Escalate Capital Partners

Escalate Capital Partners is a leading mezzanine firm focused exclusively on providing capital to venture-backed expansion and late-stage companies within technology, life sciences and service based industries. The Escalate team combines experience in venture capital and commercial finance to deliver a broad array of senior, subordinated and mezzanine debt solutions that are less dilutive than equity and provide more flexibility than conventional debt from banks or asset-based lenders. As a company expands operations on a path to profitability, it should also look to broaden sources of capital beyond equity and traditional debt to achieve an optimal blend between overall cost and capital flexibility. Escalate's facilities are tailored to finance permanent working capital requirements, acquisitions and buy outs. Escalate can also structure syndicated transactions incorporating equity and debt through an extensive network of venture capital and debt financing partners. As a private debt fund with over $495 million in cumulative capital commitments, Escalate offers patient, stable capital tailored to each company’s unique needs. The Escalate investment team has 80+ years of combined experience and has invested more than $2 billion in over 500 companies.

Larry Bradshaw

Principal

Ross Cockrell

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Julich, Chris

Managing Director

Tony Schell

Managing Director and General Partner

Connor Woods

Associate

31 past transactions

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. For new employees, Enboarder delivers rich engaging content directly to their mobile phones from the moment they sign their offer letter. HR can construct and build engaging workflows on their own, without requiring help or resources from IT, consultants, or creative staff.

ThreatQuotient

Venture Round in 2021
ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. It provides Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators of compromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure. It improves the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations with a platform that accelerates and simplifies investigations and collaboration within and across teams and tools. Integrating an organization’s existing processes and technologies into a unified workspace, ThreatQuotient’s solutions reduce noise, highlight top priority threats, and automate processes to provide greater focus and decision support while maximizing limited resources. Its threat-centric approach supports multiple use cases including incident response, threat hunting, spear phishing, alert triage, and vulnerability management, and also serves as a threat intelligence platform. ThreatQuotient has been recognized for product excellence and industry leadership by several award programs in 2021. It has won four 2021 Globee Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, including Gold for Security Investigation, Silver for both Threat Intelligence Technology and Hot Security Company of the Year, and Bronze for Threat Hunting, Detection, Intelligence, and Response. ThreatQuotient also won three 2021 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Gold for Security Investigation, and Silver for both Threat Detection, Intelligence and Response, and Best Cybersecurity Company. Additionally, ThreatQuotient was recognized as McAfee Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year and the company was listed in the 2021 CRN Partner Program Guide. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang.

ThreatQuotient

Debt Financing in 2021
ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. It provides Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators of compromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure. It improves the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations with a platform that accelerates and simplifies investigations and collaboration within and across teams and tools. Integrating an organization’s existing processes and technologies into a unified workspace, ThreatQuotient’s solutions reduce noise, highlight top priority threats, and automate processes to provide greater focus and decision support while maximizing limited resources. Its threat-centric approach supports multiple use cases including incident response, threat hunting, spear phishing, alert triage, and vulnerability management, and also serves as a threat intelligence platform. ThreatQuotient has been recognized for product excellence and industry leadership by several award programs in 2021. It has won four 2021 Globee Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, including Gold for Security Investigation, Silver for both Threat Intelligence Technology and Hot Security Company of the Year, and Bronze for Threat Hunting, Detection, Intelligence, and Response. ThreatQuotient also won three 2021 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Gold for Security Investigation, and Silver for both Threat Detection, Intelligence and Response, and Best Cybersecurity Company. Additionally, ThreatQuotient was recognized as McAfee Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year and the company was listed in the 2021 CRN Partner Program Guide. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang.

AeroSafe Global

Private Equity Round in 2020
AeroSafe Global develops and produces aerogels and related materials for temperature-sensitive shipping needs in the United States. Its products are used in various thermal insulation applications to transport biomedical, pharmaceutical, and other temperature-sensitive products. The company provides a reliable, simple, and sustainable temperature sensitive supply chain solutions to the world’s leading biopharma companies. AeroSafe Global delivers cold-chain services for the biopharma industry that results in zero temperature excursions for every client, every product, every time. With proprietary packaging, logistics, and operational services, the company builds customized solutions that ensure the safe delivery of temperature-sensitive biopharmaceuticals.

