Espresso Capital

Espresso Capital has provided over 230 early and growth stage technology companies with founder-friendly capital since 2009. It offers lines of credit and term loans to enable entrepreneurs to grow their businesses without dilution, board seats, or personal guarantees. Its mission is to keep founders in control with fast, fair, and flexible capital.

Kristen Arnesen

Director and Corporate Controller

Mark Gilbert

Executive Director

Gordon Henderson

Managing Director, Portfolio Management

Will Hutchins

Managing Director

William Jin

Head of Credit and Managing Director

James Langford

Associate Director

Enio Lazzer

COO and CFO

Steven Michau

Executive Director

Ryan O’Brodovich

Director

Mark Presacco

Senior Associate

Marcel Réthoré

Associate Director

Patrycja Wnuk

Director, Strategic Finance

92 past transactions

Innovapptive

Debt Financing in 2022
Innovapptive provides connected worker solutions for maintenance, operations, and warehousing. Its platform digitally connects the entire industrial workforce, executives, and back office to minimize plant outages and improve operational excellence. By engineering a platform that fuels innovation and collaboration, Innovapptive is transforming the experience of the industrial worker to help uplift revenues and margins for customers.

Voxy

Debt Financing in 2022
Voxy provides truly personalized English language instruction to corporations, educational institutions, and governments across the globe. Based on more than 30 years of academic research, Voxy’s solution meets the needs of each user by combining patented technology that adapts lessons in real-time with personalized live instruction all delivered in a fully mobile experience. Launched in 2010, it has been used by millions of learners and hundreds of institutions in over 50 different countries. Voxy’s innovative approach has been recognized by major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN. Backed by leading investors in education technology, Voxy is headquartered in New York City and has an office in São Paulo.

Transifex

Debt Financing in 2022
Transifex is a localization automation platform that powers the process of launching digital products and content into multiple languages. Built for companies with rapid development cycles, Transifex's SaaS platform lets developers store global content and create a continuous localization workflow. Through the Transifex API and Git-like command-line client, developers can ensure that new content is always translated, and the latest translations are included with each release. This means faster time-to-market, less strain on engineering, and a better user experience. Founded in 2009 after being incubated in Google’s Summer of Code, Transifex has teams on two continents and customers in over 30 countries, localizing content into more than 100 languages.

Chatbooks

Debt Financing in 2022
Each year, we collectively take 3 trillion photos on our phone—and most of those memories get lost in a digital abyss, never to see the light of day. Chatbooks is on a mission to make creating a photo book as easy as taking a picture. The $8 photo books, which automatically pull photos from your Instagram, Facebook, and Camera Roll via 5-Star iPhone and Android apps, are designed to tell the ongoing story of your life with zero effort: Over 100,000 users are actively subscribed to get new Chatbooks with every 60 photos they take, and will buy over 1 million books by the end of 2015. Today, our experiences and memories are more valuable than ever—and Chatbooks helps you hold on to what matters.

3BG Supply

Debt Financing in 2022
At 3BG, we believe in delivering more than just products. We empower our customers with custom solutions and the expertise they need to stay operationally strong. Innovation drives us, but it’s our deep industry knowledge that sets us apart. We bring you the latest technology and our proven know-how to solve today’s toughest challenges. When you work with 3BG, you’re not just getting a supplier—you’re gaining a partner dedicated to your success.

Messagepoint

Debt Financing in 2022
Messagepoint is a hybrid cloud-based content management platform serving the customer communications management needs of large enterprise customers. It provides an intuitive and secure environment for business users to directly own and control touchpoint messaging content and business rules driving the pace of change for customer-facing print and digital communications.

MOOT

Debt Financing in 2022
MOOT is an innovative ecommerce technology company with a mission to provide end-to-end solutions to retail brands, looking to scale their direct-to-consumer offering, both multi-channel and internationally. The company’s proprietary technology typically services brands that have outgrown the capabilities of the likes of Shopify and WooCommerce.

Echosec Systems

Debt Financing in 2022
Echosec Systems provides security and intelligence teams with enhanced access to a wide range of social media, deep web, and dark web data in real-time. Their web-based solutions are trusted by global teams to deliver timely, relevant data to improve situational awareness on the ground and inform initiatives like geopolitical risk assessment, counterterrorism, disinformation monitoring, force protection, and crisis response.

Adthena

Debt Financing in 2022
Adthena is a competitive intelligence solution for search marketers. Adthena's patented technology enables enterprise search marketers to understand their paid search landscape as a whole and acquire customers using insights about their competitors. Adthena’s patented "Whole Market View" approach provides more actionable data and insights, whilst their team of competitive intelligence experts support clients in their core areas of: Customer Acquisition, Cost Reduction, Brand Protection and Strategic Intelligence. Adthena's vision is a world of search transparency where precise ads connect marketers to consumers. It serves hundreds of the world’s largest advertisers through its “Whole Market View” of organic and paid search. Leveraging machine learning, the platform indexes information hourly, processing over 10TB of new data, indexing 500 million adverts and 200 million keywords in 15 different languages each day. The segmented data is presented in an intuitive format, helping digital marketers to understand their landscape and acquire more customers.

Wild Earth

Debt Financing in 2022
Wild Earth is a technology startup that specializes in developing protein pet foods. It is dedicated to reinventing pet food with science to offer healthier foods for pets that are better for the environment and more humane than conventional products. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Gravy Analytics

Debt Financing in 2022
Gravy Analytics is the leading provider of real-world location intelligence for marketers. Their patented AdmitOneTM engine verifies consumer attendances at millions of places, points-of-interest, and local events, providing unprecedented visibility into the offline consumer journey.

CREtelligent

Debt Financing in 2021
CREtelligent provides property conditions, valuations, flood zone, natural hazards, environmental, general property reports, and services. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Gold River, California, United States.

