Laconia Ventures

Laconia Capital Group L.P. is a New York City-based venture capital firm established in 2014, specializing in investments in pre-series A and late seed-stage B2B companies. The firm primarily targets businesses within the information technology sector, focusing on areas such as marketing technology, data management, mobile communications, and e-commerce. Laconia seeks to support companies that have an in-market product and an existing revenue stream, particularly those addressing immediate challenges in marketing and distribution. They typically invest between $0.25 million and $1 million, participating in funding rounds ranging from $1 million to $3 million. Laconia is particularly interested in companies located in the New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, D.C. metro areas, while avoiding investments in device healthcare, biotech, agtech, energy, and military applications. Additionally, Laconia offers investment advisory services through Laconia Venture Asset Management, assisting institutions and high net worth individuals in developing sustainable venture capital investment programs.

David Arcara

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Reena Jailwala

Associate

Geri Kirilova

Managing Partner

David Lee

Managing Director, LVAM

Mirit Lugassi

Associate

Jeffrey Silverman

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

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Wavy

Seed Round in 2022
People are tired of opening 25 tabs, scrolling through endless lists, and dodging ads to find activities they’ll love. That’s why we’re building Wavy - a weekly texting service that gives smart recommendations on things to do, based on user preferences and sourced from experts.

Yuvo Health

Seed Round in 2022
Provider of healthcare services intended to offer managed-care alternatives for community health centers. The company provides administrative and managed-care contracting services to federally qualified health centers empowering them to unlock revenue streams via value-based care, enabling health centers and patients to enjoy the benefits of value-based care without assuming risk, burning out staff, or drowning in data.

Marpipe

Series A in 2021
Marpipe, Inc. is a company that specializes in multivariate creative testing through its AI-based platform. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, the platform generates and tests various creative variables to assess their impact on performance. By analyzing audience preferences, Marpipe provides insights into which creative elements resonate positively or negatively, facilitating data-driven decision-making in creative development.

Index Coop

Seed Round in 2021
Index Coop creates and maintains the world's best crypto index products. Index Coop is a Decentralized and Autonomous Asset Manager governed, maintained, and upgraded by INDEX token holders. Our products are built on Set Protocol's battle-tested V2 infrastructure. Product methodologies are sourced from industry experts.

Ocrolus

Venture Round in 2021
Ocrolus Inc. is a New York-based fintech company founded in 2014 that specializes in automating manual data processes through its intelligent automation platform. The company's solution captures data from various sources, including e-statements, scanned documents, and cellphone images, achieving over 99% accuracy. By integrating artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing, Ocrolus enables businesses to streamline financial reviews, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks by reducing the need for manual intervention. Its services are applicable in areas such as loan underwriting, account openings, robotic process automation, auditing, healthcare, and due diligence. The company primarily serves clients within the financial sector, helping them enhance efficiency and mitigate fraud through algorithmic checks and expert reviews.

Paloma

Seed Round in 2021
Paloma is a developer of a direct message-commerce platform that empowers brands to enhance their e-commerce capabilities through messaging channels. By facilitating sales via social media direct messages, Paloma enables businesses to manage inventory, create seamless shopping experiences, and streamline the checkout process. The platform is designed to drive higher conversion rates—ranging from 2 to 10 times those of traditional websites—by leveraging customer data to provide valuable insights back to brands. This comprehensive commerce software as a service (SaaS) solution not only helps clients transform customer interactions into sales but also supports sustainable growth by integrating catalog management and performance tracking.

Ocrolus

Venture Round in 2020
Ocrolus Inc. is a New York-based fintech company founded in 2014 that specializes in automating manual data processes through its intelligent automation platform. The company's solution captures data from various sources, including e-statements, scanned documents, and cellphone images, achieving over 99% accuracy. By integrating artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing, Ocrolus enables businesses to streamline financial reviews, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks by reducing the need for manual intervention. Its services are applicable in areas such as loan underwriting, account openings, robotic process automation, auditing, healthcare, and due diligence. The company primarily serves clients within the financial sector, helping them enhance efficiency and mitigate fraud through algorithmic checks and expert reviews.

