Birchmere Ventures

Across five funds and two decades, we've helped build numerous successful companies such as Cvent (event management - IPO) , TenMarks (math tutoring - acquired by Amazon) CyOptics (optical chips - acquired by Avago), Neolinear (EDA - acquired by Cadence), and FreeMarkets (B2B marketplace - IPO). We believe great companies can start anywhere (but to scale quickly they may require a coastal presence), and the best engineers and scientists do not go to just a few schools on each coast. These core principles lead us to invest in companies from across the country overlooked by many other investors, uncovering hidden gems and helping them scale up.

123 past transactions

iRestify

Seed Round in 2022
iRestify is an enterprise-level facilities management platform that empowers property managers to run their operations more productively while elevating the experience of their tenants.

Paper

Series C in 2021
Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and provide contextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process.

Idelic

Series B in 2021
Idelic is a driver management platform designed to consolidate fleet data systems and automate compliance processes. The platform helps prevent crashes, reduce driver turnover, and lower insurance costs by unlocking the power of data organization, artificial intelligence, and smart driver management. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Edu101

Series A in 2020
101 builds mobile-first teaching and assessment tools specifically for college STEM courses. Its first app, Chem101, replaces the clicker and provides tools for chemistry professors to engage their students in the classroom. Chem101 features a module that allows students to intuitively draw and visualize Lewis structures on their mobile devices. Its mobile platform enables instructors to engage students in the classroom, assign homework, and provide on-the-go reinforcement. 101 Edu was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Paper

Funding Round in 2020
Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and provide contextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process.

Aspinity

Series A in 2020
Aspinity offers neuromorphic all-analog integrated circuit technology that can replicate the functionality of digital signal processors. It reduces the system power requirements for always-on sensing applications.

iRestify

Seed Round in 2020
iRestify is an enterprise-level facilities management platform that empowers property managers to run their operations more productively while elevating the experience of their tenants.

Sleeper

Series B in 2020
Sleeper is a sports platform intended for fantasy leagues and eSports. The platform connects fans and people to create a community and friendship that enable users to enjoy a sporting event in a communal way that creates lasting memories.

Paper

Venture Round in 2020
Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and provide contextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process.

Idelic

Series A in 2019
Idelic is a driver management platform designed to consolidate fleet data systems and automate compliance processes. The platform helps prevent crashes, reduce driver turnover, and lower insurance costs by unlocking the power of data organization, artificial intelligence, and smart driver management. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Ikos

Venture Round in 2019
Ikos is delivering a flexible on-demand leasing service for investors and analyzing internal data to guide future client investments. It simplifies the rental experience for landlords and renters with their adaptive process that transparently connects people with homes they want and desire while helping landlords and renters make informed decisions. Ikos was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

EyeLevel.ai

Seed Round in 2019
EyeLevel is Truth Serum for AI. Our dev tools help companies build LLM-powered apps with up to 95% accuracy on their data. Hundreds of firms are building hallucination-free apps across customer service, e-commerce, legal tech, health, travel, education and more.

Paper

Venture Round in 2019
Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and provide contextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process.
Quadient Accounts Receivable by YayPay is an automated AR platform that streamlines the entire credit-to-cash process for B2B companies. Save time prepping/chasing invoices & get paid faster! Our AI capabilities help you predict payor behavior, intelligently automate invoicing & collection communications, & determine customer credit. Our secure statement portal gives your customers more visibility/flexibility for faster payments, & we seamlessly integrate with your ERP, CRM & accounting systems.

Idelic

Seed Round in 2018
Idelic is a driver management platform designed to consolidate fleet data systems and automate compliance processes. The platform helps prevent crashes, reduce driver turnover, and lower insurance costs by unlocking the power of data organization, artificial intelligence, and smart driver management. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

SIEMonster

Venture Round in 2018
SIEMonster launched in 2015 when a seasoned team of hackers spotted a gap in the SIEM market. With more than 20 years’ of experience in penetration testing and white hat hacking into companies worldwide, founders Chris and Dez Rock set out to build their own SIEM solution. SIEMonster is the realization of Chris and Dez Rock’s vision - to build customisable, scalable, and constantly evolving SIEM solutions for the most secure future possible. Today, SIEMonster offers the best modern security tool for any company that wants to manage the vast array of potential threats and risks to their organization. By fortifying their solutions with Red Team expertise, SIEMonster has built the kind of Blue Team defense the cybersecurity industry has been waiting for.

Lensabl

Seed Round in 2018
Lensabl offers an online prescription lens replacement service focused on making it both convenient and affordable for consumers to purchase high-quality lenses from the comfort of their home. The company was established in 2015 by co-founders Andy Bilinsky and Mike Rahimzadeh.

