Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is a global financial services firm that provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. It advises on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and other corporate actions; underwrites public offerings and debt; and helps clients raise capital through various markets. The firm engages in market making and client execution across fixed income, currencies, commodities, and equities, and offers securities services including financing and lending to institutional clients. Its asset management and wealth advisory businesses manage assets and provide investment solutions for a broad client base, including institutions and individuals. Headquartered in New York, the company serves clients worldwide and operates across multiple business lines to support capital formation, risk management, and investment activities.
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Capital Markets Gateway
Series C in 2025
Capital Markets Gateway Inc. is a financial technology firm that specializes in modernizing the equity capital markets. Based in Chicago, Illinois, with additional locations in New York and Seattle, CMG offers a platform that provides real-time information and analytics to investors, underwriters, and issuers. Founded in 2015 and officially launched in 2017 by a team of experienced professionals, the platform enhances transparency and workflow efficiencies in capital raising activities. It enables users to monitor the capital raising landscape, conduct due diligence, and make informed investment decisions while facilitating collaboration between stakeholders. Currently, CMG's platform is utilized by over 100 buy-side firms and 10 investment banks, supporting a substantial amount of assets under management.
SkySpecs
Private Equity Round in 2025
SkySpecs develops unmanned aerial vehicles and integrated software solutions for the wind energy sector, focusing on operations and maintenance. Its offerings include analytics, blade inspection services, engineering projects, and collaborative tools that aggregate and digitize data from multiple sources. The Horizon reporting platform and a central data repository streamline communication with third parties and enable full‑scale repair campaigns. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with an additional office in Amsterdam, Netherlands. SkySpecs aims to enhance productivity, efficiency, and returns for renewable energy assets by providing purpose‑built technologies that help customers make informed decisions.
Boeing
Post in 2024
Founded in 1916, Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company. It designs, manufactures, and sells fixed-wing aircraft, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and provides leasing and product support services. With operations in over 70 countries, Boeing employs around 170,000 people and supports airlines and governments worldwide.
Interplay Learning
Private Equity Round in 2024
Interplay Learning is a training technology company that designs and delivers online, VR-enabled 3D simulation-based training for skilled trades. Its platform enables career-focused learning through interactive simulations, videos, and procedural guides for fields such as HVAC, electrical, energy auditing, residential wiring, home energy scoring, robotics, and solar photovoltaic installation, as well as code compliance and safety training. The company also builds training simulations for manufacturers to help technicians install and service their products worldwide. Services are used by education, government, career certification, and industry clients to accelerate practical understanding and job readiness. Founded in 2010 and based in Austin, Texas.
Amount
Venture Round in 2024
Amount, Inc. is a digital technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in mobile banking solutions for financial institutions. Established in 2018, Amount focuses on accelerating digital transformation by offering a range of services that enhance customer acquisition and optimize performance across various product categories, including personal loans, credit cards, and deposit accounts. Its flagship product, Amount 360, is a cloud-based platform that provides comprehensive solutions with features such as omnichannel integration, fraud prevention, and risk analytics. Amount's services enable financial institutions to modernize their retail offerings and improve user experiences, with clients collectively managing nearly $1 trillion in U.S. assets and serving over 25 million customers.
Xpress Wellness Urgent Care
Acquisition in 2024
Xpress Wellness Urgent Care provides urgent care services for common illnesses, minor injuries, allergies, drug screens, sports physicals, minor fractures, and work physicals. The organization offers occupational and sports medicine, computerized radiology, laboratory and diagnostic testing, and electrocardiogram services. Serving medically underserved communities and nursing homes across Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas, it supports walk-in care and online check-in throughout the week.
DOXA Insurance Holdings
Acquisition in 2023
DOXA Insurance Holdings LLC is a private equity firm based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, focused on acquiring small- to medium-sized managing general agents (MGAs). Since its founding in 2016, the firm has specialized in providing financial and scheduling flexibility to MGA owners, enabling them to plan for future opportunities. DOXA primarily invests in the United States, partnering with MGAs to facilitate growth and development in the insurance sector.
Humana
Post in 2022
Humana is a leading U.S. health and wellness company focused on government-sponsored programs, health insurance, and related services. It serves individuals through private group plans and government programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE, and provides primary care, at-home services, and pharmacy benefit management. The company maintains a network of credentialed providers and facilities and emphasizes a consumer-focused approach centered on choice, engagement, and innovation. Founded in 1964 and headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, Humana pursues integrated care delivery and wellness initiatives across its diverse business lines.