Noteworth

Seed Round in 2020
Noteworth operates a patient data capture and delivery platform designed to enhance healthcare delivery by integrating patient-generated health data with existing electronic medical records. Founded in 2015 and based in Hoboken, New Jersey, the company offers a HIPAA-compliant solution that connects healthcare organizations with data collected from over 400 FDA-approved clinical devices. This platform allows clinicians to access actionable insights through Noteworth Reports, which facilitate improved patient engagement and communication, including telemedicine and chat options. By partnering with primary care doctors, pediatricians, and specialists, Noteworth aims to reduce costly hospital readmissions, enhance patient satisfaction, and ultimately improve the quality of care provided.

TowerIQ

Series A in 2020
TowerIQ is a broker first platform that brings transparency to insurance markets. The company seamlessly brings clients from application to binding by augmenting broker expertise with a low touch technology platform that distributes ingestible data directly to any carrier. This frees brokers and agents to focus their efforts on solving the business challenges facing the clients that allow them to win more business and improve client retention. TowerIQ was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

GrapevineAI

Seed Round in 2020
GrapevineAI specializes in providing whitelisted social campaigns. It matches brands of all sizes with the right creators and turns articles, photos, and videos into ads that are ready to launch on paid social channels.

Marpipe

Seed Round in 2019
Marpipe, Inc. is a company that specializes in multivariate creative testing through its AI-based platform. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, the platform generates and tests various creative variables to assess their impact on performance. By analyzing audience preferences, Marpipe provides insights into which creative elements resonate positively or negatively, facilitating data-driven decision-making in creative development.

Unioncrate

Series A in 2019
Unioncrate helps consumer goods companies build and manage supply chains that can keep up with the consumer of today. Based in New York City, we are a team of CPG veterans, rebels, and nerds who believe that the future of supply chain will be driven by AI. It powers everything we do. We are obsessed with helping our clients take back the invaluable time, money, and resources that are far too commonly lost by relying on archaic supply chain management systems. That’s why we’ve built an intelligent platform designed specifically for the complexities of a consumer goods industry that’s needlessly stuck in the past.

Wethos

Seed Round in 2019
Wethos is a developer of a virtual studio designed to support small business owners in pricing complex projects with confidence. Its platform utilizes agile methodologies to create brands, websites, digital content, and growth campaigns tailored to each client's unique requirements. By rapidly assembling flexible teams of vetted creative and marketing professionals, Wethos enables businesses to address quickly changing challenges and optimize their revenue potential.

Ocrolus

Series B in 2019
Ocrolus Inc. is a New York-based fintech company founded in 2014 that specializes in automating manual data processes through its intelligent automation platform. The company's solution captures data from various sources, including e-statements, scanned documents, and cellphone images, achieving over 99% accuracy. By integrating artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing, Ocrolus enables businesses to streamline financial reviews, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks by reducing the need for manual intervention. Its services are applicable in areas such as loan underwriting, account openings, robotic process automation, auditing, healthcare, and due diligence. The company primarily serves clients within the financial sector, helping them enhance efficiency and mitigate fraud through algorithmic checks and expert reviews.

xtraCHEF

Series A in 2019
xtraCHEF is a cloud-based restaurant management platform that provides finance and operations teams with tools to enhance productivity and profitability. The platform focuses on digitizing invoices, which allows restaurants to access valuable data and insights for improved decision-making in areas such as recipe and inventory management, purchasing, and vendor negotiations. By automating the capture, digitization, mapping, and coding of vendor invoices, xtraCHEF helps restaurant operators, caterers, and accountants save time and reduce costs associated with manual tasks. Additionally, users can benefit from manufacturer rebates, further contributing to cost savings. Overall, xtraCHEF aims to facilitate digital transformation in the restaurant industry through advanced technology and data-driven solutions.

Elsen

Seed Round in 2019
Elsen Inc. is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2013. It specializes in providing a cloud-based platform-as-a-service designed for large financial institutions. The Elsen platform enables firms to efficiently manage, access, and utilize extensive data sets, facilitating improved decision-making and problem-solving. With its accelerated computing engine and graphical processing unit-based algorithms, Elsen allows businesses to optimize their data and resources, ultimately enhancing insights and return on investment. By simplifying the complexities of data handling, Elsen empowers financial services firms to leverage their information for better outcomes.

