First Analysis

First Analysis is a Chicago-based private equity firm founded in 1981, specializing in early-stage venture capital investments primarily in the United States. With a history spanning over 30 years, the firm has invested more than $750 million across various diversified funds. First Analysis focuses on sectors such as technology and software, healthcare, services, and clean technology. The firm aims to support established companies in becoming profitable leaders within their respective markets by funding growth initiatives and collaborating closely with management on strategy, recruitment, sales, marketing, and corporate development. Their investment strategy typically involves committing between $3 million and $10 million, either as a lead investor or as a syndicate partner, providing valuable insights and perspectives throughout the investment process.

Lawrence Berlin

SVP

Richard Conklin

MD

John Dexheimer

Partner

Clement Erbmann

MD

David Gearhart

SVP

Corey Greendale

MD, Office of the President

Terry Kiwala

VP

Paul Kleinaitis

VP

Daniel Louis Leonard

VP

David John Leshuk

MD and Research Director

Dave Leshuk

MD and Research Director

James Macdonald

MD

Jim Macdonald

MD

Tracy Marshbanks

MD

Joseph Munda

SVP

Craig Nankervis

SVP

Matthew Nicklin

MD, Office of the President

Michael Siemplenski

MD Emeritus

Daniel Smereczynski

VP

Howard Smith

MD, Office of the President

Angela Soliz

VP

Frank Sparacino

SVP

129 past transactions

Arthrex, a global medical device company and leader in new product development and medical education in orthopedics. With a corporate mission of helping surgeons treat their patients better, Arthrex has pioneered the field of arthroscopy and developed more than 11,000 innovative products and surgical procedures to advance minimally invasive orthopedics worldwide.
Checkpoint Surgical provides physicians with medical devices to locate, evaluate, and protect nerves and muscles in surgical procedures. The company's flagship product, the Checkpoint Stimulator/Locator is a single-use, hand-held stimulator with a broad range of stimulation parameters that are fully controllable by the surgeon with one hand and capable of eliciting a muscle contraction from stimulating the nerve directly or the tissue surrounding the nerve. The Checkpoint Surgical team continues to develop new and innovative first in class devices to help surgeons achieve better patient outcomes.
SynergySuite Limited designs and develops cloud based restaurant management software for restaurants and hospitality businesses. Its back-office software includes tools to manage inventory and purchasing, recipe costing, food safety, scheduling business intelligence, cash management, time and attendance, human resource and staffing, reporting, cash management, and product pricing. The company serves to quick service and fast casual restaurants, table service restaurants, and bars and hotels. SynergySuite Limited was founded in 2011 and is based in Dublin, Ireland with additional offices in Lehi, Utah and the United Kingdom.
Waggl, Inc. develops an online tool that enables organizations to make better decisions. Its tool allows organizations to send questions to the targeted group, and get insights to make decisions. The company serves organizations in the United States and internationally. Waggl, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Sausalito, California.
StreamLink Software Inc. develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) based process management tools for nonprofit organizations and public sector institutions. Its products include AmpliFund, a tool that captures granular grant data and automates time-consuming administrative tasks; AmpliFund Pre-Award, a grant planning and strategy solution that enables to manage the research, planning, and submission stages of the grant cycle; AmpliFund Full Cycle, a grant management solution; and AmpliFund Public Sector, a government grant management solution. The company also provides BoardMax, a board management software that enables nonprofit and public sector organizations to manage board materials, organizational information, and meetings and activities; track and measure board member engagement; and ensure compliance, drive good governance, and mitigate risk. In addition, it offers BoardSource Virtual Boardroom, a board portal that helps small to mid-size organizations by providing a solution to manage their board-related activities; and BoardMax Strategy that allows nonprofits to operationalize their strategic plans, including mission, vision, values, SWOT analysis, and goals. StreamLink Software Inc. was formerly known as StreamLink LLC and changed its name to StreamLink Software Inc. in April, 2013. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Fortress Information Security LLC provides third-party risk management, cloud/mobile risk management, legal support, threat monitoring, incident response, analytics, and operational intelligence services. It serves power utilities, port authorities, transportation, finance, utilities, and healthcare industries. Fortress Information Security LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Orlando, Florida.

SmartWitness

Series A in 2019
SmartWitness designs, manufactures, and supply in-vehicle cameras, recorders, and software. The company's industry vehicle equipment has produced exceptional results for our clients and solutions which undeniably redefine the way vehicle risk is analyzed.
VIDA modernizes lung and respiratory care, empowering healthcare organizations and physicians to improve patient outcomes, streamline care coordination and drive efficiencies through a comprehensive approach, proven quality, and clinical leadership. Through quantitative data intelligence and impactful visualizations, VIDA helps physicians manage patients with or at risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease (ILD), lung cancer, and now, COVID-19. VIDA’s software is FDA cleared, CE-marked, Health Canada licensed and TGA registered for clinical use in the US, European Economic Area, Canada, and Australia. Learn more at vidalung.ai.
Yello, Inc. develops talent acquisition software solutions. The company offers campus recruiting, event management, interview scheduling, mobile recruiting, talent relationship management, referral, video interviewing, and evaluation management software products. It serves clients ranging from Fortune 500 global enterprises to high-growth and early-stage companies. Yello, Inc. was formerly known as Recsolu, Inc. and changed its name to Yello, Inc. in June 2015. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Blue Medora

Series B in 2017
Blue Medora is pioneering total IT system insight without plugins. Its software easily connects system health and performance data--no matter its source--with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms, breaking barriers to today’s IT challenges. Based in Grand Rapids, Mich, Blue Medora helps more than 350 customers to unlock Dimensional Data across their IT stack.

