SJF Ventures

SJF Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1999, headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, with additional offices in New York and San Francisco. The firm specializes in growth-equity investments in the United States, primarily focusing on the resource efficiency, sustainability, and technology-enhanced services sectors. SJF Ventures provides equity financing ranging from $1 million to $10 million, either independently or in syndicates, to companies seeking growth capital. Key investment areas include energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture, asset recovery, health and wellness technology, and education technology. The firm adopts a selective approach to investment, seeking to partner with teams and business models capable of achieving rapid sales growth and strong profitability. SJF Ventures emphasizes the importance of positively impacting the world through its investments, aiming for exits within five years through strategic mergers, public offerings, or buyouts.

Jacqueline Bennett

Principal

Jackie Bennett

Senior Associate

Perry Clarkson

Principal

Rick Defieux

Co-Founder and Investment Committee Chair

Daniel Geballe

Managing Director

Jacqueline Goodman

Senior Analyst

David Griest

MD

Arrun Kapoor

Managing Director

Alan Kelley

Managing Director

Dave Kirkpatrick

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Jackie Lipkin

Principal

Cody Nystrom

Managing Director

Julie Plowden

CFO

Emma Sissman

Associate

115 past transactions

Solera Health

Series A in 2017
Solera Health, Inc. operates a technology platform that matches payers, doctors, patients, and physicians with community organizations and digital therapeutics companies offering treatments for hypertension, stress, inadequate sleep, tobacco usage, obesity, and more. Its platform helps in consolidating healthcare programs and services into a single marketplace allowing health plans and medical providers to increase consumer participation. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

Civitas Learning

Private Placement in 2019
Civitas Learning’s student success intelligence platform leverages each institution’s unique data to help them chart the best course to improved outcomes for students. The platform is grounded in unparalleled work in data science, built into workflows with integrated applications, and implemented on-site with seasoned strategic service teams. Today, Civitas Learning works with 375 colleges and universities, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with their growing community of customers, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to help graduate a million more students per year by 2025.

Ayla Networks

Venture Round in 2021
Ayla Networks empowers leading manufacturers by simplifying the inherent complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling them to turn their products into smart connected systems and transform their businesses to compete in the game-changing world of connectivity. Delivered as a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Ayla’s Agile IoT platform provides the flexibility and modularity to enable rapid changes to practically any type of device, cloud or app environment. Ayla Networks was named a 2015 Cool Vendor in the Internet of Things by Gartner, Inc. Ayla’s investors include Cisco, the International Finance Corporation, SAIF Partners, Crosslink Capital, Voyager Capital, Linear Venture and SJF Ventures. For more information, visit www.aylanetworks.com. Ayla Networks was founded in 2010 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

PierianDx

Venture Round in 2021
PierianDx is catalyzing global adoption of genomic sequencing in healthcare by empowering physicians in the laboratory and clinic to more effectively diagnose and treat patients with cancer and other complex diseases. PierianDx’s industry-leading genomic SaaS solutions, CAP and CLIA accredited laboratory, and shared knowledgebase are used by health systems, cancer centers and commercial laboratories worldwide driving the most integrated approach across the clinical care spectrum. From genomic sequencing and biomedical informatics in the laboratory to reporting and decision support at the patient’s bedside, PierianDx has rapidly become the trusted source of ‘wisdom’ in every advanced genomic report.

Rustic Crust

Series B in 2007
Rustic Crust Inc. produces ready-made pizza crusts, gluten free products, sauce packs, and flatbreads. The company also offers recipes for appetizers, main course, and dessert. It serves customers through online retailers. Rustic Crust Inc. was formerly known as Ever Better Eating, Inc. and changed its name to Rustic Crust Inc. in January 2005. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Pittsfield, New Hampshire.

Springboard

Series B in 2020
Springboard is an online learning platform that prepares students for the tech industry’s most sought after careers. With expert mentorship from top professionals, a bleeding-edge curriculum, and a network of support from day one, they make sure students have everything they need to excel in their program and in their next job. The platform one-size-fits-one approach is made for working professionals who are ready to level-up or make a major career shift. And our tuition back guarantee means students can take charge and invest in themselves. Springboard data science career track comes with a job guarantee, ensuring students secure a job within six months of graduation or get a full refund. The platform's self-paced courses offer students the opportunity to develop job-ready skills that they display in an industry-worthy capstone or portfolio projects.

TransLoc

Series A in 2016
Transloc's mission is to make transit the first choice for all. In its first ten years, Transloc created America's first live regional transit map, the first bus tracking mobile app, and was awarded a transit innovation award by the White House. Public transit should be the first and most convenient choice for people to travel within their community. Transloc is creating the technology that will enable transit to become that choice and we are working to change the future of mobility.

Civitas Learning

Private Equity Round in 2019
Civitas Learning’s student success intelligence platform leverages each institution’s unique data to help them chart the best course to improved outcomes for students. The platform is grounded in unparalleled work in data science, built into workflows with integrated applications, and implemented on-site with seasoned strategic service teams. Today, Civitas Learning works with 375 colleges and universities, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with their growing community of customers, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to help graduate a million more students per year by 2025.

TemperPack

Series C in 2020
TemperPack is seeking to solve the world's packaging problems through sustainable design. The company specializes in custom solutions for clients to scale in the perishable food and life sciences industries. TemperPack is also the first insulated packaging company to develop a certified fully curbside recyclable insulated shipping solution. TemperPack was founded in 2015 for the purpose of bringing sustainable packaging technology to companies that ship large volumes of perishable goods.

