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Robert Bagonis

Partner

41 past transactions

Praktikant

Pre Seed Round in 2023
OperativeAI for Registered Investment Advisors

Lacework

Series D in 2021
Lacework is a security platform for cloud generation that provides automated threat defense and intrusion detection for cloud workloads. Its platform automates every aspect of security, including configuration assessment, behavior monitoring, anomaly, and threat detection as well as incident investigation and provides continuous monitoring of all cloud components such as workloads, applications, processes, containers, machines, users, and accounts that enable security teams to protect data and workloads in the cloud and maintain continuous compliance. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Alchemy

Series C in 2021
Alchemy is a web3 developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications. Its mission is to provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology without the hassle of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house.

Solugen

Series C in 2021
Solugen is a venture-backed biotech company that replaces petroleum-based products with plant-derived substitutes. They combine the elements of fermentation with the elements of petrochemical processing to create the carbon negative molecular manufacturing platform. They produces chemicals from bio-based feedstocks and is based on breakthroughs in synthetic biology, metal catalyst engineering, and modular plant design. Its solutions will also address clean water, sustainable materials, safer food, and healthy personal care.

Aviridi

Seed Round in 2021
Aviridi was founded as a joint venture with BioSynthesis Company in order to make natural, high-value ingredients more accessible through Advanced Fermentation Technology. It invests opportunistically in value-added industrial and life sciences real estate. Exurban submarkets, according to Aviridi, represent the most compelling opportunities available today.

Third Haven Digital Yield Fund

Funding Round in 2021
Third Haven Digital Yield Fund is a fixed income solution that provides liquidity to the digital currency ecosystem.

Lacework

Series D in 2021
Lacework is a security platform for cloud generation that provides automated threat defense and intrusion detection for cloud workloads. Its platform automates every aspect of security, including configuration assessment, behavior monitoring, anomaly, and threat detection as well as incident investigation and provides continuous monitoring of all cloud components such as workloads, applications, processes, containers, machines, users, and accounts that enable security teams to protect data and workloads in the cloud and maintain continuous compliance. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.
Augusta Fermentation is an opportunity zone business. They recreate plant processes in microorganisms to produce natural ingredients through fermentation. Their microbial platform has been optimized to convert inexpensive sugar sources into rare and expensive ingredients with applications as flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, cosmetics, vitamins, pharmaceuticals and agricultural chemicals.

Loadsmart

Series C in 2020
Loadsmart helps shippers move their freight fast and Carriers keep trucks full. The company’s online platform enables users to get quotes, book trucks, and track their freight from pickup to delivery. Loadsmart was founded in 2014 by Felipe Capella and Ricardo Salgado and is based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Manus Bio

Series B in 2020
Manus Bio develops an advanced fermentation technology to recreate plant processes in microorganisms. Its technology helps in manufacturing complex and bioactive natural products such as flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, bio-pesticides, and pharmaceuticals.

Tanium

Private Equity Round in 2020
Tanium is a security and systems management platform that allows real-time data collection at an enterprise scale. It provides enterprise and government organizations with tools to secure, control, and manage millions of endpoints across the enterprise within seconds. The platform allows security and IT operations teams to get access to visibility and accurate information on the state of endpoints at all times to protect against modern-day disruptions and realize new levels of business resilience. Tanium was founded by David Hindawi and Orion Hindawi in 2007 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, United States.

Frore Systems

Series B in 2020
Frore Systems is a developer of thermal technology for consumer devices. The company’s active cooling chips, AirJet® Mini and AirJet® Pro, are integrated into devices to remove heat silently, resulting in major performance gains. Frore Systems is headquartered in San Jose, California with offices in Taiwan and South Korea.

BlockFi

Series C in 2020
BlockFi is a secured non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto-asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto-assets. Their products bring additional liquidity to the blockchain asset sector and meet the needs of both individuals and institutions holding blockchain assets. BlockFi holds clients' Bitcoin and Ether with a registered custodian and issues loans in USD to their bank accounts. Currently operating in beta launch, lending in 35 US states to retail investors and companies. BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. They leverage a sophisticated infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, they plan to expand their product set based on their retail and institutional client's needs.

