Jake Cohen

Partner

Brandon Epstein

Senior Associate

Kate Hernandez

Venture Partner

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Lindsey Kilbride

Investor

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Haemi Kim

Director of Finance

Aaron McClendon

Investor

Jared Stasik

Partner

Cory Tincher

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iRule

Venture Round in 2014
iRule is a mobile app that converts a mobile device into a universal remote control for lights, audios, and videos. The company was founded in 2009 by two enthusiast geeks with a passion for movies, home theater, and consumer electronics.

iRule

Seed Round in 2013
iRule is a mobile app that converts a mobile device into a universal remote control for lights, audios, and videos. The company was founded in 2009 by two enthusiast geeks with a passion for movies, home theater, and consumer electronics.

Are You a Human, LLC

Series A in 2015
Are You a Human is the curator of The Verified Human Whitelist™, which allows anyone using it to be certain they are addressing a verified human before they serve content, services or ads. Automated programs, called bots, account for 59% of overall internet traffic today – and, as the world becomes more digital, this will only increase. Bots clutter the Internet with fake social media profiles, hacked accounts and are responsible for nearly all fraud. Ultimately, they make it more difficult for real humans to get what they need from the Internet, and more difficult for companies to address humans with high quality content and services cost-effectively. This includes e-commerce, online banking, social media, and, of course, media and advertising. Instead of searching for bots, which evolve in a matter of days, they find and verify humans by analyzing natural user behavior across millions of websites. After they have consistently seen and verified a user as human, they’re added to the Whitelist™, and then re-verified over and over again each day. Bots can’t consistently look and act like real humans on every page, every day, so they’re never added to the list, and all that's left are real humans.

Grand Circus

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Grand Circus is a training institute in the heart of downtown Detroit on a mission to elevate the tech community. Whether it's customized training, coworking or events, Grand Circus offers it all under the same tent. When it comes to training, we dismiss that true skill comes with a certificate. We focus instead on outcomes that matter. With project based instruction our training delivers real world expertise. We call it training with a purpose. Our curriculum is built on the latest in technology, business and design and we have partnered with the best and brightest. Our instructors are real practitioners who are at the top of their fields and committed to the success of their students.

Lunar Wireless

Seed Round in 2017
We've made it quick & easy to lower your phone bill, without sacrificing great coverage. SAVE MONEY Nearly 70% of US wireless subscribers are overpaying. We'll help you find out if you are, and get you a Sweet deal. Our customers save over $300/yr on average. FAST & EASY Sign up in seconds. Busy? We deal with the carriers so you don't have to. SECURE & PRIVATE We’ll never sell any of your personal information, and we secure it with the same 256-bit encryption technology that banks use. NATIONWIDE COVERAGE Sweet works with the big guys, so you can expect nationwide coverage & fast speeds. BACKED BY GIANTS Sweet is backed by the entrepreneurs behind trusted companies like Quicken Loans, PayPal, AOL, and more.

Campless

Venture Round in 2015
Campless collect data about the resale marketplace, analyze it, and report back to you. Their primary data source is eBay. They analyze over 13 million eBay auctions (and counting) to provide many statistics about sneakers. The Campless Sneaker Price Guide is their foundational work, but there’s a lot more to sneakerhead data than price, including the number of pairs are on the market, is the price increasing or decreasing, etc. In some cases, they dig deeper and extract insights about the sneakerhead market, such as “ Are Jordan retail prices outpacing inflation? “, “ Which eBay sellers have the best prices? ”, “ Do sneaker prices vary by size? “, and more esoteric questions like “ Are sneakers more like stocks or drugs? “. The Blog link on the top menu bar is a collection of those insights. Because the more information you have, the better decisions you can make. Whether you collect sneakers for love or for profit, the goal of Campless is the same: to provide you with sneaker information not available elsewhere, for you to browse at your leisure, or use to buy more kicks. So feel free to keep camping because you love it, not because you have to. Know more, camp less.

