Chattanooga Renaissance Fund

Chattanooga Renaissance Fund is a venture capital firm established in 2009 and located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The firm focuses on seed, early-stage, and growth-stage investments, primarily targeting companies within technology sectors such as telecommunications, media, digital health, e-commerce, and software-as-a-service. It aims to nurture entrepreneurship in Chattanooga and surrounding areas, including Knoxville, Nashville, and northern Atlanta. The firm was created to address the need for a structured network of capital and mentorship to support the burgeoning entrepreneurial ecosystem in the region, which has seen significant investment from multinational corporations and benefits from a robust technological infrastructure. Through its investments, Chattanooga Renaissance Fund seeks to foster innovation and sustain the growth of the local economy.

Roddy Bailey

Co-Founder and Partner

Jack Studer

General Partner

Miller Welborn

General Partner

49 past transactions

Branch Technology

Venture Round in 2020
Branch Technology is a tech startup engaged in the development of 3D printing and cellular fabrication technologies and products. The company’s proprietary algorithms creates both geometry and robotic motion to construct complex geometries in open space, without the use of support materials or highly-controlled build environments. Branch Technology was founded by Christopher W. Weller and Platt Boyd in 2014 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Vendor Registry

Seed Round in 2017
They are a small company, but big on passion and drive. They founded Vendor Registry with the simple purpose of making it easier to do business with your state and local governments and institutions. Too much time is spent filling out repetitive paperwork and too little time is spent taking advantage of new revenue opportunities. Businesses, especially local small businesses, need to generate more sales. Governments are forced to do more with less, which means they need more competitive bids. The vendors' and governments' problems are like a hand in glove. By just eliminating repetition (and automating the rest) and replacing paper with a single web-based tool used by both buyers and suppliers, they've created a win win solution. Vendor Registry is focused on creating this win win solution that generates new revenues for vendors and suppliers, saves time for everyone, and decreases costs for government and institutional purchasing departments. After all, they are spending their taxpayer dollars.

Aegle Gear

Seed Round in 2016
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Branch Technology

Angel Round in 2016
Branch Technology is a tech startup engaged in the development of 3D printing and cellular fabrication technologies and products. The company’s proprietary algorithms creates both geometry and robotic motion to construct complex geometries in open space, without the use of support materials or highly-controlled build environments. Branch Technology was founded by Christopher W. Weller and Platt Boyd in 2014 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Collider

Seed Round in 2015
Collider makes a machine that makes parts in off-the-shelf manufacturing materials using 3D printed tooling and an injection process.

Rapid RMS

Angel Round in 2015
Rapid RMS is a comprehensive, cloud-based iPad point-of-sale system developed exclusively for liquor and convenience stores by a merchant like you so it’s hassle free, easy to use, inexpensive to operate and completely expandable – with free software upgrades for life!

AudiencePoint

Convertible Note in 2015
AudiencePoint pinpoints the best time to connect with each individual in your list by leveraging historical information, their proprietary algorithms, and their robust database. Their powerful, easy to implement analytics engine establishes rich subscriber-level user profiles based on engagement with emails in their inbox. The business intelligence behind this side of big data allows marketers to target each subscriber when they are online, subsequently improving deliverability, open and click through rates, and conversions. They work with many of the largest ESPs to help your list perform better.

XOi Technologies

Series A in 2014
XOi Technologies is a cloud-based mobile application that empowers field service companies to do more business with greener techs and fewer truck rolls. They change the way field service companies in the electrical, mechanical, and plumbing industries capture data, communicate with stakeholders, and service their customers. XOi Technologies develops and designs wearable technology solutions for businesses. It also offers an industrial eyewear computing platform that is comprised of both firmware and a comprehensive suite of software applications. The company uses natural language processing, machine learning, workflow automation, and computer vision to streamline documentation of intelligent archive and resurface service content, service calls, real-time remote support, and improve customer transparency from the frontlines of field service.

