Edison Partners

Edison Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1986. The firm specializes in growth equity investments primarily in technology-enabled companies across various sectors, including financial technology, healthcare information technology, and enterprise software. Edison focuses on late and mid-venture financing, expansion capital, management buyouts, and recapitalizations, typically investing between $10 million and $30 million in companies with revenues ranging from $2 million to $30 million. The firm's investment strategy involves nurturing growth-stage businesses with a 30 percent growth rate, often acting as a lead investor and seeking board representation. Edison has a robust portfolio valued at over $5 billion and manages more than $1 billion in assets, primarily targeting companies located in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the United States. Through its Edison Edge platform, the firm offers strategic advisory services and executive education to enhance value creation for its portfolio companies.

Joe Allegra

General Partner

Robert Dickey

Principal

Michael Dirla

Vice President

Joseph Gwozdz

Operating Partner

Grace Hahn

Senior Associate

Daniel Herscovici

Partner

Dylan Kiger

Analyst

Ben Laufer

Principal

Jennifer Lee

Partner

Lenard Marcus

General Partner

Mariann McDonagh

Operating Partner

Shelby McKeown

Associate

Casey Myers

Partner, Edison Edge

Jay Naik

Operating Partner

Greg Nicastro

Operating Partner

Patrick O'Keefe

Operating Partner

Aston Pierce

Growth Equity Associate

Felix Rauch

Associate

Tom Vander Schaaff

General Partner

Brendan Scher

Senior Associate

Steve Schloss

Operating Partner

Sherri Sklar

Operating Partner

Chris Sugden

Managing Partner

Ryan Tognazzini

Operating Partner

Ryan Ziegler

General Partner

Steve Zieja

Vice President

Dawn Zier

Operating Partner

Past deals in Pennsylvania

Houwzer

Series B in 2022
Houwzer, LLC is a real estate brokerage based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with additional offices in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and Haddonfield, New Jersey. Established in 2014, Houwzer provides comprehensive services for buying and selling homes, emphasizing a customer-centric approach. The company employs salaried agents and loan officers, enabling them to prioritize client service over sales commissions. Houwzer utilizes proprietary technology to streamline the entire real estate transaction process, offering an integrated platform that includes communication tools, featured listings, and transaction management services. With a focus on transparency and efficiency, Houwzer has achieved a high Net Promoter Score and consistently receives positive client reviews. Since its inception, the company has helped clients in the Mid-Atlantic region save significantly when selling their homes and has facilitated thousands of successful transactions.

Houwzer

Series A in 2020
Houwzer, LLC is a real estate brokerage based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with additional offices in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and Haddonfield, New Jersey. Established in 2014, Houwzer provides comprehensive services for buying and selling homes, emphasizing a customer-centric approach. The company employs salaried agents and loan officers, enabling them to prioritize client service over sales commissions. Houwzer utilizes proprietary technology to streamline the entire real estate transaction process, offering an integrated platform that includes communication tools, featured listings, and transaction management services. With a focus on transparency and efficiency, Houwzer has achieved a high Net Promoter Score and consistently receives positive client reviews. Since its inception, the company has helped clients in the Mid-Atlantic region save significantly when selling their homes and has facilitated thousands of successful transactions.

PurpleLab

Venture Round in 2019
PurpleLab is intentionally disrupting the status quo. They see healthcare data analytics projects that take weeks to fulfill as an “app” waiting to happen. They built a few apps that make healthcare data analytics better, faster and cheaper.

Kinetiq

Venture Round in 2019
Kinetiq operates as a TV viewership data aggregator, providing insights into audience engagement with television advertisements. The company leverages a global TV intelligence network to identify brand mentions and measure audience exposure to brands. By creating custom sponsorship reports, Kinetiq assists clients in determining appropriate sponsorship budgets, allowing them to optimize their television presence effectively. Through its innovative approach to TV data and analytics, Kinetiq delivers valuable insights on audiences and engagement, enhancing the strategic decision-making process for businesses involved in paid, earned, and sponsorship investments.