Arrive

Venture Round in 2020
Arrive Mobility Inc. operates a transactional platform that connects drivers, fleets, and connected vehicles with parking solutions across North America. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers a marketplace where users can find, book, and pay for parking in advance, enhancing the parking experience by providing access to a diverse inventory of spaces. The platform enables customers to compare prices, locations, and amenities, and includes features for daily, monthly, and event parking, making it easier for users to make informed decisions. Arrive serves a broad range of clients, including car manufacturers, navigation companies, sports and entertainment venues, and smart cities. Originally known as ParkWhiz, Inc., the company rebranded to Arrive Mobility Inc. in September 2019, reflecting its expanded focus on smart parking solutions and integrated mobility services.

Fideo Intelligence

Venture Round in 2018
Fideo’s powerful intelligence identifies more accurate digital personas by fusing digital, transactional, behavioral, device-related, geospatial, and historical fraud data together to give platforms the ammunition needed to keep pace with potential fraudsters. The company’s proven, patented continuous learning engine offers a sophisticated approach to analyzing interconnected data, in which businesses can uncover anomalies and patterns, enhancing the ability to identify and prevent fraud.

Cloudability

Debt Financing in 2018
Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing cloud expenses across any organization. Its platform aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports that identify and allocate cloud costs using accurate, precise data in real-time using enterprise-scale analysis and machine learning that enables IT, finance, and other business teams to get a real-time understanding of cloud spending, down to the penny, and continual optimization of cloud costs. Cloudability was established in 2011 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

IDX

Debt Financing in 2016
IDX is a consumer privacy platform that enables consumers to take control of their privacy and identity. Data breach response, employee benefits, strategic partnerships, and consumer solutions all on a flexible and secure platform. IDX is trusted by government and enterprise customers, as well as employee benefits and e-commerce partners.

LeisureLink

Venture Round in 2016
LeisureLink is a private, high-growth company headquartered in Pasadena, California, and funded by leading Southern California venture capitalist firms Clearstone Venture Partners and Mission Ventures, with a strategic investment from Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN). Over 1,500 “LeisureLinked” independent vacation rental properties, timeshares, villas, bed and breakfasts, condo hotels and boutique resorts throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and the Caribbean trust our online system to manage their brands, maximize their profitability, streamline their revenue-driving efforts, and put heads in beds, every day.

Mopro

Debt Financing in 2015
Mopro makes the same high-quality digital products and services previously only available to the biggest brands, affordable for businesses of any size. Mopro designs, builds and hosts beautiful, effective websites that are not only future-proofed against outdated technology, but complemented by an ever-evolving suite of products designed to support and protect a rich digital presence.

Kareo

Series G in 2015
Kareo is the leading cloud-based, clinical and business management platform designed specifically for the independent practice. Kareo’s integrated modules work together as part of a seamless platform, so independent practices have helpful tools to tackle their toughest administrative challenges. These tools include electronic health records, practice management, billing, marketing and patient engagement software. Plus, proven, integrated third-party applications and services in Kareo Marketplace to make delivering care even easier. Today we help over 50,000 providers in all 50 states run more efficient and profitable practices, while delivering outstanding patient care. Kareo has received extensive industry recognition, including being awarded the 2018 United States Ambulatory EHR Enabling Technology Leadership Award from Frost and Sullivan, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 5000 and Black Book’s #1 Integrated EHR, Practice Management and Medical Billing Vendor. With offices across the country, our mission is to help independent practices succeed in an ever-changing healthcare market.

Vibe HCM

Venture Round in 2015
Vibe HCM is redefining HR software expectations for 100,000's of employees. Recruit, manage, connect and inspire your employees - all from 1 unified platform. Medium-sized organizations on up to some of the most recognized brands on the planet put their trust in Vibe HCM.

PrimeRevenue

Venture Round in 2015
PrimeRevenue has become an acknowledged leader and innovative award-winning provider in multibank Supply Chain Finance. More than 13,000 customers around the world trust PrimeRevenue to optimize their financial supply chain. Customers look to their award-winning trading platform, OpenSCi, to help manage their most valuable asset: their cash flow. The PrimeRevenue OpenSCi supplier finance platform operates in the cloud, providing a single point of access for businesses to increase payment terms to their suppliers while reducing collection time from their customers.

First Insight

Series B in 2015
First Insight's SaaS solution gives retailers and manufacturers insight into expected product performance and optimal entry price points for new items that have no sales history, all within 48-72 hours. Through its scalable Big Data platform, it enables thousands of consumers to evaluate hundreds of candidate new products through gamification and crowdsourcing. Online games are presented to consumers via social media, websites, emails, and mobile devices. First Insight's predictive analytic models filter and weight consumer input, ensuring that retailers and brands are listening to the right consumers.

