Runway Growth Capital

Runway Growth Capital is a Chicago-based debt fund established in 2020, focused on providing capital to support entrepreneurs in expanding their businesses while minimizing equity dilution. The firm primarily targets investments within the financial services sector, committing between 30 million to 75 million dollars to individual companies. By lending significant amounts to promising ventures, Runway Growth Capital aims to foster growth and facilitate the development of sustainable business models.

Ted Cavan

Managing Director

Greg Greifeld

Managing Director

Robert Lake

Managing Director, Head of Life Science

Shayna Modarresi

Managing Director

Brad Pritchard

Managing Director

Brian Sapp

Managing Director

David Spreng

Investor

51 past transactions

Moximed

Debt Financing in 2022
Moximed, Inc. is focused on developing joint-preserving solutions for patients suffering from knee osteoarthritis. The company's primary product, the Atlas System, functions as an implantable joint unloader, similar to a shock absorber, specifically targeting individuals experiencing pain in the medial compartment of the knee. This innovative approach aims to alleviate joint pain, reduce dynamic load, and potentially delay the necessity for more invasive surgical interventions. Moximed seeks to enhance the standard of care for osteoarthritis patients, helping them maintain an active lifestyle while serving both patients and medical professionals globally. Established in 2006 and headquartered in Hayward, California, Moximed was previously known as ExploraMed NC4, Inc.

Revelle Aesthetics

Debt Financing in 2022
Revelle Aesthetics features a team of the brightest and most passionate minds in the medical device and aesthetics industries. It was born from ExploraMed, a leading medtech incubator.

Mustang Bio

Post in 2022
Mustang Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development, and commercialization of novel cancer immunotherapy products designed to utilize the power of the patient's own immune system to eliminate cancer cells. The products under development are - CD123, CD20, and CS1.

Dejero

Debt Financing in 2022
Dejero Labs is driven by its vision of reliable connectivity anywhere, Dejero blends multiple Internet connections to deliver fast and dependable connectivity required for cloud computing, online collaboration, and the secure exchange of video and data. With its global partners, Dejero supplies the equipment, software, connectivity services, cloud services, and support to provide the uptime and bandwidth critical to the success of today’s organizations. Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Dejero is trusted for broadcast-quality video transport and high-bandwidth Internet connectivity around the world. For more information.

EPIC iO

Debt Financing in 2022
Provider of advanced surveillance and monitoring services across an array of internet of things (IoT) applications for the public and private sectors. The company's platform can extract and intelligently generate and analyze IoT data that provides high-value, actionable insights through a single, integrated source, helping all businesses become safe, smart and connected.

VertexOne

Debt Financing in 2022
VertexOne provides enhanced SaaS customer billing and payment, customer management and customer experience solutions to mid-market utilities across North America.

Snag

Debt Financing in 2022
Snagajob is the platform for hourly work with 100 million registered hourly workers and 470,000 employer locations nationwide. With Snagajob, hourly workers find work more easily and employers staff up faster, hire smarter and keep shifts filled. Snagajob's platform for jobs and shifts allows people to land the right work while ensuring employers find the right workers when and where they need them. Snagajob was founded in 1999 and is based in Glen Allen, Virginia, United States.

Route 92

Debt Financing in 2021
Route 92 Medical, Inc. specializes in developing innovative medical devices aimed at treating acute ischemic stroke and related conditions. The company has created a stealthy catheter, a rapid aspiration thrombectomy system, and an intra-cerebral implant delivery system. These products are designed to assist healthcare professionals in effectively treating strokes and enhancing patient recovery. Founded in 2015 and based in San Mateo, California, Route 92 Medical continues to focus on advancing technologies that improve outcomes for stroke patients.

Betterment

Debt Financing in 2021
Betterment LLC is an online financial advisory firm based in New York, offering a range of services designed to optimize investment returns for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2007, the company provides access to diversified portfolios that include stock and bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Its offerings encompass financial planning, retirement accounts such as traditional and Roth IRAs, and tax-efficient strategies like tax loss harvesting. Betterment also features advanced tools like the Two-Way Sweep for cash management. The firm operates through three distinct channels: direct-to-consumer services, Betterment for business aimed at employers, and Betterment for advisors catering to financial professionals. With a management fee of 0.25%, Betterment enables clients to easily manage their portfolios, track activities, and make transactions anytime, anywhere.

