Right Side Capital Management

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, established in 2010. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, focusing exclusively on the pre-seed round of technology startups. Right Side Capital Management aims to support companies with capital-efficient business models that are typically located outside major hubs like the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. The firm invests in a range of technology sectors, including internet and cloud technologies, and operates primarily within the United States and Canada, with occasional investments in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. Right Side Capital Management conducts 75 to 100 investments annually, with portfolio companies spanning 19 states. The firm seeks to provide a clear response to entrepreneurs within two weeks, with investments generally ranging from $50,000 to $500,000 and pre-money valuations between $1 million and $3 million.

Kevin Dick

Managing Director

Dave Lambert

Managing Director

Jeff Pomeranz

Managing Director

Past deals in Seattle, WA

Parrots

Funding Round in 2021
Parrots Inc. is an assistive robotics and medical devices company that creates smart, inclusive companions for people with mobility and communication challenges. The socially assistive robots empower the users and their caregivers to more robustly experience their worlds by assisting with seeing, speaking, and interacting with surroundings. Parrots is an intuitive robotics company that develops a socially assistive companion for people with mobility and communication challenges. The robot is built to be their friendly companion on your shoulder like a parrot. The socially assistive robots are plug-and-play devices, which can be controlled hands-free through eye-tracking or other abilities switches. Parrots create five values (5 C's): 1. Communication: AI/ML smart communication in real-time with an intuitive prediction system, which is 4x faster than all current assistive communication devices. 2. Control: 360-degree computer vision indoor and outdoor. 3. Connectivity: with smart-home devices. 4. Compatibility: with all kinds of abilities switches, including eye-tracking, head-mouse, joystick, or facial expression. 5- Caregiving: with devices and inclusive apps that assist people with physical challenges and their caregivers by maximizing independence for the users and reducing caregivers’ costs.

Invio, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Invio, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in remote clinical trial monitoring solutions. Founded in 2016, Invio offers a cloud-based platform designed to enhance data quality control in clinical trials. This platform allows for efficient monitoring of data collected from various hospitals, which is crucial for compliance with FDA requirements. By automating the identification of potential issues, Invio reduces the need for frequent in-person visits by monitors, which traditionally contribute to high operational costs in clinical trials. The company's technology helps ensure accurate subject enrollment, verifies the correctness of recorded data, and optimizes the use of healthcare professionals' time, ultimately leading to faster, more efficient, and cost-effective clinical trials.

ChoiceMap

Seed Round in 2017
ChoiceMap Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2014 that operates an iPhone application focused on enhancing decision-making for individuals, particularly in healthcare. The application facilitates collaborative treatment decision-making between doctors and patients by allowing users to compare various options based on ratings, prices, distances, and other relevant filters. It supports decision-making in areas such as birth control methods, child planning, and career paths. The software personalizes treatment options by incorporating clinical data provided by physicians, which patients can adjust according to their priorities. This process not only aids patients in understanding their treatment options but also helps doctors gain insights into their patients' preferences, ultimately fostering a more informed and cooperative healthcare experience.

Botnik Studios

Convertible Note in 2017
Botnik is a community of writers, artists and developers collaborating with machines to create strange new things. The community is open to everyone. Botnik Studios is an entertainment group devoted to displaying the work of the larger community.

Seeva

Convertible Note in 2017
SEEVA Technologies, Inc. manufactures visibility systems for commercial and passenger vehicle perception. Its solution uses visibility technologies to heat and apply washer fluid to clear off snow, ice, mud, sand, dirt and bugs. The company's product includes QwikTherm system that cleans vehicle’s sensors, cameras, radar, and windshield. SEEVA Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Novel Effect

Convertible Note in 2017
Seattle-based Novel Effect is the leader in voice-driven media and entertainment. Through the use of voice, Novel Effect’s products blend physical and digital worlds to create immersive and interactive experiences across books, video and games.

IOT World Labs

Convertible Note in 2017
IOT World Labs is an IOT platform company that helps enterprises deploy their IOT solutions quickly. These solutions can be designed, integrated and correlated through our platform. We welcome Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and developers to build and integrate their IOT hardware, software and services on our platform.