Jornaya

Series B in 2016
Jornaya is a consumer journey insight platform that offers marketers, data analysts, and compliance professionals a comprehensive view of the consumer buying journey. It uniquely captures both first- and third-party consumer interactions in real time across multiple devices. By understanding consumer intent at critical moments, Jornaya helps businesses streamline their decision-making processes. The platform can easily integrate with various buyer journey decisioning tools, allowing organizations to effectively respond to consumer behavior and enhance their marketing strategies.

iQ Media

Series B in 2015
iQ Media Group LLC, acquired by Teletrax Limited in 2019, offers a cloud-based media intelligence platform that serves the broadcast television, online news, and social media sectors. Founded in 2010 and based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, the company enables users to collect, analyze, and share content across various media channels. Its platform includes tools for TV attribution, sponsorship measurement, and media monitoring, allowing brands to assess the impact of their TV investments in real-time. Notable clients include Google, Home Depot, Mercedes, and SONY, who utilize iQ Media's services to optimize their media strategies and connect television occurrences to real-world audience outcomes. The platform also features an impact visualization tool, image recognition solutions, and a mobile application called Organic Video for video content management. Overall, iQ Media aims to provide marketers with comprehensive analytics and insights to enhance decision-making regarding their media investments.

Health Market Science

Series B in 2010
Health Market Science (HMS) specializes in providing data management solutions tailored for the healthcare sector, focusing on healthcare provider information. By leveraging advanced big data technology and industry expertise, HMS assists healthcare organizations in navigating complex federal and state regulations, thereby enhancing compliance and reducing operational costs. The company boasts a comprehensive provider database that includes healthcare providers, healthcare organizations, and their affiliations, along with access to the largest medical claims database in the United States. This extensive data resource, combined with a skilled team experienced in data analysis and regulatory compliance, enables HMS to deliver valuable insights that help clients improve their operational efficiency and capitalize on market opportunities.

Neat

Venture Round in 2010
The Neat Company, Inc. is a technology firm based in Philadelphia, specializing in cloud-based expense and document management solutions tailored for small businesses and consumers. Established in 2002, the company develops a comprehensive digital filing system that integrates proprietary software and hardware to streamline the organization of financial documents. Utilizing optical character recognition and patented parsing technology, Neat's products, including desktop and portable scanners, automate the extraction and categorization of key data from receipts, business cards, and other documents. Their offerings include NeatCloud, a subscription-based service that provides users with mobile access to their digital files, and NeatCare, a protection service for scanners. Neat’s solutions are designed to reduce manual data entry and enhance efficiency across various industries, such as accounting, construction, and real estate. The company has received multiple awards for product innovation and has been featured in prominent media outlets for its contributions to simplifying paper-intensive processes.

Neat

Venture Round in 2009
The Neat Company, Inc. is a technology firm based in Philadelphia, specializing in cloud-based expense and document management solutions tailored for small businesses and consumers. Established in 2002, the company develops a comprehensive digital filing system that integrates proprietary software and hardware to streamline the organization of financial documents. Utilizing optical character recognition and patented parsing technology, Neat's products, including desktop and portable scanners, automate the extraction and categorization of key data from receipts, business cards, and other documents. Their offerings include NeatCloud, a subscription-based service that provides users with mobile access to their digital files, and NeatCare, a protection service for scanners. Neat’s solutions are designed to reduce manual data entry and enhance efficiency across various industries, such as accounting, construction, and real estate. The company has received multiple awards for product innovation and has been featured in prominent media outlets for its contributions to simplifying paper-intensive processes.

Innovectra

Series C in 2008
Innovectra provides "world class" web, mobile and social network based local search solutions for Yellow Pages Publishers. They have a proven track record of helping Yellow Page publishers drive new on-line revenue.

Portico Systems

Venture Round in 2008
Portico Systems specializes in software applications for healthcare organizations, focusing on the management of provider networks. The company's technology facilitates the design, construction, servicing, and value-based reimbursement of complex provider networks. By automating essential network management tasks such as provider enrollment, credentialing, contracting, and pricing, Portico enhances the efficiency of health plans while reducing medical, administrative, and information technology costs. This transformation improves performance management within provider networks, ultimately supporting healthcare organizations in delivering better value to their stakeholders.

Verilogue

Venture Round in 2007
Verilogue is a provider of medical marketing research services that connects patients, physicians, and the healthcare industry to facilitate information sharing and enhance disease understanding. The company focuses on collecting insightful data from these groups to support the development of more effective medicines and communication materials tailored for both patients and healthcare professionals. By leveraging this information, Verilogue aims to improve the overall effectiveness of medical marketing research, ultimately contributing to better healthcare outcomes.

Innovectra

Series C in 2007
Innovectra provides "world class" web, mobile and social network based local search solutions for Yellow Pages Publishers. They have a proven track record of helping Yellow Page publishers drive new on-line revenue.

