Converge

Converge is a venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that focuses on early-stage investments in technology-driven companies. Founded in 2018, the firm primarily targets business-to-business technology sectors, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, data and analytics, industrial applications, marketing technology, media, sales acceleration, security, and vertical SaaS. Converge aims to provide long-term capital to entrepreneurs and their teams, with a particular emphasis on seed, startup, and early Series A investments. The firm is dedicated to supporting innovative companies that are poised for growth in the evolving tech landscape.

Nilanjana Bhowmik

Co-Founder & General Partner

James Falkoff

Principal

Maia Heymann

Founder and General Partner

Jason King

CFO

53 past transactions

Emissary

Venture Round in 2020
Emissary, Inc. provides an online platform to share advice, make introductions, and get compensated for the efforts. It provides tools to promote the businesses. The company was formerly known as Leroy Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Emissary, Inc. in February 2017. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in the New York, New York.

Crayon

Venture Round in 2018
Crayon, Inc. operates a market intelligence platform that assists’ businesses to track, analyze, and act on digital footprints. It offers an intelligence and analysis platform; a marketing intelligence tool; and a website inspiration platform. Crayon, Inc. was formerly known as M80 Labs, Inc. and changed its name to Crayon, Inc. in June 2017. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

NuoDB

Venture Round in 2018
NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactional consistency and durability that databases of record demand. As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements. NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia.

APDS

Series B in 2020
American Prison Data Systems is a provider of education technology services intended to provide inmates in jails and prisons to safely and securely consume permitted digital content. The content and services focus on educational and rehabilitative programming sold to correctional facilities as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The APDS service helps correctional administrators and correctional educators bring cutting edge educational and rehabilitative programming to inmates. Immediately, it leads to a reduction in violence. Over time, it leads to a reduction in recidivism. The company was established in 2012 and is headquartered in New York.

Stylo

Seed Round in 2022
Stylo categorizes customer messages based on urgency or the type of assistance required. Its software interprets customer messages using AI and advanced algorithms. The platform reads messages and categorizes them using sentiment scores based on urgency, frustration, and other factors. Message classification is typically done by humans, but Stylo's software can accurately rank customer messages and detect the level of response required on its own. Austin Emser and Josh Horowitz co-founded the company in 2019.

Employee Cycle

Seed Round in 2022
Employee Cycle is an automated, centralized, and real-time standalone HR Metrics Dashboard. We transform your HR data silos and turn them into HR data stories.

Nimbella

Seed Round in 2018
Serverless computing today is nascent, and is lacking the abstractions, automation, and integrations that have proven necessary to accelerate the adoption of technology in new markets and application domains. Nimbella fills the technology gaps and unifies the programming experience around serverless to deliver a complete and integrated solution that works across clouds. It is designed from the ground up to address the needs of event-based applications, long running applications, stateful workloads, and more complex use cases that employ artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Wyng

Venture Round in 2018
Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers.

Cybera

Seed Round in 2022
Fintech platform to prevent cybercrime and online fraud.

Nift Networks

Series A in 2018
NIFT NETWORKS Inc. operates an invitation-only online network of neighborhood businesses in Greater Boston. Its network enables local independent business owners to give Nift gifts to thank their existing customers, support other local businesses, and bring new customers through the door. The company was formerly known as Ogwee, Inc. and changed its name to NIFT NETWORKS Inc. in November 2015. NIFT NETWORKS Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Smartvid io

Venture Round in 2020
Smartvid.io enables the AEC industry to significantly reduce jobsite risk by combining the best of human and artificial intelligence. Smartvid.io's Safety Suite includes Safety Observations, Safety Monitoring and Predictive Analytics products that combine to give project teams and management the ability to predict and prevent incidents - saving lives and preserving timely project delivery. Getting started is easy with pre-built integrations to Autodesk BIM360, Procore, Oracle Aconex, SharePoint, Egnyte, Box, and other data sources. See it in action at www.smartvid.io.

Forecastr

Seed Round in 2021
Forecastr is online software that helps founders who hate building financial models in Excel actually understand their numbers, predict runway, and get funded.

SyncOnSet Technologies

Venture Round in 2018
SyncOnSet is an entertainment technology company for digitizing physical production and managing creative content. The company helps optimize workflows and secure communication throughout the project. It streamlines inventory, assets, and photo management, leaving crews with more time to do what they love. Their product is an Emmy-winning software for creative professionals to manage script breakdowns, costumes, props, continuity photos, inventory, and much more.

