Lamp Post Group

Lamp Post Group is a venture capital firm based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, founded in 2010. It specializes in incubation, seed, and early stage investments, focusing primarily on the trucking, transportation, logistics, and supply chain sectors. The firm seeks to support businesses that aim to introduce innovative technologies for freight movements and storage. Lamp Post Group often invests in graduates of the Dynamo accelerator program, providing both financial investment and business guidance to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality. By combining the agility of a venture incubator with the financial resources of a venture capital firm, Lamp Post Group fosters rapid and independent growth for emerging companies.

Ted Alling

Partner and Co-Founder

Allan Davis

Co-Founder and Partner

Weston Wamp

Co-Founding Director

Miller Wellborn

Partner

13 past transactions

6AM City

Debt Financing in 2018
6AM City is focused on building a scalable network of hyper-local media properties centered around a daily newsletter product. It engages local communities by providing a platform that aggregates, curates, and delivers essential local news, events, and discussions. Through a conversational tone and an editorial filter, 6AM City fosters community participation and encourages sharing of local content. The company's approach aims to create a space for meaningful conversations, enhancing audience engagement and activating residents in their home cities. By utilizing email and social media channels, 6AM City delivers relevant information that helps residents stay informed and connected to their local environments.

The House

Pre Seed Round in 2017
The House, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a dining application called "Eat on The House." This app provides users with information about events, happy hours, and special offers at local restaurants, breweries, and bars. The service primarily operates in cities such as Chattanooga, Knoxville, Birmingham, and Huntsville, as well as Atlanta and Nashville. Founded in 2016 and based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, The House aims to enhance the dining experience by helping users discover live music, drink deals, and food specials in their area.

Torch

Angel Round in 2014
Torch, Inc. manufactures Wi-Fi routers for parents to check their kids’ browsing data on the Internet. Its Wi-Fi router provides pause button for the Internet for things, such as dinner time or breaks; offers content customization, Web history, and data usage solutions; and lets users and their kids to see how much time they have spent on Internet. The company is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

PriceWaiter

Seed Round in 2014
PriceWaiter's helps sellers sell more, and buyers buy more, by making negotiation fast, simple, and private anywhere on the web. With the rise of real-time comparison shopping and virtual showrooming, PriceWaiter helps boost shopper conversion for the seller who originally attracted them, leaving both buyer and seller with more control, more time, and more money. PriceWaiter is backed by a syndicate of leaders in e-commerce, conversion, analytics, sales, and high-growth ventures.

ReadyCart

Seed Round in 2014
ReadyCart, Inc. is a platform that facilitates the creation of customized online stores, known as ReadyCarts, which can be linked or embedded in various content. This service allows users to sell a diverse range of products, including those in the crafts, beauty, home, electronics, and food categories, directly to visitors of their blogs or websites. By enabling creators to enhance their fan engagement, assisting agencies in providing additional services, and offering commerce platforms a tool for product promotion, ReadyCart generates incremental revenue opportunities for its clients. The company serves a wide array of clients both in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2014 and based in the United States, ReadyCart operates as a subsidiary of Grapevine Logic, Inc.

Ambition

Seed Round in 2014
Ambition Solutions, LLC is a software company based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, established in 2013. It provides an agile sales management platform designed to enhance performance for remote and in-office teams. The platform allows organizations to categorize employees by functional roles and set benchmarks to generate the Ambition Score, a metric that reflects overall performance. Ambition promotes transparency by enabling real-time monitoring of performance and momentum, which helps sales leaders coach their teams more effectively while reducing management burdens. The company's focus on positive accountability and team inspiration aims to create a goal-oriented environment that fosters economic opportunity and flexibility, thereby optimizing remote work success.

PandoDaily

Series A in 2014
PandoDaily is an online news platform that focuses on the technology startup ecosystem. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, it offers a variety of content, including published articles, monthly events, live video streams, and a video archive. PandoDaily also features PandoTicker, a service that delivers daily news updates related to startups. The platform aims to provide insights and information relevant to entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone interested in the dynamics of the startup world.

Bellhop

Seed Round in 2014
Bellhops, Inc. is a rapidly growing moving services company based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, founded in 2013. It specializes in providing loading and unloading services for trucks, trailers, storage units, and mobile storage containers, as well as heavy lifting services. Bellhops connects college students with individuals and businesses in need of moving assistance through its user-friendly online platform and mobile application. The company caters to small and medium-scale moves and operates in 55 cities across the United States, with plans for further expansion. By leveraging technology, Bellhops aims to enhance customer experiences and offer competitive pricing compared to traditional moving services in the $18 billion industry.

Bellhop

Seed Round in 2012
Bellhops, Inc. is a rapidly growing moving services company based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, founded in 2013. It specializes in providing loading and unloading services for trucks, trailers, storage units, and mobile storage containers, as well as heavy lifting services. Bellhops connects college students with individuals and businesses in need of moving assistance through its user-friendly online platform and mobile application. The company caters to small and medium-scale moves and operates in 55 cities across the United States, with plans for further expansion. By leveraging technology, Bellhops aims to enhance customer experiences and offer competitive pricing compared to traditional moving services in the $18 billion industry.

SupplyHog

Seed Round in 2012
SupplyHog Inc. operates an online marketplace that sells hardware and building supplies. The company connects vendors and manufacturers with customers by offering quotes, products, and requests. It caters to construction industry. The company was formerly known as Nopone, Inc. and changed its name to SupplyHog Inc. in November 2011. SupplyHog Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. As of December 31, 2017, SupplyHog Inc. operates as a subsidiary of American Supply Holdings.

retickr

Series A in 2012
The focus of retickr is personalizing news. The company was founded in 2011 to create an innovative & easy way to find, deliver, & share the news updates, posts, & stories you care about the most. The retickr team released their 2.0 "ticker" product in late February '12 to a warm reception from 1.0 & beta users. In 2012, the company is concentrating on innovating news personalization. The mission of retickr is Less Noise, More News.

retickr

Seed Round in 2011
The focus of retickr is personalizing news. The company was founded in 2011 to create an innovative & easy way to find, deliver, & share the news updates, posts, & stories you care about the most. The retickr team released their 2.0 "ticker" product in late February '12 to a warm reception from 1.0 & beta users. In 2012, the company is concentrating on innovating news personalization. The mission of retickr is Less Noise, More News.

Nooga.com

Seed Round in 2011
Nooga Media LLC operates Nooga.com, a local news website that focuses on delivering news related to business, government, lifestyle, entertainment, opinion, and outdoor activities in the Chattanooga area. Founded in 2011 and based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the platform serves as a resource for residents seeking information about their community. Nooga.com categorizes its content to help users easily navigate and find relevant articles, thereby fostering an informed local audience.
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