CSA Partners

CSA Partners, LLC is a venture fund that specializes in investing in early stage, high growth companies. Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, they focus on partnering with entrepreneurs to help them build and grow innovative businesses. With a particular emphasis on startups in the Midwest area, CSA Partners aims to support the development and success of promising ventures through strategic investment and guidance.

Steve Mech

Managing Director

37 past transactions

Edda

Venture Round in 2021
Kushim is a cloud platform of investment management and performances tracking for Venture Capital. We're incubated by FJlabs funds ( Fabrice Grinda and Jose marin investments ). We have been working for one year now, with Fabrice and his partners with a simple goal : design the best product to help VC's managing their investments.

B/2BNOW

Seed Round in 2019
B/2BNOW is a strategically focused B2B Cloud Solution which is uniquely positioned to serve SAP’s S/4HANA global customer community. B/2BNOW automates, integrates and manages the exchange of critical business data between S/4HANA systems and external business partners. As the first and only dedicated S/4HANA B2B solution provider in the market, B/2BNOW is recognized by SAP and leading System Integrators as the subject matter exert and recommended choice for customers requiring B2B cloud solutions.

DATTUS

Seed Round in 2016
Here at DATTUS, they may be experts in industrial innovations, but really they consider theirselves to be guides. They help their clientele navigate Industry 4.0. Nothing brings us greater joy than to implement a system that saves companies millions—literally—by achieving near zero-downtime while simultaneously increasing safety and decreasing overhead. They help industrial facilities compete with hardware and software solutions that enable data-driven decision making. Their platform provides a seamless path for industries to make their operations “smart.” This allows companies to ensure value delivery in maintenance and reliability, operational efficiency, process and quality management, yield and throughput, environmental health and safety — and post-sale support and warranties for machinery OEMs. Located in Indianapolis, DATTUS was born out of an Entrepreneurship Program at Purdue University. In 2016, they won the Techpoint Mira Award for Best New Tech Product. While their roots are local, their vision is global. They believe in the promise of smart machines, the industrial internet - and the next industrial revolution. They’re committed to delivering on that promise to their customers, around the world.

Wildwonder

Seed Round in 2021
Producer of beverage products intended to provide tea-based sparkling wellness drinks. The company's beverages include herbs and teas blended with real fruit juice and made with fresh ingredients and are offered in a variety of flavors, providing consumers with herbal drinks packed with nutrition and various health benefits.

Bright Cellars

Venture Round in 2018
Bright Cellars is a monthly subscription wine club that matches members with personalized selections. It is designed to help new wine drinkers discover and define their taste in wine. It aims to inspire and educate a new generation of wine lovers by delivering a transformative, personalized wine experience. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

YachtLife

Seed Round in 2017
YachtLife Technologies, Inc. develops YachtLife, a mobile application that enables yacht owners to charter their luxury yachts. The company’s application allows its users to find and book yachts. It serves customers primarily in Nassau, Bahamas; Chicago, Illinois; Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Newport, Rhode Island; Ibiza, Spain; Cannes, France; and The Hamptons and New York, New York. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

gener8tor

Venture Round in 2014
gener8tor is a nationally ranked accelerator that invests in high-growth startups. Three times a year we invest $100K in each of five startups who receive a concierge experience during our 12-week accelerator program. gener8tor supports the growth of these startups through our network of experienced mentors, technologists, corporate partners, angel investors, and venture capitalists. gener8tor invests in high-growth startups, including software, IT, web, SaaS, life science, MedTech, e-commerce, and hardware. Accepted startups receive $100K and 12 weeks of mentorship-driven programming. gener8tor is a proud member of the Global Accelerator Network (GAN). It is a GOLD-tier accelerator in the U.S. as ranked by the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project.

Spirit Shop

Seed Round in 2014
SpiritShop.com is the leading online apparel and merchandise retailer for officially licensed high schools and amateur sports teams in the US. Spirit Shop sells through its own 100,000 online school and team stores offering more than 20,000 products with stock and customizable designs. Spirit Shop also integrates its ecommerce platform for online retailers, team registration software companies, sports leagues, national and state athletic associations as well as national sports media companies including CBS MaxPreps, USA Today HS Sports, Varsity News Network and more.