Focus IP, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Focus IP, Inc., doing business as Appdetex, provides mobile application brand protection solutions for businesses and its customers. The company provides search, monitoring, and enforcement services to large brand-holders to combat the infringements and fraud in the application space. It also offers application platform search and parsing engine, as well as filtering algorithm to identify questionable applications that may be infringing on brands; and brand protection services that allow the brand holder to identify infringing activity. In addition, the company provides AppWatch that monitors the application stores daily for any changes to an application’s data; PublisherWatch that alerts brand holders when a dubious allocation publisher uploads or removes an application in the application store; Brand Track, a flagship service that checks for newly added applications that contain brand holder specified keywords; Enforcement Portal, which gives brand holders a tool to assist in-house teams in their enforcement efforts with document tracking, case management system, and template cease and desist letters for publishers; and Enhanced Enforcement Portal that streamlines the entire enforcement process from discovery through resolution. Further, it offers managed services that comprise investigative tools, mobile application takedowns, and consultative reports. Focus IP, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Boise, Idaho with additional offices in the Bay Area.

Aprimo

Series C in 2000
Aprimo delivers technology and insight that accelerates marketing productivity and the ability of marketing to document performance. Aprimo provides an Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) product to leading marketing organizations around the world. Aprimo's software is built on its visionary Enterprise Marketing Backbone which uses a services oriented architecture (SOA) that eliminates marketing as an island of automation. Aprimo is the global leader in delivering technology and insight that accelerates marketing productivity and the ability of marketing to document effective performance. Aprimo provides an Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) product to leading marketing organizations around the world. Aprimo's software is built on its visionary Enterprise Marketing Backbone™ which uses a services oriented architecture (SOA) that eliminates marketing as an island of automation. Aprimo Marketing Studio offers an integrated, interactive marketing solution that enables to develop, implement and manage every aspect of online marketing activities. Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. Marketing Studio is designed as a true Software-as-a-Service system to tap underserved market and establish a leadership position in the emerging Online Marketing Management space aimed at mid-size and larger companies.
Scale Computing specializes in hyperconvergence for midsized organizations. Its HC3™ platform seamlessly integrates servers, virtualization, and storage into a single platform that is easy to use and highly scalable, dramatically lowering the barriers and costs involved in keeping applications running in a highly available and scalable manner. By making complex infrastructure appear like a single server, it is the growing choice for hundreds of IT departments across a range of vertical markets. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Fleetworthy Solutions, Inc. provides cloud based platform tools to transportation industry. The company’s products include eFleet Forms, which replace all paper form with one online portal that provides pre-built and complaint standard forms and form customization; eFleet Hub, which provides near real time data, one location and simplified processes; and Comply 2.0, a platform designed for commercial motor carrier to provide compliance standards in terms of safety, productivity, and profitability. It offers services, which includes consulting and audit support, DQ file management, DOT and safety compliance, fuel and milage tax filing, and asset management. Fleetworthy Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

SynergySuite

Private Placement in 2019
SynergySuite Limited designs and develops cloud based restaurant management software for restaurants and hospitality businesses. Its back-office software includes tools to manage inventory and purchasing, recipe costing, food safety, scheduling business intelligence, cash management, time and attendance, human resource and staffing, reporting, cash management, and product pricing. The company serves to quick service and fast casual restaurants, table service restaurants, and bars and hotels. SynergySuite Limited was founded in 2011 and is based in Dublin, Ireland with additional offices in Lehi, Utah and the United Kingdom.

VIDA

Series C in 2020
VIDA modernizes lung and respiratory care, empowering healthcare organizations and physicians to improve patient outcomes, streamline care coordination and drive efficiencies through a comprehensive approach, proven quality, and clinical leadership. Through quantitative data intelligence and impactful visualizations, VIDA helps physicians manage patients with or at risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease (ILD), lung cancer, and now, COVID-19. VIDA’s software is FDA cleared, CE-marked, Health Canada licensed and TGA registered for clinical use in the US, European Economic Area, Canada, and Australia. Learn more at vidalung.ai.
SmartWitness designs, manufactures, and supply in-vehicle cameras, recorders, and software. The company's industry vehicle equipment has produced exceptional results for our clients and solutions which undeniably redefine the way vehicle risk is analyzed.

Visage

Series A in 2021
Visage Inc owns and operates visage.jobs, a hiring platform that enables employers to identify and engage underrepresented talent. Its crowdsourcing recruitment platform allows to source, upload, and submit candidate profiles. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Current Ways, Inc

Private Placement in 2019
Current Ways, Inc designs and manufactures high-voltage electric vehicle battery chargers for applications in consumer, OEM, fleet management, municipality, energy storage, and alternative energy applications. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Santee, California.
BuyerQuest was founded on the idea that enterprise procurement should be just as easy as B2C eCommerce and delivers an eCommerce shopping experience for all Goods AND Services across the enterprise. BuyerQuest enables Procurement Teams to drive compliance through widespread user adoption.

Freeosk Inc

Series A in 2013
A network of in-store kiosks that drive trial and awareness for the world's biggest brands. Scan your in-store rewards card when shopping to discover new favorites every week. Freeosk Marketing, Inc is an affiliate company of Blue Sky Chicago, experts at executing in-store marketing events since 2003.
Mediant is an industry-leading investor communications solutions provider. We power investor communications through intelligent technology and passionate people. Mediant actively develops game-changing new technologies for banks, brokers, corporate issuers, funds, and investment advisors. We connect the entire investor communications community through our single, secure platform. Established in 2002, Mediant enables leading financial institutions to enrich their customer relationships and unlock new levels of efficiency and accuracy through the unprecedented transparency of the MIC platform.

