Lightbank

Lightbank VC is a $700M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage vertically focused AI, consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social (NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Extend, Attain, Paytient and Expel.

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Felux

Series A in 2022
Felux is a B2B marketplace and supply chain platform that serves the mining industry. The company offers a range of services including procurement solutions, supply chain management, and a platform for buying and selling industrial products.

Showrunner

Seed Round in 2022
Showrunner provides technology to power the future of film &TV production.

GamerGains Lab

Seed Round in 2022
GamerGains Labs is the first-ever token and cryptocurrency-based play and earn platform serving traditional gamers – a community of hundreds of millions of people around the world that enjoy playing on PCs and consoles such as Xbox and PlayStation. Offering an easy-to-use interface, the innovative platform will allow members to earn crypto with confidence through an automated contest lifecycle, which is impartial, transparent, and features instant payout settlement.

Justpoint

Seed Round in 2022
Justpoint is the artificial intelligence-powered platform connecting people with the right litigation attorney and tools. Using predictive analytics rather than billboards, Justpoint brings transparency, simplicity, and credibility to the process of finding litigators in the personal injury space. For attorneys, Justpoint takes on back-office tasks while creating efficiencies in the discovery process so they can quickly understand a claim's merit and obtain the best results. With over 1000 law firms, more than 300,000 historical claims, and operations in 33 states, Justpoint’s team of attorneys, engineers, and doctors are dedicated to increasing access to justice. For more information visit https://justpoint.com.

Leap

Series B in 2022
Leap enables brands to deploy modern, immersive retail stores that drive growth and acquire customers. By leveraging millions of data points and a platform strategy, Leap makes physical retail more productive and less risky for brands. Its platform also follows a technology-enabled approach and includes all aspects of store development and operations, including physical space, staffing, and managing all technology infrastructure that helps consumer brands to grow and deepen their customer brand experience. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

CarbonCapture

Series A in 2021
CarbonCapture is a climate tech company that develops direct air capture (DAC) machines to remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere. The company works to reverse climate change by making machines that leverage innovative molecular sieves, low-cost renewable energy, and tunable purpose-built systems to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at scale cost-effectively.

Felux

Seed Round in 2021
Felux is a B2B marketplace and supply chain platform that serves the mining industry. The company offers a range of services including procurement solutions, supply chain management, and a platform for buying and selling industrial products.

Attain

Series A in 2021
Attain, founded by a team of data and ad tech veterans, provides access to millions of consumers' consented purchase data marketers can use to precisely target audiences, gather insights and measure performance.

Hello Divorce

Seed Round in 2021
Hello Divorce is an online platform that offers services and self-service tools to complete divorce processes in 1/3 the time and at 1/10 the typical cost. It fixes the broken and expensive divorce process with a combination of software and accessible, affordable legal and financial services. Hello Divorce helps clients get through their divorce quickly and affordably, with less confusion and stress.

Neatleaf

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Sustainable agriculture with optimal yields through data-driven understanding and comprehensive automation for everyone.

Mickey

Venture Round in 2021
Mickey is a commoditech platform that takes American export online, enabling customers from all around the world to acquire natural resources directly from independent providers without the need of middlemen or commissions. Mickey is headquartered in New York, United States and was founded in 2019.

Freede Solutions

Funding Round in 2021
Freede develops strategies intended to help people reduce and eliminate their debt. The company offers a wide array of debt repayment, reduction, and elimination services to its clients. It was established in Marble Falls, Texas in 2019.

Attain

Funding Round in 2020
Attain, founded by a team of data and ad tech veterans, provides access to millions of consumers' consented purchase data marketers can use to precisely target audiences, gather insights and measure performance.

A.M. Money

Seed Round in 2020
A.M. Money provides no co-signer low-cost, and flexible college financing to help students finance their college education. They know that money is the predominant reason why someone will or will not graduate from college. They have experienced this first hand, and created the student loan product that they wished was available when they were going through college.

CancerIQ

Series A in 2020
CancerIQ provides a precision prevention platform that empowers healthcare providers to engage patients, stratify risk and ensure adherence with the latest evidence-based strategies to get ahead of cancer. It offers a robust content library of evidence-based guidelines and risk models to help providers interpret data and navigate patients to the appropriate genetic testing, screening, or treatment interventions.

Mickey

Seed Round in 2020
Mickey is a commoditech platform that takes American export online, enabling customers from all around the world to acquire natural resources directly from independent providers without the need of middlemen or commissions. Mickey is headquartered in New York, United States and was founded in 2019.