Kareo

Debt Financing in 2014
Kareo is the leading cloud-based, clinical and business management platform designed specifically for the independent practice. Kareo’s integrated modules work together as part of a seamless platform, so independent practices have helpful tools to tackle their toughest administrative challenges. These tools include electronic health records, practice management, billing, marketing and patient engagement software. Plus, proven, integrated third-party applications and services in Kareo Marketplace to make delivering care even easier. Today we help over 50,000 providers in all 50 states run more efficient and profitable practices, while delivering outstanding patient care. Kareo has received extensive industry recognition, including being awarded the 2018 United States Ambulatory EHR Enabling Technology Leadership Award from Frost and Sullivan, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 5000 and Black Book’s #1 Integrated EHR, Practice Management and Medical Billing Vendor. With offices across the country, our mission is to help independent practices succeed in an ever-changing healthcare market.

Everspring

Venture Round in 2014
Everspring, Inc. provides customized online education solutions. It helps universities to design and deliver education online. The company offers solutions in various disciplines, such as strategic planning; marketing; enrollment; student services and retention; faculty engagement; course development support; analytics; and technology development, integration, and support. It conceives, creates, and operates large-scale educational institutions and programs online, on-campus, and in hybrid and blended models. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Evanston, Illinois

Silverpop

Venture Round in 2013
Silverpop provides digital marketing solutions. They also provide e-mail marketing strategies, campaign management, execution, and analytics of campaign results. They develop sales and customer communication software that transforms communication by electronic mail to capture customer behavior.

Hotchalk

Debt Financing in 2013
HotChalk is a leading provider of education technology and services. The Silicon Valley company partners with universities to provide turnkey solutions that put degree programs on line. HotChalk solutions incorporate all phases of the education lifecycle and deliver industry leading student retention and graduation rates. HotChalk operates the largest global network of free education content on the Internet through the HotChalk Education Network. The company believes all people should have access to education, and is on a mission to make meaningful education outcomes available to everyone, everywhere. To learn more, visit HotChalk.com.

BlackDuck

Debt Financing in 2013
Black Duck secures and manages open source software worldwide, eliminating open source security vulnerabilities and license compliance pain. With the rapid, widespread adoption of open-source software, Black Duck is a key component of Synopsys’ Software Integrity Platform, the most comprehensive solution for integrating security into the SDLC and software supply chain. Black Duck was established in 2002 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States.

Motionsoft

Debt Financing in 2013
Motionsoft provides fitness, gym, and recreation club management and marketing software solutions. The company's software provides club professionals with a modern and effective tool to automate operations with reporting functionality to have their staff acquire, engage, and retain members, enabling studios and gyms, corporate fitness facilities, hospital wellness centers, hotels, spas, and university recreation centers to accelerate financial and operational efficiencies.

Glowpoint

Debt Financing in 2012
Glowpoint is a publicly traded (NYSEMKT:GLOW) provider of cloud-based video collaboration services, network services, and business-class support services. The Company provides customers with a tailored mix of these services to fit each customer's needs. More than 1,000 different organizations in 96 countries use Glowpoint services to collaborate with colleagues, business partners and customers more effectively.

Workfront

Series C in 2012
Workfront is a cloud-based Enterprise Work Management solution that helps marketing teams, creative agencies, and other enterprise teams conquer the chaos of excessive email, redundant status meetings, and disconnected tools. Unlike other tools, Workfront Enterprise Work Cloud is a centralized, easy-to-adopt solution for managing and collaborating on all types of work through the entire work lifecycle, which improves team productivity and executive visibility. Workfront is trusted by thousands of global enterprises, like Cars.com, Cisco Systems, Comcast, iProspect, Schneider Electric, and Trek. To learn more, visit www.workfront.com or follow us on Twitter @Workfront_Inc.
Achieve Financial Services, LLC, an Austin, Texas-based marketer of general-purpose reloadable (GPR) prepaid debit cards and related financial services.

Everyday Health

Debt Financing in 2012
Everyday Health is a digital media company that owns websites and produces content related to health and wellness. It offers consumers, healthcare professionals, and marketers with content and advertising-based services. The company’s broad portfolio consists of websites, tablet applications, and mobile applications that span the health spectrum from in-depth medical content for condition prevention and management to healthy lifestyle offerings. It offers the necessary tools, community, and expert advice to live healthily. It enables consumers to manage their daily health and wellness needs; healthcare professionals to stay informed and make better decisions for their patients; and marketers, health payers, and providers to communicate and engage with consumers. The company’s brands are divided into two categories: brands that it owns and operates in partnership with leading offline providers of health content or prominent health and wellness experts and personalities; and brands where it manages and sells advertising opportunities on behalf of its partners.