Everly

Seed Round in 2014
Everly manufactures natural, sugar-free drink mixes that help to hydrate or energize. They believe that hydration should be available to everyone. That's why they're helping put an end to dehydration caused by waterborne diseases. As part of their Hydration for Hydration Initiative, they've donated over 1.5 million packets of life-saving rehydration salts to their non-profit partner ColaLife. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

RootsRated

Seed Round in 2014
RootsRated is a digital recreation guide that is curated by specialty outdoor retailers. It enables its users to get the best outdoor experiences recommended by local experts. RootsRated works with outdoor retailers and established brands including GORE-TEX, Marmot, Mountain Hardwear, Toad&Co, and SmartWool to connect people with premier outdoor experiences so that they will be able to live like locals wherever they go. RootsRated was launched on May 1, 2012 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

International Coffee Group

Seed Round in 2014
International Coffee Group operates as a specialty coffee roasting company. It also operates a chain of cafes that sell coffee. In addition, the company distributes espresso machines, coffee brewing equipment, and grinders. International Coffee Group was founded in 1997 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.
Advanced Catheter Therapies, an early stage research and development medical device company, has a portfolio of innovative catheter technologies targeting vascular disease including thrombosis, inflammation, occlusions and restenosis. ACT is developing a revolutionary device for restenosis (re-blockage of blood vessels) and as well as catheters for endovascular debulking (clearing of blocked blood vessels).

DataFlyte

Seed Round in 2014
DataFlyte offers proprietary equipment reads and processes data from AMR-style meters from the air. Its utilities spend hundreds of man-hours collecting monthly meter data by car or truck. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee.

PriceWaiter

Seed Round in 2014
PriceWaiter's helps sellers sell more, and buyers buy more, by making negotiation fast, simple, and private anywhere on the web. With the rise of real-time comparison shopping and virtual showrooming, PriceWaiter helps boost shopper conversion for the seller who originally attracted them, leaving both buyer and seller with more control, more time, and more money. PriceWaiter is backed by a syndicate of leaders in e-commerce, conversion, analytics, sales, and high-growth ventures.

Convenience Network

Seed Round in 2014
Convenience Network is a place-based digital media company with high definition video screens and social interactive marketing opportunities that engage millions of consumers inside high volume convenience stores, travel centers, and other retail locations. The network connects relevant clients with targeted consumers with great frequency at captive in-market locations where customers can’t change channels, skip ads, or avoid the interaction. Convenience Network utilizes broadcast video commercials, in-content advertisements, sponsorships, social media, and text message interaction to engage consumers near the point-of-sale in an unobtrusive setting where client commercials can provide an engaging call-to-action to active in-market consumers. Advertisements delivered via The Convenience Network are often perceived as a welcome source of information and entertainment. The Convenience Network reaches and engages more consumers, more often than status-quo traditional media, and reaches them at priority times and locations while potential customers are in the marketplace, in the spending mindset, and making purchasing decisions.

Cognitics

Seed Round in 2014
Cognitics is a technology research and development firm that designs and develops software products for the geospatial information industries. It was founded in 2008 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

3D Operations, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
3D Ops is a medical modeling company that utilizes 3D printing to generate patient-specific anatomical models for surgical simulations. 3D Ops is leveraging the fiberoptic gigabyte network, local preeminent healthcare centers, educational institutions, and an entrepreneurial community to bring the technology of additive manufacturing (3D printing) to the medical community. Using a normal MRI or CT scan, 3D Ops can generate an exact anatomical model of the specific patient anatomy for pre-surgical planning and post-surgical instruction. Patient specific 3D models from MRIs (2 dimensional images) have been shown to reduce the duration and complexity of surgery. 3D Ops extends the imaging and surgical team by allowing them to see and carefully evaluate surgical options and even use a trial approach to the surgery prior to placing a patient on the table. 3D Ops’s products help doctors, hospitals, and imaging specialists manage risk, lower costs, and decrease time commitments from the existing surgical team. 3D Ops was founded in June 2014 and is Tennessee, United States.

ReadyCart

Seed Round in 2014
ReadyCart is a platform that enables creators, networks, agencies and retailers to generate incremental revenue through curated commerce.

AudiencePoint

Series A in 2014
AudiencePoint pinpoints the best time to connect with each individual in your list by leveraging historical information, their proprietary algorithms, and their robust database. Their powerful, easy to implement analytics engine establishes rich subscriber-level user profiles based on engagement with emails in their inbox. The business intelligence behind this side of big data allows marketers to target each subscriber when they are online, subsequently improving deliverability, open and click through rates, and conversions. They work with many of the largest ESPs to help your list perform better.