True Fit

Debt Financing in 2021
True Fit is a footwear and apparel discovery platform. Its Genome is mapped from the world’s largest collection of attribute-rich fit and style data for footwear and apparel. Genome helps retailers and brands unlock digital growth in the $1 trillion footwear and apparel industry. It powers the Confidence Engine, allowing retailers to provide highly personalized fit ratings and size recommendations to shoppers, resulting in dramatic increases in net revenue. True Fit is also helping to unlock digital growth with its Discovery Engine, which allows retailers to curate highly personalized collections for each consumer, and its True Insight platform provides retailers and brands unparalleled insights to optimize marketing, merchandising, and product development. True Fit is led by an experienced team of executives and leaders from the fashion, retail, big data, and e-commerce, and is backed by top investors.

True Fit

Venture Round in 2021
True Fit is a footwear and apparel discovery platform. Its Genome is mapped from the world’s largest collection of attribute-rich fit and style data for footwear and apparel. Genome helps retailers and brands unlock digital growth in the $1 trillion footwear and apparel industry. It powers the Confidence Engine, allowing retailers to provide highly personalized fit ratings and size recommendations to shoppers, resulting in dramatic increases in net revenue. True Fit is also helping to unlock digital growth with its Discovery Engine, which allows retailers to curate highly personalized collections for each consumer, and its True Insight platform provides retailers and brands unparalleled insights to optimize marketing, merchandising, and product development. True Fit is led by an experienced team of executives and leaders from the fashion, retail, big data, and e-commerce, and is backed by top investors.

boclips

Debt Financing in 2021
boclips aggregates over 2 million rights ready video clips onto a single cloud based platform. Proprietary algorithms then map these clips to the curricula and courses used by education providers around the world - ensuring relevant search results for courseware designers, instructors and students. All videos are rights-ready for education and updated daily - so there’s no confusion and no delays.

MAP Health Management

Debt Financing in 2021
MAP Health Management, LLC provides healthcare technology solutions, such as outcome data, recovery support programs, and revenue cycle management for addiction treatment facilities. It offers MAP recovery support solutions that provide relapse prevention recovery support for adults, adolescents, and their families who seek to achieve long-term recovery; billing and revenue cycle management services; recovery network solutions; and outcome data set solutions for treatment facilities. MAP Health Management, LLC was founded in 2011 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Thentia Cloud

Debt Financing in 2021
Thentia Corporation is an industry leader in using proprietary technology to help regulatory bodies efficiently fulfill their regulatory obligations. Thentia services a wide variety of clients throughout Canada and the United States using cutting-edge software and industry-leading expertise in regulatory standards.

UPshow

Debt Financing in 2021
UPshow is the customizable engagement platform that capitalizes on businesses’ existing screens to deliver better audience experiences. UPshow’s technology seamlessly connects TV screens and mobile devices, creating a revolutionary in-venue network that drives customer and employee behaviors and maximizes profitability and efficiency. Founded in 2015, UPshow reaches audiences on screens around the world.

Headout

Series B in 2021
In today's world littered with digital screens and a 'busy' lifestyle, there is a need for a solution that augments our human experience by getting us to interact and explore our real world and the people in it. Headout's mission, as a counter to this problem, is to enable all of us to discover and access real-life experiences seamlessly and delightfully; thereby inspiring all of us to head out and see the amazing world we live in up close.

WorthPoint

Debt Financing in 2021
WorthPoint is an information and media company with an online database, offering sales records on art antiques and collectibles. It is the largest resource for researching, valuing, and buying/selling antiques, art, and vintage collectibles. Their suite of offerings consists of WorthPoint.com, an online resource for researching and valuing antiques, art, and collectibles; and an online resource for investigating makers’ marks as well as accessing a library of virtual books from leading publishers on a wide range of collecting topics. They empower the antique and collectible industry by providing a steady stream of new data and quality information—helping improve the pricing transparency that exists between sellers and buyers. Just as eBay created the market for more efficient trading, WorthPoint’s collection and presentation of historical pricing data help sellers realize better prices and buyers gain comfort that the price they are paying is fair. WorthPoint is also accessible on iOS and Android platforms. WorthPoint’s price guide is a comprehensive solution that gives users access to more than 350 million historical prices and more than images 1.2 billion photographs. This data is aggregated from both online marketplaces, including eBay, and from some of the leading auction houses in the country. They have the largest database that covers information as far back as 2006—some of which is gone forever.

PaymentCloud

Debt Financing in 2021
PaymentCloud merchant services company that specializes in secure payment processing for any type of business. The company is dedicated to providing financial products while keeping costs as low as possible. PaymentCloud was founded in 2015 by Shawn Silver and is headquartered in Encino, California.

Bento for Business

Debt Financing in 2021
Bento’s mission is to provide SMBs with a powerful financial operating platform so they can further their vision, empower their employees and create value for their customers. Bento's platform allows businesses to issue payment credentials to people and systems without introducing risk. Bento’s virtual and corporate cards and feature-rich management tools give companies unprecedented control and visibility over company expenses, eliminating fraud and administrative overhead. Virtual Cards, open APIs, and White Label partnerships extend these enterprise-grade benefits to automate payments well beyond employee expenses. Based in San Francisco and Chicago, Bento is an award-winning SMB fintech solution led by veteran executives from top-tier Technology and Financial Services companies. Bento is well-funded by leading financial technology VCs. We all share a passion to build beautiful and impactful solutions for modern businesses.

Shiftboard

Debt Financing in 2021
Shiftboard is an online scheduling system. It's a new way to grow and manage your database of people, schedules, reports and daily business. Shiftboard provides a place, sometimes called a Portal, where organizations establish their own customized web-based scheduling, coordination, communication, reporting and member recruitment hub. Workers and other members can view schedules, join teams, pick up shifts, get reminders, communicate with managers, track availability, refer friends and colleagues, and generally stay much better connected than when using traditional methods of coordination. Using Shiftboard, site owners create and manage an unlimited number of Teams or Workgroups, appoint co-workers, managers, and other site members to those teams. By using the power of social networking and 24/7, web-based self-service business management tools, Shiftboard lets organizations work with partners, cut bureaucracy and scale their business, daily management and recruiting potential beyond office walls, telephone budgets and the 9-to-5 workday.

