Grotech Ventures

Grotech Ventures is a venture capital investment firm established in 1984 and based in Owings Mills, Maryland. The firm specializes in investing in high-growth technology companies across various sectors, including technology, cybersecurity, fintech, supply chain, logistics, and software applications. Grotech Ventures initially invests between $500,000 and $5 million in promising startups and reserves additional capital for follow-on investments to support companies through their early and growth stages. The firm emphasizes a collaborative, long-term partnership with entrepreneurs, aligning their definition of success with that of their partners. Grotech Ventures values the ability to contribute meaningfully to a business's development, leveraging the extensive experience, insights, and network it has built over the years.

Chuck Cullen

General Partner and CFO

Lawson DeVries

General Partner

Sharon Gogol

Vice President of Controller

Meghan Pfeifer

Director, Finance

Don Rainey

Venture Partner

Julia Taxin

General Partner

Zell, Joseph R.

General Partner

209 past transactions

Sturdy

Seed Round in 2025
Sturdy specializes in advanced software technology that transforms client communications into valuable insights. By leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence, Sturdy's platform consolidates various communication channels into a unified, searchable system, enhancing data accessibility and security. This innovative approach allows customer experience (CX) and product teams to identify preemptive signals related to cancellations, enabling them to address underlying issues such as bug reports, feature requests, and customer sentiment. Consequently, Sturdy empowers organizations to prioritize opportunities that enhance customer relationships and drive revenue growth.

Notable Systems

Series B in 2025
Notable Systems, Inc. is a Denver-based company that develops a health data platform aimed at improving healthcare IT. Founded in 2015, its technology facilitates intuitive and natural data entry, along with passive data collection, allowing healthcare organizations to efficiently capture and access health data. The platform enables seamless data access across various systems and organizations, ensuring that both patients and clinicians can retrieve necessary information easily. By utilizing an open API, Notable Systems also supports the integration of different products, further enhancing the usability and efficiency of health data management in the healthcare sector.

Krista Software

Series A in 2024
Krista Software is a developer of conversational AI-powered solutions aimed at enhancing customer satisfaction for both internal and external stakeholders. The company's innovative platform utilizes a domain-specific language to facilitate contextual conversations with employees, internal IT teams, and commercial off-the-shelf software. This approach allows businesses to automate processes more efficiently, reducing the maintenance and upkeep associated with traditional user interface-based automation systems. By leveraging advanced AI capabilities, Krista Software empowers organizations to achieve better business outcomes and build machine learning models from the ground up.

pgEdge

Seed Round in 2024
PgEdge specializes in providing distributed PostgreSQL solutions that enhance network edge performance, minimize data latency, and ensure ultra-high availability for critical applications. The company's technology features multi-master replication capabilities, allowing for active-active operations across various geographic regions. This setup enables developers to easily build and deploy highly distributed database applications within a fully managed cloud service. By integrating multi-active, multi-master, multi-region, and multi-cloud functionalities, PgEdge supports users in creating robust database environments that can efficiently operate on a global scale.

Base Operations

Series A in 2023
Base Operations Inc. specializes in providing street-level threat analysis services through a comprehensive threat intelligence platform. Founded in 2015 and based in Washington, D.C., the company aggregates and visualizes both crowdsourced and official data to assist organizations in mitigating risks and ensuring the safety of their personnel and operations in emerging markets. Their offerings include detailed threat assessments, neighborhood threat ratings, and AI-powered predictive analytics, which enable clients to gain actionable insights for improved response times and security management. Additionally, the platform features a dashboard for security personnel, facilitating communication with field employees and enhancing trip management to safeguard against potential threats.

Yardstik

Venture Round in 2023
Yardstik is a background screening platform that streamlines the vetting process for organizations by offering a combination of screening, fraud detection, and compliance products. Designed with an API-first approach, Yardstik allows businesses to seamlessly integrate background and certification checks into their operations, enhancing security and trust within their platforms. By simplifying the background check process, Yardstik helps companies save time and resources while fostering healthier business relationships and safer communities.

Cognota

Series A in 2023
Cognota is a cloud-based operations platform tailored for learning and development (L&D) teams, designed to manage all aspects of training operations in a single location. The platform simplifies training request management, enhances project planning, and facilitates collaboration with subject matter experts. By consolidating multiple tools into one, Cognota helps organizations optimize their L&D spending and improve overall productivity. Clients from various industries utilize the platform to streamline their processes, enabling their training teams to become more digital, agile, and efficient. Additionally, Cognota fosters a vibrant LearnOps Community, where L&D professionals can share insights, participate in discussions, and access curated resources to stay informed about industry trends.

Vali Cyber

Seed Round in 2023
Vali Cyber specializes in addressing Linux-specific security solutions. It secures workloads effectively, prevents attacks via hardening, and catches anything that gets through. It also minimizes the resource impact of security, saving costly computer resources for real work.

Datasembly

Series B in 2023
Datasembly, Inc. specializes in transforming web data into structured information, focusing primarily on grocery and retail pricing. Founded in 2014 and based in Washington, D.C., the company aims to collect comprehensive pricing data for every product sold in stores daily. By aggregating millions of pricing records from various retailers and online platforms, Datasembly provides valuable insights for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, retailers, and analytics firms. Its technology employs natural language processing and machine learning to convert complex data into organized reports that facilitate informed business decisions. The insights generated from this data support market research, economic indicators, and consumer applications, thereby enabling clients to navigate the volatile retail landscape effectively.

Incentivio

Series A in 2023
Incentivio is an intelligent guest engagement platform designed to enhance the restaurant experience in the digital age. It assists restaurants in acquiring new customers, increasing visit frequency and spending, and fostering loyalty among both first-time diners and returning guests. The platform operates through various channels, including web, mobile, and in-store, providing a comprehensive solution that combines online ordering, white-label restaurant apps, and loyalty programs. Additionally, it leverages machine learning for upselling, offers CDP analytics, and features a data-driven marketing suite along with guest journey management tools. By integrating these elements, Incentivio enables restaurants to lower operational costs, generate incremental revenue, and build lasting relationships with their customers.

Cloverly

Series A in 2023
Cloverly is a clean-tech startup that offers a sustainability-as-a-service platform designed to help businesses and organizations achieve carbon neutrality. By connecting online buyers to local, high-quality renewable energy, Cloverly facilitates the purchase of carbon offsets for common activities such as e-commerce shipments, ridesharing, and on-demand deliveries. The platform employs real-time calculations powered by an API to assess the carbon impact of these activities. It enables users to view the source of their offsets and utilizes an algorithm to match customers with the nearest sources of carbon avoidance or sequestration, thereby promoting localized environmental impact.

FOUNT Global, Inc.