Aspinity

Seed Round in 2018
Aspinity offers neuromorphic all-analog integrated circuit technology that can replicate the functionality of digital signal processors. It reduces the system power requirements for always-on sensing applications.

iRestify

Seed Round in 2018
iRestify is an enterprise-level facilities management platform that empowers property managers to run their operations more productively while elevating the experience of their tenants.

Altru

Seed Round in 2018
Altru’s mobile-first platform allows your company to create authentic content at scale, from your most powerful asset: your employees. Today's candidates need a personalized digital experience. Attract, convert, and retain through Altru. Altru transforms the way you create content, market your company’s employer brand and personalize the candidate experience: all through your employees.

Walkthrough

Seed Round in 2018
Walkthrough enables agents to book the services they need, at the best prices, instantly, without sacrificing quality.

Ampd

Seed Round in 2018
Ampd is the ad automation toolkit that puts Google Ads to work for you. We offer the fastest, simplest, most effective way to amplify your efforts and ad dollars to Amazon and beyond. Supercharge Your Amazon sales, rank and more.

SPIDR Tech

Venture Round in 2018
SPIDR Tech gives law enforcement agencies the technology they need to provide people with the service they deserve. WIth SPIDR Tech's community relationship management platform, law enforcement agencies are able to use their own data to automate customer service and marketing functionalities. This results in enormous cost savings and huge improvements in public perception.

Metricstory

Venture Round in 2018
Metricstory is the ad automation toolkit that amplifies efforts and ad dollars. We offer the fastest, simplest, and most effective way to launch, manage, and maximize Google Ads. The suite of AI, data-driven technology cuts through the complexity of digital advertising to make revenue growth and optimization easy. In today’s climate, it’s crucial to have the right data and insights to connect with customers when they’re searching.

Senic

Seed Round in 2018
Senic is backed hardware startup building the next evolution of smart home interfaces and systems. Combining design and technology, Senic creates beautiful smart home experiences that put humans first. The company is tackling a >$50 Billion untapped market, along with the issue of designing for stickiness instead of the user's wellbeing. Senic's first product, Nuimo Control, was funded on Kickstarter in 32 hours, reaching > $500K in crowdfunding pre-sales. Senic products are based on electronics, mechanics, design, software and nano-technology.

Crystal Knows

Series B in 2018
With the largest public personality platform in the world, Crystal helps you communicate with anyone based on their unique personality.

Modsy

Series B in 2017
Modsy combines advanced 3D graphics, computer vision, and creative curation to provide its customers with home design guidance and plans. It allows its customers to see inspirational designs and decor within the context of their own home and shows ideas for their space before making any changes. Modsy helps new homeowners, remodelers, and renters create an ideal, personalized design. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

PhoneWagon

Seed Round in 2017
PhoneWagon is beautiful call tracking software that helps businesses improve their marketing spend by placing unique local phone numbers on each of their different marketing campaigns. Businesses can turn off campaigns that aren't working and for the campaigns that are working, they can quickly test new ads to further improve ROI. PhoneWagon also allows businesses to communicate with customers through text messages, both manually and automated. Automation allows businesses to send a text message based on an event like a missed call. This engages prospects and prevents them from calling the next business on the list and further improves ROI.

LegalSifter

Venture Round in 2017
LegalSifter builds simple, affordable artificial intelligence products that help people manage their legal obligations and opportunities. It uses natural language processing and machine learning to turn unstructured terms, conditions, and words into structured data and insights.

JazzHR

Series D in 2017
JazzHR is powerful, user-friendly and affordable recruiting software built to help growing companies exceed their recruiting goals. JazzHR's best-in-class solution replaces manual, time-consuming hiring tasks with intuitive tools and automation, empowering hiring managers to recruit and hire the right talent faster. To learn more about JazzHR, visit jazzhr.com.

Idelic

Seed Round in 2017
Idelic is a driver management platform designed to consolidate fleet data systems and automate compliance processes. The platform helps prevent crashes, reduce driver turnover, and lower insurance costs by unlocking the power of data organization, artificial intelligence, and smart driver management. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Quadient Accounts Receivable by YayPay is an automated AR platform that streamlines the entire credit-to-cash process for B2B companies. Save time prepping/chasing invoices & get paid faster! Our AI capabilities help you predict payor behavior, intelligently automate invoicing & collection communications, & determine customer credit. Our secure statement portal gives your customers more visibility/flexibility for faster payments, & we seamlessly integrate with your ERP, CRM & accounting systems.

