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Daley Ervin

Venture Partner and Engage MD

JF

Joelle Fox

CFO and Operating Partner

Vasant Kamath

Partner

Scott Lopano

Principal

Thiago Olson

MD, Engage

Blake Patton

Founder and Managing Partner

MP

Melissa Pegus

Entrepreneur-In-Residence

43 past transactions

Vizion

Series A in 2022

Bluedot Innovation, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2022
Bluedot’s location technology for mobile apps powers meaningful interactions between brands and their customers across key industries including quick service restaurants, retail, and transportation. With pinpoint accuracy, Bluedot’s easy-to-implement location technology can identify when a mobile app user arrives at a business, places mobile orders at drive-thrus, arrives at a curbside or pickup spot, or passes a toll location. Inherently compliant with GDPR and CCPA, Bluedot focuses on protecting end-user privacy and never shares or sells personal information.

FreightWaves

Seed Round in 2017
FreightWaves is a SaaS provider of data for the North American freight market. FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As the leading provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. FreightWaves.com is the highest rank news and commentary site in the industry and the firm is introducing a freight futures product which will help participants derisk their exposure to trucking spot rates.

Therma

Series A in 2023
Therma° is a venture-backed company that builds IoT-powered temperature and humidity monitoring and analytics, which prevent food, product, and energy waste, the major drivers of climate change. We partner with diverse organizations and industry leaders in food and healthcare to increase profits while protecting our planet, from national restaurant brands such as McDonald's, Burger King, Domino's, and TGI Fridays to convenience stores, hotels, and top supply chain businesses such as 7-Eleven, Wyndham and Marriott Hotels, and Lineage Logistics.

Skyryse, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Skyryse has developed a hardware and software operating system, FlightOS, to power all general aviation (GA) aircraft, enabling safer, more capable, and more accessible flight.  FlightOS is a common interface for pilots to be able to operate any aircraft - rotorcraft or fixed-wing - with the same controls, substantially reducing pilot fatigue and complexity while offering a step function improvement in flight safety and emergency management. With tens of hours of training, any pilot can safely fly any aircraft regardless of its engine/wing/rotor configuration, either from the cockpit or remotely. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.

AUTIT, LLC

Seed Round in 2020
AUTIT, LLC develops artificial intelligence driven cloud platform. Its platform allow users to connect and integrate disparate inventory data across multiple ERPs, divisions, and plant; control policy and procedures for proactive materials management; and forecast inventory needs, including re-balancing across the network. The company serves Fortune 500 manufacturers and their supply chains. AUTIT, LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Coros

Seed Round in 2021

Itential

Convertible Note in 2022
Itential, LLC provides information technology and networking solutions. The company's services include, network automation, Pronghron platform, and advisory services. It provides Golden Configuration Manager, MOP Automation, Service Management, Pronghorn Applications software solutions. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

DEVCON DETECT

Seed Round in 2020
DEVCON Detect Inc develops fraud detection and protection software for the digital advertising industry. It offers DEV/CON software for reviewing advertisings, identifying anomalies, and risk evaluation; reviewing advertising tech tags and integrations, revenue analysis of advertising networks, log reports related to unauthorized code, recommendations for repair, and revenue analysis post repair. The company’s software is also used for identifying internal and external exploits, managing systems access, personnel management, migrating advertising campaigns to the new advertising servers, migrating the site to the new server, and court-ready documentation. In addition, its software is used for removing unauthorized code from site, server, and integrated advertising tech; and code monitoring, alerts, one-touch lockdown, code containment and removal, and revenue monitoring and optimization. DEVCON Detect Inc was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Memphis, Tennessee with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; and London, United Kingdom.

Verady, LLC

Seed Round in 2019
Verady provides accounting and audit products and infrastructure networks through the Ledgible platform, where financial institutions, corporations, and regulators can audit, account, and verify blockchain assets. Verady believes traditional accounting systems, firms, and standards are currently lacking functionality around blockchain assets. Verady's Ledgible platform will be the bridge between these new assets and traditional financial verification and accounting which is needed to further their acceptance and growth.