CrossRoads Extremity Systems

Debt Financing in 2021
CrossRoads Extremity Systems, LLC is a medical device company based in Memphis, Tennessee, that specializes in the design, manufacture, and marketing of implant systems specifically for foot and ankle surgeries. Founded in 2014, the company offers a range of products, including the MotoBAND CP Plating System for midfoot and forefoot procedures, STRoPP implant kits, and the MotoCLIP, which aids in bone healing through innovative fixation techniques. Additionally, CrossRoads provides implants like the CrossTIE series for hammertoe correction and revision cases, as well as Allograft wedges and DBM putties. Their DynaFORCE hybrid fixation system enhances surgical flexibility and dynamic compression. The company also emphasizes sustainability through its EcoSMART instrument recovery service, which addresses waste in surgical environments. Products are distributed across the United States, aiming to improve surgical outcomes and operational efficiency in healthcare settings.

SetPoint Medical

Debt Financing in 2021
SetPoint Medical Corporation, a clinical-stage bioelectronic medicine company, develops implantable neuromodulation devices for treating patients with debilitating inflammatory diseases. SetPoint Medical Corporation was formerly known as Innovative Metabolics Inc. and changed its name to SetPoint Medical Corporation in July 2008. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Valencia, California.

Marley Spoon

Debt Financing in 2021
Marley Spoon Inc. provides a weekly meal kit service that delivers fresh ingredients and recipes directly to customers' doors. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the company allows customers to choose their meals, providing flexibility in what, when, and how they cook. By simplifying the cooking process, Marley Spoon aims to eliminate the need for grocery shopping and reduce food waste, making home cooking more accessible and enjoyable. Operating as a subsidiary of Marley Spoon AG, the company focuses on seasonal ingredients and diverse recipes to enhance the cooking experience for its users.

Bombora

Debt Financing in 2021
Bombora, Inc. provides B2B demographic and intent data for marketers worldwide. It engages in tracking granular B2B topics across various actions, including search, white paper downloads, Webinars, trade show sign ups, article reads, videos, social content, IPs, and more; and aggregates users into demographic segments, such as company revenue and size, functional area, industry, professional group, and seniority. Bombora, Inc. has a strategic partnership with NetWise Data LLC. The company is based in New York, New York.

Bombora

Debt Financing in 2021
Bombora, Inc. provides B2B demographic and intent data for marketers worldwide. It engages in tracking granular B2B topics across various actions, including search, white paper downloads, Webinars, trade show sign ups, article reads, videos, social content, IPs, and more; and aggregates users into demographic segments, such as company revenue and size, functional area, industry, professional group, and seniority. Bombora, Inc. has a strategic partnership with NetWise Data LLC. The company is based in New York, New York.

Allurion

Venture Round in 2021
Allurion Technologies, Inc. is a medical device company based in Natick, Massachusetts, founded in 2009. It specializes in developing innovative solutions for weight loss, particularly through its flagship product, the Allurion Balloon. This unique intragastric balloon is designed to be swallowed in capsule form, allowing for a non-surgical approach to obesity treatment. Once ingested, the balloon expands in the stomach, promoting a feeling of fullness to aid in weight loss. The company also offers the Allurion Program, which includes AI-powered remote monitoring, a behavior change program, and telehealth services to support patients throughout their weight loss journey. Allurion's approach aims to provide effective weight management without the need for surgery or endoscopy.

Vero Biotech

Debt Financing in 2021
GeNO is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the design, development and commercialization of next-generation products to address unmet medical needs of patients with a variety of pulmonary and cardiac diseases. We are currently developing inhaled nitric oxide (NO) products for use in both the hospital setting and for longer-term applications outside of the hospital setting. These products, which are based on our GeNOsyl™ drug delivery technology, are comprised of a single-use drug cassette and either a portable console or wearable controller. Our technology is designed to deliver NO safely for a variety of therapeutic indications and to provide clinicians with a solution that is more user-friendly than currently available NO delivery systems.