Series A in 2023
FOUNT is a SaaS technology provider focused on identifying, quantifying, and reducing work friction. The platform leverages targeted surveys and powerful analytics to provide enterprise business leaders with actionable insights. With over 7 million friction data points available for benchmarking, these strategic insights support digital transformations, optimize AI adoption, uncover hidden organizational work friction, resolve operational challenges, and improve productivity. Founded in 2022, FOUNT has headquarters in Washington D.C., London, and Hamburg.

pgEdge

Seed Round in 2023
PgEdge specializes in providing distributed PostgreSQL solutions that enhance network edge performance, minimize data latency, and ensure ultra-high availability for critical applications. The company's technology features multi-master replication capabilities, allowing for active-active operations across various geographic regions. This setup enables developers to easily build and deploy highly distributed database applications within a fully managed cloud service. By integrating multi-active, multi-master, multi-region, and multi-cloud functionalities, PgEdge supports users in creating robust database environments that can efficiently operate on a global scale.

Speedscale

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Speedscale Inc. is a software company founded in 2020 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, that specializes in helping organizations improve application testing and performance validation. It offers a platform designed for Kubernetes engineering teams, enabling them to test new code under conditions that closely resemble production workloads. The software can collect and replay API traffic, automate performance testing, and introduce chaos to assess application behavior, all while measuring critical performance indicators such as latency, throughput, and error rates. Speedscale's approach provides a more efficient alternative to traditional testing methods, which can be time-consuming and less effective for modern distributed architectures. By creating a digital twin of real environments, Speedscale allows developers to validate application updates more effectively, reducing the likelihood of errors in production.

Apkudo

Series C in 2023
Apkudo, Inc. is a Baltimore-based company founded in 2010 that provides a comprehensive platform for managing the supply chain of connected devices, including mobile phones, tablets, and wearables. The company's solutions empower operators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to launch Android devices efficiently while optimizing the entire device lifecycle, from pre-launch to end-of-life. Apkudo's platform facilitates the secure exchange of real-time data among various stakeholders, such as mobile network operators and logistics providers, enhancing decision-making and operational processes. By offering automated testing, grading systems, and integrated resale market support, Apkudo enables businesses to maximize the value of their devices through resale, repair, and reuse, ultimately promoting revenue generation and reducing electronic waste.

Sunstone Credit

Series A in 2023
Sunstone Credit is dedicated to democratizing access to solar energy for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The company operates at the intersection of climate, finance, and technology, providing a user-friendly platform that connects SMBs with solar loan products. By collaborating with leading financial institutions and a nationwide network of solar developers, Sunstone offers streamlined, affordable financing options with flexible terms. This approach enables businesses to own their solar assets, thereby benefiting from reduced energy costs and contributing to a sustainable future. Through its services, Sunstone Credit empowers SMBs to transition to solar energy, saving money while minimizing their carbon footprint.

Parallax

Series B in 2023
Parallax, founded in 2019 and based in Edina, Minnesota, develops innovative tools designed to foster a shared perspective across organizations. The company focuses on assisting digital services firms in enhancing their profit margins, increasing revenue, and achieving sustainable growth through predictive resourcing and active forecasting. By providing a curated perspective and an integrated toolset, Parallax aims to empower growth-oriented digital service providers to make informed strategic decisions. This approach minimizes the emotional and operational challenges associated with traditional in-house tools and monolithic platforms that often isolate critical data and decision-making processes.

Tellius

Series B in 2022
Tellius, Inc. is an AI-powered business analytics platform established in 2015 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia. The platform is designed to help enterprises accelerate data-driven insights and decision-making by integrating artificial intelligence with a search-enabled interface for ad hoc exploration. Unlike traditional business intelligence tools, Tellius employs a distributed architecture that leverages Apache Spark, enabling it to handle big data efficiently. The platform automates the interpretation and analysis of data through machine learning, identifying hidden correlations, trends, and anomalies. Users can pose questions about their business data and receive immediate insights, which are presented as suggested visualizations and predictive models, facilitating a more comprehensive understanding of their operations.

Rewst

Venture Round in 2022
Rewst is a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform designed specifically for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), particularly targeting smaller firms in the sector. The platform employs low-code and no-code technology to simplify automation tasks, making it accessible for businesses that may lack extensive technical resources. By integrating with various tools such as CRM systems, ticketing systems, and accounting software, Rewst enables organizations to track performance metrics and identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements. This tailored approach helps MSPs optimize their operations and better serve their clients.

ThreatX

Series B in 2022
ThreatX is a cybersecurity company that specializes in protecting application programming interfaces (APIs) from a variety of threats, including DDoS attacks, bot attacks, and exploitation of vulnerabilities. Its cloud-based platform offers comprehensive API protection by using advanced detection capabilities to identify malicious actors and respond dynamically to threats. The company's solutions are designed to help organizations across different industries effectively manage risks and safeguard their networks from cyberattacks. By leveraging cloud-optimized infrastructure, ThreatX provides essential tools for bot management and mitigation of distributed denial-of-service attacks, enabling businesses to maintain secure operations and communication.

CrowdStreet

Venture Round in 2022
CrowdStreet, Inc. operates an online marketplace that facilitates commercial real estate investments by connecting accredited investors with institutional-quality projects. Founded in 2013 and based in Portland, Oregon, the company provides a platform that allows investors to access a diverse array of real estate investment opportunities, thereby enabling portfolio diversification. The platform offers essential tools for investors and commercial real estate firms, allowing them to review, compare, and select deals that align with their investment goals. Additionally, CrowdStreet provides investment advisory services related to its marketplace offerings, further enhancing the investment experience for individual investors seeking to participate in the commercial real estate sector.

Sturdy

Seed Round in 2022
Sturdy specializes in advanced software technology that transforms client communications into valuable insights. By leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence, Sturdy's platform consolidates various communication channels into a unified, searchable system, enhancing data accessibility and security. This innovative approach allows customer experience (CX) and product teams to identify preemptive signals related to cancellations, enabling them to address underlying issues such as bug reports, feature requests, and customer sentiment. Consequently, Sturdy empowers organizations to prioritize opportunities that enhance customer relationships and drive revenue growth.

Ceritas

Seed Round in 2022
Ceritas specializes in critical infrastructure cybersecurity by offering a vulnerability analysis and remediation platform. The company utilizes HBOM/DBOM technology to map operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) components, identifying hardware vulnerabilities down to the subcomponent level. This platform provides an intuitive rating system that helps organizations assess their risk exposure and take actionable steps to mitigate cyber-physical risks. By effectively shrinking the attack surface, Ceritas supports companies in protecting their critical infrastructure from potential cyber threats.

EcoMap

Seed Round in 2022
EcoMap specializes in developing data and AI-driven solutions that enhance entrepreneurial ecosystems by centralizing vital information. The company partners with ecosystem builders, government agencies, and social impact organizations to improve resource connectivity. Its platform utilizes advanced algorithms to aggregate information about local organizations, resources, and activities, creating a continuously updated community hub. This enables entrepreneurs to easily access the resources they need to thrive within their local environments, while also personalizing and analyzing opportunities for various stakeholders involved in the ecosystem.

