Grotech Ventures

Grotech Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 1984, headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, with additional offices in Arlington, Virginia, and Denver, Colorado. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on high-growth technology sectors such as social and digital media, e-commerce, mobile and cloud software, enterprise software, big data analytics, security technologies, and healthcare IT. Grotech Ventures does not invest in life sciences, biotech sectors, or foreign entities. It primarily targets underserved venture markets across the United States, including areas like Charlotte, Northern Virginia, Atlanta, and the Rocky Mountain region. The firm typically makes initial investments ranging from $500,000 to $5 million and seeks to support portfolio companies through subsequent funding rounds. Grotech Ventures prefers to take a lead role in its investments and often secures a board seat, emphasizing a collaborative, long-term partnership with entrepreneurs to drive growth and innovation.

Frank Adams

Founder and Managing General Partner

Darren Appanah

vice_president

Charles P. Cullen

Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer & General Partner

Chuck Cullen

General Partner, COO and CFO

Lawson DeVries

Managing General Partner

Steve Fredrick

General Partner

Sharon Gogol

Vice President, Controller

Meghan Pfeifer

Director, Finance

Donald Rainey

General Partner

Douglas M. Schmidt

Partner

Julia Taxin

General Partner

Andrew Winslow

Vice President

Joseph Zell

General Partner and Venture Partner

Past deals in Southern US

Cloverly

Series A in 2023
Provide tools for businesses and organizations to achieve carbon neutrality by connecting online buyers to local, high-quality renewable energy through their Sustainability-as-a-Service platform. Clean-tech startup creating a sustainability-as-a-service platform to make carbon offsets accessible for everyday activities.

Sunstone Credit

Seed Round in 2022
Sunstone Credit is on a mission to democratize access to solar for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Sitting at the intersection of climate, finance and technology, Sunstone has built a best-in-class technology platform and partnered with leading financial institutions and a national network of solar developers to provide SMB borrowers access to simple, affordable and easy-to-understand solar loan products with flexible terms and a streamlined application process. When SMB customers go solar using Sunstone’s products, they save money and reduce their carbon footprint, driving a clean, green future for all. Learn more at sunstonecredit.com.

Apkudo

Venture Round in 2022
Apkudo, Inc. specializes in developing solutions for operators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to facilitate the launch and management of Android devices. Founded in 2010 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, the company offers a platform called Hive, which integrates internal systems and external partners into a secure environment for managing connected devices throughout the supply chain. Apkudo's technology leverages artificial intelligence and robotics to enhance diagnostics, automate processes, and facilitate real-time decision-making. By standardizing and optimizing the exchange of data among stakeholders—including manufacturers, mobile network operators, and logistics providers—Apkudo aims to improve device quality, enhance user satisfaction, and promote efficiencies across the device lifecycle, from pre-launch to end-of-life. This comprehensive approach helps companies make data-driven decisions, reduce costs, and minimize electronic waste.

Krista Software

Series A in 2022
Krista is a modern, Conversational Robotic Process Automation, RPA, platform designed to easily leverage existing IT assets in business workflows. Krista’s unique informal approach enables business process owners to quickly build new workflows without waiting in line for expensive IT or development resources. Creating automation in Krista is simple. It is just like describing a conversation between your people and your systems.

Youreka Labs

Series A in 2021
Youreka Labs is a Salesforce-native application for simplifying smart mobile forms and procedures at scale.

Payzer

Series D in 2021
Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time tracking across their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014.

Pet Screening

Series A in 2021
Pet Screening is a simple and secure place to store all the important information about pets. It provides greater diligence for pets and assistance animals and creates comprehensive pet records for lease files. It is a third-party service utilized by housing providers and property managers to screen household pets, validate reasonable accommodation requests for assistance animals, and confirm every resident understands their pet policies. Pet Screening was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cornelius, North Carolina.

Tellius

Series A in 2021
Tomorrow's Insights Today: Spend less time on reporting and more time on executing. We built Tellius to make big data simple for the modern workforce. Cut through swathes of information and find the answers you’re looking for whether you’re an IT pro, marketing guru or C-level exec. Tellius extends traditional self-service BI concepts through the use search-enabled visualizations and a proprietary recommendation engine that automates the basic interpretation and analysis of data. Using machine learning, Tellius analyzes data to find hidden correlations, trends and anomalies which are then presented as a set of suggested visualizations and predictive models. Unlike traditional BI tools, Tellius is built on a distributed architecture (Apache Spark) which provides the scale and performance required for Big Data environments.

Rent Ready

Series A in 2021
They are a single-source vendor that delivers end-to-end apartment services (including Painting, Cleaning, Carpet Cleaning, Counter and Tub Refinishing, and Punch) with unbeatable customer service- which means with one call you can take a move-out and be ready for a move-in on your schedule, not your vendors.