Project44
Venture Round in 2022
Project44 provides a cloud based visibility platform for shippers and third party logistics providers, unifying pricing, routing, scheduling, tracking, exceptions, digital documents and payments to deliver end to end shipment visibility across parcel, final mile, LTL, truckload, rail, intermodal and ocean. The platform digitizes the shipment lifecycle and automates key transportation processes to accelerate insights and action. It supports carrier performance analytics and integrates with multiple stakeholders to improve predictability, resilience and sustainability of supply chains. Serving more than 1,300 brands and handling over 1 billion shipments annually, Project44 operates from its Chicago headquarters with a global network of offices. The company is recognized as a market leader in visibility technology by industry analysts and peers.
Resilia
Series B in 2022
Founded in 2016, Resilia is a New Orleans-based company that develops a SaaS platform for nonprofit organizations. Its technology helps nonprofits enhance performance and enables funders to measure and scale their grant impacts beyond financial support.
Varagon Capital Partners
Private Equity Round in 2022
Varagon Capital Partners is a lending firm that specializes in providing financing solutions to mid-sized companies primarily in the United States. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Fort Worth, Texas, the company focuses on direct lending to businesses across sectors such as commercial and industrial, healthcare, and energy, particularly those with EBITDA between $10 million and $75 million. Varagon emphasizes a relationship-driven approach, fostering lasting partnerships with borrowers and private equity firms, and aims to deliver transparency, flexibility, and high-quality service to both its clients and investors. The firm offers a range of products and services, including investment, risk management, analytics, and reporting, positioning itself as a trusted lender for companies seeking tailored financing solutions.
SkySpecs
Series D in 2022
SkySpecs develops unmanned aerial vehicles and integrated software solutions for the wind energy sector, focusing on operations and maintenance. Its offerings include analytics, blade inspection services, engineering projects, and collaborative tools that aggregate and digitize data from multiple sources. The Horizon reporting platform and a central data repository streamline communication with third parties and enable full‑scale repair campaigns. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with an additional office in Amsterdam, Netherlands. SkySpecs aims to enhance productivity, efficiency, and returns for renewable energy assets by providing purpose‑built technologies that help customers make informed decisions.
Data.World
Series C in 2022
Data.World develops an open data platform that enables users to discover, understand, share, and collaborate on diverse datasets. Its platform supports various formats and sectors, fostering a collaborative community for both business and public use.
NextCapital
Acquisition in 2022
NextCapital, established in 1996, is a Chicago-based fintech company that partners with institutions to provide personalized financial planning and managed accounts to individual investors across various account types. Their digital advice platform, NextCapital, offers integrated services including account aggregation, analytics, planning, and portfolio management. This platform allows partners to customize advice methodology and fiduciary roles, serving a wide range of investors from beginners to high net worth individuals.
Peabody Energy Corporation
Post in 2022
Peabody Energy Corporation is a coal producer that mines, processes and sells metallurgical and thermal coal to electricity generators, steelmakers and industrial customers. The company operates through segments including Seaborne Thermal, Seaborne Metallurgical, Powder River Basin, Other U.S. Thermal, and Corporate and Other; Seaborne Thermal is a major revenue driver. It engages in trading coal and freight-related contracts and provides transportation-related services, including financial derivatives and physical contracts. Its geographic footprint includes customers in the United States and international markets such as Japan, China, Australia and Taiwan, reflecting a diversified global exposure.
ImOn Communications
Acquisition in 2022
Founded in 2007, ImOn Communications is a local provider serving Cedar Rapids, Marion, and Hiawatha. They offer Fiber to the Home internet, digital cable TV, HDTV, DVRs, and phone services for both residential and business customers.
Fast Radius
Post in 2022
Fast Radius is a cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company that unifies design, production, and fulfillment through a single digital platform to simplify and modernize manufacturing. Its Cloud Manufacturing Platform connects design, production, and fulfillment workflows to enable easier, more sustainable manufacturing. The company offers additive manufacturing services for thermoplastics, elastomeric materials, and metals, along with CNC machining, injection molding, urethane casting, and reverse engineering, supported by production-grade manufacturing and global fulfillment capabilities. Headquartered in Chicago, Fast Radius maintains additional offices and micro-factories to support rapid production and local fulfillment.
Capital Markets Gateway
Series B in 2022
Capital Markets Gateway Inc. is a financial technology firm that specializes in modernizing the equity capital markets. Based in Chicago, Illinois, with additional locations in New York and Seattle, CMG offers a platform that provides real-time information and analytics to investors, underwriters, and issuers. Founded in 2015 and officially launched in 2017 by a team of experienced professionals, the platform enhances transparency and workflow efficiencies in capital raising activities. It enables users to monitor the capital raising landscape, conduct due diligence, and make informed investment decisions while facilitating collaboration between stakeholders. Currently, CMG's platform is utilized by over 100 buy-side firms and 10 investment banks, supporting a substantial amount of assets under management.
