Kinetic Ventures

Kinetic Ventures, L.L.C., founded in 1983 and based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with an additional office in Atlanta, Georgia, is a venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage investments. The firm primarily focuses on the communications, information technology, and power and clean technology sectors. In communications, Kinetic Ventures looks for opportunities in last mile connectivity, wireless infrastructure, and mobile video, among others. In the information technology sector, the firm targets investments in mobile platforms, open source solutions, and security management. Its clean technology investments concentrate on smart grid technology and low carbon solutions. Kinetic Ventures typically invests between $2 million and $10 million per company and may consider larger investments through syndication. The firm generally prefers to invest in U.S.-based companies but is open to opportunities in Canada and select international markets. Kinetic Ventures seeks to secure a Board seat in its portfolio companies and typically exits investments through initial public offerings or acquisitions.

Nelson Chu

Managing Director

William T. Heflin

Managing Director

Cam Lanier

Senior Director

Campbell B. Lanier

Senior Director

Sydney M. Shepherd

Chief Financial Officer

Jake Tarr Jr.

Managing Director

65 past transactions

Carputty

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

Everyware

Series A in 2019
Everyware Inc. operates an online communication platform that combines two-way text messaging with payment processing services. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, with additional offices in San Francisco, California, and Austin, Texas, the company focuses on enhancing the interaction between businesses and customers. Its offerings include automated text reminders, quick reply templates, scheduling, and appointment management services. By integrating secure payment collection with user-friendly messaging, Everyware aims to streamline service delivery, reduce operational costs, and elevate customer service levels, ultimately improving post-sale communication and benefiting clients' financial performance.

Kobiton

Series A in 2019
Kobiton, Inc. is a company that specializes in mobile application testing, providing a platform that enhances the delivery and testing of mobile apps. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with additional offices in San Francisco and Ho Chi Minh City, Kobiton offers both manual and automated testing solutions on real iOS and Android devices, accessible via the cloud or on-premise. The platform enables developers to run scripts and identify issues in real-time, ensuring that applications function correctly across various devices. Key features include an artificial intelligence-enabled scriptless testing environment, detailed automation reports, and automatically generated activity logs. By improving mobile app quality and accelerating time-to-market, Kobiton helps businesses reduce user application abandonment and enhance overall user experience.

Kobiton

Seed Round in 2018
Kobiton, Inc. is a company that specializes in mobile application testing, providing a platform that enhances the delivery and testing of mobile apps. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with additional offices in San Francisco and Ho Chi Minh City, Kobiton offers both manual and automated testing solutions on real iOS and Android devices, accessible via the cloud or on-premise. The platform enables developers to run scripts and identify issues in real-time, ensuring that applications function correctly across various devices. Key features include an artificial intelligence-enabled scriptless testing environment, detailed automation reports, and automatically generated activity logs. By improving mobile app quality and accelerating time-to-market, Kobiton helps businesses reduce user application abandonment and enhance overall user experience.

Optii

Series C in 2018
Optii Solutions is a company dedicated to optimizing housekeeping operations in the hotel industry. Founded in 2006 by hospitality professionals, Optii recognized the challenges faced by hotels, particularly in regions with high labor costs or workforce scarcity. The company offers innovative housekeeping and operations management software that integrates with existing operational systems, utilizing artificial intelligence, analytics, and mobile technology. This approach allows hotels to automate and enhance their housekeeping processes, leading to reduced costs, streamlined operations, and improved guest experiences. By collaborating with clients during the development of their applications, Optii ensures that its solutions are tailored to meet the specific needs of the hospitality sector, making it a key player in modernizing hotel operations.

Instant Financial

Series A in 2018
Instant Financial Inc. is a financial wellness platform based in Vancouver, Canada, with an additional location in Montreal. Founded in 2015, the company offers a mobile application that allows employees to access their earned pay immediately after each shift, enhancing their financial control without any associated fees. The platform integrates with existing human capital management and payroll systems, facilitating a real-time cash flow solution that boosts employee engagement and retention. In addition to providing immediate access to earned wages, the application allows users to manage their finances, view balances, and track purchases. Employers benefit from reduced payroll administration costs and improved employee satisfaction. Instant Financial also offers a prepaid MasterCard for online purchases, further enhancing the convenience for users.

