Prokeep is a customer engagement platform designed to enhance communication efficiency for distributors. It centralizes messaging, automates order updates, and maintains conversation history, thereby improving customer service.
OS Benefits
Pre Seed Round in 2024
OS Benefits is a company that specializes in providing affordable health insurance and wellness benefits to businesses in the hospitality industry. Its platform offers comprehensive health insurance plans with low co-pays and competitive premiums, along with access to over 25 wellness benefits. This enables small businesses to offer essential care to their employees while effectively managing costs.
Glass Half Full
Seed Round in 2024
Glass Half Full is a Louisiana-based company specializing in glass recycling. It collects glass waste from residents, businesses, and events, transforming it into sand and gravel for various purposes such as disaster relief, coastal restoration, and eco-construction. By making glass recycling accessible and transparent, the company helps divert waste from landfills and promotes sustainability.
Inclusively
Series A in 2023
Inclusively is a professional networking and employment platform focused on connecting job seekers with disabilities or chronic illnesses to employers committed to providing workplace accommodations. Its technology-driven approach aims to drive employment within the disability community, aligning human dignity with economic urgency.
ARIX Technologies
Series A in 2023
Founded in 2017, ARIX Technologies specializes in robotics and data analytics for pipeline inspection. Headquartered in Jackson, Louisiana with an engineering office in Houston, Texas, the company designs and develops crawling robots to monitor, test, and analyze the condition of pipelines in oil and gas refining and petrochemical facilities.
Inclusively
Convertible Note in 2022
Inclusively is a professional networking and employment platform focused on connecting job seekers with disabilities or chronic illnesses to employers committed to providing workplace accommodations. Its technology-driven approach aims to drive employment within the disability community, aligning human dignity with economic urgency.
Obatala Sciences
Series A in 2022
Obatala Sciences is a biotechnology company focused on developing an innovative in vitro humanized adipose tissue model system aimed at addressing the significant economic burden of obesity and diabetes. By treating body fat as a functional organ, the company seeks to enhance the understanding of its role in health and disease. Their three-dimensional screening tool simplifies tissue engineering, facilitating disease modeling, cell assays, cell identification, tissue analysis, and drug discovery. This model enables academic and pharmaceutical researchers to efficiently identify effective drug compounds, ultimately reducing the time, cost, and effort associated with testing potential treatments for obesity, diabetes, other metabolic diseases, and related cancers.
Prokeep
Seed Round in 2022
Prokeep is a customer engagement platform designed to enhance communication efficiency for distributors. It centralizes messaging, automates order updates, and maintains conversation history, thereby improving customer service.
Conserv is a software and sensors company that aims to transform the art conservation market through its innovative platform designed specifically for conservation professionals. The company has developed a mobile application that focuses on environmental monitoring, a critical aspect of conservation work. This application provides an all-in approach to monitoring, delivering accurate, real-time data that is straightforward to implement. Users can set standards tailored to each space within their collections, based on the unique characteristics of the objects they are preserving. By offering guidance on optimal environmental conditions, Conserv supports professionals in maintaining the integrity of their collections effectively.
Corporate Realty
Acquisition in 2021
Corporate Realty is a full-service commercial real estate agency based in New Orleans and serving the entire Gulf Region. The company has consistently been involved in the largest, most complex, and most demanding real estate transactions and management assignments in this region. Corporate Realty prides itself on having the most knowledgeable real estate professionals in the market.
AxoSim
Private Equity Round in 2020
AxoSim is a biomimetic neuroscience platform company that develops 3D human nerve tissue models to support drug discovery. Its NerveSim in vitro system uses Schwann cell myelination and human-relevant electrical and structural metrics to predict clinical neurotoxicity and facilitate translation to humans, while Nerve-on-a-Chip and BrainSim technologies model nerve and brain tissue, enabling testing for neurotoxicity and neurodegenerative disease. The company grows living human cells in a 3D environment to mimic nerve tissue and advance preclinical drug evaluation. AxoSim aims to shorten development timelines and improve the relevance of preclinical assessments by providing platforms that emulate human neural physiology in the lab. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.