Sleeper

Seed Round in 2017
Sleeper is a sports platform intended for fantasy leagues and eSports. The platform connects fans and people to create a community and friendship that enable users to enjoy a sporting event in a communal way that creates lasting memories.

JOANY

Series A in 2017
Joany is your trusted healthcare concierge. We simplify buying and using health insurance, all year long. Using data, machine learning and humans, Joany takes of everything healthcare, so you don't have to.

OneKloud

Seed Round in 2017
OneKloud gets cloud infrastructure spending under total control by automatically enforcing budget quotas that are forecasted and assigned per project and team, and managing workflow approval. A platform that eliminates cloud infrastructure misuse and drives day-to-day decision making to reflect high-level strategy, OneKloud reduces average cloud spending by 15% to 50%, while generating company-wide accountability. The 48,000 US companies that spend over $10 billion on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud now have the solution to easily manage their Cloud Infrastructure costs and block all unnecessary spending before it occurs.

ALung Technologies

Series C in 2017
ALung Technologies is a medical device manufacturing company that develops intracorporeal and extracorporeal gas exchange devices for the treatment of acute and chronic respiratory disorders. Its technology utilizes Hemolung, an extracorporeal gas exchange device that circulates blood through a small catheter; and Hattler Catheter, which is placed within the central venous bloodstream in the primary vein that returns blood to the heart and is inserted directly through the skin into the vein. The company was founded in 1997 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Ikos

Seed Round in 2017
Ikos is delivering a flexible on-demand leasing service for investors and analyzing internal data to guide future client investments. It simplifies the rental experience for landlords and renters with their adaptive process that transparently connects people with homes they want and desire while helping landlords and renters make informed decisions. Ikos was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

JOANY

Seed Round in 2017
Joany is your trusted healthcare concierge. We simplify buying and using health insurance, all year long. Using data, machine learning and humans, Joany takes of everything healthcare, so you don't have to.

JOANY

Seed Round in 2016
Joany is your trusted healthcare concierge. We simplify buying and using health insurance, all year long. Using data, machine learning and humans, Joany takes of everything healthcare, so you don't have to.

Encentiv Energy

Series A in 2016
Encentivizer™ provides actionable data for manufacturers, energy efficiency professionals, and utilities. It’s cost effective digital customer engagement for all the industry’s stakeholders -- empowering all customers to make smarter + faster energy efficiency decisions. Encentivizer™ is a scalable, cloud technology that uses vast amounts of energy efficiency product information and utility incentives which empowers utilities and the energy efficiency community to engage business customers and guide them to take action to permanently reduce their energy consumption.

Paper

Seed Round in 2016
Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and provide contextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process.

Identified Technologies

Venture Round in 2016
Identified Technologies offers its industrial customers with a mapping drone solution to increase project visibility and team productivity. Its integrated software and services take care of everything from FAA compliance and flight planning to advanced analytics. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Admiral

Seed Round in 2016
Admiral is a Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) company that helps publishers with relationships drive revenue growth. Admiral empowers publishers to engage their audiences to drive and optimize revenue streams from paid subscriptions to adblock recovery. Admiral’s one-tag solution provides free revenue analytics, and a suite of engagement, GDPR/CCPA privacy compliance, subscription, and revenue growth modules.

SubCentral

Seed Round in 2016
SubCentral offers a subscription management tool for small and mid-sized business. The company offers a software to organizations that enables them to organize and manage their cloud software subscriptions through one central hub. It provides various tools and services for the online management of software-as-a-service and related products and applications. its services include software-as-a-service access, provisioning, password management, analytics, usage, and billing tools. SubCentral was founded by Jason Yablinsky in 2015 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh.

JOANY

Seed Round in 2016
Joany is your trusted healthcare concierge. We simplify buying and using health insurance, all year long. Using data, machine learning and humans, Joany takes of everything healthcare, so you don't have to.

Containership

Seed Round in 2016
Fully automate, scale, and deliver, any application in any cloud or datacenter. Seamlessly expand into new providers, or migrate with a click.

Healthie

Seed Round in 2016
Healthie offers infrastructure for next generation digital health organizations that offer virtual-first care. Our API-first and fully brandable suite of solutions - EMR, coaching platform, scheduling software, and patient engagement - enable healthcare builders to launch and scale best-in-class experiences for their members and quickly scale a provider network. Our organizations deliver holistic care in verticals like behavioral health, women's health, pediatrics and caregiving, and health coaching. We also offer a built-in marketplace of business and clinical integrations used by our organizations. Healthie is HIPAA Compliant and SOC-2 Certified.

