Grape Arbor VC

Grape Arbor VC is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 and based in Grafton, West Virginia. The firm specializes in investing in startups, early stage companies, venture funds, and fund of fund investments, focusing on sectors such as advertising/marketing online, web 2.0/social networking, financial services, and software/web-enhanced services. Grape Arbor is an angel investor group comprising individuals with backgrounds in technology and startups who pool their personal finances to make angel investments. The firm targets early stage companies with a little revenue and a clear strategy for addressing a large and rapidly growing market, often investing alongside co-investors such as First Round Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Venrock. Overall, Grape Arbor has made investments in more than two dozen companies, supporting their growth and development in the tech and startup space.

Mark Kesslen

Member

Anthony O. Pergola

Founder

Raymond P. Thek

COO & Member & Co-Founder

55 past transactions

Sourcepoint

Series A in 2015
Sourcepoint Inc. develops a content compensation platform for publishers. Its platform helps publishers quantify their monetization challenges and provides technology to address the issue by enhancing the options available for consumers to support the content they love. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Seattle, Washington; and London, United Kingdom.

Clover Health

Venture Round in 2014
Clover Health is a provider of Medicare Advantage health plans to older Americans. The company operates a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) platform to improve the quality of life of its members and physicians. Its platform utilizes patient-centered analytics and a dedicated care management team to identify potential risks and directly provide preventive care, thereby enabling patients and their health care providers to reduce avoidable spending as well as identify and manage chronic diseases. Clover uses sophisticated analytics and custom software to direct its own clinical staff to proactively fill in gaps in the care of its members.

Birchbox

Series A in 2011
Launched in 2010, Birchbox is the discovery commerce platform redefining the retail process by offering consumers a personalized way to discover, sample, shop, and learn about the best products and brands available. Birchbox members have first-touch experiences with products each month and access to educational content to help them get the most out of their products. Top brands like Kiehl’s, Benefit, Deborah Lippmann, and Stila have partnered with Birchbox.

Simplifeye

Seed Round in 2016
Simplifeye provides SaaS platform for medical offices that connects wearables, like the Apple Watch, to existing health record software. - Provides a modern interface on wearable technology. - Allows providers to see a high-level view of every patient in their practice that is ready to be seen. - Displays medical alerts and overview of appointment details.

Button

Series A in 2015
Button (usebutton.com) is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet. As the leading mobile commerce enablement platform, Button powers mobile growth for the world's largest brands and publishers, while offering consumers more seamless, enjoyable experiences. With each action taken, brands make sales, publishers earn revenue, and consumers get exactly what they want at the tap of a button. Founded in 2014, Button has driven over $3 billion in spending to date and has raised over $64 million in venture capital.

Yext

Series B in 2008
Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers to consumer questions. The platform helps businesses manage all of the public facts that they want consumers to know across the digital ecosystem. It also provides precise, accurate, and current answers to location-based queries that are conducted across the web and mobile applications and voice and AI engines. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in New York.

StayTuned

Seed Round in 2019
StayTuned Digital, Inc. provides content delivery services to content creators. The company’s services include platforms integrations, content marketing, and analyzing the impact across content types and channels. StayTuned Digital, Inc. is headquartered in New York, New York.

TrueData

Series A in 2017
TrueData enhances the mobile ecosystem by connecting those who need data with those who have it. Contributors to our mobile data cooperative gain steady revenue plus insights about their users, while data clients gain a way to connect existing targeting info to real user profiles.

Mashable

Series A in 2014
Mashable is the leading media company for the Connected Generation and the voice of digital culture. Reporting on the importance of digital innovation, Mashable empowers, and inspires its readers around the globe. Since its inception in 2005, Mashable record 45 million monthly unique visitors and 28 million social media followers and are one of the most influential and engaged online communities worldwide. Mashable is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, London, and Los Angeles.