ThunderCore

Seed Round in 2018
ThunderCore is a fast, high performance EVM-compatible public blockchain with fully decentralized trust that brings scale to decentralized applications - with higher throughput, faster confirmation times, and lower costs. Based on years of groundbreaking research by Professors Shi and Pass of Cornell University, ThunderCore uses a breakthrough consensus protocol that overcomes the fundamental limitations of Nakamoto consensus. The result maintains fully decentralized trust while significantly improving performance.​

Vizbee

Venture Round in 2018
Vizbee Inc. XYZ operates in the technology industry. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

STAQ

Venture Round in 2018
Staq is a reporting and integrations system for ad technology. The company unifies the ad tech stack through connections, for both end customers that are using a best of breed approach as well as the ad tech providers themselves. Through these connections, it helps ad platforms build more into their valuable products so their clients can use them more effectively. Staq is founded by industry veterans from Advertising.com, The Rubicon Project, Lotame, and Collective.

Instant Financial

Seed Round in 2017
Instant Financial Inc. is a financial wellness platform based in Vancouver, Canada, with an additional location in Montreal. Founded in 2015, the company offers a mobile application that allows employees to access their earned pay immediately after each shift, enhancing their financial control without any associated fees. The platform integrates with existing human capital management and payroll systems, facilitating a real-time cash flow solution that boosts employee engagement and retention. In addition to providing immediate access to earned wages, the application allows users to manage their finances, view balances, and track purchases. Employers benefit from reduced payroll administration costs and improved employee satisfaction. Instant Financial also offers a prepaid MasterCard for online purchases, further enhancing the convenience for users.

Cardlytics

Series G in 2017
Cardlytics uses purchase-based intelligence to make marketing more relevant and measurable. They partner with more than 1,500 financial institutions – including Bank of America and PNC – to run their banking rewards programs that promote customer loyalty and deepen banking relationships. In turn, they have a secure view into where and when consumers are spending their money. They use these insights to help marketers identify, reach and influence likely buyers at scale, as well as measure the true sales impact of marketing campaigns. Headquartered in Atlanta, Cardlytics has offices in London, New York, Chicago and San Francisco.

PlumSlice Labs

Venture Round in 2016
PlumSlice uses the cloud to unite all stakeholders in the product lifecycle to create better products, faster. Our services and soon-to-be-introduced software makes collaboration easy at all stages of the lifecycle: product design, development, product selection, vendor selection, product information, customer engagement and delivery. Knowing how the cloud works, PlumSlice supports the way people work and communicate today — on mobile devices, socially, and globally.

STAQ

Venture Round in 2016
Staq is a reporting and integrations system for ad technology. The company unifies the ad tech stack through connections, for both end customers that are using a best of breed approach as well as the ad tech providers themselves. Through these connections, it helps ad platforms build more into their valuable products so their clients can use them more effectively. Staq is founded by industry veterans from Advertising.com, The Rubicon Project, Lotame, and Collective.

Virtual Instruments

Venture Round in 2016
Virtual Instruments is the leader in IT Infrastructure Performance Management for the physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Virtual Instruments is a dynamic, fast-growing technology company with a performance driven culture. Founded in June 2008 we are headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley, led by an industry-proven executive team, and backed by a group of highly experienced and successful investors. As a company, we are focused on delivering unparalleled value to our customers through a truly innovative combination of disruptive technology and revolutionary services. Our customers represent industry leading brands in every major vertical market, all of whom have some of the most performance sensitive and complex IT environments in the world. Our unwavering commitment to our customers' success, ensuring the performance and availability of their mission critical application workload as they migrate from physical to virtual and cloud computing environments, is what has fueled our record growth and is driving the ongoing development of our award winning Infrastructure Performance Management platform, VirtualWisdom.

Predictix

Series B in 2016
Predictix LLC offers a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service suite designed to enhance merchandising decisions for retailers, wholesalers, and brands. Its solutions focus on critical areas such as planning and allocation, assortment and space management, pricing and promotions, as well as forecasting and replenishment. The company emphasizes quick implementation and early value realization, allowing clients to tailor the software to their evolving business needs without the burden of hardware purchases or long-term commitments. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Predictix operates as a subsidiary of Infor (US), Inc. The company has established strategic partnerships with major technology firms, including Amazon Web Services and LogicBlox, to further strengthen its offerings.

