Kickstart

Kickstart Fund is a seed-stage venture capital firm located in Salt Lake City, Utah, focused on supporting technology-related companies in the United States. Established in 2008, Kickstart aims to foster the growth of promising businesses in Utah and the Mountain West by offering not only financial investment but also access to a network of resources and expert guidance. The firm has successfully invested in over 100 companies since its inception, emphasizing its commitment to nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship in the region.

Brandon Beck

Principal

Sydnie Keddington

Senior Associate

Serene Papenfuss

Principal

Tanner Potter

Principal

Curt Roberts

Partner

Alex Soffe

CFO and Partner

Dalton Wright

Partner

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Spiff

Series C in 2023
Spiff Inc. is a developer of a SaaS-based sales commission automation platform designed to streamline commission planning and motivate sales teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an additional office in Mountain View, California, Spiff's software enables users to build and modify commission plans, create complex team structures, and manage quotas. The platform features a personalized incentive dashboard for representatives, allowing them to track performance against goals and access detailed commission traces and payroll reports. Additionally, Spiff’s solution integrates with various systems, including ERP and payroll, to minimize errors and provide accurate commission data. It also offers functionalities for testing new rules, modeling commission structures, and exporting data for analysis. The company serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, as well as managers and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through effective commission management.

OpenGTM

Seed Round in 2023
Patri is a software and consulting firm based in Springville, Utah, dedicated to helping companies win more business in the $7 trillion U.S. public sector market through technology, consulting services, and premium memberships. Patri’s Bid Score™ is an innovative SaaS solution powering data-driven opportunity qualification and increasing win rates for top companies in multiple countries.

Nursa

Series B in 2022
Nursa, Inc. develops, owns, and operates Nursa, a platform that helps to make staffing decisions to help patients, nurses, assistants, and managers. It serves hospitals, clinics, long-term care, and other healthcare facilities. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Bountiful, Utah.

Trinsic

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a decentralized identity platform designed to augment identity verification The company's platform has a full-stack verifiable credential and digital wallet that uses digital credentials based on open standards that can be integrated into the existing system as well as offers custom services, enabling clients and organizations with digital identity and safety.

Souq G-Commerce

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Souq is lowering the barriers to access and participate in GameFi. We're building the infrastructure powering community-owned financial markets where players can thoughtfully invest in the games they love.

Aervivo

Venture Round in 2022
Aervivo is a developer of a scalable connectivity platform designed to enable internet service providers to deliver fiber-grade, gigabit internet access to small and medium-sized businesses and residences. By addressing connectivity challenges across urban, suburban, and rural areas, Aervivo allows both established and new internet service providers to enhance consumer choices while reducing deployment costs. The platform facilitates a more democratized approach to internet service provision, leveraging cloud-scale technology and software-as-a-service methodologies to improve efficiency and return value to stakeholders.

Claravine

Series B in 2022
Claravine enforces accurate, unified, rich tracking of campaigns and content across the enterprise. Their platform standardizes, governs, and connects data across every team, system, and channel. As a result, users will have richer insights, better experiences, and increased ROI from their marketing investments. Claravine released the first second-generation platform for Digital Experience Data Management in 2018. This platform expanded on the core data governance capability of Claravine, helping organizations better standardize, enrich, and connect marketing data across teams and channels.

Dollarize

Seed Round in 2022
Investore provides automated algorithm-driven financial investment services. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York.

Toolbox

Seed Round in 2022
Toolbox is focused on improving the work landscape for skilled construction workers, who collectively earn over $300 billion in wages. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, Toolbox operates a labor marketplace that empowers workers and subcontractors to showcase their professional skills, secure job opportunities, and reduce downtime through short-term gigs. Additionally, Toolbox provides financial technology solutions tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, offering intelligent banking services, financial insights, and automated bookkeeping. This platform enables businesses to easily compare and select lender offers, purchase materials and equipment, and gain a comprehensive view of their financial health, thereby facilitating access to necessary capital for growth.

Salad

Series A in 2022
Salad Technologies, Inc. is a company that focuses on harnessing the idle computing power of high-end gaming PCs to mine cryptocurrency. Founded in 2018 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, it offers a software application that transforms this idle time into rewards such as subscriptions, gift cards, downloadable content, and hardware. The platform operates on a decentralized infrastructure, allowing it to provide a cost-effective alternative to traditional cloud services by reselling computational resources to various sectors, including Web3 crypto networks, AI research, and high-performance computing. Additionally, Salad Technologies has developed a payment gateway, SaladPay, which facilitates transactions for goods purchased with Salad Credit from its store.

Zencastr

Venture Round in 2022
Zencastr is a podcasting platform designed to facilitate high-quality remote recordings for podcasters. It allows users to record their guests in studio-quality audio directly from their web browser, without the usual distortions associated with traditional call recording tools. Each participant's audio is captured separately on their local devices, ensuring pristine sound quality without VoIP compression or dropouts. By simply sending a link, guests can join a live VoIP session, and once the recording concludes, individual audio tracks are automatically uploaded to the Zencastr cloud and synced with popular cloud storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive. Zencastr offers options for recording in both high-quality MP3 and lossless 16-bit WAV formats, simplifying the editing process with separate tracks for each participant. Additionally, it provides an 'Automatic Postproduction' service that mixes the audio tracks and enhances sound quality, making it ideal for both novice and experienced podcasters. Zencastr offers a free tier for hobbyists and a professional subscription that includes advanced features and unlimited recording time.