FiscalNote

Debt Financing in 2020
FiscalNote is a privately-held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact. FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaign finance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions.

FiscalNote

Venture Round in 2020
FiscalNote is a privately-held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact. FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaign finance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions.

Gynesonics

Debt Financing in 2020
Gynesonics, Inc. designs and develops minimally invasive solutions for symptomatic uterine fibroids in women. The company offers Sonography-Guided Transcervical Fibroid Ablation (Sonata) System(The Sonata System) for the transcervical treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids under intrauterine sonography guidance serving customers in the European Union. Gynesonics, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Redwood City, California with an additional location in Beuningen, the Netherlands.

Porch Group

Debt Financing in 2020
Porch.com, Inc. operates an online platform that connects homeowners with local home repair services. The company also facilitates customers to arrange set-up and installation for purchased goods through overstock e-commerce platform. In addition, it offers Service Attach, a tool that enables overstock customers to add installation or assembly services to online shopping carts. Porch.com, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Cinch Home Services Inc. The company as incorporated in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

CloudPay

Series D in 2020
CloudPay Solutions Limited specializes in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) payroll solutions, providing a comprehensive platform for managed global payroll services tailored for multinational organizations. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Salisbury, United Kingdom, with additional offices in several countries, CloudPay delivers end-to-end payroll management through a unified platform that ensures compliance and consistency across over 130 countries and in more than twenty-five languages. The company’s innovative approach streamlines payroll processes, reduces operational costs, and enhances visibility for organizations, making it a leader in the industry. CloudPay's expertise has been recognized through various awards, including accolades for its technology and service excellence. The company previously operated under the name Patersons Payroll Solutions Limited until its rebranding in 2012.

Intact Vascular

Debt Financing in 2020
Intact Vascular, Inc., a medical device company, develops medical devices for minimally invasive peripheral vascular procedures. The company offers Tack Endovascular System, a device that offers optimization of peripheral balloon angioplasty results during the treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and critical limb ischemia (CLI). Intact Vascular, Inc. was formerly known as Tackit Vascular LLC. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

JW Player

Debt Financing in 2019
JW Player provides a versatile media player that facilitates video publishing, advertising, and streaming across various platforms, including mobile, tablet, and desktop. It ensures a seamless viewing experience through both HTML5 and Flash technologies. Users can customize their video interactions, adjust playback quality, and incorporate multi-language support. Additionally, JW Player supports video playback and advertising on Chromecast devices and enables multi-screen, VAST-compliant advertising, catering to diverse viewing preferences. Recognized as one of the most popular video players on the web, JW Player continues to enhance its offerings to meet the needs of content creators and advertisers alike.

INRIX

Debt Financing in 2019
INRIX, Inc. offers real-time, historical, and predictive traffic information solutions. It offers services, such as INRIX Connected Services, a suite of content services providing navigation OEMs and location-based service application developers with private label and go-to-market solutions for in-vehicle, PND, wireless phone, and other connected devices; INRIX Total Fusion, a traffic data service that combines real-time, predictive, and historical traffic information; INRIX Real-Time Flow that helps to develop real-time traffic data and traffic speed maps; and INRIX Nationwide Traffic Alerts that provides real-time congestion alerts for freeways, highways, and arterials. The company also provides INRIX Real-Time Incidents that provides real-time reporting of traffic incidents, including accidents, construction, and events, such as sports games. In addition, it offers traffic information technology for arterials, city streets, and secondary roads. The company offers solutions for automotive, Internet, mobile, portable navigation devices, transportation and logistics, and public sectors. Inrix, Inc. has strategic partnerships with ARC Transistance, Clear Channel, deCarta, Microsoft, OPIS, Tele Atlas, TNO, and ITIS Holdings, PLC. INRIX, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

Drop

Debt Financing in 2019
Drop is a product company that uniquely uses data and insights from enthusiasts to create and curate innovative products that fuel passion. With new, diverse products featured every day, Drop empowers people across the globe to find and follow their interests, learn, share, shop, and participate in product development. Popular Drop categories include audio, tech, apparel, outdoors, and cooking. Founded in 2012, Drop is home to 7 million members. Drop is available on Drop.com and the Drop app.