Project44
Private Equity Round in 2022
Project44 provides a cloud based visibility platform for shippers and third party logistics providers, unifying pricing, routing, scheduling, tracking, exceptions, digital documents and payments to deliver end to end shipment visibility across parcel, final mile, LTL, truckload, rail, intermodal and ocean. The platform digitizes the shipment lifecycle and automates key transportation processes to accelerate insights and action. It supports carrier performance analytics and integrates with multiple stakeholders to improve predictability, resilience and sustainability of supply chains. Serving more than 1,300 brands and handling over 1 billion shipments annually, Project44 operates from its Chicago headquarters with a global network of offices. The company is recognized as a market leader in visibility technology by industry analysts and peers.
Anchorage Digital
Series D in 2021
Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated custody, trading, staking, governance, and regulatory-compliance infrastructure for digital asset programs. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves institutional clients globally with a secure, compliant framework and services designed to simplify oversight and asset management.
Entera
Series A in 2021
Founded in 2018, Entera operates a leading SaaS platform for real estate investors. It streamlines the buying process of single-family homes using machine learning and data-driven insights. With an annual transaction run rate exceeding $3.5 billion across 24 markets, Entera serves many prominent investors and has raised over $40 million in venture capital.
Visual Comfort
Venture Round in 2021
Visual Comfort & Co. is a leading provider of designer lighting solutions based in Skokie, Illinois. The company specializes in an extensive range of interior and exterior lighting fixtures, including pendant lights, chandeliers, ceiling fans, and outdoor lighting. Catering to both residential and commercial markets, Visual Comfort offers products characterized by their stylish designs and functional attributes, utilizing natural materials and hand-applied finishes. Its offerings are targeted toward various industries, including electrical wholesale, home improvement, home decor, and building products, ensuring a blend of high aesthetics and practicality in their lighting solutions.
Project44
Series E in 2021
Project44 provides a cloud based visibility platform for shippers and third party logistics providers, unifying pricing, routing, scheduling, tracking, exceptions, digital documents and payments to deliver end to end shipment visibility across parcel, final mile, LTL, truckload, rail, intermodal and ocean. The platform digitizes the shipment lifecycle and automates key transportation processes to accelerate insights and action. It supports carrier performance analytics and integrates with multiple stakeholders to improve predictability, resilience and sustainability of supply chains. Serving more than 1,300 brands and handling over 1 billion shipments annually, Project44 operates from its Chicago headquarters with a global network of offices. The company is recognized as a market leader in visibility technology by industry analysts and peers.
Amount
Series D in 2021
Amount, Inc. is a digital technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in mobile banking solutions for financial institutions. Established in 2018, Amount focuses on accelerating digital transformation by offering a range of services that enhance customer acquisition and optimize performance across various product categories, including personal loans, credit cards, and deposit accounts. Its flagship product, Amount 360, is a cloud-based platform that provides comprehensive solutions with features such as omnichannel integration, fraud prevention, and risk analytics. Amount's services enable financial institutions to modernize their retail offerings and improve user experiences, with clients collectively managing nearly $1 trillion in U.S. assets and serving over 25 million customers.
QuVa Pharma
Debt Financing in 2021
QuVa Pharma, Inc. is a 503B outsourcing company that specializes in the manufacturing and supply of compounded sterile preparations. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, with additional manufacturing facilities in Temple, Texas, and Bloomsbury, New Jersey, QuVa Pharma produces a range of specialty admixtures in IV bags, syringes, and specialized vials. The company focuses on delivering vital compounded medications for various therapeutic areas, including obstetrics, anesthesia, general medicine, cardiovascular care, and pain management. By serving compliance-oriented healthcare facilities across the United States, QuVa Pharma plays a crucial role in providing ready-to-use pharmaceutical products, including antibiotics, electrolytes, and anesthetics, to hospitals and long-term care facilities.
General Motors - Credit Card Business
Acquisition in 2020
General Motors - Credit Card Business is a provider of financial and credit card services.
The company is based in Detroit, Michigan, and it was recently acquired by Goldman Sachs.
Syntellis Performance Solutions
Debt Financing in 2020
Syntellis Performance Solutions is a software company established in 1985, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with additional offices across the United States. It specializes in enterprise performance management solutions, catering primarily to healthcare organizations, higher education institutions, and financial institutions. Syntellis offers a suite of products including cost accounting, comparative analytics, contract management, clinical analytics, enterprise planning, strategy management, driver-based financial planning, funds transfer pricing, relationship profitability analysis, budget planning, capital planning, labor planning, strategic financial planning, and tuition planning. These solutions are designed to provide data-driven insights, enabling clients to make informed decisions and improve overall performance within their respective sectors.
