Charlotte Angel Fund

Charlotte Angel Fund is a member-driven angel investment fund designed to make investments in early stage high growth companies. The fund is a part of the Inception Micro Angel Fund (IMAF) family of funds. Members of the fund are individuals who are accredited investors with an interest in making investments in early stage companies. The fund consists of a buy-in portion in which members share pro-rata based upon their initial capital contribution, and an add-on portion through which members can direct additional investment towards portfolio companies of particular interest to the individual member.

Greg Brown

Administrator

20 past transactions

Slope Software

Seed Round in 2021
Slope Software, Inc. develops cloud-based actuarial modeling and risk management solutions for insurers, actuaries, and financial institutions. It offers ALM and capital management, pricing, embedded value, and custom modeling solutions. The company also offers valuation, pricing, and cash flow testing services. The company's platform provides model development; development tools built for actuaries, assumption management; input and data management tools, model execution; robust and affordable computing in the cloud, reporting and analysis; integrated, feature-rich reporting, and analysis, and model governance; management tools to enable the robust model governance framework. Slope Software, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chamblee, Georgia.

Guerrilla RF

Series B in 2015
Guerrilla RF, Inc. develops and manufactures monolithic microwave integrated circuits for wireless infrastructure market. The company’s products include broadband low noise amplifiers (LNAs)/linear drivers; WLAN LNAs; and broadband LNAs/gain blocks. Its products are used in various applications, such as wireless backhaul; cellular repeaters/signal boosters; enterprise/carrier-class Wi-Fi access points; small cells; and base stations and distributed antenna systems. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Ecobot

Seed Round in 2022
Ecobot, Inc. designs and develops software that digitalizes the process of collection of scientific data for regulatory environmental monitoring, reporting, and forecasting. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina.

UVision 360, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
UVision 360, Inc. develops and offers Luminelle DTx Hysteroscopy System, an integrated hysteroscopy and cystoscopy system for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the modern office. Its device allows gynecologists to perform global hysteroscopic procedures within the office and with limited anesthesia. The company’s device is used to diagnose or treat problems of the uterus. UVision 360, Inc. was formerly known as UVision, Inc. incorporated in 2016 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

TriVirix International

Series C in 2001
TriVirix International is a U.S.-based company that manufactures and designs electro-mechanical, medical, diagnostic, analytical, and life-science devices. The company provides its clients with ribo printers, point-of-care blood testing analyzers, volumetric infusion pumps, and vital sign or conscious sedation monitors. TriVirix International is headquartered in Milaca, Minnesota.

Skipper

Angel Round in 2018
Skipper, Inc. provides professional dog walking and custom pet care services. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Waggle Co

Seed Round in 2018
The Waggle Company brings peace of mind to pet owners by offering fully customizable dog walking services through a tech-enabled platform that sends real-time updates and a visit summary report with a GPS-tracked map and pet photos.

Prsonas, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
PRSONAS helps brands create human moments. Our patent pending holograms project your brand personality in the physical world to help you attract, automate, and analyze customer engagements. Through mixed reality technology that mimics human experiences - we are revolutionizing how brands serve their customers.

First

Seed Round in 2017
First is a software company that uses artificial and predictive intelligence on when and why people move to predict sales and marketing. It brings predictive marketing to real estate. Fundamentally changing how service providers find their next customer. They discover when and why people will buy or sell a house, so they can connect realtors with new clients at the perfect time. Thus, the company predicts who will sell by tracking 700+ signals across 214 million people nationwide.

InHerSight

Seed Round in 2017
Inhersight, Inc operates as an online job search portal for women. The portal offers scorecard of different companies on the basis of flexible work hours, maternity and adoptive leave, family growth support (e.g. child care and lactation rooms), salary satisfaction, mentoring, management opportunities for women, female representation, and employer satisfaction level. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Ecomdash

Convertible Note in 2018
Ecomdash is a software-as-a-service that automates backend operations for ecommerce sellers. Ecomdash streamlines and integrates omni-channel retailers’ inventory, sales orders, product listings and shipping processes across marketplaces like Amazon and eBay as well as ecommerce-ready website platforms like Shopify. Ecomdash gives merchants the ability to grow sales, save time, and increase customer satisfaction.

Baebies

Series A in 2015
Baebies, Inc. manufactures screening and pediatric testing equipment for newborn babies. The company manufactures SEEKER, a newborn screening laboratory solution that performs multiple assays at the same time and quantitatively measures the activity of lysosomal enzymes using one punch from a newborn dried blood spot specimen. It also manufactures FINDER, a near-patient testing equipment that allows pediatric testing. The company serves hospitals and public health labs. Baebies, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Alievio

Seed Round in 2016
Alievio is a North Carolina-based innovative glaucoma medical device company. The company has introduced the first glaucoma therapy that will not only circumvent the complications present with glaucoma surgery. It also provides ophthalmologists with the first tool that can stop the progression of glaucoma.

Gradient Health

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an open research platform designed to offer artificial intelligence (AI) based medical imaging diagnostics and infrastructure. The company's platform utilizes artificial intelligence to offer access to the full clinical sandbox, open-source tooling and documentation that is free and instantly available, enabling developers to easily translate research into an interoperable, secure clinical environment.

Nufabrx

Series A in 2021
Nufabrx manufactures pillowcases designed to actively fight blemishes while its users are asleep. Its products are hand crafted from natural bamboo fibers and infused with natural ingredients. The combination of bamboo fibers and clinically proven natural remedies allows Nufabrx’s pillowcase to be anti-bacterial, anti-microbial, and hypo-allergenic, all while remaining eco-friendly. In a recent study comparing a Nufabrx pillowcase with a standard cotton pillowcase purchased from Target, Nufabrx pillowcase showed a reduction of 91.5% of the main acne causing bacteria P. It is also able to effectively reduce the S. aureus bacteria by 99% after 20 washes. Nufabrx was founded in 2012 by Jordan Schindler and is based in Seattle, W.A.

Upswing

Seed Round in 2014
Upswing providing a highly flexible and personalized experience to learners and coaches. The company's online academic coaching platform offers students with the ability to select coaches based upon various criteria including price, quality, subjects and previous experiences with other students, thereby enabling students to select coaches and learn from them. Each session is recorded, aggregated, and reported back to admins so they can become equipped with the tools necessary to help fight student attrition. The data science behind our sessions enables early alerts and predictive measures to better ensure student success.

Revibe Technologies

Venture Round in 2018
FokusLabs is focused on creating next generation, wearable devices to help individuals with specialized needs overcome everyday obstacles. FokusLabs helps to level the playing field for these individuals by leveraging cutting-edge haptic technology to increase focus, learning and productivity. FokusLabs' first product is a best-selling wearable, called, "RE-vibe", which increases time spent on-task by leveraging smart vibration technology through proprietary, research-based algorithms.

Prsonas, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2016
PRSONAS helps brands create human moments. Our patent pending holograms project your brand personality in the physical world to help you attract, automate, and analyze customer engagements. Through mixed reality technology that mimics human experiences - we are revolutionizing how brands serve their customers.

Nirvana Science, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
NIRvana Sciences, Inc. develops synthetic bacteriochlorin and fluorescent dyes. Its products include UV laser excitable dyes, violet laser excitable dyes, and synthetic dyes. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Mentra

Seed Round in 2023
Mentra tackles systemic inequality by economically empowering underserved communities. We’re erasing the stigma around Disability Hiring with our recruiting platform that matches neurodiverse talent with inclusive employers. Our mission is to bring neurodiversity to the workplace - providing employers with thought diversity & job seekers with economic opportunity