Leap

Venture Round in 2020
Leap enables brands to deploy modern, immersive retail stores that drive growth and acquire customers. By leveraging millions of data points and a platform strategy, Leap makes physical retail more productive and less risky for brands. Its platform also follows a technology-enabled approach and includes all aspects of store development and operations, including physical space, staffing, and managing all technology infrastructure that helps consumer brands to grow and deepen their customer brand experience. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Mickey

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Mickey is a commoditech platform that takes American export online, enabling customers from all around the world to acquire natural resources directly from independent providers without the need of middlemen or commissions. Mickey is headquartered in New York, United States and was founded in 2019.

Extend

Series A in 2019
Extend is an API first company that allows any merchant to offer extended warranties and protection plans, both online and offline, while also providing the merchant's end customers with a vastly improved and modern support experience that eliminates many of the issues customers face today with legacy underwriters. Their intelligent decision engine uses machine learning to optimize warranty offers in real-time, thereby improving warranty and cart conversions and generating the most revenue for the merchant. Extend platform is integrated into leading eCommerce solutions including Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, BigCommerce, and others so that they can be up and running quickly, with no technical requirements. They also provide custom API integrations for larger merchants who have their own eCommerce platform. It stores all the details of an individual's product purchase and warranty plan for them, while also assisting throughout the claim process to create a seamless experience from start to finish. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Remote Year

Series B in 2019
Remote Year offers users to travel the world with 75 interesting people while working remotely. It allows users to spend a year working, travelling, and exploring 12 cities around the world. The 75 people will spend one month in each location, the community will connect with local cultures and business ecosystems, forming lifelong, borderless personal, and professional relationships along the way. Remote Year also provides professional workshops, guest speakers, and networking events in each city with personal development and local service activities within a collaborative community. It was founded on 2014 and is based in Highland Park, Illinois.

A.M. Money

Pre Seed Round in 2019
A.M. Money provides no co-signer low-cost, and flexible college financing to help students finance their college education. They know that money is the predominant reason why someone will or will not graduate from college. They have experienced this first hand, and created the student loan product that they wished was available when they were going through college.

Blueprint

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Blueprint is an AI-powered assistant for therapists. Blueprint automates progress notes, drafts smart treatment plans, and surfaces actionable insights before, during, and after every client session. The company's mission is to build AI-assisted products to enable therapist-powered care.

Clearcover

Series B in 2019
Clearcover is a digital car insurance provider offering better coverage for less money. The company's API-first approach enables customers to have great insurance at affordable rates. Founded in 2016, Clearcover is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Clearcover was recently named a Glassdoor 2021 Best Place to Work and was named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces of 2020.

Upfort

Seed Round in 2018
Upfort is a cyber security and insurance platform that offers comprehensive protection to SMEs against evolving cyber threats. It allows organizations to fully address their cyber security needs–from risk management tools to insurance policies–through one easy-to-use platform. Its software provides phishing simulation, public Wi-Fi protection, inbox protection, password management, and cyber liability insurance.

SpotHero

Series C in 2018
SpotHero is the leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America.

Expel

Series B in 2018
Expel is a security operations provider that offers managed detection and response (MDR), remediation, phishing support, and threat hunting. Expel’s technology and people work together — each doing what they do best — to detect, understand, and fix issues fast. The collaborative experience in the Expel Workbench™ platform enables customers to choose how they run their security operations — whether that’s following along with live investigations, or receiving alerts at every step from when an investigation starts until it’s done. This unmatched transparency means customers always know what’s happening in their investigations into incidents like business email compromise (BEC), business application compromise (BAC), phishing, ransomware, cryptojacking, and supply chain attacks, to name a few. This allows security operations center (SOC) teams to dedicate their time to strategic security priorities rather than sifting through alerts.

Level

Seed Round in 2017
Level is a neobank and mobile banking app that provides next-level banking for modern consumers consisting of an app, a cashback debit card called Level Debit Card, and an interest-bearing deposit account called Level Bank Account, offered through Evolve Bank & Trust, Member FDIC. The level is a product of Zero Financial.

Clearcover

Series A in 2017
Clearcover is a digital car insurance provider offering better coverage for less money. The company's API-first approach enables customers to have great insurance at affordable rates. Founded in 2016, Clearcover is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Clearcover was recently named a Glassdoor 2021 Best Place to Work and was named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces of 2020.

