Catalyst Investors

Catalyst employs a research-driven deal flow origination process to identify high-growth sectors and businesses within technology-enabled services. Catalyst targets growth-stage businesses with proven business models and attractive unit economics and sectors that are being driven by fundamental, long-term growth trends and have substantial addressable markets. Catalyst makes both control and influential minority investments, typically has meaningful influence and board representation, and seeks to create value after investment through active involvement in creating, evaluating, and monitoring a portfolio company's business strategy, performance against budget, acquisition efforts, and capital structure evolution. Catalyst leverages its Advisory Group of seasoned industry professionals to provide portfolio companies with access to experienced industry executives and referrals to potential customers or strategic partners.

Susan Bihler

Partner

John Buck

Associate

Todd Clapp

Partner

Kapil Desai

Principal

Jackson Evans

Associate

Allison Forlenza

Associate

Kyle Howard-Johnson

Senior Associate

KH

Kyle Howard Johnson

Associate

Sidney Kanell

Associate

Grady Kidder

VP

Samantha Lexton

VP, Investor Relations

Kirk Mahoney

Associate

Ryan McNally

Partner, Co-Founder and Head of Business Development

Tyler Newton

Partner

Brian Rich

Managing Partner Co-Founder

Christopher (Chris) Shipman

Co-Founder and Senior Advisor

Gene Wolfson

Partner, Investor Relations

Patty Xu

CFO

Past deals in North Dakota

Decisyon

Series B in 2014
Enterprises with bi and performance management software solutions that integrate analysis, planning and execution

Videology

Series D in 2013
Videology is a digital media advertising technology solutions provider, providing its clients with solutions to connect advertiser brands with consumers who are most interested in those brands. By leveraging the power of consumer data and ad decisioning, we increase accountability, and optimize the performance of video and display advertising campaigns by providing a more relevant, meaningful web experience for consumers who view the ads delivered through our advertising technology solutions.

Envoy Global

Private Equity Round in 2021
Envoy is a provider of global immigration and workforce management services used to pursue opportunities across the marketplace. The company provides an immigration management platform that makes it seamless for companies to hire and manage a global workforce by combining expert legal representation for both inbound and outbound immigration and proprietary technology.

Effectual, Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2019
Effectual Inc. monitors, manages, optimizes, and secures client’s cloud environment. The company offers digital transformation consulting; and managed services, such as operations run book, cloud management portal, incident response, infrastructure and application monitoring, cloud security management, compliance management, and cloud cost management. It develops, migrates, manages, and secures public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud solution. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Weave

Series C in 2018
Weave is a developer of a customer experience management (CXM) platform designed to meet the needs of patients and to build better business and clinical outcomes. The company's platform features email, marketing capabilities, a full payments platform and a proprietary VoIP phone service to create customer interactions using personalized customer information across all communication channels, enabling businesses to improve relationships with the people they serve. With over 15,000 customers, Weave was the first Utah company to join Y Combinator and has received several renowned awards, including the Fortune 100 Best Companies 2019, Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 and Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startups, the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, Glassdoor’s 2019 and 2020 Best Places to Work and 2019 Top CEOs.

InSite Wireless

Venture Round in 2011
InSite Wireless Group constructs and operates telecommunications infrastructure for wireless carriers. InSite Wireless Group is made up of three (3) operating entities: InSite Wireless, LLC, which owns, operates, manages, and markets distributed antenna infrastructure solutions; InSite Connect, LLC, which owns and operates backhaul services; and InSite Towers, LLC, which develops, owns, manages and operates telecommunication towers and sites for wireless carriers. InSite Wireless was formed in 2000 and headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.

XploreNet

Venture Round in 2010
Barrett XPlore, Inc. provides wireless broadband services to home, business, and enterprise users. The company offers fixed wireless and satellite high-speed Internet services. It also provides Web hosting services for fixed wireless customers, as well as digital phone services, including local and long distance. The company is based in Woodstock, Canada. Barrett XPlore, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Barrett Corporation.
eSUB Inc. designs and develops construction management software for subcontractors. It offers project management, time card management, corporate management, and resource management software, as well as field works mobile application and scheduling tools. The company serves electrical, mechanical, specialty, and drywall contractors, as well as HVAC and plumbing industries. eSUB Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Diego, California.