Carrum Health

Seed Round in 2017
Healthcare is unreasonably complex and costly. At Carrum Health, they’re applying a common sense approach to simplify the payment model and produce greater value for employers and their employees. They do so by directly connecting progressive self-insured employers to top-quality regional healthcare providers through the industry’s first comprehensive bundled payment solution. Their innovative platform reimagines how care is paid for and delivered, improving the value of health benefits for employers and their members.

LeadGenius

Series B in 2016
LeadGenius, Inc. provides lead generation and outreach processes for businesses, development organizations, nonprofits, and researchers in the United States and internationally. It provides customer research to produce lists of leads, customers, and industries; data enrichment by auditing lead list, updating contacts, correcting misspellings, and deleting outdated information; lead qualifications by separating qualified leads from dead ends, evaluating lead information, and following-up with leads over email or phone; and outbound Email prospecting/sales prospecting. LeadGenius, Inc. was formerly known as MobileWorks, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Optoro

Series A in 2013
Optoro is a technology company that connects a seamless online returns experience with efficient supply chain processing and resale. From providing an online portal to improve customer returns to technology that streamlines processing by routing inventory to its next best home, the company offers solutions for retailers and brands looking to improve outcomes across all points in the returns process.

PierianDx

Series B in 2019
PierianDx is catalyzing global adoption of genomic sequencing in healthcare by empowering physicians in the laboratory and clinic to more effectively diagnose and treat patients with cancer and other complex diseases. PierianDx’s industry-leading genomic SaaS solutions, CAP and CLIA accredited laboratory, and shared knowledgebase are used by health systems, cancer centers and commercial laboratories worldwide driving the most integrated approach across the clinical care spectrum. From genomic sequencing and biomedical informatics in the laboratory to reporting and decision support at the patient’s bedside, PierianDx has rapidly become the trusted source of ‘wisdom’ in every advanced genomic report.

Bizodo Inc

Private Placement in 2018
Bizodo Inc, doing business as SeamlessDocs, operates an online platform to convert PDF documents into cloud versions and sign them electronically. It platform enables users to sign and share a document from various devices; detect fields and customize documents; build rules; set up the ability to take payments; upload attachments; create custom workflows; build Web forms and surveys; store, search, and manage records; and convert PDF into a document. The company serves users in Los Angeles, California; Jersey City, New Jersey; and Atlanta, Georgia. Bizodo Inc was founded in 2011 and is based in New York, New York. As of October 5, 2020, Bizodo Inc operates as a subsidiary of Kofile.

Nextracker

Series B in 2015
NEXTracker offers a significant breakthrough in horizontal tracking, with lower costs, better performance and more flexibility for solar power plants. These benefits increase solar project profits for developers, EPCs and system owners. Leveraging world-class design and installation expertise, NEXTracker has delivered trackers for dozens of projects in sizes exceeding 80MW, across 3 continents. The company is headquartered in California with regional offices in Asia, Europe and South America.

Cooks Venture, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Cooks Venture, Inc. produces and sells chicken, pork, and beef. The company sells its products online. Cooks Venture, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Versify Solutions

Series C in 2013
Versify is a provider of analytical and performance management solutions for the Energy and Utility industry. The software is used by power traders, generation managers, compliance officers, and leading renewable energy providers in the area of Wind and Distributed Generation. Versify's strength is the ability to present complex market and pricing data along with operational data in a near real time basis for ease of use that allows for rapid decision making and delivers rapid ROI. Versify helps clients optimize asset performance, reduce risk, and drive significant cost savings and revenue. It enables power producers and reliability coordinators to optimize key functions and processes for asset performance, event logging, outage management, trading, and compliance to improve operational and financial performance. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.

Community Energy

Series A in 2010
Community Energy has been leading renewable energy development for more than a decade. By launching the market for direct sales of renewable energy to retail electric customers, Community Energy first leveraged consumer choice to build demand for early new renewable projects, and went on to develop and deliver wind energy at record scale. CEI is now developing utility-scale solar generation in the East, Mid-West and West as it continues to open new markets for solar and wind generation.

Interplay Learning

Private Placement in 2019
Interplay Learning is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality and 3D solutions. It provides an online training platform that enables its users to conduct training via 3D simulations designed for career training in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical, energy auditing, manufacturing, facility maintenance, and construction codes.

Yieldbot

Series B in 2014
Yieldbot is a true technology company aiming to do nothing short of revolutionize the way media value is created for consumers, brands and publishers. They strive to consistently outperform expectations creating a better, more relevant web with their technology. In so doing, they believe they will enable the media industry to realize its true value for all three of the constituents that make the web what it is, and what it will become.

SeamlessDocs

Series C in 2018
SeamlessDocs empowers governments to go paperless and deliver better online services to citizens and staff. They specialize in form automation software and offer solutions to help governments go digital, deliver online services, and automate business processes. To date, SeamlessDocs has worked with hundreds of local and state agencies across the US, allowing millions of citizens to submit online forms from any browser or device with eSignatures, payments, and attachments. By providing governments with the tools to digitize their paper processes, the company hopes to shed light on its mission statement: "Government is Beautiful."

EnTouch Controls

Series C in 2016
EnTouch Controls, Inc. designs and develops a wireless light building management system for multi-site small and medium businesses (SMBs). It offers enterprise visibility, connectivity and control, and asset optimization solutions. The company offers real time dashboard and analytics for retail, property management, restaurant, healthcare, education, and hospitality industries. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Richardson, Texas.

