Quiltt enables financial innovators to access the best account aggregation and transaction enrichment providers through one lightweight integration and one simple contract. Our mission is to unlock the next wave of fintech innovation by removing technical and commercial barriers to build with financial data.
alder apparel is an e-commerce, direct to consumer line of outdoor apparel designed for women. alder’s core differentiators are inclusive sizing (XS - 4X, double the size range of typical outdoor and athletic apparel brands) and female focused design, sustainable and ethical production and a playful brand that starkly contrasts the performance-driven, hard-core athletic brands that currently dominate the outdoor space.
We reduce friction in the contracting process by providing contract transparency, which powers trust and builds healthy relationships between buyers and their vendors. Who is TermScout? A team of lawyers, engineers, and business people who believe that knowledge is power. We’re scouts who read terms and other contracts, providing truthful, simple, and objective reports and summaries to help you make educated decisions about what companies you want to do business with. What Does TermScout Deliver? We reduce friction in the contracting process by providing contract data transparency, which powers trust and builds healthy relationships between buyers and their vendors. We provide buyers with a summary of a vendor's contract and how that vendor's contract terms compare to that vendor's major competitors. By providing this information at the beginning of a contract review, buyers can more quickly move contracts through their review processes while at the same time realizing significant cost savings. We provide vendors with two data products: 1) an Industry Report that provides an analysis of the contracts of that vendor's top competitors and 2) a Contract TermSheet that provides a summary of that vendor's customer contract terms. The Industry Report is used by legal teams to review their company's customer contracts in relation to their major competitors - provision by provision. The Contract TermSheet is part of our Sales Accelerator Program used by sales teams to close deals more quickly by providing our data to their customers to save time in their customer's contract review process.
Retail Aware develops a real-time, sensor-informed analytics platform to help brands and retailers analyze and track information to determine the actions they need to take. Its sensor analytics platform provides shelf-level data on impressions, dwell time, product engagement, and audience demographics, and operational factors such as temperature and stock outages without the use of cameras.
ConverseNow provides virtual assistants for consumer-facing businesses to best serve their clientele. ConverseNow’s best-in-class voice AI technology provides a much-needed solution for the $870B chain restaurant market to overcome labor shortages and boost performance from high-volume voice channels such as phone, drive-thru, self-service kiosks, and voice-assisted chat. Partnering with a growing list of multinational and national brands, ConverseNow has helped restaurants boost same-store sales up to 31%, increase average tickets up to 25%, and provide up to 90 hours of additional labor per store each month. Founded in 2018 by Vinay Shukla and Rahul Aggarwal, ConverseNow is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Priori is the global legal marketplace for in-house teams. We use data and technology to rapidly connect legal departments from 1 to 1000+ with the right outside counsel for projects globally, saving them time and money. Our clients include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading technology companies, who use our platform to find vetted boutique firms for projects requiring niche expertise, local counsel, cost-control, overflow, or temporary support. We were shortlisted in both 2018 and 2019 as a Financial Times Intelligent Business for our work reducing the cost of legal services for corporate clients by 60-80%.
EarlyBird is a Fintech gifting platform that simplifies investing for parents, while empowering friends and family to seamlessly gift financial contributions to the children in their life. EarlyBird is transforming financial gifting, making it personal, purposeful, and timeless.
Caraway specializes in manufacturing non-toxic ceramic cookware. Caraway is on a mission to craft well-designed, non-toxic ceramic cookware that thoughtfully raises the standards of what you cook with. The company's products are made with naturally smooth ceramic, not polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon)—a chemical that can leach toxic substances into food and the air. Caraway was founded in 2018 and is based in New York City.
ConverseNow provides virtual assistants for consumer-facing businesses to best serve their clientele. ConverseNow’s best-in-class voice AI technology provides a much-needed solution for the $870B chain restaurant market to overcome labor shortages and boost performance from high-volume voice channels such as phone, drive-thru, self-service kiosks, and voice-assisted chat. Partnering with a growing list of multinational and national brands, ConverseNow has helped restaurants boost same-store sales up to 31%, increase average tickets up to 25%, and provide up to 90 hours of additional labor per store each month. Founded in 2018 by Vinay Shukla and Rahul Aggarwal, ConverseNow is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Outlaw provides personal care and home fragrance for people who want to smell like campfire, whiskey, leather, and the great outdoors. Outlaw is a company for adventurous people, by adventurous people. We live like the products we make: we love the campfire, whiskey, and ill-advised explosions... standing a little too close, but be sure to wear fire-proof clothes. Russ and I have built a business around what we find fun and interesting. It’s not for everyone… We get a lot of bruises in the regular course of life. Our hair is usually a mess. I probably have dirty fingernails.