Presence

Series C in 2015
PresenceLearning makes live, online special education related services available to K-12 students around the United States. As the leader in the delivery of clinical services via the web, PresenceLearning has provided over 2.5 million teletherapy sessions. Services include speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, behavioral interventions and mental health services, assessments, and early childhood services.

Crystal Knows

Series A in 2015
With the largest public personality platform in the world, Crystal helps you communicate with anyone based on their unique personality.

Treatspace

Venture Round in 2015
Treatspace is a platform where they can post accurate, up-to-date, and verifiable facts about their practices. For patients, Treatspace is a site where they can find and follow trustworthy information about their doctors. It enables high-performance referral management, powers online patient engagement, and facilitates clinical collaboration. Treatspace changes the way primary care, specialty care, and hospital-based systems collaborate in closed-loop referral management and care coordination. The platform was founded in 2012 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Prayas Analytics

Seed Round in 2015
Prayas Anaytics helps retailers A/B test their stores, the way eCommerce companies A/B test their websites. This is done by continuously collecting data on customer movement using existing security cameras already in a retailer's stores. Prayas Analytics is a Y Combinator backed company (S15) and is currently working with several retailers including Barneys, Payomatic, and multiple Fortune 200 retailers. The company has been featured in VentureBeat, The National Retail Federation, and Techcrunch. Visit www.prayasanalytics.com for more information.

BloomBoard

Series B in 2015
Founded in 2010, BloomBoard is leading the shift from professional development to educator advancement via micro-certification. The company partners with states and districts to enable a unique online learning experience where educators can improve their instructional practice and advance in their careers by earning micro-credentials. BloomBoard aims to help all organizations transition to meaningful, purpose-driven educator development and advancement based on measurable certification. For more information, visit bloomboard.com.

Eargo

Series A in 2015
Eargo specializes in the design and development of hearing aids. The company also offers online hearing screenings and virtual support, so customers don’t need to have an in-person visit. It offers rechargeable hearing aids that can be controlled with a smartphone. Its innovative product and go-to-market approach address the challenges of traditional hearing aid adoption, including social stigma, accessibility, and cost.

Ascend Consumer Finance

Seed Round in 2015
Through a proprietary process called Adaptive Risk Pricing, Ascend empowers consumers to prove their real-time creditworthiness

Peloton Technology

Series A in 2015
Peloton Technology was founded in 2011 by a team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to address major pain points of today’s trucking fleets – accidents and fuel costs. Peloton's system uses radar and DSRC vehicle-to-vehicle communications to link active safety systems between pairs of trucks, reducing collision-related expenses and fuel costs. The drivers remain fully engaged and retain steering control, while the system controls acceleration and braking similar to adaptive cruise control. The dramatic reduction in aerodynamic drag in these platoons provides substantial improvements in fuel economy for both the trailing and leading trucks: with on-road testing showing average savings of over 7% between the two trucks.

Identified Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
Identified Technologies offers its industrial customers with a mapping drone solution to increase project visibility and team productivity. Its integrated software and services take care of everything from FAA compliance and flight planning to advanced analytics. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

JazzHR

Series C in 2014
JazzHR is powerful, user-friendly and affordable recruiting software built to help growing companies exceed their recruiting goals. JazzHR's best-in-class solution replaces manual, time-consuming hiring tasks with intuitive tools and automation, empowering hiring managers to recruit and hire the right talent faster. To learn more about JazzHR, visit jazzhr.com.

Earshot

Seed Round in 2014
Earshot is a precision-based real-time marketing platform that helps brands discover and acquire new customers through social media. Earshot's patent pending Decibel Level is a real-time relevancy score that is unique to every brand or campaign. Decibel Level is customizable on the fly so customers can weight variables like location, bio, post content, even logo detection to find the social media posts that are most important in real time.

Nowait

Series B in 2014
NoWait is a mobile platform that links consumers to casual dining restaurants across the United States. It streamlines the dining experience by allowing users to join waitlists and manage reservations through a convenient app.

Gem

Seed Round in 2014
Gem is a cryptocurrency wallet and blockchain platform. Their seasoned team of cryptocurrency software architects and blockchain engineers are building apps for the next generation of consumers, offering secure ways to participate in the digital marketplace. They support payment methods that allow trading options for users.

Estimote

Seed Round in 2013
Estimote creates small, wireless sensors that use modern IoT radio technologies such as Bluetooth, Ultra Wideband, LTE/NB-IoT to compute precise indoor location and enable asset tracking applications.

