Sean Barkman

Partner

Carol Bear

Director of Administration

KB

Kendra Boyle

Senior Associate

Robert A. Faber

Partner

O. Gene Gabbard

Venture Partner

Drew Graham

Partner

Paul Johan

Partner

BP

Baxter Perkins

Senior Associate

Matt Rice

Partner

JS

Jeff Smith

VP

WY

Walter Yarbrough

Associate

Past deals in Florida

Keen Strategy

Series B in 2022
Keen Decision Systems is a developer of software-as-a-service used to help marketers make courageous, data-driven decisions. Its technology is a real-time resource that accurately calculates financial contribution across all marketing channels that enable marketers to maximize profitability, maximize revenue, or optimize marketing investments within a fixed budget.
Symphonic Distribution is a 100% independent music distribution and marketing company founded by music producer Jorge Brea in 2006. Headquartered in Tampa, FL with offices in major music markets throughout the world, Symphonic provides thousands of new and established record labels, managers and individual artists with global digital music distribution to hundreds of retail and streaming platforms, as well as playlist pitching, release promotion, and a comprehensive suite of label services. Artists and Record Labels that have had their content distributed through Symphonic Distribution include: Bassnectar, deadmau5, Waka Flocka Flame, Datsik, The Movement, Tommie Sunshine, Richie Hawtin, Play Me Records, Moody Recordings (Bad Boy Bill), and many more of various genres and music focuses.

Key Data Dashboard

Series B in 2021
Key Data Dashboard develops a data visualization and comparison software for vacation rental managers. The company's product provides real time visualization of core key performance indicators (KPI's), as well as anonymized comparative views of the local, regional, and industry competition data sets. It caters to vacation rental companies. Key Data Dashboard was formerly known as VRM Dashboard. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.

AVOXI, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
AVOXI, Inc. provides communication as a service (CaaS) solutions which combines international virtual number services with cloud communication solutions to global contact centers. The company's product includes smart queue, a cloud-based virtual call center solution which offers a cloud-based call center platform; hosted private branch exchange (PBX) phone system which helps the employees to manage their productivity; international session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking solutions; and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) gateway solution. It also offers services, such as local and international call forwarding services and international VoIP number and forward calls. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Carterra, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Carterra provides biotechnology solutions that develop and commercialize novel micro-array deposition technologies. The company provides users with instruments and services, which enable multiplexing on planar array surfaces. It also offers Continuous Flow Microspotter (CFM), which includes an array printing instrument and a microfluidic print head. Its products include spot CFM printhead, which uses a network of microchannels to deposit samples at one time in a block; and CFM instrument, which uses built-in sensors and pumps to control the flow within the CFM print head. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Tower Cloud

Venture Round in 2012
Tower Cloud provides telecom backhaul services to wireless carriers. The company builds and operates fiber optic and wireless networks to connect cellular towers to the wireless carriers' mobile switching centers. Wireless carriers utilize Ethernet and Sonet T-1 broadband capacity provided by Tower Cloud to manage the exploding volume of voice and data traffic on their cellular networks. Tower Cloud currently operates backhaul networks in the greater Orlando, FL and Miami, FL markets and is in the process of constructing a new network in Atlanta, GA. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

VAZATA, LLC

Venture Round in 2009
VAZATA is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider serving Global 1000 businesses, U.S. Federal Government Agencies and Mid-Market Enterprises. The company provides highly secure, stable, and scalable technology solutions that meet the challenges of its global customers using a proprietary cloud architecture called vStructure™.

MolecularMD

Series A in 2009
MolecularMD Corp. develops and commercializes specialty molecular diagnostics for oncology applications. It offers services in the areas of assay design and development services; sample banking and bridging strategies; clinical trial design and development; regulatory planning; analytical and clinical assay validation; full-service histology and pathology offerings that include immunohistochemistry assay development; FDA submission services; and custom clinical GMP kit manufacturing. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Portland, Oregon with a location in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As of January 25, 2019, MolecularMD Corp. operates as a subsidiary of ICON Laboratory Services Inc..

