Comeback Capital

Comeback Capital is a Cleveland, Ohio-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups, with a focus on the Midwest. It pursues pre-seed and seed investments across technology, supply chain and logistics, health tech, mobility, and the industrial Internet of Things. The firm supports portfolio companies to accelerate execution and leverages a broad network, including connections to advisors from established startup markets, to help companies scale.

Tony Olivito

Partner

Kevin Taylor

Venture Partner

28 past transactions

FusionAds.ai

Seed Round in 2024
Today launching marketing campaigns is complex, slow, and expensive - and it just got worse with the explosion of AI tools and cookie removal. While these tools create irresistible opportunities, they add more complexity, more fragmentation, and collaboration is harder. It's like trying to complete a jigsaw puzzle with pieces that just don't fit together. That's what FusionOS.ai is here to solve as the world's first AI-powered Marketing Operating System. FusionOS stitches together hundreds of AI Marketing technology tools so marketers can ideate, generate creatives, launch and then optimize campaigns simpler, faster, and collaboratively … what took 50+ days in the past can now be sent live on the SAME DAY. Our tools not only speed things up but Fusion maximizes engagement with our clients target audience through AI generated creatives improving return on ad spend and driving revenue.

Aropha

Seed Round in 2024
Aropha specializes in product testing laboratory services, focusing on biodegradability assessments. It leverages automation and AI technologies to enhance efficiency and reproducibility, offering cost-effective testing solutions for clients aiming to accelerate the development of biodegradable materials.

HLRBO

Seed Round in 2024
HLRBO is an online platform facilitating direct connections between landowners and hunters. It offers thousands of listings, allowing hunters to contact landowners directly for lease inquiries without any fees or commissions.

ScaleIP

Pre Seed Round in 2024
ScaleIP facilitates the commercialization of intellectual property by connecting inventors, research organizations, and enterprises with potential partners for licensing, funding, and adoption opportunities. Its platform integrates datasets covering millions of patents, company contacts, grants, partnerships, and transactions to provide actionable insights supporting decision-making in technology transfer and IP portfolio management.

GroGuru

Series A in 2023
GroGuru Inc. is a technology company based in La Jolla, California, specializing in smart irrigation solutions for agriculture. Founded in 2014, GroGuru provides software as a service that enables farmers to monitor and manage irrigation effectively. The company leverages an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network to deliver precise measurements of soil moisture, salinity, and temperature. By utilizing advanced analytics, GroGuru offers real-time insights and recommendations that help farmers optimize water usage, improve crop yields, and make informed decisions regarding irrigation schedules and fertilizer application. The company's solutions aim to promote sustainable farming practices while reducing input costs and conserving vital water resources.

Camlann

Pre Seed Round in 2023
An end-to-end video game distribution and marketing platform, helping game studios increase sales

DigitalEx

Pre Seed Round in 2023
DigitalEx is a developer of a hybrid cloud cost optimization platform that addresses the challenges of rising costs and inefficiencies faced by enterprises. The company provides tools to help organizations effectively manage and reduce their spending by offering real-time visibility and transparency into on-premises infrastructure costs. Utilizing artificial intelligence-backed technology, DigitalEx enables clients to monitor, analyze, and optimize their cloud costs and usage, thereby improving operational efficiency and supporting digital transformation objectives. Additionally, the platform includes simulation capabilities to estimate the costs associated with running workloads across various cloud environments, empowering businesses to make informed financial decisions in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

BenefitBay

Venture Round in 2023
BenefitBay is a technology company that specializes in facilitating Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs) for employers. Its platform enables businesses to model, deploy, and manage ICHRA plans, ensuring compliance with regulations while providing employees with tools to choose and enroll in suitable individual health plans.

Plural

Seed Round in 2023
Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time and discover opportunities in workflows.

Plural

Series A in 2022
Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time and discover opportunities in workflows.

Blooming Health

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Blooming Health is a company focused on addressing the issues of social isolation and loneliness among older adults. It provides a comprehensive digital platform that facilitates engagement for social and healthcare aging service providers. The platform is designed to be user-friendly and scalable, allowing it to meet the diverse needs of older adults and caregivers through various channels and languages. Blooming Health also emphasizes the importance of a community-based network of social determinants of health (SDOH) providers, which enhances the support available for aging individuals who wish to remain in their homes. Key features of the platform include remote social monitoring, personalized program recommendations, and services that offer companionship through automated text messaging and voice calls. This approach enables aging care providers to effectively engage older adults and their caregivers, fostering a more connected and supportive environment.