Villageluxe.com

Seed Round in 2015
Villageluxe is a peer-to-peer rental site which Forbes dubbed the "Airbnb of high end fashion." We are an invite-only, premiere luxury fashion marketplace with nearly 20,000 on the wait-list. The next disruptor in the shared economy, Villageluxe has over $10M of luxury goods listed to rent from the most coveted global fashion brands like Chanel, Celine, Saint Laurent, and more. Founded by former venture capitalist and Harvard graduate, Julia Gudish Krieger, Villageluxe was most recently recognized by "Forbes 30 under 30" for the Class of 2017. Our W Mag Feature: https://www.wmagazine.com/story/the-site-that-fashion-insiders-are-using-to-lend-out-their-designer-closets

TreSensa

Angel Round in 2012
TreSensa, Inc. is a cross-platform game development technology and services company. It focuses on providing studios and developers with a framework, tools, and support to enable them to build games that span various devices and platforms. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

Fitzroy Toys

Venture Round in 2015
Fitzroy Toys is an online B2B wholesale marketplace built to connect the toy industry.

BaubleBar

Series A in 2010
BaubleBar is changing how women shop for fashion jewelry. By offering on-trend styles and contextualizing them with strong editorial references, the company is quickly becoming the first go-to retailer within the $22bn fashion jewelry industry. BaubleBar’s core differentiating factor is its fast speed to market, recognized through its unique sourcing capabilities. The company leverages this by using real-time data to merchandise and design based on current market dynamics and consumer taste preferences. Coupling this with the high-touch customer experience and strong social media reach, BaubleBar is redefining how women think of fashion jewelry brands. BaubleBar (formerly Eight1Six) was founded by Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky in 2010 and has raised $15.6 million in equity financing to date. The Company most recently raised $10 million in Series B funding, in a round led by Burch Creative Capital, the investment firm headed by retail and fashion veteran Chris Burch. Other leading investors in the Company include Accel Partners, Greycroft Partners, Aspect Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Founder Collective, and Lerer Media Ventures.

PayPerks

Series A in 2012
PayPerks, Inc. provides sweepstakes-based award programs. Its educational rewards platform allow users to win cash prizes for learning, and taking tutorials and surveys on various topics, such as budgeting and saving, prepaid card, nutrition, and more. PayPerks, Inc. was formerly known as Arlyn Davich LLC. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York.

Band of Vintners

Seed Round in 2016
Band of Vintners Inc. owns and operates wine yards. The company produces wine under the brand name Consortium. Band of Vintners Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Yountville, California.

LiveIntent

Series B in 2011
LiveIntent is a people-based marketing technology platform changing the way over 2,000 of the world's largest brands and publishers think about email. The LiveIntent platform transforms email from something you send and receive into the simplest, most powerful way to resolve identity and market to people in a mobile-first world. It becomes your superpower, generating a private customer graph that can augment everything from acquisition to attribution while driving incremental product sales and revenue. LiveIntent is headquartered in NYC, with offices in Berlin, Chicago, Copenhagen, Austin, Detroit, Los Angeles, and the UK, serving as home to 170 people and counting.

Birchbox

Series C in 2016
Launched in 2010, Birchbox is the discovery commerce platform redefining the retail process by offering consumers a personalized way to discover, sample, shop, and learn about the best products and brands available. Birchbox members have first-touch experiences with products each month and access to educational content to help them get the most out of their products. Top brands like Kiehl’s, Benefit, Deborah Lippmann, and Stila have partnered with Birchbox.

GiftRocket

Angel Round in 2011
GiftRocket is a new type of gift card that works for any business. It combines the thoughtfulness of a gift certificate with the flexibility of cash. If you're new here, check out how it works. There's no card to carry, and if the recipient doesn't make it to the business, they can spend the money on something else.

Qapital

Seed Round in 2016
Qapital, Inc. develops a mobile application and tools for users to manage and save their money for their goals based on customizable rules. It enables users to create a Qapital account and send money from their checking account to it. The company also offers Qapital Visa Debit Card, a debit card that enables users to pay bills and withdraw money. Its application is compatible with iOS and Android. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Qapital, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Qapital Insight AB.