VAZATA, LLC

Venture Round in 2012
VAZATA is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider serving Global 1000 businesses, U.S. Federal Government Agencies and Mid-Market Enterprises. The company provides highly secure, stable, and scalable technology solutions that meet the challenges of its global customers using a proprietary cloud architecture called vStructure™.

Pace mate

Series A in 2021
Pace mate is a digital healthcare company.

Tissuetech

Series A in 2013
TissueTech is an innovative technology company that uses products derived from human amniotic and umbilical cord tissues. Its medical technology platform markets innovative amniotic and umbilical cord-based products, thereby enabling physicians to avail of enhanced regenerative healing technology in eye care, wound care, and orthopedics. Tissuetech was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

ITC Financial Services

Venture Round in 2004
ITC Financial Services LLC, a financial services company, provides electronic cash solutions.

PowerChord

Venture Round in 2016
A PowerChord is defined as a combination of musical notes, playing together to make one, powerful sound… and that is exactly how our smart, creative group of pranksters, brewers, and intense fantasy football competitors operate. Sure, our PowerChord team may work out of bean bag chairs and occasionally close the office early for a company beer, but at the end of the day, our clients come first.

Tower Cloud

Venture Round in 2011
Tower Cloud provides telecom backhaul services to wireless carriers. The company builds and operates fiber optic and wireless networks to connect cellular towers to the wireless carriers' mobile switching centers. Wireless carriers utilize Ethernet and Sonet T-1 broadband capacity provided by Tower Cloud to manage the exploding volume of voice and data traffic on their cellular networks. Tower Cloud currently operates backhaul networks in the greater Orlando, FL and Miami, FL markets and is in the process of constructing a new network in Atlanta, GA. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

Theragen.inc

Venture Round in 2016
Theragen.inc, through its subsidiary, engages in the development, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and reimbursement of medical grade therapeutic devices for both muscle rehabilitation and pain management. It offers Kneehab XP, a portable neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) device designed to deliver focused, coordinated, and sequential stimulation to the quadriceps complex. Its device reactivates, reeducates, and strengthens quadriceps muscles secondary to disuse atrophy, injury, or knee surgery. The company also provides Recovery Back, a portable device for alleviating low back pain. Theragen.inc was founded in 2014 and is based in Manassas, Virginia.

SkuVault

Series A in 2019
SkuVault is a cloud-based inventory management system and warehouse management software. Acquiring and maintaining accurate inventory quantities is a problem common to most all retailers – from overselling (aka out of stocks), mis-picks, and mis-ships, to forgotten stock sitting on a shelf, not even listed for sale. Our system, SkuVault, helps to greatly reduce those inventory issues, and many other problems retailers face. SkuVault deals with your actual, physical inventory, scanned into and out of your warehouse or store, and then uses this real time data to sync to your online marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, etc.

MolecularMD

Series B in 2012
MolecularMD Corp. develops and commercializes specialty molecular diagnostics for oncology applications. It offers services in the areas of assay design and development services; sample banking and bridging strategies; clinical trial design and development; regulatory planning; analytical and clinical assay validation; full-service histology and pathology offerings that include immunohistochemistry assay development; FDA submission services; and custom clinical GMP kit manufacturing. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Portland, Oregon with a location in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As of January 25, 2019, MolecularMD Corp. operates as a subsidiary of ICON Laboratory Services Inc..

Carterra, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Carterra provides biotechnology solutions that develop and commercialize novel micro-array deposition technologies. The company provides users with instruments and services, which enable multiplexing on planar array surfaces. It also offers Continuous Flow Microspotter (CFM), which includes an array printing instrument and a microfluidic print head. Its products include spot CFM printhead, which uses a network of microchannels to deposit samples at one time in a block; and CFM instrument, which uses built-in sensors and pumps to control the flow within the CFM print head. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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.

