Canal Partners

Canal Partners is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing professional investor services and capital to B2B software and internet technology companies with market-proven products and services. They aim to develop a true partnership with each portfolio company, offering strategic guidance alongside financial support to help scalable, early-stage businesses reach the next level of growth. Focusing on software-as-a-service (SaaS) startups in key markets like Phoenix, San Diego, Denver, and Atlanta, Canal Partners has facilitated the success of numerous companies, enabling them to achieve significant market share, grow into thriving organizations, and ultimately achieve successful exits. Founded in 2007 and based in Scottsdale, Arizona, with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia, and Laguna Beach, California, Canal Partners has a track record of supporting companies in various sectors such as consumer services, human resources, financial services, and information technology.

Perry Jacobson

Partner

24 past transactions

Lightpost Digital

Venture Round in 2017
Lightpost Digital & Deal Current Network Inc. provides online marketing solutions to clients in the United States. It offers digital location management software and solutions that help users to leverage location-based technologies to drive foot traffic in their local stores. The company also provides Website development, search engine optimization, social media marketing, Google AdWords, and reputation monitoring services. It serves entertainment, health and beauty, home improvement, restaurant, and retail clients. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Diego, California.

Yerbae

Private Placement in 2018
In 2017 our Co-Founders Todd and Karrie Gibson decided to share their vision with the world of bringing people a clean beverage that provides a purpose in people’s lives. This vision led them to the creation of Yerbaé. This company has become an industry pioneer by re-introducing the world to one of our signature ingredients, Yerba Mate. This herb allowed us to transform what an enhanced sparking beverage can do for people.

AgileField

Series A in 2017
AgileField Inc. is a leading provider of field service management solutions for the mid-market and the first to introduce a comprehensive methodology, AgileField, for advancing field service capabilities, improving profitability and customer satisfaction. AgileField combines our mobile-friendly, flagship SaaS application, AgileFSM together with an integrated set of technologies, processes, reports, controls, and learning materials that serves as a "step-by-step"​ guide for improving operational and financial performance.

nettime Solutions

Secondary Market in 2012
Beginning in 1996, a vision to offer affordable business tools has guided nettime’s actions. We launched HourTrack, our first time and attendance software, as well as biometric devices. Both gave businesses a chance to use cutting-edge technology that they previously couldn’t afford—and finally they could eliminate buddy punching and wage theft to control labor costs.

ClickDimensions

Seed Round in 2011
ClickDimensions LLC develops and offers marketing automation solutions to integrate with Microsoft Dynamics customer relationship management (CRM) platform. It offers ClickDimensions, a marketing automation solution that provides email marketing, nurture marketing, web tracking, lead scoring, social discovery, campaign tracking, and form capture integration solutions, as well as surveys and landing pages. The company also provides marketing success managers, technical support, and training resources and live sessions. It also provides email marketing, web intelligence, lead scoring, campaign automation, nurture marketing, social discovery, form capture, and surveys. It serves marketers and entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional locations in Fargo, North Dakota; Greenville, South Carolina; Tel Aviv, Israel; and The Hague, the Netherlands.

AlphaICs

Series B in 2021
AlphaICs India Private Limited develops artificial intelligence system on a chip (SoC) solutions. The company offers purpose-built SoCs and FPGA boards; and deep learning chips for client side. Its products are used in various applications, including home automation, factory floors, health care wearables, drones in industries, agriculture, hobby, robotics, flying cars, surveillance cameras, industrial robots, drones, and IoT and connected electronic systems. AlphaICs India Private Limited was founded in 2016 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Attribytes

Series A in 2018
Attribytes provides foodservice companies with a cloud based software platform to accelerate the collection, sharing and management of data. Its View My Product, Collaboration Sales Dashboards and Business Intelligence tools, pricing and logistics modules, and other data and document management tools allow distributors, manufacturers, and operators to improve product content and the customer’s online shopping experience while also offering meaningful insights to customers’ purchases in order to collaboratively drive sales growth.

WebPT

Series A in 2010
WebPT is a rehab therapy platform designed for enhancing patient care and fueling business growth. WebPT’s product suite provides a robust end-to-end solution covering the entire rehab therapy business cycle, from billing and managing a practice to delivering quality, evidence-based care. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

CallRail

Series A in 2015
CallRail is a phone call tracking and analytics platform businesses use to understand which marketing campaigns drive leads and conversions. Its intuitive software helps data-driven marketers optimize the performance of their online and offline advertising campaigns, increase sales effectiveness, and improve customer retention.

Allbound

Seed Round in 2017
Allbound is a saas platform that helps companies accelerate growth through their resellers and distributors with more predictably and lower costs by providing sales reps with a single SaaS toolset for training, content marketing, collaboration, and customer success. The company's partner relationship management (PRM) software from partner onboarding, to enablement, marketing collaboration, and deal registration. Allbound provides cloud-based channel sales that allow organizations to give real-time access to sales enablement, marketing tools, and resources. It helps companies build successful partner programs.

Bluetail

Series A in 2021
Bluetail helps aircraft owners and teams to manage, store, and privately share all of their aircraft documents, records, and data. It aims to digitize paper records into one secure platform transforming them into searchable, shareable, and actionable assets. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Omedix

Series A in 2016
Omedix is a provider of patient-engagement platform and internet-based solutions for physician practices and healthcare organizations. The company offers PortalPlus, a community healthcare platform that enables users to streamline office workflows. It also engages in the design and development of websites for healthcare organizations. In addition, the company offers a patient education solution for medical practice, as well as Internet marketing services. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Allbound

Seed Round in 2015
Allbound is a saas platform that helps companies accelerate growth through their resellers and distributors with more predictably and lower costs by providing sales reps with a single SaaS toolset for training, content marketing, collaboration, and customer success. The company's partner relationship management (PRM) software from partner onboarding, to enablement, marketing collaboration, and deal registration. Allbound provides cloud-based channel sales that allow organizations to give real-time access to sales enablement, marketing tools, and resources. It helps companies build successful partner programs.