Airspace Link

Series B in 2022
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

PriorAuthNow

Series A in 2018
PriorAuthNow provides solutions that accelerate access to patient care for all stakeholders. PriorAuthNow is a corporation that was founded for the sole purpose of empowering medical providers and its staff with solutions that will improve the patient experience, drive satisfaction, and change health care for the better. The company works with EHR’s, medical providers, and payers to create a seamless prior authorization experience that fits within the existing workflows. PriorAuthNow was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Navv Systems

Seed Round in 2021
Navv Systems, is a software solutions and platform company that uses Indoor Positioning technology (IPS) to provide traffic control for hospitals, warehouses, manufacturing, and other large, complex organizations.

Are You a Human, LLC

Venture Round in 2011
Are You a Human is the curator of The Verified Human Whitelist™, which allows anyone using it to be certain they are addressing a verified human before they serve content, services or ads. Automated programs, called bots, account for 59% of overall internet traffic today – and, as the world becomes more digital, this will only increase. Bots clutter the Internet with fake social media profiles, hacked accounts and are responsible for nearly all fraud. Ultimately, they make it more difficult for real humans to get what they need from the Internet, and more difficult for companies to address humans with high quality content and services cost-effectively. This includes e-commerce, online banking, social media, and, of course, media and advertising. Instead of searching for bots, which evolve in a matter of days, they find and verify humans by analyzing natural user behavior across millions of websites. After they have consistently seen and verified a user as human, they’re added to the Whitelist™, and then re-verified over and over again each day. Bots can’t consistently look and act like real humans on every page, every day, so they’re never added to the list, and all that's left are real humans.

Dwolla

Venture Round in 2021
Dwolla, Inc. develops application program interface (API) solutions that facilitate bank transfers, manage customers, and verify bank accounts. The company offers Access API that enables users to link bank accounts and initiate transfers within their platform. It also provides Dwolla Dashboard and Admin, an intuitive interface for managing customers, viewing transactions, and finding business trends. Dwolla, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa.

Sociocast

Venture Round in 2011
Sociocast makes it easy for companies to quickly deploy, business-impacting predictive analytics. Working across various verticals and platforms, Sociocast has reinvented the way companies can extract insights from rapidly evolving data. The company’s groundbreaking technology allows businesses to access enterprise-grade prediction at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions, while saving time.

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.

Cargo

Seed Round in 2016
Cargo Systems is the creators of Cargo, the in-car service that allows rideshare passengers to order products on their phone, without downloading an app. Founded in 2016 by former Birchbox employees, Cargo launched in New York and Boston with thousands of driver signups in 49 states. Cargo works directly with rideshare companies, drivers and brand partners to distribute a variety of products to passengers in-car. A Techstars alumnus, Cargo is venture-backed by Techstars Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Detroit Venture Partners, Rosecliff Capital.

PriorAuthNow

Venture Round in 2017
PriorAuthNow provides solutions that accelerate access to patient care for all stakeholders. PriorAuthNow is a corporation that was founded for the sole purpose of empowering medical providers and its staff with solutions that will improve the patient experience, drive satisfaction, and change health care for the better. The company works with EHR’s, medical providers, and payers to create a seamless prior authorization experience that fits within the existing workflows. PriorAuthNow was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

GuardHat, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Guardhat is a multi-product, feature-packed intelligent safety system that integrates cutting edge wearable technology and advanced proprietary software. It is equipped to detect, alert and help prevent hazardous industrial work-related incidents. It is designed to collect and analyze data to support and improve industrial worker safety programs.

StockX

Series A in 2017
StockX operates a live bid/ask marketplace for buying and selling limited edition and high demand sneakers. Its marketplace enables users to anonymously buy and sell limited edition consumer products with stock market-like visibility. StockX’s platform allows users to create their own personalized sneaker portfolio by uploading their current collection and compare and contrast their sneaker collection to other users on the platform. The company was founded in March 2015, with its headquarters in Detroit in Michigan.