InSite Wireless

Venture Round in 2012
InSite Wireless Group constructs and operates telecommunications infrastructure for wireless carriers. InSite Wireless Group is made up of three (3) operating entities: InSite Wireless, LLC, which owns, operates, manages, and markets distributed antenna infrastructure solutions; InSite Connect, LLC, which owns and operates backhaul services; and InSite Towers, LLC, which develops, owns, manages and operates telecommunication towers and sites for wireless carriers. InSite Wireless was formed in 2000 and headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.

BrightFarms

Series D in 2018
BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time, distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York.

Ekos Brewmaster

Series B in 2021
Ekos is a business management system designed for craft producers to easily manage their inventory, production, sales, and accounting in one place. Currently offering solutions for brewers, cider makers, winemakers, food makers, and beverage producers.

Clinicient, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Clinicient is an information technology company that provides software-enabled revenue cycle management solutions for outpatient rehabilitation clinics. The company offers physical therapy software that provides patient scheduling, clinical documentation, revenue management, and management reporting services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

BrightFarms

Series E in 2020
BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time, distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York.

Extend America

Series B in 2004
Extend America, a North Dakota based company with deep roots in rural America and wireless communications expertise, combines these advantages to bring the best in wireless services to customers in rural markets with the introduction of its fully integrated, all digital wireless telecommunications services.

MINDBODY

Venture Round in 2009
MINDBODY emerged from a simple idea: small business owners deserve the time to do what they love. Since its very first iteration, MINDBODY’s software has turned that idea into an imperative, streamlining all aspects of business management for thousands of health and wellness businesses across six continents. The result is software with a positive impact on the health and wellness of the world.

Rivet

Series B in 2022
Rivet Health, Inc. operates a SaaS based healthcare revenue cycle management software for providers and patients. It offers Collect that enables providers to quote patient costs and get paid up front, as well as to estimate and collect patient costs up front. The company also provides Contract that enables patients to understand their payer rates and detect underpaid claims, as well as to create accurate upfront estimates and collect payments. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cottonwood Heights, Utah.

Respirics

Series A in 2005
Respirics is an inhalation drug products company focusing on the development and commercialization of therapeutic products using the company's proprietary, customizable Acu-Breatheâ„¢ dry powder inhalers (DPIs). The company's strategy is to develop a suite of inhalation products for asthma and COPD, and to enter licensing and co-development programs with large or specialty pharmaceutical companies.

Conductor

Series D in 2015
Conductor is the world's leading organic marketing company. Our content intelligence platform, Conductor Searchlight, generates customer intent insights that lead to compelling content, increased traffic, and higher organic marketing ROI. Conductor's technology enables marketers to understand their prospective customers' intent by revealing the trends and topics they are searching for at every phase of purchase process. Customizable dashboards and workflows guide marketers through the content creation process, empowering them to continuously measure, refine, and demonstrate the effectiveness of their SEO and content marketing efforts. Conductor's forward-thinking customers include global brands like Citibank and FedEx, emerging leaders like Birchbox and JustFab, and leading agencies like iProspect and Acronym. In December 2019, Conductor spun out of WeWork and is now an independent company.

Clinicient, Inc.

Series C in 2014
Clinicient is an information technology company that provides software-enabled revenue cycle management solutions for outpatient rehabilitation clinics. The company offers physical therapy software that provides patient scheduling, clinical documentation, revenue management, and management reporting services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Pax8

Venture Round in 2020
Pax8 is a cloud commerce marketplace focused on the delivery of cloud-based solutions to a global network of channel partners and their customers. It helps grow its partners' cloud practices by delivering aggregated cloud services from vendors such as Symantec, SilverSky, Infrascale, and InterCall through a single platform. This platform, called the Pax8 Command Console, unifies and streamlines quoting, ordering, provisioning, support, and billing for multiple cloud services. Pax8 enables new client growth for partners with its proven, collaborative customer acquisition programs, marketing on-demand, and sales on demand. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

BrightFarms

Series C in 2016
BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time, distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York.

