Canal Partners

Canal Partners is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing investment and strategic support to B2B software and internet technology companies with established market presence. The firm focuses on early-stage, scalable companies, particularly those in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) sector, operating primarily in the Phoenix, San Diego, Denver, and Atlanta regions. Canal Partners emphasizes building strong partnerships with its portfolio companies, offering not only financial capital but also guidance to foster growth and development. The firm has successfully assisted numerous startups in gaining significant market share, evolving into successful enterprises, and achieving favorable exits.

Perry Jacobson

Partner

22 past transactions

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.

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.

AlphaICs

Series B in 2021
AlphaICs India Private Limited specializes in developing artificial intelligence system on a chip (SoC) solutions, offering purpose-built SoCs and FPGA boards alongside deep learning chips for various client-side applications. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, the company targets a wide range of industries, including home automation, healthcare wearables, drones, agriculture, robotics, and surveillance systems. AlphaICs is known for its patented technology, Real AI Processing (RAP), which aims to enhance AI computing capabilities in areas such as self-driving cars, robotics, and intelligent cloud computing. With a focus on advancing AI compute, AlphaICs is positioned to play a significant role in the development of autonomous systems.

Allbound

Series A in 2018
Allbound, Inc. is a cloud-based platform that specializes in channel sales and marketing, designed to enhance the efficiency of indirect sales partnerships. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with an office in Gurugram, India, Allbound provides a comprehensive software solution that streamlines the recruitment, onboarding, training, and performance measurement of sales partners. Its platform facilitates collaboration among channel vendors and their partners by automating the distribution of marketing content, sales tools, and training resources throughout the sales pipeline. By offering a single SaaS toolset for partner relationship management, Allbound enables companies to accelerate growth through their resellers and distributors, ultimately improving partner engagement and delivering real-time analytics on channel performance.

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

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.

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.

Allbound

Seed Round in 2017
Allbound, Inc. is a cloud-based platform that specializes in channel sales and marketing, designed to enhance the efficiency of indirect sales partnerships. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with an office in Gurugram, India, Allbound provides a comprehensive software solution that streamlines the recruitment, onboarding, training, and performance measurement of sales partners. Its platform facilitates collaboration among channel vendors and their partners by automating the distribution of marketing content, sales tools, and training resources throughout the sales pipeline. By offering a single SaaS toolset for partner relationship management, Allbound enables companies to accelerate growth through their resellers and distributors, ultimately improving partner engagement and delivering real-time analytics on channel performance.

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.

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.

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.

Allbound

Seed Round in 2016
Allbound, Inc. is a cloud-based platform that specializes in channel sales and marketing, designed to enhance the efficiency of indirect sales partnerships. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with an office in Gurugram, India, Allbound provides a comprehensive software solution that streamlines the recruitment, onboarding, training, and performance measurement of sales partners. Its platform facilitates collaboration among channel vendors and their partners by automating the distribution of marketing content, sales tools, and training resources throughout the sales pipeline. By offering a single SaaS toolset for partner relationship management, Allbound enables companies to accelerate growth through their resellers and distributors, ultimately improving partner engagement and delivering real-time analytics on channel performance.

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.

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, Inc. is a cloud-based platform that specializes in channel sales and marketing, designed to enhance the efficiency of indirect sales partnerships. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with an office in Gurugram, India, Allbound provides a comprehensive software solution that streamlines the recruitment, onboarding, training, and performance measurement of sales partners. Its platform facilitates collaboration among channel vendors and their partners by automating the distribution of marketing content, sales tools, and training resources throughout the sales pipeline. By offering a single SaaS toolset for partner relationship management, Allbound enables companies to accelerate growth through their resellers and distributors, ultimately improving partner engagement and delivering real-time analytics on channel performance.

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.

Picmonic

Convertible Note in 2014
Picmonic Inc. operates an audiovisual learning platform designed to enhance memory retention and improve exam performance for students in various fields, particularly nursing and medicine. The platform transforms traditional textbook information into engaging visual stories, known as Picmonics, which utilize humor and memorable graphics to facilitate effective studying. Covering a wide range of subjects including pharmacology, microbiology, and anatomy, Picmonic also offers tools for users to learn, review, and quiz themselves, making the study process interactive and personalized. Founded in 2011 and based in Tempe, Arizona, Picmonic aims to foster a collaborative educational community where learners can create, share, and discover content that enhances academic and professional outcomes.

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 specializes in marketing automation solutions tailored for integration with the Microsoft Dynamics customer relationship management (CRM) platform. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company provides a comprehensive suite of services, including email marketing, web tracking, lead scoring, nurture marketing, social discovery, campaign tracking, form capture, and surveys. ClickDimensions is recognized as the highest-rated marketing solution on Microsoft's Dynamics Marketplace and holds a Gold Microsoft Partner designation. The platform enables organizations to identify potential customers, assess their interest levels, and take appropriate marketing actions. Additionally, ClickDimensions offers support through marketing success managers, technical assistance, and training resources. The company operates additional offices in Fargo, North Dakota; Greenville, South Carolina; Tel Aviv, Israel; and The Hague, the Netherlands, and is backed by Canal Partners, a private equity firm.

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.

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.

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!