Learn In

Series A in 2022
Learn In is a provider of an upskilling platform designed to help companies develop talent academies that cultivate a skilled workforce. The platform allows organizations to offer employees the opportunity for learning sabbaticals, during which they can acquire essential new skills needed in today’s evolving job market. Learn In facilitates access to online, cost-effective training programs alongside traditional degree options, with a particular emphasis on digital skills and challenging-to-fill positions, such as data science and software engineering. By enabling organizations to invest in their employees' development, Learn In supports client efforts to engage and retain talent through effective upskilling initiatives.

Donde

Seed Round in 2022
Donde enables companies to offer travel as a benefit. they do this through a company-match savings account and SaaS platform where employees can plan and book all types of PTO travel using their funds.

Paperwork

Seed Round in 2022
Paperwork is the trusted app that helps you easily and securely organize your most important documents in one place so your family has access if anything happens to you. With step-by-step guidance on the crucial documents you need to protect your family and be prepared for any situation in life, Paperwork gives you peace of mind that your family is organized, prepared and protected.

Nomad

Series A in 2022
Nomad makes renting better for our property owner customers and for the residents of Nomad properties. Our property owner customers don’t have to worry about painful, expensive vacancy or delinquency costs again and can experience the ease and freedom that come from having an aligned partner. Our residents experience professionalism, thoughtfulness, and perks that make renting better than ever. Nomad began serving customers in 2019 and we are backed by top investors.

CareCar

Pre Seed Round in 2022
B2B2C NEMT Marketplace Platform

CloudApp

Series A in 2022
CloudApp is a visual sharing platform designed to enhance communication through the use of short videos, GIFs, and visuals, including annotated screenshots and images. By allowing users to record, host, and share these visual elements, CloudApp streamlines team and customer interactions, making conversations more efficient and reducing the likelihood of miscommunication. The platform aims to facilitate collaboration by providing tools that enable users to convey messages clearly and succinctly, ultimately improving the overall effectiveness of team discussions.

PhotoPharmics

Convertible Note in 2022
PhotoPharmics, Inc. is a clinical-stage medical device company based in American Fork, Utah, focused on researching and developing chronobiological treatments for neurodegenerative disorders, particularly Parkinson's disease. Founded in 2011, the company leverages over 30 years of specialized experience in phototherapy, having previously created solutions for regulating circadian rhythms that are now widely used in treating seasonal affective disorder, sleep disorders, anxiety, and depression. PhotoPharmics is extending its research into additional neurodegenerative diseases, aiming to deliver safe and effective non-invasive therapies that can significantly improve the quality of life for patients.

Rad AI

Series A in 2021
Rad AI empowers radiologists for the future.

MarketDial

Venture Round in 2021
MarketDial is a technology company founded in 2016 by former management consultants from BCG & McKinsey. MarketDial’s partners use its platform to make critical decisions based on the results of its proprietary in-store experimentation process. They are able to design and analyze statistically rigorous in-store tests to validate business outcomes in a variety of business verticals including Retail, Restaurant, CPG, C-Store, Healthcare, and Financial Services. The MarketDial platform supports comprehensive testing of business initiatives related to pricing, promotions, operations, labor/staffing, new products, and more. In addition, MarketDial is engaged in strategic partnerships with top management consulting firms and retail industry analytics leaders in order to bring the most comprehensive solution to itsclients.

Gravwell

Seed Round in 2021
Gravwell is a data fusion and analytics company founded in 2017 and based in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. The company has developed a full-stack analytics platform designed to manage large volumes of logs and non-text data, addressing visibility gaps in log and network analytics. Gravwell's platform aggregates various data sources, including firewall logs, endpoint event logs, network traffic, and operational technology (OT) data, creating a centralized resource for enhanced analytical capabilities. This enables clients to conduct in-depth security analytics that extend beyond traditional log data, applying insights to industrial processes, vehicle fleets, and IT infrastructure. Gravwell aims to deliver these advanced analytics at an accessible price, catering to users who require timely and comprehensive data analysis.

CareCar

Pre Seed Round in 2021
B2B2C NEMT Marketplace Platform

Tiled

Series A in 2021
Tiled, Inc. is a San Diego-based company that specializes in developing interactive content solutions. Founded in 2016, Tiled offers an online platform that allows users to transform static materials into engaging micro-apps, enhancing user engagement and providing valuable insights. The platform supports the creation of both public and private micro-apps, featuring robust security measures, permissions, and user management tools to control content access. Tiled's solutions are particularly beneficial for inside sales teams, facilitating effective customer engagement and team communication.

Aumni

Series B in 2021
Aumni is a data-driven investment management platform based in the United States that serves the venture capital industry. It offers a portfolio intelligence solution that helps venture capital firms enhance their operational efficiency and gain a competitive edge. Aumni's platform audits, analyzes, and visualizes key data from venture capital deal documents, extracting hundreds of data points to track critical insights, including investment rights, portfolio performance, and emerging investment trends. By converting complex deal data into a clear and error-free dataset, Aumni enables investors and venture firms to make informed strategic decisions and streamline their daily operations. The platform is designed for forward-thinking investment teams aiming to unlock and structure the vast amounts of untapped data within their portfolios.

