Next Coast Ventures

Next Coast Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, established in 2015. The firm focuses on providing early-stage capital to innovative technology startups in emerging markets. Its investment strategy is guided by macro trends and themes, aiming to identify high-growth opportunities. Next Coast Ventures supports its portfolio companies not only with financial investment but also through hands-on resources, leveraging a strong industry network and the entrepreneurial experience of its founders. This collaborative approach enables the firm to partner closely with bold entrepreneurs to help them build successful businesses.

Thomas Ball

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Ben Beverly

Senior Associate

Jeff Browning

Venture Partner

Julian Castelli

Venture Partner

Jason Dorsey

Venture Partner

Zaz Floreani

Principal

Ricky Garcia

Senior Associate

Tatiana Gaspar

Associate

Jonathan Kaplan

COO

Michael Maloney

Senior Associate

Dagney Pruner

Director of Marketing Communications

Adam Rogers

Partner

Dustin Sellers

Partner

Michael Smerklo

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Michael Tian

Associate

Anthony Walke

Partner

Anthony Walker

Partner

Zeynep Young

Venture Partner

81 past transactions

CrowdHealth

Seed Round in 2022
CrowdHealth is an anti-health insurance company creating a low cost, easy to use, tech enabled alternative.

Audience.co

Series A in 2022
Grow your business faster with our handwritten-mail platform. Book more meetings, close more deals and retain more customers with notes written by a real pen, sent effortlessly and at scale. In the time it takes to send a text, use our app to send to one or thousands of recipients. Our handwritten postcards and notes command a staggering 90% read rate and 3-5x the response of normal direct mail.

Amy

Seed Round in 2022
Amy operates an artificial intelligence-driven sales intelligence platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of meeting preparation for professionals in business development, sales, and account management. The platform utilizes advanced data analysis to integrate with users' calendars, social media, and customer relationship management systems. By analyzing various data sources, Amy's solution provides actionable recommendations that help clients make informed decisions about their business connections and professional networks. This focus on data-driven insights allows users to streamline their daily operations and improve overall productivity in their roles.

Colorcast

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an audio-first platform designed to enhance live shared visual events with diversity of choice in audio commentary. The company's platform connects streaming commentators to audiences of sports fanatics and event consumers, enabling users to add a unique take on the latest sports game, controversial political episode, live awards show, or any engaging event. Imagine this: athletes, comedians, and average Joes, all sharing their hot-takes on live sports—totally unfiltered. Who doesn’t want to hear Snoop talk up Bron Bron while the Lakers crush the Celtics? And, what about you? Who's your team? What's your take? We're changing the live sports viewing experience forever. Listen to who you want, with who you want, for as long as you want.

Submittable

Series C in 2022
Submittable helps thousands of organizations worldwide collect and review any type of content in one easy-to-use platform. It was launched by three creatives, a writer, a filmmaker, and a musician, who wanted to simplify the process of submitting their work. Today, Submittable is a cloud-based submission management platform that makes it easy to accept, review, and make decisions on any kind of digital content online. Submittable has collected more than 10 million submissions from thousands of customers worldwide and is backed by True Ventures, Next Frontier Capital, The Knight Foundation, StartFund, 77Ventures, Y Combinator, and a few other amazing investors. The platform mission is to make a crappy process better for as many people as possible. Submittable was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Missoula, Montana, USA, and with an office in New York.

FloorFound

Series A in 2022
FloorFound is a Resale-as-a-Service company that specializes in managing the returns and resale of large, bulky items for eCommerce retailers. The company offers a comprehensive solution for handling the oversized eCommerce resale process, beginning from the point of return and extending to the resale of products directly to consumers. By facilitating this process, FloorFound aims to help retailers capture unclaimed customer segments and generate additional revenue, thereby promoting participation in the circular economy. Co-founded by Chris Richter and Ryan Matthews, FloorFound is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and provides a platform designed to streamline return management and enhance the value retained by retailers.

CoreChain Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
CoreChain Technologies is a business-to-business payments network built on blockchain technology.