Are You a Human, LLC

Venture Round in 2012
Are You a Human is the curator of The Verified Human Whitelist™, which allows anyone using it to be certain they are addressing a verified human before they serve content, services or ads. Automated programs, called bots, account for 59% of overall internet traffic today – and, as the world becomes more digital, this will only increase. Bots clutter the Internet with fake social media profiles, hacked accounts and are responsible for nearly all fraud. Ultimately, they make it more difficult for real humans to get what they need from the Internet, and more difficult for companies to address humans with high quality content and services cost-effectively. This includes e-commerce, online banking, social media, and, of course, media and advertising. Instead of searching for bots, which evolve in a matter of days, they find and verify humans by analyzing natural user behavior across millions of websites. After they have consistently seen and verified a user as human, they’re added to the Whitelist™, and then re-verified over and over again each day. Bots can’t consistently look and act like real humans on every page, every day, so they’re never added to the list, and all that's left are real humans.

LevelEleven

Seed Round in 2014
As of May 6, 2020, LevelEleven LLC was acquired by Geopointe LLC. LevelEleven LLC operates a sales performance platform that enables sales and marketing managers to identify and track the metrics that matter in their sales process. Its platform enables users to identify key sales behaviors; keep the team focused on those metrics and spike performance; and set daily, weekly, and monthly goals to motivate reps. LevelEleven LLC was founded in 2012 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Down to Ride

Pre Seed Round in 2021
The Down to Ride (DTR) app launched in July 2020 to help cyclists find and plan group rides with their friends. DTR works by connecting friends in the free app to see which friends are looking to ride on a specific day. Users can then join any ride with their friends. DTR is available for iOS and Android in the U.S. DTR is VC-backed and owned by Social Active, LLC, a startup spinout of Tome, Inc.

Marxent Labs LLC

Series B in 2016
Marxent is the leader in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for furniture and home decor retailers and manufacturers. Marxent’s 3D Cloud™ is the full-service omnichannel platform for enterprise retailers pursuing a 3D content strategy that benefits from asset reuse across applications. Configure, design and visualize home furnishings and home decor with Marxent's 3D Room Planner, Virtual Reality Showroom, Augmented Reality SDK, 360 Spins or 3D Product Configurator. It is the only 3D content and applications system for retailers looking to inspire confident buyers, generate higher conversion rates, facilitate faster purchase decisions and nearly eliminate returns. Clients include Ashley Furniture, La-Z-Boy, Target and Macy's.

FamilyTech

Seed Round in 2013
FamilyTech offers brands and businesses a family-focused environment. It offers apps used by millions of parents, teens, kids, and couples to make life easier and more rewarding. Its apps are used by millions of parents, teens, kids, and couples to make life easier and more rewarding. Its current lineup includes MotherShp (for parents), Landra (for teens), ChoreMonster (for kids), and HoneyDo (for couples). It was founded in 2011 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

BoostUp, LLC

Seed Round in 2013
BoostUp, LLC operates a social saving platform that enables consumers to save up and get monetary "boosts" toward life's big purchases like a car, home, wedding or trip. Its payment savings platform allows family, friends, and business partners of BoostUp to match their savings. Its platform enables users to create an account and connect their bank; set daily savings plan and turn on roundups; send crowdfund page to family and friends for gifts; and save and raise money for purchases. BoostUp, LLC was formerly known as Motozuma, LLC. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

GuardHat, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Guardhat is a multi-product, feature-packed intelligent safety system that integrates cutting edge wearable technology and advanced proprietary software. It is equipped to detect, alert and help prevent hazardous industrial work-related incidents. It is designed to collect and analyze data to support and improve industrial worker safety programs.

GuardHat, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Guardhat is a multi-product, feature-packed intelligent safety system that integrates cutting edge wearable technology and advanced proprietary software. It is equipped to detect, alert and help prevent hazardous industrial work-related incidents. It is designed to collect and analyze data to support and improve industrial worker safety programs.