Predictix

Series A in 2014
Predictix LLC offers a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service suite designed to enhance merchandising decisions for retailers, wholesalers, and brands. Its solutions focus on critical areas such as planning and allocation, assortment and space management, pricing and promotions, as well as forecasting and replenishment. The company emphasizes quick implementation and early value realization, allowing clients to tailor the software to their evolving business needs without the burden of hardware purchases or long-term commitments. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Predictix operates as a subsidiary of Infor (US), Inc. The company has established strategic partnerships with major technology firms, including Amazon Web Services and LogicBlox, to further strengthen its offerings.

STAQ

Series A in 2014
Staq is a reporting and integrations system for ad technology. The company unifies the ad tech stack through connections, for both end customers that are using a best of breed approach as well as the ad tech providers themselves. Through these connections, it helps ad platforms build more into their valuable products so their clients can use them more effectively. Staq is founded by industry veterans from Advertising.com, The Rubicon Project, Lotame, and Collective.

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.

Altierre

Venture Round in 2014
Altierre Corp., a technology company, develops wireless chips, displays, sensors, systems, and software solutions. The company offers Clara – ePaper, an electronic shelf label that retailers to connect directly with their customers at the point of decision; and wireless bi-directional IoT platform for various business environment. It serves retail, auto dealers, and manufacturing. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in San Jose, California with a sales office in Paris, France.

9Lenses

Series A in 2013
Businesses expect better data. Survey platforms, spreadsheets, and other manual business diagnostics no longer meet today’s digital expectations. To compete in a data-driven environment, consultants must deliver secure propriety digital solutions. 9Lenses is the only diagnostic platform that digitally automates the development, collection, organization, connection, and analytics, of the consulting process. By transforming business diagnostics to the 9Lenses digital platform, consultants deliver more value for clients and win more business.

9Lenses

Series A in 2013
Businesses expect better data. Survey platforms, spreadsheets, and other manual business diagnostics no longer meet today’s digital expectations. To compete in a data-driven environment, consultants must deliver secure propriety digital solutions. 9Lenses is the only diagnostic platform that digitally automates the development, collection, organization, connection, and analytics, of the consulting process. By transforming business diagnostics to the 9Lenses digital platform, consultants deliver more value for clients and win more business.

Tower Cloud

Venture Round in 2013
Tower Cloud provides telecom backhaul services to wireless carriers. The company builds and operates fiber optic and wireless networks to connect cellular towers to the wireless carriers' mobile switching centers. Wireless carriers utilize Ethernet and Sonet T-1 broadband capacity provided by Tower Cloud to manage the exploding volume of voice and data traffic on their cellular networks. Tower Cloud currently operates backhaul networks in the greater Orlando, FL and Miami, FL markets and is in the process of constructing a new network in Atlanta, GA. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

Kwarter

Series A in 2013
Kwarter is an interactive entertainment company that develops and publishes social mobile games, including Cards, Fancake, Fan Zone, Game On Football... They are made up of a diverse cast of characters who value teamwork, focus, coffee, and building things they can be proud of. They're channel surfers, gamers, thought leaders, world travelers, published writers, chefs, pilots, actors, and daredevils. During the week they come together to create innovative games.

Load DynamiX

Series B in 2012
As a leader in storage infrastructure workload analytics and performance validation, Load DynamiX empowers: 1. IT organizations with the insight they need to optimize the performance, availability, and cost of their storage infrastructure. Load DynamiX accelerates new application roll-outs and eliminates the risk of new technology deployments. 2. Storage and network equipment manufacturers with the insight they need to maximize the performance, scalability and reliability of their products. Load DynamiX accelerates your time to market. Addressing file, block, and object storage technology validation, Load DynamiX has the unique capability and performance required to stress today’s most complex storage systems to their limits.

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.