Pivotal Health

Seed Round in 2021
Pivotal Health is a healthcare company that offers a technology-enabled platform for clinician house calls, transforming the experience of urgent and primary care. It provides same-day, in-home healthcare services to patients of all ages, including urgent, primary, and mental healthcare. Patients can schedule appointments at their convenience, and the platform ensures transparency in pricing. By automating various aspects of the healthcare visit, Pivotal Health enhances the quality of care delivered to patients while also improving the experience for healthcare providers. The company is in network with all major payors, further facilitating access to its services.

Sayge

Seed Round in 2021
Sayge is a New York-based company that operates an online platform offering remote one-on-one coaching services aimed at enhancing personal and professional development for employees. Founded in 2017, Sayge focuses on democratizing access to premium coaching, enabling organizations to provide their workforce with continuous professional development support. The platform is designed to help companies attract, grow, and retain top talent by fostering employee-first cultures that prioritize the well-being and engagement of their staff. By investing in their employees' growth, companies are believed to achieve significant returns on their investment. Sayge has garnered trust from various organizations, including Figliulo&Partners, Grace Blue, and Tribal Worldwide, as they seek to cultivate happier, more engaged, and productive work environments.

Carbon Origins

Funding Round in 2021
Carbon Origins is a company that specializes in virtual reality telerobotics, aiming to address labor shortages by merging human expertise with advanced technology. The company's community of remote robot operators work from home, utilizing commercially available VR headsets to control robots across various industries, including food delivery, hospitality, mining, and construction. Carbon Origins' robotic systems offer features such as sub-perception latency, immersive 360-degree videos, spatial audio, lidar, radar sensor overlay, and artificial intelligence cues. These capabilities enable skilled operators to remotely manage multiple machines through a hyper-immersive VR interface, with assistance from AI co-pilots.

NeverEnding

Pre Seed Round in 2021
NeverEnding is a creative platform founded in 2020, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. It empowers creators and teams to bring their stories and imagination to life through animations and social content. The platform offers intuitive tools for designing characters for tabletop gaming, avatars for streaming, webcomics, and animated videos.

Techmate Technologies

Funding Round in 2020
Founded in 2016, Techmate Technologies specializes in providing on-demand tech support services for small businesses and distributed workforces. The company matches users with skilled technicians based on location, availability, and required technical expertise. Services include computer repair, malware removal, hardware upgrades, and IT project management, all managed through a centralized dashboard.

Lincode

Seed Round in 2020
Lincode is an AI-driven technology company specializing in advanced machine vision and defect detection for manufacturing. Its platform uses pre-trained models and a no-code interface to deliver real-time quality inspections and defect identification across materials such as plastics, fabric, semiconductors, and metals, supporting applications from visual inspection to reporting and analytics. The system can be deployed on premises with edge AI for low latency processing and integrates with existing machine vision setups to serve automotive, aerospace, electronics, packaging, and related industries. By enabling configurable defect tolerances per defect or camera, it supports both automated and manual inspection workflows, helping manufacturers reduce waste, improve productivity, and lower costs. Lincode was established in 2018 and is based in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India.

FloatMe

Pre Seed Round in 2020
FloatMe Corp., established in 2017 and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, specializes in a financial wellness platform. Its core offering is a mobile application that provides millennials with transparent, interest-free wage advances and affordable overdraft protection. The app features robust security measures, including bank-grade encryption, and overdraft alerts to help users build an emergency fund and improve their overall financial health.

Duality

Venture Round in 2019
Duality Robotics Inc. specializes in human-robot interaction and robotics simulation tools, focusing on industrial applications. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Hayward, California, with an additional office in Pittsburgh, the company offers an autonomy simulator for digital twins and an enterprise metaverse that facilitates the generation of synthetic data at scale. By leveraging artificial intelligence-powered human testers and simulation environments, Duality enables robotics teams to efficiently test and train autonomous vehicles, including sidewalks, cars, and trucks, in a virtual setting. This approach accelerates the time-to-market for various robotics applications, making advanced simulation accessible to machine learning, robotics, and engineering teams.

Driveway

Seed Round in 2019
Driveway is an online provider of professional bodyshop services specializing in automobile repair and parts replacement. Founded in 2017, the company offers a range of services including bumper repair, auto body painting, dent repair, and parts replacement for foreign, domestic, and luxury vehicles. With a focus on delivering quality solutions for car damage, Driveway employs skilled auto body technicians to address the needs of its customers. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, while also having a presence in Miami Beach, Florida.

