Cherrystone Angel Group

Cherrystone Angel Group, founded in 2004 and comprised of over 60 Rhode Island members, is Rhode Island’s first organized angel investment group. Its members invest in early stage, typically pre-revenue companies, across the tri-state region. While it is the entrepreneur who drives the company — and on whom ultimate success depends — Cherrystone believes that good advice and focused expertise are vital to the success of any business venture. When Cherrystone invests, it not only brings money to the table but industry knowledge and connections that will make its business succeed. All its members are experienced and qualified investors who have either built their own companies or have extensive experience launching new business ventures. Their backgrounds include creating or working with manufacturing, distribution, technology, and service companies.

Peter C. Dorsey

Executive Director

82 past transactions

Windgap Medical

Seed Round in 2014
WindGap Medical is a biotech company that manufactures medical devices used to treat patients with severe allergies. The company develops auto-injectors that are filled with heat-stable epinephrine that enable physicians to inject it into a patient suffering from anaphylaxis due to an acute allergy attack. The company was established in 2011 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.

NuLabel

Series B in 2014
NuLabel Technologies is a polymer science and engineering innovations company developing innovative label and packaging solutions to help companies cut costs and reduce waste. label has developed patented adhesive and patent-pending hardware technology that uses activatable adhesives to eliminate the need for a label's non-stick liner backing or the need for messy wet glue used in product packaging. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in East Providence, Rhode Island.

Avaxia Biologics

Series B in 2012
Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops oral antibody therapeutics. It offers gastrointestinal diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases, celiac disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, radiation syndrome, oral mucositis, and diabetes and obesity. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. has a strategic collaboration with Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Circle33 LLC.

SmartCells

Series C in 2007
SmartCells, Inc. designs and develops insulin products. It offers SmartInsulin, a self regulating injectable formulation for treating diabetes. The company's polymer-based dosing technology is used for various applications, such as fertility, thyroid, and growth hormone deficiencies; treatments with poor compliance or therapeutic window issues, such as oncology; and drug-device combinations. SmartCells, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Boston Heart Diagnostics

Series B in 2009
Boston Heart Lab is a healthcare company that provides cardiovascular disease (CVD) management. Through there combination of proprietary lipid testing capability, sophisticated tools, advanced therapy guidelines, and patient support services, they are providing physicians, patients, and pharmaceutical companies with viable disease management. Unlike other lipid testing companies that are focused on the primary screening market for CVD, their proprietary testing technology allows for the ongoing monitoring of a patient's disease and precise determination of the most appropriate pharmaceutical alternatives. They can provide unique, personalized treatment options to patients with dyslipidemia to determine the efficacy of lipid adjusting drugs in most cases within the first 6 weeks of treatment. Competing methods usually need 6 months.

Akston Biosciences

Series C in 2016
Akston Biosciences Corporation develops insulin for the treatment of diabetes and cancer. The company offers biologic therapeutics such as AKS-107, a disrupt insulin autoimmunity to prevent type 1 diabetes; AKS-446, a novel vaccine to prevent the development of coronavirus disease; AKS-130, ultra-long acting, once-per-week insulin for treating type 1 and type 2 diabetes; AKS-161C and AKS-162D for the treatment of diabetes in cats and dogs; AKS-231, a glucose-responsive insulin for treating type 1 and type 2 diabetes; and AKS-301 for cancer therapy. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Jaia Robotics

Seed Round in 2022
Jaia Robotics is a provider and developer of microsized autonomous and subsurface marine vehicles. It also provides comprehensive data collection services helping clients to affordable aquatic data collection. It also provides a multi-sensor configurable technology that requires minimal user training with wide-ranging capabilities compared to traditional crewed or uncrewed data collection systems.

ITeam

Seed Round in 2011
iTeam, Inc. provides information technology, audio/video, networking, and VoIP installation and support services. It serves automotive, retail, government, education, banking/finance, hospitality, commercial, quick serve restaurant, healthcare, and communication industries through distributors, solution providers, and original equipment manufacturers in the United States and Canada. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts.