Family First

Debt Financing in 2021
Family First is the leader in ROI-based caregiving solutions as an employee and insurance benefit. Family First's expert-led and technology-enabled solution improves the health and well-being of caregivers and their loved ones, driving a direct impact on the quality and cost of care.

Clover

Debt Financing in 2021
Clover is a dating app designed to assist individuals in discovering high-quality dates with minimal effort. It is an app that autonomously connects users with individuals interested in meeting. With the Clover app, anyone can instantly view everyone nearby who likes them.

Halo Health

Debt Financing in 2021
Doc Halo’s clinical communication platform is transforming patient care by streamlining real-time communication among physicians, nurses and staff. The mobile app and online console provide secure, HIPAA-compliant texting. Robust care coordination tools integrate with hospital systems to allow instant access to EHRs, critical and clinical teams, physician on-call schedules, call centers, labs and directories. Exclusively focused on healthcare, Doc Halo is used by some of the most prestigious organizations in the country.

Synaptive Medical

Debt Financing in 2021
Synaptive Medical is a medical device manufacturing company that specializes in neurosurgery, medical imaging, and surgical navigation. It specializes in designing hardware and software that cross traditional barriers in hospitals and improve patient care in and beyond the operating room. The company designs automated and integrated systems for neurological and spine procedures to improve patient outcomes. Synaptive Medical was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

Cuebiq

Debt Financing in 2021
Cubeiq is a business intelligence company that provides its clients with consumer behavior and trend insights.The company offers its clients with marketing, retail, research, and publisher services. Its marketing platform offers audience targeting, offline campaign attribution, performance analytics, and location insights. Its retail platform offers footfall analysis, site selection, and audience and geo-behavioral consumer insights. Its publisher platform offers audience segmentation, campaign attribution, and data monetization services.

Tenfold

Debt Financing in 2021
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.

Platform9

Debt Financing in 2021
Platform9 is a open distributed cloud service, offering the power of the public cloud on infrastructure of customers’ choice, powered by Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. Platform9 offers a way to go cloud-native. Platform9’s service powers 40K+ nodes across private, public, and edge clouds. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by leading investors. Platform 9 was established in 2013 by Sirish Raghuram in Mountain View, California.

Hologram

Debt Financing in 2021
Hologram is a cellular platform designed for the Internet of Things. Thousands of connectivity teams rely on Hologram to keep their fleets connected around the world — from Burbank to Brisbane. Hologram was founded in 2014 by Benjamin Forgan and Patrick Wilbur. Inspired by the connectivity challenges affecting food delivery startups in Singapore, Hologram's co-founders focused their efforts on removing the red tape preventing fast-growing IoT teams from launching cellular equipped fleets around the world. What started as a Kickstarter, under Hologram's old name, Konekt, has blossomed into the de facto networks IoT teams use to launch their products. In the years since Hologram was founded, the company has been a partner to leading technology pioneers around the world. Hologram made it possible for the rapid growth of micromobility vehicles like e-scooters. Hologram kept self-driving cars connected and on the road. Hologram helped drones deliver medicine to remote communities and kept vital health devices online across six continents. The future will have billions of more devices connected to the internet. Hologram is focused on being the operating system for global connectivity.

Citcon

Debt Financing in 2021
Founded in 2015, CITCON is a leading payment technology company, building a payment infrastructure that enables global merchants to accept payments from billions of fast-growing mobile wallet consumers through the web, mobile and in-store channels around the world. Mobile payment provides a more user-friendly, secure, and safer contactless shopping and payment experience for both consumers and merchants compared to other payment options. CITCON’s secure, scalable and open system allows businesses to quickly and easily accept domestic and international mobile wallets by using a single API suite and an integrated processing and fund settlement platform. Millions of mobile wallet consumers are now able to shop and pay at tens of thousands of merchants, online, mobile, and in-store. Citcon is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, CITCON has five regional offices in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia.

Blueshift

Debt Financing in 2021
Blueshift helps brands deliver relevant, connected experiences across every customer interaction. Its smart hub cdp uses patented AI technology to unify, inform, and activate the fullness of customer data across all channels and applications. It gives brands all the tools to seamlessly deliver experiences in real time across the entire customer journey. Blueshift's platform leverages patented AI technology to integrate, enrich, and mobilize comprehensive customer data across diverse channels and applications. By achieving unified data, orchestrating omnichannel interactions, employing intelligent decision-making, and boasting unparalleled scalability, Blueshift equips brands with complete capabilities to provide personalized experiences in real-time throughout the entire customer journey.

TrustEngine

Debt Financing in 2020
Your Data-Driven Borrower Intelligence Platform! TrustEngine transformed the relationship between mortgage lenders and borrowers with the introduction of the first automated borrower intelligence system in 2017. Intelligent alerts notify lenders as soon as a past customer or prospect is ready and credit-qualified for a loan. As the mortgage industry’s #1 borrower retention tool, Sales Boomerang helps lenders build lasting borrower relationships that maximize lifetime customer value

CultureIQ

Debt Financing in 2020
CultureIQ provides culture management software and services to help organizations measure, understand, and strengthen their company culture. CultureIQ was developed with the goal of giving every employee a voice and providing organizations the tools to listen. With customizable surveys, actionable insights, reporting tools, and data-driven solutions, the company enables companies to actively manage their culture to drive employee engagement and success.

Zype

Debt Financing in 2020
Zype provides the infrastructure for digital video with a cloud-based platform to manage and distribute enterprise-grade video across the web, mobile, TV, and social media. Offering both developer-friendly tools such as customizable APIs as well as turnkey solutions for OTT apps and linear/FAST channels, Zype’s SaaS solutions enable video creators or distributors to quickly build, launch and manage superior video products at scale.