Zizzl

Venture Round in 2021
zizzl LLC provides benefits consulting services with HR and payroll solutions. It offers HR and payroll solutions to manage the moments like hiring, onboarding, benefits administration, and performance, as well as to engage with employees, control costs, and reduce compliance risk; and benefits consulting services, such as funding strategies, employee communication, compliance, wellness, annual document filing, benefits technology, plan performance, perks and rewards, and vendor management services. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Bright Cellars

Series A in 2019
Bright Cellars is a monthly subscription wine club that matches members with personalized selections. It is designed to help new wine drinkers discover and define their taste in wine. It aims to inspire and educate a new generation of wine lovers by delivering a transformative, personalized wine experience. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

ReviewTrackers

Seed Round in 2014
ReviewTrackers is a customer feedback software that is used to measure and transform the customer experience. Its platform collects review data from review sites to generate new reviews that engage its customers and listen and respond to their comments to discover key business insights that enable brands to listen, comprehend and make data-driven decisions about what their customers truly need or want. ReviewTrackers helps busy professionals save time, money and resources so they can focus on what matters most of their customers. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

OpenHomes

Seed Round in 2015
OpenHomes Inc. connects home buyers and sellers through an online and offline residential real estate platform. OpenHomes allows qualified buyers instant, secure access to see a home in person, essentially making every day an open house. OpenHomes empowers buyers and sellers to safely and directly communicate and transact, when and how they want to – reducing transaction costs and agent interference.

Scanalytics

Seed Round in 2013
Scanalytics Inc. offers software solutions to monitor and analyze customer behavior at retail stores and events. It offers a system that automates and analyzes information for actionable insights; and Analysis Lab, an actionable comparison tool that allows users to fine-tune their operations to create the profit machine. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Bright Cellars

Private Placement in 2018
Bright Cellars is a monthly subscription wine club that matches members with personalized selections. It is designed to help new wine drinkers discover and define their taste in wine. It aims to inspire and educate a new generation of wine lovers by delivering a transformative, personalized wine experience. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Bright Cellars

Seed Round in 2015
Bright Cellars is a monthly subscription wine club that matches members with personalized selections. It is designed to help new wine drinkers discover and define their taste in wine. It aims to inspire and educate a new generation of wine lovers by delivering a transformative, personalized wine experience. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Agricycle

Seed Round in 2021
Agricycle is a house of ethical brands using a systems-based zero waste approach to international development. The company transforms food waste and agricultural byproducts across the world into all-natural and organic CPG brands. Agricycle buys the products created using their technology and makes on-trend brands focused on storytelling, natural foods, sustainability, and transparency. Each brand uses the byproducts of others, and local products and industries are created with what cannot be exported. This maximizes margins because each brand uses the same supply chain and very similar production process.

Bright Cellars

Convertible Note in 2014
Bright Cellars is a monthly subscription wine club that matches members with personalized selections. It is designed to help new wine drinkers discover and define their taste in wine. It aims to inspire and educate a new generation of wine lovers by delivering a transformative, personalized wine experience. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Music Dealers

Convertible Note in 2013
Music Dealers provides sync-licensing and artist discovery solutions that enable visual media creators such as advertising companies, filmmakers, game developers, and more to streamline the complexity of working with independent music. Clients also use the company’s services to gain access to the collective intelligence of crowd-sourcing and original custom content. Brand clients use the company's search service as a versatile platform to identify unique artists for corporate campaigns. The company is based in Chicago, with offices in Atlanta, New York, Mexico City, and London.

Carson Life

Venture Round in 2020
Carson Life is a natural health and beauty products company focused on the Hispanic market. Its products include offerings in the hair care, weight loss, skincare, vitamins, and rejuvenation categories. Carson Life has exclusive endorsement deals with well-¬known celebrities in the Hispanic market. Its products are currently sold online and through retailers such as Walmart, Walgreens, Kmart, and CVS across the United States and Puerto Rico. Also, its products are sold online through its webshop and e-commerce platforms like Walmart.com, Jet.com, LuckyVitamin.com, Walgreens.com, and Amazon. It was founded in 2914 by Sonia Guzman and is based in Miami, Florida.

Elena Velez

Seed Round in 2021
Elena Velez is an apparel and fashion company known for its non-traditional synthesis of metalsmith and high fashion. It was founded by Elena Velez in New York, New York in 2018.

Pet Krewe

Seed Round in 2022
Pet Krewe Inc. manufactures and retails pet costumes and toys. The products and services are sold through the platform and also through the mobile application. The items offered by the company are, dog costumes, cat costumes, and pet horoscope. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Onepanel

Seed Round in 2020
Onepanel enables distributed teams to build, train and deploy deep learning applications on a fully managed, distributed and elastic infrastructure. Our pre-built environments are loaded with familiar open source tools and can scale to many instances for training complex models. Code, data, parameters and environments are version controlled and reproducible, simplifying collaboration, knowledge transfer and accelerating ideation. Onepanel is based on Kubernetes and can be deployed on premise or on any cloud provider.