Unioncrate

Seed Round in 2018
Unioncrate helps consumer goods companies build and manage supply chains that can keep up with the consumer of today. Based in New York City, we are a team of CPG veterans, rebels, and nerds who believe that the future of supply chain will be driven by AI. It powers everything we do. We are obsessed with helping our clients take back the invaluable time, money, and resources that are far too commonly lost by relying on archaic supply chain management systems. That’s why we’ve built an intelligent platform designed specifically for the complexities of a consumer goods industry that’s needlessly stuck in the past.

TowerIQ

Seed Round in 2018
TowerIQ is a broker first platform that brings transparency to insurance markets. The company seamlessly brings clients from application to binding by augmenting broker expertise with a low touch technology platform that distributes ingestible data directly to any carrier. This frees brokers and agents to focus their efforts on solving the business challenges facing the clients that allow them to win more business and improve client retention. TowerIQ was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ocrolus

Series A in 2018
Ocrolus Inc. is a New York-based fintech company founded in 2014 that specializes in automating manual data processes through its intelligent automation platform. The company's solution captures data from various sources, including e-statements, scanned documents, and cellphone images, achieving over 99% accuracy. By integrating artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing, Ocrolus enables businesses to streamline financial reviews, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks by reducing the need for manual intervention. Its services are applicable in areas such as loan underwriting, account openings, robotic process automation, auditing, healthcare, and due diligence. The company primarily serves clients within the financial sector, helping them enhance efficiency and mitigate fraud through algorithmic checks and expert reviews.

xtraCHEF

Seed Round in 2018
xtraCHEF is a cloud-based restaurant management platform that provides finance and operations teams with tools to enhance productivity and profitability. The platform focuses on digitizing invoices, which allows restaurants to access valuable data and insights for improved decision-making in areas such as recipe and inventory management, purchasing, and vendor negotiations. By automating the capture, digitization, mapping, and coding of vendor invoices, xtraCHEF helps restaurant operators, caterers, and accountants save time and reduce costs associated with manual tasks. Additionally, users can benefit from manufacturer rebates, further contributing to cost savings. Overall, xtraCHEF aims to facilitate digital transformation in the restaurant industry through advanced technology and data-driven solutions.

ExecVision

Seed Round in 2017
ExecVision Inc. operates a conversation intelligence platform aimed at enhancing coaching and performance for sales and customer success teams. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, ExecVision provides organizations with tools to analyze customer-facing conversations, identifying key insights related to content, context, and emotional responses. By leveraging artificial intelligence, ExecVision ingests and transcribes these conversations, allowing managers to detect critical moments that may otherwise go unnoticed due to time constraints. The company also offers sales effectiveness training and consulting through its brand Vorsight, focusing on areas such as tactical sales, prospecting training, and inside sales consulting. This combination of technology and specialized training helps organizations improve decision-making, performance, and ultimately drive revenue.

Homer Logistics

Series A in 2017
Homer Logistics Inc. operates an online third-party delivery platform that focuses on providing delivery-as-a-service for restaurants. Established in 2014 and based in New York, the company leverages technology to enhance the efficiency of local, final-mile deliveries. By utilizing mobile tracking, routing, and communication, Homer optimizes delivery routes, enabling the delivery of more orders over shorter distances. The platform also employs algorithms to predict delivery patterns and manage a controlled fleet of delivery personnel, which not only reduces delivery costs but also allows businesses to outsource their delivery operations effectively. This approach enables merchants to focus on their core competencies while relying on Homer for their delivery needs in urban areas.

AxoSim

Seed Round in 2017
AxoSim, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in New Orleans, Louisiana, that specializes in developing innovative platforms for drug discovery in neuroscience. The company offers Nerve-on-a-Chip, a platform designed to predict clinical neurotoxicity and model human neurodegenerative diseases, thereby streamlining the drug development process for biopharmaceutical companies. AxoSim's technologies include NerveSim, which provides an in vitro model featuring Schwann cell myelination and essential metrics for human translation, and BrainSim, which focuses on human-relevant oligodendrocyte myelination. Additionally, AxoSim grows living human cells in a three-dimensional environment that mimics nerve tissue, enhancing the relevance of its models for testing neurotoxicity and related diseases. Founded in 2014, AxoSim aims to advance neuroscience and improve the efficiency of developing effective therapies.

Mine Hill Distillery

Venture Round in 2017
Mine Hill Distillery Their vision is a commitment to craftsmanship and authenticity. They will only sell what They make from start to finish. They honor the determination and Yankee Ingenuity of the Industrial Revolution to make things once again in Roxbury. They support our Community of local craftsmen, farmers, artists and other businesses by our efforts. They are proud to say on our label Distilled and Bottled by Mine Hill Distillery.