Tower Cloud

Venture Round in 2012
Tower Cloud provides telecom backhaul services to wireless carriers. The company builds and operates fiber optic and wireless networks to connect cellular towers to the wireless carriers' mobile switching centers. Wireless carriers utilize Ethernet and Sonet T-1 broadband capacity provided by Tower Cloud to manage the exploding volume of voice and data traffic on their cellular networks. Tower Cloud currently operates backhaul networks in the greater Orlando, FL and Miami, FL markets and is in the process of constructing a new network in Atlanta, GA. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

Coraid

Series C in 2011
Coraid specializes in providing innovative storage solutions tailored for cloud service providers and enterprises facing rapid data growth. The company utilizes Layer 2 Ethernet technology to enhance network performance and operational efficiency in dynamic, large-scale environments. Coraid's offerings include modular, pay-as-you-grow architectures and user-friendly software, which facilitate just-in-time scaling and adaptability, ensuring a swift return on investment for its clients. Additionally, Coraid’s products encompass scale-out Ethernet storage technology, block storage solutions, and networked storage appliances, all designed to deliver enterprise-level reliability while simplifying complex storage challenges for IT professionals.

Tower Cloud

Venture Round in 2011
Tower Cloud provides telecom backhaul services to wireless carriers. The company builds and operates fiber optic and wireless networks to connect cellular towers to the wireless carriers' mobile switching centers. Wireless carriers utilize Ethernet and Sonet T-1 broadband capacity provided by Tower Cloud to manage the exploding volume of voice and data traffic on their cellular networks. Tower Cloud currently operates backhaul networks in the greater Orlando, FL and Miami, FL markets and is in the process of constructing a new network in Atlanta, GA. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

AnyPresence

Seed Round in 2011
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.

Cardlytics

Series C in 2010
Cardlytics uses purchase-based intelligence to make marketing more relevant and measurable. They partner with more than 1,500 financial institutions – including Bank of America and PNC – to run their banking rewards programs that promote customer loyalty and deepen banking relationships. In turn, they have a secure view into where and when consumers are spending their money. They use these insights to help marketers identify, reach and influence likely buyers at scale, as well as measure the true sales impact of marketing campaigns. Headquartered in Atlanta, Cardlytics has offices in London, New York, Chicago and San Francisco.

Tower Cloud

Venture Round in 2009
Tower Cloud provides telecom backhaul services to wireless carriers. The company builds and operates fiber optic and wireless networks to connect cellular towers to the wireless carriers' mobile switching centers. Wireless carriers utilize Ethernet and Sonet T-1 broadband capacity provided by Tower Cloud to manage the exploding volume of voice and data traffic on their cellular networks. Tower Cloud currently operates backhaul networks in the greater Orlando, FL and Miami, FL markets and is in the process of constructing a new network in Atlanta, GA. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

Altierre

Series C in 2008
Altierre Corp., a technology company, develops wireless chips, displays, sensors, systems, and software solutions. The company offers Clara – ePaper, an electronic shelf label that retailers to connect directly with their customers at the point of decision; and wireless bi-directional IoT platform for various business environment. It serves retail, auto dealers, and manufacturing. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in San Jose, California with a sales office in Paris, France.

Altierre

Series B in 2007
Altierre Corp., a technology company, develops wireless chips, displays, sensors, systems, and software solutions. The company offers Clara – ePaper, an electronic shelf label that retailers to connect directly with their customers at the point of decision; and wireless bi-directional IoT platform for various business environment. It serves retail, auto dealers, and manufacturing. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in San Jose, California with a sales office in Paris, France.

Pathfire

Venture Round in 2007
Pathfire, Inc. provides digital media distribution and management solutions to the television, media, and entertainment industries. The company offers Digital Media Gateway, a digital IP store-and-forward platform, delivering news stories, syndicated programming, advertising spots, and video news releases to broadcasters. It provides solutions for content providers and broadcasters, as well as station solutions. The company was formerly known as Video Networks, Inc. and changed its name to Pathfire, Inc. in January, 2001. Pathfire, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Roswell, Georgia. As of June 4, 2007, Pathfire, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of DG FastChannel, Inc.

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.