Vendor Registry

Seed Round in 2014
They are a small company, but big on passion and drive. They founded Vendor Registry with the simple purpose of making it easier to do business with your state and local governments and institutions. Too much time is spent filling out repetitive paperwork and too little time is spent taking advantage of new revenue opportunities. Businesses, especially local small businesses, need to generate more sales. Governments are forced to do more with less, which means they need more competitive bids. The vendors' and governments' problems are like a hand in glove. By just eliminating repetition (and automating the rest) and replacing paper with a single web-based tool used by both buyers and suppliers, they've created a win win solution. Vendor Registry is focused on creating this win win solution that generates new revenues for vendors and suppliers, saves time for everyone, and decreases costs for government and institutional purchasing departments. After all, they are spending their taxpayer dollars.

PandoDaily

Series A in 2014
PandoDaily is a web publication offering technology news, analysis, and commentary, focusing mainly on Silicon Valley and startup companies.

RecruitTalk

Seed Round in 2013
RecruitTalk is a bit like LinkedIn, but made specifically for high school athletes. Using web and mobile based tools, athletes are empowered to reach college coaches with their athletic stats, academics, and social achievements so coaches can get a more well-rounded idea of the person they're considering. The ability for them to invite friends, family members and/or high school mentors to help update and maintain an athlete's profile helps the athlete keep their information current. Those frequent updates, coupled with strong filtering and organizing tools, help simplify the search and organization of potential recruits for college coaches. In addition to the head coach, an entire staff of coaches can collaborate in the recruiting, organization, and selection effort. A robust video section lets coaches see an athlete in action.

RootsRated

Seed Round in 2013
RootsRated is a digital recreation guide that is curated by specialty outdoor retailers. It enables its users to get the best outdoor experiences recommended by local experts. RootsRated works with outdoor retailers and established brands including GORE-TEX, Marmot, Mountain Hardwear, Toad&Co, and SmartWool to connect people with premier outdoor experiences so that they will be able to live like locals wherever they go. RootsRated was launched on May 1, 2012 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Convenience Network

Seed Round in 2013
Convenience Network is a place-based digital media company with high definition video screens and social interactive marketing opportunities that engage millions of consumers inside high volume convenience stores, travel centers, and other retail locations. The network connects relevant clients with targeted consumers with great frequency at captive in-market locations where customers can’t change channels, skip ads, or avoid the interaction. Convenience Network utilizes broadcast video commercials, in-content advertisements, sponsorships, social media, and text message interaction to engage consumers near the point-of-sale in an unobtrusive setting where client commercials can provide an engaging call-to-action to active in-market consumers. Advertisements delivered via The Convenience Network are often perceived as a welcome source of information and entertainment. The Convenience Network reaches and engages more consumers, more often than status-quo traditional media, and reaches them at priority times and locations while potential customers are in the marketplace, in the spending mindset, and making purchasing decisions.

Variable

Series A in 2013
Variable creates portable colorimeters and spectrophotometers that provides the users with an easy way of color scanning. It creates a color-scanning tool called Color Muse, a colorimeter that provides the users with an easy way of color scanning. The company was founded by George Yu on Dec 7, 2009.

TidbitDotCo

Seed Round in 2013
TidbitDotCo, Inc

Rezli

Seed Round in 2013
Rezli is a content, media, and career-building platform that empowers people of all ages to turn their passion into a career. The platform helps users in building a digital resume or portfolio, sharing stories, and networking with others in the industry as they establish and pursue their dreams.

Mira Designs

Seed Round in 2013
Mira Designs is an online platform that enables users to find and purchase fashion products.

FwdHealth

Seed Round in 2013
FwdHealth is a platform for wellness management. With their partners, they provide mobile-based health management tools and incentivize user goal achievement through a system of rewards and encouragement.

Sisasa

Seed Round in 2013
Sisasa offers a mobile banking platform for community financial institutions to serve young adults. The platform employs gamification mechanics and social strategies to encourage customers to increase their financial literacy as well. Sisasa was founded in 2013 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.

HutGrip

Seed Round in 2013
They help their customers to achieve their business goals by adopting industrial Internet of Things (IIoT, IoT) in their businesses. Their consulting services aim to give an answer to questions such as how IoT affects the current business models, what are the new business models and opportunities, how to calculate the return on investment (ROI), how to proceed with the integration and how to communicate that inside the organization. Once answered they can integrate your tailored solution based on HutGrip, ThingWorx, ThingFabric, Amazon AWS, Azure or other platform. They bridge the gap between businesses and technologies.

Banyan

Seed Round in 2013
Banyan provides SaaS-based cloud computing services. It is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.