Lolleez

Venture Round in 2017
Lolleez organic throat soothing pops for kids will be available this Summer. Add your email address to Their list and you’ll be the first to know when and where to get some.

PromoteIQ

Seed Round in 2017
PromoteIQ is a vendor marketing platform developed by SpotFront, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in New York. The platform is designed to assist retailers in offering product marketing opportunities to their brand partners, thereby maximizing monetization revenue. By automating vendor marketing for e-commerce, PromoteIQ enables retailers to collaborate directly with their vendors to effectively promote products on their websites. As of August 2019, SpotFront, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of aQuantive, Inc.

Rumble

Venture Round in 2017
Rumble Fitness, LLC specializes in boxing-inspired fitness classes designed to enhance physical conditioning and build confidence. Founded in 2016 and based in New York, Rumble combines high-intensity interval training, strength training, and metabolic conditioning to create a comprehensive workout experience. In addition to its classes, Rumble offers various products online, including boxing classes, gift cards, wraps, bottled water, and rental gloves, catering to both fitness enthusiasts and newcomers to boxing. The company's unique approach to fitness aims to help individuals achieve a lean and strong physique through engaging and dynamic workouts.

SyncOnSet Technologies

Series A in 2017
SyncOnSet Technologies is an entertainment technology company that specializes in digitizing physical production and managing creative content for the film and television industry. The company provides an Emmy-winning software platform that offers essential management tools for production teams. Its services include script breakdowns, budgeting, expense tracking, photo management, inventory, and asset management. By optimizing workflows and facilitating secure communication, SyncOnSet enables production crews to focus on their creative tasks, ultimately enhancing efficiency in the production process.

StrongDM

Seed Round in 2016
strongDM manages and audits access to servers and databases. It provides a single platform to control access to any database for employees, vendors, and cloud-based tools. The company was awarded in the Strata+Hadoop World Audience Favorite in 2016. It was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Burlingame, California.

Rumble

Venture Round in 2016
Rumble Fitness, LLC specializes in boxing-inspired fitness classes designed to enhance physical conditioning and build confidence. Founded in 2016 and based in New York, Rumble combines high-intensity interval training, strength training, and metabolic conditioning to create a comprehensive workout experience. In addition to its classes, Rumble offers various products online, including boxing classes, gift cards, wraps, bottled water, and rental gloves, catering to both fitness enthusiasts and newcomers to boxing. The company's unique approach to fitness aims to help individuals achieve a lean and strong physique through engaging and dynamic workouts.

Homer Logistics

Seed Round in 2016
Homer Logistics Inc. operates an online third-party delivery platform that focuses on providing delivery-as-a-service for restaurants. Established in 2014 and based in New York, the company leverages technology to enhance the efficiency of local, final-mile deliveries. By utilizing mobile tracking, routing, and communication, Homer optimizes delivery routes, enabling the delivery of more orders over shorter distances. The platform also employs algorithms to predict delivery patterns and manage a controlled fleet of delivery personnel, which not only reduces delivery costs but also allows businesses to outsource their delivery operations effectively. This approach enables merchants to focus on their core competencies while relying on Homer for their delivery needs in urban areas.

ChannelEyes

Venture Round in 2016
ChannelEyes Corporation, founded in 2011 and based in Troy, New York, specializes in developing a channel acceleration platform aimed at enhancing the connection between vendors, suppliers, and their channel partners. The company's flagship product, ChannelCandy, is a mobile application designed to deliver essential information such as company news, product details, incentives, and educational resources directly to partners, thereby fostering engagement and sales enablement among agents, dealers, resellers, and retail sales teams. Additionally, ChannelEyes offers OPTYX, an innovative indirect sales workflow tool that utilizes predictive analytics and big data to optimize sales processes. Recognized for its cutting-edge technology, ChannelEyes has received accolades including being named a Cool Vendor by Gartner and recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in New York’s Capital Region.

ALICE

Series A in 2016
ALICE is a New York-based hotel operations platform established in 2013, designed to enhance operational efficiency and guest experiences in the hospitality industry. The platform integrates various hotel departments, facilitating internal communication and task management to ensure a cohesive approach to service delivery. By connecting staff across departments such as housekeeping and customer service, ALICE enables hotels to streamline operations, eliminate service gaps, and make data-driven decisions. This holistic approach empowers hotel personnel to work collaboratively, ultimately leading to consistently excellent service for guests.