Tower Cloud

Venture Round in 2009
Tower Cloud provides telecom backhaul services to wireless carriers. The company builds and operates fiber optic and wireless networks to connect cellular towers to the wireless carriers' mobile switching centers. Wireless carriers utilize Ethernet and Sonet T-1 broadband capacity provided by Tower Cloud to manage the exploding volume of voice and data traffic on their cellular networks. Tower Cloud currently operates backhaul networks in the greater Orlando, FL and Miami, FL markets and is in the process of constructing a new network in Atlanta, GA. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

Symphonic Distribution, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Symphonic Distribution is a 100% independent music distribution and marketing company founded by music producer Jorge Brea in 2006. Headquartered in Tampa, FL with offices in major music markets throughout the world, Symphonic provides thousands of new and established record labels, managers and individual artists with global digital music distribution to hundreds of retail and streaming platforms, as well as playlist pitching, release promotion, and a comprehensive suite of label services. Artists and Record Labels that have had their content distributed through Symphonic Distribution include: Bassnectar, deadmau5, Waka Flocka Flame, Datsik, The Movement, Tommie Sunshine, Richie Hawtin, Play Me Records, Moody Recordings (Bad Boy Bill), and many more of various genres and music focuses.

PowerDMS

Venture Round in 2014
PowerDMS, Inc. cloud-based policy and procedure management software. It also offers Policy Management Software to simplify the policy lifecycle with online distribution, signatures, and tracking; Public-Facing Documents solution that enables to publish critical content to community; Training Management solution; Accreditation Management solution; and Mobile Policy, a solution that gives staff secure access to critical content. It serves industries, such as business, law enforcement, fire/EMS, municipalities, healthcare, corrections, and others. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Orlando, Florida.

MeYou Health, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
MeYou Health was founded in 2009 with the goal of transforming traditional health and wellness programs into social, digital well-being products that help people live healthier, happier lives. Its well-being platform and interventions achieve impact through sustained engagement and measurable effect. This impact has been demonstrated in the market with 60% member engagement at 12 months (with multiple interactions per week) and academically with three randomized control trials and multiple peer-reviewed publications demonstrating positive outcomes. MeYou Health’s “open social” model provides extra power to the interventions, because members can participate with anyone in their social network, regardless of each person’s health insurance coverage.

Tissuetech

Series B in 2015
TissueTech is an innovative technology company that uses products derived from human amniotic and umbilical cord tissues. Its medical technology platform markets innovative amniotic and umbilical cord-based products, thereby enabling physicians to avail of enhanced regenerative healing technology in eye care, wound care, and orthopedics. Tissuetech was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

The Zebra

Series A in 2016
The Zebra operates as an online insurance comparison marketplace. It provides rates and educational resources to inform consumers and help them find the coverage, service level, and pricing to suit their unique needs, while simultaneously helping insurance companies connect with the consumers they best serve in today’s digital world. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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.

Tissuetech

Series C in 2019
TissueTech is an innovative technology company that uses products derived from human amniotic and umbilical cord tissues. Its medical technology platform markets innovative amniotic and umbilical cord-based products, thereby enabling physicians to avail of enhanced regenerative healing technology in eye care, wound care, and orthopedics. Tissuetech was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Tower Cloud

Venture Round in 2013
Tower Cloud provides telecom backhaul services to wireless carriers. The company builds and operates fiber optic and wireless networks to connect cellular towers to the wireless carriers' mobile switching centers. Wireless carriers utilize Ethernet and Sonet T-1 broadband capacity provided by Tower Cloud to manage the exploding volume of voice and data traffic on their cellular networks. Tower Cloud currently operates backhaul networks in the greater Orlando, FL and Miami, FL markets and is in the process of constructing a new network in Atlanta, GA. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

Spotio, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Spotio, Inc. develops a customer relationship management software platform for door-to-door and business-to-business sales representatives and managers. The company’s software is used for sales intelligence, appointment setting, lead management, sales canvassing, territory management, customer mapping, team chat, e-contracts, sales leaderboard, improve productivity, route planning, representative tracking, report building, and sales tracking. It serves solar, telecommunications, storm restoration, distribution, healthcare, business service/supplies, and home improvement industries. Spotio, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

TicketBiscuit, LLC

Venture Round in 2016
TicketBiscuit is a Birmingham, Alabama-based online ticketing company. The company provides a proprietary, Web-based event management system to help small and midsize entertainment venues, including promoters, colleges, churches, theaters, nightspots, comedy clubs and individual artists - sell their own tickets online. TicketBiscuit is considered to be an independent, lower cost alternative to Ticketmaster.

y prime

Series A in 2013
Y Prime’s innovative software solutions are bringing a new level of transparency to meet the challenges of today’s increasingly complex and competitive clinical and regulatory environment. Working for industry leaders worldwide, Y Prime harnesses information to help clients effectively plan and manage clinical trials on time and within budget. Presently, software companies are forcing products into a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, which for clinical research leaves much to be desired in terms of customer support. The Y Prime platform is designed to scale as a SaaS platform but is operated with such high level of interaction that we call it a Software With a Service platform.

Mailprotector

Series A in 2020
Mailprotector's parent company, Virtual Connect Technologies, was founded primarily as a website development company. At that time they had developed a couple of intranet sites whose users were fed up with spam, viruses, and the whole lot of issues that come with an unprotected email system. So they rolled up our sleeves and set ourselves to work, and soon they had engineered a basic email filtering system that worked beautifully for our customers. Their system worked so well that they decided that they might be able to share it with others. So they re-tooled our system to work as a managed service, added a ton of new and useful features, called it "Mailprotector" and put up a website for it. Soon people started giving Mailprotector a try, then they raved about it to their friends. Before they knew it they were protecting the email of tens of thousands of users and processing millions of messages each day.

Watermark Medical

Series B in 2010
Watermark Medical Holdings, Inc. operates in the health care industry. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in West Palm Beach, Florida.

FSV Payment Systems

Series C in 2009
FSV Payment Systems is a leader in prepaid technology and stored value processing. With roots deep in paycards – one of the first significant applications in the prepaid industry outside of gift cards – FSV has the experience, stored-value systems, technology and expertise to deliver your company’s prepaid card payment solutions. To learn more visit www.fsvps.com.

Abacode

Series A in 2020
Abacode is fundamentally different from most Cybersecurity providers. They address company risk from a business strategy first and cyber-technologies second. This methodology ensures your technical and non-technical leadership are able to make unbiased strategic decisions that positively impact the entire organization. They provide companies with a single trusted source for all cybersecurity and compliance products, solutions, and managed services. Abacode was founded by Michael Ferris.

The Zebra

Series C in 2020
The Zebra operates as an online insurance comparison marketplace. It provides rates and educational resources to inform consumers and help them find the coverage, service level, and pricing to suit their unique needs, while simultaneously helping insurance companies connect with the consumers they best serve in today’s digital world. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Lifestyle Fitness

Venture Round in 2004
A St. Petersburg, Fla.-based owner and operator of fitness clubs in the Florida market
Iconixx is a provider of sales compensation software designed for compensation management. Its cloud-based solutions deliver incentives to the entire workforce for businesses of all sizes. It enables organizations to increase sales productivity and improve overall profitability by automating, analyzing, and optimizing commission and incentive processes with flexibility and ease. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Iconixx Software Corporation

Venture Round in 2017
Iconixx is a provider of sales compensation software designed for compensation management. Its cloud-based solutions deliver incentives to the entire workforce for businesses of all sizes. It enables organizations to increase sales productivity and improve overall profitability by automating, analyzing, and optimizing commission and incentive processes with flexibility and ease. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Iconixx Software Corporation

Venture Round in 2014
Iconixx is a provider of sales compensation software designed for compensation management. Its cloud-based solutions deliver incentives to the entire workforce for businesses of all sizes. It enables organizations to increase sales productivity and improve overall profitability by automating, analyzing, and optimizing commission and incentive processes with flexibility and ease. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.