The Zebra

Seed Round in 2013
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. It aims to simplify the process of finding and purchasing insurance by offering transparent and easy-to-understand options for car, home, and other types of insurance. The Zebra's platform allows users to input their information and receive personalized quotes, helping them find the best coverage and rates available.

NextPrinciples

Seed Round in 2013
NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automation and CRM systems. NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.

TVplus

Venture Round in 2013
TVplus is an award-winning, social technology company that delivers rich, interactive experiences for the Second Screen. The TVplus platform and technology suite allows partners create interactive and synchronous digital experiences at scale across television and video programming. The TVplus Content Management System is a centralized backend publishing platform. The technology uses audio fingerprinting to identify a given piece of content and sync a viewer's Second Screen device to the exact moment within the show. TVplus then delivers relevant contextual and social content at specific moments of the program, creating deeper engagement for viewers and additional connection opportunities for networks, content creators, cable systems and brand advertisers. The platform can further syndicate all content across any digital device and can be built on Web, iOS, and Android operating systems. TVplus is a product of Spot411 Technologies.

ALung Technologies

Series B in 2013
ALung Technologies is a medical device manufacturing company that develops intracorporeal and extracorporeal gas exchange devices for the treatment of acute and chronic respiratory disorders. Its technology utilizes Hemolung, an extracorporeal gas exchange device that circulates blood through a small catheter; and Hattler Catheter, which is placed within the central venous bloodstream in the primary vein that returns blood to the heart and is inserted directly through the skin into the vein. The company was founded in 1997 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

BloomBoard

Series A in 2013
Founded in 2010, BloomBoard is leading the shift from professional development to educator advancement via micro-certification. The company partners with states and districts to enable a unique online learning experience where educators can improve their instructional practice and advance in their careers by earning micro-credentials. BloomBoard aims to help all organizations transition to meaningful, purpose-driven educator development and advancement based on measurable certification. For more information, visit bloomboard.com.

Umano

Seed Round in 2013
Umano is an audio streaming service.

Conscious Box

Seed Round in 2013
Conscious Box is the window to a better world—one where you never have to worry about whether the products you’re buying are truly safe, effective, or good for you. It’s the destination for the best eco-friendly products, the most authoritative source on green, and an platform for creating successful natural product businesses.

Presence

Series B in 2013
PresenceLearning makes live, online special education related services available to K-12 students around the United States. As the leader in the delivery of clinical services via the web, PresenceLearning has provided over 2.5 million teletherapy sessions. Services include speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, behavioral interventions and mental health services, assessments, and early childhood services.

Peloton Technology

Seed Round in 2013
Peloton Technology was founded in 2011 by a team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to address major pain points of today’s trucking fleets – accidents and fuel costs. Peloton's system uses radar and DSRC vehicle-to-vehicle communications to link active safety systems between pairs of trucks, reducing collision-related expenses and fuel costs. The drivers remain fully engaged and retain steering control, while the system controls acceleration and braking similar to adaptive cruise control. The dramatic reduction in aerodynamic drag in these platoons provides substantial improvements in fuel economy for both the trailing and leading trucks: with on-road testing showing average savings of over 7% between the two trucks.

NovaTorque

Venture Round in 2013
Electric motors account for 45% of global electricity consumption, and two thirds of power used in industry. But electric motors haven't evolved in decades, there's no room for further innovation, right? Wrong. In a way that only an outsider to the industry could have dreamed up, NovaTorque has disrupted the design of the electric motor to bring to market a motor that is both less expensive upfront as well as more efficient to operate. In the industrial markets NovaTorque targets, this combination is of enormous interest. The companys motor achieves this with the added advantage of being more compact than comparable state-of-the-art motors and not requiring the use of expensive rare earth magnets.

The Zebra

Seed Round in 2013
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. It aims to simplify the process of finding and purchasing insurance by offering transparent and easy-to-understand options for car, home, and other types of insurance. The Zebra's platform allows users to input their information and receive personalized quotes, helping them find the best coverage and rates available.

JazzHR

Series B in 2012
JazzHR is powerful, user-friendly and affordable recruiting software built to help growing companies exceed their recruiting goals. JazzHR's best-in-class solution replaces manual, time-consuming hiring tasks with intuitive tools and automation, empowering hiring managers to recruit and hire the right talent faster. To learn more about JazzHR, visit jazzhr.com.

Nowait

Series A in 2012
NoWait is a mobile platform that links consumers to casual dining restaurants across the United States. It streamlines the dining experience by allowing users to join waitlists and manage reservations through a convenient app.