Known Medicine

Seed Round in 2021
Known Medicine is looking to take the experimentation of how tumors respond to cancer drugs out of the patient’s body and into the lab. The startup breaks down tumor samples into micro tumors, which they treat separately inside specialized micro-environments with different methods and see what works best.

Vutility

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Vutility, Inc. specializes in real-time utility monitoring and reporting through a mobile application designed to help consumers, businesses, and governments manage and reduce their water and energy consumption. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, the company employs its proprietary HotDrop technology to deliver accurate and timely information on utility usage. This enables users to monitor their consumption effectively, optimize energy use, and ultimately lower utility bills. Vutility serves various sectors, including commercial, solar, and utilities, aiming to promote sustainability while enhancing operational efficiencies.

Carputty

Seed Round in 2021
Carputty is a consumer automotive startup that provides car loan services to its clients. The company's transparent and easy-to-use line of credit puts the customer in the driver’s seat, while its proprietary, predictive valuation tool knows the perfect time to buy and sell and teaches owners to see their vehicle as an asset. Carputty was founded by Patrick Bayliss and Joshua Tatum in 2020.

Moises

Seed Round in 2021
Moises is an audio-tech company that leverages machine learning and data science in relation to music & audio processing.

Keys

Seed Round in 2021
Keys is a technology company focused on enhancing communication through innovative solutions. It utilizes artificial intelligence, specifically leveraging GPT-3, to facilitate anticipatory communication. By analyzing user intent, Keys provides suggestions that help individuals write more effectively, quickly, and accurately, addressing common challenges associated with texting, the most widely used communication channel. Founded in 2018 and based in Missoula, Montana, Keys aims to transform the way people communicate, making interactions smoother and more efficient.

SonderMind

Series C in 2021
SonderMind Inc. provides mental health services through a digital network of therapists and care providers. Its solution connects consumers with a therapist for video telehealth or in-person sessions. Its service areas include ADHD, addiction, anorexia, anxiety, binge eating, bipolar disorder, bulimia, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, LGBTQ, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), PTSD, postpartum, and schizophrenia. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Recyclops

Seed Round in 2021
Recyclops is a startup technology company that innovates customer-centric and sustainability solutions. Recyclops leverages technology and local communities to bring recycling to communities that normally wouldn’t have access to it. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Orem, Utah.

Clientbook

Venture Round in 2021
Clientbook is a mobile app created by Giftry to facilitate communication between retailers and their clients. By using Clientbook, retailers gain visibility and control over the customer experience, resulting in more store visits, better sales conversion rates, and higher average dollar sales. To learn more about how Clientbook can help your brick and mortar store, request a demo today.

eVisit

Series B in 2021
eVisit, Inc. develops a telemedicine patient engagement platform that allows healthcare providers to connect with their patients for checking in post-operation or medical condition diagnosing aspects. The company’s web application connects primary care providers with their patients by webcam or phone for the remote diagnosis and treatment of most minor medical conditions, such as cold, flu, and allergies. The eVisit platform allows providers to collect patient co-pays, electronically prescribe prescriptions to the pharmacy of the patients’ choice, and submit medical charts for reimbursement to third party payers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Mesa, Arizona.

Qwick

Series A in 2021
Qwick, Inc. is a Phoenix-based on-demand staffing platform founded in 2017 that connects hospitality businesses with service industry professionals in real-time. The company offers a solution for food and beverage professionals to find shifts at hotels, caterers, event venues, and restaurants, allowing them to work flexibly according to their own schedules. Qwick boasts a 98 percent average fill rate, providing hospitality businesses with immediate access to a pre-vetted workforce. The company has partnered with prominent hospitality brands such as Hilton, Aramark, and Marriott International, and has received support from investors including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Peak Ventures. Qwick is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Homie

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Homie is a peer-to-peer real estate marketplace where buyers, builders, and sellers of homes can meet without a middleman or high commission fees. We believe that by combining revolutionary software and shared economies Homie can help make finding, buying, or selling a home easier and less expensive than ever before. When buyers and sellers use Homie.com they can potentially save tens of thousands of dollars in excessive commissions as compared to using traditional real estate agents.

Havenly

Series C in 2021
Havenly, Inc. specializes in providing online interior design services that cater to a diverse range of budgets. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with an additional location in Boston, Massachusetts, Havenly connects users with professional interior designers who create personalized designs based on individual style and space. Clients complete online style surveys and can upload photos of their spaces for consultation. Following the design process, users can purchase furniture and decorative items directly through Havenly's platform, which features a wide selection from numerous retailers at competitive prices. The company is recognized as a leading player in the online interior design market, working with a large network of vetted designers across the United States.

Spiff

Series B in 2021
Spiff Inc. is a developer of a SaaS-based sales commission automation platform designed to streamline commission planning and motivate sales teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an additional office in Mountain View, California, Spiff's software enables users to build and modify commission plans, create complex team structures, and manage quotas. The platform features a personalized incentive dashboard for representatives, allowing them to track performance against goals and access detailed commission traces and payroll reports. Additionally, Spiff’s solution integrates with various systems, including ERP and payroll, to minimize errors and provide accurate commission data. It also offers functionalities for testing new rules, modeling commission structures, and exporting data for analysis. The company serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, as well as managers and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through effective commission management.