Super.com

Series A in 2017
We believe the commerce should be as simple as chatting with a friend. We have built an engine that drives commerce over messaging. As our first implementation of this engine - we have chosen hotels. SnapTravel empowers customers to find and book hotel rooms over a conversational interface (SMS, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Alexa...). We use NLP and ML technology backed by humans to recommend hotels and deliver a delightful experience. We have driven over $100MM+ in sales exclusively over messaging. We have raised $20MM+ USD from tier-1 investors including iNovia, Telstra Ventures, Peter Kern (Chairman of the Board at Expedia) and NBA Superstar Steph Curry.

Print Syndicate

Series B in 2017
Print Syndicate is an apparel and home goods company that offers its consumers access to timely, curated, and well-designed products that allow them to express who they are. The company's design team interprets and converts social trends into digital designs, which are then printed on objects including apparel, phone cases, and housewares. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Ovia Health

Venture Round in 2016
Ovia Health offers a comprehensive maternity and family benefits solution that transforms the way women and families are supported throughout the parenthood journey. The company is formerly known as Ovuline is making healthcare a lifestyle. Its mobile apps, Ovia Fertility and Ovia Pregnancy, have helped millions of women start their families and live healthier lives.

Catalytic

Series A in 2016
Catalytic is the easiest path to break through corporate inertia. Many companies’ employees are overworked and their skills are under-utilized, resulting in an unrewarding employee experience and a costly missed opportunity for the business. Catalytic’s cloud-based, AI-powered automation platform bridges the gap between people, data and existing technologies, providing configurable automated actions that replace routine office work, like gathering data and creating documents. Business users can create their own process-driven solutions, which can be scaled throughout their business, leading to unprecedented efficiency and competitive edge. Clients like Bosch, Dentsu Aegis Network and UL have used Catalytic to better execute on their companies’ core purpose and mission, deliver high-quality customer experiences, and realize greater profitability.

Level

Seed Round in 2016
Level is a neobank and mobile banking app that provides next-level banking for modern consumers consisting of an app, a cashback debit card called Level Debit Card, and an interest-bearing deposit account called Level Bank Account, offered through Evolve Bank & Trust, Member FDIC. The level is a product of Zero Financial.

Expel

Series A in 2016
Expel is a security operations provider that offers managed detection and response (MDR), remediation, phishing support, and threat hunting. Expel’s technology and people work together — each doing what they do best — to detect, understand, and fix issues fast. The collaborative experience in the Expel Workbench™ platform enables customers to choose how they run their security operations — whether that’s following along with live investigations, or receiving alerts at every step from when an investigation starts until it’s done. This unmatched transparency means customers always know what’s happening in their investigations into incidents like business email compromise (BEC), business application compromise (BAC), phishing, ransomware, cryptojacking, and supply chain attacks, to name a few. This allows security operations center (SOC) teams to dedicate their time to strategic security priorities rather than sifting through alerts.

RiskMatch

Seed Round in 2016
RiskMatch focuses on the development of web solutions that enable insurance intermediaries and underwriting partners to manage their portfolios and information, and obtain analytics. RiskMatch offers an insurance platform that assists brokerages and agencies to organize and manage their business processes, benchmark rates, and collect, store, and share information. The company provides their customers with training and support about their RiskMatch platform. RiskMatch was founded in 2013 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Vettery

Series A in 2016
Vettery is fundamentally changing the way people hire and get hired. Vettery matches highly qualified candidates with over 4,000 top companies through its automated, data-driven marketplace. By connecting people directly to hiring managers, Vettery offers employers the best way to cost-effectively scale a team with quality hires. Vettery develops machine learning models that track real-time data, monitor trends and predict hiring behavior in order to effectively place candidates with more accuracy, speed and compatibility.

Super.com

Seed Round in 2016
We believe the commerce should be as simple as chatting with a friend. We have built an engine that drives commerce over messaging. As our first implementation of this engine - we have chosen hotels. SnapTravel empowers customers to find and book hotel rooms over a conversational interface (SMS, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Alexa...). We use NLP and ML technology backed by humans to recommend hotels and deliver a delightful experience. We have driven over $100MM+ in sales exclusively over messaging. We have raised $20MM+ USD from tier-1 investors including iNovia, Telstra Ventures, Peter Kern (Chairman of the Board at Expedia) and NBA Superstar Steph Curry.

ARTA

Seed Round in 2016
ARTA is a logistics software and fulfillment service. Their API automates shipping and fulfillment for value and collectible objects. Their resources focused on post-sale fulfillment for online and offline sellers. They specialize in logistical services for art, design, furniture, antiques, jewelry, watches, and collectibles.