Capital Markets Gateway
Series B in 2020
Capital Markets Gateway Inc. is a financial technology firm that specializes in modernizing the equity capital markets. Based in Chicago, Illinois, with additional locations in New York and Seattle, CMG offers a platform that provides real-time information and analytics to investors, underwriters, and issuers. Founded in 2015 and officially launched in 2017 by a team of experienced professionals, the platform enhances transparency and workflow efficiencies in capital raising activities. It enables users to monitor the capital raising landscape, conduct due diligence, and make informed investment decisions while facilitating collaboration between stakeholders. Currently, CMG's platform is utilized by over 100 buy-side firms and 10 investment banks, supporting a substantial amount of assets under management.
Sabre Corporation
Post in 2020
Sabre Corporation provides technology solutions to the global travel and tourism industry. It operates through three segments: Travel Network, Airline Solutions, and Hospitality Solutions. The Travel Network unit serves as a B2B travel marketplace, offering inventory, prices and availability from airlines, hotels, car rental brands, rail carriers, cruise lines and tour operators to online and offline travel buyers. Airline Solutions delivers software products and services via software‑as‑a‑service and hosted delivery to airlines and other travel suppliers, including reservation, marketing and planning tools and operations management. Hospitality Solutions supplies hotel reservations and distribution software through SaaS and hosted delivery, featuring a central reservation system, property management, and revenue management services. Sabre also pursues AI‑driven initiatives through partnerships, such as with Google, and maintains a portfolio of established products like SynXis and SabreSonic. The company is headquartered in Southlake, Texas, and serves customers worldwide.
Vertiv
Post in 2020
Vertiv specializes in mission-critical infrastructure technologies for data centers, communication networks, and commercial environments worldwide. It offers power management, thermal management, integrated rack systems, modular solutions, and management systems, serving industries such as finance, healthcare, transportation, and government.
Automation Anywhere
Series B in 2019
Automation Anywhere, Inc. is a global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), specializing in the development of AI-powered software solutions designed to enhance business efficiency. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a cloud-native platform that integrates RPA with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics. Its flagship products include Automation Anywhere Enterprise, which automates IT and business processes; Automation Anywhere Server for streamlined business operations; and IQ Bot, a cognitive automation solution that addresses complex business tasks. Additionally, the company provides a comprehensive suite of testing tools, such as Testing Anywhere, which supports quality assurance across various platforms. Automation Anywhere also offers consulting services and collaborates strategically with Microsoft Azure. The company has expanded its presence internationally with offices in several major cities across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
MedVet
Private Equity Round in 2019
MedVet is a veterinary care provider offering specialty and emergency services for dogs and cats. It operates a network of emergency and specialty referral hospitals with 24/7 availability across Ohio and additional locations in the Gulf Coast region and Midwest, including Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. The company provides cardiology, critical care, dentistry and oral surgery, interventional radiology, medical oncology, neurology, ophthalmology, dermatology, anesthesia and pain management, and other veterinary specialties, supporting in-depth patient management and rapid access to care. Founded in 1988, MedVet is headquartered in Worthington, Ohio.
Built Technologies
Series B in 2019
Built Technologies develops a cloud-based platform for managing construction loans. Its software streamlines draw management processes, reduces risk, enhances customer experience, and facilitates collaboration among lenders, borrowers, builders, and inspectors.
Redis
Series E in 2019
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.
Automation Anywhere
Series A in 2018
Automation Anywhere, Inc. is a global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), specializing in the development of AI-powered software solutions designed to enhance business efficiency. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a cloud-native platform that integrates RPA with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics. Its flagship products include Automation Anywhere Enterprise, which automates IT and business processes; Automation Anywhere Server for streamlined business operations; and IQ Bot, a cognitive automation solution that addresses complex business tasks. Additionally, the company provides a comprehensive suite of testing tools, such as Testing Anywhere, which supports quality assurance across various platforms. Automation Anywhere also offers consulting services and collaborates strategically with Microsoft Azure. The company has expanded its presence internationally with offices in several major cities across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Redis
Series D in 2017
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.
Outcome Health
Private Equity Round in 2017
Founded in 2006, Outcome Health delivers health intelligence technology solutions to improve patient outcomes. Its platforms include digital waiting room screens, exam room tablets, and clinical trial education tools, serving over 500 million patient visits annually. The company aims to activate the best health outcome possible for every person by providing actionable intelligence during critical moments of care.