ShardSecure

Series A in 2022
ShardSecure, Inc. is a data protection company that specializes in cloud data security solutions. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, ShardSecure utilizes its proprietary Microshard technology to enhance the security of sensitive data stored and shared in the cloud. This technology fragments data into small pieces that are distributed across multiple cloud environments and combined with false shards, making it nearly impossible for cybercriminals to reassemble the original information. By deploying as a virtual storage appliance, Microshard serves as an application-agnostic solution that provides an additional layer of defense against potential misconfigurations in cloud settings. ShardSecure integrates with major cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, Google, and IBM, offering enterprises and government agencies a simplified approach to data security without the complexities associated with traditional encryption methods.

Sunstone Credit

Seed Round in 2022
Sunstone Credit is dedicated to democratizing access to solar energy for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The company operates at the intersection of climate, finance, and technology, providing a user-friendly platform that connects SMBs with solar loan products. By collaborating with leading financial institutions and a nationwide network of solar developers, Sunstone offers streamlined, affordable financing options with flexible terms. This approach enables businesses to own their solar assets, thereby benefiting from reduced energy costs and contributing to a sustainable future. Through its services, Sunstone Credit empowers SMBs to transition to solar energy, saving money while minimizing their carbon footprint.

Apkudo

Venture Round in 2022
Apkudo, Inc. is a Baltimore-based company founded in 2010 that provides a comprehensive platform for managing the supply chain of connected devices, including mobile phones, tablets, and wearables. The company's solutions empower operators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to launch Android devices efficiently while optimizing the entire device lifecycle, from pre-launch to end-of-life. Apkudo's platform facilitates the secure exchange of real-time data among various stakeholders, such as mobile network operators and logistics providers, enhancing decision-making and operational processes. By offering automated testing, grading systems, and integrated resale market support, Apkudo enables businesses to maximize the value of their devices through resale, repair, and reuse, ultimately promoting revenue generation and reducing electronic waste.

Yardstik

Series A in 2022
Yardstik is a background screening platform that streamlines the vetting process for organizations by offering a combination of screening, fraud detection, and compliance products. Designed with an API-first approach, Yardstik allows businesses to seamlessly integrate background and certification checks into their operations, enhancing security and trust within their platforms. By simplifying the background check process, Yardstik helps companies save time and resources while fostering healthier business relationships and safer communities.

Krista Software

Series A in 2022
Krista Software is a developer of conversational AI-powered solutions aimed at enhancing customer satisfaction for both internal and external stakeholders. The company's innovative platform utilizes a domain-specific language to facilitate contextual conversations with employees, internal IT teams, and commercial off-the-shelf software. This approach allows businesses to automate processes more efficiently, reducing the maintenance and upkeep associated with traditional user interface-based automation systems. By leveraging advanced AI capabilities, Krista Software empowers organizations to achieve better business outcomes and build machine learning models from the ground up.

FactoryFix

Series A in 2022
FactoryFix Inc. is a Chicago-based company established in 2017 that operates a managed marketplace connecting manufacturing companies with a vetted network of skilled workers, including engineers, machinists, and maintenance technicians. The platform facilitates the hiring process by streamlining candidate vetting, generating job listings, and offering salary insights, thereby enabling manufacturers to find and hire skilled labor for both full-time positions and part-time projects. Job seekers can create profiles to match their skills with suitable employers, enhancing their chances of maximizing earning potential.

FOUNT Global, Inc.

Seed Round in 2022
FOUNT is a SaaS technology provider focused on identifying, quantifying, and reducing work friction. The platform leverages targeted surveys and powerful analytics to provide enterprise business leaders with actionable insights. With over 7 million friction data points available for benchmarking, these strategic insights support digital transformations, optimize AI adoption, uncover hidden organizational work friction, resolve operational challenges, and improve productivity. Founded in 2022, FOUNT has headquarters in Washington D.C., London, and Hamburg.

Exhale

Seed Round in 2021
Exhale is a company that focuses on providing human resources, financial technology, and hospitality services aimed at enhancing financial support for workers. It has developed a platform designed to promote financial wellness by offering credit solutions and low-cost loans, as well as enabling on-demand access to wages. By integrating these modern financial wellness benefits, Exhale assists employers in fostering a more supportive environment for their workforce, ultimately contributing to improved employee well-being and financial stability.

The Mom Project

Series C in 2021
The Mom Project, Inc. is a digital marketplace that connects women, particularly mothers, with flexible employment opportunities across various sectors, including marketing, finance, technology, and project management. Established in 2015 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the platform serves a community of over 500,000 moms, dads, and allies, facilitating access to job openings at both Fortune 500 companies and small businesses. In addition to matching jobseekers with suitable roles, The Mom Project provides companies with insights into their workplace policies regarding women and offers recommendations to improve conditions for mothers and their employees. By promoting a more supportive work environment, The Mom Project aims to redefine career structures for women and enhance their professional potential while balancing personal goals.

Youreka

Series A in 2021
Youreka is a technology company that addresses the skills gap through its proprietary no-code mobile platform. Its Salesforce-native application is designed to simplify the creation and management of smart mobile forms and procedures at scale. Youreka develops robotic smart mobile assistants that aid frontline workers in various industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, energy and utilities, and the public sector. By facilitating knowledge-sharing, offsite assistance, analysis, and feedback, Youreka helps organizations enhance productivity and streamline operations, ultimately enabling clients to perform their jobs more safely and effectively.

Parallax

Series A in 2021
Parallax, founded in 2019 and based in Edina, Minnesota, develops innovative tools designed to foster a shared perspective across organizations. The company focuses on assisting digital services firms in enhancing their profit margins, increasing revenue, and achieving sustainable growth through predictive resourcing and active forecasting. By providing a curated perspective and an integrated toolset, Parallax aims to empower growth-oriented digital service providers to make informed strategic decisions. This approach minimizes the emotional and operational challenges associated with traditional in-house tools and monolithic platforms that often isolate critical data and decision-making processes.

Payzer

Series D in 2021
Payzer is a developer of a mobile and internet payment application designed to facilitate payments and provide credit with instant approvals. Its cloud-based platform enables customers to accept credit cards, debit cards, and electronic checks both in the field and at their home offices. With features that include real-time tracking, Payzer's solution helps contractors manage their operations more efficiently, allowing them to streamline their payment processes and enhance business growth.

ThreatX

Series B in 2021
ThreatX is a cybersecurity company that specializes in protecting application programming interfaces (APIs) from a variety of threats, including DDoS attacks, bot attacks, and exploitation of vulnerabilities. Its cloud-based platform offers comprehensive API protection by using advanced detection capabilities to identify malicious actors and respond dynamically to threats. The company's solutions are designed to help organizations across different industries effectively manage risks and safeguard their networks from cyberattacks. By leveraging cloud-optimized infrastructure, ThreatX provides essential tools for bot management and mitigation of distributed denial-of-service attacks, enabling businesses to maintain secure operations and communication.