DRIVIN

Series A in 2016
DRIVIN is disrupting the used-car industry by providing dealers with a premier service that sources, acquires, delivers and markets the right used vehicles for their lot. Powered by data, our team has access to over 2M quality used-car VINs nationwide. We use data and technology to find the vehicles that meet our dealer partners' quality standards, present them and purchase on their behalf, handling paperwork, titling and transport. Additionally, we can market our dealer partners' aged inventory to our network of over 23,000 dealers nationwide. As a result, we have the ability to help our dealer partners increase profitability per vehicle, decrease resources spent and improve overall lot performance.

Ionic

Series A in 2016
Ionic is the leader in enterprise app development, powering 15% of all apps in the app store and thousands of critical enterprise apps. Ionic enables teams to build high quality mobile, desktop, and web apps using standard web technologies and a single code base. The Ionic platform features an open source mobile UI toolkit for building cross-platform apps across iOS, Android, and the web, as well as cloud-based app delivery services to help teams build, publish, and update their apps over time. Ionic’s enterprise platform also includes pre-built solutions for common mobile features such as authentication, biometrics, storage, payments and more, along with premium support and consulting services to help teams tackle every phase of app development and delivery. Ionic is also known as the maker of other popular open source tools, including Capacitor, a cross-platform native runtime that powers the Ionic app experience, and Stencil, a Web Component compiler used to create custom component libraries and design systems at large enterprises like Apple, Amazon, Volkswagen, and more. Ionic works with thousands of enterprise teams and a developer community of millions to provide one of the most productive and enterprise-friendly app platforms in the world.

Boom Supersonic

Seed Round in 2016
Boom Supersonic is a commercial airplane manufacturer that builds 65- to 88-seat supersonic airliners. Boom Technology is making supersonic passenger travel into reality by making a supersonic airliner. Boom was founded on the philosophy that they need to overcome the challenges to supersonic passenger flight, not surrender to them. They're making supersonic aircraft affordable for business travel. Their ultimate goal is a routine supersonic flight for everyone. Boom Supersonic is redefining what it means to fly in a commercial aircraft by building Overture, its Mach-2.2.

HighGround

Series A in 2016
HighGround offers the first HR cloud platform designed for the employee to help companies build highly engaged and performing cultures. By using HighGround, employees are empowered to recognize peers daily and contribute to their own career path, and companies can more effectively capture the voice of the employee and turn annual performance reviews into meaningful, ongoing coaching sessions. With an inspired workforce able to reach its full potential and visibility into organizational health, HighGround customers, such as Cision, Patagonia, Echo Global Logistics, and Allianz can increase employee retention, productivity, customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive bottom-line results.

Catalytic

Seed Round in 2016
Catalytic is the easiest path to break through corporate inertia. Many companies’ employees are overworked and their skills are under-utilized, resulting in an unrewarding employee experience and a costly missed opportunity for the business. Catalytic’s cloud-based, AI-powered automation platform bridges the gap between people, data and existing technologies, providing configurable automated actions that replace routine office work, like gathering data and creating documents. Business users can create their own process-driven solutions, which can be scaled throughout their business, leading to unprecedented efficiency and competitive edge. Clients like Bosch, Dentsu Aegis Network and UL have used Catalytic to better execute on their companies’ core purpose and mission, deliver high-quality customer experiences, and realize greater profitability.

Fooda

Series B in 2016
Fooda is a provider of office lunch services used to offer workplace food programs that employees love and look forward to every day. Its services allow restaurants to partner with companies and office buildings to provide unique restaurant-based meal services and top-rated restaurants who visit and serve in the office lobby or company breakroom ad enable employees to find delicious, authentic restaurants and enjoy them at work

Vettery

Seed Round in 2015
Vettery is fundamentally changing the way people hire and get hired. Vettery matches highly qualified candidates with over 4,000 top companies through its automated, data-driven marketplace. By connecting people directly to hiring managers, Vettery offers employers the best way to cost-effectively scale a team with quality hires. Vettery develops machine learning models that track real-time data, monitor trends and predict hiring behavior in order to effectively place candidates with more accuracy, speed and compatibility.

Uptake

Series B in 2015
Uptake Technologies develops a predictive analytics platform. Its platform analyzes data to predict and prevent failures, uncover hidden profits, and discover new opportunities in healthcare, insurance, locomotives, construction, manufacturing, and other industries that offer a platform for equipment monitoring, diagnostic troubleshooting, event and condition prediction, and task management to improve uptime, streamline operations, and spot growth opportunities.