Quickcue

Seed Round in 2012
Quickcue helps empower restaurants to deliver exceptional hospitality to every guest, every visit, and every time, through a powerful iPad-based platform that goes far beyond the operational benefits of managing a waitlist, reservation book, table assignment and guest notifications. Quickcue untethers guests from the lobby; captures specific guest service preferences and provides the host with valuable information that allows the restaurant to tailor every the dining experience. Quickcue’s platform allows hosts to offer their guests added convenience and provides managers and servers with context and insights not possible with paper, pencils or pagers. Insights the entire hospitality staff can use to surprise and delight.

AudiencePoint

Series A in 2012
AudiencePoint pinpoints the best time to connect with each individual in your list by leveraging historical information, their proprietary algorithms, and their robust database. Their powerful, easy to implement analytics engine establishes rich subscriber-level user profiles based on engagement with emails in their inbox. The business intelligence behind this side of big data allows marketers to target each subscriber when they are online, subsequently improving deliverability, open and click through rates, and conversions. They work with many of the largest ESPs to help your list perform better.

Omnisoft Services

Seed Round in 2012
Omnisoft services develops gamification products for education, health, drug, and alcohol awareness. The company is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Variable

Seed Round in 2012
Variable creates portable colorimeters and spectrophotometers that provides the users with an easy way of color scanning. It creates a color-scanning tool called Color Muse, a colorimeter that provides the users with an easy way of color scanning. The company was founded by George Yu on Dec 7, 2009.

Quantum Surgical

Seed Round in 2012
Quantum Surgical mission is to democratize minimally invasive liver cancer treatment

911 View

Seed Round in 2012
911 View is a mobile development company that develops apps for public safety professionals.

Rezli

Seed Round in 2012
Rezli is a content, media, and career-building platform that empowers people of all ages to turn their passion into a career. The platform helps users in building a digital resume or portfolio, sharing stories, and networking with others in the industry as they establish and pursue their dreams.

Corpora

Seed Round in 2012
Corpora line of business includes the wholesale distribution of men's apparel and furnishings.

Hair Raiser Tours

Seed Round in 2012
Hair Raiser Ghost Tours provides top-class, award-winning historical entertainment. They provide first-class historical entertainment tours, murder mystery parties, gift vouchers & more.

HD Fantasy Football

Seed Round in 2012
HD Fantasy Football, Inc.

Ariagora

Seed Round in 2012
Ariagora enables music fans to crowdsource funding and gain financial ownership of the musical content. It was founded by Brittany Rohrman, Asher Pembroke, and Jorge Landivar, and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Banyan

Seed Round in 2012
Banyan provides SaaS-based cloud computing services. It is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.

RentStuff.com

Seed Round in 2012
RentStuff.com connects people looking to rent items to suitable local rental companies. It helps users to search, find and compare rental items. RentStuff.com acts like your own personal assistant in order to take the hassle and wasted time out of the rental process. Tell RentStuff a few details of what you're looking for and they will comb a database of nearly 20,000 rental shops to help you get the best deal. Rental companies are given the opportunity to contact new customers directly with their best quote while you sit back, relax and let them compete for your business.

Glenveigh Medical

Seed Round in 2012
Glenveigh Medical, LLC, a life science and medical technology company, focuses on advancing the practice of obstetrics. Its products include Ebb, a tamponade solution for postpartum hemorrhage; Jetty, a solution for episiotomy and vaginal laceration repair; and Beacon, a fetal monitor. The company was formerly known as Glenveigh Pharmaceuticals, LLC. Glenveigh Medical, LLC was founded in 2004 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

SupplyHog

Seed Round in 2012
SupplyHog.com is a hard working site for a hard working individual: the contractor. They are focused on using tech as a tool to build time into the lives of customers by bringing the shopping, purchasing and shipping elements of a job into one cost effective, easy-to-use purchasing experience.

Inova Payroll

Series A in 2011
Inova Payroll, Inc., a payroll service provider, provides payroll, human resource (HR), tax filing, and related services for companies in the United States. It offers 401(k), Section 125, health insurance, workers compensation, time and attendance, background screening, COBRA administration, PayCards, and tax credits program services. The company’s tax filing and reporting services include filing, reporting, and depositing of payroll taxes and returns. Its services also cover federal, state, and local jurisdictions; detailed pay period reports; quarterly and annual reporting; and W2s/1099s. In addition, the company offers online tools for employee tracking, real-time HR reporting, HR on demand services, and time and pay entry. Inova Payroll was founded in 2010 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee with branch offices in Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee. It has field offices in Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, Tennessee; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Atlanta, Georgia.
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