Hydrow

Series B in 2020
Hydrow brings the experience of rowing on the water to the at-home exercise market. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company has created CREW, which brings on-water instruction from a team of expert rowers home. Founded in 2017, Hydrow is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Wasabi Technologies

Series B in 2020
Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has been recognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi has secured $495 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston.

Civis Analytics

Venture Round in 2020
Civis Analytics helps organizations use data to gain a competitive advantage in how they identify, attract, and engage their audiences. With a combination of data, cutting-edge software solutions, and an interdisciplinary team of data scientists, developers, and survey science experts, Civis works with leading public and private sector organizations to make data-driven decision-making essential to how they do business. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Mythical Games

Series A in 2019
Mythical is a next-generation game technology studio. Mythical Games believes that true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets will spawn a new generation of games. These new economies, based on digital ownership, will bring players, developers, and content creators closer to the games they love. Mythical Games has a team of veteran game and platform developers with a passion for bringing big innovative concepts to market. Its goal is to create world-class products that drive consumer adoption of distributed ledger technology through games.

HYPR

Series B in 2019
HYPR is a cybersecurity company that provides passwordless authentication for users. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to eliminate passwords and deliver lightning-fast login experiences. HYPR aims to reduce the risks associated with password-based authentication by replacing passwords with biometrics, security keys, and other strong authentication factors.

Emulate

Venture Round in 2019
Emulate is a privately held company that creates advanced in vitro models for understanding how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health.

Notable Labs

Series B in 2019
Notable Labs is a personalized testing service for cancer patients that prioritizes combinations of FDA-approved treatments that can be immediately prescribed by a doctor without a clinical trial.

what3words

Venture Round in 2019
What3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms. It has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique address made from 3 words. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot, or a drone landing point – using three simple words. What3words is helping improve businesses around the world and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations. It can be used via the free mobile app or online map. What3words can also be built into any other app, platform, or website, with just a few lines of code.

Rhone Apparel

Venture Round in 2019
Rhone was born out of a need-created to fill the void in the modern mens lifestyle offering. To provide an attire option with purpose-clothing that refuses to be designated as business or leisure or any pursuit between. For the man that values form and function alike. For the man that demands something technical enough to keep up with him in his active pursuits and stylish enough to keep up with the rest of his lifestyle. Our aim is to deliver the most premium quality mens active apparel that leaves you inspired.

Shine

Series A in 2018
Shine is a developer of a self-care communication application designed to make well-being accessible. Their application is a messaging bot that gives out life advice and positive reinforcements including actionable tips based on confidence, daily happiness, mental health, productivity, and self-care audio challenges to grow on the go through sms texts on a daily basis, enabling people with anxiety and depression to get career and life advice to take proper care of themselves.

Cognitiv

Seed Round in 2018
Cognitiv helps companies with Big Data problems get beyond analysis to decisions using Deep Learning. They specialize in industry-specific Deep Neural Network products based on a first-of-its-kind, advanced, flexible Deep Learning platform. Their mission is to be at the center of Big Data decisions throughout the world, and they are tackling Advertising, Healthcare, and Industrial IoT to start. Cognitiv's Founders, Dr. Aaron Andalman, Marc Hudacsko, and Jeremy Fain have known each other since childhood and have deep experience in neural networks, engineering, and business leadership.

Via

Series D in 2017
Via is a re-engineering public transit company that develops and provides on-demand public mobility solutions for commuters. The company transforms public transit, from a regulated system of rigid routes and schedules to a fully dynamic, on-demand network. Via's mobile app connects passengers who are headed the same way, allowing riders to seamlessly share a premium vehicle. The platform operates in the United States and in Europe through its joint venture with Mercedes-Benz Vans, ViaVan. Via's technology is deployed worldwide through partner projects with public transportation agencies, private transit operators, taxi fleets, private companies, and universities, integrating with public transit infrastructure to power cutting-edge on-demand mobility. Via's software offers an end-to-end solution for planning, optimizing, and operating efficient and equitable transit systems, thereby unlocking opportunity for all and constructing resilient cities for the future.

