Crest Capital Ventures

Crest Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Houston, Texas, founded in 2012. The firm specializes in providing funding to companies in the software and related technology sectors, targeting investments at both early and later stages of business development. By focusing on these dynamic industries, Crest Capital Ventures aims to support innovative companies and help them scale their operations effectively.

Jason Woods

President

9 past transactions

Boom.tv

Series A in 2020
BoomTV is an Esports entertainment platform that provides tools to automate score tracking, streaming, and generating event hubs. Their mission is to enable communities to easily produce and partake in virtual Esports. At the core of it all is our self-driving Esports technology layer that provides a one-button solution for anyone to create, participate, and/or spectate Esports content.

Legendary Play

Seed Round in 2019
Legendary Play creates mobile games for esport fans. The company was established in 2017 in Berlin, Germany.

Quarterback

Seed Round in 2018
While esports continues to grow rapidly and more gaming influencers grab the spotlight, most of them struggle to monetize their fan-base and rely heavily on creating new content for their fans to consume. Founded by a team of experienced software industry veterans, Quarterback is the first fan-engagement platform that enables streamers and professional players to continuously engage with their audiences by creating their own fan-club gaming leagues. These leagues can host daily challenges, give away prizes, compete against other clubs worldwide, help fans compete with like-minded players and offer other perks. Quarterback is on a mission to evolve the way esports enthusiasts interact with each other. Quarterback creates a new language of engagement, where esports talents and streamers become an integral part of their fans gameplay.

Esports One

Seed Round in 2018
Esports One is an esports data and analytics company that wants to change the way fans watch and engage with esports. We built a computer vision and machine learning-powered platform capable of capturing and analyzing thousands of data points in real-time. This enabled us to generate one of the most comprehensive databases of League of Legends esports stats on the planet, going all the way back to the first professional game played in 2011 and being updated with new match data in real-time. In 2020, we are bringing our database of stats to the masses with Esports One Fantasy. Users will research teams and players, set their lineup, and compete with friends in the first all-in-one fantasy platform built specifically for esports. It’s like a Bloomberg Terminal for esports.

SmartZip

Series B in 2014
SmartZip Analytics is a national leader in predictive marketing solutions for the real estate industry. Using patent-pending predictive analytics, automated marketing campaigns and smart CRM follow-up tools, SmartZip makes big data actionable for real estate and mortgage lending professionals. Our flagship product, SmartTargeting, helps agents land more listings by identifying and targeting the homeowners most likely to sell in any neighborhood across the U.S. As a rapidly growing startup backed by Intel Capital, SmartZip has assembled the most talented team and comprehensive predictive marketing platform in the industry.

WeVideo

Venture Round in 2012
WeVideo is a unique cloud-based collaborative video editing service that helps people from all over the world simply create and share great-looking videos. The WeVideo editor is easy enough for first-time editors, and sophisticated enough to help anyone create a professional-looking video. WeVideo works through any browser and as an integrated video editor within YouTube and Google Drive. The company's headquarters are in Palo Alto, California and its services are based on technologies that originated in Scandinavia. WeVideo is a cloud-based solution with no software to download or install. All video editing takes place in a browser on your smartphone. Video clips can be uploaded from any device to your own personal media library in the cloud and combined with titles, transitions, effects, animation, music, and narration for professional-looking results. Users have full creative control over the final product compared to other automated solutions. The WeVideo platform uniquely enables social video creation by providing a collaborative online environment for video content aggregation and/or joint editing of the video story. All data uploaded to the system is safe from intrusion via highly encrypted password access, allowing you to control who is part of your video editing community. Finished videos can be shared on the WeVideo platform or published in Internet or HD broadcast quality to your favorite video-sharing site, social networking profile, blog, or other destination.

RAP Index

Private Equity Round in 2012
RAP Index is a key contacts software service, developed by advocacy experts for advocacy professionals, that uses a patent-pending scoring process to decisively identify and measure the Relationships, Advocability and Political Capital of an organization’s stakeholders, to find their key contacts and activate their best messengers. RAP Index is an indispensible service that helps organizations Know Who They Know from the Capital to Main Street.

OpsTechnology

Series D in 2004
OpsTechnology, Inc. develops on-demand software systems that enable real-estate operating companies to automate the purchasing, payables, and procurement functions. Its products include OpsBuyer, a tool that integrates accounts payable, purchase orders, budget control, workflow, and an online e-procurement system with direct integrations to participating suppliers; and OpsInvoice, an invoice management solution, which provides paperless accounts payables process that eliminates the need to manually enter, approve, retrieve, transport, and store invoices. The company's products also include OpsPages, an Internet-based directory of service providers and vendors in the real estate industry. It serves real estate investment trusts, building owners, fee-management companies, and property management companies. OpsTechnology, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 14, 2008, OpsTechnology, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of RealPage, Inc.

Backup

Venture Round in 1999
Backup operates as an online storage and backup service.
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