Zilliant
Private Equity Round in 2017
Zilliant provides price optimization and management software tailored for manufacturing, distribution, high-tech, and industrial service companies. Their solutions enable businesses to analyze pricing strategies, optimize prices, manage price lists, and handle quoting and negotiation processes. Key offerings include the Zilliant Precision Pricing Suite (ZPPS), which integrates price segmentation, optimization science, analytics, and process automation. Additionally, Zilliant offers tools for deal management, price campaign management, and pricing information management. The company also provides deployment strategies, implementation methodologies, and educational services to support business and technical users. Founded in 1999, Zilliant is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Networked Insights
Series E in 2017
Networked Insights, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in analytics and audience targeting tools designed for marketers and agencies. Founded in 2006, it provides a suite of software solutions, including Kairos, which delivers real-time insights into target audiences, marketing campaigns, and brand health. The company's offerings encompass social monitoring, content planning, campaign management, and media targeting, enabling clients to make informed marketing decisions and enhance media efficiency. Networked Insights also features Audience.ai, an artificial intelligence-driven platform that further aids in audience engagement. Its client roster includes notable brands such as MTV, Samsung, and Kraft, demonstrating its capacity to help businesses optimize their marketing strategies and uncover content opportunities.
Sunnova Energy
Debt Financing in 2016
Founded in 2012, Sunnova Energy is a leading U.S.-based residential solar company, serving over 80,000 customers nationwide. It offers comprehensive energy solutions including operations and maintenance, monitoring, repairs, equipment upgrades, and on-site power optimization for its fleet of approximately 572 megawatts of solar energy systems.
Honest Dollar
Acquisition in 2016
Honest Dollar, Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in providing an online platform designed to offer transparency and information related to finances and retirement plans. As a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management, Honest Dollar aims to simplify the financial planning process for individuals, making it easier for them to prepare for retirement. The company leverages innovative technology to enhance user experience and deliver accessible financial solutions, although specific details of its offerings remain under wraps as part of its stealth startup phase.
Ten K Solar
Venture Round in 2016
Ten K Solar is a company that designs, manufactures, and markets photovoltaic systems, focusing on high-efficiency and reliable solar energy solutions. Its proprietary RAIS module technology is central to its offerings, allowing for optimized performance in various applications, including commercial rooftops, carports, and ground mounts. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ten K Solar operates manufacturing facilities in Shanghai, China, and Thailand. The company has established a strategic collaboration with SoCore Energy LLC to enhance its market presence and product offerings. Through its innovative photovoltaic systems, Ten K Solar aims to provide businesses with effective solutions for harnessing solar energy and increasing energy production per unit area.
Sapphire Digital
Series D in 2015
Sapphire Digital, established in 2007 and headquartered in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, is a healthcare technology company specializing in cost reduction and care selection. It offers a suite of solutions, including CareSelect, SmartShopper, MEG, and Sapphire 360, which empower consumers, employers, and health plans to make informed decisions about their healthcare, driving down costs and improving quality. These platforms facilitate care shopping, reward cost-conscious employees, provide surgeon and facility quality scores, and support data-driven medical spend reduction. The company, formerly known as Vitals, serves over 280 million people annually.
Vapor IO
Series A in 2015
Vapor IO, Inc. specializes in hyper modular data center solutions designed to enhance edge computing capabilities. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company offers a range of products including Kinetic Edge Exchange for low-latency data exchange, Kinetic Edge colocation for integrating multiple micro data centers, and Kinetic Edge Fabric for networking at the edge. Additionally, Vapor IO provides OpenDCRE, an open-source API for data center monitoring and management, as well as Vapor CORE, which optimizes data center services with advanced analytics. The Vapor Chamber represents a hyper collapsed data center solution, while Vapor Edge serves as a comprehensive platform for developing IoT and edge environments. Furthermore, the company’s Project Volutus facilitates cloud providers and wireless carriers in deploying cloud-based edge computing applications through a network of micro data centers located at cell tower sites.
LLamasoft
Series B in 2015
LLamasoft, Inc. specializes in developing supply chain design and analysis software and solutions, providing tools that enhance operational efficiency for businesses worldwide. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the company offers a range of products, including Supply Chain Guru, a software for designing supply chains; Transportation Guru, which focuses on network design and transportation routing; and Optimiza, an AI-powered platform that leverages machine learning and optimization algorithms. LLamasoft's solutions help organizations visualize inefficiencies and optimize various aspects of their supply chains, including inventory management, product flow, and transportation. The company serves diverse industries such as aerospace, automotive, healthcare, and retail, enabling clients to make informed decisions that drive profitability and growth. Additionally, LLamasoft provides consulting, training, and technical support services, and collaborates with humanitarian organizations to enhance health supply chains, aiming to positively impact millions of lives.
HAMLET PROTEIN
Private Equity Round in 2015
HAMLET PROTEIN is a Danish producer of soy-based protein ingredients for animal feed, specializing in products for young animals such as piglets and calves, as well as for pets, poultry, and aquaculture. The company develops and manufactures soy proteins that enhance palatability, digestion, and gut health, supporting the health, welfare, and performance of farm livestock. Its products are distributed through distributors in Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and Australia/New Zealand. Founded in 1992, HAMLET PROTEIN operates production facilities in Horsens, Denmark, and Findlay, Ohio.