Diligent Robotics

Series B in 2022
Diligent Robotics Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in developing and manufacturing hospital service robots. Incorporated in 2017, the company focuses on creating advanced robotic systems that assist clinical and nursing staff with logistical tasks, thereby allowing healthcare providers to dedicate more time to direct patient care. Their flagship product, Moxi, is designed to collaborate with human teams in dynamic environments, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance its ability to adapt to various situations. By integrating these robotic assistants into healthcare settings, Diligent Robotics aims to improve patient satisfaction, quality of service, and overall safety in hospitals.

Architect.io

Seed Round in 2022
Architect.io, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2019 that offers a platform designed for managing and developing cloud applications. It specializes in facilitating collaboration among teams through its unique DevOps-as-a-Service model, which integrates deployment, networking, and security automation. The platform enables users to streamline processes by providing end-to-end deployment capabilities for complex systems, with a focus on managing the interactions between related microservices.

Enboarder

Series B in 2022
Enboarder is an onboarding and engagement platform that focuses on new hire experience and engagement rather than just tasks, forms and paperwork. The workflow engine accomplishes this by coaching managers via mobile phone at all stages during the onboarding process. It turns busy hiring managers into rock stars in the eyes of their new employees by ensuring they know what to do to “wow their new hires”. For new employees, Enboarder delivers rich engaging content directly to their mobile phones from the moment they sign their offer letter. There are no applications to be downloaded, no usernames or logins. Enboarder just works…on any device. Best of all, HR can construct and build engaging workflows on their own, without requiring help or resources from IT, consultants or creative staff. Enboarder can be implemented rapidly and works seamlessly with your existing HR technology applications.

Passage

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a user authentication platform designed to help clients keep friction low and conversion rates high. The company's platform provides a fully passwordless authentication system that helps users seamlessly integrate devices, browsers, and other operating systems through biometric security, enabling clients to provide SDKs to make it easy to check session tokens and identify which users are making requests.

Judy Security

Seed Round in 2022
Judy Security is a cybersecurity company that specializes in providing software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Incorporated in 2019 and based in Detroit, Michigan, the company offers a platform known as Marzo4, which provides comprehensive cybersecurity protection. This platform includes features such as password management, anti-phishing tools, and endpoint protection, designed to address the specific security needs of smaller enterprises. Through its focus on accessible and effective cybersecurity measures, Judy Security aims to empower businesses to safeguard their digital assets.

First Dollar

Series A in 2022
First Dollar, Inc. provides health saving account (HSA) services through its platform. It also offers health care products and provides health plans, prescriptions, primary care, urgent care, dental, vision, and wellness services. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Steadily

Series A in 2021
Steadily Insurance Agency, Inc. provides insurance services of properties to the landlord. It covers various types of damages, such as fire, water, liability protection, medical, settlement costs, volcanic eruption, explosion, and other coverages. It also provides insurance services online. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Austin, Texas.

BrainCheck

Series B in 2021
BrainCheck, Inc. specializes in cognitive health solutions aimed at healthcare and athletic organizations in the United States. Founded in 2013 and based in Houston, Texas, the company offers BrainCheck, a mobile interactive screening tool available on iOS and Android devices. This tool enables users to monitor their cognitive health, particularly concerning issues like concussions and memory changes, by tracking performance over time and comparing results with general population data. The development of BrainCheck is grounded in two decades of research from the Eagleman Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine, led by Dr. David Eagleman. The platform encourages users to engage in meaningful discussions with their clinicians regarding their cognitive health, thereby facilitating informed decision-making. Through its innovative approach, BrainCheck aims to enhance understanding of brain function and empower individuals with actionable data.

Able

Seed Round in 2021
Able is a mobile application focused on income and tax management, providing users with a platform to effectively manage their finances. The app offers personalized recommendations tailored to each user's income situation, enhancing financial decision-making. It emphasizes user privacy by employing decentralized, end-to-end encryption to protect sensitive data, ensuring that users can address their financial challenges without compromising their privacy. Through its innovative approach, Able aims to simplify the complexities of financial management for its clients.