ActiveWorx

Venture Round in 2007
ActiveWorx, a product of Miria Systems, Inc., specializes in cloud-based financial and operational software solutions aimed at automating various business processes. The company offers a suite of applications, including Active Pay for automating receipt-to-pay processes, Active Expense for managing expense submissions and approvals, and Active Ledger for standardizing journal entry processing. Other solutions include Active Personnel for payroll management, Active Onboarding to streamline new hire documentation, and Active Training for organizing employee development resources. ActiveWorx also features tools for utility management and customer feedback tracking, catering to diverse industries such as retail, healthcare, and manufacturing. As a subsidiary of Output Services Group, Inc. and an IBM Gold Business Partner, Miria Systems leverages advanced technology to enhance operational efficiency and facilitate the digital transformation of business processes. Founded in 1996 and based in Norristown, Pennsylvania, the company has evolved from its previous identity as Soluziona USA, Inc.
Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. (Octagon) was founded as a Development Partnering Organization (DPO) in 1999. Octagon's foundation is built on Regulatory Principles integrated into the various disciplines of drug development. Octagon approaches all drug development services with a focus on the end goal-an approved regulatory submission. Their staff has submitted more than 16 paper original NDA submissions.They’ve submitted over 35 electronic submissions across multiple reviewing divisions and therapeutic areas to both national and international regulatory authorities. Octagon has earned the reputation for being a top-notch organization committed to being flexible, meeting deadlines, proactively identifying and resolving issues, and developing solutions for complex problems.

Neat

Series B in 2006
The Neat Company, Inc. is a technology firm based in Philadelphia, specializing in cloud-based expense and document management solutions tailored for small businesses and consumers. Established in 2002, the company develops a comprehensive digital filing system that integrates proprietary software and hardware to streamline the organization of financial documents. Utilizing optical character recognition and patented parsing technology, Neat's products, including desktop and portable scanners, automate the extraction and categorization of key data from receipts, business cards, and other documents. Their offerings include NeatCloud, a subscription-based service that provides users with mobile access to their digital files, and NeatCare, a protection service for scanners. Neat’s solutions are designed to reduce manual data entry and enhance efficiency across various industries, such as accounting, construction, and real estate. The company has received multiple awards for product innovation and has been featured in prominent media outlets for its contributions to simplifying paper-intensive processes.

VirtualEdge

Series C in 2005
ADP offers cloud-based human capital management solutions for HR, payroll, talent, time, tax, and benefits administration. It also provides its clients with business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. Through its services, the company aims to transform human resources from a back-office administrative function to a strategic business advantage. ADP serves approximately 650,000 clients in over 110 countries. Its clientele includes organizations of all types and sizes. Founded in 2000 by Diane Smith, ADP is headquartered in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

Innovectra

Series B in 2005
Innovectra provides "world class" web, mobile and social network based local search solutions for Yellow Pages Publishers. They have a proven track record of helping Yellow Page publishers drive new on-line revenue.
Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. (Octagon) was founded as a Development Partnering Organization (DPO) in 1999. Octagon's foundation is built on Regulatory Principles integrated into the various disciplines of drug development. Octagon approaches all drug development services with a focus on the end goal-an approved regulatory submission. Their staff has submitted more than 16 paper original NDA submissions.They’ve submitted over 35 electronic submissions across multiple reviewing divisions and therapeutic areas to both national and international regulatory authorities. Octagon has earned the reputation for being a top-notch organization committed to being flexible, meeting deadlines, proactively identifying and resolving issues, and developing solutions for complex problems.

Health Market Science

Venture Round in 2005
Health Market Science (HMS) specializes in providing data management solutions tailored for the healthcare sector, focusing on healthcare provider information. By leveraging advanced big data technology and industry expertise, HMS assists healthcare organizations in navigating complex federal and state regulations, thereby enhancing compliance and reducing operational costs. The company boasts a comprehensive provider database that includes healthcare providers, healthcare organizations, and their affiliations, along with access to the largest medical claims database in the United States. This extensive data resource, combined with a skilled team experienced in data analysis and regulatory compliance, enables HMS to deliver valuable insights that help clients improve their operational efficiency and capitalize on market opportunities.

TetraData

Venture Round in 2004
TetraData Corporation, based in Greenville, South Carolina, focuses exclusively on enhancing K-12 education through technology. Established in 1997, the company has developed a suite of warehousing and analytic software solutions aimed at helping educational institutions capture, integrate, and store data from various administrative and educational systems. Its flagship products, the TetraData Analytical Warehouse and Central Data Store, facilitate data-driven decision-making for K-12 districts. With a dedicated team of over 50 employees, TetraData's solutions are utilized in more than 600 educational institutions, impacting over 1.5 million students across numerous states, including California, Florida, and Texas. The company is recognized for its commitment to advancing educational performance through innovative technology.

