-Tel, the funding arm of the US intelligence community. Further venture investment has come from highly respected firms such as Trident Capital, Sway Ventures, Epic Ventures, Advanced Venture Partners and Granite Ventures.

Curology

Series B in 2016
Curology is a cosmetic company that provides actual prescription skincare customized for their skin and delivered to their door. It makes prescription skincare affordable and accessible online, offering virtual consultations and custom formulas for acne and anti-aging. Clinical trials tell us that certain prescription treatments may be more than twice as effective as using over-the-counter options for acne but they can also be twice as expensive, requiring in-person visits to the dermatologist and high drug costs. The company helps people see tremendous, long-term improvements previously accessible only to a small percentage of the population. Their technology enables 1:1 chats with real dermatology providers and lets users share their journeys with an engaged and growing community. Curology was founded by a mother-son team of dermatologists to bring effective acne care to more people, more affordably. The company assembled a committed team of dermatology providers and created a secure online platform, bringing professional acne care and prescription treatment to tens of thousands of people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to access or afford it.

Mediamorph

Series C in 2016
Mediamorph’s mission is to boost business performance and accelerate content value across the entertainment ecosystem. The company's platform provides actionable insights into financial, rights and consumption information, enabling content providers to stay connected to the rapidly growing ecosystem and complex world of video distribution.

Nativo

Series B in 2015
Nativo is an advertising technology platform for brand advertisers and publishers to scale, automate, and measure native ads. For brands, Nativo is the ultimate content advertising platform that combines automation and insights with high-quality reach to scale and optimize engagement with brand content. For media companies, Nativo provides a complete native technology stack that makes it easy to sell, deploy, and optimize native ads across their media properties expanding their revenue potential while delivering a better, non-interruptive experience for their audiences. More than 300 brands and 350 publishers leverage Nativo’s platform to power their next-generation digital advertising.

EVRYTHNG

Series A in 2014
EVRYTHNG is the internet of things smart products platform connecting consumer products to the Web and managing real-time data to drive applications and analytics throughout the product lifecycle. Its a consumer product manufacturers work with EVRYTHNG to manage billions of intelligent identities in the cloud for their products. This enables brands to deliver digital services directly to end-users through their products, manage supply chains more effectively using real-time data, and operate smart products connected to the broader ecosystem of applications and services on the Web and in the enterprise. It was founded in 2011 and is based in London, Greater London.
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