Tech Square Ventures

Tech Square Ventures, LLC is a venture capital firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in seed and early-stage investments in technology companies. Founded in 2014, the firm focuses on investing in enterprises, marketplaces, platform technologies, and tech-enabled services. It particularly targets investments in connected devices, medical devices, and information technology, with a strong emphasis on university research spinoffs that possess defensible intellectual property and proven technology. Tech Square Ventures typically invests between $0.25 million and $0.5 million in its portfolio companies, primarily within the Southeast and Georgia regions. The firm also engages in co-investments and leverages a strategic network of relationships within the innovation ecosystem, including corporate and university partnerships, to support entrepreneurs in enhancing their market access and go-to-market strategies.

Joelle Fox

CFO and Operating Partner

Scott Lopano

Associate

Melissa Pegus

Senior Associate

Past deals in Georgia

Cloverly

Series A in 2023
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.

Goodr

Venture Round in 2022
Goodr Inc. is a sustainable food surplus management platform that utilizes technology to mitigate food waste and address hunger. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company offers a real-time food rescue application that assists businesses in managing their edible food waste. Through its platform, Goodr enables businesses to donate surplus food to local nonprofit organizations while providing logistics, analytics, and security to ensure compliance with tax regulations. The software offers insights into food waste patterns, real-time donation tracking, and community impact reports, which help organizations quantify their contributions. Goodr’s blockchain-enabled platform also ensures an IRS audit-friendly record of donations, fostering a transparent process. By facilitating these donations, Goodr aims to create a triple-win scenario: enhancing the financial benefits for businesses through tax deductions, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from landfills, and alleviating hunger in communities.

Saleo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Saleo is a sales demo experience platform tailored for software companies, aimed at enhancing the demo process for sales and revenue teams. By integrating data visualization services, Saleo enables organizations to create engaging and accurate demos directly within their live SaaS products. This platform addresses common challenges such as missing data and outdated demo environments, significantly reducing the time and effort required for demo preparation. Users can customize demos quickly, ensuring that they resonate with customer pain points and improve the likelihood of closing deals. With complete control over all visual elements, including graphs, metrics, and images, Saleo empowers teams to deliver compelling presentations that drive sales success.

Gridline

Venture Round in 2022
Gridline is a digital wealth platform that revolutionizes private market investing by providing individual investors with access to top-performing alternative asset managers, enabling them to build diversified portfolios in a matter of minutes through a fully digital experience.

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.

FortifyData

Seed Round in 2022
FortifyData, Inc. is a cyber security software company based in Kennesaw, Georgia, founded in 2015. The company specializes in providing solutions that enable enterprises to assess, identify, and manage their cyber security threats effectively. Its cyber risk scoring platform evaluates performance against essential risk indicators, facilitating compliance with various industry security standards and regulations, such as PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST. FortifyData's software addresses security concerns related to human factors, processes, and technology, offering organizations a comprehensive approach to enhance their cyber security posture.

Slope Software

Seed Round in 2021
Slope Software, Inc. specializes in cloud-based actuarial modeling and risk management solutions tailored for insurers, actuaries, and financial institutions. Founded in 2015 and based in Chamblee, Georgia, the company offers a comprehensive platform that facilitates asset/liability modeling across various insurance products and investments. Its features support a wide range of actuarial functions, including pricing, valuation, asset-liability management (ALM), and cash flow testing. The platform is designed for ease of use, featuring a point-and-click interface that allows users to construct models without extensive programming knowledge. It effectively manages assumptions and inputs, integrating with existing data sources like Excel, and tracks all changes for model governance and validation. Results are presented through integrated business intelligence dashboards, offering visually appealing insights. Built on Amazon Web Services, the system is scalable and can handle multiple scenarios simultaneously while ensuring data security through encryption. Slope Software stands out as a pioneering provider of fully cloud-based actuarial modeling solutions.

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.

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.

Verusen

Seed Round in 2020
Verusen is a supply chain intelligence company that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance visibility and digitization in complex global supply chains. Its platform integrates and harmonizes disparate material data across various ERP systems, facilitating accurate master data management to lower inventory costs and improve production reliability. By implementing intelligent controls, Verusen enforces inventory management procedures to mitigate the risk of inventory spikes, while its predictive capabilities optimize allocation and procurement processes. This approach provides businesses with a reliable data foundation, enabling them to adapt swiftly, innovate, and support initiatives related to Industry 4.0. Founded in 2015 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, Verusen primarily serves Fortune 500 manufacturers and their supply chains.

Ledgible

Seed Round in 2019
Ledgible, developed by Verady, LLC, is a platform designed for the accounting, verification, and auditing of cryptocurrency and blockchain assets. It serves financial institutions, corporations, and accounting firms, addressing the gaps in traditional accounting systems regarding these innovative assets. Founded in 2016 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, Verady aims to enhance the acceptance and growth of blockchain assets by providing a robust solution that integrates seamlessly with existing financial verification and reporting processes. The Ledgible platform facilitates the necessary oversight and assurance needed in the evolving landscape of cryptocurrency, bridging the divide between traditional finance and emerging digital assets.

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.

Cypress.io

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.

Gauge

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.

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.

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 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

Cypress.io

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.

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.

Pointivo

Seed Round in 2015
Pointivo Inc. is a technology company based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in spatial intelligence solutions that leverage computer vision and machine learning. Founded in June 2014, Pointivo's software allows users to capture dimensions and create three-dimensional models of structures using any type of camera, including mobile devices and drones. The platform processes video to reconstruct scenes, extracting lines, edges, and measurements with high accuracy. This capability helps clients simplify tasks that require precise measurements and detailed documentation of physical assets. By integrating advanced analytics, Pointivo empowers users to gain a deeper understanding of their environments, enhancing their ability to manage and analyze physical structures effectively.

DigitalVision, LLC

Seed Round in 2014
DigitalVision, LLC, founded in 2004 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializes in developing a virtual refracting platform known as VisionOptimizer (DVO). This innovative technology is designed to diagnose vision disorders and facilitate the procurement of customized eyeglasses, aiming to enhance vision and comfort compared to traditional eyewear methods that rely on phoropter measurements, which can often be inaccurate. In addition to the VisionOptimizer platform, DigitalVision manufactures and distributes vision simulators, prescribers, spectacles, and contact lenses, positioning itself as a key player in the vision correction industry.

Pointivo

Seed Round in 2014
Pointivo Inc. is a technology company based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in spatial intelligence solutions that leverage computer vision and machine learning. Founded in June 2014, Pointivo's software allows users to capture dimensions and create three-dimensional models of structures using any type of camera, including mobile devices and drones. The platform processes video to reconstruct scenes, extracting lines, edges, and measurements with high accuracy. This capability helps clients simplify tasks that require precise measurements and detailed documentation of physical assets. By integrating advanced analytics, Pointivo empowers users to gain a deeper understanding of their environments, enhancing their ability to manage and analyze physical structures effectively.