Pet Screening

Series A in 2021
Pet Screening, LLC, founded in 2016 and based in Cornelius, North Carolina, specializes in the screening of household pets and the validation of reasonable accommodation requests for assistance animals. The company provides a platform for property owners and housing providers to effectively manage pet policies while ensuring compliance with regulations. Through its services, residents can create detailed profiles for their pets, which include vaccination records, behavioral history, and photos. This centralized storage of pet information allows landlords to make informed decisions regarding pet policies and enhances their ability to manage requests related to assistance animals.

Tellius

Series A in 2021
Tellius, Inc. is an AI-powered business analytics platform established in 2015 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia. The platform is designed to help enterprises accelerate data-driven insights and decision-making by integrating artificial intelligence with a search-enabled interface for ad hoc exploration. Unlike traditional business intelligence tools, Tellius employs a distributed architecture that leverages Apache Spark, enabling it to handle big data efficiently. The platform automates the interpretation and analysis of data through machine learning, identifying hidden correlations, trends, and anomalies. Users can pose questions about their business data and receive immediate insights, which are presented as suggested visualizations and predictive models, facilitating a more comprehensive understanding of their operations.

Rent Ready

Series A in 2021
Rent Ready is a comprehensive service provider specializing in preparing vacant apartment homes for new tenants. The company offers an online platform that streamlines the make-ready process by connecting apartment communities with skilled professionals for various services, including painting, cleaning, carpet cleaning, and refinishing of counters and tubs. By serving as a single-source vendor, Rent Ready allows property managers to coordinate all necessary preparations efficiently, eliminating the hassle of dealing with multiple contractors. This approach ensures that communities can quickly transition from move-out to move-in, enhancing customer satisfaction and improving operational efficiency.

Webscale

Series C in 2021
Webscale Networks, Inc. provides an integrated web application delivery solution designed to enhance the performance, security, availability, and compliance of e-commerce platforms. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with additional offices in Boulder, Colorado, and Bengaluru, India, the company utilizes a cloud-based infrastructure that leverages predictive analytics and big data to monitor user traffic. Its offerings include an auto-scaling application delivery controller, a Webscale API for service configuration, and a variety of features such as content optimization, security, L7 load balancing, caching, and DNS management. Webscale also offers specialized solutions like the Webscale E-commerce Cloud Platform for deploying e-commerce applications, a multi-cloud disaster recovery service, and a cloud-native bot management solution. The platform is cloud-agnostic, compatible with major cloud providers, and designed for use across diverse architectures, ensuring high performance and resilience for modern commerce applications.

ChurnZero

Series B in 2021
ChurnZero, Inc. is a software company that specializes in providing a SaaS platform tailored for subscription businesses, focusing on customer retention and reducing churn. Established in 2015 and based in Arlington, Virginia, ChurnZero's platform offers real-time insights into customer engagement through a dashboard that alerts businesses to significant activities. It enables companies to analyze how customers interact with their products, assess customer health, and predict renewal likelihood. Additionally, the platform facilitates personalized customer experiences by automating communications and tasks based on engagement metrics. Through features such as health scores, segmentation, and reporting tools, ChurnZero empowers businesses to create relevant touchpoints that enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty.

WireWheel

Series B in 2021
WireWheel, Inc. is a software company that offers a data privacy management platform designed to assist organizations in complying with data protection regulations such as the EU GDPR, Privacy Shield, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. Founded in 2016 and based in Arlington, Virginia, WireWheel provides cloud-based solutions that help global enterprises operationalize privacy and become GDPR-ready. The platform includes features for privacy program management and subject rights request management, leveraging machine learning and data science to enhance its effectiveness. Additionally, it facilitates the automatic mapping of public cloud assets and the management of third-party relationships, helping companies navigate compliance obligations while maximizing the potential of their data assets for competitive advantage.

Apkudo

Series B in 2020
Apkudo, Inc. is a Baltimore-based company founded in 2010 that provides a comprehensive platform for managing the supply chain of connected devices, including mobile phones, tablets, and wearables. The company's solutions empower operators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to launch Android devices efficiently while optimizing the entire device lifecycle, from pre-launch to end-of-life. Apkudo's platform facilitates the secure exchange of real-time data among various stakeholders, such as mobile network operators and logistics providers, enhancing decision-making and operational processes. By offering automated testing, grading systems, and integrated resale market support, Apkudo enables businesses to maximize the value of their devices through resale, repair, and reuse, ultimately promoting revenue generation and reducing electronic waste.
Perishable Shipping Solutions provides pick & pack e-commerce order fulfillment services for food and beverage brands requiring temperature-controlled storage and shipping. PSS operates from bicoastal facilities; its offerings include environmentally responsible packaging and dedicated customer success teams.

The Mom Project

Series B in 2020
The Mom Project, Inc. is a digital marketplace that connects women, particularly mothers, with flexible employment opportunities across various sectors, including marketing, finance, technology, and project management. Established in 2015 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the platform serves a community of over 500,000 moms, dads, and allies, facilitating access to job openings at both Fortune 500 companies and small businesses. In addition to matching jobseekers with suitable roles, The Mom Project provides companies with insights into their workplace policies regarding women and offers recommendations to improve conditions for mothers and their employees. By promoting a more supportive work environment, The Mom Project aims to redefine career structures for women and enhance their professional potential while balancing personal goals.

Urjanet

Series D in 2020
Urjanet is the global source for utility data. The business is on a mission to build a platform for the world's utility data and make it useful. The Urjanet Utility Data Platform transforms organizations and their decisions across industries. Urjanet's data platform integrates directly to customer applications and tooling, empowering a wide range of uses and implementations for automated utility data. Founded by a team of veteran entrepreneurs, Urjanet is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cerebro Capital

Seed Round in 2020
Cerebro Capital, Inc. is a company that has developed a web-based portal aimed at middle-market firms seeking to optimize their access to credit facilities for various purposes, including operations, growth, and acquisitions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, the platform aggregates data from over 80 lenders and employs analytics to effectively match financing needs with suitable lenders. It provides a user-friendly interface for interpreting financial data, ensuring that corporate financial teams can efficiently analyze and manage their borrowing options. By focusing on enhancing transparency in the lending process, Cerebro Capital facilitates connections between borrowers and commercial lenders, ultimately streamlining the sourcing of capital and improving the overall efficiency of corporate credit management.

CrowdStreet

Series C in 2019
CrowdStreet, Inc. operates an online marketplace that facilitates commercial real estate investments by connecting accredited investors with institutional-quality projects. Founded in 2013 and based in Portland, Oregon, the company provides a platform that allows investors to access a diverse array of real estate investment opportunities, thereby enabling portfolio diversification. The platform offers essential tools for investors and commercial real estate firms, allowing them to review, compare, and select deals that align with their investment goals. Additionally, CrowdStreet provides investment advisory services related to its marketplace offerings, further enhancing the investment experience for individual investors seeking to participate in the commercial real estate sector.