Oscar Health
Series C in 2015
Oscar Health is a health insurance company based in New York, founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner, Kevin Nazemi, and Mario Schlosser. It specializes in offering individual and family health insurance plans, Medicare Advantage programs for seniors, and small group products. Oscar Health aims to enhance the healthcare experience by leveraging technology, design, and data to make services more accessible and user-friendly. The company primarily serves individuals, couples, and families who do not receive employer-sponsored health insurance in select states, including New York, New Jersey, California, and Texas. In addition to traditional insurance offerings, Oscar provides virtual care, doctor support, and appointment scheduling, emphasizing a comprehensive approach to healthcare management.
Networked Insights
Series D in 2014
Networked Insights, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in analytics and audience targeting tools designed for marketers and agencies. Founded in 2006, it provides a suite of software solutions, including Kairos, which delivers real-time insights into target audiences, marketing campaigns, and brand health. The company's offerings encompass social monitoring, content planning, campaign management, and media targeting, enabling clients to make informed marketing decisions and enhance media efficiency. Networked Insights also features Audience.ai, an artificial intelligence-driven platform that further aids in audience engagement. Its client roster includes notable brands such as MTV, Samsung, and Kraft, demonstrating its capacity to help businesses optimize their marketing strategies and uncover content opportunities.
Revionics
Series D in 2014
Revionics provides SaaS-based solutions for retailers to optimize pricing, promotions, markdowns, and space allocation using predictive analytics. Its offerings include Revionics Price Suite, Promotion Suite, Markdown Suite, Macro Space Optimization, and advanced analytics services. Serving various retail sectors globally, Revionics helps improve sales, demand, margin, and inventory management.
AWR Logistics
Venture Round in 2014
AWR Logistics is a freight broker based 3PL company based out of San Antonio, TX. At AWR Logistics we focus on providing our customers with a seamless customer service experience for their truckload and less than truckload freight shipments throughout the U.S. You focus on your core responsibilities and we'll focus on your freight. We look forward to the opportunity to serve you.
Regency Energy Partners
Post in 2014
Regency Energy Partners LP is an independent midstream energy partnership focused on the gathering, processing, marketing, and transportation of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs). The company operates through five business segments: Gathering and Processing, Joint Ventures, Contract Compression, Contract Treating, and Corporate and Others. Its extensive asset base is concentrated in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, California, Mississippi, Alabama, and the mid-continent region, which includes Kansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma. The company aims to provide essential services in the energy sector, facilitating the efficient movement and processing of natural gas and NGLs across its diverse operational footprint.
Spiceworks
Series E in 2014
Spiceworks, Inc. is a marketplace that facilitates connections between information technology professionals and technology vendors. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company offers a range of online tools designed to assist system administrators, network engineers, and technicians in managing their IT infrastructure. Its offerings include networking tools for setup and troubleshooting, IT security tools such as SSL checkers and port scanners, and a cloud-based inventory solution for tracking IP-enabled devices across networks. Additionally, Spiceworks provides services for tech marketers, encompassing social and content marketing, targeted media, and market research to effectively engage with potential buyers. Through its platform, Spiceworks aims to enhance the adoption and management of the latest technologies while supporting IT brands in their marketing efforts.
Networked Insights
Series C in 2013
Networked Insights, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in analytics and audience targeting tools designed for marketers and agencies. Founded in 2006, it provides a suite of software solutions, including Kairos, which delivers real-time insights into target audiences, marketing campaigns, and brand health. The company's offerings encompass social monitoring, content planning, campaign management, and media targeting, enabling clients to make informed marketing decisions and enhance media efficiency. Networked Insights also features Audience.ai, an artificial intelligence-driven platform that further aids in audience engagement. Its client roster includes notable brands such as MTV, Samsung, and Kraft, demonstrating its capacity to help businesses optimize their marketing strategies and uncover content opportunities.
PetroEdge Energy IV
Private Equity Round in 2013
PetroEdge Energy IV, LLC, established in 2014 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, is an independent oil and gas exploration company. Its primary business involves the acquisition, exploration, and exploitation of unconventional natural gas and crude oil properties, with a focus on the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas. The company is committed to safe and environmentally responsible production methods.
Imaging Advantage
Venture Round in 2012
Imaging Advantage is a prominent provider of advanced, evidence-based radiology solutions designed to enhance the efficiency and utilization of healthcare services across the United States. The company offers innovative, scalable cloud-based technology that integrates various information technology systems and employs clinical algorithms to align healthcare supply and demand. Imaging Advantage serves major healthcare systems in states including Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, and Texas, as well as in other significant metropolitan areas nationwide. By focusing on optimizing provider utilization, the company aims to improve the overall effectiveness of radiology services within the healthcare sector.