Nomad

Seed Round in 2021
Nomad makes renting better for our property owner customers and for the residents of Nomad properties. Our property owner customers don’t have to worry about painful, expensive vacancy or delinquency costs again and can experience the ease and freedom that come from having an aligned partner. Our residents experience professionalism, thoughtfulness, and perks that make renting better than ever. Nomad began serving customers in 2019 and we are backed by top investors.

EnVision

Seed Round in 2021
EnVision is bringing the success tool of visualization to the world through an easy to use mobile app. Visualization is a success practice widely used by business leaders, athletes, entrepreneurs, celebrities and speakers to increase their performance, achieve their goals and make the internal changes necessary to create the levels of success they aspire to. It helps all of us create a vision for the life we truly want for ourselves and our loved ones. We can then use specific visualizations to empower us to make that vision a reality. What we’ve done here at EnVision is taken out the complexity of how to use visualization to create real change in your life, maximized its effectiveness and simplified it for you through a mobile app. Instead of hiring an expensive performance coach or trying to create your own practice from complicated and abstract books, all you need to do is find the EnVision content you want and press play. We have a unique combination of science-backed techniques that go far beyond simple visualization. Our content is able to be tailored to the individual and address specific problems and purposes. We offer over 150 10-15 minute audio guided visualization sessions. The EnVision app is a free app and we offer free introductory content for everyone to learn the basics. If a user wants to continue their journey after the initial series, then they can subscribe to a paid premium subscription. After proving out our core product of visualization over the last two years, EnVision is now evolving into being a Success Coach In Your Pocket. We are building an AI content recommendation tool as well as a chatbot user interface to help people identify what they want, as well as what they need in order to achieve their goals. We will be layering on goal tracking features on top of this to give people a complete tool to help them achieve holistic success in their life.

Pomp

Seed Round in 2021
Pomp connects you with licensed estheticians virtually so you can shop personally recommended skincare. The company's estheticians recommend skincare via chat based on the consumer's skin type and concerns. It also provides personal service and curated skincare products, hand-selected by expert estheticians. Pomp Beauty was founded in 2019 and is based Denver, Colorado.

Airin, Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Airin gives business leaders the power to create their own AI Expert System without needing a data scientist or engineer. Scale your best experts by cloning how they solve problems to radically impact the performance of the rest of your team.

Monarx

Convertible Note in 2021
Monarx protects web environments against attack. Our cloud delivered server protection provides continuous real-time malicious script detection and proactive prevention without using signatures. We also offer a free hunting and remediation engine for web shells/backdoors. Our solution hardens servers and applications reducing the attack surface, by providing actionable intelligence about web security posture based on real world best practices. Monarx is leading the way in non-signature based post exploit prevention.

Bandwango

Seed Round in 2021
Bandwango is a developer of a platform used to offer curated experiences any travel destination has to offer. It is a travel marketing technology platform that connects destination with locals and visitors through curated and customizable passes. With Bandwango, destinations and visitor bureaus can design and publish curated experiences, both free and paid. Through Bandwango's Destination Experience Engine (DXE), users can infinitely re-organize in-destination activities into digital passports that target locals and visitors across any number of themes and interests.

Aervivo

Seed Round in 2021
Aervivo is a developer of a scalable connectivity platform designed to enable internet service providers to deliver fiber-grade, gigabit internet access to small and medium-sized businesses and residences. By addressing connectivity challenges across urban, suburban, and rural areas, Aervivo allows both established and new internet service providers to enhance consumer choices while reducing deployment costs. The platform facilitates a more democratized approach to internet service provision, leveraging cloud-scale technology and software-as-a-service methodologies to improve efficiency and return value to stakeholders.

Zencastr

Seed Round in 2021
Zencastr is a podcasting platform designed to facilitate high-quality remote recordings for podcasters. It allows users to record their guests in studio-quality audio directly from their web browser, without the usual distortions associated with traditional call recording tools. Each participant's audio is captured separately on their local devices, ensuring pristine sound quality without VoIP compression or dropouts. By simply sending a link, guests can join a live VoIP session, and once the recording concludes, individual audio tracks are automatically uploaded to the Zencastr cloud and synced with popular cloud storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive. Zencastr offers options for recording in both high-quality MP3 and lossless 16-bit WAV formats, simplifying the editing process with separate tracks for each participant. Additionally, it provides an 'Automatic Postproduction' service that mixes the audio tracks and enhances sound quality, making it ideal for both novice and experienced podcasters. Zencastr offers a free tier for hobbyists and a professional subscription that includes advanced features and unlimited recording time.

Circa

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Circa is the first and only event management platform built to help marketing teams succeed in the new world of virtual and hybrid events. No other platform enables enterprises to adapt existing event marketing programs to virtual and hybrid as quickly or effectively. Circa’s cloud-based solution helps enterprises with dozens to thousands of events reset their strategy with event templates and data-driven insights, powered by integrations with Zoom, GoTo, Webex, On24 and leading videoconference, marketing and CRM solutions. Circa customers include world-class enterprises such as Salesforce, Okta, Honda, Farmers Insurance and Elsevier. Learn more at www.circa.co

Schola

Venture Round in 2021
Schola, Inc. is an online platform designed to assist parents in discovering and enrolling their children in PreK-12 educational institutions. The service allows users to search for a variety of school types, including private schools, public district schools, public charter schools, and virtual or online schools. Founded in 2016 and located in Scottsdale, Arizona, Schola aims to simplify the process of connecting families with suitable educational options.