WireWheel

Series B in 2021
WireWheel, Inc. is a software company that specializes in data privacy management, offering a cloud-based platform designed to assist organizations in complying with various data protection regulations, such as the EU GDPR, Privacy Shield, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, WireWheel's platform provides tools for privacy program management and subject rights request management. By integrating machine learning and data science, the platform helps companies automate the mapping of their public cloud assets and manage third-party relationships. This capability enables organizations to effectively address their compliance obligations while maximizing the potential of their data assets, ultimately enhancing their competitive advantage in the market.

Apkudo

Series B in 2020
Apkudo, Inc. specializes in developing solutions for operators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to facilitate the launch and management of Android devices. Founded in 2010 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, the company offers a platform called Hive, which integrates internal systems and external partners into a secure environment for managing connected devices throughout the supply chain. Apkudo's technology leverages artificial intelligence and robotics to enhance diagnostics, automate processes, and facilitate real-time decision-making. By standardizing and optimizing the exchange of data among stakeholders—including manufacturers, mobile network operators, and logistics providers—Apkudo aims to improve device quality, enhance user satisfaction, and promote efficiencies across the device lifecycle, from pre-launch to end-of-life. This comprehensive approach helps companies make data-driven decisions, reduce costs, and minimize electronic waste.

Urjanet

Series D in 2020
Urjanet is the global source for utility data. The business is on a mission to build a platform for the world's utility data and make it useful. The Urjanet Utility Data Platform transforms organizations and their decisions across industries. Urjanet's data platform integrates directly to customer applications and tooling, empowering a wide range of uses and implementations for automated utility data. Founded by a team of veteran entrepreneurs, Urjanet is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Stardog

Series B in 2019
Stardog Union Inc. is a software company based in Arlington, Virginia, specializing in semantic technology. The company develops Stardog, a semantic graph database and enterprise data unification platform that features capabilities like query, search, inference, and data virtualization. Stardog Cloud, its cloud-native enterprise knowledge graph platform, enhances these offerings. The company's solutions cater to various industries, providing tools for compliance and audit in finance, customer information integration in retail, smart grid solutions in energy, and support for drug discovery and clinical trials in healthcare. Additionally, Stardog offers training services and different versions of its products to meet diverse user needs. Notable clients include Bosch, Ericsson, BNY Mellon, NASA, and the NIH, highlighting Stardog's role in facilitating digital transformations across multiple sectors. Founded in 2005 and previously known as Complexible Inc., Stardog has gained recognition for its innovative approach to data management.

Drum

Seed Round in 2019
Drum Technologies, Inc. develops and operates gig economy platform and mobile application to earn money by promoting businesses. The company’s application, Drum, enables drummers to earn commissions by sharing offers created by businesses, signing businesses, and building network of drummers. The buyers can discover offers shared by drummers. It serves personal services, retail, food and drink, automotive, health and fitness, travel, business services, home service, and utilities industries. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tethr

Venture Round in 2019
Tethr enables the enterprise to make smarter business decisions based on the true Voice of the Customer, with an AI-driven communications intelligence platform that listens to and analyzes every customer conversation and surfaces contextual understanding and insights from the data. Based on over a decade of best-practice CX research, Tethr gives organizations the ability to measure what matters and share the voice of the customer insights across the organization to directly impact sales results, customer loyalty, operating costs, compliance, and risk.

XOi Technologies

Series C in 2019
XOi Technologies specializes in developing firmware and software solutions for wearable devices aimed at blue-collar industries, particularly in field service sectors such as electrical, mechanical, and plumbing. The company offers a range of products, including the XOEye Vision Cloud, which serves as a mobile device management platform, and the XOEye Vision Runtime Environment, enabling interaction with wearable applications through various controls like touch, voice, and gestures. Additionally, XOi Technologies provides the XOEye Vision service for managing wearable devices and applications, along with XOne, a portable technology facilitating real-time video and audio instructions between suppliers and technicians. By leveraging advanced technologies such as natural language processing, machine learning, and computer vision, XOi Technologies enhances data capture, communication, and customer service transparency in the field service industry. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Pet Screening

Seed Round in 2019
Pet Screening is a simple and secure place to store all the important information about pets. It provides greater diligence for pets and assistance animals and creates comprehensive pet records for lease files. It is a third-party service utilized by housing providers and property managers to screen household pets, validate reasonable accommodation requests for assistance animals, and confirm every resident understands their pet policies. Pet Screening was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cornelius, North Carolina.

Racktop Systems

Series A in 2019
RackTop was founded by intelligence community veterans who have been solving the most complex data and security problems for over two decades. Today, RackTop develops innovative software products that are revolutionizing the data storage industry by combining high-performance network attached storage with advanced security to solve the most difficult compliance and cyber security challenges facing the modern enterprise. RackTop’s products are unified under a single platform, offering reduced complexity, improved security, and significant cost savings over traditional solutions.