Stardog

Series B in 2019
Stardog is a privately held company based in Arlington, VA, specializing in an Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform designed to unify data and enhance business decision-making. The platform combines graph databases with an artificial intelligence-driven toolkit to address complex data unification challenges at an infrastructure level. Industry leaders such as Bosch, Ericsson, BNY Mellon, NASA, and the NIH utilize Stardog to create a flexible data layer that supports various applications, facilitating more effective digital transformations. Recognized as one of Fast Company’s most Innovative Companies of 2020, Stardog aims to convert data into actionable knowledge for its clients.

Drum

Seed Round in 2019
Drum is a gig economy platform designed to enhance the lives of users by streamlining the process for businesses to establish a sales force. Scheduled for launch in the third quarter of 2019, the platform enables businesses to mobilize sales efforts more efficiently than traditional advertising methods. Additionally, Drum provides a creator platform that allows individuals to manage their own stores, engage with followers, and monetize their content. Through in-app analytics, creators can sell both digital and physical products directly on their profile pages, allowing them to concentrate on their creative pursuits while maximizing their earning potential.

Tethr

Venture Round in 2019
Tethr enables the enterprise to make smarter business decisions based on the true Voice of the Customer, with an AI-driven communications intelligence platform that listens to and analyzes every customer conversation and surfaces contextual understanding and insights from the data. Based on over a decade of best-practice CX research, Tethr gives organizations the ability to measure what matters and share the voice of the customer insights across the organization to directly impact sales results, customer loyalty, operating costs, compliance, and risk.

XOi Technologies

Series C in 2019
XOi Technologies specializes in developing firmware and software solutions for wearable devices tailored for blue-collar industries, particularly in field service sectors such as electrical, mechanical, and plumbing. The company offers a comprehensive cloud-based platform known as XOEye Vision Cloud, which supports mobile device management and enterprise applications for wearable computing. Its product suite includes the XOEye Vision Runtime Environment, which facilitates interaction with wearable applications through various input methods, and XOEye Vision Telepresence, which enhances enterprise communications. Additionally, XOi Technologies provides a service portal for managing wearable devices, applications, and sensor data. The company employs advanced technologies, including natural language processing and machine learning, to improve data capture, communication, and customer service, ultimately aiming to transform workflows and enhance transparency in field operations. Founded in 2010 and based in Nashville, Tennessee, XOi Technologies was previously known as XOEye Technologies, Inc.

Backbone PLM

Series A in 2019
Backbone PLM, Inc. provides a cloud-based product lifecycle management solution specifically designed for the fashion and consumer goods industries. Founded in 2014 and based in Greeley, Colorado, Backbone PLM offers a comprehensive platform that facilitates product development through features such as file management, storage, and collaboration tools. Its offerings include a tech pack editor to centralize product data, customizable product templates, and project file storage capabilities. The platform aims to streamline complex design and development processes, enabling teams to manage product information effectively and collaborate seamlessly with suppliers. By improving efficiency and reducing time to market, Backbone PLM supports brands in innovating and scaling their product offerings.

Webscale

Series B in 2019
Webscale Networks, Inc. provides an integrated web application delivery solution designed to enhance the performance, security, availability, and compliance of e-commerce platforms. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with additional offices in Boulder, Colorado, and Bengaluru, India, the company utilizes a cloud-based infrastructure that leverages predictive analytics and big data to monitor user traffic. Its offerings include an auto-scaling application delivery controller, a Webscale API for service configuration, and a variety of features such as content optimization, security, L7 load balancing, caching, and DNS management. Webscale also offers specialized solutions like the Webscale E-commerce Cloud Platform for deploying e-commerce applications, a multi-cloud disaster recovery service, and a cloud-native bot management solution. The platform is cloud-agnostic, compatible with major cloud providers, and designed for use across diverse architectures, ensuring high performance and resilience for modern commerce applications.

ChurnZero

Series A in 2019
ChurnZero, Inc. is a software company that specializes in providing a SaaS platform tailored for subscription businesses, focusing on customer retention and reducing churn. Established in 2015 and based in Arlington, Virginia, ChurnZero's platform offers real-time insights into customer engagement through a dashboard that alerts businesses to significant activities. It enables companies to analyze how customers interact with their products, assess customer health, and predict renewal likelihood. Additionally, the platform facilitates personalized customer experiences by automating communications and tasks based on engagement metrics. Through features such as health scores, segmentation, and reporting tools, ChurnZero empowers businesses to create relevant touchpoints that enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Pet Screening

Seed Round in 2019
Pet Screening, LLC, founded in 2016 and based in Cornelius, North Carolina, specializes in the screening of household pets and the validation of reasonable accommodation requests for assistance animals. The company provides a platform for property owners and housing providers to effectively manage pet policies while ensuring compliance with regulations. Through its services, residents can create detailed profiles for their pets, which include vaccination records, behavioral history, and photos. This centralized storage of pet information allows landlords to make informed decisions regarding pet policies and enhances their ability to manage requests related to assistance animals.

Racktop Systems

Series A in 2019
RackTop Systems, Inc. specializes in designing and developing advanced data center solutions. The company offers a range of products, including BrickStor Iron, an enterprise storage platform known for its scalability and performance; BrickStor Titanium, tailored for private cloud environments; and BrickStor zFLASH, a flash storage solution that provides high input/output operations per second with low latency. Additionally, RackTop develops OSP, which facilitates OpenStack Swift Object storage, and FlexBox, a stackable appliance integrating networking, compute, and storage. The vBox solution simplifies the implementation of virtual desktop infrastructure. RackTop also provides MyRacktop, a secure multi-tenant cloud, alongside enterprise backup and recovery appliances. The company offers consulting services encompassing architecture design, data storage optimization, and IT project management. RackTop serves various sectors, including advertising, banking, education, and government. Founded in 2010 and based in Fulton, Maryland, RackTop is recognized for its innovative data security solutions, notably the BrickStor SP, which employs a Zero Trust model to protect against cyber threats, including ransomware and insider attacks, while aligning with the NIST cybersecurity framework.

Cloud Elements

Series C in 2019
Cloud Elements Inc. specializes in cloud-to-cloud application programming interface (API) integration and aggregation services. Founded in 2012 and based in Denver, Colorado, the company offers a comprehensive API integration platform that facilitates the connection, monitoring, and maintenance of various third-party cloud services. This platform includes features such as data transformations, API provisioning, usage monitoring, and event notifications, allowing developers to seamlessly integrate multiple applications into customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation systems. Additionally, Cloud Elements provides consulting services, including design assessments and application development, catering to startups, software as a service (SaaS) vendors, and enterprise departments globally.

Threater

Series A in 2019
Threater is a cybersecurity platform focused on active network defense, designed to automate the discovery, enforcement, and analysis of cyber threats at scale. The platform offers various solutions that proactively protect organizations from cyber threats by effectively blocking all known threats. This capability enhances the efficiency of existing cybersecurity measures, allowing them to operate more effectively. Threater's innovative approach aims to safeguard organizations against the evolving landscape of cyber threats, thereby improving overall security.