Virsec Systems, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
Virsec has pioneered technology to protect critical applications from the inside, protecting processes in memory and pinpointing attacks in real-time, within any application. Through its patented Trusted Execution technology, Virsec maps acceptable application execution and instantly detects deviations caused by attacks. This deterministic process takes the guesswork out of cybersecurity, detecting and blocking application attacks within milliseconds, with precise forensics at every step.

Filtered

Seed Round in 2020
Filtered is for companies who want to build high performing technical teams and are tired of wasting thousands of hours screening and interviewing unqualified candidates based on keywords in a resume. They help improve and streamline the hiring process by removing unconscious bias allowing organizations to leverage skills based hiring that combines coding tasks, video interviews, and candidate authentication - reducing time-to-fill, increasing interview-to-hire ratios, and lowering cost per hire all while increasing quality of hire.

Vital Vio, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Vital Vio offers a new class of antimicrobial light for infection and germ control through safe, continuous LED products. Our goal is to protect as many people and places from germs as possible with our products which can be utilized anywhere a light can fit. We service customers in food processing, healthcare, industrial/commercial as well as a licensing model for consumer and residential products.

The Mom Project, Inc.

Series B in 2020
The Mom Project, Inc. provides a digital marketplace and community that connects women with companies for rewarding employment opportunities. Its platform offers work types, such as marketing, human resources, finance, technology, project management, creative, research, and sales. The company’s platform also enables companies to analyze their benefits and how they treat women in the workplace; and provides recommendations and give them a plan to make the workplace better for moms and their employees. It serves companies and jobseekers. The Mom Project, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

ExemptMeNow

Series A in 2020
Resilia simplifies the formation of new nonprofits and provides existing organizations with on-demand tools that optimize operations and increase effectiveness. It helps accelerate the formation process for new organizations, and ensure existing organizations execute their mission and drive results. Its Enterprise platform offers intuitive, data-driven software to corporations, foundations, and government entities that leverage technology to accelerate impact and increase connectivity.

Virsec Systems, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Virsec has pioneered technology to protect critical applications from the inside, protecting processes in memory and pinpointing attacks in real-time, within any application. Through its patented Trusted Execution technology, Virsec maps acceptable application execution and instantly detects deviations caused by attacks. This deterministic process takes the guesswork out of cybersecurity, detecting and blocking application attacks within milliseconds, with precise forensics at every step.

Fluree, PBC

Seed Round in 2019
Fluree, PBC develops a platform that offers blockchain-based data management solutions for businesses. It offers Fluree that provides a blockchain-based graph database and access to data and combines transactions into time-stamped blocks and locks each block via cryptography for data integrity. The company’s Fluree is a Web3 data platform that guarantees data integrity, facilitates secure data sharing, and powers connected data insights. It serves tech startups, government agencies, and Fortune 500 enterprises in various industries, such as MRO, supply chain, credentials, insurance, and other industries. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Gauge Insights, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2018
Gauge Insights is a consumer insights platform that is revolutionizing the way brands conduct research studies. The company is on a mission to build the first fully distributed research platform, combining powerful survey technology with qualitative partnerships, a large network of panel providers and a best in class talent marketplace. This model has allowed us to turn around the world’s largest brand’s full-service research projects in a fraction of the time and typically at half the cost of traditional methods.

Call Simulator

Convertible Note in 2023

AchieveIt

Convertible Note in 2018
AchieveIt Online, LLC develops strategic planning software. The company also provides strategy consulting services. It serves customers in industries, such as commercial, education, federal government, healthcare, local, government, and utilities. AchieveIt Online, LLC was formerly known as strategicplanningMD LLC and changed its name to AchieveIt Online, LLC in September 2011. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Intrinio

Series A in 2019
Intrinio is a financial data company that offers platform consists of an application programming interface. Intrinio's mission is to help investors save money and make time so they can live more meaningful lives. We believe investors waste time on data collection, data entry, and data analysis because traditional financial data providers stifle innovation through high prices and restrictive technology. The Intrinio Fintech marketplace solves this problem by making financial data affordable and easy to access for developers, unleashing their creative potential to build the next generation of financial analytics products. Dozens of data feeds are currently available at disruptively low prices, providing data types such as FDIC bank data, real time IEX stock prices, fundamental US 10Q and 10K data, and insider transactions. Dozens of applications built with that data are also available, applications that free up investors to focus on what really matters- testing assumptions, conducting research, and generating insight. By uniting data providers, developers, and investors around a new model for financial innovation, the Intrinio Fintech marketplace promises to refocus the financial data industry on the developers and investors that make meaning out of data.