OpenFin

Seed Round in 2012
OpenFin Inc. provides runtime technology solutions for financial desktops. Its solution enables web applications to pop-up windows, generate real-time desktop notifications, and communicate with other applications. The company serves financial services industries and banks in the United States and Europe. OpenFin Inc. was formerly known as Appoji Inc. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in London, United Kingdom

Manicube

Seed Round in 2013
Manicube's mission is to make the lives of working women easier by revolutionizing the personal care services industries. It provides quick, affordable services to working professionals at their place of work. They currently liaise with corporate HR departments to bring in licensed nail technicians to offer 15-minute manicures in conference rooms or employee service areas. Customers book, change and pay for their appointments on manicube.com.

StayTuned

Private Placement in 2018
StayTuned Digital, Inc. provides content delivery services to content creators. The company’s services include platforms integrations, content marketing, and analyzing the impact across content types and channels. StayTuned Digital, Inc. is headquartered in New York, New York.

Elucd

Seed Round in 2018
Elucd Inc. develops software that enables cities to measure how residents feel and prioritize fixing what is not working. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Keaton Row

Series A in 2015
Keaton Row specializes in the fields of personal styling, E-commerce, fashion merchandising, and fashion editorial. It brings the one on one relationship between a stylist and a client online. The company's stylists work directly with women to help them build versatile everyday wardrobes comprised of fewer, better pieces by guiding them to make meaningful purchases each season. By styling new purchases with pieces they already own, they help them define their unique styles so they never have to wonder what to wear—or how to wear it—again. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Invite Media

Seed Round in 2008
Invite Media is a stealth mode company located in Philadelphia, PA. They are currently working with a team of Wharton statisticians to develop media buying optimization technology for the display advertising market.

Saladax Biomedical

Series B in 2009
Saladax develops rapid blood tests for point-of-care and for laboratory analyzers for use in psychiatry and oncology. The firm has been supplying laboratories and clinicians worldwide with revolutionary diagnostic solutions for more than 15 years.

Tuition.io

Seed Round in 2013
Tuition.io, Inc. operates a platform that allows users to manage their student loan portfolio. The company’s platform facilitates to view and manage federal family education loans, federal direct loans, and private loans from a variety of servicers. It also enables global companies to offer a benefit that their employees really need, while helping them attract, engage, and retain top talent. Tuition.io, Inc. was formerly known as Binksty and changed its name to Tuition.io, Inc. in July 2012. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Keaton Row

Seed Round in 2013
Keaton Row specializes in the fields of personal styling, E-commerce, fashion merchandising, and fashion editorial. It brings the one on one relationship between a stylist and a client online. The company's stylists work directly with women to help them build versatile everyday wardrobes comprised of fewer, better pieces by guiding them to make meaningful purchases each season. By styling new purchases with pieces they already own, they help them define their unique styles so they never have to wonder what to wear—or how to wear it—again. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Adaptly

Series A in 2011
Adaptly, Inc. provides digital advertising solutions. It develops tools for running ads across social networks. Its solutions include personalized planning and strategy, activation and optimization, and analysis and reporting. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; Detroit, Michigan; and London, United Kingdom. As of December 20, 2018, Adaptly, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Accenture plc.

White Street

Venture Round in 2014
Executive chef Jason Lawless (Café Gray, Tocqueville) brings his fresh, innovative cooking to White Street, a modern American restaurant from authors and media entrepreneurs Dan Abrams and Dave Zinczenko along with Christine Cole, a New York restaurant veteran. The partners’ friendship began at BONDST, where Cole was general manager for 11 years and Abrams and Zinczenko were regulars. Drawn together by their love of food and wine and their passion for the burgeoning downtown restaurant scene, the three resolved to open a restaurant of their own—one that would reflect their mutual ideal of great cuisine partnered with a smart, inspiring social setting. Executive Chef Jason Lawless was instrumental in the Fall 2014 opening of White Street, conceiving some of the restaurant’s most well-received dishes. While intrinsically American, Lawless’ cooking features clean, inviting flavors that draw upon Asian and French cultures and techniques. His enthusiasm, experience, and stout understanding of menu development serve as the backbone of White Street’s patrons’ gastronomic experience.