Imaging Advantage
Venture Round in 2012
Imaging Advantage is a prominent provider of advanced, evidence-based radiology solutions designed to enhance the efficiency and utilization of healthcare services across the United States. The company offers innovative, scalable cloud-based technology that integrates various information technology systems and employs clinical algorithms to align healthcare supply and demand. Imaging Advantage serves major healthcare systems in states including Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, and Texas, as well as in other significant metropolitan areas nationwide. By focusing on optimizing provider utilization, the company aims to improve the overall effectiveness of radiology services within the healthcare sector.
Networked Insights
Series B in 2011
Networked Insights, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in analytics and audience targeting tools designed for marketers and agencies. Founded in 2006, it provides a suite of software solutions, including Kairos, which delivers real-time insights into target audiences, marketing campaigns, and brand health. The company's offerings encompass social monitoring, content planning, campaign management, and media targeting, enabling clients to make informed marketing decisions and enhance media efficiency. Networked Insights also features Audience.ai, an artificial intelligence-driven platform that further aids in audience engagement. Its client roster includes notable brands such as MTV, Samsung, and Kraft, demonstrating its capacity to help businesses optimize their marketing strategies and uncover content opportunities.
Renal Ventures Management
Venture Round in 2011
Renal Ventures Management, LLC is a prominent provider of dialysis care for individuals with chronic kidney disease in the United States. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, the company operates numerous dialysis centers across various states, including Arkansas, Iowa, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas, and West Virginia. Renal Ventures Management focuses on delivering quality care through partnerships with nephrologists, emphasizing collaboration and patient-centered operations. In addition to dialysis services, the company offers a range of supporting services, such as insurance and managed care contract negotiation, vendor pricing optimization, accounts receivable management, information technology support, and ongoing education for healthcare providers. Since May 2017, Renal Ventures Management has functioned as a subsidiary of DaVita Kidney Care, enhancing its capabilities and resources in the healthcare sector.
Imaging Advantage
Venture Round in 2010
Imaging Advantage is a prominent provider of advanced, evidence-based radiology solutions designed to enhance the efficiency and utilization of healthcare services across the United States. The company offers innovative, scalable cloud-based technology that integrates various information technology systems and employs clinical algorithms to align healthcare supply and demand. Imaging Advantage serves major healthcare systems in states including Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, and Texas, as well as in other significant metropolitan areas nationwide. By focusing on optimizing provider utilization, the company aims to improve the overall effectiveness of radiology services within the healthcare sector.
Metro International Trade Services
Acquisition in 2010
Metro International Trade Services LLC is a logistics and warehousing company based in Allen Park, Michigan, with additional offices in Cerritos, California, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 1990, the company specializes in third-party logistics services that encompass a wide range of operations, including the storage of non-ferrous metals such as aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, and zinc, as well as various bulk and containerized products. Metro International Trade Services provides comprehensive logistics solutions, including inventory management, customs brokerage, and freight consolidation, utilizing multiple transportation modes such as ocean, rail, truck, and port. The company's focus on optimizing supply chains enables efficient delivery of diverse goods, including textiles, electronics, food products, vehicles, and heavy machinery, to its clients.
SPARTA Insurance Company
Private Equity Round in 2007
SPARTA Insurance Company is an underwriting firm that operates in the commercial property and casualty insurance market across the United States, including the District of Columbia. The company utilizes a state-of-the-art, web-based Policy Administration System that enhances operational efficiency and user experience. This advanced .NET system is designed to be easily integrated into various internal and external applications, ensuring compatibility with modern technology platforms. By focusing on targeted lines of business, SPARTA aims to streamline the insurance process, promoting speed and ease of use for its clients.
Accelergy
Series B in 2006
Accelergy Corporation, established in 2003 and based in Houston, Texas, specializes in producing low-carbon synthetic distillate liquids and transportation fuels. The company employs Hydroconversion technologies to transform abundant natural resources like natural gas, biomass, and coal into clean specialty products and fuels, with a reduced carbon footprint compared to traditional petroleum-based alternatives. Accelergy's strategic alliance with Owensboro Grain LLC supports its global operations, serving energy and specialty product markets worldwide.