Comstellar Technologies

Series A in 2000
At Comstellar Technologies, Inc., we're building a major technology company with a singular focus on communications infrastructure utilizing a innovative operating model. We're focusing on communications infrastructure because that's increasingly central to all technologies. The possibilities are endless, the opportunities are worldwide, and the demand is explosive.

Viracor-IBT Laboratories

Series C in 2007
Viracor-IBT Laboratories is dedicated to being the leading specialty diagnostics laboratory partner in allergy, immunology, and infectious disease testing. They provide doctors and hospitals the tests, results and support they need to deliver the best care possible, and they collaborate with pharmaceutical researchers to solve difficult problems and accelerate drug development.

Aprimo

Series D in 2002
Aprimo delivers technology and insight that accelerates marketing productivity and the ability of marketing to document performance. Aprimo provides an Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) product to leading marketing organizations around the world. Aprimo's software is built on its visionary Enterprise Marketing Backbone which uses a services oriented architecture (SOA) that eliminates marketing as an island of automation. Aprimo is the global leader in delivering technology and insight that accelerates marketing productivity and the ability of marketing to document effective performance. Aprimo provides an Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) product to leading marketing organizations around the world. Aprimo's software is built on its visionary Enterprise Marketing Backbone™ which uses a services oriented architecture (SOA) that eliminates marketing as an island of automation. Aprimo Marketing Studio offers an integrated, interactive marketing solution that enables to develop, implement and manage every aspect of online marketing activities. Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. Marketing Studio is designed as a true Software-as-a-Service system to tap underserved market and establish a leadership position in the emerging Online Marketing Management space aimed at mid-size and larger companies.

SynergySuite

Funding Round in 2021
SynergySuite Limited designs and develops cloud based restaurant management software for restaurants and hospitality businesses. Its back-office software includes tools to manage inventory and purchasing, recipe costing, food safety, scheduling business intelligence, cash management, time and attendance, human resource and staffing, reporting, cash management, and product pricing. The company serves to quick service and fast casual restaurants, table service restaurants, and bars and hotels. SynergySuite Limited was founded in 2011 and is based in Dublin, Ireland with additional offices in Lehi, Utah and the United Kingdom.
Gyrodata Incorporated provides wellbore placement services for the oil and gas industry worldwide. The company offers drilling services, such as performance mud motors, measurement while drilling, gyro while drilling, rotary steerable system, solid state and gyro while drilling; surveying services, such as gyro surveying and solid state gyro surveying; and wireline services, such as high density tortuosity logging and cased hole logging. It also offers support services, such as drilling parameter analysis, critical speed analysis, bending stress analysis, operational roadmaps, hydraulic modeling, anti-collision planning and monitoring services, and real-time torque and drag modeling and monitoring services. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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Provides software for promotions management used in the consumer packaged goods industry; Vista's software package integrates and automates the process of forecasting, administering trade promotions, tracking funds for promotions and managing deductions and invoicing of a consumer packaged goods product for a manufacturer into one cohesive automated system
First Analysis Securities Corporation is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. It offers mergers and acquisitions, divestures, equity and equity-linked private placements, corporate restructurings, and recapitalization advisory services. Additionally, the firm provides public equity and debt offerings and security transaction advisory services. It caters to healthcare, information technology, and infrastructure sectors. The firm is based in Chicago, Illinois. First Analysis Securities Corporation operates as a subsidiary of First Analysis Corporation.
Aventri offers cloud-based data-driven event management and venue sourcing solutions. Its platform specializes in providing real-time data and analytics on event performance, customer engagement, and increasing measurable events. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.
ViralGains is a video ad journey platform that enables marketers to engage people with relevant brand stories in the contexts that people most favor. Using the platform to engage in a two-way conversation, brands discover exactly what people want and how they feel and build a unique journey that connects highly qualified consumers with relevant messages that generate awareness, motivate intent, and impact purchase decisions. ViralGains is headquartered in Boston, with regional offices in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.

Go2Call

Venture Round in 2001
Go2call.com is an online platform that delivers Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions. The platform's products include Home which allows service providers to offer residential communications solutions; Enterprise that enables users to create, deploy, and manage multiple services for business end users; Mobile which offers calling card services with fixed line or mobile origination; and Call Shop that offers outbound calling services to call shops and internet cafes with multilevel call shop management tools. The platform's back office solutions enable carriers and resellers, broadband service providers, internet service providers, Voice over Internet Protocol license holders, call shops, and other distributors to offer VoIP services. Its solutions are also used by satellite providers, cyber cafes, systems integrators, mobile operators, and entrepreneurs. Go2call.com was founded in 1998 and is based in Evanston, Illinois. It operates as a subsidiary of Deltathree, Inc.

Bladelogic

Series D in 2005
Prior to its acquisition by [BMC](/organization/bmc-software) in 2008, BladeLogic provided data center automation solutions for IT organizations. BladeLogic's data center automation solutions enable a state where dynamic policies — that link people, management tasks, and configuration data — drive the automatic optimization of the IT infrastructure, creating a highly agile, business-driven IT environment. (Source: [BladeLogic](http://www.bladelogic.com/about-bladelogic/index.php))

Apixio

Series D in 2016
Apixio's HCC Profiler enables health systems and insurers to more accurately and efficiently review their medical coding, to correct gaps and inaccuracies, improve financial reporting and deliver better quality care. HCC Profiler is built on an artificial intelligence platform that extracts knowledge from unstructured clinical data (text).