Spruce Media

Seed Round in 2010
Spruce Media is the leading provider of enterprise-class marketing technology that delivers real results at scale, and drives consumers from likes to influence for the most successful advertisers, agencies, and trading desks on Facebook. Recently named one of 12 Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developers, the highest distinction of excellence offered, Spruce has pushed over 300-billion impressions through its software and is the technology of choice for the largest advertisers on Facebook. Spruce has developed a robust solution integrating ad creation, bid management, analytics, and reporting into one easy to use, yet powerful interface, which can be licensed or coupled with managed services. Spruce Media is based in San Francisco and has sales offices in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., and New York.

Sols

Series A in 2014
Sols, Inc. provides orthotic insoles for foot support. Its insoles address the underlying alignment issues, promote proper gait through dynamic foot support, and relieves pressure on the plantar fascia. The company serves customers in the United States. Sols, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York. As of February 22, 2017, Sols, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Aetrex Worldwide, Inc.

Lucky Sort

Seed Round in 2012
Lucky Sort is building a Big Data visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch for exploring emergent patterns in live text streams. TopicWatch equips analysts to explore and dissect the Big Picture by visualizing news, comments, and social media. It transforms the burden of text overload into an opportunity for insightful and actionable information.

Confide

Seed Round in 2014
Confide is a messaging platform that relies on public and private encryption keys to keep messages secret while they’re in transit. With encrypted, self-destructing, and screenshot-proof messages, Confide gives users the comfort of knowing that their private communication will now truly stay that way.

Cover

Seed Round in 2013
Cover, Inc. develops a mobile dining application. It offers Cover, a dining application that handles the check, including splitting, tip, and payment at restaurants in New York City, the Bay Area, Miami, and Los Angeles. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York. As of September 22, 2015, Cover, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Velocity Mobile Limited.

Sols

Seed Round in 2013
Sols, Inc. provides orthotic insoles for foot support. Its insoles address the underlying alignment issues, promote proper gait through dynamic foot support, and relieves pressure on the plantar fascia. The company serves customers in the United States. Sols, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York. As of February 22, 2017, Sols, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Aetrex Worldwide, Inc.

SALIDO

Seed Round in 2015
SALIDO, a hospitality technology company, evolved what hospitality operators can expect from their software. SALIDO's restaurant operating system is a single platform that helps operators manage every aspect of their restaurant businesses across their enterprise. SALIDO's product enables restaurant stakeholders to control, analyze, and leverage their own critical data allowing them to focus on what drives their core business: the experience. SALIDO's mission is to improve every hospitality experience--Starting with the hospitality workforce--SALIDO partnered with top hospitality operators to deliver better, easier to use software, which truly drives team performance. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in the Noho neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, USA.

Care+Wear

Venture Round in 2016
Founded in 2014, Care+Wear is the leading provider of innovative healthwear focused on creating positive and effective healing experiences for people everywhere. Care+Wear products include ultra-soft, antimicrobial PICC line covers, chest and port access blouses, a patient gown in collaboration with Parsons School of Design, mobility gloves, a chest access hoodie in collaboration with Oscar de la Renta, a recovery bra especially designed for those undergoing mastectomies and reconstructive surgeries, and a preemie outfit for babies in the NICU in collaboration with March of Dimes. Care+Wear is a for-purpose and social-mission inspired company and partners with foundations such as Stand Up 2 Cancer, March of Dimes and the American Cancer Society. Care+Wear also has existing partnerships with Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association. For more information, visit www.careandwear.com.