PresenceLearning

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.

Datavail

Series E in 2015
Datavail Corporation provides remote database management services. It offers design and architecture, database administration, outsourcing, and staff augmentation services, as well as provides support services, such as monitoring, troubleshooting, incident management, corrective maintenance, service request fulfillment, installation, upgrade, backup, and recovery. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Broomfield, Colorado with an additional office in Mumbai, India.

Ascentis Corporation

Venture Round in 2012
Ascentis Corporation has been providing medium-sized businesses with HR and payroll solutions. Ascentis offers both hosted and licensed options, as well as employee self service. Known for user-friendly systems and exceptional customer service, Ascentis makes HR and payroll easy.

Pax8

Venture Round in 2022
Pax8 is a cloud commerce marketplace focused on the delivery of cloud-based solutions to a global network of channel partners and their customers. It helps grow its partners' cloud practices by delivering aggregated cloud services from vendors such as Symantec, SilverSky, Infrascale, and InterCall through a single platform. This platform, called the Pax8 Command Console, unifies and streamlines quoting, ordering, provisioning, support, and billing for multiple cloud services. Pax8 enables new client growth for partners with its proven, collaborative customer acquisition programs, marketing on-demand, and sales on demand. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

LinkSquares

Series C in 2022
Linksquares, Inc. develops artificial intelligence (AI) powered contract management and analytics tool for in-house legal and finance teams. It offers LinkSquares to perform full-text searches for keywords, phrases, and contract terms across all documents; provides multi-query and filtering capabilities; and perform custom reporting and metadata extraction. The company’s Linksquares is used for crisis management, quarterly reporting, fundraising and M&A diligence, and internal legal and finance projects. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Weave

Series B in 2017
Weave is a developer of a customer experience management (CXM) platform designed to meet the needs of patients and to build better business and clinical outcomes. The company's platform features email, marketing capabilities, a full payments platform and a proprietary VoIP phone service to create customer interactions using personalized customer information across all communication channels, enabling businesses to improve relationships with the people they serve. With over 15,000 customers, Weave was the first Utah company to join Y Combinator and has received several renowned awards, including the Fortune 100 Best Companies 2019, Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 and Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startups, the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, Glassdoor’s 2019 and 2020 Best Places to Work and 2019 Top CEOs.

XploreNet

Venture Round in 2010
Barrett XPlore, Inc. provides wireless broadband services to home, business, and enterprise users. The company offers fixed wireless and satellite high-speed Internet services. It also provides Web hosting services for fixed wireless customers, as well as digital phone services, including local and long distance. The company is based in Woodstock, Canada. Barrett XPlore, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Barrett Corporation.

MINDBODY

Private Equity Round in 2014
MINDBODY emerged from a simple idea: small business owners deserve the time to do what they love. Since its very first iteration, MINDBODY’s software has turned that idea into an imperative, streamlining all aspects of business management for thousands of health and wellness businesses across six continents. The result is software with a positive impact on the health and wellness of the world.

Nexar Ltd.

Series D in 2021
Nexar Ltd. develops Dashcam, a mobile application which helps in predicting road accidents. The company's mobile application offers insights and alerts about surrounding cars and enables users to provide feedback and alerts to other drivers on the road. Its application records the road while driving; detects a hard break or an accident; records past, present, and future of an incident; and automatically creates an incident and uploads it to the cloud. Nexar Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in Tel Aviv Yafo, Israel

LinkSquares

Series B in 2021
Linksquares, Inc. develops artificial intelligence (AI) powered contract management and analytics tool for in-house legal and finance teams. It offers LinkSquares to perform full-text searches for keywords, phrases, and contract terms across all documents; provides multi-query and filtering capabilities; and perform custom reporting and metadata extraction. The company’s Linksquares is used for crisis management, quarterly reporting, fundraising and M&A diligence, and internal legal and finance projects. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Envoy Global

Series C in 2017
Envoy is a provider of global immigration and workforce management services used to pursue opportunities across the marketplace. The company provides an immigration management platform that makes it seamless for companies to hire and manage a global workforce by combining expert legal representation for both inbound and outbound immigration and proprietary technology.

Fusion Risk Management

Series C in 2017
Fusion Risk Management is a provider of cloud-based continuity risk management software, contingency planning solutions, and consulting services. Fusion’s vision is to be the leading global provider of software solutions by empowering organizations to make data-driven decisions and enabling them to achieve greater organizational resilience. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.

Reputation Institute, Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2013
Reputation Institute is the world’s leading reputation-based advisory firm, founded by Dr. Charles Fombrun and Dr. Cees van Riel in 1997. We enable many of the world’s leading companies to make more confident business decisions that build and protect reputation capital and drive competitive advantage. Our most prominent management tool is the RepTrak™ model for analyzing the reputations of companies and institutions – best known via the Forbes-published Global RepTrak™ 100, the world’s largest study of corporate reputations. Businesses and executives regularly discover best practices in reputation management by affiliating with our Knowledge Center and participating in its learning programs and networking events. Reputation Institute has offices and associates in 30 countries around the world.

BroadStreet Communications

Private Equity Round in 2000
Broadstreet Communications, Inc. delivers voice and data services over an Internet protocol network for small and medium businesses. It manages the connections between its network and the public switched telephone network, the Internet, and other data networks; and offers local and long distance voice, high-speed Internet access, virtual private data networks, and applications.

MINDBODY

Venture Round in 2011
MINDBODY emerged from a simple idea: small business owners deserve the time to do what they love. Since its very first iteration, MINDBODY’s software has turned that idea into an imperative, streamlining all aspects of business management for thousands of health and wellness businesses across six continents. The result is software with a positive impact on the health and wellness of the world.

Weave

Series D in 2019
Weave is a developer of a customer experience management (CXM) platform designed to meet the needs of patients and to build better business and clinical outcomes. The company's platform features email, marketing capabilities, a full payments platform and a proprietary VoIP phone service to create customer interactions using personalized customer information across all communication channels, enabling businesses to improve relationships with the people they serve. With over 15,000 customers, Weave was the first Utah company to join Y Combinator and has received several renowned awards, including the Fortune 100 Best Companies 2019, Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 and Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startups, the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, Glassdoor’s 2019 and 2020 Best Places to Work and 2019 Top CEOs.

Advantage Business Media, LLC

Acquisition in 2006
Advantage Business Media is an integrated business media company, providing print publications, e-newsletters, specialized directories, vertical search databases, conferences, ancillary media vehicles, and associated web-based services. It currently serves over 1.3 million industry professionals in the science, engineering and design, electronics, and communications markets. Advantage Business Media helps innovators at science, design engineering, and manufacturing companies discover and procure new technologies that give them a competitive advantage. The company’s marketing solutions introduce products from more than 2,000 customers to its readership through digital media offerings, magazines, and conferences. Advantage Business Media was acquired in 2014 by Owner Resource Group, an Austin, Texas-based private investment firm. The company is led by CEO Jim Lonergan, who, since joining the company in August 2014, has launched a cross-company strategic growth plan to drive revenue growth focusing the company on key vertical sectors, expanding its organic digital footprint, development of a suite of marketing services offerings, expansion of its conference and awards business, and improving audience engagement in all sectors. It is based in Rockaway, N.J.

Chownow, Inc.

Series C in 2019
Chownow, Inc. provides an online ordering platform for restaurants. It offers ChowNow, an application that enables users for online ordering; and provides management tools, customer insights, marketing services, and support solutions. Chownow, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Playa Vista, California.

Chownow, Inc.

Series B in 2017
Chownow, Inc. provides an online ordering platform for restaurants. It offers ChowNow, an application that enables users for online ordering; and provides management tools, customer insights, marketing services, and support solutions. Chownow, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Playa Vista, California.

PresenceLearning

Series D in 2020
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.