Kiln

Series A in 2021
Kiln is a coworking community that inspires, connects, and accelerates growth. Kiln provides flexible monthly memberships with access to a dynamic office environment for individuals, teams, and companies. Kiln will foster energy, creativity, and passionate people who work with purpose. Kiln works to increase the growth rates of its member companies through a network of resources and programs enabling access to insight, capital, and talent.

Schola

Seed Round in 2020
Schola, Inc. is an online platform designed to assist parents in discovering and enrolling their children in PreK-12 educational institutions. The service allows users to search for a variety of school types, including private schools, public district schools, public charter schools, and virtual or online schools. Founded in 2016 and located in Scottsdale, Arizona, Schola aims to simplify the process of connecting families with suitable educational options.

Self Financial

Series D in 2020
Self Financial is a venture-backed fintech startup that helps customers build credit and save money. It provides tools necessary for building on-time payment history and responsible use of credit, in collaboration with issuing banks.s services are for those who are new to credit or who might not have access to traditional financial products. It offers Self Credit Builder Account to help consumers build both credit and savings without relying on credit history and Self Visa Credit Card, a card that helps existing customers build their security deposit in instalments. Self Financial is formerly known as Self Lender. The startup was founded by Conor Swanson and James Garvey in 2015 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Salad

Seed Round in 2020
Salad Technologies, Inc. is a company that focuses on harnessing the idle computing power of high-end gaming PCs to mine cryptocurrency. Founded in 2018 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, it offers a software application that transforms this idle time into rewards such as subscriptions, gift cards, downloadable content, and hardware. The platform operates on a decentralized infrastructure, allowing it to provide a cost-effective alternative to traditional cloud services by reselling computational resources to various sectors, including Web3 crypto networks, AI research, and high-performance computing. Additionally, Salad Technologies has developed a payment gateway, SaladPay, which facilitates transactions for goods purchased with Salad Credit from its store.

Known Medicine

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Known Medicine is looking to take the experimentation of how tumors respond to cancer drugs out of the patient’s body and into the lab. The startup breaks down tumor samples into micro tumors, which they treat separately inside specialized micro-environments with different methods and see what works best.

eVisit

Series A in 2020
eVisit, Inc. develops a telemedicine patient engagement platform that allows healthcare providers to connect with their patients for checking in post-operation or medical condition diagnosing aspects. The company’s web application connects primary care providers with their patients by webcam or phone for the remote diagnosis and treatment of most minor medical conditions, such as cold, flu, and allergies. The eVisit platform allows providers to collect patient co-pays, electronically prescribe prescriptions to the pharmacy of the patients’ choice, and submit medical charts for reimbursement to third party payers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Mesa, Arizona.

Claravine

Series A in 2020
Claravine enforces accurate, unified, rich tracking of campaigns and content across the enterprise. Their platform standardizes, governs, and connects data across every team, system, and channel. As a result, users will have richer insights, better experiences, and increased ROI from their marketing investments. Claravine released the first second-generation platform for Digital Experience Data Management in 2018. This platform expanded on the core data governance capability of Claravine, helping organizations better standardize, enrich, and connect marketing data across teams and channels.

Beanstalk

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Beanstalk is offering live interactive kids classes from home, designed for each specific age group.The company's platform offers on-demand interactive kids classes by experienced teachers, enabling children to take learning classes anytime from anywhere.

Mobilize

Series A in 2020
Mobilize Networks Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in community management software. Founded in 2014, it provides a platform designed for organizations, businesses, and community organizers to effectively manage and engage their members. The platform offers a suite of tools that includes a member CRM, outreach capabilities for meeting invites and communications, and a social feed to enhance member engagement. Mobilize also features a dedicated space called The Lounge, where users can interact, network, and stay informed about activities and events. By combining these elements, Mobilize aims to foster rich engagement among members, making them feel valued and connected. The company serves a diverse clientele, including enterprise corporations, non-profits, and associations, and operates as a subsidiary of Leaderz Ltd.

'nuffsaid

Seed Round in 2020
Nuffsaid helps people focus on the work that matters. Our product centralizes your work apps—email, chat, Salesforce, Jira, and more—and uses AI to prioritize the work that will move the needle in your role. We offer a Personal package and Teams upgrade.

Toolbox

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Toolbox is focused on improving the work landscape for skilled construction workers, who collectively earn over $300 billion in wages. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, Toolbox operates a labor marketplace that empowers workers and subcontractors to showcase their professional skills, secure job opportunities, and reduce downtime through short-term gigs. Additionally, Toolbox provides financial technology solutions tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, offering intelligent banking services, financial insights, and automated bookkeeping. This platform enables businesses to easily compare and select lender offers, purchase materials and equipment, and gain a comprehensive view of their financial health, thereby facilitating access to necessary capital for growth.

Rad AI

Seed Round in 2020
Rad AI empowers radiologists for the future.

Blerp

Seed Round in 2020
BLERP, Inc. operates an audio expression platform to find, create, and share short soundbites. It offers a platform to create, connect, and communicate in an engaging way; consume and share content; and share and save sound bites, funny noises, and audio memes on messaging platforms. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Sandy, Utah.