NuLabel

Series B in 2013
NuLabel Technologies is a polymer science and engineering innovations company developing innovative label and packaging solutions to help companies cut costs and reduce waste. label has developed patented adhesive and patent-pending hardware technology that uses activatable adhesives to eliminate the need for a label's non-stick liner backing or the need for messy wet glue used in product packaging. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in East Providence, Rhode Island.

Finale Desserts

Series B in 2007
Finale North End, LLC operates dessert-focused restaurants in Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline, Massachusetts. It offers desserts, pastries, cookies, and cakes. The company also provides prelude menu, lunch menu, and beverages, as well as online ordering services. It also serves private parties, which include recruiting events, birthdays, baby showers, bridal showers, graduations, and various celebrations. Finale North End, LLC was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Allston, Massachusetts.

Kalion

Series A in 2017
Kalion is an early stage industrial biotech company that will transform the traditional chemical industry by providing low-cost access to glucaric acid and S-3-hydroxybutyrolactone (3-HBL) using traditional, green, fermentation technology. Glucaric acid and 3-HBL were identified as “Top Value Added Chemicals from Biomass” and multi-billion dollar markets for use of the two chemicals are limited by cost and availability (2004 DOE report).

Creative Circle

Series C in 2008
Bill Ostendorf has been a leader in the newspaper industry for more than 25 years, serving as a consultant to more than 100 media companies on three continents. As president of Creative Circle Media Consulting, he has led nearly 400 industry seminars and has redesigned more than 100 publications to make them more reader friendly. He knew not only what is wrong with existing systems but also what readers and advertisers would want in the next generation of web entry.

Creative Circle

Series B in 2007
Bill Ostendorf has been a leader in the newspaper industry for more than 25 years, serving as a consultant to more than 100 media companies on three continents. As president of Creative Circle Media Consulting, he has led nearly 400 industry seminars and has redesigned more than 100 publications to make them more reader friendly. He knew not only what is wrong with existing systems but also what readers and advertisers would want in the next generation of web entry.

Premama

Series B in 2016
Premama® is the doctor-recommended, daily prenatal multivitamin in powder form. Easy to mix in a cold beverage, yogurt or smoothie. Premama helps improve the nutritional status of expectant women with DHA, folic acid, B6 for nausea relief and so much more! Find Premama Complete at Target, and Essentials and Plus formulas at Amazon, Buy Buy Baby and specialty vitamin and health food stores.

Premama

Convertible Note in 2016
Premama® is the doctor-recommended, daily prenatal multivitamin in powder form. Easy to mix in a cold beverage, yogurt or smoothie. Premama helps improve the nutritional status of expectant women with DHA, folic acid, B6 for nausea relief and so much more! Find Premama Complete at Target, and Essentials and Plus formulas at Amazon, Buy Buy Baby and specialty vitamin and health food stores.

SepSensor

Series A in 2008
The SepSensor Monitoring System monitors the condition of grease interceptors around the clock. SepSensor is initially focused on grease interceptor monitoring for the food service industry.

Finale Desserts

Series A in 2006
Finale North End, LLC operates dessert-focused restaurants in Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline, Massachusetts. It offers desserts, pastries, cookies, and cakes. The company also provides prelude menu, lunch menu, and beverages, as well as online ordering services. It also serves private parties, which include recruiting events, birthdays, baby showers, bridal showers, graduations, and various celebrations. Finale North End, LLC was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Allston, Massachusetts.

MoFuse

Convertible Note in 2013
Mofuse offers a web based platform to build and manage mobile web sites. They provide a monthly subscription service to help businesses deliver mobile media. MoFuse Premium gives publishers a platform to publish, promote, monetize and analyze their mobile properties.

SmartCells

Series B in 2006
SmartCells, Inc. designs and develops insulin products. It offers SmartInsulin, a self regulating injectable formulation for treating diabetes. The company's polymer-based dosing technology is used for various applications, such as fertility, thyroid, and growth hormone deficiencies; treatments with poor compliance or therapeutic window issues, such as oncology; and drug-device combinations. SmartCells, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Beverly, Massachusetts.