Surgient Networks
Series C in 2006
Surgient, Inc. specializes in self-service virtualization automation and lab management solutions, designed to assist enterprise IT organizations in delivering self-service computing resources to users. The company's core offering, the Virtual Automation Platform, enables clients to implement virtualization solutions for software quality assurance and testing, training, sales, and marketing applications. Additionally, Surgient Cloud Express facilitates the deployment of on-premise clouds by integrating cloud computing technology with implementation services. The company also provides various support services, including solution design and architecture, capacity and infrastructure planning, image configuration, software installation and customization, and training for administrators and end-users. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Surgient serves a diverse range of sectors, including hospitality, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, insurance, software, financial services, healthcare, telecom, and hardware.
FiberTower Corporation
Series A in 2005
FiberTower Corporation is a provider of facilities‑based backhaul services to wireless carriers across the United States. The company constructs and operates high‑coverage, high‑capacity hybrid microwave and fiber networks, leveraging its spectrum assets and fiber relationships. It delivers transport services using protocols such as time division multiplexing, SONET, and Ethernet. FiberTower also specializes in millimeter‑band fixed wireless technology, leasing spectrum in the 24 GHz and 39 GHz bands for small‑cell and macro‑cell backhaul solutions. The firm serves thousands of customer locations in major markets including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston, New York/New Jersey, Pittsburgh, San Antonio/Austin/Waco, Washington DC/N. Virginia/S. Maryland, and West Florida. It collaborates with carriers, equipment providers, and deployment partners on research and development initiatives. FiberTower Corporation is headquartered in San Francisco.
Avamar Technologies
Venture Round in 2004
Avamar Technologies develops enterprise data protection software solutions for corporations, medium to large-sized businesses, and multinational enterprises. The company offers Axion, a disk backup and recovery solution that allows corporations to move, store, and leverage data on a server. It also provides business continuity and disaster recovery, data security and encryption, remote office protection, and legal discovery and support for regulatory compliance solutions. The company, formerly known as Undoo.com, was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Irvine, California with sales offices in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, and New York.
Interelate
Series C in 2000
Founded in 1999, Interelate is a Minneapolis-based company offering businesses comprehensive digital marketing solutions. They specialize in Pay-Per-Click marketing, Search Engine Optimization, and Website Management, along with consulting services to enhance online presence.
iProperty.com
Series B in 2000
iProperty.com provides technology and services that empower real estate professionals to evolve in a changing industry. Their comprehensive Internet tools streamline the home buying and selling processes, while enabling brokers to retain local control of the homeownership cycle.
They currently have three locations in the Midwest. Their 30,000-square-foot headquarters facility is in Indianapolis, as well as most of their major departments. Development, Testing and Customer Service are primarily located in their Bloomington, Ind., office. Their MLS division, RISCO, is based in Kansas City.
Their workforce thrives on entrepreneurial spirit and industry-focused competition. Every one of their team members contributes their creativity and determination to make the company what it is. They're growing at warp speed and the tremendous energy and initiative of their people is what drives this momentum. Their office environment — complete with fun rooms, overstuffed couches and games — keeps spirits high and creative juices flowing.
iProperty advertises broadly in many national media outlets, including National Relocation & Real Estate Magazine/RIS Media, Mortgage Technology, Realtor Magazine, California Real Estate Magazine, Metro Chicago Real Estate, Inman News, and Real Estate Professional. They also are implementing direct mail initiatives targeting the major associations and top 500 brokers in the country. And they conduct consumer-based campaigns in regions where the Chorus Real Estate Management Engine is deployed.
ChemConnect
Private Equity Round in 2000
ChemConnect, Inc. functions as an electronic exchange specializing in the trading of midstream energy, feedstocks, chemicals, and related products. Established in 1995 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company provides a platform for the trading of natural gas liquids, refined fuels, aromatics, olefins, and commodity polymers. In addition to its exchange services, ChemConnect offers auction services, bulletin-board functionality, back-end fulfillment solutions, and market information resources. The company also delivers supply chain solutions, which include negotiation tools and collaboration hubs, facilitating efficient transactions for its clients. ChemConnect has operational reach in North America, the United Kingdom, and Belgium.
Hull Group
Acquisition in 1999
The Hull Group, a Chicago-based electronic market-maker.
Tunes.com
Private Equity Round in 1999
Tunes.com is an online music network, providing music content, community features, and e-commerce services for its users. It provides music videos and music downloads for its clients while offering targeted advertising services on preferred demographics.
Tunes.com was founded in 1997 and is based in Chicago, I.L. The company was acquired by [eMusic.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/emusic) in 2000. [Patrick Blake](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/patrick-blake), a long-term veteran of start-ups, product management, and angel investing, is the founder of Tunes.com.
Bestow
Bestow Inc., established in 2016 and based in Dallas, Texas, operates as a digital life insurance company. It provides life insurance services to individuals, leveraging data-driven technology applications and algorithmic underwriting to assess risks efficiently. The company partners with top carriers to enhance processes from origination to administration, aiming to increase financial stability for all.
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