RealWear

Debt Financing in 2019
RealWear, Inc. develops hands-free, ruggedized head-mounted tablets designed specifically for industrial workers. Its flagship product, the HMT-1, is a wearable Android-class tablet that can be used in various environments such as fields, factories, and warehouses. This device allows users to maintain hands-free communication with remote consultants, enabling real-time visual assistance during tasks. RealWear's products support multiple languages to cater to a diverse workforce. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, and has established strategic partnerships with notable companies like Atheer, Cisco, Qualcomm, ABB, and Beeware.

CloudPassage

Debt Financing in 2019
CloudPassage® Halo® is the world’s leading agile security platform that provides instant visibility and continuous protection for servers in any combination of data centers, private clouds and public clouds. The Halo platform is delivered as a service, so it deploys in minutes and scales on-demand. Halo uses minimal system resources; so layered security can be deployed where it counts, right at every workload – servers, instances and containers. Leading enterprises like Citrix, Salesforce.com and Adobe use CloudPassage today to enhance their security and compliance posture, while at the same time enabling business agility. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors.

eSilicon

Private Equity Round in 2019
eSilicon, a pioneering semiconductor Value Chain Producer (VCP), provides a comprehensive suite of ASIC design, productization and manufacturing services, enabling a flexible, low-cost, lower-risk path to volume production of integrated circuits (ICs). The company delivers custom chips (ASICs) to system original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and fabless semiconductor companies (FSCs) who serve a wide variety of markets including the consumer, computer, communications and industrial segments. eSilicon creates a unique, optimized semiconductor Value Chain for each customer and each design - from design services and tools, to IP and materials suppliers, to test and packaging providers. By integrating this Value Chain with its internal expertise and proven eSilicon Enterpriseâ„¢ infrastructure, the ASIC services and solutions provider produces more than 10 million leading-edge chips per year.

Dejero

Debt Financing in 2019
Dejero Labs is driven by its vision of reliable connectivity anywhere, Dejero blends multiple Internet connections to deliver fast and dependable connectivity required for cloud computing, online collaboration, and the secure exchange of video and data. With its global partners, Dejero supplies the equipment, software, connectivity services, cloud services, and support to provide the uptime and bandwidth critical to the success of today’s organizations. Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Dejero is trusted for broadcast-quality video transport and high-bandwidth Internet connectivity around the world. For more information.

Echo360

Debt Financing in 2019
Echo360, Inc. develops a Software-as-a-Service learning and analytics platform designed for higher education institutions both in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, the company's solution enables users to capture, share, and enhance their flipped classroom experiences by integrating features such as polls, quizzes, and instructional videos. The platform facilitates global connections between students and instructors, offering learning analytics to help educators identify student engagement levels and support those who may be struggling. Additionally, Echo360 provides a comprehensive learning library for storing multimedia resources, universal capture software for various devices, and automatic speech recognition capabilities to enhance video-based learning experiences. The company's focus on active learning technology aims to transform teaching and learning processes in educational settings.

Pivot3

Debt Financing in 2019
Pivot3 specializes in simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into streamlined solutions. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged Infrastructure and PCIe Flash Arrays designed to improve resource utilization and provide high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3's technologies have helped numerous enterprises reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, enhance customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. With a diverse product portfolio optimized for various applications, including server virtualization, video surveillance, and disaster recovery, Pivot3 has successfully deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged systems and flash storage solutions across 53 countries. Its clientele ranges from mid-sized businesses to major corporations in sectors such as energy, aerospace, logistics, and telecommunications, all benefiting from Pivot3's innovative approach to building a smarter IT infrastructure.

Ouster

Debt Financing in 2019
Ouster, Inc. specializes in developing high-resolution multi-beam digital lidar sensors and software products applicable across various industries, including autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics, defense, and smart cities. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, the company employs a unique multi-beam flash lidar design that leverages an all-semiconductor approach to 3D sensing, enhancing the capabilities of lidar technology. Ouster's products are designed for a range of applications, from long-range to short-range sensing, and are distributed through various channels. The firm's innovations aim to advance the integration of lidar in various sectors, contributing to the growth of technologies such as virtual and augmented reality.