Threater

Series A in 2019
Bandura uses simple, innovative technology and best-in-class threat intelligence to secure your networks, data and users in real time - wherever they are. Whether it’s from data we provide out of the box, data from one of our Partner Integrations - or any other data source you have - we block attacks from up to 150 Million malicious IPs and domains in real-time, with no latency. At Bandura, we believe nothing scales like simplicity. We make blocking threats smart and simple - at scale - everywhere.

Payzer

Series C in 2018
Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time tracking across their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014.

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

WireWheel

Series A in 2018
WireWheel, Inc. is a software company that specializes in data privacy management, offering a cloud-based platform designed to assist organizations in complying with various data protection regulations, such as the EU GDPR, Privacy Shield, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, WireWheel's platform provides tools for privacy program management and subject rights request management. By integrating machine learning and data science, the platform helps companies automate the mapping of their public cloud assets and manage third-party relationships. This capability enables organizations to effectively address their compliance obligations while maximizing the potential of their data assets, ultimately enhancing their competitive advantage in the market.

Threater

Series A in 2018
Bandura uses simple, innovative technology and best-in-class threat intelligence to secure your networks, data and users in real time - wherever they are. Whether it’s from data we provide out of the box, data from one of our Partner Integrations - or any other data source you have - we block attacks from up to 150 Million malicious IPs and domains in real-time, with no latency. At Bandura, we believe nothing scales like simplicity. We make blocking threats smart and simple - at scale - everywhere.

Payzer

Series B in 2018
Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time tracking across their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014.

Ceterus

Series B in 2018
Ceterus, Inc. develops Web-based accounting and financial reporting solutions. It offers Ceterus Edge, an accounting software that gives access to financial, peer-benchmarks, key performance metrics, and daily balances from various connected devices; and Ceterus Tax, a tax preparation software. The company serves restaurants, fitness, wellness, retail, education, and beauty companies. Ceterus, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Charleston, South Carolina with an additional office in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Tethr

Series A in 2017
Tethr enables the enterprise to make smarter business decisions based on the true Voice of the Customer, with an AI-driven communications intelligence platform that listens to and analyzes every customer conversation and surfaces contextual understanding and insights from the data. Based on over a decade of best-practice CX research, Tethr gives organizations the ability to measure what matters and share the voice of the customer insights across the organization to directly impact sales results, customer loyalty, operating costs, compliance, and risk.

Stardog

Series A in 2017
Stardog Union Inc. is a software company based in Arlington, Virginia, specializing in semantic technology. The company develops Stardog, a semantic graph database and enterprise data unification platform that features capabilities like query, search, inference, and data virtualization. Stardog Cloud, its cloud-native enterprise knowledge graph platform, enhances these offerings. The company's solutions cater to various industries, providing tools for compliance and audit in finance, customer information integration in retail, smart grid solutions in energy, and support for drug discovery and clinical trials in healthcare. Additionally, Stardog offers training services and different versions of its products to meet diverse user needs. Notable clients include Bosch, Ericsson, BNY Mellon, NASA, and the NIH, highlighting Stardog's role in facilitating digital transformations across multiple sectors. Founded in 2005 and previously known as Complexible Inc., Stardog has gained recognition for its innovative approach to data management.

Ceterus

Series A in 2017
Ceterus, Inc. develops Web-based accounting and financial reporting solutions. It offers Ceterus Edge, an accounting software that gives access to financial, peer-benchmarks, key performance metrics, and daily balances from various connected devices; and Ceterus Tax, a tax preparation software. The company serves restaurants, fitness, wellness, retail, education, and beauty companies. Ceterus, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Charleston, South Carolina with an additional office in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Urjanet

Series C in 2017
Urjanet is the global source for utility data. The business is on a mission to build a platform for the world's utility data and make it useful. The Urjanet Utility Data Platform transforms organizations and their decisions across industries. Urjanet's data platform integrates directly to customer applications and tooling, empowering a wide range of uses and implementations for automated utility data. Founded by a team of veteran entrepreneurs, Urjanet is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Payzer

Series B in 2016
Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time tracking across their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014.

Healthcare Interactive

Series A in 2016
Healthcare Interactive is dedicated to the transformation of the administration and delivery of healthcare to improve health in our communities. We enable our client-partners to effectively leverage their data to identify the health risk and cost drivers of the populations they serve, develop specific programs to engage members and improve outcomes, and provide the administrative tools to deliver, manage, and measure the success of those programs.

