Benaroya Capital

The Benaroya Company, Investment Arm is a venture capital firm specializing in growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in real estate. It seeks to make commercial real estate investments throughout the Puget Sound region including the Pacific Northwest, and the Northwest territories in Canada. The Benaroya Company, Investment Arm was founded in 1956 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

John Carleton

Director of Venture Capital

26 past transactions

DNA Response

Series A in 2012
DNA Response equips brand marketers to maximize online retail sales and take back control of their presence by providing enhanced visibility into online marketplaces, optimized listings that increase revenue and reflect your branding, and controlled pricing that protects your value proposition and relieves downward pressure on your wholesale prices. As an e-commerce channel partner, DNA Response collaborates with brands to provide turn-key sales solutions and services, enabling product marketers to engage over 200 million potential customers in the world’s largest online marketplaces. Backed by proprietary marketplace optimization and intelligence technologies, DNA is creating a new paradigm for how manufacturers engage their buying audiences online. The company is managed by industry veterans with business acumen in order management, e-commerce services, and online marketing, and is backed by investment firms including Benaroya Investments, iSherpa Capital, and successful angel investors. DNA Response is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with a wholly-owned subsidiary in India and strategic partners in Korea and China.

Zoomingo, Inc.

Venture Round in 2013
Zoomingo, Inc. offers an online and mobile shopping discovery application that helps shoppers to find the best deals in retail stores and malls in the United States. Its solution catalogs actual items on sale, including clothing, jewelry, handbags, beauty products, shoes, home décors, and furnishings at a store by store level at retail chains and smaller boutiques; and allows users to browse or search for sale items by category, store, and brand. Zoomingo, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Tumwater, Washington.

CapitalStream

Private Equity Round in 2002
CapitalStreamâ„¢ is an integrated software platform enabling commercial banks and finance companies to implement Straight Through Processing (STP) across lending and leasing portfolios. CapitalStream transforms manual paper-based operations into automated enterprises that respond quickly, efficiently and consistently. CapitalStream streamlines sales, origination, credit analysis, decisioning, document generation, closing, funding, booking, account monitoring and ongoing risk management to reduce cost, risk and processing time. For a rapidly growing list of world class financial institutions, CapitalStream has revolutionized business, commercial, equipment and real estate finance operations by integrating and automating disparate functions and systems to double transaction throughput without increasing headcount.

Silicon Wave

Series C in 2000
Silicon Wave, a San Diego pioneer in the Bluetooth wireless technology.

Prepared Response

Series A in 2003
Prepared Response features crisis management and emergency preparedness solutions and training that enable police, fire, and other emergency responders to save lives and mitigate property damage. Prepared Response's solutions have been repeatedly proven to save lives as well as protect property in schools, hospitals, malls, healthcare facilities, and other public and private critical infrastructure. It was founded in 2000 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.
Pacific Star Communications (PacStar) is a provider of advanced communications solutions for a wide range of military, intelligence, and commercial applications. PacStar creates and manufactures COTS-based rugged, small form factor expeditionary and mobile communications systems. Separately, it has developed integrated, network communications management software, IQ-Core Software, for the military, federal, state/local government, and emergency responder markets. The company’s patented IQ-Core software, hardware technology, and integration services provide secure, command, control, and communications systems, particularly in remote or infrastructure starved areas. In addition, PacStar’s communications systems are ideally suited for commercial/industrial organizations with mission-critical field communications requirements. PacStar was founded in 2000 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

buuteeq

Series A in 2011
buuteeq is a Digital Marketing System (DMS) that enables hotels to create and manage high-performing websites, mobile phone content, a Facebook presence, and direct-to-hotel online reservations. The system combines content management, branded digital marketing materials, integrated online reservations, and reporting tools that together offer independent hotels a complete solution to manage their digital marketing efforts. The company launched its buuteeq DMS service in January 2011

Cozi Inc.

Series A in 2005
Cozi Inc. provides a Web and mobile service that simplifies busy family life. The company offers Cozi Family Organizer, a solution that allows users to manage schedules and activities with an online calendar; track grocery lists, shopping lists, and to do lists; and organize household chores, and share family moments with relatives and friends. Its product is accessible across multiple platforms—from any PC or Mac at Cozi.com or via mobile and tablet applications for iOS, Android (Kindle Fire and NOOK), and BlackBerry. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Seattle, Washington. Cozi Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Meredith Corporation.

Avalara

Series A in 2010
Avalara helps businesses of all sizes get tax compliance right. In partnership with leading ERP, accounting, ecommerce, and other financial management system providers, Avalara delivers cloud-based compliance solutions for various transaction taxes, including sales and use, VAT, GST, excise, communications, lodging, and other indirect tax types. It was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Pacific Star Communications (PacStar) is a provider of advanced communications solutions for a wide range of military, intelligence, and commercial applications. PacStar creates and manufactures COTS-based rugged, small form factor expeditionary and mobile communications systems. Separately, it has developed integrated, network communications management software, IQ-Core Software, for the military, federal, state/local government, and emergency responder markets. The company’s patented IQ-Core software, hardware technology, and integration services provide secure, command, control, and communications systems, particularly in remote or infrastructure starved areas. In addition, PacStar’s communications systems are ideally suited for commercial/industrial organizations with mission-critical field communications requirements. PacStar was founded in 2000 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

CapitalStream

Venture Round in 2000
CapitalStreamâ„¢ is an integrated software platform enabling commercial banks and finance companies to implement Straight Through Processing (STP) across lending and leasing portfolios. CapitalStream transforms manual paper-based operations into automated enterprises that respond quickly, efficiently and consistently. CapitalStream streamlines sales, origination, credit analysis, decisioning, document generation, closing, funding, booking, account monitoring and ongoing risk management to reduce cost, risk and processing time. For a rapidly growing list of world class financial institutions, CapitalStream has revolutionized business, commercial, equipment and real estate finance operations by integrating and automating disparate functions and systems to double transaction throughput without increasing headcount.