InfoBionic

Convertible Note in 2016
InfoBionic transforms the efficiency and the economics of ambulatory remote patient monitoring processes and cardiac diagnostic services by optimizing clinical and real-world utility for the users that need it most – physicians and their patients. It has developed the MoMe System, a remote patient monitoring platform initially focused on cardiac arrhythmia detection, to improve clinical efficiency and patient care with any time, anywhere access to patient data. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Respiratory Motion

Convertible Note in 2011
Respiratory Motion, Inc., a medical device company, focuses on the development and commercialization of medical devices to monitor respiratory variation. It offers ExSpiron, a point-of-care device that measures and provides quantitative values for the vital parameters of the respiratory function, such as minute ventilation, tidal volume, and respiratory rate. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

TimeTrade

Series C in 2007
Industry leader in Enterprise SaaS scheduling. 400 Enterprise customers worldwide. Over 450,000,000 appointments booked with consumers and businesses. . TimeTrade's appointment-centric customer experience solution enables customers to convert digital first touch interactions into a high-value, in-person meeting. The company has a worldwide cloud delivery network and it's solutions are used in 39 countries around the world. It's patented Customer Engagement Cloud technology includes an edge provision able high frequency scheduling engine that hyper scales to hundreds of millions of appointments.

NuLabel

Series A in 2011
NuLabel Technologies is a polymer science and engineering innovations company developing innovative label and packaging solutions to help companies cut costs and reduce waste. label has developed patented adhesive and patent-pending hardware technology that uses activatable adhesives to eliminate the need for a label's non-stick liner backing or the need for messy wet glue used in product packaging. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in East Providence, Rhode Island.

Avaxia Biologics

Series A in 2012
Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops oral antibody therapeutics. It offers gastrointestinal diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases, celiac disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, radiation syndrome, oral mucositis, and diabetes and obesity. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. has a strategic collaboration with Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Circle33 LLC.

Castlewood Surgical

Series B in 2010
Castlewood Surgical, Inc., a medical device company, offers devices to improve cardiovascular and vascular surgery. It offers Cyclone System, which holds cardiac and vascular tissues during surgical procedures, and allows surgeons to minimize or eliminate the aortic side-biting clamp in coronary artery bypass grafting. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Concord, Massachusetts.

KnipBio

Series B in 2017
KnipBio is a biotechnology company that develops responsible and sustainable commercial feed solutions for the aquaculture industry. It is committed to solving real-world challenges by working with global corporations. Its game-changing single-cell protein combines the attributes of premium, protein-packed fishmeal, and carotenoids into a single effective and affordable fishmeal replacement -- KnipBio Meal (KBM). KBM is a transformative breakthrough in the future of aquaculture feed. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Lowell, Massachusetts.

NuLabel

Series C in 2015
NuLabel Technologies is a polymer science and engineering innovations company developing innovative label and packaging solutions to help companies cut costs and reduce waste. label has developed patented adhesive and patent-pending hardware technology that uses activatable adhesives to eliminate the need for a label's non-stick liner backing or the need for messy wet glue used in product packaging. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in East Providence, Rhode Island.

GateRocket

Series A in 2008
GateRocket, Inc. provides verification and debugging solutions for FPGAs. It offers RocketDrive, a device native verification system for complex FPGAs, which accelerates verification throughput and identifies problems with IP blocks, pin-outs, and tool chain anomalies. The company also provides RocketVision, a FPGA debug solution that automates test point insertion and detects differences between RTL and FPGA devices. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

SmartCells

Series D in 2009
SmartCells, Inc. designs and develops insulin products. It offers SmartInsulin, a self regulating injectable formulation for treating diabetes. The company's polymer-based dosing technology is used for various applications, such as fertility, thyroid, and growth hormone deficiencies; treatments with poor compliance or therapeutic window issues, such as oncology; and drug-device combinations. SmartCells, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Beverly, Massachusetts.

GateRocket

Series A in 2007
GateRocket, Inc. provides verification and debugging solutions for FPGAs. It offers RocketDrive, a device native verification system for complex FPGAs, which accelerates verification throughput and identifies problems with IP blocks, pin-outs, and tool chain anomalies. The company also provides RocketVision, a FPGA debug solution that automates test point insertion and detects differences between RTL and FPGA devices. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Horizontal Systems

Series A in 2010
Horizontal Glue is a Web-based building information modeling (BIM) solution for the construction industry that allows individuals to upload, merge, and browse building models eliminating incompatibility issues between different software platforms while facilitating collaboration among project participants.They develops and publishes building information modeling collaboration software. The Company's products allow architects, engineers, and construction companies to collaborate on projects via a cloud-based platform. Horizontal Systems markets its products globally to the architecture, engineering, and construction markets.