Qwick

Seed Round in 2020
Qwick, Inc. is a Phoenix-based on-demand staffing platform founded in 2017 that connects hospitality businesses with service industry professionals in real-time. The company offers a solution for food and beverage professionals to find shifts at hotels, caterers, event venues, and restaurants, allowing them to work flexibly according to their own schedules. Qwick boasts a 98 percent average fill rate, providing hospitality businesses with immediate access to a pre-vetted workforce. The company has partnered with prominent hospitality brands such as Hilton, Aramark, and Marriott International, and has received support from investors including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Peak Ventures. Qwick is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Hallo

Seed Round in 2020
Hallo Inc. is a company based in Provo, Utah, that focuses on enhancing English language learning through its innovative application. Founded in 1999, the platform connects users with native speakers, enabling them to practice speaking via live streams or audio/video calls. This approach serves both teachers and students, facilitating interactive and immersive language experiences that aid in developing fluency and confidence in English communication.

Nomad

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Nomad makes renting better for our property owner customers and for the residents of Nomad properties. Our property owner customers don’t have to worry about painful, expensive vacancy or delinquency costs again and can experience the ease and freedom that come from having an aligned partner. Our residents experience professionalism, thoughtfulness, and perks that make renting better than ever. Nomad began serving customers in 2019 and we are backed by top investors.

Spiff

Series A in 2020
Spiff Inc. is a developer of a SaaS-based sales commission automation platform designed to streamline commission planning and motivate sales teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an additional office in Mountain View, California, Spiff's software enables users to build and modify commission plans, create complex team structures, and manage quotas. The platform features a personalized incentive dashboard for representatives, allowing them to track performance against goals and access detailed commission traces and payroll reports. Additionally, Spiff’s solution integrates with various systems, including ERP and payroll, to minimize errors and provide accurate commission data. It also offers functionalities for testing new rules, modeling commission structures, and exporting data for analysis. The company serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, as well as managers and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through effective commission management.

Chargeback

Series A in 2020
Chargeback is a developer of a SaaS-based dispute management platform to help merchants prevent and manage chargeback fraud through monitoring, responses, and alerts. It provides a fraud detection suite that filters transactions before they are accepted as well as keeps card-not-present credit card processing accounts in standing with visa and Mastercard, by preventing credit card chargebacks and protecting against malicious and credit card frauds that enables businesses to recover lost time and revenue while transforming any negative customer interaction into one that drives brand loyalty and increases acceptance rates. Chargeback was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Clientbook

Seed Round in 2020
Clientbook is a mobile app created by Giftry to facilitate communication between retailers and their clients. By using Clientbook, retailers gain visibility and control over the customer experience, resulting in more store visits, better sales conversion rates, and higher average dollar sales. To learn more about how Clientbook can help your brick and mortar store, request a demo today.

Tava Health

Seed Round in 2020
Tava Health, Inc. is a mental telehealth platform based in Salt Lake City, Utah, founded in 2019. The company facilitates access to mental health services by allowing users to complete assessments, connect with therapists, receive prescriptions, and initiate treatment. Tava Health addresses a range of mental health issues, including addiction, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, family difficulties, grief, LGBTQ concerns, marital issues, PTSD, and stress. By providing therapy and medication services, Tava Health aims to enhance emotional well-being for employees and their families, emphasizing the importance of mental health in the workplace.

Vutility

Series A in 2020
Vutility, Inc. specializes in real-time utility monitoring and reporting through a mobile application designed to help consumers, businesses, and governments manage and reduce their water and energy consumption. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, the company employs its proprietary HotDrop technology to deliver accurate and timely information on utility usage. This enables users to monitor their consumption effectively, optimize energy use, and ultimately lower utility bills. Vutility serves various sectors, including commercial, solar, and utilities, aiming to promote sustainability while enhancing operational efficiencies.

Grain

Seed Round in 2020
Grain Intelligence, Inc. is a software company based in San Francisco that specializes in enhancing team meetings and collaboration through its innovative platform. Founded in 2018, Grain focuses on capturing and sharing essential content from Zoom calls. The platform allows users to record calls, take synchronized notes, and create video highlight clips of significant moments during conversations. These clips can be generated easily by using designated emojis during the call or through an automated transcript afterward. Grain's features facilitate the sharing of these highlights across various platforms, including Slack, Notion, Twitter, and Discord, making it a valuable tool for teams and individuals engaged in research, interviews, and meetings. By enabling users to create and share meaningful video clips, Grain supports informed decision-making and enhances collaboration within organizations.

Grain

Seed Round in 2020
Grain Intelligence, Inc. is a software company based in San Francisco that specializes in enhancing team meetings and collaboration through its innovative platform. Founded in 2018, Grain focuses on capturing and sharing essential content from Zoom calls. The platform allows users to record calls, take synchronized notes, and create video highlight clips of significant moments during conversations. These clips can be generated easily by using designated emojis during the call or through an automated transcript afterward. Grain's features facilitate the sharing of these highlights across various platforms, including Slack, Notion, Twitter, and Discord, making it a valuable tool for teams and individuals engaged in research, interviews, and meetings. By enabling users to create and share meaningful video clips, Grain supports informed decision-making and enhances collaboration within organizations.