Silene Biotech

Convertible Note in 2017
Silene Biotech offers consumers affordable, accessible personalized cell preservation using protocols and standards meeting current Good Manufacturing Processes as established by the FDA.

Swym

Convertible Note in 2017
Swym Corporation, founded in 2012 and based in Seattle, Washington, offers mobile applications and online services designed to enhance the shopping experience for consumers and retailers. The company's platform allows retailers to manage targeted shopping emails and facilitate a seamless shopping journey across multiple devices. Recognizing that many e-commerce purchases arise from multi-session shopping experiences, Swym provides tools that integrate easily with existing e-commerce sites. By enabling cross-channel shopping, Swym allows retailers to better serve today's consumers, ensuring that customer interactions are maximized and that shoppers can navigate their purchasing journeys intuitively.

VendorHawk

Convertible Note in 2017
VendorHawk Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in a cloud-based application designed to help organizations optimize their Software as a Service (SaaS) spending and vendor management. The application centralizes cost implications, enabling users to make informed decisions regarding their software vendors and application utilization. VendorHawk also offers consulting services aimed at identifying wasteful spending and providing actionable recommendations for cost optimization. Incorporated in 2016, VendorHawk operates as a subsidiary of ServiceNow, Inc.

Valid8

Convertible Note in 2017
Valid8 Financial, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform aimed at accounting and finance professionals. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Shoreline, Washington, Valid8 addresses the challenges faced by the accounting services industry, which is valued at $100 billion annually in the United States. The company focuses on automating the collection of verified financial intelligence, which has traditionally relied on manual processes and sampling methods. By leveraging automation, artificial intelligence, and data science, Valid8 aims to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of financial data collection, thereby modernizing practices within an industry that is increasingly impacted by technological advancements.

IOpipe

Seed Round in 2016
IOpipe is a DevOps platform specifically designed for serverless applications, managing billions of events monthly. It offers a comprehensive toolbox for developing, monitoring, and operating these applications, addressing the unique challenges that arise from the shift towards serverless computing. The platform features an open-source module that enables real-time telemetry, tracing, profiling, alerts, logs, and error tracking, allowing developers to gain insights into the performance and operations of their serverless functions, such as those running on Amazon Lambda. By adopting a customer-centric approach, IOpipe collaborates closely with users to resolve challenges effectively. The company emphasizes building a remote-first, diverse team committed to delivering a top-tier product for serverless development and operations.

Blueprint Registry

Seed Round in 2016
Blueprint Registry is an innovative ecommerce platform offering users the ability to shop or create a wish list based on the layout of their home. Blueprint Registry started at weddings to prove the concept and has since redefined the experience making gifting more convenient, personal and visual.

Mixer

Convertible Note in 2016
Mixer, formerly Beam, offers gaming live-streams made interactive. Mixer gives viewers a window into streamer's game worlds, allowing you to do everything from striking lightning down, to generating the level's terrain. Mixer is a next-generation live streaming platform for gamers that lets viewers participate in the gameplay itself.Instead of sitting idle, viewers get to engage with the content directly, creating quests, choosing weapons, or even acting as characters within the game world.

Shyft Technologies

Convertible Note in 2016
Shyft Technologies Inc. develops a mobile application that enables employees to swap shifts and share schedules. It serves retail, supply chain, food service, and grocery industries. Shyft Technologies Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Los Angeles, California.

Validated

Convertible Note in 2016
Validated makes getting around more affordable than ever before by letting merchants pay your way in exchange for your business. Validated gives brick & mortar businesses a zero-risk means to stimulate increased spending and boost customer lifetime value. Validations are conditional –– customers must meet the spending threshold you set. Validating transportation costs makes visiting your business painless and lets customers know you appreciate them. Validated works with property managers, parking operators and transportation providers to offer their validation service to tenants and customers. Validated is a direct replacement for traditional validation programs, but with zero cost to implement and no overhead to run.