Scale Computing

Debt Financing in 2019
Scale Computing, Inc. specializes in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions tailored for midsized businesses. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, the company offers its HC3™ platform, which integrates servers, storage, and virtualization into a single, user-friendly system. This all-in-one appliance enhances storage speed and capacity while simplifying datacenter management. HC3 continuously monitors virtual machines and hardware components to ensure application availability and efficiently address infrastructure events. In addition to its core platform, Scale Computing provides services such as infrastructure refresh, virtual-to-virtual migration, physical-to-virtual migration, and disaster recovery solutions. As a result, the company is increasingly favored by IT departments across various industries looking to maintain high availability and scalability of their applications.

Mobius Imaging

Debt Financing in 2019
Mobius Imaging, LLC is a medical devices company based in Shirley, Massachusetts, founded in 2008. The company specializes in manufacturing healthcare equipment, notably the Airo Mobile TruCT, an advanced imaging technology system designed to support various clinical procedures, including those in spine surgery, brain surgery, orthopedic surgery, surgical navigation, emergency departments, and radiation oncology. As of October 2019, Mobius Imaging operates as a subsidiary of Stryker Corporation, focusing on mobile computed tomography and medical imaging solutions.

Aria Systems

Private Equity Round in 2018
Proven by the world's most demanding enterprises, including AAA NCNU, Constant Contact, Falck, Hootsuite, Pitney Bowes, Audi, Adobe, Telekom Denmark, Philips, Roku, and VMware, Aria helps enterprises grow their recurring revenue businesses. Aria helps clients take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetization platform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value.

ShareThis

Debt Financing in 2018
ShareThis, Inc. is a social data platform that focuses on consumer engagement and sharing tools designed for publishers, advertisers, and data-driven businesses. The company provides real-time processing of first-party data, enabling users to capture online sentiments and drive engagement and traffic. Its offerings include share buttons for various social media channels, mobile sharing options, and tools for Social A/B testing to optimize content performance. Additionally, ShareThis features a Real-Time Marketing Engine that assists brands in activating audiences across multiple screens and digital ad formats. Established in 2004 and previously known as Nextumi, Inc., ShareThis has its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Chicago, Manhattan Beach, New York City, and Boston. The company has been collecting and analyzing social share data since 2007, transforming sharing behavior into actionable insights for marketers and publishers.

Circadence

Debt Financing in 2018
Circadence Corporation is a market leader in next-generation cybersecurity readiness. Powered by a culture of innovation and the demands of an evolving cyber landscape, Circadence offers cyber range solutions and cybersecurity learning platforms, running on Microsoft Azure, that leverage custom content to address critical security challenges for enterprise, government, and academic institutions. Circadence's solutions deliver persistent, immersive and true-to-life experiences that match and adapt to contemporary threat environments. Circadence is also a Microsoft Gold Partner.

NationBuilder

Debt Financing in 2018
NationBuilder is software for leaders. The company was founded in November 2009 by Jim Gilliam, in partnership with Co-Founders Jesse Haff and Lea Endres, and launched in April 2011. By the summer of 2012, the company had secured more than $14 million in Series A and Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Omidyar Network, and added Ben Horowitz, Stacy Donohue, and Sean Parker to its board. Jim Gilliam became Executive chairman in fall of 2017 and welcomed Lea Endres to the role of CEO. NationBuilder is based in downtown Los Angeles with offices in New York, Washington DC, Vancouver, and London.

Mingle Health

Debt Financing in 2018
Mingle Health is a company focused on Transforming healthcare through data-driven solutions.

CareCloud

Private Equity Round in 2018
CareCloud Corporation owns and operates cloud based practice management, electronic health record, and medical billing software solutions. It offers revenue cycle management, patient experience, advanced billing rules, professional services, and healthcare analytics services. The company caters to dermatology, family practice, ophthalmology, podiatry, rheumatology, and urology segments. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Miami, Florida. As of January 8, 2020, CareCloud Corporation operates as a subsidiary of MTBC, Inc.