Neumob

Series A in 2015
Neumob was acquired by Cloudflare November 2017. Neumob is the leader in reducing mobile app errors, speeding up app performance and boosting conversions, everywhere in the world. The Neumob SDK slashes app errors and timeouts by up to 90%, while dramatically speeding up mobile app load times and reliability. The company’s innovative infrastructure and global presence combine to help app owners keep their hard-won users and drive maximum revenues, whether an app’s users are hyper-local in one city or located around the world. App owners simply install a 2-line SDK into their app, and instantly gain access to Neumob’s world-class, global app acceleration network. For businesses that need to deliver mobile apps to their users faster, more reliably and more securely to any targeted mobile audience, on any network, Neumob is the answer. Neumob is backed by top-tier investors, supporters and partners including Accel Partners, ENIAC Ventures, Enspire Capital, Lightbank, Menlo Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, PradoSV, Shasta Ventures, SVFrontier and Triple Point Capital.

Frank & Oak

Series C in 2015
Frank & Oak is a vertically integrated online menswear brand with premium threads and a simple, integrated, and personalized shopping experience. Every month, Frank & Oak offers members a limited feed of premium clothing and accessories. Our curators act as a lifestyle partner, offering style advice, personalized product suggestions, and an easy-to-use shopping platform. Since launching in February 2012, the brand has seen tremendous growth, momentum, and media coverage for both its garments and its unique membership experience.

Ovia Health

Venture Round in 2015
Ovia Health offers a comprehensive maternity and family benefits solution that transforms the way women and families are supported throughout the parenthood journey. The company is formerly known as Ovuline is making healthcare a lifestyle. Its mobile apps, Ovia Fertility and Ovia Pregnancy, have helped millions of women start their families and live healthier lives.

Neumob

Seed Round in 2015
Neumob was acquired by Cloudflare November 2017. Neumob is the leader in reducing mobile app errors, speeding up app performance and boosting conversions, everywhere in the world. The Neumob SDK slashes app errors and timeouts by up to 90%, while dramatically speeding up mobile app load times and reliability. The company’s innovative infrastructure and global presence combine to help app owners keep their hard-won users and drive maximum revenues, whether an app’s users are hyper-local in one city or located around the world. App owners simply install a 2-line SDK into their app, and instantly gain access to Neumob’s world-class, global app acceleration network. For businesses that need to deliver mobile apps to their users faster, more reliably and more securely to any targeted mobile audience, on any network, Neumob is the answer. Neumob is backed by top-tier investors, supporters and partners including Accel Partners, ENIAC Ventures, Enspire Capital, Lightbank, Menlo Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, PradoSV, Shasta Ventures, SVFrontier and Triple Point Capital.

Classkick

Seed Round in 2015
Classkick is the place where students do work, and get help from teachers and classmates. Teachers create assignments on Classkick, check for individual student understanding, and give instant, personalized help. Students can raise their hand privately and give peer-to-peer feedback. The technology is hyper-focused on increasing student learning and helping teachers be even more effective.

Ionic

Venture Round in 2015
Ionic is the leader in enterprise app development, powering 15% of all apps in the app store and thousands of critical enterprise apps. Ionic enables teams to build high quality mobile, desktop, and web apps using standard web technologies and a single code base. The Ionic platform features an open source mobile UI toolkit for building cross-platform apps across iOS, Android, and the web, as well as cloud-based app delivery services to help teams build, publish, and update their apps over time. Ionic’s enterprise platform also includes pre-built solutions for common mobile features such as authentication, biometrics, storage, payments and more, along with premium support and consulting services to help teams tackle every phase of app development and delivery. Ionic is also known as the maker of other popular open source tools, including Capacitor, a cross-platform native runtime that powers the Ionic app experience, and Stencil, a Web Component compiler used to create custom component libraries and design systems at large enterprises like Apple, Amazon, Volkswagen, and more. Ionic works with thousands of enterprise teams and a developer community of millions to provide one of the most productive and enterprise-friendly app platforms in the world.

Navdy

Series A in 2015
The creator of the world’s first device for your car to let you Look Forward© while Staying Connected©, Navdy’s mission is to reinvent the driving experience. At Navdy, we set out to solve a complex problem with a beautifully simple solution. To create the type of product you get and immediately forget how you ever lived without it. We believe you should be able to do all the things you do everyday simply and easily from the driver’s seat. So we set out to make driving something you Look Forward© to again. Navdy is more than a piece of hardware and more than an app—it’s an experience, and one we hope you enjoy every time you get behind the wheel. To learn more, visit www.navdy.com.