Nitrosecurity

Venture Round in 2010
NitroSecurity is a supplier of Unified Information Security solutions that provide Edge-to-Core network security for enterprises across many vertical markets, including healthcare, education, financial services, government, retail, hospitality, and managed services. Leveraging patented data management technology, NitroSecurity delivers an integrated, cost effective network security product suite for security information & event management, log management, database activity monitoring, network analysis and intrusion prevention.

Wimba

Series A in 2006
Wimba is a provider of collaborative learning software solutions and services to the Further/Higher Education and K-12 markets, as well as Publishing Services and Solutions that are widely adopted in academic publishing.

IndX Software Corporation

Venture Round in 2003
IndX Software is an enterprise software company that designs and markets operations intelligence solutions for Fortune 2000 businesses (i.e., primarily process manufacturing) and their supply chains. The company’s product, XHQ, provides a single, coherent view of information that users need for real-time decision support or performance management, by extracting and integrating data from multiple, disparate back-end systems, aggregating and managing content, and distributing information to users. In 1999, Marwit led a $10 million equity investment in the Company.

Nitrosecurity

Series C in 2006
NitroSecurity is a supplier of Unified Information Security solutions that provide Edge-to-Core network security for enterprises across many vertical markets, including healthcare, education, financial services, government, retail, hospitality, and managed services. Leveraging patented data management technology, NitroSecurity delivers an integrated, cost effective network security product suite for security information & event management, log management, database activity monitoring, network analysis and intrusion prevention.

NimbeLink

Series A in 2016
NimbeLink Corp. designs and develops cellular based solutions that include carrier-certified embedded modems and asset tracking solutions. The company also offers Internet of Things (IoT) support services, Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards, cellular plans, development kits, and skywire activations. The company offers its products and services for applications in agriculture, consumer, construction, industrial, and supply chain and logistics industries. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota.

Dynamic Mobile Data

Series B in 2001
Dynamic Mobile Data Systems, Inc. develops mobile resource management solutions for midsize to large enterprises. It offers MobileServer, a wide area wireless platform infrastructure for two way wireless communications; Dynamic Mobile Application Suite, a set of configurable applications that provides a basis for moving corporate information to mobile resources; and Heads-Up!, a business activity monitoring and notification application for customers of mobile enterprises. The company also provides MobileDispatch, a two-way wireless dispatch solution that enables time sensitive communications and status tracking for companies; and Automated Vehicle Location software, which enables users to retrieve vehicle locations wirelessly. In addition, it offers services, such as implementation, maintenance, on-site or hosted training services; outsourced deployment, configuration, hosting, management, and support services of wireless applications; diagnostics, problem isolation and prioritization, updates, and fixes. Dynamic Mobile Data Systems, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey.

bTrade.com

Series B in 2000
bTrade.com, formerly Comm-Press Technologies, Inc., is the leading provider of infrastructure solutions that link e-Business partners and communities, whether Internet or legacy-based, without requiring changes to any existing applications.

Scale Computing

Venture Round in 2014
Scale Computing specializes in hyperconvergence for midsized organizations. Its HC3™ platform seamlessly integrates servers, virtualization, and storage into a single platform that is easy to use and highly scalable, dramatically lowering the barriers and costs involved in keeping applications running in a highly available and scalable manner. By making complex infrastructure appear like a single server, it is the growing choice for hundreds of IT departments across a range of vertical markets. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Intradiem

Series B in 2001
Intradiem, Inc. provides intraday automation solutions for multi-channel contact centers. It offers task management, real-time adherence, intraday staffing, channel balancing, alerts and notifications, and reskilling solutions. The company also provides implementation, training, consulting, managed services, success management, and customer support services. It serves companies in telecommunications, financial services, and healthcare industries, as well as outsourcers worldwide. Intradiem, Inc. was formerly known as Knowlagent, Inc. and changed its name to Intradiem, Inc. in January 2013. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Waggl, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Waggl, Inc. develops an online tool that enables organizations to make better decisions. Its tool allows organizations to send questions to the targeted group, and get insights to make decisions. The company serves organizations in the United States and internationally. Waggl, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Sausalito, California.

NanoOpto

Series D in 2006
NanoOpto is applying proprietary nano-optics and nano-manufacturing technology to design and make components for optical systems and networks. Based on years of research, the company's technology allows orders of magnitude more rapid prototyping, higher performance, and lower overall system cost. Both on its own and with corporate partners, NanoOpto will use subwavelength techniques to produce better conventional optical components and also to create new classes of integrated components. The company's development of proprietary nano-pattern transfer techniques forms the basis for high volume manufacture at its facility in Somerset, New Jersey.

REALTECH AG

Venture Round in 1999
REALTECH Systems Corporation focuses on a broad range of internetworking challenges inherent in distributed computing environments, such as multiple vendor network technology integration, system and network management, security management and integration of voice, data and video technology.

