Vine St. Ventures

Vine Street Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The firm specializes in growth capital investments, focusing on early-stage opportunities within the internet and mobile sectors. It aims to support innovative businesses across the United States, particularly those in software and technology, media, and telecommunications. With a commitment to fostering the development of promising startups, Vine Street Ventures seeks to create value through strategic investments that align with its expertise in these dynamic industries.

Dave Knox

Co-Founder, Manager & Managing Partner

21 past transactions

ActionStreamer

Seed Round in 2021
ActionStreamer is a wireless wearable live-streaming platform. Action Streamer has set out to bring sports fans closer to the action than ever before. Its video streaming service built from the ground-up is arming broadcast companies and content providers with the angle every avid sports fan craves—the 1st-person field-level point-of-view.

Habi

Series A in 2020
Habi operates a proprietary pricing algorithm and platform to simplify the homeownership lifecycle throughout Latin America. The company provides middle-class customers buy and sell their homes more quickly and efficiently, without the uncertainty of traditional real estate transactions. Habi was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia.

ActionStreamer

Seed Round in 2019
ActionStreamer is a wireless wearable live-streaming platform. Action Streamer has set out to bring sports fans closer to the action than ever before. Its video streaming service built from the ground-up is arming broadcast companies and content providers with the angle every avid sports fan craves—the 1st-person field-level point-of-view.

Hunt Club

Venture Round in 2018
Hunt Club, Inc. is an innovative online platform for executive search, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company connects organizations with suitable candidates through a network of professionals who refer potential hires. By leveraging proprietary technology, Hunt Club transforms a vast pool of subject matter experts into a powerful recruitment network, providing access to approximately 5 million candidates. The firm specializes in various recruiting services, including executive, full-service, alliance, and pipeline recruiting. By focusing on relationships and referrals, Hunt Club aims to enhance the hiring experience for both employers and job seekers.

Losant

Series A in 2018
Losant is a developer platform designed to helps people build complex connected solutions. Losant provides powerful data collection, aggregation, and visualization features to help understand and quantify vast amounts of sensor data. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

ActionStreamer

Seed Round in 2017
ActionStreamer is a wireless wearable live-streaming platform. Action Streamer has set out to bring sports fans closer to the action than ever before. Its video streaming service built from the ground-up is arming broadcast companies and content providers with the angle every avid sports fan craves—the 1st-person field-level point-of-view.

VNDLY

Seed Round in 2017
VNDLY, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a cloud-based vendor management platform aimed at managing the non-employee workforce of organizations. Founded in 2017 and based in Mason, Ohio, VNDLY's platform facilitates the entire engagement lifecycle of non-employees, encompassing talent acquisition, training, payment, and offboarding. It features four key modules: contingent workforce management, statement of work management, independent contractor compliance, and total talent acquisition. The platform streamlines the sourcing and acquisition processes from various channels, including staffing agencies and job boards, enabling businesses to enhance their return on investment, hire quality talent, and automate workflows from job requisition to closure. VNDLY primarily serves Fortune 500 companies, managed service providers, and vendors, providing comprehensive solutions that simplify implementation and management of external workforces.

Terminus

Series B in 2017
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Atlanta, Terminus is a pioneering company in account-based marketing. Its platform allows B2B marketers to effectively target companies and engage decision-makers through tailored digital advertising campaigns. By utilizing data from customer relationship management systems, Terminus enables marketers to run comprehensive marketing initiatives that enhance collaboration between sales and marketing teams, ultimately improving close rates and accelerating pipeline velocity. The platform is already employed by notable brands such as Dun & Bradstreet, SalesLoft, and Influitive, showcasing its effectiveness in driving success in account-based marketing strategies.

Inked Brands

Series A in 2017
Inked Brands, Inc., founded in 2007 and based in Bowling Green, Kentucky, specializes in providing a range of services including marketing, product development, fulfillment, web development, and customer support for various brands. The company focuses on enabling influencer commerce by empowering influencers to monetize their following and establish sustainable revenue streams. Through its comprehensive offerings, Inked Brands supports brands and influencers in navigating the complexities of e-commerce and fostering long-term financial success.

