Alpine Meridian

Alpine Meridian is a venture capital investment firm established in 1987 and located in New York City. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage companies across various sectors, including the internet, digital media, fintech, data, software, and e-commerce. With a focus on identifying innovative startups, Alpine Meridian aims to support the growth of businesses that leverage technology and digital solutions to create value in their respective markets.

William Benedict Jr.

Founder and Managing Partner

William(Bill) Benedict, Jr.

Managing Partner

53 past transactions

Culina Health

Seed Round in 2022
Culina Health offers personalized virtual nutrition counseling by registered dietitians to improve health outcomes for patients with various chronic conditions. The company aims to make expert nutrition care accessible and affordable, providing culturally competent support tailored to individual needs.

Micruity

Seed Round in 2022
Americans deserve a secure and reliable retirement income, and Micruity makes lifetime income more accessible. Micruity's advanced suite of APIs allows financial institutions such as 401(k) providers to offer annuities to participants, creating a much-needed solution to secure retirement income and a pension look and feel.

Nowsta

Series B in 2022
Nowsta is an all-in-one software for hourly and event-based workforces, providing scheduling, time tracking, and fintech solutions. It helps employers become better managers by giving them the tools they need to seamlessly manage their hourly workforce. The company is building a platform that leverages advancements in machine learning and payments technology to reimagine the way companies communicate with, and pay their hourly wage employees. Nowsta was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Nowsta

OneRail

Series A in 2021
OneRail is a logistics company that offers comprehensive last mile delivery solutions through its OmniPoint™ platform. The company connects clients with a vast network of couriers, ensuring real-time visibility and efficient order fulfillment.

Paloma

Seed Round in 2021
Paloma powers e-com on messaging channels, giving brands 2–10X higher conversion rates compared to their websites. This full-suite commerce SaaS platform rapidly generates the most efficient shopping experiences – all while collecting millions of customer data points, seamlessly feeding insights back to brands.

Till Financial

Venture Round in 2021
Till is the first collaborative financial platform specifically built for families and the communities that support them. Till is accessible to all families, as there is no monthly subscription fee. Till is replacing awkward family conversations about money with real actions and experiential learning, while teaching kids how to spend money wisely every day. Banking Services provided by Coastal Community Bank, Member FDIC, pursuant to license by Visa U.S.A. Inc.

TAGFI

Venture Round in 2021
All-in-one custom branded solution for membership organizations to manage, engage, and monetize members.

OpenReel

Series A in 2021
OpenReel enables remote video creation for enterprises, media, and entertainment companies worldwide, empowering them to direct and film high quality video content from more than 125 countries. With its patented suite of remote video direction, capture, and creation capabilities, OpenReel makes it possible for businesses of all sizes to cut down on the time-and resource-intensive process of in-person video shoots and scale content creation initiatives efficiently and effectively.

Leasecake

Seed Round in 2021
Leasecake is the industry-leading real estate and location management platform built for the restaurant and service-based retail industries. As the single source of truth for all lease and location information, Leasecake ensures you don't miss lease renewals, make incorrect rent payments, or face accounting non-compliance. Our easy-to-use platform stores all location data in one place, including leases, licenses, permits, assets, franchise agreements, contact information, important dates, and much more. Leasecake was founded in 2018 and is based in Winter Park, Florida. Learn more at www.leasecake.com

Scanifly

Seed Round in 2020
Scanifly develops a drone-based 3D modeling software that automates and centralizes the manual day-to-day tasks in the solar workflow.

Finexio

Series B in 2020
Finexio is a smart B2B payment network. The Finexio network eliminates commercial paper check spend by identifying and routing payments through a unique “network of closed loop networks”. Payments on the Finexio rails are seamlessly pushed into a supplier’s bank accounts at fees substantially lower than prevailing commercial payment costs. Finexio integrates into large payment aggregators, accounts payable automation, and procurement software platforms to enable them with a more efficient payment modality.