Blinkfire Analytics

Series A in 2017
Blinkfire Analytics uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to analyze multimedia resources and generate reports for teams, players, creator, and brands so they can better engage their fans and sponsors. Its key technology allows publishers and brands to analyze social media consumption and brand engagement, not only in text but also images and video. The platform sits in the middle of the teams, players, brands, and fans to provide intelligence on social media publishing and sponsorship sales. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Freshly

Series C in 2017
Freshly delivers gourmet ready-made meals, prepared and delivered at the door. It is dedicated to making healthy eating and achieving health and fitness goals easier than ever. They simply want to improve life by delivering fresh, healthy, and delicious meals to the doorstep. Freshly makes this possible and easier than ever by offering high-quality, professionally-prepared meals, based on the paleo principles. The experienced chefs at Freshly utilize locally-sourced and all-natural ingredients to create fresh, gourmet ready-made meals designed to optimize health. Each meal is carefully curated with all-natural ingredients that are high in protein, low in carbs and free of gluten, added sugar, artificial sweeteners, and hormones. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Rubicon

Series D in 2017
Rubicon is a digital marketplace for waste and recycling. They provide innovative software-based products for businesses and governments. They focus on developing software solutions that bring new transparency to the waste and recycling industry, encouraging customers to make data-driven decisions that lead to more efficient and effective operations as well as more sustainable outcomes.

blueBriX

Seed Round in 2016
blueBriX is a dynamic, innovative company at the forefront of transforming healthcare through digital solutions. We specialize in building integrated, value-based care technologies that enhance the efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery. Our mission is to improve patient outcomes, streamline clinical operations, and optimize revenue cycle management (RCM) with cutting-edge technology tailored for healthcare providers. At the core of blueBriX's offerings are our customizable telehealth solutions, cloud-based Electronic Health Records (EHR) platform, and advanced RCM services. These tools help healthcare practices—from small clinics to large hospitals—deliver seamless care while improving their financial performance. By integrating telehealth into traditional care settings, blueBriX enables providers to expand their reach, offering convenient care to patients wherever they are. Our secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth system is designed to be user-friendly, making it easy for both providers and patients to navigate virtual appointments. Our EHR system is designed for flexibility and ease of use, providing a comprehensive platform for managing patient data, clinical workflows, and care coordination. It enables interoperability with other healthcare systems through HL7 and FHIR standards, ensuring that data flows smoothly between different providers and platforms. This enhances both the patient experience and clinical efficiency, allowing healthcare professionals to focus on care rather than administrative tasks. blueBriX also excels in Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), offering services that cover everything from billing and claims submission to denial management and payment posting. Our advanced RCM tools are designed to reduce errors, accelerate payment processing, and improve overall cash flow for healthcare practices. With features like real-time claim scrubbing and predictive analytics, we help providers stay ahead of potential issues and maximize their revenue potential. In addition to telehealth, EHR, and RCM, blueBriX also provides tools for enhancing patient engagement. We understand that successful healthcare is not just about treatment but also about how patients interact with their providers. Our patient engagement solutions are designed to educate, communicate, and involve patients in their healthcare journey, leading to better health outcomes and higher patient satisfaction. The heart of blueBriX's technology lies in its ability to offer real-time data analytics and AI-powered insights. Our solutions allow healthcare organizations to track and measure performance across various metrics, helping them make data-driven decisions that improve patient care and operational efficiency. From predictive analytics to customizable dashboards, blueBriX empowers healthcare providers to stay on top of their practice and deliver higher quality care. We also prioritize regulatory compliance. Our systems are designed to meet the highest standards of healthcare regulation, including HIPAA, CMS, and other relevant policies. This ensures that healthcare providers using blueBriX solutions are always operating within the bounds of current healthcare laws and guidelines. blueBriX is more than just a healthcare technology company—we are a partner in driving the evolution of value-based care. With a focus on interoperability, patient engagement, and operational efficiency, our solutions are designed to meet the unique needs of healthcare providers in a rapidly changing landscape. Whether through telehealth, EHR, or RCM, blueBriX empowers providers to deliver exceptional care while optimizing their practice for long-term success.

Rachio

Series A in 2015
Rachio is a Denver-based software and hardware company focused on improving the water efficiency of homes. The company's Smart Controller enables to control outdoor sprinkler system from the palm of the user's hand, using a WiFi-enabled iOS or Android device. Rachio’s cloud-based software allows customers to manage their sprinkler systems from anywhere.