Zaloni

Debt Financing in 2020
Zaloni is a data acceleration company. Our Arena software delivers trusted data agility and cost savings while accelerating the time to analytics value. We support this award-winning platform with professional services, experts who specialize in optimizing data operations so that enterprises conquer their data sprawl challenges. We believe in the unrealized power of data. Our end-to-end data operations empowers customers to conquer data sprawl challenges, secure data without hindering business goals, create new revenue streams quickly, and accelerate insights while lowering costs.

Koupon

Debt Financing in 2020
Koupon provides c-store retailers and CPG brands with the easiest way to connect and engage with shoppers to grow sales. Koupon works with brands to easily deploy personalized, channel-wide promotions, and helps retailers to secure additional brand trade spending and grow shopper engagement. Members of the Koupon Network - the leading C-store collaborative with 30 of the top 50 C-store retailers and over 70 brands – realize the benefit from Koupon’s unmatched channel reach, proprietary technology and data, and campaign management services. Since its founding in 2011, Koupon has delivered over 4 billion offers.

Inference Solutions

Debt Financing in 2020
Inference Solutions is a global Intelligent Virtual Agent platform provider that enables businesses to leverage the latest conversational AI technology with unmatched choice and flexibility. More than 550 organizations across every vertical use Inference's code-free IVA platform, Inference Studio, to rapidly design and deploy advanced self-service applications over voice, chat and messaging. Inference is resold through leading telecommunications carriers, Unified Communications and Contact Center providers, and is the trusted choice for dozens of service providers seeking to drive more revenue and differentiate themselves with value-added-services.

KeyedIn Solutions

Debt Financing in 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota-based KeyedIn Solutions™ was founded by veteran ERP industry executives to transform the traditional enterprise software systems market through a suite of integrated business applications delivered on a true SaaS platform and a consulting organization rich in business, industry and IT expertise. KeyedIn SaaS Solutions replace rigid, on-premise enterprise systems with more agile, feature-rich and cost-effective integrated business applications that scale to any size environment. With applications developed in .NET for its ubiquitous nature and deployed via the Cloud using a true SaaS model, integrated business applications from KeyedIn represent the next generation of enterprise systems for specialized vertical and micro-markets. The KeyedIn Consulting Group provides strategic and tactical consulting services around existing or planned systems, helping organizations achieve a strong return on their IT investment and realize a true business advantage in their market. Whether engaged independently, or in conjunction with the company’s leading-edge technology platform, the KeyedIn Consulting Group delivers results for a wide range of businesses and industry types worldwide. This winning combination of industry expertise and transformative technology has positioned KeyedIn Solutions for rapid growth. Customers look to KeyedIn Solutions for innovative, integrated business applications and results-driven consulting services delivered with integrity and a laser-focus on their needs.

4C Insights

Debt Financing in 2020
4C is building the leading self-service intelligence platform for marketers to drive business outcomes across closed ecosystems. Brands, agencies, and media owners around the world trust Scope by 4C™ to surface insights about their most valuable consumers and creatives, and activate them across channels and devices. With over $2 billion in annualized advertising spend running through Scope, 4C bridges linear television, streaming video, digital commerce, and social media. Founded in 2011 and based in Chicago, 4C has staff in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Singapore. Visit www.4Cinsights.com for more information.

ThoughtExchange

Series B in 2019
Whether you’re looking to engage ten stakeholders or a community of 10,000 people, ThoughtExchange allows leaders to drive strategic discussions at scale. Unlike meetings, ThoughtExchange ensures you’re not just hearing from the loudest voices in the room. Unlike surveys, respondents feel more comfortable answering tough questions candidly. Unlike polls, leaders receive dynamic, data-rich reports that list results according to priority and urgency. ThoughtExchange was founded in beautiful Rossland, British Columbia, but our teams enjoy working remotely from all over North America.

SocialChorus

Debt Financing in 2019
Agility is the greatest advantage in the modern marketplace. Enterprises that can’t adapt quickly can’t win. So we’ve made it our mission to help companies act proactively and react rapidly to achieve their business goals. The SocialChorus FirstUp platform is the communications backbone of the enterprise, enabling organizations to reach every employee–from the front line to the C-suite—with targeted information at the right time, in the right place and in the right language. At the same time, it unifies the digital workplace, giving workers personalized access to all the systems, resources and applications they need to do their jobs. Employees get a simplified workflow that helps them be more productive, while companies get enterprise-wide analytics and valuable intelligence on their workforce. That’s why the world’s largest employers, like Amazon, Ford and ABInBev, choose SocialChorus to move their business forward.

Foodsmart

Debt Financing in 2019
Foodsmart is a digital nutrition platform that uses personalized dietary recommendations to improve health outcomes. The company supports those facing chronic disease and food insecurity by partnering with health plans and providers to give patients access to personalized and affordable healthy eating options.

Vidrio Financial

Debt Financing in 2019
Launched in 2011, Vidrio Financial LLC is a rapidly growing, innovative technology company providing institutional investors with the first technology-enabled service for today's multi-asset-class portfolios. The company's web-based platform provides an integrated suite of front to back-office services and applications to simplify and automate the overall investment management process, providing the all-important data management, asset transparency, and decision-support tools needed for superior investment insights. With headquarters in New York and offices in Italy and Bermuda, Vidrio’s clients include some of the world’s dominant allocators to external managers. Vidrio’s platform manages over $100 billion in alternative investments globally with a combined AUM of over US $1 trillion.

Sourced Group

Venture Round in 2019
Sourced Group is a global cloud consultancy that helps enterprises make the most of cloud services with a focus on security, governance, and compliance. With offices in Australia, Canada, and Singapore, the company provides professional services for securing, migrating, and managing the cloud infrastructure of large enterprise customers. It specializes in configuration management, automation, cloud computing, and data management for a wide range of industries, including financial services, media, transport, and telecommunications companies.

AdvisorStream

Debt Financing in 2019
AdvisorStream is a provider of a digital communication software. The company offers an online platform that recommends and provides access to various articles and videos to sales professionals.