GINKGOTREE

Series A in 2013
Ginkgotree is a course content platform for teachers and trainers to build online curriculums. Ginkgotree’s beta launched in October 2012, and their MVP was pushed out at the end of December. They currently have over 250 individual faculty signups, and their first paid pilot is underway with several more institutions jumping on for Summer and Fall 2013.
WSC Sports' platform generates personalized sports videos for every digital platform and every sports fan - automatically and in real-time. Currently being used by leading media rights owners such as NBA, MLS, FIBA, Cricket Australia, WarnerMedia, Discovery, Bleacher Report, and many others, WSC Sports’ platform utilizes advanced AI and Machine Learning technologies to analyze live sports broadcasts, identify each and every event that occurs in the game, create customized short-form video content and publish to any digital destination. This enables partners to instantly generate and distribute professionally edited personalized clips and videos on a large scale, to engage audiences and maximize video monetization opportunities.

GINKGOTREE

Series A in 2015
Ginkgotree is a course content platform for teachers and trainers to build online curriculums. Ginkgotree’s beta launched in October 2012, and their MVP was pushed out at the end of December. They currently have over 250 individual faculty signups, and their first paid pilot is underway with several more institutions jumping on for Summer and Fall 2013.

Splash Financial, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Splash Financial is a financial education and student loan refinancing company that gives young professionals more financial freedom. It helps students refinance medical school loans into one simple payment, and offering financial flexibility during residency, with a $1 minimum monthly payment throughout the training. The company believes in educating customers to help find financial freedom. The company wants students to be able to chase both career and life goals without worrying about student loan debt. Splash Financial was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Cargo

Seed Round in 2018
Cargo Systems is the creators of Cargo, the in-car service that allows rideshare passengers to order products on their phone, without downloading an app. Founded in 2016 by former Birchbox employees, Cargo launched in New York and Boston with thousands of driver signups in 49 states. Cargo works directly with rideshare companies, drivers and brand partners to distribute a variety of products to passengers in-car. A Techstars alumnus, Cargo is venture-backed by Techstars Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Detroit Venture Partners, Rosecliff Capital.
Palmetto, Inc. operates as a clean technology software and fulfillment platform company scaling the deployment of technology products such as energy storage, solar power, demand management systems, and energy efficiency. The company builds and deploys software systems that help consumers understand their energy spend. It offers logistics and infrastructural support, information on clean energy’s benefits, and software tools that enable solar customers to manage and monitor how their solar installations are operating. It offers services, such as ongoing support, financing, design, survey, engineering, permitting, and installation services for solar products, storage products, and thermostats. Palmetto, Inc. was formerly known as Palmetto Global Holdings, LLC. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina. It has additional offices in San Francisco, California; and Seattle, Washington.

Marxent Labs LLC

Seed Round in 2014
Marxent is the leader in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for furniture and home decor retailers and manufacturers. Marxent’s 3D Cloud™ is the full-service omnichannel platform for enterprise retailers pursuing a 3D content strategy that benefits from asset reuse across applications. Configure, design and visualize home furnishings and home decor with Marxent's 3D Room Planner, Virtual Reality Showroom, Augmented Reality SDK, 360 Spins or 3D Product Configurator. It is the only 3D content and applications system for retailers looking to inspire confident buyers, generate higher conversion rates, facilitate faster purchase decisions and nearly eliminate returns. Clients include Ashley Furniture, La-Z-Boy, Target and Macy's.

Instore

Series A in 2011
Instore provides a cloud-based POS platform for local merchants, including restaurants, cafes, and coffee shops. The Instore platform starts at the point-of-sale, then extends into people, menu, and customer management. Merchants use Instore to run their businesses more intelligently and cost-efficiently. As the world's first open POS platform, Instore allows merchants to integrate 3rd party services, including payments, online ordering, loyalty, social media, and accounting, to name a few.