Respiratory Motion

Convertible Note in 2013
Respiratory Motion, Inc., a medical device company, focuses on the development and commercialization of medical devices to monitor respiratory variation. It offers ExSpiron, a point-of-care device that measures and provides quantitative values for the vital parameters of the respiratory function, such as minute ventilation, tidal volume, and respiratory rate. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

ITeam

Angel Round in 2008
iTeam, Inc. provides information technology, audio/video, networking, and VoIP installation and support services. It serves automotive, retail, government, education, banking/finance, hospitality, commercial, quick serve restaurant, healthcare, and communication industries through distributors, solution providers, and original equipment manufacturers in the United States and Canada. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts.

Avaxia Biologics

Convertible Note in 2014
Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops oral antibody therapeutics. It offers gastrointestinal diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases, celiac disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, radiation syndrome, oral mucositis, and diabetes and obesity. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. has a strategic collaboration with Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Circle33 LLC.

Castlewood Surgical

Series C in 2011
Castlewood Surgical, Inc., a medical device company, offers devices to improve cardiovascular and vascular surgery. It offers Cyclone System, which holds cardiac and vascular tissues during surgical procedures, and allows surgeons to minimize or eliminate the aortic side-biting clamp in coronary artery bypass grafting. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Concord, Massachusetts.

Creative Circle

Series A in 2006
Bill Ostendorf has been a leader in the newspaper industry for more than 25 years, serving as a consultant to more than 100 media companies on three continents. As president of Creative Circle Media Consulting, he has led nearly 400 industry seminars and has redesigned more than 100 publications to make them more reader friendly. He knew not only what is wrong with existing systems but also what readers and advertisers would want in the next generation of web entry.

Lenoss Medical

Venture Round in 2021
Lenoss Medical engages in providing solutions that support the natural osseous healing process.

Board on Track

Seed Round in 2015
BoardOnTrack provides expertise, training, powerful, web-based tools, and a membership community to the foot soldiers in the battle to improve our nation's public school system. The charter school is a multi-million dollar public enterprise. Running it with a group of volunteers is a daunting task. BoardOnTrack helps in leveraging the efforts of volunteer board members into real results: academic excellence and organizational sustainability. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts.

SmartCells

Series D in 2010
SmartCells, Inc. designs and develops insulin products. It offers SmartInsulin, a self regulating injectable formulation for treating diabetes. The company's polymer-based dosing technology is used for various applications, such as fertility, thyroid, and growth hormone deficiencies; treatments with poor compliance or therapeutic window issues, such as oncology; and drug-device combinations. SmartCells, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Beverly, Massachusetts.

SepSensor

Convertible Note in 2008
The SepSensor Monitoring System monitors the condition of grease interceptors around the clock. SepSensor is initially focused on grease interceptor monitoring for the food service industry.

InfoBionic

Series B in 2014
InfoBionic transforms the efficiency and the economics of ambulatory remote patient monitoring processes and cardiac diagnostic services by optimizing clinical and real-world utility for the users that need it most – physicians and their patients. It has developed the MoMe System, a remote patient monitoring platform initially focused on cardiac arrhythmia detection, to improve clinical efficiency and patient care with any time, anywhere access to patient data. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Avaxia Biologics

Convertible Note in 2012
Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops oral antibody therapeutics. It offers gastrointestinal diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases, celiac disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, radiation syndrome, oral mucositis, and diabetes and obesity. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. has a strategic collaboration with Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Circle33 LLC.

Respiratory Motion

Convertible Note in 2013
Respiratory Motion, Inc., a medical device company, focuses on the development and commercialization of medical devices to monitor respiratory variation. It offers ExSpiron, a point-of-care device that measures and provides quantitative values for the vital parameters of the respiratory function, such as minute ventilation, tidal volume, and respiratory rate. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Windgap Medical

Series A in 2015
WindGap Medical is a biotech company that manufactures medical devices used to treat patients with severe allergies. The company develops auto-injectors that are filled with heat-stable epinephrine that enable physicians to inject it into a patient suffering from anaphylaxis due to an acute allergy attack. The company was established in 2011 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.