Leadspace

Debt Financing in 2019
Leadspace provides a B2B Customer Data Platform for Sales and Marketing that find and convert ideal customers through accurate, personalized engagement across all channels. By combining customers’ 1st party data with 3rd party data coverage, intent signals, and Artificial Intelligence, Leadspace provides a 360-degree view of customers and prospects and can recommend the marketing and sales activities to pursue.

Fullscript

Series B in 2019
Fullscript is a free supplement dispensing platform and patient adherence tool that supports practitioners at the point of care and beyond. Seamlessly switch between virtual dispensing, in-office sales, and group care in a mix that fits your workflow. Recommend industry-leading supplements then use Fullscript patient adherence features to automate refills, provide education, and promote continued wellness from anywhere—even your EHR. Choose a margin or no-margin account before browsing over 300 practitioner-grade brands with the industry’s best search. Treat your patients while promoting your practice with ready-made marketing support, optional patient promotions, and curated wellness content to keep your practice top-of-mind.

Thentia Cloud

Debt Financing in 2019
Thentia Corporation is an industry leader in using proprietary technology to help regulatory bodies efficiently fulfill their regulatory obligations. Thentia services a wide variety of clients throughout Canada and the United States using cutting-edge software and industry-leading expertise in regulatory standards.

Blueshift

Series B in 2019
Blueshift helps brands deliver relevant, connected experiences across every customer interaction. Its smart hub cdp uses patented AI technology to unify, inform, and activate the fullness of customer data across all channels and applications. It gives brands all the tools to seamlessly deliver experiences in real time across the entire customer journey. Blueshift's platform leverages patented AI technology to integrate, enrich, and mobilize comprehensive customer data across diverse channels and applications. By achieving unified data, orchestrating omnichannel interactions, employing intelligent decision-making, and boasting unparalleled scalability, Blueshift equips brands with complete capabilities to provide personalized experiences in real-time throughout the entire customer journey.

POET Technologies

Post in 2019
POET Technologies is a design and development company offering integration solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer™ a novel platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single multi-chip module using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques and packaging methods. POET’s Optical Interposer eliminates costly components and labor-intensive assembly, alignment, burn-in and testing methods employed in conventional photonics. The cost-efficient integration scheme and scalability of the POET Optical Interposer brings value to any device or system that integrates electronics and photonics, including some of the highest growth areas of computing, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles and high-speed networking for cloud service providers and data centers. POET is headquartered in Toronto, with operations in Allentown, PA and Singapore.

sMedia

Debt Financing in 2019
sMedia is North America's leading digital technology company for automotive dealerships. As a Google SMB Premier Partner, we maximize ROI on online advertising strategy by driving engaged shoppers to Vehicle Detail Pages and converting them into high-quality leads. Over 450 dealerships across North America partner with sMedia to build traffic, maximize engagement, and drive leads and sales. What to expect from sMedia: - 100% average increase in button conversion rate on VDPs - 400% lower CPC compared to other vendors in the industry - 97% increase in VDP form fill out sMedia has been recognized as the fastest growing top Google Certified Agency in 2014 and 2015.

ScribbleLive

Debt Financing in 2018
ScribbleLive is a content cloud provider that helps companies manage the lifecycle of their content. It provides global brands with the services and solutions they need to create premium content at scale. The company's managed services provide clients with program and campaign coverage including dashboards and program reporting. Its services offered includes content strategy, creative services, implementation, integration, and IT support. ScribbleLive was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

Thentia Cloud

Debt Financing in 2018
Thentia Corporation is an industry leader in using proprietary technology to help regulatory bodies efficiently fulfill their regulatory obligations. Thentia services a wide variety of clients throughout Canada and the United States using cutting-edge software and industry-leading expertise in regulatory standards.

Daisy Intelligence

Seed Round in 2018
Daisy is an AI software company that delivers explainable Decisions-as-a-Service for retail merchandise planning and insurance risk management. Daisy’s unique autonomous (no code, no infrastructure, no data scientists, no bias) AI system elevates your employees, enabling them to focus on delivering your mission, servicing your customers, and creating shareholder value. In retail, the Daisy system will deliver promotional item selection, dynamic price optimization for regular and promotional prices, improved demand forecasting and inventory allocation, and optimized assortment plans. For insurance clients, the Daisy system detects and avoids fraudulent claims while enabling claims automation, minimizing human intervention in claims processing. Daisy’s solutions deliver verifiable financial results with a minimum net income return on investment of 10X.

Q4

Series C in 2018
Q4 help IROs better connect with their investors, make more effective decisions, and understand the capital markets. They create an online presence for the investor program and also help to engage with the global audience virtually.

Eventbase

Series B in 2018
Eventbase is the leading mobile event technology platform for global brands. Half of the top 20 technology companies in the world trust Eventbase to power their Enterprise Event Apps. Current customers include IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, SAP, Century 21 and TD Ameritrade. We also power official apps for many of the largest events on earth including SXSW, CES, Comic-Con, Sundance and three Olympic Games. The Eventbase Platform is uniquely positioned to meet the needs of global enterprises. We deliver visually-rich and engaging mobile event apps that can support the entire portfolio of conferences and meetings that an enterprise hosts every year. Eventbase is a leader in innovation, pioneering the “Intelligent Event App” with technologies such as an Advanced Chat Bot and Recommendation Engine, and the use of proximity beacons for Hyper-local Networking and Indoor Location. We've been named “Best Event App” by the Event Technology Awards for four consecutive years, and in 2017 we won a Webby Award for "Best Event App". Founded in 2009, Eventbase has received investment from SXSW Tech LLC and Madrona Venture Group. Our head office is located in beautiful Vancouver, Canada and we have an office in London, UK, servicing the EMEA region.