Are You a Human, LLC

Venture Round in 2014
Are You a Human is the curator of The Verified Human Whitelist™, which allows anyone using it to be certain they are addressing a verified human before they serve content, services or ads. Automated programs, called bots, account for 59% of overall internet traffic today – and, as the world becomes more digital, this will only increase. Bots clutter the Internet with fake social media profiles, hacked accounts and are responsible for nearly all fraud. Ultimately, they make it more difficult for real humans to get what they need from the Internet, and more difficult for companies to address humans with high quality content and services cost-effectively. This includes e-commerce, online banking, social media, and, of course, media and advertising. Instead of searching for bots, which evolve in a matter of days, they find and verify humans by analyzing natural user behavior across millions of websites. After they have consistently seen and verified a user as human, they’re added to the Whitelist™, and then re-verified over and over again each day. Bots can’t consistently look and act like real humans on every page, every day, so they’re never added to the list, and all that's left are real humans.

Mountaintop Studios

Series A in 2021
Mountaintop Studios is a game studio creating multiplayer games for players who crave a challenge.

hiredMYway.com

Venture Round in 2011
hiredMYway.com helps you simply, but strategically market your positions to more than 30 of the leading websites in online recruiting based on the where they are most likely to have success.

Trustpage

Seed Round in 2021
Trustpage provides AI-assisted trust centers for software teams, giving customers and vendors a single place to collaborate on security, privacy, and reliability. Customers get questions answered faster and more accurately while vendors are no longer stuck using email, spreadsheets, and external portals to communicate trust. Vendors also gain complete visibility into the trust process, helping them shorten sales cycles and better prioritize roadmaps.

Rockbot, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Rockbot is a streaming media platform for businesses including TV, background music, mobile app, and digital signage applications. Their core applications include music, a mobile app for customer engagement, digital signage, and overhead messaging. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Oakland, California.

SpiritShop.com (ACQUIRED)

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.

Quikly

Series B in 2014
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.

Signal Advisors

Seed Round in 2020
Signal Advisors USA, Inc., an insurance marketing organization, operates as a tech enabled distributor of financial products that serves independent financial advisors. It is a general agent for the sale of life insurance products through its software platform. Signal Advisors USA, Inc. was formerly known as Trueadvisors, Inc. and changed its name to Signal Advisors USA, Inc. in January 2019. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Sift LLC

Series A in 2020
A connected company is a powerful company. At Sift, we created the easiest way to unleash the power of your people to propel your organization forward. We make finding the right expert at the right time, or connecting to anyone in your organization on the go simple—allowing you to drive organizational performance while saving you time. Sift helps you take your organization into the people-first, digital age with a solution that is as simple as it is powerful.

velos

Venture Round in 2011
Sociocast’s Big Data platform provides businesses with predictive analytics for their high volume, time-ordered data sets. Our first solution is focused on the Advertising & Media vertical where we help data aggregators, ad networks, and ad agencies maximize the utilization of their first-party, proprietary data for advertising and media initiatives. We are integrated with 10+ companies ranging from web to mobile data owners and have shown great results in market

Quikly

Series A in 2012
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.

Autobooks, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Autobooks, Inc. provides an integrated payment and accounting software delivered through financial institutions to small businesses. It offers Autobooks, an intelligent, cloud-based, accounting platform that automatically integrates bank accounts with financial tools that speed the cash flow, reconcile accounts, and accelerate growth. The company offers products for integrated payment applications, such as invoicing and bill pay, merchant services, treasury products, and revenue expansion; and automated accounting and bookkeeping. The company was formerly known as Automated Booking, Inc. and changed its name to Autobooks, Inc. in March 2018. Autobooks, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

UpTo, Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
UpTo is a modern calendar that gives a more complete view of everything coming up that matters without the clutter. It creates a beautiful web calendar for their business or organization. The platform brings calendar to life and allows them to easily add events, without an IT department. Add events through an online account and watch them sync seamlessly across UpTo's mobile app and web calendars. Upto was established in 2011 and is based in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Grand Circus

Series A in 2013
Grand Circus is a training institute in the heart of downtown Detroit on a mission to elevate the tech community. Whether it's customized training, coworking or events, Grand Circus offers it all under the same tent. When it comes to training, we dismiss that true skill comes with a certificate. We focus instead on outcomes that matter. With project based instruction our training delivers real world expertise. We call it training with a purpose. Our curriculum is built on the latest in technology, business and design and we have partnered with the best and brightest. Our instructors are real practitioners who are at the top of their fields and committed to the success of their students.