TimeTrade

Series B in 2006
Industry leader in Enterprise SaaS scheduling. 400 Enterprise customers worldwide. Over 450,000,000 appointments booked with consumers and businesses. . TimeTrade's appointment-centric customer experience solution enables customers to convert digital first touch interactions into a high-value, in-person meeting. The company has a worldwide cloud delivery network and it's solutions are used in 39 countries around the world. It's patented Customer Engagement Cloud technology includes an edge provision able high frequency scheduling engine that hyper scales to hundreds of millions of appointments.

Medumo

Private Placement in 2017
Medumo, Inc allows healthcare organizations to automate the delivery of timely instructions to patients. Its product Medumo’s CareTours, enables healthcare organizations to effectively provide turn-by-turn guidance to patients by utilizing automated and timed messages sent via text and email. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. As per the transaction announced on July 17, 2019, Medumo, Inc operates as a subsidiary of Koninklijke Philips N.V.

Narragansett Beer

Series B in 2006
Narragansett Beer is a Rhode Island-based beer company. It was considered the beer of New England. In fact, at its height, it enjoyed a 65% market share and was the official beer of the Red Sox. That was before some yahoo from out West bought the brand in the 70s and moved the brewery to Indiana, marking the beginning of a long painful decline. Narragansett Beer was founded in 1890 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

SepSensor

Convertible Note in 2007
The SepSensor Monitoring System monitors the condition of grease interceptors around the clock. SepSensor is initially focused on grease interceptor monitoring for the food service industry.

Advanced Image Enhancement

Convertible Note in 2004
Advanced Image Enhancement's (AIE) core technology evolved from proprietary United States Navy signal and image processing research utilized for the detection, classification and localization of undersea mines. The Company utilized this technology as the baseline and further developed innovative image processing algorithms for enhancing subtle lesions in digital mammograms as its first product. AIE aims to provide physicians with every possible advantage in the screening and diagnosis of breast cancer.

NuLabel

Series D in 2016
NuLabel Technologies is a polymer science and engineering innovations company developing innovative label and packaging solutions to help companies cut costs and reduce waste. label has developed patented adhesive and patent-pending hardware technology that uses activatable adhesives to eliminate the need for a label's non-stick liner backing or the need for messy wet glue used in product packaging. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in East Providence, Rhode Island.

Betaspring

Angel Round in 2012
[Betaspring](http://betaspring.com) is a mentorship-driven Providence-based startup accelerator program for technology and design entrepreneurs who are ready to build a product, launch a company, and change the world. Betaspring runs two 13 week accelerator sessions a year (Spring and Fall) that attract top-quality startup teams from across the US and around the world.

NuLabel

Series A in 2012
NuLabel Technologies is a polymer science and engineering innovations company developing innovative label and packaging solutions to help companies cut costs and reduce waste. label has developed patented adhesive and patent-pending hardware technology that uses activatable adhesives to eliminate the need for a label's non-stick liner backing or the need for messy wet glue used in product packaging. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in East Providence, Rhode Island.

Respiratory Motion

Convertible Note in 2012
Respiratory Motion, Inc., a medical device company, focuses on the development and commercialization of medical devices to monitor respiratory variation. It offers ExSpiron, a point-of-care device that measures and provides quantitative values for the vital parameters of the respiratory function, such as minute ventilation, tidal volume, and respiratory rate. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

SepSensor

Series A in 2011
The SepSensor Monitoring System monitors the condition of grease interceptors around the clock. SepSensor is initially focused on grease interceptor monitoring for the food service industry.

Premama

Series A in 2015
Premama® is the doctor-recommended, daily prenatal multivitamin in powder form. Easy to mix in a cold beverage, yogurt or smoothie. Premama helps improve the nutritional status of expectant women with DHA, folic acid, B6 for nausea relief and so much more! Find Premama Complete at Target, and Essentials and Plus formulas at Amazon, Buy Buy Baby and specialty vitamin and health food stores.

