Early Light Ventures

Early Light Ventures, founded in 2019 and located in Rockville, Maryland, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in seed-stage and early-stage B2B software companies. The firm prioritizes companies within the technology sector, particularly those that are growing rapidly, with an annual run rate between $400,000 and $3 million, and valuations ranging from $3 million to $12 million. Early Light Ventures seeks businesses with strong growth metrics, aiming for at least 80% year-over-year growth and low gross churn rates. The firm is particularly interested in companies based in the mid-Atlantic region and is committed to providing substantial support to its portfolio companies throughout their development.

Scott Garber

Managing Partner

26 past transactions

Pendella

Seed Round in 2022
Pendella, LLC is a virtual portal that connects businesses with a variety of health insurance providers to create tailored employee benefit programs. Established in 2018 and based in Fort Myers, Florida, Pendella offers solutions that encompass employee benefits, income protection plans, and human resources support. The platform allows businesses to receive multiple insurance quotes, compare options, and efficiently manage the implementation of group insurance programs. Additionally, Pendella's technology facilitates a streamlined online purchasing experience for individual life and disability insurance, utilizing artificial intelligence to automate underwriting and eliminate the need for medical exams. This innovative approach helps businesses and their employees access affordable insurance options quickly and easily.

Sunstone Credit

Seed Round in 2022
Sunstone Credit is on a mission to democratize access to solar for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Sitting at the intersection of climate, finance and technology, Sunstone has built a best-in-class technology platform and partnered with leading financial institutions and a national network of solar developers to provide SMB borrowers access to simple, affordable and easy-to-understand solar loan products with flexible terms and a streamlined application process. When SMB customers go solar using Sunstone’s products, they save money and reduce their carbon footprint, driving a clean, green future for all. Learn more at sunstonecredit.com.

Bark Social

Seed Round in 2022
Bark Social is an off-leash dog park with a beer garden and coffee house. We also offer self-serve dog baths as well as a full dog treat menu and a curated selection of dog products. We are opening our first location in DC area in December 2020.

SkillCycle

Seed Round in 2021
GoCoach is help to get solid advice from professional career coaches. GoCoach, they know that growth is fundamental to the happiness of all human beings. It is their mission to make it easy for everyone to grow in their careers, unlock their potential, and achieve greater happiness. They envision a world where people have the tools they need to grow in a transparent, safe, and supportive work environments. By making career growth accessible, they are investing in a happier, more empowered world.

UpEquity

Series B in 2021
UpEquity is a technology-driven mortgage platform based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2019 by Tim Herman and Louis Wilson. The company aims to enhance the home buying experience by streamlining the mortgage process, making it easier and faster for borrowers. UpEquity offers services such as mortgage and refinance, and its platform allows users to upload documents for pre-approval. By utilizing automated underwriting, free cash offers, and competitive mortgage rates, UpEquity seeks to address inefficiencies in the home buying process and empower customers to close offers quickly. The company gained initial support through Y Combinator's Summer 2019 accelerator program.

Kion

Series A in 2021
cloudtamer.io is comprehensive cloud governance software that allows you to manage your cloud presence at scale. With cloudtamer.io, your team can easily request and manage cloud resources that are aligned with your budget, security, and compliance policies.

ProductWind

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of an influencer marketing platform intended for brand promotion. The company's platform helps enterprise brands to drive social content, search engine optimization, and reviews to ramp up online retail sales and launch their influencer marketing campaigns, enabling clients to improve their online retail business.

DynamiCare Health

Seed Round in 2021
DynamiCare Health, Inc. provides a digital platform that helps people to monitor and reduce the use of drugs, opioids, alcohol, and tobacco. Its platform allows people to perform substance tests through an application; and tracks treatment attendance using GPS. The company also allows healthcare providers to see data about participant’s progress through the DynamicCare Analytics portal, which sends real time risk alerts when clients are in trouble. DynamiCare Health, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Credit Mountain

Seed Round in 2021
Credit Mountain is a fintech startup founded in 2020 and is based in Dallas, TX

Vita Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Vita Therapeutics is a cell engineering company that develops life-transformative treatments. Vita utilizes induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology to engineer specific cell types designed to replace those that are defective in patients. Vita works towards delivering tissue-specific stem cells that have the capability to continue to replicate and support muscle regeneration. The company's lead therapy, VTA-110, is a potential allogenic iPSC-based therapy that has shown the ability to repair and regenerate healthy muscle in preclinical studies and has the potential to benefit patients with LGMD and other muscular dystrophies.

Thrivable

Seed Round in 2021
Thrivable is a technology platform that helps health care organizations tap into a comprehensive patient database to do market research activities. Right now the market research process is slow, expensive, and frustrating for companies. Thrivable has created a solution that reduces the time it takes to get insights from months to hours.