Passport

Series B in 2016
Passport is a cloud tech startup that delivers intelligent data to its customers. Passport transforms mobility management with a single platform to help create an open parking ecosystem. The company's goal is to help cities bring payments into apps users already have on hand while providing management and reporting tools, creating an easy-to-manage and efficient mobility operation for the future. Passport is backed by a group of investors, including Bain Capital Ventures, Grotech Ventures, MK Capital, and Relevance Capital. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

ThreatConnect

Series B in 2015
ThreatConnect® arms organizations with a powerful defense against cyber threats and the confidence to make strategic business decisions. Built on the industry’s only intelligence-driven, extensible security platform, ThreatConnect provides a suite of products designed to meet the threat intelligence aggregation, analysis and automation needs of security teams at any maturity level. More than 1,600 companies and agencies worldwide deploy the ThreatConnect platform to fully integrate their security technologies, teams, & processes with relevant threat intelligence resulting in reduced detection to response time and enhanced asset protection.

Contactually

Series A in 2015
Contactually converts your contacts to relationships, all through email. The system identifies when you email a new lead, shows what you already know about him, and asks a few specific questions to learn more: how did you meet, how important is he, what are the next steps. The system then parses your response and automatically pushes all rich data to your CRM.

Healthcare Interactive

Series A in 2015
Healthcare Interactive is dedicated to the transformation of the administration and delivery of healthcare to improve health in our communities. We enable our client-partners to effectively leverage their data to identify the health risk and cost drivers of the populations they serve, develop specific programs to engage members and improve outcomes, and provide the administrative tools to deliver, manage, and measure the success of those programs.

CircleBack

Series C in 2015
Founded outside of Washington DC, CircleBack, Inc. is a technology company dedicated to solving a major productivity problem: keeping contact data accurate. Using a patented data engine, CircleBack lets you know when connections change jobs, companies, email addresses, and work numbers, delivering these updates directly to mobile address books and CRMs. This makes it easier than ever for both professionals and businesses to keep connections alive and get stuff done faster and with more accuracy.

Payzer

Series A in 2015
Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time tracking across their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014.

ThreatConnect

Series A in 2014
ThreatConnect® arms organizations with a powerful defense against cyber threats and the confidence to make strategic business decisions. Built on the industry’s only intelligence-driven, extensible security platform, ThreatConnect provides a suite of products designed to meet the threat intelligence aggregation, analysis and automation needs of security teams at any maturity level. More than 1,600 companies and agencies worldwide deploy the ThreatConnect platform to fully integrate their security technologies, teams, & processes with relevant threat intelligence resulting in reduced detection to response time and enhanced asset protection.

AnyPresence

Series B in 2014
AnyPresence is an enterprise platform for the app economy that dramatically reduces the time and cost of mobile-enabling enterprise business processes, products, and services. It is the only solution that offers organizations the ability to assemble and deploy backend servers, native iOS, native Android, and HTML5 mobile apps with 100% native, portable source code. The patent-pending AnyPresence platform also includes the ability to generate sample mobile apps from within API management portals, increasing adoption, and accelerating time-to-market for apps that incorporate a company's data or services. The platform is easy to use, yet flexible enough to enable source code-level customization or on-premise hosting options.

WiserTogether

Series B in 2014
WiserTogether’s personalized healthcare treatment comparison software enables consumers to choose the right treatment – most effective in the outcome, most personally suitable, and most cost-effective and affordable. The result is improved health and improved costs for consumers, their employers, payers, and providers. The company serves over 3 million people through their employers and health plans. It was founded in 2008 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Intellinote

Series A in 2014
Intellinote is a team productivity platform designed to enhance collaboration and efficiency among team members. It is accessible via the web, tablets, and smartphones, allowing teams of up to five people to use it for free. The platform facilitates the capture of notes, ideas, and documents, ensuring that critical information is easily retrievable. Users can collaborate by sharing files, assigning tasks, and engaging with colleagues and clients, which streamlines project management and communication processes. Intellinote supports various industries by providing tools tailored for specific needs, including sales proposals, consulting engagement management, marketing campaign planning, product release tracking, and human resources tasks. By simplifying everyday work processes, Intellinote helps teams complete projects and tasks more efficiently, ultimately boosting productivity.

Invincea

Series C in 2013
Invincea, Inc. specializes in advanced endpoint security software solutions designed to protect organizations from sophisticated cyber threats. Founded in 2006 and based in Fairfax, Virginia, the company serves various sectors, including education, finance, healthcare, and government. Its flagship product, X by Invincea, enables businesses to detect and prevent threats, allowing employees to work securely both in the office and remotely. Invincea's technology employs machine learning and behavioral monitoring to address vulnerabilities associated with targeted attacks like spear phishing and web exploits. The company has been recognized for its innovation, winning numerous awards since its inception, and it maintains an OEM partnership with Dell to deliver its security solutions across millions of devices. As a subsidiary of Sophos Group plc since 2017, Invincea continues to enhance its offerings to combat the evolving landscape of cyber threats.