UpEquity

Series B in 2021
UpEquity is a technology-driven mortgage platform based in Austin, Texas, that aims to enhance the home buying experience. Founded in 2019 by Tim Herman and Louis Wilson during their time at Harvard Business School, UpEquity focuses on simplifying the mortgage and refinance processes for borrowers. The company's online portal allows users to easily upload documents for pre-approval, streamlining the overall experience. By reinventing traditional mortgage practices, UpEquity seeks to create a more favorable economic landscape for homebuyers, making the process quicker and more efficient.

Osano

Series A in 2021
Osano, Inc. is a Public Benefit Corporation based in Austin, Texas, that operates a data privacy platform designed to assist companies in achieving compliance with data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. Founded in 2018, Osano provides a range of services including consent management, data subject rights management, vendor risk monitoring, and alerts for policy changes and privacy law updates. The platform evaluates the privacy practices of over 10,000 vendors using a proprietary framework aligned with NIST and ISO privacy standards. Additionally, Osano offers a tracking API for personally identifiable information (PII) and access to a team of privacy experts, ensuring that businesses can effectively manage their data sharing and privacy obligations.

Eterneva

Series A in 2021
Eterneva, Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in transforming cremated remains of humans and pets into memorial diamonds. Founded in 2016, Eterneva offers a personalized service that allows grieving families to create lasting memories of their loved ones through customized diamonds available in various weights, colors, and cuts. The process includes several stages, such as carbon purification, diamond growth, quality assessment, cutting, grading, and engraving, followed by setting the diamond into jewelry. Recognized for its consumer technology and grief wellness offerings, Eterneva aims to provide compassionate support and transparency throughout the experience, ensuring that each memorial diamond honors the memory of the deceased.

Upgrade Boutique

Seed Round in 2021
Upgrade Boutique is a managed marketplace that provides beauty products and services. The company connects with consumers that seek custom wigs, extensions, and curated beauty products with a network of stylists and colorists. Upgrade Boutique was founded in 2019 by Britney Winters and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

CrowdHealth

Venture Round in 2021
CrowdHealth is an anti-health insurance company creating a low cost, easy to use, tech enabled alternative.

Enboarder

Series A in 2021
Enboarder is an onboarding and engagement platform that focuses on new hire experience and engagement rather than just tasks, forms and paperwork. The workflow engine accomplishes this by coaching managers via mobile phone at all stages during the onboarding process. It turns busy hiring managers into rock stars in the eyes of their new employees by ensuring they know what to do to “wow their new hires”. For new employees, Enboarder delivers rich engaging content directly to their mobile phones from the moment they sign their offer letter. There are no applications to be downloaded, no usernames or logins. Enboarder just works…on any device. Best of all, HR can construct and build engaging workflows on their own, without requiring help or resources from IT, consultants or creative staff. Enboarder can be implemented rapidly and works seamlessly with your existing HR technology applications.

Aclaimant

Series B in 2021
Aclaimant offers a risk reduction platform designed to save time and money on workplace incidents and insurance. It engages the employee, employer, and insurance carrier in making workplace incidents everyone’s responsibility. The Aclaimant system comes with three great tools that are easy to use in reporting and resolving workplace incidents. The company was founded in 2013 and based in Chicago, Illinois.

FloorFound

Seed Round in 2021
FloorFound is a Resale-as-a-Service company that specializes in managing the returns and resale of large, bulky items for eCommerce retailers. The company offers a comprehensive solution for handling the oversized eCommerce resale process, beginning from the point of return and extending to the resale of products directly to consumers. By facilitating this process, FloorFound aims to help retailers capture unclaimed customer segments and generate additional revenue, thereby promoting participation in the circular economy. Co-founded by Chris Richter and Ryan Matthews, FloorFound is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and provides a platform designed to streamline return management and enhance the value retained by retailers.

UpEquity

Series A in 2021
UpEquity is a technology-driven mortgage platform based in Austin, Texas, that aims to enhance the home buying experience. Founded in 2019 by Tim Herman and Louis Wilson during their time at Harvard Business School, UpEquity focuses on simplifying the mortgage and refinance processes for borrowers. The company's online portal allows users to easily upload documents for pre-approval, streamlining the overall experience. By reinventing traditional mortgage practices, UpEquity seeks to create a more favorable economic landscape for homebuyers, making the process quicker and more efficient.