Keepe

Seed Round in 2016
Keepe is a B2B marketplace for Home Repairs. For property and appliances repairs, there are few speedy and efficient solutions to get the job done. Keepe is revolutionizing the way enterprises such as Property Management companies, Home Warranty companies, REITs find qualified technicians, obtain estimates, get the work done and pay for services. Keepe is currently available in multiple cities in the United States.

Polly

Seed Round in 2016
Polly is a survey platform that helps teams to quickly collect feedback, allowing them to measure their workflows and improve employee and customer experiences. Its notable clients include Soylent, Auth0, and Grammarly. The company was founded in 2015 by former Microsoft engineers Samir Diwan and Bilal Aijazi‏. The startup is backed by Amplify Partners, Slack Fund, Fathom Capital, and Madrona Venture Group.

Gamesight

Seed Round in 2015
Gamesight is a marketing platform specifically designed for PC and console games, based in Seattle, Washington. The company focuses on player relationship management, enabling game publishers to cultivate robust communities around their titles. By facilitating engagement with key influencers in the gaming industry, Gamesight helps publishers enhance their marketing strategies. Additionally, the platform provides tools to effectively measure marketing performance, allowing publishers to assess the impact of their campaigns and make informed decisions.

Mona

Convertible Note in 2015
Mona is the first artificial intelligence based personal shopping assistant that learns customer preferences to give them their style, at their price. Founded by former Amazon.com employees, Mona provides an interactive product search experience where she asks for and analyzes customer feedback and provides better recommendations in real-time. This is their first step towards creating a mobile shopping experience that is similar to an in-store dialogue between a customer and assistant.

ZIIBRA

Seed Round in 2015
ZIIBRA is the single platform for online retailers to interact with customers, intimately - at each stage of their journey.

Lightboard

Seed Round in 2015
Lightboard is your designer-in-the-cloud for marketing and sales material. Their account managers, designers, and software are tuned to efficiently deliver small projects with spectacular results. Stop wrangling freelancers. Let us do the work.

Giftbit

Seed Round in 2015
Giftbit, Corp. operates a rewards platform that allows users to buy, send, and control digital gift cards. The company’s gift card API includes gift card tracking and reporting, customization, and team account features. It also provides in-app gift card integration; and third party integration solutions. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Victoria, Canada.

AtCipher

Pre Seed Round in 2015
AtCipher helps company to protect data in the cloud using patent-pending key management technology that is zero knowledge, infinitely scalable, and keyless.

Matcherino

Seed Round in 2015
Matcherino, Inc. provides a crowdfunding platform for game publishers and tournament organizers to manage esports tournaments and events. Its platform connects brands and tournament organizers to monetize the tournaments. The company’s platform also enables professional players to play the games and increase the prize pools to support the game publishers’ community. Matcherino, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

DataBlade

Seed Round in 2015
DataBlade is a cloud-based platform for data sciences. It offers its users with centralized reporting services, exporting services to Microsoft excel, and schedule services. It also offers companies with centralized reporting services that blends across multiple data sources without the cost of building and maintaining data warehouses. Individuals can export their work sheets into Microsoft excel applications without coding, manual copying and pasting, and automation services. Individuals gets automatically updated reports. DataBlade is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2015.

Brand.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Brand.ai is automatically maintainable UI components style guide. Brand provides tools and integrations to upgrade its users’ systems from reference sites to living products that integrates with their team’s existing workflows. The company offers its users with design asset management, sketch UI library sync, cross-platform style data export, documentation integration, and MS office integration services. It establishes a centralized repository system for its users’ design assets and it allows its users to get designs directly in the tools they already use. It also allows its users to share UI components and styles with its users’ teams. It pushes design library updates to their teams that all individuals can use the updated version in sketch. Brand is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014.

