Pittsburgh Equity Partners

Pittsburgh Equity Partners (PEP) is a venture capital fund located in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, dedicated to fostering the growth of early-stage companies in the life sciences and information technology sectors in Western Pennsylvania. Recognizing a significant gap in funding for these emerging businesses, PEP aims to provide essential capital to enhance their development and success. By focusing on the region’s most promising startups, the firm plays a vital role in addressing the funding challenges faced by technology companies in the area.

Edward R. Engler

Managing Partner

Stephen Robinson

Managing Partner

8 past transactions

Encentiv Energy

Series A in 2016
Encentiv Energy LLC operates a platform designed to enhance participation in energy efficiency programs for utilities, energy efficiency vendors, finance companies, and non-residential customers. The company's flagship offering, Encentivizer, is a national incentive management platform that simplifies access to local electric utility rebates, incentives, and funding solutions. It helps identify relevant programs to connect financial resources to customers' new construction and renovation projects while providing energy advisory and project financing services. Encentivizer leverages extensive data on energy efficiency products and utility incentives, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions that lead to significant energy consumption reductions. Founded in 2009 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Encentiv Energy was previously known as AllFacilities Energy Group, LLC before rebranding in 2013.

Voci Technologies

Venture Round in 2014
Voci Technologies specializes in developing advanced speech recognition servers that convert audio into text for enterprise applications, aiming to enhance customer insights and monitor performance metrics in call centers. Their flagship product, V-Blaze, caters to businesses of all sizes by providing accurate speech-to-text processing for analysis, as well as a voice-based biometrics solution. The company also offers training, support, and customization services to meet the specific needs of their clients. Voci Technologies serves a variety of industries, particularly those that are highly regulated, by ensuring compliance and safeguarding audio data. Additionally, they produce automatic speech-to-text voicemail outputs for telecommunications companies. Founded in 2008 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Voci Technologies became a subsidiary of Medallia, Inc. in 2020.
Wombat Security provides information security awareness and training software to help organizations teach their employees to secure behavior. Its Security Education Platform includes integrated knowledge assessments, a library of simulated attacks, and interactive training modules, which have been proven to reduce successful phishing attacks and malware infections by up to 90%.

Voci Technologies

Series A in 2012
Voci Technologies specializes in developing advanced speech recognition servers that convert audio into text for enterprise applications, aiming to enhance customer insights and monitor performance metrics in call centers. Their flagship product, V-Blaze, caters to businesses of all sizes by providing accurate speech-to-text processing for analysis, as well as a voice-based biometrics solution. The company also offers training, support, and customization services to meet the specific needs of their clients. Voci Technologies serves a variety of industries, particularly those that are highly regulated, by ensuring compliance and safeguarding audio data. Additionally, they produce automatic speech-to-text voicemail outputs for telecommunications companies. Founded in 2008 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Voci Technologies became a subsidiary of Medallia, Inc. in 2020.

Voci Technologies

Venture Round in 2012
Voci Technologies specializes in developing advanced speech recognition servers that convert audio into text for enterprise applications, aiming to enhance customer insights and monitor performance metrics in call centers. Their flagship product, V-Blaze, caters to businesses of all sizes by providing accurate speech-to-text processing for analysis, as well as a voice-based biometrics solution. The company also offers training, support, and customization services to meet the specific needs of their clients. Voci Technologies serves a variety of industries, particularly those that are highly regulated, by ensuring compliance and safeguarding audio data. Additionally, they produce automatic speech-to-text voicemail outputs for telecommunications companies. Founded in 2008 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Voci Technologies became a subsidiary of Medallia, Inc. in 2020.

Wright Therapy Products

Series A in 2011
Wright Therapy Products, Inc. manufactures pneumatic compression medical devices for the lymph edema, venous insufficiency, and sports medicine markets. It provides compression therapy systems; and compression therapy coordinators, clinical support nurses, insurance evaluation teams, claims submissions, education follow-up calls, satisfaction surveys, loaner and charity care programs emergency support, and facilitate communication services. The company was formerly known as Wright Linear Pump, Inc. Wright Therapy Products, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Oakdale, Pennsylvania. As of November 23, 2015, Wright Therapy Products, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of BSN medical GmbH.

ShowClix

Series B in 2011
ShowClix, a product of Patron Technology, is a full-service event technology solution that handles ticket sales, marketing, and on-site operations for their partners. They operate in over 20 countries and localize their platform for each market. ShowClix partners include fandom conventions, museums, festivals, attractions, and consumer shows. Iconic brands like New York Comic Con, Ice Castles, The Daily Show, PAX, and MoMa choose ShowClix to power their events.

Encentiv Energy

Angel Round in 2009
Encentiv Energy LLC operates a platform designed to enhance participation in energy efficiency programs for utilities, energy efficiency vendors, finance companies, and non-residential customers. The company's flagship offering, Encentivizer, is a national incentive management platform that simplifies access to local electric utility rebates, incentives, and funding solutions. It helps identify relevant programs to connect financial resources to customers' new construction and renovation projects while providing energy advisory and project financing services. Encentivizer leverages extensive data on energy efficiency products and utility incentives, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions that lead to significant energy consumption reductions. Founded in 2009 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Encentiv Energy was previously known as AllFacilities Energy Group, LLC before rebranding in 2013.
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