The Mom Project

Series A in 2018
The Mom Project, Inc. is a digital marketplace that connects women, particularly mothers, with flexible employment opportunities across various sectors, including marketing, finance, technology, and project management. Established in 2015 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the platform serves a community of over 500,000 moms, dads, and allies, facilitating access to job openings at both Fortune 500 companies and small businesses. In addition to matching jobseekers with suitable roles, The Mom Project provides companies with insights into their workplace policies regarding women and offers recommendations to improve conditions for mothers and their employees. By promoting a more supportive work environment, The Mom Project aims to redefine career structures for women and enhance their professional potential while balancing personal goals.

Payzer

Series C in 2018
Payzer is a developer of a mobile and internet payment application designed to facilitate payments and provide credit with instant approvals. Its cloud-based platform enables customers to accept credit cards, debit cards, and electronic checks both in the field and at their home offices. With features that include real-time tracking, Payzer's solution helps contractors manage their operations more efficiently, allowing them to streamline their payment processes and enhance business growth.

Cloud Elements

Corporate Round in 2018
Cloud Elements Inc. specializes in cloud-to-cloud application programming interface (API) integration and aggregation services. Founded in 2012 and based in Denver, Colorado, the company offers a comprehensive API integration platform that facilitates the connection, monitoring, and maintenance of various third-party cloud services. This platform includes features such as data transformations, API provisioning, usage monitoring, and event notifications, allowing developers to seamlessly integrate multiple applications into customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation systems. Additionally, Cloud Elements provides consulting services, including design assessments and application development, catering to startups, software as a service (SaaS) vendors, and enterprise departments globally.

ShipMonk

Series A in 2018
ShipMonk, Inc. specializes in providing order fulfillment solutions tailored for the e-commerce sector. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Bernardino, Florida, with additional facilities in Los Angeles, California, and Pittston, Pennsylvania, the company offers a cloud-based software platform that manages inventory, orders, shipping, and warehouse operations. ShipMonk's services encompass various fulfillment needs, including e-commerce, retail, subscription boxes, crowdfunding, and seller fulfillment. By integrating with sales channels, ShipMonk aims to simplify the shipping and fulfillment process, allowing small and medium-sized businesses to concentrate on brand development and growth. Its technology tools are designed to facilitate efficient inventory management, thereby enhancing operational effectiveness in today's global economy.

WireWheel

Series A in 2018
WireWheel, Inc. is a software company that offers a data privacy management platform designed to assist organizations in complying with data protection regulations such as the EU GDPR, Privacy Shield, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. Founded in 2016 and based in Arlington, Virginia, WireWheel provides cloud-based solutions that help global enterprises operationalize privacy and become GDPR-ready. The platform includes features for privacy program management and subject rights request management, leveraging machine learning and data science to enhance its effectiveness. Additionally, it facilitates the automatic mapping of public cloud assets and the management of third-party relationships, helping companies navigate compliance obligations while maximizing the potential of their data assets for competitive advantage.

Threater

Series A in 2018
Threater is a cybersecurity platform focused on active network defense, designed to automate the discovery, enforcement, and analysis of cyber threats at scale. The platform offers various solutions that proactively protect organizations from cyber threats by effectively blocking all known threats. This capability enhances the efficiency of existing cybersecurity measures, allowing them to operate more effectively. Threater's innovative approach aims to safeguard organizations against the evolving landscape of cyber threats, thereby improving overall security.

Backbone PLM

Series A in 2018
Backbone PLM, Inc. provides a cloud-based product lifecycle management solution specifically designed for the fashion and consumer goods industries. Founded in 2014 and based in Greeley, Colorado, Backbone PLM offers a comprehensive platform that facilitates product development through features such as file management, storage, and collaboration tools. Its offerings include a tech pack editor to centralize product data, customizable product templates, and project file storage capabilities. The platform aims to streamline complex design and development processes, enabling teams to manage product information effectively and collaborate seamlessly with suppliers. By improving efficiency and reducing time to market, Backbone PLM supports brands in innovating and scaling their product offerings.

CrowdStreet

Series B in 2018
CrowdStreet, Inc. operates an online marketplace that facilitates commercial real estate investments by connecting accredited investors with institutional-quality projects. Founded in 2013 and based in Portland, Oregon, the company provides a platform that allows investors to access a diverse array of real estate investment opportunities, thereby enabling portfolio diversification. The platform offers essential tools for investors and commercial real estate firms, allowing them to review, compare, and select deals that align with their investment goals. Additionally, CrowdStreet provides investment advisory services related to its marketplace offerings, further enhancing the investment experience for individual investors seeking to participate in the commercial real estate sector.

Optoro

Series E in 2018
Optoro, Inc. operates a robust reverse logistics platform aimed at managing distressed inventory for retailers, manufacturers, and third-party providers. Established in 2004 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., with an additional location in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, Optoro specializes in asset recovery solutions, facilitating the remarketing of customer returns, overstock, and refurbished products through various online channels. The company offers a comprehensive returns management system that encompasses the entire returns lifecycle, from initiation to resale, while also providing inventory management services including warehousing, fulfillment, and eco-friendly disposal. By leveraging data analytics and multi-channel marketing, Optoro enables clients to optimize the recovery of returned and excess inventory, thereby minimizing environmental waste and enhancing operational efficiency. The company serves a diverse clientele both in the United States and internationally.

Payzer

Series B in 2018
Payzer is a developer of a mobile and internet payment application designed to facilitate payments and provide credit with instant approvals. Its cloud-based platform enables customers to accept credit cards, debit cards, and electronic checks both in the field and at their home offices. With features that include real-time tracking, Payzer's solution helps contractors manage their operations more efficiently, allowing them to streamline their payment processes and enhance business growth.

Ceterus

Series B in 2018
Ceterus, Inc. is a technology company that focuses on providing web-based accounting and financial reporting solutions. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, with an additional office in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Ceterus offers its proprietary cloud-based software, Ceterus Edge. This platform automates bookkeeping and financial reporting, delivering timely and accurate insights, peer benchmarks, and key performance metrics to various industries, including restaurants, fitness, wellness, retail, education, and beauty. Ceterus empowers entrepreneurs by enabling them to monitor their business health, compare financial performance with peers, and make informed decisions through real-time data and alerts.

ThreatX

Series A in 2018
ThreatX is a cybersecurity company that specializes in protecting application programming interfaces (APIs) from a variety of threats, including DDoS attacks, bot attacks, and exploitation of vulnerabilities. Its cloud-based platform offers comprehensive API protection by using advanced detection capabilities to identify malicious actors and respond dynamically to threats. The company's solutions are designed to help organizations across different industries effectively manage risks and safeguard their networks from cyberattacks. By leveraging cloud-optimized infrastructure, ThreatX provides essential tools for bot management and mitigation of distributed denial-of-service attacks, enabling businesses to maintain secure operations and communication.