Metricstory

Convertible Note in 2015
Metricstory Incorporated owns and operates business optimization platform that discovers unrealized revenue opportunities. It provides timely prescriptive alerts, spend optimization solutions, performance anomalies, simplified workflow, and team collaboration. The company serves e-commerce leaders, data analysts, agencies, email marketers, merchandisers, and executives. Metricstory Incorporated was founded in 2015 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Stabilitas

Seed Round in 2015
Stabilitas Intelligence Communications, Inc. develops a platform which provide security and intelligence data. It provides data for security managers, intelligence teams, corporate protection teams, and travel managers. The company develops SigActs, a platform which provides information and context about risks around, and PACE Notify, a platform for communicating security data through SMS, voice, email, and application. The company was formerly known as A & H Stabilitas Ventures, Inc. Stabilitas Intelligence Communications, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Seattle, Washington. As of August 11, 2020, Stabilitas Intelligence Communications, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ONSOLVE, LLC.

Magicflix

Seed Round in 2014
Magicflix is a safe, curated video service for kids 12 years and younger. Magicflix aggregates videos from award-winning, original content creators from across the world. Magicflix provides a safe environment for children to view videos by curating them to be safe, age-appropriate and positive. Magicflix is now live on the App store. Magicflix is a Techstars Seattle 2014 startup and is based out of Seattle, WA. Magicflix is led by a strong technology team and 3 of Magicflix' 4 founders are moms including the CEO, Mamtha Banerjee. Together with it's content partners, Magicflix' mission is to make the mobile world a safer place for our children.

LiveStories

Seed Round in 2014
LiveStories drives outreach and better decisions using civic data—how communities live, learn, work, and play. Its all-in-one data platform makes it easy to analyze local data, get benchmarks, and create interactive stories. Its customers span government, public health, and business, including the AARP, Gates Foundation, Americans for Non-Smokers' Rights, California Health and Human Services Agency, Maricopa County, and many local health departments.

Garmentory

Seed Round in 2014
Garmentory is a managed marketplace for emerging and contemporary designers (Nordstrom price segment). Contemporary boutiques and designers sell less than 1% of their apparel online. Their customers buy 20%+ of their apparel online. Garmentory's marketplace allows customers to find brilliant, limited run items, typically only available in boutiques. Using Garmentory, boutiques can open their doors to the world without having to learn sophisticated and expensive digital marketing or build the technical store infrastructure to compete with major department stores.

Crowsnest

Seed Round in 2014
Crowsnest is a rule engine that detects complex patterns in streams of real-time IoT data - they can tell companies when their products are failing, sometimes before their customers even notice. For one example, Crowsnest can detect when, where, and how your shipped devices are failing in the field, and take action with an automated customer service email that is contextual and instant. Crowsnest is a rule engine that performs real-time CEP on large volumes of streaming device data, making it easier to react to complex event sequences as they happen.

Skilljar

Seed Round in 2013
Skilljar Inc. develops and operates an online training platform that enables organizations to create, customize, and deliver online courses. It offers technology, sales, professional development, finance, and fitness training services. The company also provides enterprise and partner services, such as custom branding, course management, turnkey solution, and mobile responsive. Skilljar Inc. was formerly known as Everpath Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Inside Social

Seed Round in 2013
Inside Social is an early-stage technology company, allowing users to measure and increase the impact that social sharing has on the metrics that drive its business. It has built a social marketing platform that helps large brands and e-commerce companies do better social marketing.Inside Social improves social media’s full potential by tracking the metrics that really matter all the way through to downstream conversions, resulting in meaningful and actionable insights. It was founded in 2012 by Brewster Stanislaw and Joey Kotkins. It is based in Seattle, Washington.

ResolutionTube

Seed Round in 2013
ResolutionTube is a patented mobile augmented reality collaboration platform for the customer service industry, initially targeting the field service industry. We connect the engineers on the field with the experts using our patent pending video platform. Connect to the right person at the right time. Get answers not only from your colleagues but from everyone within the organization. Video chat with them right away. The video chats are recorded and vetted before they become part of a tutorial. The knowledge center gets richer and more useful with time.