Jamcracker

Debt Financing in 2000
Jamcracker is a cloud services management and cloud governance solutions company, with more than a decade of experience providing industry leading software and services. The Jamcracker platform powers the cloud services provisioning, cloud governance, management and operations for enterprise and government organizations, telecom service providers, managed services providers, systems integrators, distributors, value added resellers and technology providers. Jamcracker helps organizations manage, deliver, and govern their public, private and hybrid multi cloud services in addition to brokering third-party ISV cloud services. Using Jamcracker solutions, IT organizations and service providers can now unify and optimize cloud services delivery for their employees, customers, and channels. Jamcracker gives the flexibility you need to respond to rapidly changing business requirements. The Jamcracker platform greatly reduces the complexity and cost of multi cloud management and delivery. Moreover, our platform automates cloud governance, cloud cost management, policy controls and operations management.

Global Commerce Systems

Series C in 2000
Global Commerce Systems has been a pioneer and technology leader in business-to-business e-commerce. We trace our roots back to the 1980s, when our predecessor, Ellery Systems, designed large-scale, distributed network systems over the Arpanet for the Department of Defense. Global Commerce Systems formed out of the experience and expertise built at Ellery to capitalize on the commercial application of Internet technologies to business solutions. Co-founders Geoffrey Shaw, Jeffrey Jordan and Peter Ossorio started Global Commerce Systems to help Fortune 1000 and Global 5000 companies seize the power of the Internet to strengthen their competitive positions by giving them the freedom to interconnect with their suppliers, buyers, customers and financial institutions in secure, real-time online marketplaces.

Courtagen Life Sciences

Private Equity Round in 2015
Courtagen Life Sciences is a privately held life science company that provides innovative proteomic and genomic products and services to the Life Sciences industry. Founded by innovators in next-generation sequencing (NGS), genetics, molecular biology, and information science, our company deliver tools that enable researchers and clinicians to make better decisions regarding drug development and patient care.

HandymanOnline.com

Venture Round in 2000
HandymanOnline is an online contractor referral service. It owns and operates an online community of professional contractors in construction and repair services that includes electricians, plumbers, and roofers. The company offers its users with project referrals, online purchasing, and customized business services. HandymanOnline is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1998 by Eric Doebele.

VisiQuate

Series C in 2014
VisiQuate is a daily SaaS-based service for healthcare and enterprise clients that makes the volume, variety, and velocity of Big Data simple and actionable. VisiQuate has data scientists, visual scientists and subject matter experts who integrate Terabytes of incompatible Big Data onto a single platform. Then VisiQuate transforms the data with advanced business rules to help clients understand what it really means, from the biggest picture to the smallest details. VisiQuate solutions are customized just for each client, implementation time can be 90 days or less, and clients typically receive 3X- 5X ROI within 12 months.

Chrome River Technologies

Series B in 2012
Chrome River Technologies, Inc. lets business flow for some of the world’s largest and most respected global organizations. Our highly-configurable cloud-based expense reporting and supplier invoice automation solutions deliver an elegant and intuitive user interface, which offer the same high quality experience on a smartphone, tablet or laptop. Our SaaS products provide a world-class business rules engine and technology infrastructure, combined with a completely agile solution that supports today's changing business climate, and that CFOs, AP and travel managers, and employees will all love.

Go2Call

Venture Round in 2000
Go2call.com is an online platform that delivers Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions. The platform's products include Home which allows service providers to offer residential communications solutions; Enterprise that enables users to create, deploy, and manage multiple services for business end users; Mobile which offers calling card services with fixed line or mobile origination; and Call Shop that offers outbound calling services to call shops and internet cafes with multilevel call shop management tools. The platform's back office solutions enable carriers and resellers, broadband service providers, internet service providers, Voice over Internet Protocol license holders, call shops, and other distributors to offer VoIP services. Its solutions are also used by satellite providers, cyber cafes, systems integrators, mobile operators, and entrepreneurs. Go2call.com was founded in 1998 and is based in Evanston, Illinois. It operates as a subsidiary of Deltathree, Inc.
Fortress Information Security LLC provides third-party risk management, cloud/mobile risk management, legal support, threat monitoring, incident response, analytics, and operational intelligence services. It serves power utilities, port authorities, transportation, finance, utilities, and healthcare industries. Fortress Information Security LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Orlando, Florida.

Athersys

Post in 2012
Athersys is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of therapeutic product candidates designed to extend and improve the quality of human life. The product development portfolio of the Company includes MultiStem, a stem cell product, which is being developed as a treatment for multiple disease indications, and is being evaluated in two ongoing clinical trials, and has been authorized for use in a third clinical trial. In addition, the Company is developing pharmaceuticals to treat indications such as obesity, certain cognitive and attention disorders, and narcolepsy or other forms of excessive daytime sleepiness.

Tracer

Series C in 2021
AppDetex is a developer of a brand protection platform used to monitor verticals, identify violators, and enforce property violations. Founded by longtime brand protection industry experts in 2012, AppDetex fights online brand infringement, fraud, and piracy. They focus and develop best-in-class technologies and methodologies that expose and enable takedowns of the many egregious and often criminal activities found online today while supporting our global customers with personal and expert service. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

ITS Compliance

Venture Round in 2014
Since 1983, ITS Compliance (ITS) has been an industry leader in providing cost effective, Compliance & Risk Management Solutions. Our dedication to your success means we design and customize service solutions that meet your unique transportation management needs regardless of your size. Personalized service and cost effective solutions for Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management. Measure, monitor and manage compliance using ITS' industry leading technology driven solutions.