Compaas

Seed Round in 2020
Compaas helps growing companies make smarter decisions around compensation, communicate better with their employees, and avoid mistakes. It offers a Compensation Intelligence Platform that helps companies manage their operating expense: employee compensation. The platform provides compensation analytics and strategy tools for startups and enterprise companies. In 2017, Lisa Dusseault and Bethanye Blount founded the company in San Francisco, California.

OurPeople

Series A in 2020
OurPeople is provides a secure platform to help businesses communicate with their employees, ensuring teams are connected instantly. OurPeople primarily works in industries with large numbers of desk-less workers, including high profile clients West Ham United Foundation, Virgin Active UK, Paulton’s Park and Serco Leisure.

ThriveFantasy

Seed Round in 2020
ThriveFantasy is a daily fantasy sports and esports platform that focuses solely on top-tier athletes from each sport. It was founded in 2016 and operates in New York, United States.

OneRail

Seed Round in 2020
OneRail is a logistics company that offers comprehensive last mile delivery solutions through its OmniPoint™ platform. The company connects clients with a vast network of couriers, ensuring real-time visibility and efficient order fulfillment.

The Financial Gym

Series A in 2020
The Financial Gym is a personal financial services company that takes a fitness-inspired approach to clients'​ finance. The company helps people with an affordable and trustworthy option to reaching financial freedom. They help people with their full financial picture: outline their goals, budget, savings, investments, and continually optimize to help them accomplish their life goals.

Konduit.me

Seed Round in 2019
Konduit.me helps publishers, networks and exchanges start more video ads and start them faster.

Tattle

Venture Round in 2019
Tattle's Customer Experience Improvement (CXI) platform collects actionable data at every touch point of the customer journey. It helps users uncover and act on the opportunities that matter the most for increasing guest satisfaction, operational performance, and revenue.

The Cru

Seed Round in 2019
The Cru provides a peer coaching service for women looking to accelerate their professional and personal growth. It takes the work out of networking and helps women to achieve their goals. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York.

CloudFrame

Seed Round in 2019
CloudFrame provides software that automates the transformation of COBOL applications into maintainable Java using an incremental and self-guided approach that reduces risk and cost. Our products give customers control and the ability to transform mainframe applications fast, freeing them from COBOL and vendor dependency completely and fully enabling digital transformation.

Aureus Analytics

Series A in 2019
AUREUS is the Customer Intelligence & Experience company that enables Insurers to deliver superior Customer Experience leading to greater customer retention, loyalty, and lifetime value. We do this by leveraging Predictive Analytics and Machine learning technologies and delivering actionable insights at the Point of Decision. With powerful features, an easy to use interface, and a subscription based pricing model, Aureus' cloud-based Analytics products enable Insurers & Banks of all sizes leverage vast amounts of internal and external data to deliver a superior experience to their customers. The company is located in Singapore, Hartford & Mumbai.

Love Stories TV

Seed Round in 2019
Love Stories TV is a video-powered marketplace for wedding planning. We connect couples with the ideas, products, and services they need for their weddings. We connect wedding businesses with a pipeline of customers.

Skopenow

Venture Round in 2018
Skopenow is an analytical search engine that offers fraud detection and risk evaluation services for the insurance and legal industries.

Peel Away Labs

Seed Round in 2018
The idea for PEEL AWAYS started out small, in my dorm room at the University of Arizona. I couldn’t help but notice how few students washed their sheets…and how much time went between washes. Next thing I knew, PEEL AWAYS was my new pet project. So how do you get people to wash their sheets? By creating such an amazing sheet that it doesn’t have to be washed at all. Our team at Peel Away Labs has tried and tested over 30 prototypes to give you the softest, absorbent disposable sheet out there. Each layer of PEEL AWAYS is breathable, flexible and comfortable, night after night. It’s even gentle on the environment by saving precious water, so while your wallet gets a break, Mother Nature does too. We want to change the way you think about bedding. Try PEEL AWAYS for yourself, and enjoy a fresh, clean sheet one layer at a time.