Jibe

Private Equity Round in 2018
At Jibe, we create global recruiting software solutions to help the world’s leading companies identify, engage, and hire the best talent. Jibe's core technology is the Jibe Recruiting Cloud, a SaaS-based platform that enables leading companies to hire the best talent, regardless of their existing systems. Through this platform, Jibe provides a suite of products including personalized career sites and recruiting tools for sourcing, nurturing and marketing to candidates. Jibe currently serves the world's leading Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, FedEx, Marriott, and American Express. Elevated by strategic partnerships with Google and LinkedIn and backed by their expertise in recruiting technology, Jibe continues to be an innovative leader in the changing world of talent acquisition.

Dtex Systems

Debt Financing in 2018
Dtex Systems develops advanced security software solutions aimed at detecting and preventing insider threats, data breaches, and external intrusions. The company's key offerings include Dtex Intercept, an insider threat platform that identifies risky behaviors and provides a comprehensive audit trail in real-time, and Dtex Pulse, which enhances operational visibility by analyzing user activity across various applications and devices. Dtex caters to a range of sectors, including financial services, government, critical infrastructure, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Dtex also maintains offices in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Australia. Its technology enables organizations to monitor user activity effectively while safeguarding privacy, ensuring that enterprises can respond swiftly to potential threats.

MTBC

Debt Financing in 2018
MTBC is a healthcare information technology solution provider that offers physician practices a comprehensive product portfolio of fully integrated WebEHR, revenue cycle and practice management solutions and other related business services including transcription and data management. Their entire product portfolio-along with native mobile applications-functions as a cohesive, single-database platform to help healthcare providers, improve their financial performance and ultimately transform their medical practice into a successful business enterprise. They serve an expanding array of diverse healthcare entities and their clients are spread across the healthcare continuum -from single physician, medium sized practices to independent physician associations-which is a testament to the functionality and flexibility of their core solutions. They have partnered with a variety of healthcare organizations to extend their reach to 40+ states. Their technological solutions and related business services can aid physician practices to cost-effectively and successfully meet regulatory challenges and prosper amidst a rapidly shifting healthcare industry environment.

Aginity

Private Equity Round in 2018
Aginity transforms the way companies compete on analytics through software that enables companies to create, catalog, and manage analytics. Our tools compliment leading analytic platforms including Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Microsoft Synapse, Hive, IBM Netezza and DBE. We provide a common toolset for engineers and business analysts to build, and share SQL code throughout the analytics life-cycle. The company is a privately held software company founded in 2005 and is headquartered in the Chicago area.

RedSeal

Private Equity Round in 2017
RedSeal develops security risk management (SRM) software and solutions and helps companies eliminate cyber threats. RedSeal was founded in 2004, helps Global 2000 organizations defend their critical digital assets. RedSeal gets ahead of cyber criminals by calculating every possible internal and external “attack path” to the most valuable network assets – before they do. Customers get a prioritized list of the most vulnerable paths to their most valuable assets. More than 200 corporations and government agencies worldwide have RedSealed their networks, including five of the top 50 financial institutions, all of the major security vendors, fifteen of the Fortune 100 retail companies, and a number of US government organizations including the US Army, US Navy, US Postal Service and the FAA. Key commercial customers include Nationwide, Oracle, Cisco and First Data. RedSeal partners with all of the top suppliers of network infrastructure (Cisco, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, Arista, Aruba, Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, F5). Its software integrates with all industry leading security solutions (McAfee, Symantec, Qualys, HP ArcSight, Rapid7, Splunk,Tripwire, MaxPatrol, nMap) as well as with major workflow vendors (ServiceNow, Remedy), providing the most comprehensive validation of network security. RedSeal is backed by prominent venture investors including Venrock, Leapfrog Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, JAFCO Ventures, Olympic Venture Partners and In-Q-Tel.