Shippable

Seed Round in 2013
Shippable, Inc. provides Shippable, a SaaS platform that lets a client to add continuous integration/deployment to client’s Github and Bitbucket(Git) repositories. Its Shippable common use cases include automating the packaging and deployment of Web applications; and automated testing and continuous integration/deployment. The company serves businesses around the world. Shippable, Inc. was formerly known as Qhode Inc. and changed its name to Shippable, Inc. in December 2013. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Bellevue, Washington. As of February 21, 2019, Shippable, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of JFrog Ltd.

Perfect

Seed Round in 2013
We take videos you record on Google Glass and create an ongoing movie for your life. Record the things in life you want to remember, three seconds at a time.

OFunnel

Seed Round in 2013
For Businesses, OFunnel provides a way to tap into the networks of everyone in the organization--not just the sales team. With OFunnel, your sales team is able to spend more time gaining warm introductions and closing critical deals, and less time making cold calls.

Boxella

Seed Round in 2013
Boxella helps consumers track important information and alerts about their big-ticket purchases throughout the lifecycle of those products.

Heroic.ly

Seed Round in 2013
Heroic.ly operates an online marketing platform. Its platform offers the knowledge of publishers, platforms, and content that target customers; details on value of real-time marketing funnel; and report on customer centric insights such as predicted revenue, CPA targets, and lead time. Heroic.ly is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Appetas

Seed Round in 2012
Appetas' restaurant marketing platform gets restaurants online instantly and empowers to easily market themselves. Appetas’ technology can instantly create beautiful web, mobile, and social sites for restaurants using their real menu, hours, and location. We reach restaurants through established partner channels and provide our marketing platform as a service. Individual and small chain restaurants struggle to establish a quality online presence. They understand the importance of marketing online but existing options are too complex, expensive, and time consuming. Appetas gets restaurants online in seconds with great looking web, mobile, and social sites provided alongside a partner they trust. They can make updates themselves or opt for a full service option.

Linksy

Seed Round in 2012
Linksy helps busy marketers tap their employees, customers, and fans to spread their message on social sites.

Apptentive

Seed Round in 2012
Apptentive, Inc. develops a mobile customer engagement software/customer feedback and analytics platform that helps companies to listen to, engage with, and retain their customers. Its software gives brands a way to identify who to talk to, engage user segments, and mobilize customers to take action through in-app messages, surveys, ratings prompts, notes, and analytics. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Maptia

Seed Round in 2012
Maptia is dedicated to fostering empathy through storytelling. They aim to provide a platform for those who document and capture the world around them, bringing them together to create a lasting record of life on Earth; so that people everywhere can experience the cultural and natural wonders of our planet, can feel more connected to the biggest issues facing the world today, and can be empowered to create a better future.

TRED

Seed Round in 2012
TRED connects trusted car buyers and sellers thru advanced technology and financing options. It is the most trusted way to buy or sell a pre-owned car—with the largest network of trusted buyers and sellers, and the most advanced technology and financing options. They connect the buyers and sellers for a private party person-to-person transaction, but also cover them with all the same protection and security as a dealer. They handle the paperwork and make sure dealers get paid. They provide peace of mind with their free 30-day TRED Vehicle Protection policy: complete warranty coverage and roadside assistance that can be extended up to seven years.

MobileDevHQ

Seed Round in 2012
MobileDevHQ is an enterprise organic app marketing platform that offers mobile marketers with app store optimization (ASO) solutions. The platform enables app marketers to analyze and optimize the app store presence of an app, track an app’s relevant search ranking queries in an app store, discover top chart rankings, analyze keywords, and receive daily email updates. It helps them increase organic downloads in iStore and Google Play. MobileDevHQ was launched in February 2012 and its operations are based in Washington, United States.

Jawfish Games

Seed Round in 2012
Jawfish Games is the industry leader in real-time, multi-player tournaments for mobile and web. The Jawfish Games mission is to help people stop playing with themselves. Games played in real time tournaments are more exciting, fun, and engaging. Jawfish has created a scalable, resilient, lightweight infrastructure for turning great single-player titles into even better multi-player real-time tournaments. Our software is cross-platform and seamlessly facilitates fun and engaging tournaments with players on different devices playing in the same field of play.