Casetext has used A.I. legal research technology, that has been adopted across the legal market. Its award-winning technology offers both conventional search functionality and its CARA A.I. powered contextual search, which focuses on the context of research to help find on-point authorities faster. Founded by a team of former litigators from top law firms, as well as Ph.D. data scientists and leading A.I. engineers, Casetext helps legal researchers find the cases, including many that they would otherwise miss.
PartySlate is a marketplace that inspires people planning all types of events and connects them with the leading event professionals, vendors, and venues across the country and the world. People planning all types of events — from weddings and holiday parties to birthday parties and galas — come to PartySlate to find new and unique party ideas, discover the best local vendors and venues, and build their event teams. Event professionals, venues, and vendors use PartySlate to grow their businesses, connect with industry peers, and reach more clients. Companies can share photos and videos from all types of events, get recognized for their work with our unique crediting system, and use their content-rich profiles as portfolio-sharing tools. Since its founding in 2016, over 25,000 of the world’s top venues, planners and vendors have uploaded over 2,000,000 photos of real weddings, corporate events and celebrations to the platform.
LegalMation is an AI technology company that provides tools to help attorneys and legal professionals automate routine litigation tasks, allowing them to focus on more valuable tasks in their practice. They aim to redefine the way these professionals provide value to their clients, whether as outside or in-house legal counsel.
Baboon is a manufacturer of backpacks intended to offer various types of adventure bags. The company's range of offerings includes various types of bags, which are made up of different materials and comes in different colors, shapes and sizes, enabling users to carry their belongings safely.
Casetext has used A.I. legal research technology, that has been adopted across the legal market. Its award-winning technology offers both conventional search functionality and its CARA A.I. powered contextual search, which focuses on the context of research to help find on-point authorities faster. Founded by a team of former litigators from top law firms, as well as Ph.D. data scientists and leading A.I. engineers, Casetext helps legal researchers find the cases, including many that they would otherwise miss.
PartySlate is a marketplace that inspires people planning all types of events and connects them with the leading event professionals, vendors, and venues across the country and the world. People planning all types of events — from weddings and holiday parties to birthday parties and galas — come to PartySlate to find new and unique party ideas, discover the best local vendors and venues, and build their event teams. Event professionals, venues, and vendors use PartySlate to grow their businesses, connect with industry peers, and reach more clients. Companies can share photos and videos from all types of events, get recognized for their work with our unique crediting system, and use their content-rich profiles as portfolio-sharing tools. Since its founding in 2016, over 25,000 of the world’s top venues, planners and vendors have uploaded over 2,000,000 photos of real weddings, corporate events and celebrations to the platform.
Private Equity Round in 2018
Evidox is a high-quality provider of eDiscovery and litigation technology services including preservation, collection, processing, hosting, production and presentation of electronic evidence. Evidox was founded with the goal of differentiating the company from other vendors by maintaining a legal-centric approach focused on simultaneously reducing the cost and improving the quality of eDiscovery.
The Minte offers hotel-style housekeeping services. It uses a building-centric model for staffing housekeepers. The Minte's services can be booked via app or by pressing a dash-like button out the door. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Chicago in Illinois.
Popular Pays is a platform connecting content creators with brands who want the content to tell their stories. It is a tech company, with an in-house built iOS app and dashboard that delivers direct communication, workflow tools, and powerful statistics.
haku is an event management application that enables event organizers to plan, manage, promote, and sell-out their events such as running, cycling, and other sports events. It supports organizers by providing free, state-of-the-art tools to plan their events, track their progress, engage their participants, and meet their goals. haku was launched in 2013 and is based in Miami, Florida.