VIDA

Private Placement in 2020
VIDA modernizes lung and respiratory care, empowering healthcare organizations and physicians to improve patient outcomes, streamline care coordination and drive efficiencies through a comprehensive approach, proven quality, and clinical leadership. Through quantitative data intelligence and impactful visualizations, VIDA helps physicians manage patients with or at risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease (ILD), lung cancer, and now, COVID-19. VIDA’s software is FDA cleared, CE-marked, Health Canada licensed and TGA registered for clinical use in the US, European Economic Area, Canada, and Australia. Learn more at vidalung.ai.

PCMI Corporation

Series A in 2021
PCMI offers a modular package of software solutions for the administration of F&I Products, Service Contracts, and Extended Warranties. Our SaaS platform, Policy Claim and Reporting Solutions™ (PCRS), supports and automates the full lifecycle of all aftermarket products and provides the most flexible environment for administrators, insurers, OEM’s, agents, and dealers to launch new products. Our global team enables continuous around-the-clock innovation and customer-focused support.

Stamus Networks

Series A in 2023
Stamus Networks provides a custom network traffic analysis engine with an intrusion detection engine to enable security practitioners to find intrusions within their network. Stamus Networks adds a purpose-built threat hunting interface to easily search through diverse, contextual data across domains, network segments, user agents, host IDs, IDS events, and other perspectives. Stamus Networks was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Crossmedia Services

Venture Round in 2004
Crossmedia Services provides localized online circular and catalog promotional services for catalog and brick & mortar retailers. It is based in Illinois, USA.

bTrade.com

Series C in 2001
bTrade.com, formerly Comm-Press Technologies, Inc., is the leading provider of infrastructure solutions that link e-Business partners and communities, whether Internet or legacy-based, without requiring changes to any existing applications.
4G Clinical, Inc. provides randomization and trial supply management services for pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations worldwide. It supports phase 2 and phase 3 clinical trials. The company also offers a Direct-to-Patient (DtP) clinical trial platform that enables sponsors to ship drug directly from the site, depot, and central pharmacy to the patient's home. 4G Clinical, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Wellesley, Massachusetts. It has additional offices in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Tokyo, Japan.
CSA Medical provides cryotherapy systems. It offers CryoSpray Ablation system, which enables the physicians to freeze, destroy, and remove unwanted tissues, as well as transports liquid nitrogen that is passed through a standard endoscope. CSA Medical was formerly known as Crymed Technologies and changed its name to CSA Medical in April 2006. The company was incorporated in 1993 and is based in Lutherville Timonium, Maryland.
Special Learning is the leading global provider of autism and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) solutions. Special Learning designs mobile applications and educational resources based on clinical evidence-based research to ensure that every person diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is capable of attaining an abundant and fulfilling life. Through its comprehensive web portal, Special Learning provides the global autism community with a range of ABA training and educational products, web-based and downloadable tools and professional services to empower parents, teachers and providers so that they can help individuals with autism move up the skills spectrum intuitively, successfully and affordably. Follow Special Learning on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/speciallearning, and Twitter, https://twitter.com/speciallearning.

Community Education Centers, Inc.

Funding Round in 2007
Community Education Centers, a provider of rehabilitative services in reentry and in-prison treatment facilities as well as management services for county, state and federal correctional and detention facilities.
VisiQuate is a daily SaaS-based service for healthcare and enterprise clients that makes the volume, variety, and velocity of Big Data simple and actionable. VisiQuate has data scientists, visual scientists and subject matter experts who integrate Terabytes of incompatible Big Data onto a single platform. Then VisiQuate transforms the data with advanced business rules to help clients understand what it really means, from the biggest picture to the smallest details. VisiQuate solutions are customized just for each client, implementation time can be 90 days or less, and clients typically receive 3X- 5X ROI within 12 months.

Insellerate

Private Equity Round in 2022
inSellerate, LLC develops and provides a sales automation system for mortgage lending, real estate, sales center, and insurance industries. The company provides cloud-based lead optimization and sales management solutions. Its products include inFlow, a solution for sales force automation and lead management; inSight, a real-time sales dashboard reporting solution; and inTouch, an automated personalized email marketing platform. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Costa Mesa, California.

SynergySuite

Series A in 2019
SynergySuite Limited designs and develops cloud based restaurant management software for restaurants and hospitality businesses. Its back-office software includes tools to manage inventory and purchasing, recipe costing, food safety, scheduling business intelligence, cash management, time and attendance, human resource and staffing, reporting, cash management, and product pricing. The company serves to quick service and fast casual restaurants, table service restaurants, and bars and hotels. SynergySuite Limited was founded in 2011 and is based in Dublin, Ireland with additional offices in Lehi, Utah and the United Kingdom.
S & W Payroll Services, L.L.C., doing business as Netchex, provides cloud-based payroll, HR, and benefits software to customers in the United States. The company’s platform offers payroll and tax, human resource, time and attendance, benefit, and reporting services, as well as self-services. Its platform also provides NetHire application tracking system that delivers tools to streamline various aspects of recruiting, interviewing, scoring, and capturing the talented applicants on the market; ACA management tool that measures, analyzes, and offers employee information by integrating with Netchex’s cloud-based suite of services; NetGuide, a paperless onboarding and lifecycle management tool; and NetApp, a mobile application. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Covington, Louisiana with additional offices in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; and Jackson, Mississippi.

Mediant

Venture Round in 2020
Mediant is an industry-leading investor communications solutions provider. We power investor communications through intelligent technology and passionate people. Mediant actively develops game-changing new technologies for banks, brokers, corporate issuers, funds, and investment advisors. We connect the entire investor communications community through our single, secure platform. Established in 2002, Mediant enables leading financial institutions to enrich their customer relationships and unlock new levels of efficiency and accuracy through the unprecedented transparency of the MIC platform.

