Tappan Hill Ventures

Tappan Hill Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, founded in 2014. The firm specializes in investments across seed stage, early growth, and select later stage companies. Tappan Hill Ventures focuses primarily on businesses operating in the software, network connectivity, and internet of things sectors, aiming to support innovative companies through various stages of their development.

Carl Erickson Ph.D

Managing Director

Linda Fingerle

President / Managing Director

Matthew Mills

Managing Partner

Walter Sahijdak

Managing Director

Past deals in Michigan

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.

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

Series A in 2017
Groundspeed Analytics, Inc. is a company that specializes in insurance data automation and analytics software tailored for commercial insurance brokers and carriers. Founded in 2015 and based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Groundspeed offers a platform that utilizes machine learning and artificial intelligence to streamline the processing of various insurance documents, including loss runs and policy submissions. This technology enables users to automatically request, receive, and analyze crucial claim data without manual data entry. Brokers can access vital metrics related to their clients and policies, while carriers benefit from automated analysis of competitive claim data, helping them identify trends in premium sufficiency and loss development. Groundspeed's solutions ultimately aim to enhance financial performance and improve the understanding of risk placement in the insurance industry.

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.
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