OpenReel

Seed Round in 2018
OpenReel enables remote video creation for enterprises, media, and entertainment companies worldwide, empowering them to direct and film high quality video content from more than 125 countries. With its patented suite of remote video direction, capture, and creation capabilities, OpenReel makes it possible for businesses of all sizes to cut down on the time-and resource-intensive process of in-person video shoots and scale content creation initiatives efficiently and effectively.

Placements.io

Seed Round in 2018
Placements.io is a modern revenue management platform for sellers of digital advertising. Our platform manages orders, inventory, billing, and integrations for direct and programmatic channels. Our marquee customers drive more revenue and reduce their costs of operations. Placements.io is trusted by companies such as Cargurus.com, Fortune, IAC, Sky Broadcasting, TEGNA, and Walmart, to manage over $6 billion dollars in revenue as they build the future of their business on our platform. Placements.io is based in Seattle with offices in NYC, London, and Taipei. Our investors include Revel Partners and Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital.

Pyramid Biosciences

Seed Round in 2018
Pyramid Biosciences is dedicated to discovering and developing targeted therapeutics for a wide range of disorders that are regulated by the tropomyosin receptor kinase (TRK) family. By precisely and selectively modulating the actions of these fundamental cell surface receptors, we can control the key signaling pathways responsible for a patient’s disease, condition, or symptoms.

MarketMuse

Seed Round in 2018
MarketMuse is a market-leading demand generation platform focused on AI-driven content. It's SaaS platform analyzes massive amounts of Web data to build articles that drive search traffic and engagement.

Vorsight

Venture Round in 2017
Vorsight is a professional training company that provides sales training and consulting services. They serve the clients in three ways: they recruit, train, and manage. They collaborate closely with their clients to provide a transparent and fully accountable solution that focuses on metrics, training, and the latest sales technology.

The Financial Gym

Seed Round in 2017
The Financial Gym is a personal financial services company that takes a fitness-inspired approach to clients'​ finance. The company helps people with an affordable and trustworthy option to reaching financial freedom. They help people with their full financial picture: outline their goals, budget, savings, investments, and continually optimize to help them accomplish their life goals.

Zype

Series A in 2017
Zype provides the infrastructure for digital video with a cloud-based platform to manage and distribute enterprise-grade video across the web, mobile, TV, and social media. Offering both developer-friendly tools such as customizable APIs as well as turnkey solutions for OTT apps and linear/FAST channels, Zype’s SaaS solutions enable video creators or distributors to quickly build, launch and manage superior video products at scale.

ExecVision

Seed Round in 2017
ExecVision is the only conversation intelligence platform built for coaching. Designed by seasoned sales and customer success professionals, ExecVision empowers organizations to coach people efficiently at scale, improving performance and driving revenue. ExecVision analyzes conversations, providing the ability to identify what was said, the context of what was said, positive or negative reaction, and the phase of the conversation where it occurred. ExecVision then interprets and compares outcomes, giving you insights into what is and isn’t working, differentiating top performers from everyone else. To accomplish this, ExecVision ingests and transcribes conversations, then leverages AI to identify and flag key moments that managers would have never caught due to time limitations. ExecVision combines software with a team of engagement and training specialists to customize the experience for the unique needs of your organization.

OpenReel

Seed Round in 2017
OpenReel enables remote video creation for enterprises, media, and entertainment companies worldwide, empowering them to direct and film high quality video content from more than 125 countries. With its patented suite of remote video direction, capture, and creation capabilities, OpenReel makes it possible for businesses of all sizes to cut down on the time-and resource-intensive process of in-person video shoots and scale content creation initiatives efficiently and effectively.

Lingo Live

Series A in 2017
Lingo Live drives real impact and behavior change in workforces through human-focused skills-based coaching and applied learning. The company's language and communication coaching program not only helps ESL employees improve their English to advance in their careers, but it also empowers leaders who want to learn skills like having difficult conversations, writing memos, and giving presentations. It also helps L&D managers assemble programs for the specific business impacts their organization needs. Through action steps assigned after each session, coaches also hold coachees accountable for using the skills they’re learning in the flow of their work.