HYLA Mobile

Series C in 2013
HYLA Mobile, Inc. provides mobile device trade-in and reuse solutions. The company engages in collecting, processing, recycling, and redistributing used mobile phones. It collects and sells phones through a network of carrier partners and retailers in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The company was formerly known as eRecyclingCorps, LLC. HYLA Mobile, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Irving, Texas.

Jopwell

Series A in 2017
Jopwell, Inc. operates a platform that connects minority professionals and students with companies to navigate their careers. The company provides two-way empowerment for candidates and companies, delivering a pipeline of talent to fill a range of roles across various levels from experienced hires to interns. It introduces candidates to opportunities across industries, such as technology, finance, education, management consulting, and medicine. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Cecelia Health

Private Placement in 2018
Cecelia Health, Inc. provides technology enabled remote telehealth support and chronic disease management solutions in the United States. It offers clinical support and coaching services to people of all ages living with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. It offers virtual care, an alternative to in-person visits with endocrinologists and other clinical staff for managing diabetes. Cecelia Health, Inc. was formerly known as Fit4D, Inc. and changed its name to Cecelia Health, Inc. in January 2019. Cecelia Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Living Earth

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
Living Earth Technology Company Inc. provides recycling services, and develops and delivers landscaping materials to landscaping and construction projects in Texas. Its products include mulch, sand and gravel, rock and stone, soil blends, compost, and specialty products. The company also provides landscaping materials delivery, green roof system design, and municipal services; recycles tree limbs, brushes, leaves, and grass clippings; and processes wood chips, sod, animal manure, wood wastes, and sawdust. It offers materials and services to landscapers, builders, and city and state governments. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Dallas, Texas with locations in Euless, Fort Worth, Dallas, Plano, Rockwall, Lancaster, Double Oak, Houston, New Caney, Conroe, Dickinson, Iowa Colony, Missouri City, Richmond, Pineland, and Katy, Texas.

Waycare

Private Placement in 2019
WayCare optimizes traffic management systems leveraging predictive analytics, and enables two way vehicle to city communication. Waycare is shaping the future of city mobility, enabling cities to take full control of their roads by harnessing in-vehicle information and municipal traffic data for predictive insights and proactive traffic management optimization. Waycare’s platform enables municipalities to capitalize on the enormous amount of data coming from various transportation modes, including connected and autonomous vehicles, to improve traffic safety and proactively manage the city’s roads.

PosiGen

Private Equity Round in 2022
PosiGen CT, LLC sells and leases solar power systems, solar hot water systems, and energy efficiency upgrade solutions for residential and commercial users in Louisiana, New York, Connecticut, and Florida. It offers solar panel systems for heating, cooling, and illuminating homes and offices. The company also provides solar energy; energy efficiency audit services; and assess and permit, panel installation, and inspection services. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Jefferson, Louisiana with additional offices in New York and Connecticut.

Waycare

Series A in 2019
WayCare optimizes traffic management systems leveraging predictive analytics, and enables two way vehicle to city communication. Waycare is shaping the future of city mobility, enabling cities to take full control of their roads by harnessing in-vehicle information and municipal traffic data for predictive insights and proactive traffic management optimization. Waycare’s platform enables municipalities to capitalize on the enormous amount of data coming from various transportation modes, including connected and autonomous vehicles, to improve traffic safety and proactively manage the city’s roads.

RaiseMe

Seed Round in 2015
The college landscape today is broken for millions of students. Equal access to higher ed has become one of the greatest issues of our time. At RaiseMe, we're reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year in financial aid for college. Rather than waiting until the end of high school to award financial aid, which is too late to affect students' college ambitions or specific application decisions, RaiseMe enables students to earn "micro-Scholarships" automatically throughout high school based on their individual achievements in and outside of the classroom. Students have already earned over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from our university partners. We're on the look out for talented individuals to help us build a large, impactful business and a product that will change millions of lives.

TemperPack

Series B in 2019
TemperPack is seeking to solve the world's packaging problems through sustainable design. The company specializes in custom solutions for clients to scale in the perishable food and life sciences industries. TemperPack is also the first insulated packaging company to develop a certified fully curbside recyclable insulated shipping solution. TemperPack was founded in 2015 for the purpose of bringing sustainable packaging technology to companies that ship large volumes of perishable goods.

EnTouch Controls

Series C in 2018
EnTouch Controls, Inc. designs and develops a wireless light building management system for multi-site small and medium businesses (SMBs). It offers enterprise visibility, connectivity and control, and asset optimization solutions. The company offers real time dashboard and analytics for retail, property management, restaurant, healthcare, education, and hospitality industries. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Richardson, Texas.

Voxy

Series C in 2017
Voxy provides truly personalized English language instruction to corporations, educational institutions, and governments across the globe. Based on more than 30 years of academic research, Voxy’s solution meets the needs of each user by combining patented technology that adapts lessons in real-time with personalized live instruction all delivered in a fully mobile experience. Launched in 2010, it has been used by millions of learners and hundreds of institutions in over 50 different countries. Voxy’s innovative approach has been recognized by major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN. Backed by leading investors in education technology, Voxy is headquartered in New York City and has an office in São Paulo.