SonderMind

Series B in 2020
SonderMind Inc. provides mental health services through a digital network of therapists and care providers. Its solution connects consumers with a therapist for video telehealth or in-person sessions. Its service areas include ADHD, addiction, anorexia, anxiety, binge eating, bipolar disorder, bulimia, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, LGBTQ, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), PTSD, postpartum, and schizophrenia. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Pura

Seed Round in 2020
Pura Scents, Inc. specializes in the development and marketing of smart fragrance dispensers designed for home use. Founded in 2015 and based in Orem, Utah, the company offers a plug-in device that accommodates two fragrances simultaneously and allows users to control scent intensity, as well as the color and brightness of the unit, via a mobile app. This innovative approach enables homeowners to create scheduled fragrance releases and conserve scent when not at home, as the device operates only when it detects presence. Users can also activate scents remotely through their mobile devices, ensuring their spaces are inviting upon arrival. Pura sells its products through wholesalers and online channels, combining modern technology with home fragrance solutions.

Self Financial

Series C in 2020
Self Financial is a venture-backed fintech startup that helps customers build credit and save money. It provides tools necessary for building on-time payment history and responsible use of credit, in collaboration with issuing banks.s services are for those who are new to credit or who might not have access to traditional financial products. It offers Self Credit Builder Account to help consumers build both credit and savings without relying on credit history and Self Visa Credit Card, a card that helps existing customers build their security deposit in instalments. Self Financial is formerly known as Self Lender. The startup was founded by Conor Swanson and James Garvey in 2015 and is based in Austin, Texas.

'nuffsaid

Seed Round in 2020
Nuffsaid helps people focus on the work that matters. Our product centralizes your work apps—email, chat, Salesforce, Jira, and more—and uses AI to prioritize the work that will move the needle in your role. We offer a Personal package and Teams upgrade.

Huckabuy

Seed Round in 2020
Huckabuy is a SaaS company pioneering a technology-based approach to SEO. Its software automates key Google initiatives, like dynamic rendering and structured data markup, to create the perfect crawl experience and drive organic channel growth for businesses. Huckabuy's focus is on product innovation and customer success is driving exponential organic search growth. Huckabuy is founded in 2015 and is based in Park City, Utah.

Aumni

Series A in 2020
Aumni is a data-driven investment management platform based in the United States that serves the venture capital industry. It offers a portfolio intelligence solution that helps venture capital firms enhance their operational efficiency and gain a competitive edge. Aumni's platform audits, analyzes, and visualizes key data from venture capital deal documents, extracting hundreds of data points to track critical insights, including investment rights, portfolio performance, and emerging investment trends. By converting complex deal data into a clear and error-free dataset, Aumni enables investors and venture firms to make informed strategic decisions and streamline their daily operations. The platform is designed for forward-thinking investment teams aiming to unlock and structure the vast amounts of untapped data within their portfolios.

eVisit

Seed Round in 2019
eVisit, Inc. develops a telemedicine patient engagement platform that allows healthcare providers to connect with their patients for checking in post-operation or medical condition diagnosing aspects. The company’s web application connects primary care providers with their patients by webcam or phone for the remote diagnosis and treatment of most minor medical conditions, such as cold, flu, and allergies. The eVisit platform allows providers to collect patient co-pays, electronically prescribe prescriptions to the pharmacy of the patients’ choice, and submit medical charts for reimbursement to third party payers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Mesa, Arizona.

SimpleCitizen

Seed Round in 2019
SimpleCitizen, Inc. develops digital immigration and visa solution for customers. The company offers citizenship; green card; employment authorization document; visa; and marriage based green card applications. It also provides green card application streamlining and tracking services. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As of September 17, 2020, SimpleCitizen, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP.

Spiff

Seed Round in 2019
Spiff Inc. is a developer of a SaaS-based sales commission automation platform designed to streamline commission planning and motivate sales teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an additional office in Mountain View, California, Spiff's software enables users to build and modify commission plans, create complex team structures, and manage quotas. The platform features a personalized incentive dashboard for representatives, allowing them to track performance against goals and access detailed commission traces and payroll reports. Additionally, Spiff’s solution integrates with various systems, including ERP and payroll, to minimize errors and provide accurate commission data. It also offers functionalities for testing new rules, modeling commission structures, and exporting data for analysis. The company serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, as well as managers and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through effective commission management.

Spiff

Seed Round in 2019
Spiff Inc. is a developer of a SaaS-based sales commission automation platform designed to streamline commission planning and motivate sales teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an additional office in Mountain View, California, Spiff's software enables users to build and modify commission plans, create complex team structures, and manage quotas. The platform features a personalized incentive dashboard for representatives, allowing them to track performance against goals and access detailed commission traces and payroll reports. Additionally, Spiff’s solution integrates with various systems, including ERP and payroll, to minimize errors and provide accurate commission data. It also offers functionalities for testing new rules, modeling commission structures, and exporting data for analysis. The company serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, as well as managers and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through effective commission management.

Robotic Skies

Series A in 2019
Robotic Skies, Inc. is a provider of maintenance and repair services for commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and advanced air mobility aircraft (AAM). Founded in 2013 and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the company operates a global network of over 150 independently-owned and operated repair stations. These stations are staffed with aviation experts who specialize in the maintenance of commercial drone aircraft. Robotic Skies offers a comprehensive field service program designed to ensure that UAS remain operational, safe, and efficient. By leveraging FAA-approved maintenance organizations, the company aims to optimize certification and repair services for emerging drone fleets worldwide.

Airin, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Airin gives business leaders the power to create their own AI Expert System without needing a data scientist or engineer. Scale your best experts by cloning how they solve problems to radically impact the performance of the rest of your team.

