Ballast Point Ventures

Ballast Point Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2001 and based in Tampa, Florida. The firm focuses on investing in growth-stage, privately owned companies, particularly in the Southeast and Texas, which are known for their favorable business environments and robust entrepreneurial ecosystems. With $360 million under management, Ballast Point Ventures emphasizes sectors such as healthcare, technology-enabled business services, consumer products, and software. The firm aims to partner with experienced entrepreneurs, providing both financial support and strategic guidance while maintaining a preference for minority ownership stakes rather than control positions. Ballast Point Ventures leverages its extensive regional knowledge and long-term relationships to add value to its portfolio companies, helping them achieve sustainable growth and attractive returns.

Barkman, Sean

Partner

Dick Brandewie

Co-Founder

Robert Faber

Principal

Gene Gabbard

Venture Partner

Drew Graham

Co-Founder and Managing General Partner

Johan, Paul C.

Founder and Partner

Rice, Matthew C.

Partner

Past deals in Florida

Symphonic Distribution

Series B in 2022
Symphonic Distribution is an independent music distribution and marketing company founded in 2006 by music producer Jorge Brea. Based in Tampa, Florida, with offices in key music markets globally, the company offers digital music distribution services to a diverse range of clients, including record labels, managers, and individual artists. Symphonic's platform enables the distribution of music to numerous retail and streaming platforms while providing additional services such as playlist pitching, release promotion, and royalty management. The company has worked with a variety of notable artists and labels across different genres, helping them enhance their reach and visibility in the digital music landscape.

Key Data Dashboard™

Series B in 2021
Key Data is the most trusted data and insights platform for professional lodging operators. Key Data’s ProData product is designed to save lodging teams hours of aggregating data sources by seamlessly providing one trusted place for real-time data-driven decision making thanks to direct integrations with reservation systems. Over 1,600 professional lodging teams around the globe are using Key Data’s expanding portfolio of business intelligence and comparative data products to save time, increase revenue & beat their competition. Key Data also provides a market intelligence and comparative data platform for tourism organizations and investment funds. Key Data Dashboard, formerly known as VRM Dashboard announced a $2.4 million Series A round led by leading vacation rental companies and investors specializing in early-stage ventures.

Abacode

Series A in 2020
Abacode, Inc. is a managed cybersecurity and compliance service provider based in Tampa, Florida, with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 2014, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including banking, healthcare, legal, technology, and government. Abacode differentiates itself by prioritizing business strategy over technology, allowing organizations to make informed decisions that enhance their overall risk management. The company's offerings include assessment and advisory services, managed detection and response, breach response, and compliance readiness, among others. By providing small and medium enterprises with a comprehensive suite of cybersecurity and compliance solutions, Abacode helps clients mitigate modern cyber threats while ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, thereby reducing operational costs and improving efficiency.

BioTissue

Series C in 2019
BioTissue is a technology company focused on developing medical solutions using human amniotic and umbilical cord tissues. Founded in 2001 and based in Miami, Florida, the company offers a platform that processes placental tissue to maintain its biological and structural integrity. This innovative approach provides healthcare professionals with products that possess anti-inflammatory, anti-scarring, and anti-angiogenesis properties, enhancing regenerative healing in various medical fields such as eye care, wound care, and orthopedics. By addressing unmet clinical needs, BioTissue aims to improve patient healing outcomes through its advanced regenerative medicine solutions.

Symphonic Distribution

Venture Round in 2017
Symphonic Distribution is an independent music distribution and marketing company founded in 2006 by music producer Jorge Brea. Based in Tampa, Florida, with offices in key music markets globally, the company offers digital music distribution services to a diverse range of clients, including record labels, managers, and individual artists. Symphonic's platform enables the distribution of music to numerous retail and streaming platforms while providing additional services such as playlist pitching, release promotion, and royalty management. The company has worked with a variety of notable artists and labels across different genres, helping them enhance their reach and visibility in the digital music landscape.
IRIS preventative screening for Diabetic Retinopathy is as simple and quick as taking a patient's blood pressure or stepping on a scale, and can be just as helpful to physicians in helping to detect eye disease or other disorders. The retina is a window into the body. Minute changes in the blood vessels of the retina can be early indicators of issues elsewhere.

PowerChord

Venture Round in 2016
PowerChord specializes in lead distribution and lead management for businesses that utilize independent dealer networks (IDN) to sell their products or services. Their powerful SaaS platform seamlessly integrates with lead-generating channels to capture and immediately allocate new leads to the appropriate dealer in the IDN. Giving access to reports outlining the customer’s journey through the sales cycle, PowerChord’s smart lead tracking algorithms ensure no lead goes unturned.