Detective

Seed Round in 2014
Detective is a digital adoption platform that helps eliminate constant, repetitive questions, cut training and onboarding time, and increase overall adoption of the company's critical software. Trusted by thousands of users, Detective is the most effective way to enable the teams with the support and answers they need, where they need it when they need it.

Ovia Health

Venture Round in 2014
Ovia Health offers a comprehensive maternity and family benefits solution that transforms the way women and families are supported throughout the parenthood journey. The company is formerly known as Ovuline is making healthcare a lifestyle. Its mobile apps, Ovia Fertility and Ovia Pregnancy, have helped millions of women start their families and live healthier lives.

Navdy

Seed Round in 2014
The creator of the world’s first device for your car to let you Look Forward© while Staying Connected©, Navdy’s mission is to reinvent the driving experience. At Navdy, we set out to solve a complex problem with a beautifully simple solution. To create the type of product you get and immediately forget how you ever lived without it. We believe you should be able to do all the things you do everyday simply and easily from the driver’s seat. So we set out to make driving something you Look Forward© to again. Navdy is more than a piece of hardware and more than an app—it’s an experience, and one we hope you enjoy every time you get behind the wheel. To learn more, visit www.navdy.com.

Flywheel

Seed Round in 2014
Flywheel is a company focused on enhancing the experience of web designers and developers who work with WordPress. Founded in 2012 and based in Colorado Springs, Flywheel offers a range of products, including a user-friendly WordPress hosting platform and Local by Flywheel, a local development application designed for effortless management of WordPress sites. The company aims to provide sleek, efficient tools that facilitate the building, launching, and management of WordPress projects for users ranging from small agencies to larger clients. Flywheel has successfully supported over 100,000 users in scaling their businesses on the WordPress platform, reflecting its commitment to improving the lives of creatives in the digital space.

Frank & Oak

Series B in 2014
Frank & Oak is a vertically integrated online menswear brand with premium threads and a simple, integrated, and personalized shopping experience. Every month, Frank & Oak offers members a limited feed of premium clothing and accessories. Our curators act as a lifestyle partner, offering style advice, personalized product suggestions, and an easy-to-use shopping platform. Since launching in February 2012, the brand has seen tremendous growth, momentum, and media coverage for both its garments and its unique membership experience.

VentureBeat

Venture Round in 2014
VentureBeat, Inc. is an online technology news platform founded in 2006 and based in San Francisco, California. It focuses on providing news, analysis, and insights related to a wide array of technology trends, including social media, mobile applications, health technology, cloud computing, and gaming. The platform's content is designed to assist executives, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts in making informed decisions. In addition to its extensive news coverage, VentureBeat hosts events, webinars, and marketing opportunities that facilitate discussions on innovative products and ideas. Through its engaging platform, the company connects advertisers with a targeted audience of tech professionals and business enthusiasts, enhancing their reach in the technology sector.

ClusterFlunk

Venture Round in 2014
ClusterFlunk is simply a tool that allows students to talk to the other students that are specifically in their classes. By talking they can instant message, upload/download files (study guides, lecture notes, past exams, etc), and post on their class walls.

Sprout Social

Series B in 2014
Sprout Social is built on the idea that the world is better when businesses and customers communicate freely. They exist to help streamline and enhance those conversations—with customers, prospects and enthusiasts. Their platform is packed with handy features but stays out of the way to let brands easily engage with people and build lasting relationships.

SpotHero

Series A in 2014
SpotHero is the leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America.

Quibb

Seed Round in 2014
Quibb lets you share what you're reading for work. Post newsworthy articles, see what colleagues are reading, and discuss the day's industry news.

PerBlue

Venture Round in 2014
PerBlue is an independent mobile games studio based in Madison, Wisconsin. PerBlue makes a free-to-play midcore RPG and strategy games played by millions of people around the world. From the company's bootstrapping roots that began in the founder's college apartments in 2008, the company has grown to become a venture-backed mobile gaming studio with a talented team of 40+ employees. Fueled with the passion to build great products and entertain millions of people, PerBlue endeavors to change the world with fun and innovative mobile game play.

TakeLessons

Series C in 2014
TakeLessons is the trusted marketplace for finding online and local instructors and taking online classes across a wide array of subjects ranging foreign languages, math and photography to music, dance and acting. Instructors rely on TakeLessons to simplify marketing and manage their business with integrated scheduling, billing, payment, and communication tools that work seamlessly across desktop and mobile devices.