SmartSynch

Series C in 2005
SmartSynch is a Smart Grid Technology Company enabling utilities to communicate with any device on the grid. The company's clean-tech innovations in the two-way delivery of real-time energy usage data over public wireless networks (AT&T, Rogers, T-Mobile, etc.), in lieu of private network build-outs, have simplified SmartMeter deployments for over 100 major North American electric utilities. Smart Grid Infrastructure A smart grid infrastructure is the sum of services, devices and software necessary to add a layer of intelligence onto today’s 20th-century electricity grid such that every point on that grid can talk to every other point and decisions are made either by devices or human beings to fully optimize the process by which electricity is generated and delivered to customers. A smart grid infrastructure can spot and stop energy “leaks,” optimize efficiency through better power factors and provide feedback loops that provide the right price signals to normalize energy loads during peak use. According to the Pacific Northwest Laboratory in partnership with the Department of Energy, the total potential benefit of implementing smart grid technologies over the next 20 years is conservatively estimated to have a present value of $75 billion. Vision SmartSynch creates extraordinary value for our customers by providing innovative Smart Grid Infrastructure solutions that leverage public wireless networks.

Caymas Systems

Series C in 2005
As of June 11, 2007, Caymas Systems, Inc. was acquired by Citrix Systems, Inc. Caymas Systems, Inc. offers identity-driven access gateways for international enterprise networks. The company's identity-driven access gateways deliver universal access, identity-based access control, integrated application security, federated policy enforcement, and radical price/performance solutions. Its appliances provides a single platform for SSL VPN remote access and internal access control, endpoint security, and behavioral and data monitoring with centralized policy management. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Petaluma, California.

Altierre

Series A in 2005
Altierre Corp., a technology company, develops wireless chips, displays, sensors, systems, and software solutions. The company offers Clara – ePaper, an electronic shelf label that retailers to connect directly with their customers at the point of decision; and wireless bi-directional IoT platform for various business environment. It serves retail, auto dealers, and manufacturing. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in San Jose, California with a sales office in Paris, France.

Proficient Systems

Series B in 2005
Proficient Systems is a leading enterprise software company that develops solutions enabling companies to increase revenue and sales productivity. By identifying and connecting online sales opportunities with offline sales and service operations Proficient enables companies to successfully drive new customer acquisition, lead generation and an improved online customer experience. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Proficient was founded by successful entrepreneur, Gregg Freishtat. Gregg recognized that large enterprises selling complex, consultative products and services, like mortgages or insurance, had made significant investments in their e-business and in their sales and service organizations - but for some reason the two weren't connected. His belief was that if the two were connected, the enterprises would see a significant increase in revenue while delivering superior customer service and a better customer online experience. With this belief in mind, he assembled a group of professionals with decades of experience creating and delivering solutions to large enterprises, to create a strategic business solution to meet these objectives. In October 2000, Proficient was born. Today, organizations are benefiting from Gregg's vision and his ability to create a company to make his vision become a reality.

Altierre

Series A in 2005
Altierre Corp., a technology company, develops wireless chips, displays, sensors, systems, and software solutions. The company offers Clara – ePaper, an electronic shelf label that retailers to connect directly with their customers at the point of decision; and wireless bi-directional IoT platform for various business environment. It serves retail, auto dealers, and manufacturing. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in San Jose, California with a sales office in Paris, France.

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.

Ample Communications

Series C in 2004
As of September 25, 2007, Ample Communications, Inc. was acquired by Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. Ample Communications, Inc. develops silicon solutions for optimizing networking infrastructure. The company provides Ethernet MACs for increasing the performance of enterprise and wide-area networks. It offers integrated MACs that optimize Ethernet aggregation, as well as Gigabit Ethernet silicon solutions for the PC market. The company provides its products for various applications, including Ethernet switches and routers, Internet appliances, access devices in enterprise and metro applications, IPTV equipment, metro Ethernet, wireless/cellular backhaul, and Ethernet over SONET applications. Ample Communications, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

Alereon

Series A in 2004
Alereon is a fabless semiconductor company developing innovative Ultrawideband (UWB) wireless chipsets. Their mission is to simplify networking by removing cables, allowing effortless connections between PCs, consumer electronics, peripherals and mobile devices. We want to change the way consumers connect to the world.