Concentric

Series A in 2016
Concentric Inc. provides agent-based simulation technology. Its technology helps organizations to integrate data and tools into a single framework; attribute the impact of marketing investments; forecast sales and brand metrics; and test future strategies. The company offers services in the areas of licensing, consulting, support, and development aspects. It serves customers in the United States and internationally. Concentric Inc. has a strategic alliance with Phoenix Strategic Advisors. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Respiratory Motion

Series A in 2012
Respiratory Motion, Inc., a medical device company, focuses on the development and commercialization of medical devices to monitor respiratory variation. It offers ExSpiron, a point-of-care device that measures and provides quantitative values for the vital parameters of the respiratory function, such as minute ventilation, tidal volume, and respiratory rate. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Kalion

Series A in 2015
Kalion is an early stage industrial biotech company that will transform the traditional chemical industry by providing low-cost access to glucaric acid and S-3-hydroxybutyrolactone (3-HBL) using traditional, green, fermentation technology. Glucaric acid and 3-HBL were identified as “Top Value Added Chemicals from Biomass” and multi-billion dollar markets for use of the two chemicals are limited by cost and availability (2004 DOE report).

Kalion

Seed Round in 2014
Kalion is an early stage industrial biotech company that will transform the traditional chemical industry by providing low-cost access to glucaric acid and S-3-hydroxybutyrolactone (3-HBL) using traditional, green, fermentation technology. Glucaric acid and 3-HBL were identified as “Top Value Added Chemicals from Biomass” and multi-billion dollar markets for use of the two chemicals are limited by cost and availability (2004 DOE report).

Narragansett Beer

Series A in 2005
Narragansett Beer is a Rhode Island-based beer company. It was considered the beer of New England. In fact, at its height, it enjoyed a 65% market share and was the official beer of the Red Sox. That was before some yahoo from out West bought the brand in the 70s and moved the brewery to Indiana, marking the beginning of a long painful decline. Narragansett Beer was founded in 1890 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Avaxia Biologics

Venture Round in 2011
Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops oral antibody therapeutics. It offers gastrointestinal diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases, celiac disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, radiation syndrome, oral mucositis, and diabetes and obesity. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. has a strategic collaboration with Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Circle33 LLC.

ION Signature

Convertible Note in 2005
Ions are everywhere in nature and ions are responsible for diverse phenomena from the Earth's ionosphere to the luminescence of the Sun. Ions can be chemically or non-chemically prepared using various ion sources generally involving high voltage or high temperature. These ions are used in a multitude of devices such as water ionizers, mass spectrometers, optical emission spectrometers, particle accelerators, ion implanters, and ion engines. As reactive charged particles, they are also used in air purification by disrupting microbes, and in household items such as smoke detectors and water purifiers. We are in process of developing breakthrough technology to apply ion measuring technology to obtain a signature no measure a variety of things. This technology will have a wide range of commercial applications in many of the world’s multi-billion dollar industries.

NuLabel

Seed Round in 2010
NuLabel Technologies is a polymer science and engineering innovations company developing innovative label and packaging solutions to help companies cut costs and reduce waste. label has developed patented adhesive and patent-pending hardware technology that uses activatable adhesives to eliminate the need for a label's non-stick liner backing or the need for messy wet glue used in product packaging. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in East Providence, Rhode Island.

Avaxia Biologics

Convertible Note in 2014
Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops oral antibody therapeutics. It offers gastrointestinal diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases, celiac disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, radiation syndrome, oral mucositis, and diabetes and obesity. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. has a strategic collaboration with Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Circle33 LLC.

SepSensor

Series A in 2012
The SepSensor Monitoring System monitors the condition of grease interceptors around the clock. SepSensor is initially focused on grease interceptor monitoring for the food service industry.

Board on Track

Convertible Note in 2016
BoardOnTrack provides expertise, training, powerful, web-based tools, and a membership community to the foot soldiers in the battle to improve our nation's public school system. The charter school is a multi-million dollar public enterprise. Running it with a group of volunteers is a daunting task. BoardOnTrack helps in leveraging the efforts of volunteer board members into real results: academic excellence and organizational sustainability. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts.