RapidMiner

Venture Round in 2020
RapidMiner builds a software platform for data science teams that unites data prep, machine learning, and predictive model deployment. Organizations can build machine learning models and put them into production faster than ever before on a single platform. RapidMiner eliminates the complexities of cutting edge data science by making it easy to deploy the latest machine learning algorithms and innovative technologies like Tensorflow, Hadoop, and Spark. More than 300,000 data scientists in over 150 countries use RapidMiner products on-premise or in the cloud to drive revenue, reduce costs, and avoid risks. For more information, visit www.rapidminer.com.

RevenueBase

Seed Round in 2022
RevenueBase replaces data nightmares for B2B companies with a complete and accurate Revenue Database as a Service that’s completely aligned with their go-to-market strategy.

RGo Robotics

Venture Round in 2019
R-Go Robotics is pioneering an artificial perception technology that enables mobile robots to understand complex surroundings and operate autonomously just like humans. Our business model is to partner with robotics manufacturers who share our vision of a future where automation is unfettered but focused on real-world solutions. Our team is comprised of world-class leaders with deep academic and industry experience, and we have a proven track record in bringing world-class innovation to market. ​We are currently in stealth mode.

Amper Technologies

Series A in 2022
Amper Technologies, Inc. develops and operates a clip-on device that helps factory owners and managers to analyze power consumption of their machines, predict downtime, and deploy predictive maintenance. It offers hardware and software to improve productivity and OEE. The company offers a solution from the hardware to the software, including non-invasive sensors, Internet-connected gateway, and web dashboards, as well as online dashboard to configure and see alerts, real-time status, key metrics, and rich reports. Its technologies also provides plant managers in factories to increase machine and labor productivity by having retrofit sensor that monitors across machine types. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Edisen

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Signal Intent is building the next generation of financial calculators. Whether you're a bank, credit union, insurance, or mortgage company, now you can easily launch calculators your customers will love - no coding required. How it works is simple. We offer a library of interactive calculator templates that you can easily embed on your website in just a few clicks. Plus, we’re the only calculator company to come equipped with a platform, so you can customize each calculator to match your brand, convert more customers with custom calls-to-action, and measure performance with our real-time analytics.

Crayon

Series A in 2019
Crayon, Inc. operates a market intelligence platform that assists’ businesses to track, analyze, and act on digital footprints. It offers an intelligence and analysis platform; a marketing intelligence tool; and a website inspiration platform. Crayon, Inc. was formerly known as M80 Labs, Inc. and changed its name to Crayon, Inc. in June 2017. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

OwnerIQ

Venture Round in 2011
OwnerIQ provides online advertising solutions and marketing channels for brands, retailers and manufacturers.

Influitive

Venture Round in 2019
Influitive is driving the shift from company-centric marketing to advocate marketing. Their advocacy platform and team of experts helps the world’s most successful businesses spark, build and sustain a movement behind their brands with the participation of their greatest marketing asset: their customers. They believe the companies that put their customers at the heart of their marketing — and their business — are the ones that will win.

Beamable

Venture Round in 2021
Disruptor Beam brings together worldwide fan communities with games created surrounding iconic properties. It creates highly authentic, socially-driven games based around worlds that have spawned communities of millions of passionate, dedicated fans. The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.

InsightSquared

Series D in 2018
InsightSquared offers the industry's most complete and flexible Revenue Intelligence Platform, featuring six integrated solutions in one. We empower revenue professionals to make better decisions by equipping them with actionable, real-time intelligence that drives predictable growth. B2B organizations worldwide rely on InsightSquared to build stronger, healthier pipelines, improve conversion rates, target rep coaching, boost forecast accuracy and significantly increase competitive win rates. For more information, visit www.insightsquared.com.

iRestify

Seed Round in 2020
iRestify Inc. provides cleaning, disinfecting and maintenance services to property managers in Canada. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Flipside Crypto

Seed Round in 2018
Flipside Crypto, Inc. operates a crypto currency information platform that provides business intelligence for blockchain organizations. The company offers cryptocurrency management services, including cryptocurrency acquisition, digital walleting, custody services, community tools, and portfolio dashboards for investors. It offers data models to evaluate liquid crypto assets and offers investment portfolios related to cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Promoboxx

Series A in 2016
Promoboxx is a software platform for brands to engage their independent retailers with brand-compliant digital marketing, driving better business outcomes by reaching the right consumers via the trusted channel of brands’ local retailers. With Promoboxx, channel managers and brand marketers can easily organize and engage their retailer networks; build, manage, and optionally fund organic and paid digital campaigns through their local retailers; then report and assess the business outcomes and KPIs. Over 85 leading brands including The North Face, New Balance, and Chevrolet have used Promoboxx to deliver more than 3 million campaigns across over 27,000 retailers.