TemperPack

Private Placement in 2017
TemperPack is seeking to solve the world's packaging problems through sustainable design. The company specializes in custom solutions for clients to scale in the perishable food and life sciences industries. TemperPack is also the first insulated packaging company to develop a certified fully curbside recyclable insulated shipping solution. TemperPack was founded in 2015 for the purpose of bringing sustainable packaging technology to companies that ship large volumes of perishable goods.

ShipMonk

Private Placement in 2018
SHIPMONK, INC. provides order fulfillment solutions for ecommerce industries. The company offers a cloud based software solution for inventory, orders, shipping, and warehouse management. It also provides ecommerce fulfillment, retail fulfillment, subscription box fulfillment, crowdfunding fulfillment, seller fulfillment, and delivered duty paid solutions. The company serves startups and small and medium sized businesses. SHIPMONK, INC. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Bernardino, Florida with additional locations in Los Angeles, California and Pittston, Pennsylvania

Truist

Venture Round in 2008
Truist, is a provider of philanthropic solutions that enable corporations and nonprofit organizations to effectively engage their donors and volunteers with a comprehensive line of products and services.

mPulse Mobile

Series C in 2020
mPulse Mobile, the leader in mobile health engagement, drives improved health outcomes and business efficiencies by engaging individuals with meaningful and interactive dialog. mPulse Mobile combines technology, analytics and industry expertise that helps healthcare organizations activate their customers to adopt healthy behaviors. With over 9 years experience, a hundred million messages sent, and 70+ Health Plan, Provider, Pharma and Wellness customers, mPulse Mobile has the data, the expertise and the technology to drive healthy behavior change.

Voltaiq, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Voltaiq, Inc., a battery software platform company, develops battery analytics solutions. It offers Voltaiq Core for automatically collecting, cleaning, and correlating test data from any battery test hardware, as well as interactive data searching, visualization, and analysis. The company also provides Voltaiq Analytics to collect, analyze, and act on battery data; and Voltaiq Notebook to record and track battery materials, processing, test conditions, changing dimensions, and observations. In addition, it offers Voltaiq Reports that automates reports and emails to anyone on a scheduled or event-driven basis. Its solutions are installed at transportation OEMs, global consumer electronics companies, and energy storage developers and operators. Voltaiq, Inc. was formerly known as Subway Labs, Inc. and changed its name to Voltaiq, Inc. in July 2014. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Berkeley, New York.

ShipMonk

Series A in 2018
SHIPMONK, INC. provides order fulfillment solutions for ecommerce industries. The company offers a cloud based software solution for inventory, orders, shipping, and warehouse management. It also provides ecommerce fulfillment, retail fulfillment, subscription box fulfillment, crowdfunding fulfillment, seller fulfillment, and delivered duty paid solutions. The company serves startups and small and medium sized businesses. SHIPMONK, INC. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Bernardino, Florida with additional locations in Los Angeles, California and Pittston, Pennsylvania

BioSurplus

Series A in 2012
BioSurplus is a leading provider of equipment management solutions and pre-owned scientific instruments to the life sciences industry.
Perishable Shipping Solutions, Inc. provides pick and pack e-commerce order fulfillment services for food and beverage brands requiring temperature-control. The company focuses on cold, frozen, and foods without preservatives for small and large businesses. It offers services, including receiving, frozen and cold storage, pick and pack, shipping, and tracking notifications. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Youngstown, Ohio.

Validic

Series A in 2014
Validic is the healthcare industry's premier technology platform for convenient, easy data access to a world of mobile health and in-home devices, fitness equipment, clinical sensors, activity wearables, smart bands, and wellness applications. Founded in 2010, Validic is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Iron Sheepdog

Series B in 2024
Using web-based technology and a mobile app, Iron Sheepdog is a technology solution that integrates the business functions of short haul trucking dispatch, tracking and documenting job details, load verification, invoicing and payments. Fin Tech, SaaS, Mobile app, Web-based app, Payment

Terabase Energy

Venture Round in 2023
Terabase Energy, Inc. designs and develops automation and digital deployment solutions for utility-scale solar projects. It offers a cloud-based artificial intelligence project development platform which enables users to collaborate digital models of projects. Additionally, the company offers technical advisory and engineering services. Terabase Energy, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Berkeley, California, with an additional office in Melbourne, Australia.

Solera Health

Series A in 2016
Solera Health, Inc. operates a technology platform that matches payers, doctors, patients, and physicians with community organizations and digital therapeutics companies offering treatments for hypertension, stress, inadequate sleep, tobacco usage, obesity, and more. Its platform helps in consolidating healthcare programs and services into a single marketplace allowing health plans and medical providers to increase consumer participation. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

B.B.Hobbs Company

Funding Round in 2004
BB Hobbs are experts in automated drip irrigation and fertigation systems for commercial farms. Our drip systems combined with liquid fertilizer programs dramatically improve crop yield and quality.