PetDesk

Series A in 2017
PetDesk is a SaaS appointment and reminder platform helping pet services providers grow their business by supplying their clients with a single app to manage their pet's lives. Vets, groomers, and boarders pay a monthly subscription fee to receive appointment requests and send automated reminders from their own branded experience on the PetDesk App. They see lowered office stress due to fewer calls in a day, higher profitability due to fewer no shows, and higher revenue due to more frequent return visits. Clients download the app and add all of their providers for easier access, managed scheduling, and a single source to track all of their pet's information. PetDesk is a product of Locai, a mobile software development company building big business enterprise solutions for small local business owners.

Wing Assistant

Seed Round in 2022
Wing is a product-driven managed marketplace matching SME teams with vetted remote talent to make delegating recurring work easy and secure. Wing automates the process of getting things done on-demand for users with cutting-edge technology and a strong partnership network. The company is the only mobile on-demand concierge service app in the space that learns about the user and leverages AI to improve its service. Wing is also the only service that offers a monthly subscription for unlimited requests, at a price point that is affordable to the mass market. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Edaris

Venture Round in 2018
Edaris Health, Inc. provides clinical documentation solutions to emergency departments and urgent care centers. It offers a medical charting software solution for patient management, care coordination, performance management, and emergency department operations; and a cloud-based urgent care electronic health record solution. Edaris Health, Inc. was formerly known as Forerun, Inc. and changed its name to Edaris Health, Inc. in November 2016. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Picmonic

Convertible Note in 2014
Picmonic Inc. develops and operates Picmonic, an audiovisual platform for learning. Its platform helps students improve their memory retention and score higher in exams. The company’s platform takes the textbook information for topics, such as pharmaceuticals, med-surgical, fundamentals, and more and turns them into images and stories for making studying more effective. Its platform also provides learning tools that help users learn, review, and quiz themselves, as well as search, filter, and sort for specific topics, characters, or books. The company’s platform covers topics in the areas of pharmacology, microbiology, biochemistry, anatomy, social/behavioral, organ based, pathology and physiology, psychiatric, pediatrics, and obstetrics. It serves nursing, medicine, and MCAT biology students. Picmonic Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Tempe, Arizona.

EquipRent.com

Seed Round in 2011
EquipRent.com is a brand/product of EquipCo LLC, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. The company's mission is to connect commercial construction companies with construction equipment rental companies in order to deliver highly qualified opportunities to rental companies and enable contractors to receive multiple quotes in the most efficient and cost effective way possible.

AgileField

Series A in 2016
AgileField Inc. is a leading provider of field service management solutions for the mid-market and the first to introduce a comprehensive methodology, AgileField, for advancing field service capabilities, improving profitability and customer satisfaction. AgileField combines our mobile-friendly, flagship SaaS application, AgileFSM together with an integrated set of technologies, processes, reports, controls, and learning materials that serves as a "step-by-step"​ guide for improving operational and financial performance.

Allbound

Seed Round in 2016
Allbound is a saas platform that helps companies accelerate growth through their resellers and distributors with more predictably and lower costs by providing sales reps with a single SaaS toolset for training, content marketing, collaboration, and customer success. The company's partner relationship management (PRM) software from partner onboarding, to enablement, marketing collaboration, and deal registration. Allbound provides cloud-based channel sales that allow organizations to give real-time access to sales enablement, marketing tools, and resources. It helps companies build successful partner programs.

Allbound

Series A in 2018
Allbound is a saas platform that helps companies accelerate growth through their resellers and distributors with more predictably and lower costs by providing sales reps with a single SaaS toolset for training, content marketing, collaboration, and customer success. The company's partner relationship management (PRM) software from partner onboarding, to enablement, marketing collaboration, and deal registration. Allbound provides cloud-based channel sales that allow organizations to give real-time access to sales enablement, marketing tools, and resources. It helps companies build successful partner programs.

Attribytes

Series A in 2018
Attribytes provides foodservice companies with a cloud based software platform to accelerate the collection, sharing and management of data. Its View My Product, Collaboration Sales Dashboards and Business Intelligence tools, pricing and logistics modules, and other data and document management tools allow distributors, manufacturers, and operators to improve product content and the customer’s online shopping experience while also offering meaningful insights to customers’ purchases in order to collaboratively drive sales growth.

Attribytes

Private Placement in 2018
Attribytes provides foodservice companies with a cloud based software platform to accelerate the collection, sharing and management of data. Its View My Product, Collaboration Sales Dashboards and Business Intelligence tools, pricing and logistics modules, and other data and document management tools allow distributors, manufacturers, and operators to improve product content and the customer’s online shopping experience while also offering meaningful insights to customers’ purchases in order to collaboratively drive sales growth.

Limos.com

Series A in 2008
Limos.com is an online and mobile marketplace that connects passengers to affordable and trusted limo and private car services worldwide. From stress-free wedding day transportation to affordable town cars for your next business trip, Limos.com has over 41,000 available vehicles in 370 destinations across 62 countries. Compare vehicles, prices, rider ratings and customer reviews to find the perfect ride in your area – or destination of your travel. And the best part is, your quoted price is all-inclusive, including tax and tip – so no surprises. Limos.com is revolutionizing the limo and private car industry by offering easy access to affordable and dependable rides anytime, anywhere. Join the Ride Revolution today!