Airspace Link

Seed Round in 2019
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Flud

Series A in 2011
Flud is a modern, beautiful and personalized mobile news ecosystem with a vision to empower it's users to interact with each other to access, engage and broadcast content that is relevant to them. You probably visit hundreds of sites a week to look at content you love, but, until now it's been a pain to do and far from classy.

Airspace Link

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Quikly

Series A in 2013
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.

Marxent Labs LLC

Seed Round in 2011
Marxent is the leader in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for furniture and home decor retailers and manufacturers. Marxent’s 3D Cloud™ is the full-service omnichannel platform for enterprise retailers pursuing a 3D content strategy that benefits from asset reuse across applications. Configure, design and visualize home furnishings and home decor with Marxent's 3D Room Planner, Virtual Reality Showroom, Augmented Reality SDK, 360 Spins or 3D Product Configurator. It is the only 3D content and applications system for retailers looking to inspire confident buyers, generate higher conversion rates, facilitate faster purchase decisions and nearly eliminate returns. Clients include Ashley Furniture, La-Z-Boy, Target and Macy's.

Marxent Labs LLC

Venture Round in 2014
Marxent is the leader in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for furniture and home decor retailers and manufacturers. Marxent’s 3D Cloud™ is the full-service omnichannel platform for enterprise retailers pursuing a 3D content strategy that benefits from asset reuse across applications. Configure, design and visualize home furnishings and home decor with Marxent's 3D Room Planner, Virtual Reality Showroom, Augmented Reality SDK, 360 Spins or 3D Product Configurator. It is the only 3D content and applications system for retailers looking to inspire confident buyers, generate higher conversion rates, facilitate faster purchase decisions and nearly eliminate returns. Clients include Ashley Furniture, La-Z-Boy, Target and Macy's.

Flud

Seed Round in 2011
Flud is a modern, beautiful and personalized mobile news ecosystem with a vision to empower it's users to interact with each other to access, engage and broadcast content that is relevant to them. You probably visit hundreds of sites a week to look at content you love, but, until now it's been a pain to do and far from classy.

reach | influence

Venture Round in 2015
[ri] provides a platform for shopper engagement programs by uniting transaction data with electronic communications to deliver personalized messages and offers to your customers. Their team of IT, Design and Program Management specialists bring loyalty from vision to execution with the capacity to efficiently launch and manage new loyalty programs or assist in using collected data to deliver greater results.

UpTo, Inc.

Series A in 2013
UpTo is a modern calendar that gives a more complete view of everything coming up that matters without the clutter. It creates a beautiful web calendar for their business or organization. The platform brings calendar to life and allows them to easily add events, without an IT department. Add events through an online account and watch them sync seamlessly across UpTo's mobile app and web calendars. Upto was established in 2011 and is based in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Autobooks, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Autobooks, Inc. provides an integrated payment and accounting software delivered through financial institutions to small businesses. It offers Autobooks, an intelligent, cloud-based, accounting platform that automatically integrates bank accounts with financial tools that speed the cash flow, reconcile accounts, and accelerate growth. The company offers products for integrated payment applications, such as invoicing and bill pay, merchant services, treasury products, and revenue expansion; and automated accounting and bookkeeping. The company was formerly known as Automated Booking, Inc. and changed its name to Autobooks, Inc. in March 2018. Autobooks, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Quikly

Series A in 2012
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.

StyleCaster

Series A in 2011
StyleCaster is the leading digital media & technology platform for fashion, beauty and lifestyle. Through four owned and operated properties, as well as the newly patented Makeover Solutions technology, StyleCaster enables women to discover and share their style. StyleCaster works with brands to re-create the native advertising approach, in order to engage with women who care about the way they look and feel.