Tapiture

Seed Round in 2014
Tapiture is a social platform that helps you discover, share and buy an endless assortment of cool stuff. Tapiture sorts through the internet and helps you find all the content you'll really like. You can browse through videos, photos, GIFs, articles and more from all over the web, and it'll quickly learn what you're all about. You can dive deep into specific interests, organize your favorites into collections, or share with your friends. Whether you use the mobile app for iPhone or Android or visit the website, Tapiture will always have an endless feed of stuff you'll like. Just try it out—you'll see!

Hireology

Series A in 2014
Hireology is a staffing and hiring platform for the franchise and retail-automotive industries. It was founded on a simple but powerful concept which is by analyzing the behaviors of top-performing employees, organizations can create highly accurate systems for identifying the best candidate for the job. Through its Selection Manager platform, Hireology helps decentralized organizations across all industries transform their talent acquisition, leading to better hiring decisions, lower turnover, and increased productivity and profitability at each location. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago.

Contently

Series B in 2014
Contently's end-to-end enterprise content marketing platform (CMP) offers best-in-class technology paired with expert in-house content strategy and an unparalleled creative marketplace. Our sophisticated technology, expert content strategists, and world-class creative network gives our clients everything they need to create content programs that build trust, increase engagement, and drive measurable results. Founded in 2011 by Joe Coleman, Dave Goldberg, and Shane Snow, Contently is a fully remote, female-led technology company, headquartered in New York City. Contently is proud to be the recipient of numerous honors, including G2’s #1 Enterprise Content Creation Platform and Gartner Peer Insights’ Customer Choice. To learn more about Contently, please visit www.contently.com.

Spirit Shop

Seed Round in 2014
SpiritShop.com is the leading online apparel and merchandise retailer for officially licensed high schools and amateur sports teams in the US. Spirit Shop sells through its own 100,000 online school and team stores offering more than 20,000 products with stock and customizable designs. Spirit Shop also integrates its ecommerce platform for online retailers, team registration software companies, sports leagues, national and state athletic associations as well as national sports media companies including CBS MaxPreps, USA Today HS Sports, Varsity News Network and more.

Markkit

Seed Round in 2013
Markkit is a mobile commerce platform for social media influencers and their style choices.

Rise

Seed Round in 2013
Rise provides affordable 1:1 personal diet coaching from top nutrition experts. Their unique mobile platform connects you with an expert nutrition coach that understands your personal tastes and lifestyle, and holds you accountable until you achieve your goals. And through smart design and efficiency leaps, they’re able to provide this service for as low as $1 per day.

Ovia Health

Seed Round in 2013
Ovia Health offers a comprehensive maternity and family benefits solution that transforms the way women and families are supported throughout the parenthood journey. The company is formerly known as Ovuline is making healthcare a lifestyle. Its mobile apps, Ovia Fertility and Ovia Pregnancy, have helped millions of women start their families and live healthier lives.

Beyond Games

Convertible Note in 2013
Beyond Games is a San Francisco based team of world class artists, designers, and engineers with a passion for production quality, attention to detail, and designs that favor collaborative goals, shared spaces, massively concurrent systems, and strategic depth.

DoubleDutch

Series C in 2013
DoubleDutch, Inc. specializes in event management software designed for organizers across the globe. The company provides a live engagement platform that includes applications, integrations, and performance metrics, enabling users to digitize live event experiences and enhance engagement. Its offerings also include an online event registration solution, allowing users to create custom registration pages, collect payments, and manage pre-event activities. DoubleDutch serves a diverse clientele, including brands and associations, facilitating a range of events such as internal meetings, tradeshows, expos, and conferences. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with additional locations in major cities across the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, India, Singapore, and the Middle East. As of June 2019, DoubleDutch operates as a subsidiary of Cvent, Inc.

BellyCard

Series B in 2013
They are thrilled to announce our new company name: Hatch Loyalty. They believe Hatch represents the evolution, growth and innovation of our company. Belly will continue to thrive as our small business product and support our company mission to empower retailers to build more meaningful relationships with their customers.