Passport

Series A in 2013
Passport is a cloud tech startup that delivers intelligent data to its customers. Passport transforms mobility management with a single platform to help create an open parking ecosystem. The company's goal is to help cities bring payments into apps users already have on hand while providing management and reporting tools, creating an easy-to-manage and efficient mobility operation for the future. Passport is backed by a group of investors, including Bain Capital Ventures, Grotech Ventures, MK Capital, and Relevance Capital. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

WiserTogether

Venture Round in 2013
WiserTogether’s personalized healthcare treatment comparison software enables consumers to choose the right treatment – most effective in the outcome, most personally suitable, and most cost-effective and affordable. The result is improved health and improved costs for consumers, their employers, payers, and providers. The company serves over 3 million people through their employers and health plans. It was founded in 2008 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

LivingSocial

Venture Round in 2013
LivingSocial is an online local marketplace that allows users to discover and share various activities and services in major cities. The platform offers a diverse range of categories, including restaurants, events, sports and fitness, health and beauty, travel, and shopping, which encompasses beauty products, fashion, gadgets, and home goods. Additionally, LivingSocial provides options for gifts and coupons suitable for various occasions, such as anniversaries and birthdays. Serving both local merchants and national brands, LivingSocial connects consumers with a wide array of offerings while promoting local businesses. Founded in 2007 and initially known as Hungry Machine, LivingSocial is headquartered in the District of Columbia and has been operating as a subsidiary of Groupon since October 2016.

Urjanet

Series B in 2012
Urjanet is the global source for utility data. The business is on a mission to build a platform for the world's utility data and make it useful. The Urjanet Utility Data Platform transforms organizations and their decisions across industries. Urjanet's data platform integrates directly to customer applications and tooling, empowering a wide range of uses and implementations for automated utility data. Founded by a team of veteran entrepreneurs, Urjanet is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

AnyPresence

Series A in 2012
AnyPresence is an enterprise platform for the app economy that dramatically reduces the time and cost of mobile-enabling enterprise business processes, products, and services. It is the only solution that offers organizations the ability to assemble and deploy backend servers, native iOS, native Android, and HTML5 mobile apps with 100% native, portable source code. The patent-pending AnyPresence platform also includes the ability to generate sample mobile apps from within API management portals, increasing adoption, and accelerating time-to-market for apps that incorporate a company's data or services. The platform is easy to use, yet flexible enough to enable source code-level customization or on-premise hosting options.

SpotRight

Seed Round in 2012
SpotRight is a developer of an audience insight and targeting platform to provide direct and brand marketers with social data and influence. The company's SaaS application, artificial intelligence engine, and patented technology used over 60B consumer-level data points with 150M refreshes daily to analyze, design, and build audiences. Their application then can load the audiences into 300+ media-buyer platforms for audience targeting. With SpotRight agencies and national advertisers design, build, and activate custom people-based audiences from a single application, which eliminates massive waste between planning and activation. Their AI, patented technology, and proprietary data identify the targets that are 10 times more likely to buy, resulting in exceptional performance and ROI.

LogiAnalytics

Private Equity Round in 2011
Logi is an analytics provider that focuses on embedding analytics in commercial and enterprise applications. It enables organizations to put real-time information to work by allowing users to create web-based business intelligence and analytic applications that can be integrated directly within organizations' applications, systems, and processes.

WiserTogether

Series A in 2011
WiserTogether’s personalized healthcare treatment comparison software enables consumers to choose the right treatment – most effective in the outcome, most personally suitable, and most cost-effective and affordable. The result is improved health and improved costs for consumers, their employers, payers, and providers. The company serves over 3 million people through their employers and health plans. It was founded in 2008 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

6fusion

Series B in 2011
6fusion operates a cloud management platform that transforms public and private cloud resources into a pay-per-use utility model. Utilizing its proprietary Workload Allocation Cube, the company establishes a standardized method for measuring supply and demand of computing resources. This platform serves IT service providers, enterprises, independent software vendors, and infrastructure owners/operators by simplifying Infrastructure-as-a-Service management through a single console. It offers insights into consumption, performance benchmarking, and cost allocation, all while avoiding vendor lock-in. Additionally, 6fusion employs financial intelligence analytics to enhance the economic measurement of IT infrastructure operations, helping organizations analyze utilization rates, consumption patterns, and cost efficiencies effectively.