Explorance

Debt Financing in 2018
At Explorance, we believe that feedback matters. From students in higher education to employees at the workplace, feedback is a vital part of the lifelong learner’s journey. That’s why Explorance’s mission is to help organizations create a personalized journey of impact and fulfillment for their people through innovative Journey Analytics solutions. With the Blue suite of feedback gathering and analysis solutions, and the Metrics That Matter (MTM) learning effectiveness solution, organizations can gather the insights they need to make the best decisions possible when it comes to recruiting, engaging, and retaining their key stakeholders. As the world’s largest provider of Journey Analytics solutions, Explorance partners with more than 750 organizations in 45 countries, including 35% of the Fortune 100 and over 25% of the QS top 100 higher education institutions. We believe in the human touch at Explorance and are known for our pioneering Culture of Free Will built on autonomy, empowerment, and trust. To our employees, this means the freedom to bring achievement into their own lives. For our customers, it means caring for their needs and helping them succeed. For our communities, it means doing our part to help our neighbors simply because it’s the right thing to do. Explorance is ranked the #2 best workplace in Canada by the Great Places to Work® Institute and is headquartered in Montreal with business units in Chicago, Chennai, Melbourne, Amman, and London.

Introhive

Venture Round in 2018
Introhive offers a SaaS platform that helps organizations increase revenues and improve customer experience management. Its platform brings relationship intelligence into CRM with data automation and sales acceleration. The company also provides an enterprise relationship management (ERM) solution that helps get relationship insights and boost productivity. It was founded in 2012 by Jody Glidden and Stewart Walchli and is based in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Rise People

Debt Financing in 2018
Rise People, Inc. provides a comprehensive suite of human resources, benefits, and payroll management software solutions designed to streamline HR processes for businesses. The company offers a human resource information system (HRIS) that manages company and employee data, including contracts, tax documents, job descriptions, and performance evaluations. Its products also include a platform for group benefit insurance plans and an online payroll system that addresses payroll discrepancies, benefits deductions, and retirement savings plan matching. Rise People’s solutions facilitate tax remittances, compliance, direct deposits, pay stubs, vacation tracking, and benefits administration. Additionally, the company offers RISE lite, a payroll software tailored for small businesses. Founded in 2011 and based in Vancouver, Canada, Rise People was previously known as PaySavvy Canada Inc.

Placements.io

Seed Round in 2018
Placements.io is a modern revenue management platform for sellers of digital advertising. Our platform manages orders, inventory, billing, and integrations for direct and programmatic channels. Our marquee customers drive more revenue and reduce their costs of operations. Placements.io is trusted by companies such as Cargurus.com, Fortune, IAC, Sky Broadcasting, TEGNA, and Walmart, to manage over $6 billion dollars in revenue as they build the future of their business on our platform. Placements.io is based in Seattle with offices in NYC, London, and Taipei. Our investors include Revel Partners and Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital.

Trackstreet

Seed Round in 2017
TrackStreet is an authentic brand partner. TrackStreet uses extensive industry understanding and cutting-edge technology to provide businesses with a major competitive advantage. The platform saves time and provides actionable data that boosts. They collaborate closely with clients to create solutions that solve their business problems and help them grow faster.

MetroQuest

Debt Financing in 2017
MetroQuest is a leading smart citizen survey solution to engage thousands in planning. Governments and firms trust MetroQuest to deliver visual online surveys that educate the public and collect informed input. The resulting actionable insights build support for the adoption of great urban and transportation plans. Maximize Participation! Tired of input from the same narrow group of people? With MetroQuest, you can broaden your reach, engaging with 1,000 to 10,000-plus citizens online. MetroQuest surveys are fast, fun, and delightful on any device. Collect Informed Input! MetroQuest weaves in education using a highly visual and interactive experience to collect informed input. Citizens learn about alternatives and trade-offs based on their priorities, helping them understand the impact of their choices. Deliver Actionable Insights! MetroQuest delivers actionable insights, empowering planners to design better places. Armed with quantifiable, trustworthy input from thousands of citizens, elected officials gain confidence to move plans forward. www.metroquest.com

Q4

Debt Financing in 2017
Q4 is a SaaS platform that provides advanced communication and intelligence solutions to investor relations officers and the C-suite of public companies. With the goal of improving the effectiveness of investor relations through innovative, forward-thinking website solutions, the Q4 team designed an alternative approach to IR websites that put storytelling first and emphasized intuitive corporate reporting. Q4 is a trusted partner to over 2,200 of the world’s largest brands. Q4’s comprehensive portfolio of IR communications, intelligence and corporate access solutions, supported by an industry-leading customer experience model, empower customers to build impactful and strategic IR programs

Strongpoint

Debt Financing in 2017
Strongpoint provides companies with Netsuite and Salesforce to manage change in their systems, enabling them to drive growth with confidence and certainty.

Pressly

Debt Financing in 2017
Pressly is a smart online platform that helps you aggregate the right content for your audience and establish your brand as a thought leader in your industry. Content is exactly like your audience: It’s all over the web, pinging from social networks to blogs via corporate websites and emails. Pressly allows all of this to happen in a single place: your hub.

OMsignal

Debt Financing in 2016
Omsignal manufactures bio-sensing clothing that connects to iPhones and iPads in real-time. Embedded sensors in the apparel monitor heart rate, breathing, and activity while the Omsignal app displays data in real-time on a mobile phone. OMsignal fits seamlessly into everyday life. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

Statflo

Debt Financing in 2016
Statflo enables retailers to augment their human workers and turn their idle time into time they can use to build 1:1 real relationships with past customers using the leading compliant messaging platform. Customers of Statflo achieve double-digit increases in sales within 60 days, increase in-store appointments, increase customer LTV and can foster a path to purchase using outreach.

OutsideIQ

Debt Financing in 2016
OutsideIQ develops innovative artificial intelligence solutions that use big data to address complex risk-based questions and problems. Founded by a former Microsoft search technology strategist, the OutsideIQ team includes data scientists, mathematicians, big data professionals, and software engineers that are experts in machine learning and natural language processing, OutsideIQ partners with industry experts in its markets to not only go to market but also to teach the software to think and act like an underwriter, researcher, investigator or analyst charged with making risk-based assessments.