Kronologic

Seed Round in 2020
Kronologic, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing customer lead management software. Based in Austin, Texas, it was founded in 2016 and offers an AI-powered active scheduling platform designed to facilitate efficient meeting setup between sales representatives and potential clients. This platform addresses significant challenges in the B2B lead generation process, where a substantial amount of resources is spent on generating leads but often suffers from long response times and inadequate follow-up. Kronologic's software ensures that companies achieve a 100% email follow-up rate and can schedule meetings within 60 seconds, effectively maximizing opportunities and minimizing missed connections with potential customers.

EverlyWell

Series D in 2020
EverlyWell develops do-it-yourself kits for a vast range of at-home regulatory-compliant diagnostic tests including food sensitivity, fertility, hormones, STDs, thyroid, and metabolism among the others, allowing users to perform tests at home and receive physician-reviewed results and insights on their mobile devices. EverlyWell also provides at-home covid testing.

Steadily

Seed Round in 2020
Steadily Insurance Agency, Inc. provides insurance services of properties to the landlord. It covers various types of damages, such as fire, water, liability protection, medical, settlement costs, volcanic eruption, explosion, and other coverages. It also provides insurance services online. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Hip eCommerce

Series A in 2020
Hip eCommerce manages and develops online marketplaces for collectibles, including stamps, postcards, and comic books. The company's mission is to re-imagine eCommerce for collectibles - by building collectible specific communities where buyers and sellers can connect with each other, share their passion, and grow their hobby. With a vision to work together with collectors in revolutionizing every collectibles market - while bringing them into the 21st century and beyond. They also offer a wide range of Seller Services and tools to help sellers of collectibles reach a wider audience, and increase their monthly sales each month.

GigaPoints

Seed Round in 2020
GigaPoints, Inc. is a credit card comparison tool that helps users optimize their credit card usage by linking to their existing accounts. Founded by Erik Budde in 2019 and based in San Carlos, California, the platform analyzes various spending patterns, from groceries to travel, to provide personalized recommendations tailored to individual lifestyles. By leveraging user data, GigaPoints aims to identify the most suitable credit card options, enhancing the financial decision-making process for its users.

Judy Security

Seed Round in 2020
Judy Security is a cybersecurity company that specializes in providing software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Incorporated in 2019 and based in Detroit, Michigan, the company offers a platform known as Marzo4, which provides comprehensive cybersecurity protection. This platform includes features such as password management, anti-phishing tools, and endpoint protection, designed to address the specific security needs of smaller enterprises. Through its focus on accessible and effective cybersecurity measures, Judy Security aims to empower businesses to safeguard their digital assets.

CoPilot

Series A in 2020
CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leaves people feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.

ICON

Series A in 2020
ICON is an advanced construction technologies company using 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials to shift the paradigm of homebuilding for all of humanity.

Ceresa

Seed Round in 2020
Ceresa is a leadership development program combining structured curriculum, executive coaching, and high-impact, external mentorship, delivered virtually via an easy-to-use platform. Anna Robinson and Nicole Tanzillo formed the company in Austin, Texas in 2018.

VideoPeel

Seed Round in 2020
VideoPeel is the premier remote video capturing platform for businesses to capture, respond to, analyze and share videos from their customers. VideoPeel helps businesses 10X their amount of user generated video content, so they can drive 20% plus conversions, traffic, satisfaction, and consumer insights. We’re improving the way online marketing, research and communications is done.

Eterneva

Seed Round in 2020
Eterneva, Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in transforming cremated remains of humans and pets into memorial diamonds. Founded in 2016, Eterneva offers a personalized service that allows grieving families to create lasting memories of their loved ones through customized diamonds available in various weights, colors, and cuts. The process includes several stages, such as carbon purification, diamond growth, quality assessment, cutting, grading, and engraving, followed by setting the diamond into jewelry. Recognized for its consumer technology and grief wellness offerings, Eterneva aims to provide compassionate support and transparency throughout the experience, ensuring that each memorial diamond honors the memory of the deceased.