OpenQ

Series B in 2011
OpenQ Inc. specializes in developing and deploying cloud-based software solutions tailored for the management of key opinion leaders (KOL) and compliance in regulated industries, particularly in life sciences, healthcare, and financial services. The company's offerings include tools for KOL identification and profiling, ranking and analytics, stakeholder engagement, and compliant content distribution. OpenQ's Engage solution facilitates interactions between medical affairs organizations and KOLs, while Empower streamlines the collaboration and distribution of approved content. Additionally, the MobileQ application enables the creation of compliant presentations and efficient field operations. By providing a comprehensive suite of SaaS solutions, OpenQ helps organizations navigate regulatory challenges while enhancing collaboration and engagement with key stakeholders. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, the company serves a diverse clientele, including 60 Fortune 500 companies. OpenQ operates as a subsidiary of Anju Software, Inc.

HelloWallet

Series A in 2010
HelloWallet improves the performance of organizations by providing independent guidance that aligns corporate spending with human capital needs. Our cloud-based products enable executives with a data platform for making workforce compensation and rewards decisions that drive sustained improvements in engagement and wellness. We do this with web and mobile applications that provide personalized guidance to employees for converting their salary and benefits into prosperity. HelloWallet operates a double bottom line business model, for every five subscriptions we sell we donate one subscription to a family in need through one of our philanthropic partners.

LivingSocial

Series C in 2010
LivingSocial is an online local marketplace that allows users to discover and share various activities and services in major cities. The platform offers a diverse range of categories, including restaurants, events, sports and fitness, health and beauty, travel, and shopping, which encompasses beauty products, fashion, gadgets, and home goods. Additionally, LivingSocial provides options for gifts and coupons suitable for various occasions, such as anniversaries and birthdays. Serving both local merchants and national brands, LivingSocial connects consumers with a wide array of offerings while promoting local businesses. Founded in 2007 and initially known as Hungry Machine, LivingSocial is headquartered in the District of Columbia and has been operating as a subsidiary of Groupon since October 2016.

LivingSocial

Series B in 2010
LivingSocial is an online local marketplace that allows users to discover and share various activities and services in major cities. The platform offers a diverse range of categories, including restaurants, events, sports and fitness, health and beauty, travel, and shopping, which encompasses beauty products, fashion, gadgets, and home goods. Additionally, LivingSocial provides options for gifts and coupons suitable for various occasions, such as anniversaries and birthdays. Serving both local merchants and national brands, LivingSocial connects consumers with a wide array of offerings while promoting local businesses. Founded in 2007 and initially known as Hungry Machine, LivingSocial is headquartered in the District of Columbia and has been operating as a subsidiary of Groupon since October 2016.

LivingSocial

Series B in 2010
LivingSocial is an online local marketplace that allows users to discover and share various activities and services in major cities. The platform offers a diverse range of categories, including restaurants, events, sports and fitness, health and beauty, travel, and shopping, which encompasses beauty products, fashion, gadgets, and home goods. Additionally, LivingSocial provides options for gifts and coupons suitable for various occasions, such as anniversaries and birthdays. Serving both local merchants and national brands, LivingSocial connects consumers with a wide array of offerings while promoting local businesses. Founded in 2007 and initially known as Hungry Machine, LivingSocial is headquartered in the District of Columbia and has been operating as a subsidiary of Groupon since October 2016.

Invincea

Series A in 2009
Invincea, Inc. specializes in advanced endpoint security software solutions designed to protect organizations from sophisticated cyber threats. Founded in 2006 and based in Fairfax, Virginia, the company serves various sectors, including education, finance, healthcare, and government. Its flagship product, X by Invincea, enables businesses to detect and prevent threats, allowing employees to work securely both in the office and remotely. Invincea's technology employs machine learning and behavioral monitoring to address vulnerabilities associated with targeted attacks like spear phishing and web exploits. The company has been recognized for its innovation, winning numerous awards since its inception, and it maintains an OEM partnership with Dell to deliver its security solutions across millions of devices. As a subsidiary of Sophos Group plc since 2017, Invincea continues to enhance its offerings to combat the evolving landscape of cyber threats.

Ziptronix

Venture Round in 2009
Ziptronix, Inc. designs, develops, and markets semiconductor integration technologies to the electronics industry. The company offers chip stacking, three dimensional integrated circuits, and silicon substrate applications.

Rollstream

Series B in 2008
RollStream is a provider enterprise community management software. Specifically, RollStream delivers an online solution for accelerating communications and collaboration across the global supply chain. Companies like McKesson Medical-Surgical, Owens & Minor and Tesco use RollStream to significantly reduce the cost and time required to onboard partners, communicate operational changes, and rollout sales and marketing initiatives.

LogiAnalytics

Venture Round in 2008
Logi is an analytics provider that focuses on embedding analytics in commercial and enterprise applications. It enables organizations to put real-time information to work by allowing users to create web-based business intelligence and analytic applications that can be integrated directly within organizations' applications, systems, and processes.