Ayla Networks

Series C in 2016
Ayla Networks empowers leading manufacturers by simplifying the inherent complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling them to turn their products into smart connected systems and transform their businesses to compete in the game-changing world of connectivity. Delivered as a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Ayla’s Agile IoT platform provides the flexibility and modularity to enable rapid changes to practically any type of device, cloud or app environment. Ayla Networks was named a 2015 Cool Vendor in the Internet of Things by Gartner, Inc. Ayla’s investors include Cisco, the International Finance Corporation, SAIF Partners, Crosslink Capital, Voyager Capital, Linear Venture and SJF Ventures. For more information, visit www.aylanetworks.com. Ayla Networks was founded in 2010 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Versify Solutions

Venture Round in 2016
Versify is a provider of analytical and performance management solutions for the Energy and Utility industry. The software is used by power traders, generation managers, compliance officers, and leading renewable energy providers in the area of Wind and Distributed Generation. Versify's strength is the ability to present complex market and pricing data along with operational data in a near real time basis for ease of use that allows for rapid decision making and delivers rapid ROI. Versify helps clients optimize asset performance, reduce risk, and drive significant cost savings and revenue. It enables power producers and reliability coordinators to optimize key functions and processes for asset performance, event logging, outage management, trading, and compliance to improve operational and financial performance. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.

Think Through Learning

Series B in 2013
Think Through Learning's key product line, Think Through Math, is America's leading online math remediation software. There are almost 3,000,000 students in over 180,000 classrooms who are paid subscribers to Think Through Math. Think Through Math is a unique SaaS system integrating student motivation, instant on-demand interventions from state-certified US math teachers, and award winning adaptive math instruction that teaches students higher order thinking skills. Winner of the 2014 and 2012 CODiE for Best Math Instructional Solution, Think Through Math is proven to raise students understanding of math. Each student starts with an adaptive placement test that moves them right to the math they need to learn. Extensive guided feedback supports them. When they are stuck, a U.S., state-cerfiied, classroom experienced math teacher will pop up within 10 seconds to tutor them in real time. A January, 2015 independent research study commissioned by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) of 755,440 students who used Think Through Math showed that students using the system on a regular basis improved their math scores an average of 23%. The study is available of the TEA website. Numerous other studies have proven Think Through Math significantly improves students understanding of math.

Terabase Energy

Series B in 2022
Terabase Energy, Inc. designs and develops automation and digital deployment solutions for utility-scale solar projects. It offers a cloud-based artificial intelligence project development platform which enables users to collaborate digital models of projects. Additionally, the company offers technical advisory and engineering services. Terabase Energy, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Berkeley, California, with an additional office in Melbourne, Australia.

Elemeno Health

Series A in 2022
Elemeno Health, Inc. develops and offers mobile software for hospitals to eliminate medical errors. It provides a checklist tool for frontline healthcare teams in hospitals and medical centers. Elemeno Health, Inc. is based in the United States.

Preclick

Venture Round in 2005
Preclick is a media asset management software company founded to provide digital photographers the fastest, easiest and most convenient way to organize, print, preserve and share their digital photos. Preclick builds software for major corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Wal-Mart, 3M, SanDisk, Costco and many online photofinishers including PhotoWorks, dotPhoto and Adorama. Preclick has collaborated with HP in building HP Photosmart Essential (formerly HP Image Zone Express), the free software that makes it extremely easy to print your photos at home or to effortlessly share them online with your friends and family. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. As of September 1, 2009, Preclick Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Smilebox, Inc.

EnTouch Controls

Series C in 2019
EnTouch Controls, Inc. designs and develops a wireless light building management system for multi-site small and medium businesses (SMBs). It offers enterprise visibility, connectivity and control, and asset optimization solutions. The company offers real time dashboard and analytics for retail, property management, restaurant, healthcare, education, and hospitality industries. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Richardson, Texas.

mPulse Mobile

Series B in 2018
mPulse Mobile, the leader in mobile health engagement, drives improved health outcomes and business efficiencies by engaging individuals with meaningful and interactive dialog. mPulse Mobile combines technology, analytics and industry expertise that helps healthcare organizations activate their customers to adopt healthy behaviors. With over 9 years experience, a hundred million messages sent, and 70+ Health Plan, Provider, Pharma and Wellness customers, mPulse Mobile has the data, the expertise and the technology to drive healthy behavior change.

Terabase Energy

Series A in 2020
Terabase Energy, Inc. designs and develops automation and digital deployment solutions for utility-scale solar projects. It offers a cloud-based artificial intelligence project development platform which enables users to collaborate digital models of projects. Additionally, the company offers technical advisory and engineering services. Terabase Energy, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Berkeley, California, with an additional office in Melbourne, Australia.

Ayla Networks

Series B in 2014
Ayla Networks empowers leading manufacturers by simplifying the inherent complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling them to turn their products into smart connected systems and transform their businesses to compete in the game-changing world of connectivity. Delivered as a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Ayla’s Agile IoT platform provides the flexibility and modularity to enable rapid changes to practically any type of device, cloud or app environment. Ayla Networks was named a 2015 Cool Vendor in the Internet of Things by Gartner, Inc. Ayla’s investors include Cisco, the International Finance Corporation, SAIF Partners, Crosslink Capital, Voyager Capital, Linear Venture and SJF Ventures. For more information, visit www.aylanetworks.com. Ayla Networks was founded in 2010 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Catalant

Private Placement in 2020
Catalant Technologies, Inc. develops custom softwares. It offers software for the process of strategy execution, ranging from entering in a business’ strategic objectives, aligning work and breaking it down into distinct elements, accessing and deploying needed internal and external resources, collaborating to execute it, measuring the work’s value, and providing insights to keep improving how it all gets done. The company was formerly known as HourlyNerd Inc. and changed its name to Catalant Technologies, Inc. in July 2016. Catalant Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

City Innovate

Series A in 2023
At City Innovate, we believe that government can be a force for good. Helping governments navigate and address complex technology challenges. We do this through Startup in Residence (STIR), which connects startups with government agencies to develop technology products that solve real civic challenges. During the 16-week program, startups work with government partners to understand a government-identified problem. Through a streamlined procurement process, startups develop solutions for government agencies with a expedited pathway to implementation. STIR is currently accepting applications for the next program commencing January 28, 2019. Apply by Nov 14 to one of 80+ govtech challenges and work collaboratively with government at StartupinResidence.org.