Voci

Series B in 2018
Voci specializes in advanced speech recognition technology that transforms voice data into actionable insights for businesses. By employing AI and deep learning algorithms, Voci delivers highly accurate transcriptions and provides valuable insights related to gender, sentiment, emotion, and speaker biometrics. Their solutions are particularly beneficial for companies in regulated industries, enabling them to ensure compliance and monitor call center agents effectively. Voci's technology also generates readable automatic speech-to-text outputs for telecommunications, enhancing customer interactions. Ultimately, Voci helps organizations improve customer experiences, optimize contact center efficiency, and manage risks associated with fraud and compliance violations.

TaskEasy

Series C in 2017
TaskEasy, Inc. operates a Software-as-a-Service platform that connects property owners with contractors for various home and property maintenance services, including lawn mowing, snow removal, and pool cleaning. Founded in 2011 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, the company simplifies the process of hiring service providers by facilitating communication, pricing, scheduling, payment, and dispute resolution. The platform is designed to streamline exterior maintenance, making it as convenient as online shopping. TaskEasy serves a diverse clientele, including homeowners, renters, property managers, and contractors across the United States. By establishing fair market prices and ensuring quality service, TaskEasy enhances the experience for both customers and service providers while eliminating traditional barriers such as advertising and bidding.

Stardog

Series A in 2017
Stardog is a privately held company based in Arlington, VA, specializing in an Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform designed to unify data and enhance business decision-making. The platform combines graph databases with an artificial intelligence-driven toolkit to address complex data unification challenges at an infrastructure level. Industry leaders such as Bosch, Ericsson, BNY Mellon, NASA, and the NIH utilize Stardog to create a flexible data layer that supports various applications, facilitating more effective digital transformations. Recognized as one of Fast Company’s most Innovative Companies of 2020, Stardog aims to convert data into actionable knowledge for its clients.

Tethr

Series A in 2017
Tethr enables the enterprise to make smarter business decisions based on the true Voice of the Customer, with an AI-driven communications intelligence platform that listens to and analyzes every customer conversation and surfaces contextual understanding and insights from the data. Based on over a decade of best-practice CX research, Tethr gives organizations the ability to measure what matters and share the voice of the customer insights across the organization to directly impact sales results, customer loyalty, operating costs, compliance, and risk.

DirectScale

Series B in 2017
DirectScale, Inc. is a software as a service (SaaS) company that offers a comprehensive platform designed for direct sales organizations. Founded in 2013 and based in Lindon, Utah, DirectScale provides tools for managing essential functions such as sales tracking, commission management, data analysis, downline management, training, and e-commerce. The platform allows users to customize their experience without needing external development resources, reducing costs associated with custom solutions. It supports both mobile and desktop use, facilitating communication among teams and offering eCommerce capabilities to enhance sales and revenue generation. DirectScale aims to empower businesses in the multi-level marketing sector by enabling them to effectively scale their operations regardless of size or sales model.

ICX Media

Series A in 2017
ICX Media, Inc. is a media company based in Washington, D.C., that specializes in a software and data platform designed for independent video content creators and media companies. The platform enables creators to produce, distribute, and market their digital videos across various channels, including web, mobile, and connected TV. By leveraging machine learning and data analytics, ICX Media provides insights that help clients understand audience engagement, allowing brands, media companies, and agencies to create and target compelling video content more effectively. The company's services cater to both amateur and professional video producers, facilitating the licensing and distribution of digital content while optimizing the overall monetization process. Through its innovative approach, ICX Media aims to transform the way video content is created and engaged with in the digital landscape.

Airside

Series A in 2017
Airside Mobile develops a digital identity platform that enables businesses and consumers to manage their personal information securely and privately. The platform allows users to store personal documents digitally and authenticate their identification efficiently, providing them with control over how and when their information is shared. With a focus on privacy-by-design and advanced security measures, Airside's technology is trusted by significant entities, including the US government and major airlines. This innovative approach enhances user trust by allowing for the reusability of digital identification, facilitating seamless interactions across various services and locations while safeguarding individual privacy.

ChurnZero

Seed Round in 2017
ChurnZero, Inc. is a software company that specializes in providing a SaaS platform tailored for subscription businesses, focusing on customer retention and reducing churn. Established in 2015 and based in Arlington, Virginia, ChurnZero's platform offers real-time insights into customer engagement through a dashboard that alerts businesses to significant activities. It enables companies to analyze how customers interact with their products, assess customer health, and predict renewal likelihood. Additionally, the platform facilitates personalized customer experiences by automating communications and tasks based on engagement metrics. Through features such as health scores, segmentation, and reporting tools, ChurnZero empowers businesses to create relevant touchpoints that enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Adwerx

Series A in 2017
Adwerx, Inc. is a digital advertising platform based in Durham, North Carolina, that specializes in providing localized advertising services for real estate, mortgage, insurance, and wealth management sectors. Founded in 2013, Adwerx offers a fully automated and hyper-targeted marketing solution that caters to businesses of all sizes, from individual agents to large enterprises. The platform helps users identify potential clients based on specific geographic areas and facilitates advertising for new listings while generating interest in older properties. By partnering with thousands of real estate and mortgage firms, Adwerx enables its customers to effectively reach new audiences and maintain existing relationships, positioning them competitively in the market.

Parse.ly

Series B in 2017
Parse.ly is an engagement analytics platform designed for online publishers seeking to enhance their content strategies through data-driven insights. The platform allows organizations to understand and improve digital audience engagement by focusing on metrics such as engaged time and engagement rates. It offers a comprehensive dashboard for real-time and historical analytics, along with an application programming interface and data pipeline. This enables businesses to effectively demonstrate the value of their content and increase website traffic, ensuring their efforts yield meaningful results. By leveraging Parse.ly's innovative analytics system, companies can make informed decisions to optimize their content marketing initiatives.

UrbanStems

Series A in 2017
UrbanStems Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based company that specializes in on-demand flower delivery services. Founded in 2014, it offers fresh flowers and seasonal stems tailored for various occasions, including handcrafted bouquets for businesses and personal gifts. The company emphasizes a thoughtful gifting experience by providing personalized notes and care instructions with each delivery. UrbanStems also features a subscription service for regular flower deliveries, ensuring convenience for its customers. Its services are available through an online portal and a mobile application, catering to customers in cities such as New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. The company is committed to delivering quality floral arrangements promptly, often within minutes of order placement, and includes free shipping with every delivery.

Ceterus

Series A in 2017
Ceterus, Inc. is a technology company that focuses on providing web-based accounting and financial reporting solutions. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, with an additional office in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Ceterus offers its proprietary cloud-based software, Ceterus Edge. This platform automates bookkeeping and financial reporting, delivering timely and accurate insights, peer benchmarks, and key performance metrics to various industries, including restaurants, fitness, wellness, retail, education, and beauty. Ceterus empowers entrepreneurs by enabling them to monitor their business health, compare financial performance with peers, and make informed decisions through real-time data and alerts.