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.

Kronologic

Seed Round in 2020
Kronologic, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing customer lead management software. Based in Austin, Texas, it was founded in 2016 and offers an AI-powered active scheduling platform designed to facilitate efficient meeting setup between sales representatives and potential clients. This platform addresses significant challenges in the B2B lead generation process, where a substantial amount of resources is spent on generating leads but often suffers from long response times and inadequate follow-up. Kronologic's software ensures that companies achieve a 100% email follow-up rate and can schedule meetings within 60 seconds, effectively maximizing opportunities and minimizing missed connections with potential customers.

First Dollar

Seed Round in 2020
First Dollar, Inc. provides health saving account (HSA) services through its platform. It also offers health care products and provides health plans, prescriptions, primary care, urgent care, dental, vision, and wellness services. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Austin, Texas.

AlertMedia

Series C in 2020
AlertMedia provides a critical communications platform and monitoring services to enterprise customers. As the fastest-growing, enterprise communications and monitoring company, AlertMedia helps organizations securely and effectively monitor threats, streamline notifications, and improve employee safety. The company’s fully integrated, cloud-based platform delivers communications that protect organizations, improve operations, and mitigate loss from anywhere, at any time, using any device. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Diligent Robotics

Series A in 2020
Diligent Robotics Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in developing and manufacturing hospital service robots. Incorporated in 2017, the company focuses on creating advanced robotic systems that assist clinical and nursing staff with logistical tasks, thereby allowing healthcare providers to dedicate more time to direct patient care. Their flagship product, Moxi, is designed to collaborate with human teams in dynamic environments, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance its ability to adapt to various situations. By integrating these robotic assistants into healthcare settings, Diligent Robotics aims to improve patient satisfaction, quality of service, and overall safety in hospitals.

Special Project

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Special is a platform for independent video creators to launch their own direct-to-fan subscription streaming service. It independently turns content into profit while keeping full ownership and control of the brand, catalog, and data.

Stoplight

Series A in 2020
StopLight is an online platform that helps developers build, test, and improve their web APIs. The company is an API Design Management Platform powering the world's leading API first companies. Developing good design-first practices will minimize future costs, speed up the time to market and lead to more consistent, higher quality microservice, and IoT applications. It was launched in August 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.

Osano

Series A in 2019
Osano, Inc. is a Public Benefit Corporation based in Austin, Texas, that operates a data privacy platform designed to assist companies in achieving compliance with data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. Founded in 2018, Osano provides a range of services including consent management, data subject rights management, vendor risk monitoring, and alerts for policy changes and privacy law updates. The platform evaluates the privacy practices of over 10,000 vendors using a proprietary framework aligned with NIST and ISO privacy standards. Additionally, Osano offers a tracking API for personally identifiable information (PII) and access to a team of privacy experts, ensuring that businesses can effectively manage their data sharing and privacy obligations.

LeanDNA

Series B in 2019
LeanDNA is an analytics platform that enables manufacturers to optimize inventory, avoid shortages, and improve on-time delivery. Leveraging predictive analytics and prescriptive AI to power actionable, automated recommendations, the LeanDNA platform promotes real-time collaboration and standardization across systems, suppliers and sites, unlocking working capital for the business. Its cloud-based predictive analytics and decision support software allows teams across the organization to work together in real time to hit inventory reduction goals. LeanDNA was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Tenfold

Series C in 2019
Tenfold helps companies have better customer conversations by putting the customer information into action on the phone in real-time. The company's software enables businesses to have better customer conversations. Its intelligent integrated desktop agent amplifies good customer engagement technology. Tenfold brings together the power of voice and intelligence of CRM for better customer conversations.

Diligent Robotics

Seed Round in 2019
Diligent Robotics Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in developing and manufacturing hospital service robots. Incorporated in 2017, the company focuses on creating advanced robotic systems that assist clinical and nursing staff with logistical tasks, thereby allowing healthcare providers to dedicate more time to direct patient care. Their flagship product, Moxi, is designed to collaborate with human teams in dynamic environments, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance its ability to adapt to various situations. By integrating these robotic assistants into healthcare settings, Diligent Robotics aims to improve patient satisfaction, quality of service, and overall safety in hospitals.