Beyond Pricing

Venture Round in 2016
Beyond Pricing is the #1 Revenue Management Platform for short-term rental owners and managers to acquire, keep, and grow revenue. Our partners have seen as much as a 40% increase in booking revenue by leveraging the tools on our platform. We’ve helped thousands of property managers and property owners like Island Realty, Royal American Beach Getaways, and Coquet Cottages, get the most out of their listings. To date, we have supported over 330,000 properties in more than 7,000 cities worldwide. Founded in 2013, Beyond Pricing is headquartered in San Francisco, California. To learn more, visit beyondpricing.com

Signal

Series E in 2016
Signal Digital, Inc. is a digital marketing technology company that specializes in customer identity solutions for enterprises. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Signal offers a platform designed to enhance the customer experience by delivering contextual relevance at various engagement points. Its key services include Onboard to Activate, which helps businesses engage the right customers while eliminating duplicate and outdated audiences; Onsite Identity Resolution, which identifies anonymous visitors; and a Measurement solution that provides detailed insights into media impressions and return on investment. The Signal Open Data Platform enables marketers to collect and synchronize data from multiple offline and online sources in real-time, facilitating improved customer interactions across all channels. In June 2014, the company changed its name from BrightTag Inc. and operates as a subsidiary of TransUnion, with additional offices in London, Tokyo, and Sydney.

Strap

Seed Round in 2014
Strap enables actionable human data to inform and improve marketing and engagement programs. They believe the consumer centered journey must be personalized because a more personal world is a better world.

Dónde

Seed Round in 2014
Donde is a mobile store locator service with tools to drive retail sales. 30% of website traffic is coming from mobile devices. Just making all of your desktop and tablet content fit the screen doesn't work because mobile users are almost exclusively looking for store locations. Although m-commerce is $25BB per year in the US, shoppers use the store locator 63 times for every 1 m-commerce order. In fact, 82% of mobile shoppers actually make their purchases in a physical location. A poor mobile locator experience is costing you sales. People can't find your stuff. Get a best-in-class mobile first locator today. For free. Unlimited locations, unlimited traffic, analytics included. At Donde, they believe location is the tip of the iceberg in improving online to offline conversion.

Dónde

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Donde is a mobile store locator service with tools to drive retail sales. 30% of website traffic is coming from mobile devices. Just making all of your desktop and tablet content fit the screen doesn't work because mobile users are almost exclusively looking for store locations. Although m-commerce is $25BB per year in the US, shoppers use the store locator 63 times for every 1 m-commerce order. In fact, 82% of mobile shoppers actually make their purchases in a physical location. A poor mobile locator experience is costing you sales. People can't find your stuff. Get a best-in-class mobile first locator today. For free. Unlimited locations, unlimited traffic, analytics included. At Donde, they believe location is the tip of the iceberg in improving online to offline conversion.

CrowdHall

Seed Round in 2013
A CrowdHall is a crowd-sourced town hall built on the idea that public discourse with high-profile people & organizations doesn't have to be one-sided. It empowers the crowd to organize its thoughts, articulate its questions, and voice its perspective in a democratic way.

FlightCar

Seed Round in 2013
FlightCar, Inc. operates an online platform that connects car owners with travelers seeking to rent vehicles at various airport locations. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, the company allows individuals parking at the airport to rent their cars to approved travelers, providing an alternative to traditional car rental services. FlightCar has expanded its operations to numerous cities across the United States, including major metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston. The service aims to save travelers money while enhancing their travel experience by facilitating a collaborative community among users.

Learnmetrics

Seed Round in 2013
Learnmetrics Inc. operates an online platform designed for schools and educators, providing tools to facilitate planning, teaching, monitoring, and assessment of students, teachers, and parents. The platform enables educators to track various metrics, including grades, attendance, schedules, demographics, test results, and scores from state and national assessments. By breaking educational data sets free from silos, Learnmetrics helps educators uncover trends and insights, enhancing communication and decision-making processes. The company, founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, Illinois, was previously known as Ontract LLC. Its mission focuses on empowering educators to support all children in reaching their potential.

FamilyTech

Seed Round in 2012
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.

REPP

Seed Round in 2012
REPP is an online identity and background management platform for individuals and service providers. REPP creates verified online profiles, owned by you, to share with new people that you meet through commerce, dating or networking sites. REPP verifies your identity and photo along with background checks that you confirm.

CrowdHall

Seed Round in 2012
A CrowdHall is a crowd-sourced town hall built on the idea that public discourse with high-profile people & organizations doesn't have to be one-sided. It empowers the crowd to organize its thoughts, articulate its questions, and voice its perspective in a democratic way.

Roadtrippers

Seed Round in 2012
Roadtrippers, Inc. owns and operates a website and mobile application through which users can find, book, and purchase road trip-related travel and experiences. The company maintains a database of information regarding points-of-interest categorized into taxonomy catering to road travelers such as diners, roadside attractions, and accommodation. It also publishes travel guides on road trip routes, and provides an inline text editor for community members to write their own guides. Roadtrippers, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.