Betterfly (ACQUIRED)

Series B in 2013
Betterfly is the world's most diverse marketplace for people who want to better themselves and others. We connect talented individuals, known as Betterists, directly with the people who want their skills - making it easy for people to learn, look and feel better. A better way to find the right people: You won't see any companies in our search results, just skilled people. Why? We think that knowing the name of a great teacher, trainer or stylist is more important than knowing the name of a great school, salon or spa. Our exclusive focus on people means users can search efficiently and find exactly who they're looking for. 1000+ ways to learn, look and feel better: Our Betterists offer fun, challenging, random and every day services in more categories than you can imagine. Take a class from a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, try out a new look with a fantastic hairstylist or get that raise with the help of a career coach. You can do almost anything on Betterfly. Better. Together.: Betterfly is a lively community of people who believe in better. We come together because we know that better makes people happy. We connect, discuss, share tips, set goals, ask questions, meet up, build thriving businesses and celebrate better in all its forms Join us!

Beautylish

Venture Round in 2013
Beautylish a social commerce website for the cosmetics industry. Beautylish is a diverse and positive community that is ever-evolving. While tastes may be personal, please be respectful in your conversation and withhold judgement or criticism. They believe being beautiful begins with putting your best foot forward in everything—attitude, appearance and presence.

Pawngo

Venture Round in 2013
Pawngo is co-headquartered in Denver, where its secured fulfillment center is based, and Chicago at the offices of Lightbank. Prior to Lightbank's investment, Pawngo operated under the brand names Internet Pawn and Boomerang Lending. Pawngo is a licensed pawnbroker and complies fully with state-mandated pawnbroker statutes.

Zest Health App

Seed Round in 2013
Zest Health provides a mobile application for consumers, employers, and providers to be more informed health consumers.

walkby

Seed Round in 2013
Tell walkby what you want and get recommendations from boutique owners: When you use walkby, hundreds of local retailers will work to help you find what you want in real-time! It's a human network. Looking for a specific brand? walkby will let you know when and where to get it. Share It, Buy It Or Try It On: When you find what you want, show it to your friends, get it shipped to your door or reserve it to try it on in store. Key Features Follow stores, brands or anything you like. We will notify you when there is something new or on sale Buy directly from the app and have it delivered to you Make a reservation to go see the item in the store Set up your preferences to get better matches back from our retailer network

Soundsupply

Seed Round in 2013
Digital music bundles, curated to perfection. Launching Tuesday, January 24th.

Locality

Seed Round in 2013
Locality does for local services what Kayak does for air travel. Locality shows consumers every service that’s available around them in a way that makes it easy to find the right one for them. Whether it’s finding the best yoga class in a new city or searching for a spontaneous mani-pedi near the office, Locality connects consumers to services for everyday life, giving them the power to find services wherever they are, whenever they need information.

Ovia Health

Seed Round in 2013
Ovia Health offers a comprehensive maternity and family benefits solution that transforms the way women and families are supported throughout the parenthood journey. The company is formerly known as Ovuline is making healthcare a lifestyle. Its mobile apps, Ovia Fertility and Ovia Pregnancy, have helped millions of women start their families and live healthier lives.

SunnyBump

Seed Round in 2012
SunnyBump is a brighter way to discover, curate, share, & buy the best baby products on the market today. With the help of parents who've been there before and the industry experts who know, SunnyBump helps new and expecting parents find the baby products that make them say awwwwwww, the necessities that make parenting a bit easier, and even the items that they never knew you needed.

SpotHero

Venture Round in 2012
SpotHero is the leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America.

Udemy

Series B in 2012
Udemy's mission is to create new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy marketplace platform, with thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, provides the tools learners, instructors, and enterprises need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. Millions of people learn on Udemy from real-world experts in topics ranging from programming and data science to leadership and team building. For companies, Udemy Business offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, and the ability to host and distribute their own content.

HighGround

Seed Round in 2012
HighGround offers the first HR cloud platform designed for the employee to help companies build highly engaged and performing cultures. By using HighGround, employees are empowered to recognize peers daily and contribute to their own career path, and companies can more effectively capture the voice of the employee and turn annual performance reviews into meaningful, ongoing coaching sessions. With an inspired workforce able to reach its full potential and visibility into organizational health, HighGround customers, such as Cision, Patagonia, Echo Global Logistics, and Allianz can increase employee retention, productivity, customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive bottom-line results.

Dough

Series A in 2012
Dough is the online broker radically challenging the status quo and changing wealth creation. Located in Chicago and backed by tastytrade, Dough is what investing should be: focused on the retail investor, commission-free stock trading, zero account minimums, and iOS and Android apps filled with real-world opportunities for better decision making. Dough is on a mission to bring understanding to risk, removing it as a barrier and creating a new offering that is equal parts brokerage, education, and everyday insight through its media company. It is fully licensed in 50 states and 3 jurisdictions to provide brokerage services, customers can trade stocks and ETFs listed on a U.S. exchange.
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