TrustRadius

Series C in 2019
TrustRadius is a provider of an online review site used to offer business technology and software reviews. Its platform provides a one-stop-shop for user reviews for marketing, HR management, project management, SEO tools, and CRM software among the other categories that enable buyers to make better product selection, implementation, and usage decisions as well as vendors to access the authentic voice of their customers across their sales and marketing channels and improve their product. TrustRadius was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Submittable

Series B in 2019
Submittable helps thousands of organizations worldwide collect and review any type of content in one easy-to-use platform. It was launched by three creatives, a writer, a filmmaker, and a musician, who wanted to simplify the process of submitting their work. Today, Submittable is a cloud-based submission management platform that makes it easy to accept, review, and make decisions on any kind of digital content online. Submittable has collected more than 10 million submissions from thousands of customers worldwide and is backed by True Ventures, Next Frontier Capital, The Knight Foundation, StartFund, 77Ventures, Y Combinator, and a few other amazing investors. The platform mission is to make a crappy process better for as many people as possible. Submittable was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Missoula, Montana, USA, and with an office in New York.

Enboarder

Series A in 2019
Enboarder is an onboarding and engagement platform that focuses on new hire experience and engagement rather than just tasks, forms and paperwork. The workflow engine accomplishes this by coaching managers via mobile phone at all stages during the onboarding process. It turns busy hiring managers into rock stars in the eyes of their new employees by ensuring they know what to do to “wow their new hires”. For new employees, Enboarder delivers rich engaging content directly to their mobile phones from the moment they sign their offer letter. There are no applications to be downloaded, no usernames or logins. Enboarder just works…on any device. Best of all, HR can construct and build engaging workflows on their own, without requiring help or resources from IT, consultants or creative staff. Enboarder can be implemented rapidly and works seamlessly with your existing HR technology applications.

Backtracks

Seed Round in 2019
Backtracks, Inc. develops podcast analytics and hosting platform that allows podcast publishers and advertisers to receive actionable data and insights, allowing them to adjust and target content for their audiences. The company serves the podcast publishers, advertisers, podcast aggregators, pod catchers, and discovery platform. Backtracks, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Phlur

Series A in 2019
PHLUR is a provider of an inaugural line of unisex fragrances designed to make fragrances that smell as accurate as of its ingredients. The company's fragrances offer a unique balance of premium ingredients and environmentally responsible practices, enabling users to purchase better quality colognes and perfumes online or from its retail store at a reasonable price.

EverlyWell

Venture Round in 2019
EverlyWell develops do-it-yourself kits for a vast range of at-home regulatory-compliant diagnostic tests including food sensitivity, fertility, hormones, STDs, thyroid, and metabolism among the others, allowing users to perform tests at home and receive physician-reviewed results and insights on their mobile devices. EverlyWell also provides at-home covid testing.

Osano

Seed Round in 2019
Osano, Inc. is a Public Benefit Corporation based in Austin, Texas, that operates a data privacy platform designed to assist companies in achieving compliance with data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. Founded in 2018, Osano provides a range of services including consent management, data subject rights management, vendor risk monitoring, and alerts for policy changes and privacy law updates. The platform evaluates the privacy practices of over 10,000 vendors using a proprietary framework aligned with NIST and ISO privacy standards. Additionally, Osano offers a tracking API for personally identifiable information (PII) and access to a team of privacy experts, ensuring that businesses can effectively manage their data sharing and privacy obligations.

AlertMedia

Series C in 2019
AlertMedia provides a critical communications platform and monitoring services to enterprise customers. As the fastest-growing, enterprise communications and monitoring company, AlertMedia helps organizations securely and effectively monitor threats, streamline notifications, and improve employee safety. The company’s fully integrated, cloud-based platform delivers communications that protect organizations, improve operations, and mitigate loss from anywhere, at any time, using any device. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Tenfold

Series B in 2018
Tenfold helps companies have better customer conversations by putting the customer information into action on the phone in real-time. The company's software enables businesses to have better customer conversations. Its intelligent integrated desktop agent amplifies good customer engagement technology. Tenfold brings together the power of voice and intelligence of CRM for better customer conversations.