TrueCommerce

Venture Round in 2004
TrueCommerce, Inc. specializes in electronic data interchange (EDI) solutions tailored for small to mid-tier companies. Founded in 1995 and based in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, the company provides an end-to-end solution that includes data mapping software, network services, and ongoing support. TrueCommerce facilitates the integration of EDI with various accounting and business systems, enabling customers to efficiently exchange essential transactions across multiple industries, such as banking, retail, healthcare, and government. The company's offerings also encompass inventory management, fulfillment, and the integration of digital storefronts and marketplaces. By streamlining connectivity between suppliers, retail hubs, and end consumers, TrueCommerce helps businesses enhance their operational efficiency and adaptability in today's dynamic global market.

Innovectra

Series A in 2004
Innovectra provides "world class" web, mobile and social network based local search solutions for Yellow Pages Publishers. They have a proven track record of helping Yellow Page publishers drive new on-line revenue.

Fiberlink

Series C in 2003
Fiberlink Communications Corporation provides mobility as a service (MaaS) that helps enterprises to connect, control, and secure laptops and mobile devices. Its MaaS Platform helps mobile workers to connect to the Internet and the applications and data they need. The company's MaaS platform is used to perform identity management and authentication services; deploy, monitor, and manage security and connectivity applications on laptops and PCs; view information on compliance status, security events, and connectivity costs; and protect mobile devices and the data from loss, theft, data leakage, hackers, and viruses. Its MaaS360 mobility platform manages security and connectivity services on mobile and remote devices, as well as helps administrators to deploy, monitor, update, and remediate various endpoint security and connectivity applications.
Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. (Octagon) was founded as a Development Partnering Organization (DPO) in 1999. Octagon's foundation is built on Regulatory Principles integrated into the various disciplines of drug development. Octagon approaches all drug development services with a focus on the end goal-an approved regulatory submission. Their staff has submitted more than 16 paper original NDA submissions.They’ve submitted over 35 electronic submissions across multiple reviewing divisions and therapeutic areas to both national and international regulatory authorities. Octagon has earned the reputation for being a top-notch organization committed to being flexible, meeting deadlines, proactively identifying and resolving issues, and developing solutions for complex problems.

Cadient

Venture Round in 2002
Cadient Group is an interactive marketing agency based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, that specializes in providing digital media, creative, and marketing strategy solutions to various life sciences sectors, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and consumer health. Established in 2002, Cadient offers a comprehensive range of services that encompass brand planning, content development, and multichannel analytics. The agency is adept in media planning and buying, internet advertising, search engine marketing, and web traffic data analysis. Additionally, Cadient supports its clients with strategic planning, brand launch services, email relationship management, audience segmentation, project management, and pre-launch conditioning programs. Through its expertise, Cadient aims to enhance the marketing efforts of its clients in the healthcare industry.

FASTNET

Post in 2001
FASTNET provides Internet access and a variety of related services.

Ripple Technologies

Series B in 2001
Ripple Technologies specializes in data access and database monitoring solutions, offering products designed to enhance security and compliance in enterprise environments. Among its key offerings are RippleTech Informant, a tool for monitoring and analyzing adverse data access trends, and RippleTech LogCaster, which facilitates log and event management to track application access and generate reports for auditing purposes. The company serves a diverse range of sectors including finance, telecommunications, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, government, and educational institutions. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Ripple Technologies has formed strategic partnerships with major firms such as IBM, Microsoft, MySQL Enterprise, and Oracle. As of 2008, it operates as a subsidiary of NitroSecurity.

WAM Systems

Venture Round in 2000
WAM Systems is a U.S.-based developer of supply chain planning solutions, primarily serving the chemical and process manufacturing industries. Founded in 1987 and acquired by Triple Point Technology in 2013, the company offers a comprehensive suite of applications designed to optimize various aspects of supply chain management. Its offerings include demand planning and forecasting, sales and operations planning, inventory targeting and optimization, as well as distribution and product planning services. WAM Systems' flagship product, Picaso, provides visualization, decision support, and optimization tools, enabling supply chain executives to effectively manage their operations.

Fiberlink

Venture Round in 2000
Fiberlink Communications Corporation provides mobility as a service (MaaS) that helps enterprises to connect, control, and secure laptops and mobile devices. Its MaaS Platform helps mobile workers to connect to the Internet and the applications and data they need. The company's MaaS platform is used to perform identity management and authentication services; deploy, monitor, and manage security and connectivity applications on laptops and PCs; view information on compliance status, security events, and connectivity costs; and protect mobile devices and the data from loss, theft, data leakage, hackers, and viruses. Its MaaS360 mobility platform manages security and connectivity services on mobile and remote devices, as well as helps administrators to deploy, monitor, update, and remediate various endpoint security and connectivity applications.
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