Heureka provides organizations with tools to help them solve challenges related to managing unstructured data. Its platform makes it fast and easy to search and manage your data across your entire enterprise. It gives you real-time access to unstructured data on network file systems, servers, VM’s, laptops and desktops in order to respond to eDiscovery requests, comply with GDPR & privacy regulations and to automate information governance policies.
Esquify is a cutting-edge legal technology start-up. We replace the current in-person litigation document review with a virtual solution using our own patented, machine learning technology to do so. Our proprietary supervisory technology and communication tools allow our reviewers to perform a virtual, secure and efficient review utilizing all existing e-discovery platforms to access documents. This means that our team can do physical document reviews from anywhere in the country while being supervised in real-time by our case managers and artificial intelligence technology. As a result, our customers have CUT their TOTAL REVIEW COST by 20-45% while receiving a better, more efficient review with 90%+ REVIEWER PRODUCTIVITY!
Classkick is the place where students do work, and get help from teachers and classmates. Teachers create assignments on Classkick, check for individual student understanding, and give instant, personalized help. Students can raise their hand privately and give peer-to-peer feedback. The technology is hyper-focused on increasing student learning and helping teachers be even more effective.
Interior Define (ID) is a pioneering digitally-native and vertically-integrated furniture brand, offering the most compelling and in-depth custom furniture experience in the middle of the market. ID makes customization easy: sofas may be tailored by size, fabric, configuration, leg style, and sit, providing an experience akin to high-end custom brands. Since every sofa (and now beds and dining) is made to order, inventory overhead is all but eliminated, allowing the brand to sell at accessible, middle market prices. This creates a unique customer experience further highlighted by complimentary white glove delivery, a standard 365-day return policy, and high-touch shopping process. Online, customers can view all pieces and custom options in 360 degrees, and order free fabric swatches to explore the product in home. Customers can also use ID's augmented reality (AR) app to view furniture and fabrics in their homes. Though a digitally-native brand, at ID's Guideshop locations, guests can experience firsthand the unique sit and style of each sofa and receive one-on-one consultations with expert team members. ID Guideshop locations can be visited in New York (Soho), Chicago (Lincoln Park), San Francisco (Hayes Valley), Los Angeles (Fairfax, La Brea), Boston (Back Bay), and Austin (Domaine Northside).
Realvision is an immersive media technology company that builds 3D media solutions for the real estate industry. Realvision is a technology platform built to support real estate agents, created for professional photographers.
Jiobit is the world's smallest and longest lasting tracking solution. With a Jiobit device and smartphone app, parents (and pet parents) can find their loved ones anywhere: Indoors, outdoors, in over 120 countries and even in multi-level buildings. With weeks of battery life and a durable and discreet design, Jiobit is the world's smallest real-time location tracking product. The mobile app (run through a wireless subscription service) offers the most comprehensive set of monitoring and notification features available on the market. Overall, Jiobit gives parents peace of mind while allowing kids to be kids. The Jiobit team is comprised of seasoned engineers, designers, and marketers with a history of building innovative and disruptive consumer products and businesses. The team has logged a combined 150 patents from previous endeavors and developed and shipped products selling in the millions worldwide. We are proudly headquartered in Chicago, with a development center in Silicon Valley.
Stonegate Capital Holdings, LLC, is a diversified private credit investment firm with a unique approach to providing financing solutions to established lower middle market businesses and emerging brands, their sponsors and supporters. At a time when traditional sources of debt capital are limiting their exposure due to risks, increasing costs, and regulations, Stonegate Capital has emerged as a stable source of liquidity for borrowers across industries and economic cycles.