Carena

Series B in 2008
Carena is a Seattle-based team of medical, technology, and consumer service professionals committed to delivering the best possible healthcare experience to every patient. 24 hours a day. 365 days a year.

ShareBuilder

Series D in 2001
Online investing, without the clutter. That’s what they help you do here at Capital One® ShareBuilder®. It’s in their clean, dynamic website and mobile apps. In their low commissions and no account minimums. Even in the intuitive tools theye've built from the ground up. They save you time with their Automatic Investment Plan1, which can help you make a habit of investing. Whether you’re a seasoned investor or just getting started, ShareBuilder has online tools and investing options to help create a segment of your financial future without missing out on what matters to you today.

extraSlice Inc

Seed Round in 2017
ExtraSlice is a hybrid tech park with shared office space & a vibrant community of technology companies, service providers & training providers. With its 16,000 square feet of beautiful, professional coworking space, ExtraSlice makes it easier to build tomorrow’s technology & bring it to market. Whether clients and their team need an office, a desk, or just a few days out of the month to communicate and collaborate with other innovators, ExtraSlice has a plan to fit for them.

Zipline Games, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Zipline Games, Inc. develops game development platforms. It offers Moai, a mobile game development platform for pro game developers, which is driven by the Lua scripting language on mobile devices and in cloud. The company’s Moai SDK handles graphics, animations, inputs, physics, and collisions; and Moai cloud hosts game logics, databases and additional game contents, and services to build and administer games. It also operates as a mobile games studio that creates casual and arcade games for iPhone and Android platforms. Zipline Games was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Mercer Island, Washington.

Cequint

Series B in 2007
Cequint Incorporated provides technology that enables wireless carriers to offer caller ID services in North America. The company's City ID, a caller ID product displays the city and state beneath the number of wireless call received. Its product is used by carriers, manufacturers, and end customers. Cequint Incorporated was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Carena

Series A in 2006
Carena is a Seattle-based team of medical, technology, and consumer service professionals committed to delivering the best possible healthcare experience to every patient. 24 hours a day. 365 days a year.

Avalara

Venture Round in 2010
Avalara helps businesses of all sizes get tax compliance right. In partnership with leading ERP, accounting, ecommerce, and other financial management system providers, Avalara delivers cloud-based compliance solutions for various transaction taxes, including sales and use, VAT, GST, excise, communications, lodging, and other indirect tax types. It was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

DNA Response

Seed Round in 2011
DNA Response equips brand marketers to maximize online retail sales and take back control of their presence by providing enhanced visibility into online marketplaces, optimized listings that increase revenue and reflect your branding, and controlled pricing that protects your value proposition and relieves downward pressure on your wholesale prices. As an e-commerce channel partner, DNA Response collaborates with brands to provide turn-key sales solutions and services, enabling product marketers to engage over 200 million potential customers in the world’s largest online marketplaces. Backed by proprietary marketplace optimization and intelligence technologies, DNA is creating a new paradigm for how manufacturers engage their buying audiences online. The company is managed by industry veterans with business acumen in order management, e-commerce services, and online marketing, and is backed by investment firms including Benaroya Investments, iSherpa Capital, and successful angel investors. DNA Response is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with a wholly-owned subsidiary in India and strategic partners in Korea and China.

Cequint

Series B in 2008
Cequint Incorporated provides technology that enables wireless carriers to offer caller ID services in North America. The company's City ID, a caller ID product displays the city and state beneath the number of wireless call received. Its product is used by carriers, manufacturers, and end customers. Cequint Incorporated was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Swype

Series B in 2009
Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input. In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more. Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units

Cequint

Series A in 2006
Cequint Incorporated provides technology that enables wireless carriers to offer caller ID services in North America. The company's City ID, a caller ID product displays the city and state beneath the number of wireless call received. Its product is used by carriers, manufacturers, and end customers. Cequint Incorporated was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Sparkbuy

Seed Round in 2010
Sparkbuy is a comparison shopping engine with a focus on consumer electronics. In May 2011, it was acquired by Google.

Cozi Inc.

Venture Round in 2013
Cozi Inc. provides a Web and mobile service that simplifies busy family life. The company offers Cozi Family Organizer, a solution that allows users to manage schedules and activities with an online calendar; track grocery lists, shopping lists, and to do lists; and organize household chores, and share family moments with relatives and friends. Its product is accessible across multiple platforms—from any PC or Mac at Cozi.com or via mobile and tablet applications for iOS, Android (Kindle Fire and NOOK), and BlackBerry. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Seattle, Washington. Cozi Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Meredith Corporation.

Swype

Series C in 2011
Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input. In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more. Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units