Bazaar

Convertible Note in 2017
Bazaar is a wholesale food service distributor and logistics platform for high volume recurring SMB purchases.

BotFactory

Venture Round in 2016
BotFactory sells desktop enterprise 3D printing solutions using inkjet nanotechnology, computer vision, and artificial intelligence to fabricate complete electronic boards in a few hours, greatly accelerating our customers' time to market. Applications are diverse, including flexible electronics, e-textiles, drone tech, IoT, distributed manufacturing, and professional R&D services.

Zype

Seed Round in 2016
Zype provides the infrastructure for digital video with a cloud-based platform to manage and distribute enterprise-grade video across the web, mobile, TV, and social media. Offering both developer-friendly tools such as customizable APIs as well as turnkey solutions for OTT apps and linear/FAST channels, Zype’s SaaS solutions enable video creators or distributors to quickly build, launch and manage superior video products at scale.

Spanfeller Media Group

Venture Round in 2016
Spanfeller Media Group focuses on the content aspect of media and commissions its websites to produce content by, for and about the web. The Spanfeller Media Group will use its experience and understanding of digital media to reclaim value around content creation and packaging. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Lenddo

Series B in 2015
Lenddo is the world's first online community that empowers the emerging middle class to use online social connections to demonstrate their creditworthiness and access affordable, life-improving financial services.

New York Shipping Exchange

Seed Round in 2015
New York Shipping Exchange is a platform that unites shippers, carriers, and forwarders and revolutionizes the logistics industry. New York Shipping Exchange enables the transformation of the container shipping industry through two innovations: a new standardized freight contract and a new way to trade freight digitally. The company is supporting the transformation of container shipping by solving inefficiencies associated with booking downfalls and shipment rolling. They are determined to eliminate the distrust between shippers and carriers that has been created by the lack of accountability in ocean contracts. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

PebblePost

Convertible Note in 2015
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.

Lingo Live

Seed Round in 2015
Lingo Live drives real impact and behavior change in workforces through human-focused skills-based coaching and applied learning. The company's language and communication coaching program not only helps ESL employees improve their English to advance in their careers, but it also empowers leaders who want to learn skills like having difficult conversations, writing memos, and giving presentations. It also helps L&D managers assemble programs for the specific business impacts their organization needs. Through action steps assigned after each session, coaches also hold coachees accountable for using the skills they’re learning in the flow of their work.

Bench

Series A in 2015
Bench is proud to be the largest bookkeeping service for small businesses in America. Founded in New York in 2012, it’s our mission to help business owners thrive. We take the hassle out of bookkeeping and tax filing, so our clients can focus on what really matters - running a successful business. Our intuitive software is designed to simplify the process of organizing your business financial records, while our live bookkeeping team is available to provide expert support and advice whenever you need it. By combining the power of modern technology with the expertise of a professional service, we empower business owners to focus on their core business activities and do what they love. Join the thousands of small businesses who trust Bench for their bookkeeping needs, and experience the convenience, efficiency, and expertise of our service today.

Device42

Seed Round in 2015
Device42 develops a discovery and dependency mapping platform designed to identify, map, and optimize infrastructure and applications across data centers and the cloud. The company's software provides IT operations, compliance and auditing, migration and modernization, IT asset management, dependency mapping, and other services, allowing clients to effectively operate hybrid IT, complete cloud migrations, and fulfill internal and external compliance requirements.

Device42

Seed Round in 2014
Device42 develops a discovery and dependency mapping platform designed to identify, map, and optimize infrastructure and applications across data centers and the cloud. The company's software provides IT operations, compliance and auditing, migration and modernization, IT asset management, dependency mapping, and other services, allowing clients to effectively operate hybrid IT, complete cloud migrations, and fulfill internal and external compliance requirements.

PageScience

Seed Round in 2014
PageScience has evolved as a source for cookieless page-level scoring and targeting. It pioneered this capability in the healthcare industry 4 years ago and have expanded to other ad categories. Its integration with Appnexus enables the delivery of high-performing pages at a vast scale as they become available.

