Tappan Hill Ventures

Tappan Hill Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, established in 2014. The firm focuses on investing in seed stage, early growth, and select later stage companies, primarily within the software, network connectivity, and internet of things sectors. Through its investment strategies, Tappan Hill Ventures aims to support innovative startups and foster their growth in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.

Carl Erickson Ph.D

Managing Director

Linda M. Fingerle

Managing Director & President

Walter Sahijdak

Managing Director

9 past transactions

Verified

Seed Round in 2022
Unum ID, Inc. offers a shared and verified identity solution that consolidates multiple verifications about a user into a single identity accessible across different companies. Their software employs cryptography to link a user’s mobile device to their online identities, enabling multi-factor authentication and enhancing security by eliminating the need for passwords. The company provides a virtual ID card, Unum ID, which displays appropriate information for various situations and is usable across all devices and environments, both online and offline. With a focus on user privacy, all personal data is stored solely on the user's mobile device, ensuring consent and security are prioritized. This innovative approach streamlines the onboarding process, allowing companies to verify users rapidly, transforming identity management into a strategic asset while reducing the risk of behavioral fraud.

Livegistics

Seed Round in 2022
Livegistics is a software company that provides construction and heavy hauling industries with cloud based logistical tracking technologies. The company allows the contractors to operate more efficiently, while also equipping owners/municipalities/construction managers with the real-time data and analytics. Livegistics was founded in 2017 by Darren Fish and Randy Bailey.

Casted

Series A in 2021
Casted, Inc. is a podcasting platform specifically designed for B2B marketers, offering a software-as-a-service solution that enables the creation, management, publication, promotion, and measurement of branded podcasts. The platform provides comprehensive tools for podcasters, including hosting, transcription, categorization, search, and scheduling capabilities. As the first content marketing solution focused on B2B podcasting, Casted allows marketers to leverage podcast content to enhance their overall content strategies and amplify their reach across various sales and marketing channels. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Casted aims to empower marketers by facilitating greater access to podcast content and linking it to measurable business outcomes. The company was previously known as Caster Software, Inc. before rebranding in May 2019.

Verified

Seed Round in 2020
Unum ID, Inc. offers a shared and verified identity solution that consolidates multiple verifications about a user into a single identity accessible across different companies. Their software employs cryptography to link a user’s mobile device to their online identities, enabling multi-factor authentication and enhancing security by eliminating the need for passwords. The company provides a virtual ID card, Unum ID, which displays appropriate information for various situations and is usable across all devices and environments, both online and offline. With a focus on user privacy, all personal data is stored solely on the user's mobile device, ensuring consent and security are prioritized. This innovative approach streamlines the onboarding process, allowing companies to verify users rapidly, transforming identity management into a strategic asset while reducing the risk of behavioral fraud.

Casted

Seed Round in 2020
Casted, Inc. is a podcasting platform specifically designed for B2B marketers, offering a software-as-a-service solution that enables the creation, management, publication, promotion, and measurement of branded podcasts. The platform provides comprehensive tools for podcasters, including hosting, transcription, categorization, search, and scheduling capabilities. As the first content marketing solution focused on B2B podcasting, Casted allows marketers to leverage podcast content to enhance their overall content strategies and amplify their reach across various sales and marketing channels. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Casted aims to empower marketers by facilitating greater access to podcast content and linking it to measurable business outcomes. The company was previously known as Caster Software, Inc. before rebranding in May 2019.

Kumanu

Seed Round in 2017
Kumanu helps people and organizations build authentic connections to deeper purpose through advanced science and technology. It is formerly known as JOOL Health, builds stronger organizations and bigger lives by creating better alignment with purpose. We fuse advanced machine learning, leading behavior change science, elegant digital experience design, and real-time predictive decision support to create positive change that’s both scalable and enduring. It’s all integrated into their PurposeCloud, the first purpose activation platform. The platform offers a beautiful, simple, and purposeful app for employees, a real-time analytics dashboard for organizations designed to integrate your corporate, people and wellbeing strategies, and a powerful insights engine that connects, predicts and contextualizes the data.

Groundspeed Analytics

Series A in 2017
Groundspeed Analytics, Inc. (Groundspeed) accelerates commercial insurance performance with the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The Groundspeed platform automatically turns files like submissions, loss runs, exposure schedules and policy documents into actionable information, empowering users to lower costs, identify profitable pools of risk and drive top-line growth.

Filament

Series A in 2017
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT. Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.

Quikly

Series C in 2016
Quikly is a digital marketing platform that empowers marketers to consistently acquire, activate, and retain customers, which leads to superior ROI. Leveraging elements of consumer psychology, their solutions deliver highly effective and measurable results across nearly every marketing initiative. Quikly’s technology provides an immediate way for brands to boost digital activation and engagement within existing channels like email, social, and mobile to deliver meaningful revenue over a short period of time. Quikly was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.