Mom Trusted

Seed Round in 2012
Mom Trusted is a community and set of tools created to help parents searching for early education and care. We bring together parents and providers to help kids learn and grow. We recognize there is no one size fits all solution. It is about finding what is right for each family. Mom Trusted gives parents personalized tools to find that 'right' fit. For parents – Mom Trusted helps you find and research local early learning and care solutions from preschools to babysitters by combining detailed provider information with local parent reviews. Our recommendation engine gives you personalized results based on your needs and the knowledge and recommendations of parents like you. Knowing information alone can take you only so far, Mom Trusted connects you to local parents like you for support, ideas, help, a play date, or maybe even a few new friends. Search Now For providers – Mom Trusted makes finding parents easier. Mom Trusted provides business tools that help you find, be in front of, and connect with searching parents earlier and more cost effectively. We provide free and premium tools that can be turned on or off at any time, so you can choose what's right for your business.

ZeaChem

Series C in 2012
Zea2 formerly ZeaChem will change the world by creating high margin and sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based fuels and chemicals. Able to use wood chips, wheat straw, corn stover, or grasses to make a range of drop-in products for the $1T+ chemicals and fuels markets, ZeaChem can profit today without any subsidies and is competitive with $50 per barrel oil. ZeaChem’s advantage centers around its fermentation process which converts 100% of the carbon in the sugars into end products, delivering unmatched yields

ALung Technologies

Series B in 2012
ALung Technologies is a medical device manufacturing company that develops intracorporeal and extracorporeal gas exchange devices for the treatment of acute and chronic respiratory disorders. Its technology utilizes Hemolung, an extracorporeal gas exchange device that circulates blood through a small catheter; and Hattler Catheter, which is placed within the central venous bloodstream in the primary vein that returns blood to the heart and is inserted directly through the skin into the vein. The company was founded in 1997 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

TenMarks Education

Venture Round in 2011
At TenMarks, we believe that students learn best when they're engaged, nurtured, and motivated, and that teachers are key to improving math achievement. Founded in 2009, to help maximize teacher effectiveness in the classroom and to make their lives easier, we've created a web-based learning environment that simplifies assignments, automates grading, and drives student learning through engaging videos and interactive lessons. With headquarters located in Burlingame, CA, TenMarks is used by students across 25,000 schools and 7,000 districts. Each day, students in all 50 states use TenMarks to solve millions of math problems, improving their math skills and confidence. TenMarks aims to positively impact the lives of over 20 million students by 2016. TenMarks has just launched the most robust online adaptive math program for practice, instruction, assessment, and intervention, EVER - one that helps teachers reinforce classroom instruction, easily assess, grade and intervene based on CCSS learning trajectories, and drive automated differentiation. Completely redesigned from the ground up and built for Common Core Math Standards.

Siva Power

Series C in 2011
Siva Power develops third-generation thin-film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Siva Power was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose, California.

MiaSolé

Series F in 2011
MiaSole is a pioneer in the development of Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) thin film photovoltaic products. Their goal is to enable grid parity solar energy by 2012 through high volume manufacturing of low cost solar modules.

CyOptics

Venture Round in 2011
CyOptics, Inc. designs, develops, and markets Indium Phosphide (InP) optical chips and components for integration into access, metro, and long-haul communications systems. Its products include planar lightwave circuits (PLCs) for optical networks in telecommunications and defense applications. The company's products also include optical components, including transmitters, receivers, and modulators for transmission; and optical source and laser detector chips as technology enablers for transmit optical sub-assembly/receive optical sub-assembly, component, and module manufacturers. In addition, it provides contract design, foundry, and packaging services; and design and manufacturing services, such as radio frequency and optical design, wafer/chip fabrication, and automated assembly and test for telecom and non-telecom applications. The company's customers include system original equipment manufacturers and sub-system manufacturers in the communications market. CyOptics, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania. The company has InP design and fabrication operations in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania; silicon PLC fab operations in South Plainfield, New Jersey; and planar automated packaging and testing operations in Matamoros, Mexico.

ALung Technologies

Series A in 2010
ALung Technologies is a medical device manufacturing company that develops intracorporeal and extracorporeal gas exchange devices for the treatment of acute and chronic respiratory disorders. Its technology utilizes Hemolung, an extracorporeal gas exchange device that circulates blood through a small catheter; and Hattler Catheter, which is placed within the central venous bloodstream in the primary vein that returns blood to the heart and is inserted directly through the skin into the vein. The company was founded in 1997 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Helomics

Series D in 2010
Helomics® is a comprehensive personalized healthcare company, bringing the next generation of diagnostics to the oncology field. Helomics is dedicated to improving patient outcomes by providing a personalized comprehensive tumor profile utilizing a proprietary set of laboratory platforms that leverage both tissue-based live and fixed cellular based analysis allowing physicians to characterize malignant tumors on a personalized basis. Helomics’ novel molecular and cellular markers and bioinformatics services support treatment decisions by providing vital information based on the specific biological processes of each individual’s cancer.