Slope Software, Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Slope Software, Inc. develops cloud-based actuarial modeling and risk management solutions for insurers, actuaries, and financial institutions. It offers ALM and capital management, pricing, embedded value, and custom modeling solutions. The company also offers valuation, pricing, and cash flow testing services. The company's platform provides model development; development tools built for actuaries, assumption management; input and data management tools, model execution; robust and affordable computing in the cloud, reporting and analysis; integrated, feature-rich reporting, and analysis, and model governance; management tools to enable the robust model governance framework. Slope Software, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chamblee, Georgia.

DigitalVision, LLC

Seed Round in 2014
DigitalVision, LLC developing the VisionOptimizer (“DVO”), a virtual refracting platform for diagnosing vision disorders and procuring customized eyeglasses that will provide better vision and viewing comfort than conventional eyewear procured using error-prone phoropter measurements. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

PreTel, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
PreTel develops and offers fetal monitoring systems that improve both maternal and pediatric outcomes in the labor and delivery departments. The company offers uterine electromyography (uEMG) monitoring and area sensor solutions that solve the inability of accurately identifying true versus false labor with fetal monitoring, leading to unnecessary invasive monitoring, c-section deliveries, and expensive neonatal intensive care nursery stays. PreTel is based in Ontario, Canada.

Pointivo

Seed Round in 2014
Pointivo Inc. creates a technology solution that uses camera to capture the dimensions of any structure and model the structure in 3D. Its technology enables users to capture video from camera; reconstruct the scene to extract lines, edges, and measurements in its cloud-based software; and model the points to create a 3D model with detailed dimensions or integrate with other applications. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

UserIQ

Series A in 2016
Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, UserIQ was founded in 2014 to help SaaS companies deliver what each of their users needs to be successful in every moment. As a result, you’ll scale onboarding, improve feature adoption, accelerate time-to-value, and ultimately drive more revenue throughout the customer journey. In 2017, G2 Crowd recognized UserIQ as the Customer Success solution with the Highest User Adoption and as a top product in Atlanta’s B2B tech industry.

Haste

Seed Round in 2017
Haste is an information technology company that offers a patent-pending purpose-built software running on customized network infrastructure, designed from the ground up to minimize latency, packet loss, and jitter. It enables its users to experience smooth and fast gameplay. The company was founded in

Sequr

Seed Round in 2017
Sequr, Inc. develops cloud-based physical access control system that is designed to integrate existing hardware systems into a unified platform. The company offers Access Control Portal for cloud-hosted access management; Visitor Management for access control and integrated visitor management; Mobile Access, an office access products; and Access Control Hardware that supports controllers and readers. It also provides related support services. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. As of January 8, 2020, Sequr, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Genea.

Goodr

Series A in 2022
Goodr Inc. develops a real time food rescue application that engages in sustainable waste management activities. The company's dashboard allows businesses to track and account for their donations, see their real time tax savings, and analyze waste trends. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Speedscale

Seed Round in 2020
Speedscale Inc. develops a software to help companies test applications with less errors in production. Its software also prevents production incidents hidden in the users’ code by using K8S traffic to write tests and mocks for them. The company’s solutions include DevOps/SRE pros, engineering leads, and application executives. Speedscale Inc. was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

FortifyData

Seed Round in 2022
FortifyData, Inc. develops cyber security solutions for companies to assess, identify, and manage cyber security threats. The company’s cyber security and risk scoring platform tracks performance against key risk and compliance factors, which allows companies to comply with industry security standards. The software is used to analyze security related to human risk, processes, and technology. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Saleo