4C Insights

Series C in 2016
4C is building the leading self-service intelligence platform for marketers to drive business outcomes across closed ecosystems. Brands, agencies, and media owners around the world trust Scope by 4C™ to surface insights about their most valuable consumers and creatives, and activate them across channels and devices. With over $2 billion in annualized advertising spend running through Scope, 4C bridges linear television, streaming video, digital commerce, and social media. Founded in 2011 and based in Chicago, 4C has staff in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Singapore. Visit www.4Cinsights.com for more information.

Strongpoint

Debt Financing in 2016
Strongpoint provides companies with Netsuite and Salesforce to manage change in their systems, enabling them to drive growth with confidence and certainty.

GroupBy

Debt Financing in 2016
GroupBy's fully cloud-native technology powers the world's most relevant and highly converting eCommerce websites. Our Saas-based, Product Discovery Platform powered by Google Cloud Vertex AI Search for Retail, provides industry-leading features for data enrichment, search, browse, recommendations, personalization, merchandising & search analytics, and is backed by our ongoing commitment to partnering with our clients. We excel with complex, large-scale B2B configurations and in dynamic, high-volume B2C scenarios. Founded in 2013, GroupBy is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and has offices in Austin, Texas.

Rise People

Debt Financing in 2016
Rise People, Inc. provides a comprehensive suite of human resources, benefits, and payroll management software solutions designed to streamline HR processes for businesses. The company offers a human resource information system (HRIS) that manages company and employee data, including contracts, tax documents, job descriptions, and performance evaluations. Its products also include a platform for group benefit insurance plans and an online payroll system that addresses payroll discrepancies, benefits deductions, and retirement savings plan matching. Rise People’s solutions facilitate tax remittances, compliance, direct deposits, pay stubs, vacation tracking, and benefits administration. Additionally, the company offers RISE lite, a payroll software tailored for small businesses. Founded in 2011 and based in Vancouver, Canada, Rise People was previously known as PaySavvy Canada Inc.

Embotics

Debt Financing in 2016
Embotics® is a global software company that develops and markets Embotics vCommanderTM, a Virtualization and Cloud Management Platform (CMP) that empowers businesses to leverage a comprehensive set of multi-hypervisor virtualization and cloud management capabilities. Embotics vCommander is an easy-to-use, integrated CMP with the fastest time-to-value in the industry—it can be implemented within one hour. It allows mid-sized to large IT organizations to deliver IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) while continuously monitoring the virtual data center to optimize the automation, deployment and configuration of IT services within private, public and hybrid clouds. After more than seven years in business and hundreds of deployments, Embotics’ patented software has proven itself to be stable, scalable and mature—it enables a pragmatic approach to cloud computing that delivers an immediate ROI. Embotics is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with offices in the US and Europe, it also has a growing network of global partners.

Rise People

Debt Financing in 2015
Rise People, Inc. provides a comprehensive suite of human resources, benefits, and payroll management software solutions designed to streamline HR processes for businesses. The company offers a human resource information system (HRIS) that manages company and employee data, including contracts, tax documents, job descriptions, and performance evaluations. Its products also include a platform for group benefit insurance plans and an online payroll system that addresses payroll discrepancies, benefits deductions, and retirement savings plan matching. Rise People’s solutions facilitate tax remittances, compliance, direct deposits, pay stubs, vacation tracking, and benefits administration. Additionally, the company offers RISE lite, a payroll software tailored for small businesses. Founded in 2011 and based in Vancouver, Canada, Rise People was previously known as PaySavvy Canada Inc.

Unbounce

Debt Financing in 2015
Unbounce is a provider of conversion optimization tools and technology for marketers that help small and mid-size businesses optimize conversions and accelerate growth.

Datacratic

Debt Financing in 2015
Datacratic, an iPerceptions company, is a leader in providing audience data that helps enterprise brands create more effective and targeted digital marketing campaigns. Datacratic’s Audience Recognition Solution uses visitor feedback to build smarter audience segments that improve the effectiveness of retargeting campaigns. Datacratic’s Audience Optimizer scores 3rd party audiences using 1st party data signals to create high-quality look-alike audiences that increase the reach and performance of digital marketing campaigns. The world’s leading Data Management Platforms integrate with Datacratic including Oracle Data Cloud.

OMsignal

Debt Financing in 2015
Omsignal manufactures bio-sensing clothing that connects to iPhones and iPads in real-time. Embedded sensors in the apparel monitor heart rate, breathing, and activity while the Omsignal app displays data in real-time on a mobile phone. OMsignal fits seamlessly into everyday life. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

GroupBy

Debt Financing in 2015
GroupBy's fully cloud-native technology powers the world's most relevant and highly converting eCommerce websites. Our Saas-based, Product Discovery Platform powered by Google Cloud Vertex AI Search for Retail, provides industry-leading features for data enrichment, search, browse, recommendations, personalization, merchandising & search analytics, and is backed by our ongoing commitment to partnering with our clients. We excel with complex, large-scale B2B configurations and in dynamic, high-volume B2C scenarios. Founded in 2013, GroupBy is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and has offices in Austin, Texas.

OutsideIQ

Series A in 2015
OutsideIQ develops innovative artificial intelligence solutions that use big data to address complex risk-based questions and problems. Founded by a former Microsoft search technology strategist, the OutsideIQ team includes data scientists, mathematicians, big data professionals, and software engineers that are experts in machine learning and natural language processing, OutsideIQ partners with industry experts in its markets to not only go to market but also to teach the software to think and act like an underwriter, researcher, investigator or analyst charged with making risk-based assessments.

HomeStars

Debt Financing in 2014
HomeStars, Inc. operates an online platform that connects homeowners in Canada with reputable contractors and home improvement specialists. Founded in 2006 and based in Toronto, the company facilitates the search for various services, including bathroom and basement renovations, plumbing, electrical work, and cleaning services, among others. HomeStars features user-submitted ratings and reviews, allowing homeowners to evaluate potential contractors based on their reputations. This platform not only assists homeowners in finding qualified professionals for their repair and renovation needs but also serves as a marketing resource for contractors to generate leads and build their businesses. HomeStars became a subsidiary of HomeAdvisor, Inc. in 2017, further enhancing its reach and resources in the home improvement market.