Siva Power

Series C in 2010
Siva Power develops third-generation thin-film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Siva Power was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose, California.

NuPathe

Debt Financing in 2010
NuPathe Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on innovative neuroscience solutions for diseases of the central nervous system including neurological and psychiatric disorders. NuPathe's lead product candidate, NP101, is an active, single-use, transdermal sumatriptan patch being developed for the treatment of migraine. In addition to NP101, NuPathe has two proprietary product candidates based on its LAD™, or Long-Acting Delivery, biodegradable implant technology that allows delivery of therapeutic levels of medication over a period of months with a single dose. NP201, for the continuous symptomatic treatment of Parkinson's disease, utilizes a leading FDA-approved dopamine agonist, ropinirole, and is being developed to provide up to two months of continuous delivery. NP202, for the long-term treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is being developed to address the long-standing problem of patient noncompliance by providing three months of continuous delivery of risperidone, an atypical antipsychotic. NuPathe is actively seeking partnerships to maximize the commercial potential for its product candidates in the U.S. and territories throughout the world.

CymaBay Therapeutics

Series E in 2009
CymaBay Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company located in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on the development and commercialization of proprietary new medicines for important human diseases. We are committed to developing breakthrough medicines that improve the lives of patients and their families. CymaBay was seeded with the assets from an earlier metabolic disease company in which more than $120M was invested to produce a robust pipeline. Arhalofenate is a novel oral small molecule being developed to treat the approximately 1 million gout patients that flare three or more times per year. Gout flares are painful inflammatory episodes caused by crystals of monosodium urate (MSU) that result from excess serum uric acid (sUA). In three Phase 2 studies in gout patients arhalofenate was shown to reduce the incidence and duration of flares while simultaneously lowering sUA. If confirmed in additional clinical studies, arhalofenate’s dual acting profile would be unique since all other urate lowering therapies paradoxically increase flares as they lower sUA over the first 6 to 12 months of treatment. Increased flares lead many patients to stop or avoid treatment leading to progression of disease with pain and suffering, erosion of joint structure and functionality, lost time from work, and increased healthcare costs.

Inspired Technologies

Series B in 2009
Inspired Technologies (North Huntingdon, PA) a commercial-stage medical device company focused on auto-titration of oxygen delivery for COPD patients.

Helomics

Venture Round in 2008
Helomics® is a comprehensive personalized healthcare company, bringing the next generation of diagnostics to the oncology field. Helomics is dedicated to improving patient outcomes by providing a personalized comprehensive tumor profile utilizing a proprietary set of laboratory platforms that leverage both tissue-based live and fixed cellular based analysis allowing physicians to characterize malignant tumors on a personalized basis. Helomics’ novel molecular and cellular markers and bioinformatics services support treatment decisions by providing vital information based on the specific biological processes of each individual’s cancer.

NuPathe

Series B in 2008
NuPathe Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on innovative neuroscience solutions for diseases of the central nervous system including neurological and psychiatric disorders. NuPathe's lead product candidate, NP101, is an active, single-use, transdermal sumatriptan patch being developed for the treatment of migraine. In addition to NP101, NuPathe has two proprietary product candidates based on its LAD™, or Long-Acting Delivery, biodegradable implant technology that allows delivery of therapeutic levels of medication over a period of months with a single dose. NP201, for the continuous symptomatic treatment of Parkinson's disease, utilizes a leading FDA-approved dopamine agonist, ropinirole, and is being developed to provide up to two months of continuous delivery. NP202, for the long-term treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is being developed to address the long-standing problem of patient noncompliance by providing three months of continuous delivery of risperidone, an atypical antipsychotic. NuPathe is actively seeking partnerships to maximize the commercial potential for its product candidates in the U.S. and territories throughout the world.

Inspired Technologies

Series A in 2007
Inspired Technologies (North Huntingdon, PA) a commercial-stage medical device company focused on auto-titration of oxygen delivery for COPD patients.

Plextronics

Series B in 2007
Plextronics specializes in printed electronics. The company's focus is on organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays and lighting, specifically conductive inks and associated process technologies. Plextronic's technology will enable the mass production of these printed devices and therefore lower the cost.