Ease

Seed Round in 2018
Ease is a software company that was created with an emphasis on creating business solution tools. Our first product is a Freelance Management System. A cloud-based workforce solution that helps businesses manage their independent contractors and freelance workforce all in one place in addition to providing access to the top software developers, designers, copywriters, and digital strategists in the industry.

OpenHomes

Seed Round in 2013
OpenHomes Inc. connects home buyers and sellers through an online and offline residential real estate platform. OpenHomes allows qualified buyers instant, secure access to see a home in person, essentially making every day an open house. OpenHomes empowers buyers and sellers to safely and directly communicate and transact, when and how they want to – reducing transaction costs and agent interference.

Ease

Private Placement in 2018
Ease is a software company that was created with an emphasis on creating business solution tools. Our first product is a Freelance Management System. A cloud-based workforce solution that helps businesses manage their independent contractors and freelance workforce all in one place in addition to providing access to the top software developers, designers, copywriters, and digital strategists in the industry.

Scanalytics

Funding Round in 2013
Scanalytics Inc. offers software solutions to monitor and analyze customer behavior at retail stores and events. It offers a system that automates and analyzes information for actionable insights; and Analysis Lab, an actionable comparison tool that allows users to fine-tune their operations to create the profit machine. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Bright Cellars

Private Placement in 2019
Bright Cellars is a monthly subscription wine club that matches members with personalized selections. It is designed to help new wine drinkers discover and define their taste in wine. It aims to inspire and educate a new generation of wine lovers by delivering a transformative, personalized wine experience. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Highview Solutions, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Highview Solutions, Inc. develops and provides electronic data interchange solutions for S/4HANA public cloud services. Its solutions automates error handling and provides real-time access to documents, analytics, and error reports. The company also delivers managed support for order-to-cash, purchase-to-pay, community management, web partner portal, automated supplier onboarding, and fulfillment processes. The company serves customers in manufacturing, retail, logistics, automotive, and fulfillment industries. Highview Solutions, Inc. was formerly known as B/2BNOW and changed its name to Highview Solutions, Inc. in March 2020. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Understory

Series A in 2016
Understory, Inc. provides real time datasets and graphical views of the movement and intensity of weather events. It builds, installs, maintains, and harvests data networks in Kansas City and northeast Dallas. The company offers precision hail, hail forensic, and precision wind reports for advanced property level analytics; and weather verification reports that include precipitation date, precipitation event, ice dam conditions, and wind event reports. It serves insurance companies, and property owners and managers; and students and staff at degree-granting institutions, including high schools, undergraduate colleges and universities, and post-graduate degree programs. Understory, Inc. was formerly known as Winstruments, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Docalytics

Venture Round in 2014
Docalytics Inc. operates a cloud-based platform for marketing and sales communication. Its platform allows companies to leverage their marketing documents to generate and sell leads; and provides analytics and tracking tools. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As of February 18, 2016, Docalytics Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Contently Inc.

Fanbox Subscription Services, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Fanbox Subscription Services, Inc. sends a monthly box of inspirational quotes and scripture to its clients to inspire positive Christian living. It sends its clients a box every month that contains weekly inspirational reflections, random acts of kindness to perform, and products from socially-responsible companies. It also offers a mobile application to connect and communicate with friends. Fanbox Subscription Services, Inc. was formerly known as Faithbox, Inc. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Elkhorn, Nebraska.

PrettyLitter

Seed Round in 2016
PrettyLitter's subscription lightweight cat litter monitors feline health by changing colors when it detects urinary abnormalities. For the same price and 80% lighter than traditional cat litter, PrettyLitter provides peace of mind, health wellness and convenience with the best cat litter ever created. www.prettylitter.com

Docalytics

Seed Round in 2013
Docalytics Inc. operates a cloud-based platform for marketing and sales communication. Its platform allows companies to leverage their marketing documents to generate and sell leads; and provides analytics and tracking tools. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As of February 18, 2016, Docalytics Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Contently Inc.

EatStreet

Series B in 2014
EatStreet is an online and mobile food ordering service that streamlines commerce between restaurants and diners. To college students and young professionals, EatStreet is a smart, simple, and affordable way to order delivery and takeout from their favorite restaurants. To restaurant owners, EatStreet is a one-stop-shop for online ordering and marketing. By providing web, mobile, and social products for online ordering, EatStreet brings in new business for restaurants. Diners enjoy the upside of fast, simple ordering while restaurants see their sales soar. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.