Chalkfly

Series A in 2013
Chalkfly is reinventing the experience of buying office and school supplies online. With over 50,000 products, 24/7 customer service, a 365 return policy and a mission to change the world - Chalkfly is bringing excitement and purpose to the office supply world. Chalkfly customers can choose a teacher to receive five percent of their purchase. We believe that doing good is good business and we're committed to supporting the communities in which we serve. Founded in late 2012, Chalkfly is ranked as one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies in country (we’re the youngest member of the Internet Retailer’s Second 500 for 2013). Chalkfly is also proud to be ranked as one of Turnstone’s 2013 Best Young Companies To Work For. We’re proudly based in Detroit and through our amazing team and commitment to education, we hope to change the way supplies are bought online. Chalkfly is currently fundraising. We'd welcome the chance to explore partnership opportunities. Please reach out to smile@chalkfly.com if interested. Thank you!

Miso Media

Series A in 2011
Miso Media is a Venice Beach, CA startup who develops music education software. They use polyphonic note detection and realtime feedback to revolutionize sheet music and teach people how to play string instruments such as guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo, and mandolin. Current products include Miso Music: Plectrum (Winner of 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt SF People’s Choice Award) and the Miso Strobe Tuner. They have strategic partnerships with Fender, Fender Music Foundation, Woodees, Deering Banjo, and Ko'Aloha Ukulele, as well as publishing deals for the production of digitized sheet music.

Dwolla

Venture Round in 2017
Dwolla, Inc. develops application program interface (API) solutions that facilitate bank transfers, manage customers, and verify bank accounts. The company offers Access API that enables users to link bank accounts and initiate transfers within their platform. It also provides Dwolla Dashboard and Admin, an intuitive interface for managing customers, viewing transactions, and finding business trends. Dwolla, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa.

StockX

Series B in 2018
StockX operates a live bid/ask marketplace for buying and selling limited edition and high demand sneakers. Its marketplace enables users to anonymously buy and sell limited edition consumer products with stock market-like visibility. StockX’s platform allows users to create their own personalized sneaker portfolio by uploading their current collection and compare and contrast their sneaker collection to other users on the platform. The company was founded in March 2015, with its headquarters in Detroit in Michigan.

FarmLogs

Series C in 2017
Their mission is to help bring farmers the future of farming. They challenge what is possible and invent new ways of applying cutting-edge technology to the world's oldest and most foundational industry. Farmers are the core of agriculture and they help them use technology to be more successful. Farmer success is their success. They will never make a decision that doesn't benefit farmers. Their world depends on agriculture. By making farming more efficient and helping farmers grow more using less, they have the opportunity to make a massive positive impact. And, they've brought together a world-class team to make it happen.

LevelEleven

Seed Round in 2012
As of May 6, 2020, LevelEleven LLC was acquired by Geopointe LLC. LevelEleven LLC operates a sales performance platform that enables sales and marketing managers to identify and track the metrics that matter in their sales process. Its platform enables users to identify key sales behaviors; keep the team focused on those metrics and spike performance; and set daily, weekly, and monthly goals to motivate reps. LevelEleven LLC was founded in 2012 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Digital Onboarding, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Digital Onboarding Inc. develops a SaaS based software platform to simplify the process of new account activation for banking and credit union customers. It offers Digital Onboarding, an automated new account activation platform that is that equips financial institutions with the tools and best practices they need to communicate with members seamlessly across channels. The company’s Digital Onboarding enables financial institutions to improve engagement with new and existing members, as well as market to and educate their members on a one-to-one level about their products and services. Digital Onboarding Inc. was formerly known as Salesbrief Inc. and changed its name to Digital Onboarding Inc. in April, 2017. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

reach | influence

Series C in 2014
[ri] provides a platform for shopper engagement programs by uniting transaction data with electronic communications to deliver personalized messages and offers to your customers. Their team of IT, Design and Program Management specialists bring loyalty from vision to execution with the capacity to efficiently launch and manage new loyalty programs or assist in using collected data to deliver greater results.