Mack Weldon is a designer and retailer of men's clothing. It specializes in clothing products that include men's underwear, T-shirts, socks, bottoms, and other accessories. Mack Weldon is dedicated to reinventing men's basics. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
Luxury Garage Sale is an operator of an online e-commerce fashion platform intended to sell stand-out items from the world's beloved luxury brands. The company's platform specializes in selling luxury designer clothing, shoes, handbags, and jewelry which are customized to consignment as they are sourced, sell and share, enabling consumers to have high-end fashion and exceptional experience at a low price. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Semantify enables you to have meaningful conversations with your enterprise data spread across multiple databases… With Semantify, you get more meaningful insights from your data than any other tool. While other tools are limited to just dashboards and pre-programmed questions, Semantify is the only solution to iteratively explore your data universe and get instant answers using natural language questions on your laptop. Semantify enables business users to combine their business knowledge with the data universe and instantly extract meaningful insights from it, without depending on data experts for data extraction. It is like having conversations with your data - you ask english language questions through a google like interface, and you get instant answers… No data can hide from Semantify. If data exists somewhere, Semantify will hunt it down. It will help track down trends, identify patterns and enable you to perform predictive analytics as well… Semantify is the first in the industry to achieve an intersection of self service business intelligence functionality with semantic search engine to explore enterprise data using natural language queries. This engine powers real time, meaning based search on structured, unstructured and semi-structured data lying across multiple, large, fragmented and disparate databases. The unified, open platform enables fast creation of customized solutions through a simple console based tool. This solution is proven at major banks, large consumer retail stores, healthcare equipment manufacturers and communication chipset providers.
Private Equity Round in 2016
Forensicon provides a number of digital forensics services and e-Discovery services to the legal and corporate communities nationally. They work with law firms, software companies, consulting firms, financial, government, and non-profit organizations, hospitals, and other organizations.
Simple Mills produces organic, gluten-free, and plant-based food products to provide convenient and delicious options for dietary needs. It includes crackers, cookies, and baking mixes.
Mouth Foods is an online destination for small-batch foods. It features products such as beverages, condiments, candy, snacks, spreads, and other foods from hundreds of talented makers around the United States. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
Graphite is a technology platform that helps companies accelerate business performance with on-demand experts, consultants, and executives. Leading investment firms, professional services firms and Fortune 1000 companies turn to Graphite to access hard-to-find skills, alleviate bandwidth constraints, drive major organizational change, and innovate faster.
Introducing RevCascade, purpose built to help brands make more money, save time, and stay in total control of products, pricing, and merchandising.
Private Equity Round in 2015
QDiscovery is a provider of electronic data and document management solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments throughout the United States. The company collaborates with clients to execute proactive and flexible solutions to give a strategic advantage. The company provides cost-effective and defensible results, and have a desirable track record in an industry where experience and expertise are the differentiators. Its leadership team and staff of life long electronic discovery specialists are willing to become valued members of the case team. QDiscovery was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in New London, Connecticut.
Rentable is an internet company that specializes in providing a web-based platform that allows its users to conduct an online internet apartment search. The company was established in 2011 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.
Mack Weldon is a designer and retailer of men's clothing. It specializes in clothing products that include men's underwear, T-shirts, socks, bottoms, and other accessories. Mack Weldon is dedicated to reinventing men's basics. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
NowThis News is a digital video news outlet that provides original news content for mobile devices and social platforms. Its content is geared towards 18 to 34 year olds who have adopted mobile devices and social platforms as a portal for finding and sharing news and commentary. NowThis News addresses four key trends in digital consumption: social, video, digital, and mobile. NowThis News publishes content to iOS and Android applications, NowThisNews.com, and distributes content through social media channels including Facebook and Twitter, and through distribution partnerships with Buzzfeed, MSN, Forbes and Mashable. The company was founded by Huffington Post co-founder and former chairman Kenneth Lerer, former Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau, and Bedrocket founder Brian Bedol. Co-Founder Hippeau said, “The idea came as Ken and I were tossing around thoughts in mobile news. It was evident that there was no video news, breaking news, that was created in video format just for mobile devices”. NowThis News has raised $5 million from backers Lerer Ventures, Bedrocket Media Ventures, and Oak Ventures.
Bucketfeet is a direct-to-consumer shoe brand that allows artists to create shoe designs and prints them on sneakers once ordered online. Each pair of BucketFeet is designed by a different artist. Find curated inspiration that connects you with the artists that design them. It collaborates with a global community of artists to design limited-edition shoes with the goal of sparking meaningful conversations to create a brighter world. Through a responsive commerce model, Bucketfeet is disrupting traditional manufacturing cycles and redefining the $300B footwear industry, letting the company community select styles they’d like to purchase and wear to help inform demand. It empowers artists to share their stories and perspectives using the universal language of art and the shoe as their canvas. Bucketfeet was founded in 2011 by Raaja Nemani and Aaron Firestein and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA.