Union Bay Partners

Union Bay Partners is a private investment firm based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2011. The firm focuses on identifying growth opportunities within small to mid-sized companies, primarily in the Pacific Northwest. Its investment strategy encompasses various industries, including light industrial, light manufacturing, marine, distribution, supply, business, and consumer services. Union Bay Partners emphasizes building positive, mutually rewarding relationships with its partners through consideration, confidentiality, and responsiveness.

Steve Carver

Partner

20 past transactions

Gooey.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Gooey.AI is a developer of a social interactive platform that facilitates private, curated spaces for intimate chats and video conversations. The platform focuses on fostering authentic, face-to-face video-first communications, enabling organizations to establish networks for sharing videos and projects. By connecting changemakers and institutions, Gooey.AI supports the creation of collaborations across borders, enhancing creative exchanges. It is particularly geared toward facilitating innovative cultural and artistic connections through digital technology.

Possible Finance

Series B in 2020
Possible Finance is a consumer finance company dedicated to providing access to capital while promoting long-term financial health. The company aims to assist communities in breaking the debt cycle and fostering economic mobility across generations. It has developed a mobile-only loan application that offers flexible short-term financing options, enabling borrowers to repay loans over time. The platform is designed to be simple and affordable, akin to traditional payday loans, but without requiring a credit check. Additionally, it allows for longer repayment schedules through multiple installments, making it easier for borrowers to manage their finances responsibly.

Routable

Seed Round in 2019
Routable, Inc. operates a business-to-business payments platform that facilitates the automation of invoicing and bill payments. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform enables accounts payable and receivable teams to streamline their processes by automating bill payments, identifying errors, and requesting necessary authorizations. Routable's solution is designed to enhance cash flow management and reduce costs for finance and accounting departments. The platform's API allows users to quickly build a payments infrastructure, making it easier for businesses to send and receive payments efficiently.

Deduce

Seed Round in 2019
Deduce, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, established in 2019. It specializes in protecting businesses and their customers from unauthorized account access, data leakage, and identity fraud. The company develops solutions that enhance user experiences while safeguarding user accounts and sensitive information. Deduce utilizes risk algorithms and behavioral analytics to eliminate fraud in real-time, leveraging a comprehensive network of consumer identity data. Its offerings include an identity risk index that addresses issues such as credential stuffing, phishing, and social engineering. Additionally, Deduce's platform employs behavior-detection algorithms to create independent identity graphs, enabling organizations to gain visibility into potential user threats and risks while optimizing user experience and reducing friction during customer interactions.

Possible Finance

Series A in 2019
Possible Finance is a consumer finance company dedicated to providing access to capital while promoting long-term financial health. The company aims to assist communities in breaking the debt cycle and fostering economic mobility across generations. It has developed a mobile-only loan application that offers flexible short-term financing options, enabling borrowers to repay loans over time. The platform is designed to be simple and affordable, akin to traditional payday loans, but without requiring a credit check. Additionally, it allows for longer repayment schedules through multiple installments, making it easier for borrowers to manage their finances responsibly.

Polly

Series A in 2019
Polly is a survey platform founded in 2015 by former Microsoft engineers Samir Diwan and Bilal Aijazi. The company specializes in employee engagement solutions, enabling businesses to create enterprise surveys and polls that facilitate quick feedback collection. Its platform features a chatbot that can be trained to gather, connect, and analyze data from employees, allowing organizations to enhance their workflows and improve both employee and customer experiences. Polly's clients include notable companies such as Soylent, Auth0, and Grammarly, and it is supported by various investors, including Amplify Partners, Slack Fund, Fathom Capital, and Madrona Venture Group.

Possible Finance

Venture Round in 2019
Possible Finance is a consumer finance company dedicated to providing access to capital while promoting long-term financial health. The company aims to assist communities in breaking the debt cycle and fostering economic mobility across generations. It has developed a mobile-only loan application that offers flexible short-term financing options, enabling borrowers to repay loans over time. The platform is designed to be simple and affordable, akin to traditional payday loans, but without requiring a credit check. Additionally, it allows for longer repayment schedules through multiple installments, making it easier for borrowers to manage their finances responsibly.

Possible Finance

Seed Round in 2018
Possible Finance is a consumer finance company dedicated to providing access to capital while promoting long-term financial health. The company aims to assist communities in breaking the debt cycle and fostering economic mobility across generations. It has developed a mobile-only loan application that offers flexible short-term financing options, enabling borrowers to repay loans over time. The platform is designed to be simple and affordable, akin to traditional payday loans, but without requiring a credit check. Additionally, it allows for longer repayment schedules through multiple installments, making it easier for borrowers to manage their finances responsibly.

SparkToro

Angel Round in 2018
SparkToro is a software company founded by Rand Fishkin, known for his role in Moz. The company aims to enhance marketing strategies by providing a market research tool that enables businesses to identify where their target audience engages online. SparkToro's platform allows users to discover relevant websites, blogs, podcasts, social media accounts, and publications that capture their audience's attention. By focusing on accurate audience insights, SparkToro seeks to make marketing efforts more effective and targeted, moving away from the dominance of traditional advertising platforms. This approach encourages creativity and diversity in marketing, empowering organizations to connect with their audiences in more meaningful ways.

Comet

Seed Round in 2018
Comet is doing for ML what GitHub did for Code. It allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models creating efficiency, transparency, and reproducibility. Comet.ml is the first platform built for ML that enables engineers and data scientists to efficiently maintain their preferred workflow and tools, while easily tracking previous work and collaborating throughout the iterative process. Comet.ml also optimizes models with bayesian hyperparameter optimization - a type of algorithm - which saves time typically spent on manual tuning ML models. As a result, users have increased visibility of data science, ML results, and progress throughout an organization.

Tomorrow Ideas

Seed Round in 2018
Tomorrow Ideas, Inc. specializes in developing an application aimed at safeguarding families' financial futures. The app offers a range of features, including tools for creating a last will and testament, establishing a revocable living trust, and setting up guardianship for children and pets. Additionally, it includes calculators for net worth and life insurance, a comparison of term life insurance options, and provides a complimentary insurance policy. The application is accessible on both iOS and Android platforms. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Tomorrow Ideas is committed to helping families navigate important financial decisions.

Routable

Seed Round in 2017
Routable, Inc. operates a business-to-business payments platform that facilitates the automation of invoicing and bill payments. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform enables accounts payable and receivable teams to streamline their processes by automating bill payments, identifying errors, and requesting necessary authorizations. Routable's solution is designed to enhance cash flow management and reduce costs for finance and accounting departments. The platform's API allows users to quickly build a payments infrastructure, making it easier for businesses to send and receive payments efficiently.

Tomorrow Ideas

Seed Round in 2017
Tomorrow Ideas, Inc. specializes in developing an application aimed at safeguarding families' financial futures. The app offers a range of features, including tools for creating a last will and testament, establishing a revocable living trust, and setting up guardianship for children and pets. Additionally, it includes calculators for net worth and life insurance, a comparison of term life insurance options, and provides a complimentary insurance policy. The application is accessible on both iOS and Android platforms. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Tomorrow Ideas is committed to helping families navigate important financial decisions.

TurboPatent

Convertible Note in 2017
TurboPatent offers A.I.-enhanced patent drafting services to engineer high-quality patent documents. It utilizes the power of the TurboPatent Machine to rapidly evaluate the quality and value of patent assets, creating quality reports for individual patent assets as well as entire portfolios. The TurboPatent Machine also allows our Patent Engineers to generate patent documents at a fraction of the time and cost of conventional methods and with significantly higher quality.

Silene Biotech

Convertible Note in 2017
Silene Biotech specializes in personalized cell preservation and stem cell generation technology. The company focuses on providing affordable and accessible solutions that adhere to current Good Manufacturing Practices established by the FDA. Silene Biotech's technology involves the collection, processing, and growth of adult cells, which are then cryopreserved to prevent aging and degeneration. Additionally, a small percentage of these cells are converted into induced pluripotent stem cells, allowing medical professionals to regenerate tissues, model hereditary diseases, and conduct drug efficacy screening. Through its innovative approach, Silene Biotech aims to enhance the capabilities of regenerative medicine and improve patient outcomes.

Open Energy Efficiency

Seed Round in 2016
OpenEE offers a SaaS open-source platform that uses smart meter data to calculate and analyze energy efficiency savings in real-time.

OnFarm

Seed Round in 2015
OnFarm is a software-as-a-service company that offers a range of farm hardware technologies. The company’s products offer customized dashboards, data management, intuitive displays to help transform data into decisions, advanced charting, enterprise-wide scheduling, phone and email alerts, maps, private communication solutions, and more. OnFarm was founded by Lance Donny in 2012 and is based in Fresno, California.

Zenedge

Series A in 2014
Leveraging its trusted, Cloud-based, globally distributed platform, its patent-pending monitoring and mitigation technology, and its unparalleled expertise in cyberattack mitigation, Zenedge provides organizations an enterprise-class, managed white-glove cybersecurity service to help secure their web sites, web applications, and networks against vulnerabilities and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Unlike other Web Application Security solutions in the market, Zenedge leverages patent-pending deep machine-learning capabilities to detect anomalies, dynamically alter security postures, and initiate auto-mitigation and automatic routing with minimal to zero human intervention. This allows the company to provide better cybersecurity and faster time to mitigation than traditional Cloud and on-premise cybersecurity vendors.

WeDidIt

Convertible Note in 2014
WeDidIt, Inc. operates an online fundraising platform designed specifically for nonprofits and fiscal sponsors. Founded in 2011 and based in Buffalo, New York, the company provides a suite of tools that facilitate online fundraising, including donation pages, crowdfunding campaigns, and mobile donation capabilities. Its offerings encompass WEDIDIT FUNDRAISING, which includes various online fundraising tools; WEDIDIT INSIGHTS, which delivers actionable donor data; and WEDIDIT FOR FISCAL SPONSORS, a platform for managing fundraising activities of fiscally sponsored projects with real-time data access. Additionally, WeDidIt assists organizations with integration, coaching, and insights to optimize their fundraising efforts. The firm aims to enhance the fundraising capabilities of nonprofits, helping them to identify potential donors and social influencers for targeted campaigns, thereby expanding their reach and impact in the digital fundraising landscape. As of June 2019, WeDidIt operates as a subsidiary of Allegiance Fundraising Group, LLC.

Jozu

Jozu is a software company that specializes in AI governance, offering an open-source KitOps platform. It helps enterprises accelerate and secure the transition of machine learning projects to production. Jozu's tools ensure efficient, compliant, and agile AI/ML lifecycle management, enabling businesses to deploy and scale AI confidently while mitigating risks and fostering collaboration. The company adheres to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1, making its products accessible to a wide range of users.
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