MoFuse

Venture Round in 2012
Mofuse offers a web based platform to build and manage mobile web sites. They provide a monthly subscription service to help businesses deliver mobile media. MoFuse Premium gives publishers a platform to publish, promote, monetize and analyze their mobile properties.

Creative Circle

Series D in 2009
Bill Ostendorf has been a leader in the newspaper industry for more than 25 years, serving as a consultant to more than 100 media companies on three continents. As president of Creative Circle Media Consulting, he has led nearly 400 industry seminars and has redesigned more than 100 publications to make them more reader friendly. He knew not only what is wrong with existing systems but also what readers and advertisers would want in the next generation of web entry.

MoFuse

Convertible Note in 2012
Mofuse offers a web based platform to build and manage mobile web sites. They provide a monthly subscription service to help businesses deliver mobile media. MoFuse Premium gives publishers a platform to publish, promote, monetize and analyze their mobile properties.

Windgap Medical

Convertible Note in 2016
WindGap Medical is a biotech company that manufactures medical devices used to treat patients with severe allergies. The company develops auto-injectors that are filled with heat-stable epinephrine that enable physicians to inject it into a patient suffering from anaphylaxis due to an acute allergy attack. The company was established in 2011 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Streamroot

Seed Round in 2015
Streamroot, Inc. develops peer-to-peer video streaming technology for content delivery networks. Its solution is used for live streaming of sporting events, concerts, video conferences, enterprise streams, Web radio, and video-on-demand; and enables users to integrate, monitor, analyze, and manage videos. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. As of September 6, 2019, Streamroot, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CenturyLink, Inc..

Medumo

Seed Round in 2018
Medumo, Inc allows healthcare organizations to automate the delivery of timely instructions to patients. Its product Medumo’s CareTours, enables healthcare organizations to effectively provide turn-by-turn guidance to patients by utilizing automated and timed messages sent via text and email. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. As per the transaction announced on July 17, 2019, Medumo, Inc operates as a subsidiary of Koninklijke Philips N.V.

GateRocket

Series A in 2009
GateRocket, Inc. provides verification and debugging solutions for FPGAs. It offers RocketDrive, a device native verification system for complex FPGAs, which accelerates verification throughput and identifies problems with IP blocks, pin-outs, and tool chain anomalies. The company also provides RocketVision, a FPGA debug solution that automates test point insertion and detects differences between RTL and FPGA devices. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

GateRocket

Series A in 2006
GateRocket, Inc. provides verification and debugging solutions for FPGAs. It offers RocketDrive, a device native verification system for complex FPGAs, which accelerates verification throughput and identifies problems with IP blocks, pin-outs, and tool chain anomalies. The company also provides RocketVision, a FPGA debug solution that automates test point insertion and detects differences between RTL and FPGA devices. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

InfoBionic

Convertible Note in 2013
InfoBionic transforms the efficiency and the economics of ambulatory remote patient monitoring processes and cardiac diagnostic services by optimizing clinical and real-world utility for the users that need it most – physicians and their patients. It has developed the MoMe System, a remote patient monitoring platform initially focused on cardiac arrhythmia detection, to improve clinical efficiency and patient care with any time, anywhere access to patient data. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

KnipBio

Series A in 2015
KnipBio is a biotechnology company that develops responsible and sustainable commercial feed solutions for the aquaculture industry. It is committed to solving real-world challenges by working with global corporations. Its game-changing single-cell protein combines the attributes of premium, protein-packed fishmeal, and carotenoids into a single effective and affordable fishmeal replacement -- KnipBio Meal (KBM). KBM is a transformative breakthrough in the future of aquaculture feed. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Lowell, Massachusetts.

SmartCells

Series C in 2008
SmartCells, Inc. designs and develops insulin products. It offers SmartInsulin, a self regulating injectable formulation for treating diabetes. The company's polymer-based dosing technology is used for various applications, such as fertility, thyroid, and growth hormone deficiencies; treatments with poor compliance or therapeutic window issues, such as oncology; and drug-device combinations. SmartCells, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Avaxia Biologics

Series B in 2013
Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops oral antibody therapeutics. It offers gastrointestinal diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases, celiac disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, radiation syndrome, oral mucositis, and diabetes and obesity. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. has a strategic collaboration with Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Circle33 LLC.