Proficient Systems

Venture Round in 2003
Proficient Systems is a leading enterprise software company that develops solutions enabling companies to increase revenue and sales productivity. By identifying and connecting online sales opportunities with offline sales and service operations Proficient enables companies to successfully drive new customer acquisition, lead generation and an improved online customer experience. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Proficient was founded by successful entrepreneur, Gregg Freishtat. Gregg recognized that large enterprises selling complex, consultative products and services, like mortgages or insurance, had made significant investments in their e-business and in their sales and service organizations - but for some reason the two weren't connected. His belief was that if the two were connected, the enterprises would see a significant increase in revenue while delivering superior customer service and a better customer online experience. With this belief in mind, he assembled a group of professionals with decades of experience creating and delivering solutions to large enterprises, to create a strategic business solution to meet these objectives. In October 2000, Proficient was born. Today, organizations are benefiting from Gregg's vision and his ability to create a company to make his vision become a reality.

iVivity

Series B in 2003
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.

SmartSynch

Venture Round in 2003
SmartSynch is a Smart Grid Technology Company enabling utilities to communicate with any device on the grid. The company's clean-tech innovations in the two-way delivery of real-time energy usage data over public wireless networks (AT&T, Rogers, T-Mobile, etc.), in lieu of private network build-outs, have simplified SmartMeter deployments for over 100 major North American electric utilities. Smart Grid Infrastructure A smart grid infrastructure is the sum of services, devices and software necessary to add a layer of intelligence onto today’s 20th-century electricity grid such that every point on that grid can talk to every other point and decisions are made either by devices or human beings to fully optimize the process by which electricity is generated and delivered to customers. A smart grid infrastructure can spot and stop energy “leaks,” optimize efficiency through better power factors and provide feedback loops that provide the right price signals to normalize energy loads during peak use. According to the Pacific Northwest Laboratory in partnership with the Department of Energy, the total potential benefit of implementing smart grid technologies over the next 20 years is conservatively estimated to have a present value of $75 billion. Vision SmartSynch creates extraordinary value for our customers by providing innovative Smart Grid Infrastructure solutions that leverage public wireless networks.

COVEGA

Series A in 2003
Covega Corporation has established world-class proprietary technologies in InP and LiNbO3 to produce high performance optical devices and modules at a low cost with very small footprints. With early focus on the telecom, datacom and CATV industries, Covega now generates over one-third of its revenue from serving the defense, medical, industrial and instrumentation industries.

Calix

Series E in 2003
Calix is a global provider of the cloud and software platforms, systems and services to deliver unified access networks and smart premises systems. Innovative communications service providers rely on Calix to help them master and monetize the complex infrastructure between their subscribers and the cloud. Calix customers leverage our intelligent software platforms and cloud analytics to transform and optimize their business models, rapidly deploy new services at DevOps speed, and make the promise and opportunity of the smart home and business a reality. Calix customers include Verizon, ALLO Communications, CityFibre, Nex-Tech, Gibson Connect, ITS Fiber and over 1,400 other communications service providers globally, majority being in North America.

Proficient Systems

Series B in 2002
Proficient Systems is a leading enterprise software company that develops solutions enabling companies to increase revenue and sales productivity. By identifying and connecting online sales opportunities with offline sales and service operations Proficient enables companies to successfully drive new customer acquisition, lead generation and an improved online customer experience. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Proficient was founded by successful entrepreneur, Gregg Freishtat. Gregg recognized that large enterprises selling complex, consultative products and services, like mortgages or insurance, had made significant investments in their e-business and in their sales and service organizations - but for some reason the two weren't connected. His belief was that if the two were connected, the enterprises would see a significant increase in revenue while delivering superior customer service and a better customer online experience. With this belief in mind, he assembled a group of professionals with decades of experience creating and delivering solutions to large enterprises, to create a strategic business solution to meet these objectives. In October 2000, Proficient was born. Today, organizations are benefiting from Gregg's vision and his ability to create a company to make his vision become a reality.

Pathfire

Venture Round in 2002
Pathfire, Inc. provides digital media distribution and management solutions to the television, media, and entertainment industries. The company offers Digital Media Gateway, a digital IP store-and-forward platform, delivering news stories, syndicated programming, advertising spots, and video news releases to broadcasters. It provides solutions for content providers and broadcasters, as well as station solutions. The company was formerly known as Video Networks, Inc. and changed its name to Pathfire, Inc. in January, 2001. Pathfire, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Roswell, Georgia. As of June 4, 2007, Pathfire, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of DG FastChannel, Inc.