Market Force Information

Debt Financing in 2011
Market Force Information provides consumer experience information and insights for multi-location businesses. Through a suite of products, Market Force Information helps businesses increase customer loyalty and protect the brand at the store level through the corporate level. They have headquarters in Colorado and were founded in 2005.

Mobixell Networks

Venture Round in 2010
Mobixell Networks provides intelligent mobile Internet solutions to mobile operators that optimize data networks and maximize data profitability. Mobixell’s flagship product, Seamless Access, enables mobile operators to intelligently manage, optimize, and monetize the surging mobile data and video traffic while giving subscribers an exceptional user experience. Mobixell has dozens of deployments around the world, including Verizon, Vodafone, Bharti, Orange, XLcom, TIM, and Telefonica. Founded in 2000, Mobixell has offices in the US, UK, and Israel, and presence in Germany, Switzerland, Finland, India, Indonesia, and China.

Ecast

Venture Round in 2009
Ecast is the leader in place-based interactive media. Their hospitality network delivers digital music, games, entertainment, information and interactive advertising to more than 10,000 bars and nightclubs across the United States. Leveraging the personal impact of touch combined with the interactivity and targeting of the Internet, Ecast brings unsurpassed consumer engagement to out-of-home markets and is redefining the way consumers are entertained, informed and engaged.

AVST

Venture Round in 2009
With more than 30 years of continuous innovation, Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a trusted developer of software-based Unified Communications (UC) solutions for businesses of all sizes. Our mission is to develop communications solutions that transform the productivity of individuals, teams and businesses while leveraging the value of their existing and evolving IT infrastructure. Thousands of businesses worldwide rely on AVST to meet their “mission-critical” communications requirements today, align their business with key trends and, with the world-class interoperability and delivery models of AVST’s UC solutions, provide a bridge to their digital future. MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS TODAY Nobody builds more secure, reliable, feature-rich and scalable “enterprise class” UC solutions than AVST. That’s why top hospitals, leading universities, major government agencies and multinational companies worldwide have turned to AVST to meet their requirements today, including replacing mission-critical voice applications like automated attendant, voicemail and fax, as well as extending the life of their existing call control infrastructure. ALIGN WITH KEY TRENDS For over three decades, AVST has remained at the forefront of our industry by developing next-generation communications solutions. Today these solutions include flexible and secure unified messaging, speech-based call processing, contextually aware personal assistant, powerful UC mobile clients and advanced notification and information-access solutions that integrate with the databases of your organization. THE BRIDGE TO YOUR DIGITAL FUTURE The broadest interoperability suite in the communications industry serves as the foundation of our best-of-breed UC solutions. By connecting new and existing communications technologies, AVST facilitates the migration of your enterprise to the Cloud, IP and Microsoft Lync. AVST maintains relationships with virtually all of the major premise and cloud communications technology providers to ensure that your UC solutions and your business are always “future-proofed.” ABOUT AVST Headquartered in Orange County, California, AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Washington, Victoria B.C., Canada and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's UC solutions are sold and supported worldwide by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. To learn more about AVST, our products and partners, please visit www.avst.com or you can follow us at Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. AVST was established in September 2003 from the combined businesses of Sound Advantage (established in 1997) and the AVT division (established in 1982) of Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAPA). A privately owned company, AVST's two major institutional investors are Ignition Partners, Bellevue, WA (www.ignitionpartners.com) and Second Alpha Partners, New York, NY (www.secondalpha.com).

Acclaris Holdings

Series A in 2009
Acclaris Holdings, Inc. offers software that focuses to administer healthcare programs. The company was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Tampa, Florida. The company delivers financial technology and integrated services to manage FSA, HRA, HSA plans and more.

Sportvision

Venture Round in 2006
Sportvision, Inc. is the premier innovator of sports and entertainment products for fans, media and marketers. Sportvision is a privately held corporation whose solutions have enhanced experiences for fans, media and marketing partners of the NFL, NBA, NASCAR, NHL, PGA TOUR, LPGA Tour, Major League Baseball, NCAA football and basketball, WTA, Major League Soccer and other sporting events on-air and online. The company has captured ten Emmy Awards for its products, including three for its signature broadcast enhancements, the iconic virtual yellow 1st & Ten® line and K-Zone™. We were voted one of the World’s Top 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2010 by Fast Company.
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