PAXAFE

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Paxafe Inc., established in 2018 and headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, specializes in developing hardware and software solutions for secure packaging and supply chain management. The company offers Internet of Things (IoT) enabled products that are reusable, traceable, and secure, designed to protect high-margin freight from theft and chain-of-custody failures. Paxafe's solutions cater to various industries such as jewelry, luxury watches, diamonds, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and more. Its AI-enabled risk management platform integrates telematics and other data sources to predict adverse supply chain events, enabling intelligent cargo insurance and improving operational efficiencies for shippers, carriers, and insurance providers.

Gather AI

Seed Round in 2019
Gather AI is an autonomous inventory management platform that specializes in providing inventory as a service for modern warehouses. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the company offers a comprehensive solution that combines its proprietary software with off-the-shelf drones, allowing businesses to automate inventory tasks effectively. The software is designed to operate safely in environments without GPS, utilizing artificial intelligence to facilitate data analytics and inventory monitoring. With a team of PhDs and research engineers from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, Gather AI aims to enhance operational efficiency for its clients by enabling seamless inventory management and monitoring.

Lincode

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Lincode is an AI-driven technology company specializing in advanced machine vision and defect detection for manufacturing. Its platform uses pre-trained models and a no-code interface to deliver real-time quality inspections and defect identification across materials such as plastics, fabric, semiconductors, and metals, supporting applications from visual inspection to reporting and analytics. The system can be deployed on premises with edge AI for low latency processing and integrates with existing machine vision setups to serve automotive, aerospace, electronics, packaging, and related industries. By enabling configurable defect tolerances per defect or camera, it supports both automated and manual inspection workflows, helping manufacturers reduce waste, improve productivity, and lower costs. Lincode was established in 2018 and is based in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India.

WorkHound

Seed Round in 2019
WorkHound, Inc. is a company that offers a mobile driver retention platform designed to enhance communication between truck drivers and their employers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee, WorkHound enables drivers to provide real-time feedback on their experiences, including praise, concerns, and suggestions. This feedback is aggregated and analyzed to produce actionable insights that help carriers manage and retain their drivers effectively. The platform not only simplifies communication but also aims to reduce avoidable turnover in industries such as transportation and healthcare. By utilizing insightful analytics, WorkHound assists companies of all sizes in enhancing employee retention, improving profitability, and optimizing operational costs.

Civic Eagle

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Civic Eagle, Inc. is a software company that specializes in providing a workflow solution for advocates and policy teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Minnesota, Civic Eagle offers a platform called Enview, which integrates state and federal bills with team communications. This platform enables lobbyists, policy professionals, and government affairs teams to efficiently discover, analyze, and manage legislation without manual effort. By streamlining the process of tracking and working with legislation across the country, Civic Eagle allows policy advocates to concentrate on impactful campaigns, ultimately aiming to foster better democratic outcomes for individuals and communities.

KUHMUTE

Venture Round in 2019
Founded in 2018, KUHMUTE designs and manufactures advanced charging hubs for multimodal micromobility vehicles. Headquartered in Flint, Michigan with offices in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Grand Haven, Michigan, the company specializes in creating platform-agnostic solutions that enable cities and mobility service providers to charge eScooters, ebikes, and autonomous delivery robots securely and efficiently.

Honcho

Seed Round in 2019
Honcho is the only AI-powered communications protection software that coaches and trains as employees type to help compliance and HR professionals build and maintain exceptional communications practices in their companies. Our communications-protection software helps reduce the risk of non-compliant communications. Detect when users are composing potentially problematic messages, have the ability to archive official communication channels, and support supervisory review of any issues that arise. Show employees, customers, and the world that you care about ensuring an ethical and compliant workplace. And, invest in your communications now to avoid costly litigation, regulatory fines, negative press, and a demoralized culture later.

Exit 7C

Seed Round in 2016
Exit 7C Inc. is a digital retailer specializing in fuel delivery services, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The company operates a mobile application that enables users to sign up for gas delivery and facilitates purchases at branded pumps located at traditional gas stations. Exit 7C also develops a mobile payment platform that allows customers to securely buy gasoline using a digital fuel card, featuring a centralized dashboard for real-time transactions, fuel type selection, and gas station locations. The company serves various markets, including Milwaukee, St. Louis, Fort Wayne, Columbus, Houston, Durham, and San Diego, while leveraging technology to enhance fuel, maintenance, and compliance services for transportation fleets.
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