Atavium

Series A in 2017
Atavium offers a solution that can organize, automate, manage, and store exploding unstructured data sets, regardless if they are in a data center or the cloud. Atavium’s revolutionary data management system gives its customers the ability to automate the lifecycle of their data, even before the data is created. Atavium was founded by technology and solution veterans with a legacy of delivering game-changing products with long-lasting value in the storage and networking markets. These products have been acquired by companies such as Dell, EMC, and Cisco Systems. The team also has a long history of working together at several companies.

Urjanet

Series C in 2017
Urjanet is the global source for utility data. The business is on a mission to build a platform for the world's utility data and make it useful. The Urjanet Utility Data Platform transforms organizations and their decisions across industries. Urjanet's data platform integrates directly to customer applications and tooling, empowering a wide range of uses and implementations for automated utility data. Founded by a team of veteran entrepreneurs, Urjanet is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Yet Analytics

Seed Round in 2017
Yet Analytics, Inc. is a data analytics company based in Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 2014. It provides a platform that enables large businesses to collect and analyze data from various sources, including web and mobile applications, wearables, Internet of Things devices, and virtual and augmented reality systems. The company's modular suite of software products supports the xAPI learning technology ecosystem, offering solutions for data input, storage, and output. By facilitating the integration of learning experiences with business intelligence, Yet Analytics helps organizations identify trends in employee behavior and performance. This data-driven approach allows businesses to enhance operational outcomes, measure experience data, and ultimately improve human capital performance.

Cloud Elements

Series B in 2017
Cloud Elements Inc. specializes in cloud-to-cloud application programming interface (API) integration and aggregation services. Founded in 2012 and based in Denver, Colorado, the company offers a comprehensive API integration platform that facilitates the connection, monitoring, and maintenance of various third-party cloud services. This platform includes features such as data transformations, API provisioning, usage monitoring, and event notifications, allowing developers to seamlessly integrate multiple applications into customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation systems. Additionally, Cloud Elements provides consulting services, including design assessments and application development, catering to startups, software as a service (SaaS) vendors, and enterprise departments globally.

Fluid Truck

Seed Round in 2016
Fluid Truck is a peer-to-peer truck sharing platform that offers 24/7 mobile access to a wide array of trucks, vans, and SUVs. hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses. They provide fleet services, truck rentals, fleet rentals, and van rentals.

Webscale

Series A in 2016
Webscale Networks, Inc. provides an integrated web application delivery solution designed to enhance the performance, security, availability, and compliance of e-commerce platforms. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with additional offices in Boulder, Colorado, and Bengaluru, India, the company utilizes a cloud-based infrastructure that leverages predictive analytics and big data to monitor user traffic. Its offerings include an auto-scaling application delivery controller, a Webscale API for service configuration, and a variety of features such as content optimization, security, L7 load balancing, caching, and DNS management. Webscale also offers specialized solutions like the Webscale E-commerce Cloud Platform for deploying e-commerce applications, a multi-cloud disaster recovery service, and a cloud-native bot management solution. The platform is cloud-agnostic, compatible with major cloud providers, and designed for use across diverse architectures, ensuring high performance and resilience for modern commerce applications.

Payzer

Series B in 2016
Payzer is a developer of a mobile and internet payment application designed to facilitate payments and provide credit with instant approvals. Its cloud-based platform enables customers to accept credit cards, debit cards, and electronic checks both in the field and at their home offices. With features that include real-time tracking, Payzer's solution helps contractors manage their operations more efficiently, allowing them to streamline their payment processes and enhance business growth.

HUMAN

Series B in 2016
HUMAN is a cybersecurity company that safeguards 1,200+ brands from digital attacks including bots, fraud and account abuse. We leverage modern defense to disrupt the economics of cybercrime by increasing the cost to cybercriminals while simultaneously reducing the cost of collective defense. Today we verify the humanity of more than 20 trillion digital interactions per week across advertising, marketing, e-commerce, government, education and enterprise security, putting us in a position to win against cybercriminals. Protect your digital business with HUMAN. To Know Who’s Real, visit www.humansecurity.com.

Promoboxx

Series A in 2016
Promoboxx Inc. operates a brand-to-retailer marketing platform that facilitates collaboration between brands and their independent retailers through customized online campaigns. Established in 2009 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the platform allows brands to select participating retailers, validate their information, and schedule engagement actions such as sharing reminders. Retail partners can customize the national marketing content to better suit their local stores. Promoboxx supports brands in driving traffic to their campaigns while providing retailers with tools and analytics to track engagement levels, campaign views, social shares, and lead counts. With over 85 prominent brands, including The North Face and New Balance, the platform has successfully delivered more than 3 million campaigns across 27,000 retailers, enhancing brand-compliant digital marketing and improving business outcomes.

Dizzion

Series A in 2016
Dizzion [rhymes with vision] is bringing the power of cloud computing to the desktop by enabling employees to securely access their applications and data from any device, anytime, anywhere while enjoying the same access, security, and productivity as they do in their office environment. Its proprietary managed desktop service is built on enterprise technology that includes infrastructure, software licensing, management, support, and security for a monthly fee. Dizzion was founded in 2011 and is based in Denver, Colorado, United States.

RedPoint Global

Series C in 2016
RedPoint Global is a software company that develops marketing software for business-to-consumer companies. It provides market-leading data management and customer engagement technology that empowers organizations to optimize customer value and deliver their brand promise with high contextual relevance across all touchpoints. The RedPoint Customer Engagement Hub delivers a unified view of each customer, in-line analytics to determine next-best actions, and intelligent orchestration to personalize engagement across the enterprise. Leading companies of all sizes trust the RedPoint Customer Engagement Hub to power their customer engagement strategy and drive profitable revenue growth. It is located in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and was founded in 2006.

Healthcare Interactive

Series A in 2016
Healthcare Interactive is dedicated to the transformation of the administration and delivery of healthcare to improve health in our communities. We enable our client-partners to effectively leverage their data to identify the health risk and cost drivers of the populations they serve, develop specific programs to engage members and improve outcomes, and provide the administrative tools to deliver, manage, and measure the success of those programs.

TaskEasy

Series B in 2016
TaskEasy, Inc. operates a Software-as-a-Service platform that connects property owners with contractors for various home and property maintenance services, including lawn mowing, snow removal, and pool cleaning. Founded in 2011 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, the company simplifies the process of hiring service providers by facilitating communication, pricing, scheduling, payment, and dispute resolution. The platform is designed to streamline exterior maintenance, making it as convenient as online shopping. TaskEasy serves a diverse clientele, including homeowners, renters, property managers, and contractors across the United States. By establishing fair market prices and ensuring quality service, TaskEasy enhances the experience for both customers and service providers while eliminating traditional barriers such as advertising and bidding.
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