Treemo Labs

Venture Round in 2012
Seattle based and founded in 2005,Treemo Labs provides an Apps publishing platform with integrated social media, social networking, location services, gaming and premium content management tools. Treemo Labs clients and partners include CBS, MTV, AT&T, T-Mobile and others. The Treemo Labs platform allows for the building and deployment of cross platform Apps with emphasis on mobile. Every instance of the Treemo Labs platform allows the quick deployment of iPhone, Android, mobile web and web applications that sit on top of the feature rich platform that includes media sharing, social networking, location, and gaming. Treemo Labs has developed and published over 25 iPhone Apps, including CBS News, and 13 CBS Local 'Owned and Operated', Seelebrity, Qwikets, Tic A Tac Poker, LimeLife and others. Treemo Labs launched CBS News for Android in March, 2010.

PHD Virtual Technologies

Series A in 2008
Delivering the highest performance and most scalable cross platform backup and monitoring solutions on the market and pioneer of Virtual Backup Appliances (VBAs), PHD Virtual Technologies has been transforming data protection for virtual IT environments since 2006. Its award-winning data protection solution, PHD Virtual Backup is used today by more than 3,500 enterprises worldwide to achieve unlimited scalability, high availability and cost effective backup and recovery for VMware and Citrix XenServer virtual machines. Its PHD Virtual Monitor provides a complete, end to end solution for monitoring virtual, physical and application infrastructures in VMware and Citrix environments. PHD Virtual also provides a suite of free virtualization utilities to assist with the administration and management of virtualized environments.

Food52

Series A in 2012
Food52 is an online portal that provides a curated shop, content and community for kitchen and home enthusiasts. It is a growing community of 13M cooks and home enthusiasts and a one-stop-shop where individuals can be inspired by great ideas and find the tools and tips to bring them to life. The company is driven by a mission to reimagine every room in the house and remake everything in it. It was founded in 2009 by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs.

BlaBlaCar

Series D in 2015
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling community, connecting people looking to travel long distances with drivers going the same way. They travel together and share the costs of the journey. The platform is engineered to create a secure, trust-based community with declared identities and full member profiles. Members can even specify how chatty they are from “Bla” to “BlaBlaBla”, hence the name BlaBlaCar. BlaBlaCar is creating a global people-powered network with a trusted community of drivers and passengers. Backed by Accel Partners, Insight Ventures, Index Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, Baring Vostok and ISAI, it operates in 22 countries across Europe, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and India. The site and free mobile apps provide a range of features to create a secure, trust-based community and easy connections between drivers and passengers. BlaBlaCar is based in Paris with offices across a dozen of countries.

Mark43

Seed Round in 2013
Mark43 creates the next generation of law enforcement software that allows police to effortlessly collect, manage, analyze, and share information. It is on a mission to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. Its intuitive software delivers cloud-first technology and data-driven insights to public safety. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York City.

FanBridge

Series A in 2010
FanBridge is a leading Fan Audience CRM platform, currently used to manage fan acquisition, retention, and engagement for more than 600 million fan relationships. Clients include the world's largest brands, premium content producers, influencers from music, sports, film, television, comedy and publishing, and YouTube channel producers - all of whom use FanBridge to grow and profit from building direct relationships with audiences across email, social media, mobile and high engagement destinations.

AppCow

Seed Round in 2015
AppCows is an intuitive and easy to use CRM solution designed for the smartphone supply chain, helping the mobile industry explore uncharted channels to smartphone users, creating recurring revenue and repeat customers through a mobile first experience.

Aviary

Venture Round in 2008
Photo-editing platform for ios, android, windows and html5

Shoptalk

Seed Round in 2015
Shoptalk is the largest conference for retail and ecommerce, globally. With the world's best agenda and speakers, we help you get smart about the innovation and trends that continue to transform the sector globally. For three years, we’ve defined the industry’s digital community by bringing established retailers and brands together with direct-to-consumer and tech startups, large tech and Internet companies, venture capital investors, real estate developers, equity analysts, media and others.