Voyat

Seed Round in 2014
Voyat is the technology company powering direct connections between hotels and customers online and on-property to define a new tier in guest loyalty. Using Voyat’s lightweight platform, hotels can achieve true 1:1 relationships with their guests and present offers, promotions and guest loyalty rewards tailored to every individual. Voyat creates a lasting digital link between every guest or visitor at a hotel property via a WiFi connection to strengthen the direct booking channel and increase customer lifetime value. As a result, the guest is recognized as the valued customer that they are and the brand is able to set itself apart in an overcrowded marketplace to keep those loyal customers coming back. Leading hotel brands including The New York Palace, Morgan’s Hotel Group, Mövenpick Hotels and many others rely on Voyat technology to enable personalized interactions with their customers which drive higher direct and repeat bookings and define a new tier in guest loyalty. Voyat, founded in 2012 by Bob Lund and Benjamin Habbel, is a global company headquartered in New York City with offices in Copenhagen, Barcelona and clients across North America and EMEA. For more information please visit www.voyat.com.
remote.it (pronounced remote 'it') is unleashing private networks from legacy dependencies including hardware dependence, open ports on the Internet, on-premise configuration, and one-by-one management of individual networked devices. Founded by networking experts who's previous company invented hardware TCP/IP (acquired by NVIDIA) the companies cloud service allows for secure management of network assets from anywhere. Popular use cases include: managing cloud instances, IoT devices, remote access, remote work, and allowing legacy networking equipment to be managed from the cloud. The remote.it service is used by tens of thousands of businesses to managed devices in over 180 countries across the globe.

Doctor.com

Seed Round in 2014
Doctor.com is the first marketing automation platform purpose-built for healthcare organizations. We've been first to market with leading reputation management and patient acquisition services including ProfileSync, ProfilePromote, and the Doctor.com ReviewHub, which was the subject of a case study on the Google Enterprise blog. All Doctor.com services connect to a proprietary network of leading consumer health and local business sites that collectively reach over 100M patients monthly, giving our clients an unrivaled advantage in their online marketing. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the healthcare vertical, they're fortunate to be backed by world-class investors and supported by a truly exceptional team.

SureDone

Venture Round in 2014
SureDone provides brands, enterprises and growing businesses: * Global multichannel listing, inventory and order management with connections to marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon, Walmart, Etsy and Jet * A built-in and integrated storefront and shopping cart * Connections to external e-commerce platforms such as Adobe Magento, BigCommerce and Shopify * A highly flexible automation engine that connects our engines to external data sources to both import and export product information, orders and financials, whether internal to your business or at a partner and supports everything from highly complex APIs to simple CSV imports * Headless capabilities in the form of a comprehensive open API to extend the platform. * High touch and skilled onboarding, support and account management. While supporting all categories, SureDone also has an extensive feature set to support the $20Bil+ automotive and motorsports parts and accessories vertical, including fitment, kits and bundles and connections to leading distributors for inventory management and drop shipping. Together, these capabilities automate normally expensive and time consuming tasks while allowing for rich integrations with internal systems, partner data and complementary e-commerce lifecycle solutions.

AllTheRooms

Seed Round in 2014
AllTheRooms is a metasearch platform that helps in finding and finalizing hotel accommodations. This platform offers a short-term rental market search engine that provides search results from a large portfolio of accommodation websites by combining hotels with homestay alternatives. It also helps users to discover multiple options from a comprehensive list of places through a single interface. The company was founded in 2013.

Bench

Venture Round in 2014
Bench is proud to be the largest bookkeeping service for small businesses in America. Founded in New York in 2012, it’s our mission to help business owners thrive. We take the hassle out of bookkeeping and tax filing, so our clients can focus on what really matters - running a successful business. Our intuitive software is designed to simplify the process of organizing your business financial records, while our live bookkeeping team is available to provide expert support and advice whenever you need it. By combining the power of modern technology with the expertise of a professional service, we empower business owners to focus on their core business activities and do what they love. Join the thousands of small businesses who trust Bench for their bookkeeping needs, and experience the convenience, efficiency, and expertise of our service today.
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