Pre Seed Round in 2022

Goodr

Venture Round in 2022
Goodr Inc. develops a real time food rescue application that engages in sustainable waste management activities. The company's dashboard allows businesses to track and account for their donations, see their real time tax savings, and analyze waste trends. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cloverly

Seed Round in 2021
Provide tools for businesses and organizations to achieve carbon neutrality by connecting online buyers to local, high-quality renewable energy through their Sustainability-as-a-Service platform. Clean-tech startup creating a sustainability-as-a-service platform to make carbon offsets accessible for everyday activities.

Cypress.io, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Cypress.io develops a front-end automated testing application for running unit and integration tests in a browser. The company offers The Cypress Test Runner, a test engine that combines existing testing tools with a graphical user interface to monitor and debug tests. The company's dashboard service is an optional web-based companion that records test runs in continuous integration to understand failures and share results with the team, allowing a more powerful way of writing and running tests. Cypress.io was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

PreTel, Inc.

Series A in 2017
PreTel develops and offers fetal monitoring systems that improve both maternal and pediatric outcomes in the labor and delivery departments. The company offers uterine electromyography (uEMG) monitoring and area sensor solutions that solve the inability of accurately identifying true versus false labor with fetal monitoring, leading to unnecessary invasive monitoring, c-section deliveries, and expensive neonatal intensive care nursery stays. PreTel is based in Ontario, Canada.

Pointivo

Seed Round in 2015
Pointivo Inc. creates a technology solution that uses camera to capture the dimensions of any structure and model the structure in 3D. Its technology enables users to capture video from camera; reconstruct the scene to extract lines, edges, and measurements in its cloud-based software; and model the points to create a 3D model with detailed dimensions or integrate with other applications. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pryon

Seed Round in 2018
Pryon Inc. is an artificial intelligence (AI) company that creates an augmented intelligence platform for the enterprise that combines the strengths of humans and machines. Its augmented intelligence platform orchestrates information across channels, endpoints, and sources with context awareness, disambiguation, inference, natural language, and other AI techniques; and grants access to knowledge, processes, and decisions without the cumbersome layers that slow work down. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Salesfusion

Series B in 2015
Salesfusion’s mission is to help marketers attract new opportunities, convert them into customers and nurture them into lifetime relationships. With Salesfusion, some of the best marketers today are not only driving quality leads into the sales funnel, they are automating the lead to revenue process. Salesfusion is more than marketing automation, it is the only lead to revenue platform you will ever need. Salesfusion integrates marketing automation software natively with more CRM vendors than any other marketing software package available today.

Cypress.io, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Cypress.io develops a front-end automated testing application for running unit and integration tests in a browser. The company offers The Cypress Test Runner, a test engine that combines existing testing tools with a graphical user interface to monitor and debug tests. The company's dashboard service is an optional web-based companion that records test runs in continuous integration to understand failures and share results with the team, allowing a more powerful way of writing and running tests. Cypress.io was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Haste

Seed Round in 2016
Haste is an information technology company that offers a patent-pending purpose-built software running on customized network infrastructure, designed from the ground up to minimize latency, packet loss, and jitter. It enables its users to experience smooth and fast gameplay. The company was founded in

Vital Vio, Inc.

Debt Financing in 2019
Vital Vio offers a new class of antimicrobial light for infection and germ control through safe, continuous LED products. Our goal is to protect as many people and places from germs as possible with our products which can be utilized anywhere a light can fit. We service customers in food processing, healthcare, industrial/commercial as well as a licensing model for consumer and residential products.

PreTel, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
PreTel develops and offers fetal monitoring systems that improve both maternal and pediatric outcomes in the labor and delivery departments. The company offers uterine electromyography (uEMG) monitoring and area sensor solutions that solve the inability of accurately identifying true versus false labor with fetal monitoring, leading to unnecessary invasive monitoring, c-section deliveries, and expensive neonatal intensive care nursery stays. PreTel is based in Ontario, Canada.