zSpace

Debt Financing in 2017
zSpace is a system that integrates into users’ normal lives with desktop virtual reality and allows them to move in and out of zSpace back to the real world. This experience is enabled by a combination of polarized eyewear with high definition stereopsis, integrated head tracking with full-motion parallax, and a precision interactive stylus. The system is focused on the learning market, specifically STEM education, medical instruction, corporate training, research, and design. zSpace was launched in 2007 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

AllClear ID

Debt Financing in 2017
AllClear ID was founded in 2004 by CEO Bo Holland. In March 2019, AllClear sold its breach response business to Experian and is now an employee owned small business. The proceeds of the sale were used to buy out all institutional investors including Merus, Trellis and Runway. Today, AllClear ID, Inc. is focused on its CrossChannel™ Platform that uses mobile technology to eliminate passwords and remove friction from every part of a business. CrossChannel gives customers the convenience, speed and security of mobile and connects it to all customer-facing channels - website, in store, call center, mobile and kiosk. The result is fast, high security experience that increases customer engagement by up to 300% while radically reducing transaction fraud and identity theft. The core technology is patented and proven. The award winning AllClear ID team is also recognized for its identity protection products, high quality service and successful deployment of large-scale managed services. AllClear helped organizations like Anthem Blue Cross, Home Depot and Sony to respond successfully to data breaches affecting 200 million customers.

Aspen University

Debt Financing in 2017
Aspen is dedicated to offering any motivated college-worthy student the opportunity to receive a high quality, responsibly priced distance-learning education for the purpose of achieving sustainable economic and social benefits for themselves and their families. Aspen’s Academic Achievement Goal is to transition motivated learners to higher levels of productive citizenship by providing a readily accessible education that teaches knowledge and skills of enduring value. A productive citizen is defined as a self-directed life-long learner who functions successfully in high-performance teams; exhibits professional behavior through leadership, advocacy, cultural competence and ethical conduct; conducts research, using evidence-based practices; leverages technology to produce high-value work products; and achieves and maintains a productive professional career. Aspen’s Economic Responsibility Goal is to offer tuition rates low enough that a majority of our students will not incur debt through utilization of federal financial aid, and ensure alumni have achieved a return on investment benefit following earning a degree from Aspen. Economic responsibility is defined as Aspen offering tuition rates low enough that a majority of students will be able to afford to pay tuition in cash (maintaining Federal Financial Aid revenues below 50%); and ensuring alumni have achieved a return on investment benefit following earning a degree from Aspen.

Placecast

Debt Financing in 2017
Placecast is a leading enterprise mobile data management platform that integrates carrier data, location data, and user behavior across multiple devices to enhance marketing strategies. By utilizing its comprehensive suite of products, advertisers can develop custom audience segments and implement location-enabled mobile ad campaigns. Placecast's platform also allows for the evaluation of campaign accuracy and its impact on customer behavior. The company has established over 400 million unique mobile user profiles, drawing from billions of data attributes, and has earned the trust of major global enterprises. Renowned brands such as Starbucks, Gap, JetBlue, and Subway have utilized Placecast to create more tailored mobile experiences for their target audiences. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in Atlanta, New York, and London, Placecast is supported by Voyager Capital and Onset Ventures.

STN Video

Debt Financing in 2017
SendtoNews Video Incorporated operates a leading sports video and advertising platform in North America, founded in 2008 and based in Victoria, Canada. The company has developed a vast publisher network, encompassing over 1,500 sports news properties, including major outlets like USA Today, LA Times, and New York Daily News. SendtoNews generates over 200 million monthly video views through the distribution of exclusive and semi-exclusive content from more than 75 sports leagues, featuring prominent organizations such as the MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL, PGA TOUR, NCAA, and Premier League Soccer. This extensive reach positions SendtoNews as a significant player in the sports media landscape.

Mojix

Debt Financing in 2017
Mojix was founded in 2004 by some of the world's foremost experts in advanced signal processing technology, perfected for deep space communications. The company's mission is to leverage this technology to create a new generation of game-changing RFID systems that realize the vast potential and expand the utility of RFID throughout supply chains and enterprises. In re-defining RFID, Mojix is enabling organizations to re-invent and derive new levels of value from their supply chain management systems.