Clarabridge

Series C in 2008
Clarabridge is a prominent Customer Experience Management platform that assists leading brands in enhancing their customer experience. The company employs advanced text analytics and enterprise survey tools to analyze various forms of customer feedback. By transforming this feedback into actionable insights, Clarabridge enables businesses to make informed decisions that improve customer satisfaction and engagement. Through its robust solutions, the company empowers organizations to understand their customers better and take decisive actions to elevate their overall experience.

LivingSocial

Series A in 2008
LivingSocial is an online local marketplace that allows users to discover and share various activities and services in major cities. The platform offers a diverse range of categories, including restaurants, events, sports and fitness, health and beauty, travel, and shopping, which encompasses beauty products, fashion, gadgets, and home goods. Additionally, LivingSocial provides options for gifts and coupons suitable for various occasions, such as anniversaries and birthdays. Serving both local merchants and national brands, LivingSocial connects consumers with a wide array of offerings while promoting local businesses. Founded in 2007 and initially known as Hungry Machine, LivingSocial is headquartered in the District of Columbia and has been operating as a subsidiary of Groupon since October 2016.

Ziptronix

Venture Round in 2008
Ziptronix, Inc. designs, develops, and markets semiconductor integration technologies to the electronics industry. The company offers chip stacking, three dimensional integrated circuits, and silicon substrate applications.

SnappCloud

Series C in 2007
SnappCloud brings apps to the world's premier devices. The demand for apps on devices is staggering. According to Gartner, in 2011, over 800 million PCs, tablets and smartphones were sold. In 2016, over 2.5 billion of these devices will be sold. 64% of consumers say that on their next device upgrade they want apps built for the device. SnappCloud helps device makers and app developers meet the demand. They design, build, and operate branded app stores for device makers. Their curated approach brings best-in-class apps to customers. SnappCloud is located in Washington, DC. For more information, please visit http://snappcloud.com/ or follow @SnappCloud.

Rollstream

Series A in 2007
RollStream is a provider enterprise community management software. Specifically, RollStream delivers an online solution for accelerating communications and collaboration across the global supply chain. Companies like McKesson Medical-Surgical, Owens & Minor and Tesco use RollStream to significantly reduce the cost and time required to onboard partners, communicate operational changes, and rollout sales and marketing initiatives.

Omnilink Systems

Venture Round in 2007
Omnilink Systems, Inc., an electronic and offender monitoring company, provides monitoring solutions for the location of people and valuable assets to judicial and commercial sectors. Its dual GPS and cellular tracking technology enables the tracking of individuals and assets in indoors and outdoors. The company's solutions, including FocalPoint, a Web-based application; and monitoring center provides location-enabled devices and communication networks used in a variety of industries and situations. It offers judicial solutions for monitoring domestic violence offenders, sex offender tracking, house arrest and curfew, gang members, probation and parole monitoring, pre-trial and re-entry monitoring, and other violent offenders. The company also provides commercial solutions for electronic monitoring of valuable assets, such as remote or lone workers, cash or cargo in transit, irreplaceable documents and data, jewelry, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and retail inventory. In addition, it offers covert surveillance solution for vehicle tracking. Omnilink Systems, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Ziptronix

Series D in 2007
Ziptronix, Inc. designs, develops, and markets semiconductor integration technologies to the electronics industry. The company offers chip stacking, three dimensional integrated circuits, and silicon substrate applications.

iVivity

Series C in 2006
iVivity develops and markets storage network processor silicon, custom storage adapters, and motherboards to system manufacturers. Its products include iDiSX 2000, a single integrated storage server-on-chip silicon, which is used in current and new storage infrastructure product domains, including intelligent storage network switches, appliances, routers, gateways, array products, and blade server products; and iDiSX ASIC Evaluation Platform, which connects to Ethernet and fiber channel MACs. The company also offers custom board systems, including system board, custom adapter board, custom line card, and blade server switch module. In addition, it provides various services, including integration of custom or third-party software stacks for data protection, data management, information life cycle management, and disaster recovery.

Hatteras Networks

Venture Round in 2006
Hatteras Networks, Inc. develops equipment to enable carriers and service providers to deliver high-bandwidth business services to business locations. It delivers broadband Ethernet solutions over existing copper facilities to enable service providers to deliver metro Ethernet services and address for high bandwidth mobile wireless and DSLAM backhaul transport. Hatteras Networks, Inc. was formerly known as Luminance Networks, Inc. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Ziptronix

Series C in 2005
Ziptronix, Inc. designs, develops, and markets semiconductor integration technologies to the electronics industry. The company offers chip stacking, three dimensional integrated circuits, and silicon substrate applications.