ONtheGO Platforms

Venture Round in 2015
ONtheGO Platforms is a developer of software applications for smart glasses. It offers a gesture recognition software that turns any mobile device with a standard camera into a gesture interface, for runners, and endurance athletes. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

BuyNow WorldWide

Seed Round in 2015
Headquartered in Omaha, NE with a globally structured management - at the heart of this diverse firm lies simplicity and creativity, with fundamental values creating a business philosophy second to none. The firm's BuyNow mobile-commerce application, for iPhone and Droid, enables Retailers to sell their products/services, represented as keywords, in real-time using SMS text messaging

Genome Compiler

Seed Round in 2015
Genome Compiler is a computer aided design and collaboration platforms for the synthetic biology industry. Genome Compiler Corporation provides an integrated intuitive software platform for rapid engineering of biology with its genomic manipulation tools and its optimal design experience. The Genome Compiler CAD tool allows scientists in the biotechnology, agriculture and pharmaceutical industries to design, debug and compile biological code, to develop better bio-based products faster. We strive to make the programming of living things easy and accessible.

Leap.it

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Leap2 is a social search platform that delivers relevant previews for web, images, videos, news, local listings, and more. Leap2 was founded in 2011 and is based in Kansas City, Kansas.

Pathful

Angel Round in 2014
Pathful shows marketing decision makers precisely how their conversion funnel performs against their competitors and automated insights to improve it. All without any setup, data sifting or overhead typically associated with analytics or conversion optimization solutions.

Quaddra Software

Seed Round in 2014
Quaddra Software develops file analytics technology for managing file and object data in corporate and petabyte-scale environments. We have implemented an extensible architecture built around a core of high-performance, open-source database technologies. This architecture provides three primary file analytics functions: - Scanning – both metadata and file contents - Searching – identifies files and groups of files with similar characteristics - Acting – notify, tag, copy, move and delete files

U Grok It

Angel Round in 2014
U Grok It is the missing piece to the exploding world of the Internet of Things. Our passive technology that uniquely identifies objects is a key component to digitizing and connecting the physical world. Based on standard UHF RFID U Grok It provides the easy to use way to identify, locate, track and inventory just about anything using your smartphone. U Grok It is a complete solution built on our proprietary reader that attaches to any iOS and Android device via the audio port and including vertical applications, a could-based backend that provides recurring revenues and a robust and open software development kit that allows developers tin integrate the features of RFID into their apps. U Grok It makes RFID affordable and accessible.

Drync

Seed Round in 2014
Drync Wine has been the top downloaded mobile app for wine in the world. Drync has received accolades from the New York Times, Mashable, Macworld, and others. Today, Drync manages 600,000 bottles of virtual wine for 300,000 affluent wine enthusiasts and has served over 2 million wine searches.

RABBL

Seed Round in 2014
RABBL is a social booking platform for live music. RABBL lets fans prove real demand for potential concerts by reserving tickets in artist-approved “rabbls,” votes about where and when shows should happen. Once demand for a potential show is proven, RABBL's platform connects artists, promoters, venues, and bookers so shows are booked efficiently and with less risk.

Uvize

Seed Round in 2014
Uvize specializes in offering services ranging from enterprise mentorship programs to entrepreneurship accelerators. It creates meaningful mentor relationships. Uvize online platform facilitates and guides high-impact connections, allowing mentors to give back and protege businesses and organizations to optimize the potential of specific teams.

Prompt.ly

Seed Round in 2013
Prompt.ly is the only mobile-first, scheduling, promotion and payment platform for soloprenuers, who in the US alone account for over 1 trillion dollars of economic activity each year. Solopreneurs (including chiropractors, tutors, psychologists, wedding photographers, personal trainers, and babysitters to name a few) use the platform to improve scheduling, promotion & payments. Prompt.ly allows soloprenuers to instantly market available time to existing clients & their friends via social promotion — while clients reduce the pain of scheduling and gain access to discounts for recommending their soloprenuers. The platform is mobile-first like the soloprenuers themselves, integrating the key features they need to run their business entirely on-the-go. Prompt.ly finally brings modern technology to the Invisible Economy.
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