Autobooks, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Autobooks, Inc. provides an integrated payment and accounting software delivered through financial institutions to small businesses. It offers Autobooks, an intelligent, cloud-based, accounting platform that automatically integrates bank accounts with financial tools that speed the cash flow, reconcile accounts, and accelerate growth. The company offers products for integrated payment applications, such as invoicing and bill pay, merchant services, treasury products, and revenue expansion; and automated accounting and bookkeeping. The company was formerly known as Automated Booking, Inc. and changed its name to Autobooks, Inc. in March 2018. Autobooks, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Onboard (Onboard.io)

Seed Round in 2021
SaaS, B2B SaaS, Customer Onboarding, Customer Implementation, Automated Project Management, Customer Success Management, Project Management

velos

Series B in 2011
Sociocast’s Big Data platform provides businesses with predictive analytics for their high volume, time-ordered data sets. Our first solution is focused on the Advertising & Media vertical where we help data aggregators, ad networks, and ad agencies maximize the utilization of their first-party, proprietary data for advertising and media initiatives. We are integrated with 10+ companies ranging from web to mobile data owners and have shown great results in market

LevelEleven

Seed Round in 2013
As of May 6, 2020, LevelEleven LLC was acquired by Geopointe LLC. LevelEleven LLC operates a sales performance platform that enables sales and marketing managers to identify and track the metrics that matter in their sales process. Its platform enables users to identify key sales behaviors; keep the team focused on those metrics and spike performance; and set daily, weekly, and monthly goals to motivate reps. LevelEleven LLC was founded in 2012 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Opsmatic

Seed Round in 2013
Opsmatic, Inc. provides tools for operations professionals. Its solutions enable professionals to play strategic roles, proactively improving performance, deployments, and reduce downtime. The company is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 28, 2015, Opsmatic, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of New Relic, Inc.

GINKGOTREE

Series A in 2015
Ginkgotree is a course content platform for teachers and trainers to build online curriculums. Ginkgotree’s beta launched in October 2012, and their MVP was pushed out at the end of December. They currently have over 250 individual faculty signups, and their first paid pilot is underway with several more institutions jumping on for Summer and Fall 2013.

Rockbot, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Rockbot is a streaming media platform for businesses including TV, background music, mobile app, and digital signage applications. Their core applications include music, a mobile app for customer engagement, digital signage, and overhead messaging. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Oakland, California.

Marxent Labs LLC

Seed Round in 2011
Marxent is the leader in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for furniture and home decor retailers and manufacturers. Marxent’s 3D Cloud™ is the full-service omnichannel platform for enterprise retailers pursuing a 3D content strategy that benefits from asset reuse across applications. Configure, design and visualize home furnishings and home decor with Marxent's 3D Room Planner, Virtual Reality Showroom, Augmented Reality SDK, 360 Spins or 3D Product Configurator. It is the only 3D content and applications system for retailers looking to inspire confident buyers, generate higher conversion rates, facilitate faster purchase decisions and nearly eliminate returns. Clients include Ashley Furniture, La-Z-Boy, Target and Macy's.

StyleCaster

Series A in 2011
StyleCaster is the leading digital media & technology platform for fashion, beauty and lifestyle. Through four owned and operated properties, as well as the newly patented Makeover Solutions technology, StyleCaster enables women to discover and share their style. StyleCaster works with brands to re-create the native advertising approach, in order to engage with women who care about the way they look and feel.

Airspace Link

Seed Round in 2020
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Bloomscape, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Bloomscape, Inc. operates as an online retailer of plants. It sells houseplants including tradescantia zebriana, pinstripe, hedgehog aloe, red prayer plant, bird’s nest fern, calathea beauty star, spider plant, philodendron heartleaf, and other related potted-plants. It also sells gift cards online. The company also provides Plant Mom service, a solution that allows customers to ask for advice from an expert. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.