Catalant

Series E in 2020
Catalant Technologies, Inc. develops custom softwares. It offers software for the process of strategy execution, ranging from entering in a business’ strategic objectives, aligning work and breaking it down into distinct elements, accessing and deploying needed internal and external resources, collaborating to execute it, measuring the work’s value, and providing insights to keep improving how it all gets done. The company was formerly known as HourlyNerd Inc. and changed its name to Catalant Technologies, Inc. in July 2016. Catalant Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Mercado Labs

Series A in 2021
Mercado is a supply chain company that features a cloud-based platform that helps businesses to connect to everyone involved in their supply chain. Its platform connects teams, business departments, suppliers, partners, and service providers. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Rhithm

Seed Round in 2021
Rhithm is a wellness check-in tool. The platform selects an ideal 1-2 minute activity video to regulate well-being based on user given data from a simple emoji assessment. This data is available on dashboards to reflect and connect with as desired at the campus, district/network and state levels.

Tive

Series B in 2022
Tive is a Boston-based startup that helps companies take the surprises out of their supply chains through true end-to-end visibility. It is the easiest way for companies to manage their supply chain – and get results. Unlock unparalleled insight and enhanced visibility. They help companies improve efficiency and meet regulatory requirements by providing an end-to-end sensor solution to visualize, optimize, and monitor operations in real-time.

Intechra

Venture Round in 2006
Intechra, LLC, an electronics lifecycle management company, provides information technology asset disposition, value recovery, and computer recycling services to businesses and governments. It offers information technology asset disposition service, such as data security, service plans, and computer remarketing services. The company also provides logistics services, including chain of custody, secured transport, and on-site services. In addition, it offers recycling of ferrous and nonferrous metals, circuit boards, wires and cables, CRT glass and CRT units, batteries, and mercury-containing devices; and plastic casings, storage media, and software disks. Further, the company operates an online store; and sells laptops, personal computers, and computer parts. It serves small and mid-sized businesses, cities, and schools. Intechra, LLC was formerly known as Recycled Computers International, LLC. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Jackson, Mississippi.

Civitas Learning

Series D in 2015
Civitas Learning’s student success intelligence platform leverages each institution’s unique data to help them chart the best course to improved outcomes for students. The platform is grounded in unparalleled work in data science, built into workflows with integrated applications, and implemented on-site with seasoned strategic service teams. Today, Civitas Learning works with 375 colleges and universities, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with their growing community of customers, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to help graduate a million more students per year by 2025.

Aseptia

Series C in 2014
Aseptia, Inc. commercializes continuous flow microwave sterilization processes. Aseptia, Inc. was formerly known as Ultraseptics, Inc. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.Wright Foods is a subsidiary of Aseptia, Inc.

TemperPack

Private Placement in 2020
TemperPack is seeking to solve the world's packaging problems through sustainable design. The company specializes in custom solutions for clients to scale in the perishable food and life sciences industries. TemperPack is also the first insulated packaging company to develop a certified fully curbside recyclable insulated shipping solution. TemperPack was founded in 2015 for the purpose of bringing sustainable packaging technology to companies that ship large volumes of perishable goods.

Yieldbot

Series C in 2016
Yieldbot is a true technology company aiming to do nothing short of revolutionize the way media value is created for consumers, brands and publishers. They strive to consistently outperform expectations creating a better, more relevant web with their technology. In so doing, they believe they will enable the media industry to realize its true value for all three of the constituents that make the web what it is, and what it will become.

groSolar

Venture Round in 2008
groSolar provides turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solar photovoltaic (PV) projects for developers, financial, commercial, government, utility, and other institutional clients. groSolar has designed, built, installed, and procured equipment for more than 90 MW of solar PV systems from coast to coast and more than 2,000 installations.

MedPageToday

Venture Round in 2007
MedPage Today is a health care media company that delivers breaking medical news to physicians and patients. Healthcare professionals who read MedPage Internet-based content and pass a subsequent test receive continuing medical education credits from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, which is an active partner in producing MedPage content.

EnTouch Controls

Series B in 2013
EnTouch Controls, Inc. designs and develops a wireless light building management system for multi-site small and medium businesses (SMBs). It offers enterprise visibility, connectivity and control, and asset optimization solutions. The company offers real time dashboard and analytics for retail, property management, restaurant, healthcare, education, and hospitality industries. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Richardson, Texas.

Solera Health

Series C in 2019
Solera Health, Inc. operates a technology platform that matches payers, doctors, patients, and physicians with community organizations and digital therapeutics companies offering treatments for hypertension, stress, inadequate sleep, tobacco usage, obesity, and more. Its platform helps in consolidating healthcare programs and services into a single marketplace allowing health plans and medical providers to increase consumer participation. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

PosiGen

Series D in 2021
PosiGen CT, LLC sells and leases solar power systems, solar hot water systems, and energy efficiency upgrade solutions for residential and commercial users in Louisiana, New York, Connecticut, and Florida. It offers solar panel systems for heating, cooling, and illuminating homes and offices. The company also provides solar energy; energy efficiency audit services; and assess and permit, panel installation, and inspection services. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Jefferson, Louisiana with additional offices in New York and Connecticut.