Freeosk, Inc.

Freeosk, Inc. manufactures automated in-store kiosks which distribute samples and gather buyer data. The kiosks also offer marketing services platform that offers consumers a way to receive free samples of new products via a network of interactive kiosks that automatically distribute them. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Dynamic Mobile Data

Series A in 1998
Dynamic Mobile Data Systems, Inc. develops mobile resource management solutions for midsize to large enterprises. It offers MobileServer, a wide area wireless platform infrastructure for two way wireless communications; Dynamic Mobile Application Suite, a set of configurable applications that provides a basis for moving corporate information to mobile resources; and Heads-Up!, a business activity monitoring and notification application for customers of mobile enterprises. The company also provides MobileDispatch, a two-way wireless dispatch solution that enables time sensitive communications and status tracking for companies; and Automated Vehicle Location software, which enables users to retrieve vehicle locations wirelessly. In addition, it offers services, such as implementation, maintenance, on-site or hosted training services; outsourced deployment, configuration, hosting, management, and support services of wireless applications; diagnostics, problem isolation and prioritization, updates, and fixes. Dynamic Mobile Data Systems, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey.

BuyerQuest

Venture Round in 2015
BuyerQuest was founded on the idea that enterprise procurement should be just as easy as B2C eCommerce and delivers an eCommerce shopping experience for all Goods AND Services across the enterprise. BuyerQuest enables Procurement Teams to drive compliance through widespread user adoption.

yello

Series B in 2016
Yello, Inc. develops talent acquisition software solutions. The company offers campus recruiting, event management, interview scheduling, mobile recruiting, talent relationship management, referral, video interviewing, and evaluation management software products. It serves clients ranging from Fortune 500 global enterprises to high-growth and early-stage companies. Yello, Inc. was formerly known as Recsolu, Inc. and changed its name to Yello, Inc. in June 2015. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Transformative Pharmaceutical Solutions (TPS) offers customized, technology-enabled solutions to Sponsor companies and Investigative Sites conducting clinical trials. By combining our state of the art technology with built-in workflow, redefined roles and processes, our solutions increase operational transparency, efficiencies, and quality while considerably decreasing cost.

SmartWitness

Private Placement in 2019
SmartWitness designs, manufactures, and supply in-vehicle cameras, recorders, and software. The company's industry vehicle equipment has produced exceptional results for our clients and solutions which undeniably redefine the way vehicle risk is analyzed.
Current Ways, Inc designs and manufactures high-voltage electric vehicle battery chargers for applications in consumer, OEM, fleet management, municipality, energy storage, and alternative energy applications. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Santee, California.

IntervalZero

Venture Round in 2000
IntervalZero’s RTX software transforms Windows into a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). For projects that demand a Windows user experience and require hard real-time or determinism, the RTX RTOS Platform enables OEMs and end users to capitalize on Windows, x86 multi-core multi-processor technology , symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and real-time Ethernet. The RTX RTOS Platform reduce reliance on proprietary hardware such as DSPs and MCUs RTX has achieved a Safety Integrity Level 3 – SIL-3 – certifications and FDA Class II certification with numerous medical equipment manufacturers.

Fleetworthy Solutions

Venture Round in 2014
Fleetworthy Solutions, Inc. provides cloud based platform tools to transportation industry. The company’s products include eFleet Forms, which replace all paper form with one online portal that provides pre-built and complaint standard forms and form customization; eFleet Hub, which provides near real time data, one location and simplified processes; and Comply 2.0, a platform designed for commercial motor carrier to provide compliance standards in terms of safety, productivity, and profitability. It offers services, which includes consulting and audit support, DQ file management, DOT and safety compliance, fuel and milage tax filing, and asset management. Fleetworthy Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Initiate Systems

Venture Round in 2008
Initiate Systems enables companies to strategically leverage and share critical data assets. Their master data management (MDM) software and experience as an information exchange leader provide complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple sources, even outside the firewall. This allows companies to unlock the value of your data assets for competitive advantages or operational improvements.
Fortress Information Security LLC provides third-party risk management, cloud/mobile risk management, legal support, threat monitoring, incident response, analytics, and operational intelligence services. It serves power utilities, port authorities, transportation, finance, utilities, and healthcare industries. Fortress Information Security LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Orlando, Florida.
NimbeLink Corp. designs and develops cellular based solutions that include carrier-certified embedded modems and asset tracking solutions. The company also offers Internet of Things (IoT) support services, Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards, cellular plans, development kits, and skywire activations. The company offers its products and services for applications in agriculture, consumer, construction, industrial, and supply chain and logistics industries. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota.

SmartCommerce

Series B in 2021
SmartCommerce helps CPG brands like P&G, Unilever and Nestle get their products into retailer carts. SmartCommerce provides the shortest, simplest path into the shopping carts at the customers’ choice of retailers. The international SmartCommerce team has decades of experience in CPG eCommerce (it’s their passion), and would love the opportunity to show you what their next-gen eCommerce tools could be doing for your brand!