Hatteras Networks

Series D in 2005
Hatteras Networks, Inc. develops equipment to enable carriers and service providers to deliver high-bandwidth business services to business locations. It delivers broadband Ethernet solutions over existing copper facilities to enable service providers to deliver metro Ethernet services and address for high bandwidth mobile wireless and DSLAM backhaul transport. Hatteras Networks, Inc. was formerly known as Luminance Networks, Inc. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

RewardsPlus

Venture Round in 2005
RewardsPlus is a provider of benefits management technology. RewardsPlus' Benfinity system is a suite of Web-based applications and professional services designed to simplify and automate employee benefits communication, self-service enrollment and ongoing post-enrollment administration. Serving many nationally recognized corporations such as Unilever, AT&T, and National City Corporation.

BNX Systems

Private Equity Round in 2004
BNX Systems is a provider of enterprise-wide Controlled Access Management. The flagship BNX Authenticated Sign-On solution offers organizations a stronger and more efficient method of user log-on that streamlines access to critical applications. This patented solution minimizes user and IT interaction for application access, yielding high productivity and rapid return on investment.
Bluefire Security develops security software for wireless and mobile handheld devices.

iVivity

Series C in 2004
iVivity develops and markets storage network processor silicon, custom storage adapters, and motherboards to system manufacturers. Its products include iDiSX 2000, a single integrated storage server-on-chip silicon, which is used in current and new storage infrastructure product domains, including intelligent storage network switches, appliances, routers, gateways, array products, and blade server products; and iDiSX ASIC Evaluation Platform, which connects to Ethernet and fiber channel MACs. The company also offers custom board systems, including system board, custom adapter board, custom line card, and blade server switch module. In addition, it provides various services, including integration of custom or third-party software stacks for data protection, data management, information life cycle management, and disaster recovery.

Hatteras Networks

Series C in 2002
Hatteras Networks, Inc. develops equipment to enable carriers and service providers to deliver high-bandwidth business services to business locations. It delivers broadband Ethernet solutions over existing copper facilities to enable service providers to deliver metro Ethernet services and address for high bandwidth mobile wireless and DSLAM backhaul transport. Hatteras Networks, Inc. was formerly known as Luminance Networks, Inc. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Chicken Out Rotisserie

Venture Round in 2002
Treating your family, your guests, and yourself to flavorful, high-quality, inexpensive meals has never been more convenient. At Chicken Out, they provide award-winning, always fresh, 100% all-natural chicken, served in a variety of scrumptious dishes, from platters to salads, from breasts to filets, and from sandwiches to soups to rotisserie on the bone. They marinate their chickens in a special blend of natural herbs and spices, slow rotisserie roast them to perfection, and serve them fresh and juicy. To make your mealtime planning as simple as possible, Chicken Out provides many options for ordering. You can order online and pick up your meal at one of their local restaurants. Or, join us for in-house dining. Chicken Out also provides on-demand catering services. Call us, or email us, and they’ll provide a catered meal for a large group within two hours. And if you need the meal sooner, call us for immediate assistance.

Synchrologic

Private Equity Round in 2000
Synchrologic Mobile Suite extends existing corporate infrastructure to mobile and remote staff, delivering access to enterprise applications, files, email and PIM data, intranet sites, and Web content.

USA Digital Radio

Private Equity Round in 2000
USA Digital Radio is a developer of digital audio broadcast technology or iDABTM.

RewardsPlus

Series D in 2000
RewardsPlus is a provider of benefits management technology. RewardsPlus' Benfinity system is a suite of Web-based applications and professional services designed to simplify and automate employee benefits communication, self-service enrollment and ongoing post-enrollment administration. Serving many nationally recognized corporations such as Unilever, AT&T, and National City Corporation.

Multicity

Series B in 2000
Multicity.com is empowering worldwide communication through the development of multilingual product suites. Available in a growing number of international languages for consumers and businesses, Multicity.com's diverse range of Web-enabled products and services include the first instant translation-enabled chat rooms and instant messaging, message boards, voting booths. In early 1999, Multicity.com started by creating a decentralized global network comprised of tens of thousands of independent web sites, interconnected through Multicity.com's multilingual communications tools. The network was self-organized around users' common interests.

Home Wireless Networks

Series B in 1998
Provider of wireless telephony and data networking products for the residential and small office/home office markets. The company's technology helps connect personal computers, phones, fax machines and other devices without wires.

USInternetworking, Inc.

Venture Round in 1998
USinternetworking, an applications services provider, manages companies' software via the internet. It provides hosted applications via the internet for large companies looking for managed software services. It offers applications from vendors in the areas of enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management (Oracle), spend management (Ariba), messaging and collaboration (Microsoft), and custom developed e-commerce systems. USinternetworking's customers included the State of Maryland's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Sunburst Hospitality, and Yankee Candle. The company was acquired by US telecom service giant AT&T in 2006.