Rize

Series B in 2018
Rize has developed a new, unique, game changing 3D printer technology with the following results: -Homogeneous strength in X,Y and Z -Surface finish equal to Injection molding -Full color capabilities -Variable hardness -Easy support removal -Automatic file fixing software -The system will be a desktop solution that professionals can use in their office environment

iRestify

Seed Round in 2019
iRestify Inc. provides cleaning, disinfecting and maintenance services to property managers in Canada. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

BlueConic

Series B in 2020
BlueConic is a customer data platform that liberates marketers' first-party data from all the disparate systems in which it exists and makes it available wherever and whenever it is required for marketing. More than 300 consumer and B2B brands, including Hearst Newspapers, Moen, T-Mobile, ING, National Geographic, and Franklin Sports, leverage BlueConic to unify their first-party customer data into persistent, person-level profiles, and then activate it across their marketing ecosystem. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Boston, with offices in Europe.

Zenskar

Seed Round in 2022
Zenskar develops a billing and pricing infrastructure for SaaS companies that offer usage-based pricing.

Hark

Seed Round in 2024
Hark is a New York-based startup that make the authentication process frictionless and bring video to life as the first step in the CX journey.

Qualifi

Seed Round in 2022
Qualifi empowers recruiters to find the best candidates faster by enabling on-demand phone interviews. Qualifi’s frictionless screening platform saves both recruiters and candidates time while maintaining a human touch. The best candidates are off the market in 10 days and typical phone interviews have been shown to add 6-8 days to an already long hiring process. With Qualifi, the majority of candidate responses happen on Day 1. Our recruiters scale effectively and win talent with speed.

RGo Robotics

Series A in 2022
R-Go Robotics is pioneering an artificial perception technology that enables mobile robots to understand complex surroundings and operate autonomously just like humans. Our business model is to partner with robotics manufacturers who share our vision of a future where automation is unfettered but focused on real-world solutions. Our team is comprised of world-class leaders with deep academic and industry experience, and we have a proven track record in bringing world-class innovation to market. ​We are currently in stealth mode.

HapYak Interactive Video

Venture Round in 2018
HapYak’s mission is to set the standard for social video sharing by empowering people to experience videos on the web more like they do together in person: with remarks, insights, opinions and personality.

Help Scout

Series B in 2021
Help Scout Inc. develops and provides a customer service software solution for businesses in the United States and internationally. Its solution makes customers to weave through a maze of customer portals, ticket numbers, and unhelpful automations to get what they need. Help Scout Inc. was formerly known as Brightwurks, Inc. and changed its name to Help Scout Inc. on August 2011. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hyperganic

Venture Round in 2021
New manufacturing technologies based on 3D printing & biological processes are fundamentally changing how we design & produce objects.

Routable AI Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Routable AI makes an end-to-end platform enabling operators of shuttles and buses to offer on-demand, dynamically routed transportation service. Targeting the projected $30b high-capacity mobility-as-a-service market and capitalizing on the decline of car ownership and the widespread adoption of e-hailing, Routable enables a new low-cost, highly efficient and ultra-convenient transportation option to commuters, fleet operators, and corporations. Borne from 5 years of PhD research at MIT, Routable AI employs patent-pending routing algorithms and AI that offer a 10x advantage over current routing methodologies. Routable’s platform has been shown to reduce fleet sizes by as much as 80% simply due to more efficient routing and optimization.

iRestify

Seed Round in 2022
iRestify Inc. provides cleaning, disinfecting and maintenance services to property managers in Canada. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Visor

Seed Round in 2021
RocketVisor Corporation offers a platform that acts as a spreadsheet or planning tool for engineering and product managers to obtain a holistic view of various projects. Its spreadsheet-like tool integrates with Jira and allows large and small companies to plan and track their work. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Klipfolio

Series B in 2017
Our mission is to help people succeed with data. We believe in empowering you to make better decisions by eliminating the unknown. Take control of your data and be stronger, better, and more competitive every day. Klipfolio is the new way people and their teams make informed decisions leveraging team-based BI, dashboards, and reporting. From startups to Fortune 500 teams, Klipfolio provides the power and flexibility you always wanted. Succeed with data and start for free.

Visor

Venture Round in 2020
RocketVisor Corporation offers a platform that acts as a spreadsheet or planning tool for engineering and product managers to obtain a holistic view of various projects. Its spreadsheet-like tool integrates with Jira and allows large and small companies to plan and track their work. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Chainalysis

Seed Round in 2016
Chainalysis builds trust in blockchains between people, businesses, and governments. Our Blockchain Intelligence Platform powers our compliance and investigation software for the world’s top institutions. With offices in NY, D.C., and Copenhagen, Chainalysis is global and backed by Benchmark and other leading names in venture capital.