SlideRule Labs, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
SlideRule Labs, Inc., doing business as Springboard, operates an educational institutional platform that provides online learning services with a community of students, mentors, and alumni. It offers data science and analytics courses, such as data science career track, AI/machine learning career track, and data analytics career track courses; and design courses, including UI/UX design career track courses. The company also organizes mentor-led workshops. SlideRule Labs, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Bengaluru, India.

Novinium

Venture Round in 2015
Novinium maximizes the ROI of cable-reliability programs with rehabilitation solutions that result in less cable being replaced, reduce hazard exposure, require shorter outages, and offer up to a 40-year warranty. Whether performing turnkey rehabilitation or tailored rejuvenation, only Novinium, with its proprietary technology and process flexibility, delivers more rehabilitation at the lowest total cost per foot. Underground cable rejuvenation goes by several names, including chemical restoration, dielectric enhancement, cable treatment, and silicone injection. Whatever the name, Novinium and its partners deliver the most advanced formulations and methods for extending the reliable life of underground cable. They offer a full spectrum of cable-rejuvenation technologies to provide the highest level of circuit system reliability — always with the least capital intensity and the most advantageous life-cycle cost. All of the commercially significant cable-rejuvenation technologies in use around the world were invented by Novinium founders and their Novinium teammates. The Novinium team brings together the industry’s most experienced cable-rejuvenation specialists. That experience, combined with unrelenting process and technology improvements, means that circuit owners benefit from improved circuit reliability and the lowest capital cost. Their customers see immediate, tangible results: capital investments in their technologies have saved over US$1 billion globally, and that number grows every day. Circuit owners around the world have come to rely upon the rejuvenation technology and advancements invented by their experts. Only Novinium can offer circuit owners access to the most knowledgeable rehabilitation team in the world. Providing twice the life and twice the reliability for your cables, Novinium offers circuit owners a portfolio of injection fluids and injection processes that can be tailored to your needs.

mPulse Mobile

Venture Round in 2022
mPulse Mobile, the leader in mobile health engagement, drives improved health outcomes and business efficiencies by engaging individuals with meaningful and interactive dialog. mPulse Mobile combines technology, analytics and industry expertise that helps healthcare organizations activate their customers to adopt healthy behaviors. With over 9 years experience, a hundred million messages sent, and 70+ Health Plan, Provider, Pharma and Wellness customers, mPulse Mobile has the data, the expertise and the technology to drive healthy behavior change.

TemperPack

Series A in 2017
TemperPack is seeking to solve the world's packaging problems through sustainable design. The company specializes in custom solutions for clients to scale in the perishable food and life sciences industries. TemperPack is also the first insulated packaging company to develop a certified fully curbside recyclable insulated shipping solution. TemperPack was founded in 2015 for the purpose of bringing sustainable packaging technology to companies that ship large volumes of perishable goods.

Interplay Learning

Series B in 2021
Interplay Learning is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality and 3D solutions. It provides an online training platform that enables its users to conduct training via 3D simulations designed for career training in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical, energy auditing, manufacturing, facility maintenance, and construction codes.

FieldView Solutions

Series A in 2009
FieldView Solutions helps data center managers, IT and Facilities Management professionals make better use of their physical floor space, rack space, power and cooling by showing them real-time representations of all the critical systems in their data center. Their core platform, FieldView, a web-based enterprise solution, has been leveraged by many of the largest data centers in the US, Europe and Asia since 2006.

FieldView Solutions

Venture Round in 2011
FieldView Solutions helps data center managers, IT and Facilities Management professionals make better use of their physical floor space, rack space, power and cooling by showing them real-time representations of all the critical systems in their data center. Their core platform, FieldView, a web-based enterprise solution, has been leveraged by many of the largest data centers in the US, Europe and Asia since 2006.

Voltaiq

Series A in 2018
Voltaiq offers a battery intelligence analytics platform that provides insights about batteries. It offers its services for battery OEMs, consumer electronics, automotive, and grid-scale energy storage industries.

Solera Health

Series B in 2017
Solera Health, Inc. operates a technology platform that matches payers, doctors, patients, and physicians with community organizations and digital therapeutics companies offering treatments for hypertension, stress, inadequate sleep, tobacco usage, obesity, and more. Its platform helps in consolidating healthcare programs and services into a single marketplace allowing health plans and medical providers to increase consumer participation. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

ROOM

Series A in 2020
ROOM is rethinking the modern workplace through affordable, sustainable and flexible solutions that make more room for people at work by designing modular and creative office products that help companies of all sizes build a better work environment. Launched in May 2018 by serial entrepreneurs Brian Chen and Morten Meisner-Jensen, ROOM is backed by Slow Ventures, a leading venture capital firm that was one of the original investors in Casper. Honored by TIME Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2018, ROOM is already building the workplace of tomorrow for over 1,500 customers ranging from high-growth start-ups to Fortune 500 companies including Nike, Google, NASA, Salesforce, Uber, Shopify, Wayfair, and more. Learn more about ROOM at www.room.com.

groSolar

Series A in 2006
groSolar provides turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solar photovoltaic (PV) projects for developers, financial, commercial, government, utility, and other institutional clients. groSolar has designed, built, installed, and procured equipment for more than 90 MW of solar PV systems from coast to coast and more than 2,000 installations.

groSolar

Series B in 2007
groSolar provides turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solar photovoltaic (PV) projects for developers, financial, commercial, government, utility, and other institutional clients. groSolar has designed, built, installed, and procured equipment for more than 90 MW of solar PV systems from coast to coast and more than 2,000 installations.