CloudApp

Seed Round in 2019
CloudApp is a visual sharing platform designed to enhance communication through the use of short videos, GIFs, and visuals, including annotated screenshots and images. By allowing users to record, host, and share these visual elements, CloudApp streamlines team and customer interactions, making conversations more efficient and reducing the likelihood of miscommunication. The platform aims to facilitate collaboration by providing tools that enable users to convey messages clearly and succinctly, ultimately improving the overall effectiveness of team discussions.

Tiled

Seed Round in 2019
Tiled, Inc. is a San Diego-based company that specializes in developing interactive content solutions. Founded in 2016, Tiled offers an online platform that allows users to transform static materials into engaging micro-apps, enhancing user engagement and providing valuable insights. The platform supports the creation of both public and private micro-apps, featuring robust security measures, permissions, and user management tools to control content access. Tiled's solutions are particularly beneficial for inside sales teams, facilitating effective customer engagement and team communication.

SonderMind

Series A in 2019
SonderMind Inc. provides mental health services through a digital network of therapists and care providers. Its solution connects consumers with a therapist for video telehealth or in-person sessions. Its service areas include ADHD, addiction, anorexia, anxiety, binge eating, bipolar disorder, bulimia, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, LGBTQ, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), PTSD, postpartum, and schizophrenia. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Artemis Health

Series C in 2019
Artemis Health Inc. is a health data analytics company that focuses on providing self-insured employers with actionable insights into their benefits programs. The company operates a platform that enables users to identify issues within their benefits, share findings with stakeholders, and implement solutions to enhance their offerings while tracking the effectiveness of these solutions. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Artemis Health aims to improve the healthcare system in the United States by empowering employers to leverage their own benefits data to reduce spending and enhance employee benefits.

Monarx

Seed Round in 2019
Monarx protects web environments against attack. Our cloud delivered server protection provides continuous real-time malicious script detection and proactive prevention without using signatures. We also offer a free hunting and remediation engine for web shells/backdoors. Our solution hardens servers and applications reducing the attack surface, by providing actionable intelligence about web security posture based on real world best practices. Monarx is leading the way in non-signature based post exploit prevention.

PebblePost

Series C in 2018
PebblePost is the leading digital-to-direct mail marketing platform. They capture online interest and intent data to send relevant direct mail that activates buying decisions at home and drives conversions everywhere. The company invented Programmatic Direct Mail to help brands convert more shoppers into buyers using advanced targeting, algorithmic optimization, attribution, and quantitative analysis. PebblePost is a venture-backed company based in New York.

Rags

Seed Round in 2018
Rags is a fashion brand based in Lehi, Utah, that specializes in clothing for kids, women, and men. Founded in 2014 by Rachel Nilsson, the company focuses on creating stylish and functional apparel, including tees, dresses, baby pouches, and accessories. Rags is particularly known for its handmade, one-piece designs that feature user-friendly necklines, making it easy for children to dress themselves without the hassle of buttons or zippers. The brand has gained significant recognition, having been featured on platforms such as ABC's Shark Tank and in various publications like Vogue and Forbes. Operating primarily through an online e-commerce platform, Rags aims to provide comfortable and affordable clothing options for families.

Big Squid

Venture Round in 2018
Big Squid is a Predictive Analytics software company that specializes in data solutions utilizing Business Intelligence, Data Sciences and Predictive Analytics. We bring discipline and experience to your initiatives through in-depth consulting and we work to identify critical business outcomes as well as the drivers of those outcomes. We then use data visualizations to prescribe action on those drivers to positively influence your desired business outcomes.

MarketDial

Series A in 2018
MarketDial is a technology company founded in 2016 by former management consultants from BCG & McKinsey. MarketDial’s partners use its platform to make critical decisions based on the results of its proprietary in-store experimentation process. They are able to design and analyze statistically rigorous in-store tests to validate business outcomes in a variety of business verticals including Retail, Restaurant, CPG, C-Store, Healthcare, and Financial Services. The MarketDial platform supports comprehensive testing of business initiatives related to pricing, promotions, operations, labor/staffing, new products, and more. In addition, MarketDial is engaged in strategic partnerships with top management consulting firms and retail industry analytics leaders in order to bring the most comprehensive solution to itsclients.

Tiled

Seed Round in 2018
Tiled, Inc. is a San Diego-based company that specializes in developing interactive content solutions. Founded in 2016, Tiled offers an online platform that allows users to transform static materials into engaging micro-apps, enhancing user engagement and providing valuable insights. The platform supports the creation of both public and private micro-apps, featuring robust security measures, permissions, and user management tools to control content access. Tiled's solutions are particularly beneficial for inside sales teams, facilitating effective customer engagement and team communication.

JANIIS

Seed Round in 2018
JANIIS, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2016 and based in Draper, Utah, that specializes in developing a comprehensive property management platform tailored for the travel lodging industry. This software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution streamlines the management of various operational tasks, including inventory, bookings, distribution, housekeeping, maintenance, and accounting. JANIIS aims to simplify the complexities of property management, allowing users to efficiently manage, market, and distribute their inventory from a single platform. The company employs advanced content and listing algorithms to enhance visibility and effectiveness, ensuring that users can create high-quality listings across multiple distribution channels.

Taft

Seed Round in 2018
Taft Clothing LLC retails handmade shoes and boots for men through online medium. The company's product includes suede, leather, and wool footwear. It sells formal as well as casual shoes. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Provo, Utah.