InSite Wireless

Series A in 2010
InSite Wireless Group constructs and operates telecommunications infrastructure for wireless carriers. InSite Wireless Group is made up of three (3) operating entities: InSite Wireless, LLC, which owns, operates, manages, and markets distributed antenna infrastructure solutions; InSite Connect, LLC, which owns and operates backhaul services; and InSite Towers, LLC, which develops, owns, manages and operates telecommunication towers and sites for wireless carriers. InSite Wireless was formed in 2000 and headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.

MINDBODY

Venture Round in 2012
MINDBODY emerged from a simple idea: small business owners deserve the time to do what they love. Since its very first iteration, MINDBODY’s software has turned that idea into an imperative, streamlining all aspects of business management for thousands of health and wellness businesses across six continents. The result is software with a positive impact on the health and wellness of the world.

Pax8

Venture Round in 2021
Pax8 is a cloud commerce marketplace focused on the delivery of cloud-based solutions to a global network of channel partners and their customers. It helps grow its partners' cloud practices by delivering aggregated cloud services from vendors such as Symantec, SilverSky, Infrascale, and InterCall through a single platform. This platform, called the Pax8 Command Console, unifies and streamlines quoting, ordering, provisioning, support, and billing for multiple cloud services. Pax8 enables new client growth for partners with its proven, collaborative customer acquisition programs, marketing on-demand, and sales on demand. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

WeddingWire

Venture Round in 2011
WeddingWire, the global category leading technology company serving the $200 billion international wedding and events industry, is the largest online vertical marketplace connecting engaged couples with event professionals. With more than three million consumer and professional peer reviews across 15 countries, it is the industry leader in reviews. The site enables engaged couples to search, compare and book from an extensive database of more than 250,000 reviewed event professionals, from venues to photographers. Engaged couples also have access to a suite of mobile and online desktop planning tools - including wedding websites and checklists, at no charge. WeddingWire provides event professionals with the technology they need to serve their clients, including a SaaS platform that powers the advertising, marketing, and CRM needs of local wedding and events businesses nationwide.

MediaMath

Series C in 2014
MediaMath, Inc. develops and delivers digital advertising media and data management technology solutions to advertisers worldwide. The company’s TerminalOne platform activates data, automates execution, and optimizes advertising interactions across addressable media. Its Omnichannel programmatic marketing platform activates predictive audience to enhance one-to-one customer conversations; accesses Omnichannel media at scale to deliver relevance of context and message; closes the loop between measurement and optimization with machine learning; and leverages people in the business. The company also provides professional services in the areas of programmatic strategy and optimization, analytics, technology support, and advertising operations; and training and certification programs focusing on digital marketing. MediaMath, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in San Francisco and Santa Monica, California; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; Durham, North Carolina; London, United Kingdom; Madrid, Spain; Berlin; Singapore; Tokyo, Japan; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; and Bengaluru, India.

Ascentis Corporation

Series C in 2014
Ascentis Corporation has been providing medium-sized businesses with HR and payroll solutions. Ascentis offers both hosted and licensed options, as well as employee self service. Known for user-friendly systems and exceptional customer service, Ascentis makes HR and payroll easy.

Jobvite

Series D in 2014
Jobvite is leading the next wave of talent acquisition innovation with a candidate-centric recruiting model that helps companies engage candidates with meaningful experiences at the right time, in the right way, from first look to first day. The Jobvite Talent Acquisition Suite weaves together automation and intelligence in order to increase recruiting speed, quality, and cost-effectiveness to serve thousands of customers of all sizes and industries.

Galvanize, Inc.

Series C in 2018
Galvanize is a school for entrepreneurs, engineers, and data scientists. It is a learning community for technology with nine physical and two remote campuses, where innovative startups, aspiring students, and large enterprises benefit from this dynamic, unique business ecosystem. Galvanize is backed by investors including, but not limited to, Catalyst Investors, ABS Capital Partners, University Ventures, New Markets Venture Partners, and Colorado Impact Fund. The company was co-founded by Tony Mugavero, Chris Onan, Jim Deters, and Lawrence Mandes in 2012, and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.