Preclick

Series A in 2007
Preclick is a media asset management software company founded to provide digital photographers the fastest, easiest and most convenient way to organize, print, preserve and share their digital photos. Preclick builds software for major corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Wal-Mart, 3M, SanDisk, Costco and many online photofinishers including PhotoWorks, dotPhoto and Adorama. Preclick has collaborated with HP in building HP Photosmart Essential (formerly HP Image Zone Express), the free software that makes it extremely easy to print your photos at home or to effortlessly share them online with your friends and family. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. As of September 1, 2009, Preclick Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Smilebox, Inc.

RaiseMe

Series A in 2017
The college landscape today is broken for millions of students. Equal access to higher ed has become one of the greatest issues of our time. At RaiseMe, we're reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year in financial aid for college. Rather than waiting until the end of high school to award financial aid, which is too late to affect students' college ambitions or specific application decisions, RaiseMe enables students to earn "micro-Scholarships" automatically throughout high school based on their individual achievements in and outside of the classroom. Students have already earned over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from our university partners. We're on the look out for talented individuals to help us build a large, impactful business and a product that will change millions of lives.

Fit4D

Venture Round in 2018
Cecelia Health is tech-enabled diabetes and chronic disease management company that combines technology with expert clinical coaching. It aims to transform the lives and health outcomes of people with diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic conditions. Cecelia Health helps people with chronic conditions adhere to their medications and related nutrition, health, and wellness programs. During COVID-19, Cecelia Health has also been offering telehealth support to patients. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, United States.

mPulse Mobile

Private Placement in 2018
mPulse Mobile, the leader in mobile health engagement, drives improved health outcomes and business efficiencies by engaging individuals with meaningful and interactive dialog. mPulse Mobile combines technology, analytics and industry expertise that helps healthcare organizations activate their customers to adopt healthy behaviors. With over 9 years experience, a hundred million messages sent, and 70+ Health Plan, Provider, Pharma and Wellness customers, mPulse Mobile has the data, the expertise and the technology to drive healthy behavior change.

HYLA Mobile

Series A in 2010
HYLA Mobile, Inc. provides mobile device trade-in and reuse solutions. The company engages in collecting, processing, recycling, and redistributing used mobile phones. It collects and sells phones through a network of carrier partners and retailers in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The company was formerly known as eRecyclingCorps, LLC. HYLA Mobile, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Irving, Texas.

Easy Metrics

Series A in 2013
Easy Metrics is a SaaS-based business intelligence platform that helps companies identify and optimize their labor costs. The company's labor management system delivers 40% productivity improvements while providing significantly enhanced insights into labor-intensive activities. Cost savings are often shared with employees, producing both economic and job quality benefits. Easy Metrics also provides a subscription-based cloud solution that customers can implement on a facility-by-facility basis. This enables easy adoption and rapid scale-up within new customers, without substantial up-front capital or deployment costs. They created a system where individual metrics were tracked per work process and incorporated multiple variables in the process mapping to create fair and consistent labor standards across all work processes. Founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, USA.

HB Home Bistro

Series A in 2003
HB is a cozy storefront bistro nestled amidst the bustling nightlife of Boystown. Executive Chef, Victor Morenz, and Sous Chef, Corey Bowers are dishing up inventive New American fare; familiar flavors executed in unfamiliar ways. At HB you’ll feel like you are having your own private dinner party; you bring the champagne, thay all bring the food!

Intechra

Series C in 2007
Intechra, LLC, an electronics lifecycle management company, provides information technology asset disposition, value recovery, and computer recycling services to businesses and governments. It offers information technology asset disposition service, such as data security, service plans, and computer remarketing services. The company also provides logistics services, including chain of custody, secured transport, and on-site services. In addition, it offers recycling of ferrous and nonferrous metals, circuit boards, wires and cables, CRT glass and CRT units, batteries, and mercury-containing devices; and plastic casings, storage media, and software disks. Further, the company operates an online store; and sells laptops, personal computers, and computer parts. It serves small and mid-sized businesses, cities, and schools. Intechra, LLC was formerly known as Recycled Computers International, LLC. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Jackson, Mississippi.

CleanScapes

Series A in 2008
CleanScapes began operations in October 1997, providing StreetScape maintenance for Seattle's Historic Pioneer Square District. Today they proudly provide StreetScapes Maintenance and solid waste collection in Seattle, Shoreline, Portland, and San Francisco.

Fit4D

Series A in 2015
Cecelia Health is tech-enabled diabetes and chronic disease management company that combines technology with expert clinical coaching. It aims to transform the lives and health outcomes of people with diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic conditions. Cecelia Health helps people with chronic conditions adhere to their medications and related nutrition, health, and wellness programs. During COVID-19, Cecelia Health has also been offering telehealth support to patients. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, United States.

EnTouch Controls

Series C in 2015
EnTouch Controls, Inc. designs and develops a wireless light building management system for multi-site small and medium businesses (SMBs). It offers enterprise visibility, connectivity and control, and asset optimization solutions. The company offers real time dashboard and analytics for retail, property management, restaurant, healthcare, education, and hospitality industries. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Richardson, Texas.