BioTissue

Series B in 2015
BioTissue is a technology company focused on developing medical solutions using human amniotic and umbilical cord tissues. Founded in 2001 and based in Miami, Florida, the company offers a platform that processes placental tissue to maintain its biological and structural integrity. This innovative approach provides healthcare professionals with products that possess anti-inflammatory, anti-scarring, and anti-angiogenesis properties, enhancing regenerative healing in various medical fields such as eye care, wound care, and orthopedics. By addressing unmet clinical needs, BioTissue aims to improve patient healing outcomes through its advanced regenerative medicine solutions.

PowerDMS

Venture Round in 2014
PowerDMS provides a cloud-based solution that helps organizations reduce risk and liability with a comprehensive compliance and content management solution. We provide the practical tools necessary to organize and manage crucial documents and industry standards, maintaining compliance for organizations. PowerDMS enables organizations to house the most current standards; create and link specific policies to these standards; train and test employees for policy knowledge; create reports and track due dates; and house evidence and proof of compliance – in a single location. Audits are less stressful and require fewer resources. PowerDMS redefines compliance and content management through powerful collaboration, process and automatio

BioTissue

Series A in 2013
BioTissue is a technology company focused on developing medical solutions using human amniotic and umbilical cord tissues. Founded in 2001 and based in Miami, Florida, the company offers a platform that processes placental tissue to maintain its biological and structural integrity. This innovative approach provides healthcare professionals with products that possess anti-inflammatory, anti-scarring, and anti-angiogenesis properties, enhancing regenerative healing in various medical fields such as eye care, wound care, and orthopedics. By addressing unmet clinical needs, BioTissue aims to improve patient healing outcomes through its advanced regenerative medicine solutions.

Watermark Medical

Series B in 2010
Watermark Medical specializes in providing solutions for diagnosing and treating sleep breathing disorders, particularly obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The company offers the Apnea Risk Evaluation System (ARES), which combines in-home physiological data with clinical history and anthropomorphic information to assess the presence and severity of OSA. Additionally, Watermark Medical provides the ARES Unicorder, a wireless sleep-wearable device that records various physiological metrics, and the ARES Screener, a tool for predicting OSA risk. These products are marketed to physicians, dental professionals, and sleep clinics through a network of sales representatives and distributors in the United States. Founded in 2008 and initially based in Boca Raton, Florida, the company later moved to West Palm Beach, Florida. As of 2013, Watermark Medical is a subsidiary of SleepMed Incorporated.

FSV Payment Systems

Series C in 2009
FSV Payment Systems specializes in prepaid technology and stored value processing, focusing on delivering comprehensive prepaid card solutions to employers across the United States. The company has significant expertise in various applications of prepaid cards, including e-payroll and benefit cards, loyalty programs, rebates and promotions, as well as general-purpose gift cards and reloadable options. FSV also provides processing services for healthcare payment cards, travel cards, and teen cards, demonstrating its versatility in the prepaid industry. With a strong foundation in paycard technology, FSV Payment Systems is well-equipped to meet the diverse needs of businesses seeking efficient payment solutions.

Lifestyle Fitness

Venture Round in 2004
A St. Petersburg, Fla.-based owner and operator of fitness clubs in the Florida market

PDSHeart

Venture Round in 2003
PDSHeart is a telephonic monitoring company that provides cardiac monitoring technology and services to patients and the telephonic monitoring market in the United States. It offers Dual Alert Afib monitor to capture specific events on patients to cardiologists and electrophysiologists; Looping Multi-Event monitor, which records long term looping memory cardiac events to increase diagnostic yield for transient symptoms of a cardiac arrhythmia; and WebHolter, a web-based digital holter monitoring system. The company also provides Thumb One, a non-looping thumb plate monitor that allows the patient to make a recording by grasping the monitor and placing thumb on the monitor; and Non-Looping Chest Plate, which provides real time recordings for patients who experience transient symptoms of a cardiac arrhythmia, including shortness of breath, dizziness, and palpitations. In addition, it offers Digital Holter System, a monitoring system that provides a patient event button, which has multiple symptoms and activities that can be selected by the patient for report. Further, PDSHeart supplies various holter supplies, which include batteries, electrodes, razors, and alcohol wipes; and upgrades equipment, as well as holter monitoring and pacemaker monitoring services. It offers remote and ambulatory care monitoring of asymptomatic and symptomatic arrhythmia detection through landline, cellular telephone, and the Internet. PDSHeart was founded by Sean Heyniger in 1995 and is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida with an additional office in Conyers, Georgia.
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