STAC

Pre Seed Round in 2021
STAC Inc. is an athletic networking platform that facilitates connections between high school amateur athletes and collegiate coaches. Founded in 2018 and based in Richmond, Virginia, STAC offers a free, gamified application designed to assist athletes in navigating the collegiate recruiting process. The platform provides guidance based on statistics and educational resources, aiming to support athletes in their pursuit of advancement to the next level in their sports careers.

Ethix360

Series A in 2021
ETHIX360 provides next-generation Compliance as a Service (CaaS) solutions that can be configured to seamlessly facilitate identifying, managing, investigating and resolving issues within any business. Our enterprise class solution, CaseTrac™, helps minimize the negative impact on an organization’s reputation, and the creation of financial liabilities or other harmful consequences. Reporting of concerns and workplace investigations are enabled via a variety of technologies that can be deployed to support the multi-lingual input of a globally diverse constituent base. CaseTrac™’s unique resolution management solution can be configured to promote adherence to a company’s policies and procedures for any program such as Employee Code of Conduct, Supply Chain Code of Conduct, Safety, Asset Protection, HR employee relations, FCPA compliance and more. This can include everything from workplace sexual harassment and bullying at work to Medicare fraud waste and abuse. Powerful workflow engines and a notification matrix couple with system-wide security and data privacy rules to automate the resolution of concern in accordance with the company’s standards. Through real-time dashboards and data analysis, ETHIX360 provides users and executive management with enterprise-wide visibility of issues enabling effective responses and proactive, continuous improvement. ETHIX360’s innovative solution has been designed and developed by experts in the fields of ethics, law, mediation, arbitration, human resources, labor, government services and web based applications. ETHIX360’s best practices for mitigating and managing risk can be configured to accommodate each client’s preferred organizational processes and procedures. ETHIX360 clients include global leaders in insurance, global package delivery, retail, technology, healthcare mining, energy, schools and many other industries. These clients have deployed a variety of programs targeted to just a few employees or over 500,000 employees and contractors. Collectively, these clients support operations in virtually every country in the world. Our mission is to continue to develop and deploy innovative technologies that help companies of all types understand their corporate risks through communications with their constituents, manage to resolution those reported concerns in a consistent manner that is compliant with the corporation’s policies and procedures and provide the related reporting and information analysis that addresses both the tactical and strategic needs of the business.

Alterwood Health

Seed Round in 2021
Alterwood Health is a managed care company that provides healthcare services to its members and providers. They promote strong doctor-patient relationships through supportive care management strategies, innovative technology, and attractive reimbursement models.

Scanifly

Seed Round in 2020
Scanifly is a developer of a drone-based platform that enhances the solar workflow through automation and centralized processes. Its software facilitates the selling, surveying, designing, and installation of solar projects with high accuracy and efficiency. By providing three-dimensional simulations of solar arrays and conducting shading analyses, Scanifly enables solar companies to create customized proposals while significantly reducing costs and minimizing the need for site visits. The platform not only increases design accuracy but also improves worker safety, ultimately streamlining the entire solar project lifecycle.

Network Perception

Seed Round in 2020
Network Perception is providing a pioneering network device configuration analysis software to visualize and manage their network. The company delivers a pioneering solution that enables corporate compliance and cybersecurity managers to gain a complete view of their network security and to immediately determine if its configuration is in alignment with best practices and regulatory standards Network Perception was launched in 2014 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Park.

TrackStreet

Seed Round in 2020
TrackStreet, Inc. is a software company that specializes in price monitoring and brand protection solutions for online retailers. Founded in 2015 and based in Las Vegas, Nevada, TrackStreet offers a Software-as-a-Service platform designed to help brands safeguard their pricing policies and enhance their multi-channel revenue. The platform utilizes advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence and automation, to identify and address violations of branding guidelines across the internet. Its comprehensive suite of services includes market visibility, compliance monitoring, brand protection, and analytics for e-commerce platforms, thereby providing clients with actionable insights to strengthen customer relationships and drive sales. TrackStreet positions itself as a strategic partner to brands, enabling them to maintain control over their online presence and optimize their business performance.

Seated

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Operator of a frictionless ticketing platform intended to help users better experience live events and live streams. The company's platform leverages technology to help users get early access to artists' live events and live streams based on their preferences and location, thereby enabling customers to get first access to their favorite artists' live streams and shows.

GovPredict

Seed Round in 2020
GovPredict provides research, analytics, and intelligence for winning public affairs campaigns. Telegraph named GovPredict #1 in Congressional tech in 2018. The SaaS platform gives public affairs and political professionals access to millions of structured documents that concern federal politics, state politics, and local politics, as well as campaign contributions. An integrated grassroots platform supports advocacy campaigns to influence legislative and regulatory proposals. Existing solutions are bulky. Trying to tie together independent fly-in apps, data solutions and CRM is time consuming. We’ve brought all of the most important solutions together into a single platform for public affairs campaigns, so you can focus all of your time on what matters.