Centah, Inc.

Debt Financing in 2014
Centah Inc. is a global SaaS (Software as a Service) company, providing extensive workflow, lead management and call center solutions servicing the home improvement industry. Founded in 2004, the Centah Inc. platform manages $2.5 billion CAD in sales each year, and works with some of the world largest home improvement retailers and manufacturers.

Pressly

Debt Financing in 2014
Pressly is a smart online platform that helps you aggregate the right content for your audience and establish your brand as a thought leader in your industry. Content is exactly like your audience: It’s all over the web, pinging from social networks to blogs via corporate websites and emails. Pressly allows all of this to happen in a single place: your hub.

Colligo

Debt Financing in 2013
As cloud-based technologies, mobility and remote work provide more and more flexibility to modern workers, organizations face complex new challenges in knowledge management, and information governance to support modern productivity. For over 20 years, Colligo has remained a leader in helping organizations that use SharePoint and Microsoft applications, to best utilize and protect the valuable information created and shared by their workers everyday. Our market leadership has attracted notice and in 2020, Colligo Networks Inc. was acquired by Olbia Software. The acquisition expanded our leadership, and renewed our commitment to our mission and to providing quality products and a high level of service to our customers. Colligo continues to lead the market with solutions to improve worker productivity. We bring the best of SharePoint into Outlook and everyone’s favourite Microsoft 365 apps with easy-to-use and deploy solutions that our customers count on. We are a Charter Member of the Microsoft Content Service Partner Program, a Microsoft Silver Application Development Partner, a member of the AIIM Leadership Council, and an ILTA Business Partner.

OutsideIQ

Debt Financing in 2013
OutsideIQ develops innovative artificial intelligence solutions that use big data to address complex risk-based questions and problems. Founded by a former Microsoft search technology strategist, the OutsideIQ team includes data scientists, mathematicians, big data professionals, and software engineers that are experts in machine learning and natural language processing, OutsideIQ partners with industry experts in its markets to not only go to market but also to teach the software to think and act like an underwriter, researcher, investigator or analyst charged with making risk-based assessments.

Colligo

Debt Financing in 2013
As cloud-based technologies, mobility and remote work provide more and more flexibility to modern workers, organizations face complex new challenges in knowledge management, and information governance to support modern productivity. For over 20 years, Colligo has remained a leader in helping organizations that use SharePoint and Microsoft applications, to best utilize and protect the valuable information created and shared by their workers everyday. Our market leadership has attracted notice and in 2020, Colligo Networks Inc. was acquired by Olbia Software. The acquisition expanded our leadership, and renewed our commitment to our mission and to providing quality products and a high level of service to our customers. Colligo continues to lead the market with solutions to improve worker productivity. We bring the best of SharePoint into Outlook and everyone’s favourite Microsoft 365 apps with easy-to-use and deploy solutions that our customers count on. We are a Charter Member of the Microsoft Content Service Partner Program, a Microsoft Silver Application Development Partner, a member of the AIIM Leadership Council, and an ILTA Business Partner.

Sidense

Debt Financing in 2012
Leading developer of silicon-proven embedded NVM (non-volatile memory) intellectual property (IP). Sidense's patented one-time programmable OTP memory and logic NVM enables a wide range of electronic products.

Recon Instruments

Debt Financing in 2012
Recon Instruments, an Intel company, was founded in 2008 and is the world leader in smart eyewear technology for sports and high-intensity environments. Recon’s award-winning technology is backed by an extensive patent portfolio and integrates high-contrast displays with state-of-the-art computing platforms and sensor suites. Recon’s smart eyewear technology features an Android-based operating system with an open SDK, empowering developers to create apps for an endless variety of sports and activities. Recon continues to define the smart eyewear category and is dedicated to improving athletic performance and participation in sports. Recon's Mantra: At Recon, we believe that instant information, delivered in the right context, can set us free and help us fulfill our true potential. We don’t believe in compromises. We design our products to be safe, elegant, well-balanced, and incredibly easy to use. Nothing is more important to us. Sports are a great proving ground, pushing our product designs to the limit in every respect. We carry out all aspects of product development and design in-house, from concept to final production. It’s a complex and highly multidisciplinary effort, but we believe end-to-end control of the process helps us stay true to our core principles. Our philosophy is to live the product. Every employee is also a user. We all live and breathe to drive the company’s vision, and we never get tired of breaking new ground.

Recon Instruments

Debt Financing in 2011
Recon Instruments, an Intel company, was founded in 2008 and is the world leader in smart eyewear technology for sports and high-intensity environments. Recon’s award-winning technology is backed by an extensive patent portfolio and integrates high-contrast displays with state-of-the-art computing platforms and sensor suites. Recon’s smart eyewear technology features an Android-based operating system with an open SDK, empowering developers to create apps for an endless variety of sports and activities. Recon continues to define the smart eyewear category and is dedicated to improving athletic performance and participation in sports. Recon's Mantra: At Recon, we believe that instant information, delivered in the right context, can set us free and help us fulfill our true potential. We don’t believe in compromises. We design our products to be safe, elegant, well-balanced, and incredibly easy to use. Nothing is more important to us. Sports are a great proving ground, pushing our product designs to the limit in every respect. We carry out all aspects of product development and design in-house, from concept to final production. It’s a complex and highly multidisciplinary effort, but we believe end-to-end control of the process helps us stay true to our core principles. Our philosophy is to live the product. Every employee is also a user. We all live and breathe to drive the company’s vision, and we never get tired of breaking new ground.

Clevest Solutions

Debt Financing in 2010
Clevest Solutions provides software for mobile workforce management and smart grid deployment and post-deployment operations exclusively for electric, gas and water utilities. They are specialists at enabling utilities to transform their field operations by rapidly automating and optimizing virtually any field work activity or process to improve response time and effectiveness.
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