Navegate

Venture Round in 2018
Navegate is a global supply chain management company providing best-in-class supply chain management software and logistics management. The company also provides compliance and technology consulting services. Above all else, Navegate works to democratize the digital supply chain by giving businesses the power to build the digitally-enabled supply chains leveraged by the world's largest brands.

Stoplight

Seed Round in 2018
StopLight is an online platform that helps developers build, test, and improve their web APIs. The company is an API Design Management Platform powering the world's leading API first companies. Developing good design-first practices will minimize future costs, speed up the time to market and lead to more consistent, higher quality microservice, and IoT applications. It was launched in August 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.

Swivel

Seed Round in 2018
Swivel, Inc. operates a platform that offers on-demand workspace solutions for businesses of all sizes. Founded in 2016 and based in Austin, Texas, the company collaborates with commercial real estate firms to create a network of private workspaces tailored to the collaborative needs of teams. This online service enables fast-growing companies to easily find and customize flexible workspace options that adapt to changing office requirements. By providing agile leasing arrangements, Swivel allows member companies to secure the appropriate amount of space as needed, giving them greater control over their office expenses compared to traditional leasing methods.

SeriesX

Seed Round in 2018
SeriesX.net, Inc. owns and operates a work platform that helps in certifying employment, academic and accomplishment via tokens and smart contract technology. The company offers a technology-driven service that can transform a traditional asset into a programmable digital security that can be readied for trading on any supporting ATS. The company securities assets on the Blockchain technology. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.

101 Commerce

Series A in 2018
101 Commerce, Inc. is an e-commerce platform based in Austin, Texas, specializing in the acquisition, launch, and growth of micro-brands. Established in 2018 by Richard Jalichandra, the company focuses on building private label brands across various product categories. It leverages Amazon's Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) platform to allow these brands to concentrate on product design, brand development, and customer service. By employing technology, supply-chain efficiencies, and data-driven marketing strategies, 101 Commerce addresses the challenges faced by niche e-commerce businesses. This approach not only enhances operational efficiency but also facilitates the global expansion of the brands under its management.

Dosh

Series A in 2018
Dosh is a fast growing cash back card-linked ecosystem that drives in-store sales through contextually relevant offers. Brands utilize Dosh’s real-time behavioral and transactional data to convert new customers, increase frequency, and average order value – tracking marketing dollars to every transaction and bench marking performance against competition. By shifting advertising dollars directly to consumers through Dosh, brands are proven to drive sales and positive brand propagation.

Chargeback

Series A in 2018
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.

Umuse

Seed Round in 2018
Umuse is a stealth mode startup that try to bring order to the chaos that has become workplace communication. Communication at work. Remember when it was easy? Just a couple of meetings every day, maybe a few messages. Now … it’s gotten out of control. Multiple meetings, dozens of projects, and hundreds of messages every day. How are you supposed to keep up? At Umuse, they’re on a mission to tame the chaos and give you back control. They’re leveraging technology to put order back in your day and help you get more done and have more fun in the process. Their ultimate goal - to make it simpler and easier for you to do your job every day.

FINERY

Seed Round in 2018
They are a Fashion/Technology startup that is busy making an OS that will revolutionize the way you interact with your wardrobe.

Diligent Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
Diligent Robotics Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in developing and manufacturing hospital service robots. Incorporated in 2017, the company focuses on creating advanced robotic systems that assist clinical and nursing staff with logistical tasks, thereby allowing healthcare providers to dedicate more time to direct patient care. Their flagship product, Moxi, is designed to collaborate with human teams in dynamic environments, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance its ability to adapt to various situations. By integrating these robotic assistants into healthcare settings, Diligent Robotics aims to improve patient satisfaction, quality of service, and overall safety in hospitals.