AppNexus

Seed Round in 2007
Provides trading solutions and powers marketplaces for internet advertising

Zenbe

Series A in 2008
Zenbe builds mobile and web apps around the common theme of allowing users to share contextually-specific information with a select group of people. The company's current apps include: Blacktop: an iPhone app that lets users organize your Facebook and Foursquare check-ins into "trips"—with maps, photos, and comments—that can be shared with friends in real-time. (DISCONTINUED) Phizviz: creates a visualization of your Facebook check-ins, week-by-week. You can page through weeks and compare them. Zenbe Lists: lets users share task lists from their iPhone, iPad, or the web. It was one of the first 300 iPhone apps and was called "our favorite task list" by Gizmodo. Shareflow is a simple, real-time group collaboration tool that enables groups to share ideas, files, and more, without the hassles of long email threads. Zenbe was founded in 2007 and produced a next-generation webmail suite, Zenbe Mail, which was discontinued in 2010 following a partial talent acquisition by Facebook.

SkillSlate

Seed Round in 2010
Skillslate enables consumers to find and connect with local individual businesses. Business owners get free marketing tools and leads to gain more customers.

Leo Health

Seed Round in 2015
Leo Health, Inc. develops a mobile application that provides data and health information, premium education content, and tools to help coordinate care to parents and children. Its applications enable users to send messages to child care team; schedule appointments; access child's health data; and submit school forms. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Skyfront

Seed Round in 2016
SkyFront develops long-endurance drone systems for agriculture, search and rescue, and infrastructure inspections. The company offers multi-rotor systems that enable users to gather actionable insights about crop health; and allow users to run automated remote search missions during day and night. The company is based in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Behance

Series A in 2012
Behance is an online platform that enables creative professionals to showcase and discover creative work via online portfolios. It features talent of individuals in creative industries; powers creative networks for schools and organizations; distributes work to other online galleries; enables portfolio display throughout the social web; and syncs with ProSite, a customizable personal portfolio site builder. The platform offers its services for advertising, animation, architecture, art direction, automotive design, branding, calligraphy, cartooning, character design, cinematography, computer animation, copywriting, costume design, crafts, creative direction, culinary art, digital art, digital photography, directing, drawing, editorial design, engineering, entrepreneurship, exhibition design, fashion styling, film, fine arts, furniture design, game design, graffiti, and graphic design. It also provides its services for other creative fields such as icon design, illustration, industrial design, information architecture, interaction design, interior design, jewelry design, journalism, landscape design, makeup arts, motion graphics, music, packaging, painting, pattern design, performing arts, photography, photojournalism, print design, product design, programming, retouching, sculpting, set design, sound design, storyboarding, street art, textile design, toy design, typography, user interface design, visual effects, web design, and web development. Behance serves as the backbone of AdWeek, LinkedIn, and other portfolio sites and online galleries of creative talent. Used by millions of individuals to display and find talent every month, Behance received over 50 million page views from over 9 million visitors per month by the winter of 2011. Behance was launched by Matias Corea, and Scott Belsky in September 2006 and its operations are based in New York, United States.

UpChannel

Convertible Note in 2016
Upchannel, Inc. operates as a platform that helps Internet of things manufacturers create relationships with their customers. It enables manufacturers to generate revenue and create cost savings across the life cycle of each device that they manufacture and sell. It provides features that include connect with customers, slash the cost of customer support, diagnose hardware issues, and customer needs. Upchannel, Inc. was formerly known as AppCow. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.

Flatiron Health

Series A in 2013
Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology and services company focused on accelerating cancer research and improving patient care. Our platform enables cancer researchers and care providers to learn from the experience of every patient. Currently, Flatiron partners with over 280 community cancer practices, seven major academic research centers and over 15 of the top therapeutic oncology companies.