Drive My Way

Venture Round in 2022
Drive My Way, Inc. develops and operates an online personalized recruitment platform, which provides job matches for commercial truck drivers and employers. The company's platform allows trucking industry employers to post jobs based on key attributes and also export driver profiles directly into applicant tracking systems. Its technology facilitates truck drivers to create there profiles based on qualifications and lifestyle preferences. The company provides filtration processes based on schedule, location, benefits, and related perks. It also offers a content portal for members to see industry news and maintain a professional network. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

Nitrosecurity

Series B in 2005
NitroSecurity is a supplier of Unified Information Security solutions that provide Edge-to-Core network security for enterprises across many vertical markets, including healthcare, education, financial services, government, retail, hospitality, and managed services. Leveraging patented data management technology, NitroSecurity delivers an integrated, cost effective network security product suite for security information & event management, log management, database activity monitoring, network analysis and intrusion prevention.

Nitrosecurity

Series D in 2008
NitroSecurity is a supplier of Unified Information Security solutions that provide Edge-to-Core network security for enterprises across many vertical markets, including healthcare, education, financial services, government, retail, hospitality, and managed services. Leveraging patented data management technology, NitroSecurity delivers an integrated, cost effective network security product suite for security information & event management, log management, database activity monitoring, network analysis and intrusion prevention.

NETdelivery

Series C in 2001
The Boulder, Colo.-based company develops software to allow secure collection, distribution and management of business forms and information over the Internet, as a means to cut the amount of paper and time need to exchange the same information manually.

EraGen Biosciences

Series A in 2006
EraGen Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops, manufactures, and markets molecular reagent products and software for research and clinical testing markets. The company offers molecular diagnostic assays for the early detection and monitoring of cancer, genetic, and infectious diseases, as well as for genetic-based conditions. Its products include molecular diagnostic tests, analyte specific reagents, in vitro diagnostic reagents, and research use only reagents; MultiCode-PLx Analysis Software that allows users to create customized templates for plate and assay layouts; and MultiCode-RTx Analysis Software, which enables users to create templates for quantitative and qualitative analyses. The company serves clinical laboratories and medical researchers. It sells its products through distributors in the United States and Canada. The company was founded as Sulfonics, Inc. in 1994 and changed its name to EraGen Biosciences, Inc. in 1999. EraGen Biosciences, Inc. is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

DataSphere

Series D in 2012
DataSphere provides Web technology and an ad sales team focused on generating neighborhood level user engagement and monetization for existing media companies.
True North Technology is the leading provider of on-demand information technology services and software to businesses and medical practices over the Internet. True North’s Northstar network provides instant access to software and files on any Internet-enabled device, at any time, anywhere in the world. It also enables customers to use software from multiple vendors and purchase secure, on-demand computer capacity on a subscription basis at a fraction of the cost of purchasing and supporting premise-based solutions. Northstar features an innovative network software switching technology, the first designed to deliver computing services and applications by leveraging the telecommunications industry service provider model for information technology services in other markets. The company has established a strong position as the leading provider of on-demand software services to small and mid-sized medical practices converting to and managing electronic health records (EHR) and upgraded practice management systems.

yello

Series B in 2015
Yello, Inc. develops talent acquisition software solutions. The company offers campus recruiting, event management, interview scheduling, mobile recruiting, talent relationship management, referral, video interviewing, and evaluation management software products. It serves clients ranging from Fortune 500 global enterprises to high-growth and early-stage companies. Yello, Inc. was formerly known as Recsolu, Inc. and changed its name to Yello, Inc. in June 2015. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Sonoma Orthopedics

Series E in 2014
Sonoma Orthopedic Products designs, develops, and delivers proprietary orthopedic implants for physicians to address problematic fractures. The WaviBodyâ„¢ technology platform allows for quick, minimally invasive surgical solutions for active patients. Direct to Bone...Back To Life.

Aventri

Series C in 2016
Aventri offers cloud-based data-driven event management and venue sourcing solutions. Its platform specializes in providing real-time data and analytics on event performance, customer engagement, and increasing measurable events. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.

SecurePipe

Venture Round in 2004
SecurePipe, founded in 1996, provides security solutions to customers in a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, healthcare, banking, environmental response, consumer products and technology offering a three-tiered solution that combines managing, monitoring and maintaining network security. With a serious commitment to the individual customer relationship, we specialize in configuring and monitoring each system to meet the specific security needs of each customer.

Checkpoint Surgical

Series C in 2015
Checkpoint Surgical provides physicians with medical devices to locate, evaluate, and protect nerves and muscles in surgical procedures. The company's flagship product, the Checkpoint Stimulator/Locator is a single-use, hand-held stimulator with a broad range of stimulation parameters that are fully controllable by the surgeon with one hand and capable of eliciting a muscle contraction from stimulating the nerve directly or the tissue surrounding the nerve. The Checkpoint Surgical team continues to develop new and innovative first in class devices to help surgeons achieve better patient outcomes.

ViralGains

Series B in 2017
ViralGains is a video ad journey platform that enables marketers to engage people with relevant brand stories in the contexts that people most favor. Using the platform to engage in a two-way conversation, brands discover exactly what people want and how they feel and build a unique journey that connects highly qualified consumers with relevant messages that generate awareness, motivate intent, and impact purchase decisions. ViralGains is headquartered in Boston, with regional offices in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.

Intradiem

Series A in 2000
Intradiem, Inc. provides intraday automation solutions for multi-channel contact centers. It offers task management, real-time adherence, intraday staffing, channel balancing, alerts and notifications, and reskilling solutions. The company also provides implementation, training, consulting, managed services, success management, and customer support services. It serves companies in telecommunications, financial services, and healthcare industries, as well as outsourcers worldwide. Intradiem, Inc. was formerly known as Knowlagent, Inc. and changed its name to Intradiem, Inc. in January 2013. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Alpharetta, Georgia.