SmartSynch

Series B in 2001
SmartSynch is a Smart Grid Technology Company enabling utilities to communicate with any device on the grid. The company's clean-tech innovations in the two-way delivery of real-time energy usage data over public wireless networks (AT&T, Rogers, T-Mobile, etc.), in lieu of private network build-outs, have simplified SmartMeter deployments for over 100 major North American electric utilities. Smart Grid Infrastructure A smart grid infrastructure is the sum of services, devices and software necessary to add a layer of intelligence onto today’s 20th-century electricity grid such that every point on that grid can talk to every other point and decisions are made either by devices or human beings to fully optimize the process by which electricity is generated and delivered to customers. A smart grid infrastructure can spot and stop energy “leaks,” optimize efficiency through better power factors and provide feedback loops that provide the right price signals to normalize energy loads during peak use. According to the Pacific Northwest Laboratory in partnership with the Department of Energy, the total potential benefit of implementing smart grid technologies over the next 20 years is conservatively estimated to have a present value of $75 billion. Vision SmartSynch creates extraordinary value for our customers by providing innovative Smart Grid Infrastructure solutions that leverage public wireless networks.

ITango

Series C in 2001
ITango provides employee and manager self-service software and services.

CODEON

Series D in 2001
CODEON Corporation designs and manufactures state-of-the-art optical components for the fiber optic telecommunications industry.

Utility

Series C in 2000
Utility Associates, Inc. is a manufacturer and supplier of advanced software solutions and camera systems designed primarily for law enforcement, transportation agencies, and utilities. Based in Decatur, Georgia, the company offers a range of products that enhance mobile field operations, including body-worn cameras, in-car cameras, and mobile resource management systems. Notable offerings include Rocket IOT, which automates evidence collection and enhances situational awareness, and AVaiL, a command and control application that provides real-time tracking of personnel and assets. Additional products such as Smart Holster and Smart Patrolling further support safety and operational efficiency. Utility Associates also provides multimedia storage, reporting, and connectivity services, aiming to improve the effectiveness and responsiveness of field operations. Established in 2000, the company continues to innovate in the realm of mobile technology solutions.

APX

Series C in 2000
APX has continuously provided innovative technology and service solutions for the energy and environmental markets. Their business experience spans transaction management, registries, scheduling, settlements, demand-side management, asset control, analytics, operations, exchanges, clearing, and brokerage. They continue to leverage their deep domain and technological expertise, providing focused solutions for their clients in the energy and environmental markets. This depth and breadth of knowledge makes the APX team uniquely qualified to provide leading-edge market solutions that deliver trust, integrity, and experience.

APX

Series C in 2000
APX has continuously provided innovative technology and service solutions for the energy and environmental markets. Their business experience spans transaction management, registries, scheduling, settlements, demand-side management, asset control, analytics, operations, exchanges, clearing, and brokerage. They continue to leverage their deep domain and technological expertise, providing focused solutions for their clients in the energy and environmental markets. This depth and breadth of knowledge makes the APX team uniquely qualified to provide leading-edge market solutions that deliver trust, integrity, and experience.

CODEON

Venture Round in 2000
CODEON Corporation designs and manufactures state-of-the-art optical components for the fiber optic telecommunications industry.

SmartSynch

Series A in 2000
SmartSynch is a Smart Grid Technology Company enabling utilities to communicate with any device on the grid. The company's clean-tech innovations in the two-way delivery of real-time energy usage data over public wireless networks (AT&T, Rogers, T-Mobile, etc.), in lieu of private network build-outs, have simplified SmartMeter deployments for over 100 major North American electric utilities. Smart Grid Infrastructure A smart grid infrastructure is the sum of services, devices and software necessary to add a layer of intelligence onto today’s 20th-century electricity grid such that every point on that grid can talk to every other point and decisions are made either by devices or human beings to fully optimize the process by which electricity is generated and delivered to customers. A smart grid infrastructure can spot and stop energy “leaks,” optimize efficiency through better power factors and provide feedback loops that provide the right price signals to normalize energy loads during peak use. According to the Pacific Northwest Laboratory in partnership with the Department of Energy, the total potential benefit of implementing smart grid technologies over the next 20 years is conservatively estimated to have a present value of $75 billion. Vision SmartSynch creates extraordinary value for our customers by providing innovative Smart Grid Infrastructure solutions that leverage public wireless networks.