NuPathe

Series A in 2006
NuPathe Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on innovative neuroscience solutions for diseases of the central nervous system including neurological and psychiatric disorders. NuPathe's lead product candidate, NP101, is an active, single-use, transdermal sumatriptan patch being developed for the treatment of migraine. In addition to NP101, NuPathe has two proprietary product candidates based on its LAD™, or Long-Acting Delivery, biodegradable implant technology that allows delivery of therapeutic levels of medication over a period of months with a single dose. NP201, for the continuous symptomatic treatment of Parkinson's disease, utilizes a leading FDA-approved dopamine agonist, ropinirole, and is being developed to provide up to two months of continuous delivery. NP202, for the long-term treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is being developed to address the long-standing problem of patient noncompliance by providing three months of continuous delivery of risperidone, an atypical antipsychotic. NuPathe is actively seeking partnerships to maximize the commercial potential for its product candidates in the U.S. and territories throughout the world.

Plextronics

Series A in 2006
Plextronics specializes in printed electronics. The company's focus is on organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays and lighting, specifically conductive inks and associated process technologies. Plextronic's technology will enable the mass production of these printed devices and therefore lower the cost.

Helomics

Funding Round in 2006
Helomics® is a comprehensive personalized healthcare company, bringing the next generation of diagnostics to the oncology field. Helomics is dedicated to improving patient outcomes by providing a personalized comprehensive tumor profile utilizing a proprietary set of laboratory platforms that leverage both tissue-based live and fixed cellular based analysis allowing physicians to characterize malignant tumors on a personalized basis. Helomics’ novel molecular and cellular markers and bioinformatics services support treatment decisions by providing vital information based on the specific biological processes of each individual’s cancer.

Be Here

Series B in 2006
Be Here Corporation provides voice over Internet protocol products. The company offers TotalView, a videoconferencing solution that controls various video views of participants and data. It also develops video optics and visual solutions, including aspherical and catadioptric lenses, and proprietary image processing and view navigation software. The company’s products are used in phone calls, multimedia meetings, human resources and corporate training, higher education and distance learning, medical and healthcare collaborations, financial services, military surveillance, and other visual communications, and government applications; and real estate marketing applications. Be Here Corporation was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

PTC Therapeutics

Private Equity Round in 2005
PTC Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of orally administered and small-molecule drugs. It offers Ataluren, an orally administered small-molecule investigational new drug for the treatment of cystic fibrosis and duchenne muscular dystrophy caused by nonsense mutations. The company also provides PTC299, an anti-angiogenesis drug for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, multiple tumors, and neurofibromatosis. Its products are used for the treatment of genetic disorders, oncology, and infectious diseases. PTC Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in South Plainfield, New Jersey.

CyOptics

Series F in 2005
CyOptics, Inc. designs, develops, and markets Indium Phosphide (InP) optical chips and components for integration into access, metro, and long-haul communications systems. Its products include planar lightwave circuits (PLCs) for optical networks in telecommunications and defense applications. The company's products also include optical components, including transmitters, receivers, and modulators for transmission; and optical source and laser detector chips as technology enablers for transmit optical sub-assembly/receive optical sub-assembly, component, and module manufacturers. In addition, it provides contract design, foundry, and packaging services; and design and manufacturing services, such as radio frequency and optical design, wafer/chip fabrication, and automated assembly and test for telecom and non-telecom applications. The company's customers include system original equipment manufacturers and sub-system manufacturers in the communications market. CyOptics, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania. The company has InP design and fabrication operations in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania; silicon PLC fab operations in South Plainfield, New Jersey; and planar automated packaging and testing operations in Matamoros, Mexico.

Protez Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2005
Protez Pharmaceuticals is a medical research company that discovers, develops, and commercializes antibiotics for difficult-to-treat hospital-based infections. The company focuses on differentiated intravenous and oral small molecule antibiotics to address bacterial resistant, and chronic or recurrent infections. Protez Pharmaceuticals was founded by Christopher M. Cashman in 2003 and is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

Renal Solutions

Series B in 2005
Renal Solutions is focused on the development of dialysis products and services. Renal Solutions was acquired by Fresenius Medical Care in November 2007. Renal Solutions was founded in 2000 and is based in Warrendale, Pennsylvania.

Be Here

Series A in 2005
Be Here Corporation provides voice over Internet protocol products. The company offers TotalView, a videoconferencing solution that controls various video views of participants and data. It also develops video optics and visual solutions, including aspherical and catadioptric lenses, and proprietary image processing and view navigation software. The company’s products are used in phone calls, multimedia meetings, human resources and corporate training, higher education and distance learning, medical and healthcare collaborations, financial services, military surveillance, and other visual communications, and government applications; and real estate marketing applications. Be Here Corporation was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
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