Privva

Venture Round in 2019
Privva, Inc. is a cloud-based vendor risk assessment platform that supports a wide range of industries, including legal, financial services, technology, healthcare, education, and media. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, with an additional office in Arlington, Virginia, Privva offers solutions that streamline the vendor assessment process. Its AutoAssess solution leverages machine learning to automate responses to client security assessments, significantly reducing the time required for law firms and other organizations to complete these evaluations. The platform centralizes security questionnaires, risk ratings, and scoring of responses for third-party vendors, promoting efficient data security and privacy management. By using Privva's workflow and templates, organizations can reduce the time taken to assess vendors by up to 75%, while automating annual recertifications further enhances operational efficiency. The user-friendly interface and adaptable features of Privva's platform allow for a tailored risk assessment approach, addressing the contextual nature of risk management.

CitusHealth

Seed Round in 2019
Citus Health Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing technology-driven solutions for post-acute care providers, particularly in the home infusion sector. Incorporated in 2016, the company offers a platform called Call Bell, which facilitates workflow automation through features such as HIPAA-compliant messaging, electronic signatures, supply capture, scheduling, and patient education. Citus Health aims to enhance the patient experience while reducing administrative burdens for home infusion providers. The company combines the expertise of professionals with backgrounds in home infusion nursing and medical technology, creating advanced digital solutions that leverage mobile, chat, and machine learning technologies. By focusing on automating infusion services, Citus Health strives to lower per-patient costs, improve patient satisfaction, and enhance overall customer service within the healthcare industry.

Konduit.me

Seed Round in 2019
Konduit.me helps publishers, networks and exchanges start more video ads and start them faster.

MajorClarity

Seed Round in 2019
MajorClarity, Inc. operates an online platform focused on career exploration and academic planning for students at various educational stages. Founded in 2014 and based in Richmond, Virginia, the platform provides unique activity and video content that enables students to explore potential careers in a pressure-free environment. It offers customizable academic plans to help students stay on track through secondary and post-secondary education. Additionally, MajorClarity supports counselors by providing tools to better track and advise students, facilitating a cohesive approach to teaching, counseling, and career readiness. By allowing students to test-drive different majors, MajorClarity aims to enhance the alignment between their interests and educational paths.

Cove

Venture Round in 2019
Cove is a network of co-working spaces that enables individuals to book conference rooms and desks in neighborhood productive spaces. It aims to make life more local and productive. It is done by creating technology and neighborhood workspaces designed for interaction, productivity, and accomplishment. Cove was founded in 2013 and is based in Washington, United States.

Ethix360

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ETHIX360 provides next-generation Compliance as a Service (CaaS) solutions that can be configured to seamlessly facilitate identifying, managing, investigating and resolving issues within any business. Our enterprise class solution, CaseTrac™, helps minimize the negative impact on an organization’s reputation, and the creation of financial liabilities or other harmful consequences. Reporting of concerns and workplace investigations are enabled via a variety of technologies that can be deployed to support the multi-lingual input of a globally diverse constituent base. CaseTrac™’s unique resolution management solution can be configured to promote adherence to a company’s policies and procedures for any program such as Employee Code of Conduct, Supply Chain Code of Conduct, Safety, Asset Protection, HR employee relations, FCPA compliance and more. This can include everything from workplace sexual harassment and bullying at work to Medicare fraud waste and abuse. Powerful workflow engines and a notification matrix couple with system-wide security and data privacy rules to automate the resolution of concern in accordance with the company’s standards. Through real-time dashboards and data analysis, ETHIX360 provides users and executive management with enterprise-wide visibility of issues enabling effective responses and proactive, continuous improvement. ETHIX360’s innovative solution has been designed and developed by experts in the fields of ethics, law, mediation, arbitration, human resources, labor, government services and web based applications. ETHIX360’s best practices for mitigating and managing risk can be configured to accommodate each client’s preferred organizational processes and procedures. ETHIX360 clients include global leaders in insurance, global package delivery, retail, technology, healthcare mining, energy, schools and many other industries. These clients have deployed a variety of programs targeted to just a few employees or over 500,000 employees and contractors. Collectively, these clients support operations in virtually every country in the world. Our mission is to continue to develop and deploy innovative technologies that help companies of all types understand their corporate risks through communications with their constituents, manage to resolution those reported concerns in a consistent manner that is compliant with the corporation’s policies and procedures and provide the related reporting and information analysis that addresses both the tactical and strategic needs of the business.

LaneHub

Seed Round in 2018
The social network for transportation - connecting you with the right companies to find complementary freight lanes and build long-term partnerships. Lanehub automatically identifies and connects companies with complementary freight lanes to find efficiencies and save on shipping expenses. ​
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