Zaffire

Series C in 2000
Zaffire, Inc. is an innovative new optical networking company. Their mission is to fundamentally change the economic formula for metro and regional service providers. Using breakthrough technology designed with a commercial focus, They solve Their customers' most pressing optical transport problems and give them a compelling competitive advantage. With the support of the industry's leading investors, partners and management team, Zaffire is uniquely positioned to be a leader in the metro and regional optical networking marketplace.

Calix

Series B in 2000
Calix is a global provider of the cloud and software platforms, systems and services to deliver unified access networks and smart premises systems. Innovative communications service providers rely on Calix to help them master and monetize the complex infrastructure between their subscribers and the cloud. Calix customers leverage our intelligent software platforms and cloud analytics to transform and optimize their business models, rapidly deploy new services at DevOps speed, and make the promise and opportunity of the smart home and business a reality. Calix customers include Verizon, ALLO Communications, CityFibre, Nex-Tech, Gibson Connect, ITS Fiber and over 1,400 other communications service providers globally, majority being in North America.

Utility

Series B in 2000
Utility Associates, Inc. is a manufacturer and supplier of advanced software solutions and camera systems designed primarily for law enforcement, transportation agencies, and utilities. Based in Decatur, Georgia, the company offers a range of products that enhance mobile field operations, including body-worn cameras, in-car cameras, and mobile resource management systems. Notable offerings include Rocket IOT, which automates evidence collection and enhances situational awareness, and AVaiL, a command and control application that provides real-time tracking of personnel and assets. Additional products such as Smart Holster and Smart Patrolling further support safety and operational efficiency. Utility Associates also provides multimedia storage, reporting, and connectivity services, aiming to improve the effectiveness and responsiveness of field operations. Established in 2000, the company continues to innovate in the realm of mobile technology solutions.

Foodbuy

Series B in 2000
Foodbuy is a largest foodservice procurement organization in North America and the sole sourcing partner for their parent company, Compass Group North America. This gives us a serious advantage when negotiating contracts for their members, because the huge volume of the Compass Group business represents a huge opportunity, even for the biggest manufacturers in foodservice.

Zaffire

Series B in 2000
Zaffire, Inc. is an innovative new optical networking company. Their mission is to fundamentally change the economic formula for metro and regional service providers. Using breakthrough technology designed with a commercial focus, They solve Their customers' most pressing optical transport problems and give them a compelling competitive advantage. With the support of the industry's leading investors, partners and management team, Zaffire is uniquely positioned to be a leader in the metro and regional optical networking marketplace.

Homes.com

Series A in 2000
Homes.com for Consumers Dream. Discover. Design. Your home. Homes.com brings Southern hospitality to finding your first or next home, with close to 3 million homes for sale or rent. Since its launch almost 25 years ago, Homes.com has made millions of introductions between home buyers and real estate professionals, leveraging user-friendly tools, valuable tips, and helpful information to empower home buyers with everything they need to find a home that perfectly fits their family and lifestyle. With over 20 million site visits a month, Homes.com continues to innovate with inspiring photos, simple search functionality, and great home decor articles to inspire consumers to dream, discover and decorate their homes. Visit Homes.com to discover your next home, or download the Homes.com For Sale, Rentals, or Mortgage Calculator Apps to empower your home search. For creative home design ideas and decorating tips, visit Homes.com/blog/. Welcome Home! Homes.com for Professionals As a trusted industry partner for over 20 years, Homes.com is committed to establishing connections between local real estate professionals and the over 14 million consumers that visit our site each month in search of their next home. We begin that connection with display advertising and listing enhancements, designed to drive quality leads to real estate professionals. Then, we provide real estate professionals with premium IDX websites and a marketing suite to convert quality online leads into business. Whether you are a broker, agent, lender or new home builder, Homes.com is the place to market your business and connect with your target customers.