Vertalo

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Vertalo is an investor onboarding, cap table, and compliance platform that connects issuers and investors directly to sources of secondary liquidity. Working directly with issuers, or through our growing network of broker-dealers, Vertalo enables any asset to be tokenized, stored in a blockchain wallet, and traded in real-time based on the smart contract between the issuer and the investor.

Dosh

Seed Round in 2017
Dosh is a fast growing cash back card-linked ecosystem that drives in-store sales through contextually relevant offers. Brands utilize Dosh’s real-time behavioral and transactional data to convert new customers, increase frequency, and average order value – tracking marketing dollars to every transaction and bench marking performance against competition. By shifting advertising dollars directly to consumers through Dosh, brands are proven to drive sales and positive brand propagation.

ScaleFactor

Seed Round in 2017
ScaleFactor provides accounting and finance software with automated bookkeeping, proactive alerts, and other features. It is a smart accounting and finance software that changes the way modern businesses operate. By automating complex accounting tasks and translating financial information into usable business insights, ScaleFactor is enabling business owners, managers, and entrepreneurs to focus on what they love: running and growing their business. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

AlertMedia

Series B in 2017
AlertMedia provides a critical communications platform and monitoring services to enterprise customers. As the fastest-growing, enterprise communications and monitoring company, AlertMedia helps organizations securely and effectively monitor threats, streamline notifications, and improve employee safety. The company’s fully integrated, cloud-based platform delivers communications that protect organizations, improve operations, and mitigate loss from anywhere, at any time, using any device. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Phlur

Venture Round in 2017
PHLUR is a provider of an inaugural line of unisex fragrances designed to make fragrances that smell as accurate as of its ingredients. The company's fragrances offer a unique balance of premium ingredients and environmentally responsible practices, enabling users to purchase better quality colognes and perfumes online or from its retail store at a reasonable price.

Brava Home

Series B in 2017
Brava Home is a technology company specializing in IoT and domestic automation, focusing on enhancing the home experience, particularly in the kitchen. By integrating science, technology, and design, Brava Home aims to empower individuals to prepare better food at home, thereby saving time and fostering joy in the cooking process. The company offers consumer electronics and hardware designed to streamline cooking and food preparation, reflecting its commitment to improving everyday culinary experiences. Brava Home is also dedicated to building a talented team that shares a passion for food and innovation.

LeanDNA

Series A in 2017
LeanDNA is an analytics platform that enables manufacturers to optimize inventory, avoid shortages, and improve on-time delivery. Leveraging predictive analytics and prescriptive AI to power actionable, automated recommendations, the LeanDNA platform promotes real-time collaboration and standardization across systems, suppliers and sites, unlocking working capital for the business. Its cloud-based predictive analytics and decision support software allows teams across the organization to work together in real time to hit inventory reduction goals. LeanDNA was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Cloverpop

Series A in 2016
Cloverpop, Inc. develops a cloud-based decision-making and collaboration software designed to enhance the efficiency of business operations. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, the company harnesses behavioral science to streamline the decision-making process, alleviating the burden of prolonged meetings and indecision that often plague managers and executives. Its platform facilitates tracking, recording, and communicating daily decisions, allowing teams to collaborate effectively across different channels such as Slack and, soon, Microsoft Teams. By providing tools that help identify better choices quickly and secure buy-in from stakeholders, Cloverpop empowers organizations to make informed decisions faster, reduce meeting times, and ensure complete visibility throughout the decision-making journey.

Phlur

Debt Financing in 2016
PHLUR is a provider of an inaugural line of unisex fragrances designed to make fragrances that smell as accurate as of its ingredients. The company's fragrances offer a unique balance of premium ingredients and environmentally responsible practices, enabling users to purchase better quality colognes and perfumes online or from its retail store at a reasonable price.

Clarity Money

Series A in 2016
For the first time, in the palm of your hand, you have an advocate to help you manage your money. A partner who is looking out for you. All within the Clarity Money app, you can lower your bills, cancel wasteful accounts, transfer money, create a savings account and get your credit score. The app also provides unprecedented transparency into your spending. It’s beautiful, easy to use and there is nothing like it on the market. Download now on the iOS App store Sign-up today: https://claritymoney.com/app