Raven360

Series A in 2015
Raven360, formerly known as Content Raven, is a Framingham, Massachusetts-based company that specializes in cloud-based content security and analytics software. Founded in 2011, the company provides solutions that enable enterprises to manage and protect their intellectual property and valuable content during external sharing. Its software offers features such as content distribution control, video and audio encryption, and user behavior analytics, empowering organizations to maintain oversight and security of their sensitive information.

AutoFi

Seed Round in 2015
AutoFi is a commerce platform delivering point of sale solution for financing a vehicle online. The platform allows consumers to purchase and finance a vehicle entirely online through a seamless user experience and an automated application and approval process. The company's platform connects an auto dealer’s customers to a network of lenders, providing a fast, mobile-first checkout experience. It provides vehicle buyers instant full spectrum decisions with customizable terms.

TripleLift

Series B in 2015
TripleLift is a technology company focused on enhancing the advertising experience through its programmatic native advertising platform. It utilizes advanced computer vision technology to create ads that seamlessly integrate with user content across various platforms, including television, walled gardens, and the open web. By enabling brands to amplify their content via in-feed native ads, TripleLift ensures that these advertisements align with the unique design of numerous publishers. This approach not only improves the experience for consumers and advertisers but also allows publishers to automate the delivery of native ads and monetize their in-feed inventory, generating new revenue streams.

Furious

Seed Round in 2015
Furious Corp. provides PROPHET, a business optimization SaaS platform that connects various data and systems, and offers analytics, reporting, and yield management tools to the advertising business. It offers PROPHET Professional, a product that allows seeing inventory, audience, and pricing across sales channels for smaller publishers with limited advertising delivery systems; and PROPHET Enterprise that provide advertising modules, such as mission control, forecasting, and planning. The company also provides PROPHET Addressable an additional functionality that can be integrated into the planning component of PROPHET Enterprise offers tools to optimize inventory yield and maximize revenue when selling addressable or targeted television; and REV, a media proposal platform. In addition, it offers deployment, training, and support services. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

StrongDM

Seed Round in 2015
strongDM manages and audits access to servers and databases. It provides a single platform to control access to any database for employees, vendors, and cloud-based tools. The company was awarded in the Strata+Hadoop World Audience Favorite in 2016. It was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Burlingame, California.

SportsRecruits

Seed Round in 2015
SportsRecruits is a college recruiting website that increases exposure in recruiting camps and tournaments. At SportsRecruits, they build sport-specific platforms to help high school student-athletes market themselves to college coaches. Its tools take an inherently disorganized, stressful, and time-consuming process and streamline it, saving users time while greatly maximizing their efficiency.

Kik

Series C in 2014
Kik Interactive, Inc. is a Canadian company founded in 2009 by a group of University of Waterloo students, focusing on the development of smartphone messaging applications across various platforms, including iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry. The company's flagship product, Kik Messenger, allows users to communicate with friends and share content from the web. Kik has garnered significant attention, achieving over 300 million registered users and securing $120.5 million in funding from prominent venture capitalists, including strategic investment from China's Tencent. Kik caters primarily to teens and young adults, with over 40% of young Americans using it as their main messaging app, spending an average of 35 minutes per session. The company operates from its headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, with additional offices in Toronto and Tel Aviv.

PageScience

Seed Round in 2014
PageScience Inc. specializes in page-level targeting for brand advertisers, employing its proprietary PageMatch technology to evaluate and rank web pages based on metrics such as historical ad performance, viewability, sentiment, and context. The company's targeting capabilities span various sectors, including precision health, finance, automotive, travel, insurance, and home improvement, addressing specific consumer needs. PageScience's platform tracks the performance of web pages over time, monitors inventory availability on exchanges, and provides insights into device activity and content performance. Originally founded as Precision Health Media in 2007, the company rebranded to PageScience in January 2014 and is headquartered in New York. Its innovative cookieless scoring and targeting methods, initially developed for the healthcare sector, have since expanded to encompass a broader range of advertising categories, facilitated by integration with Appnexus for scalable delivery. As of June 2016, PageScience operates as a subsidiary of AccentHealth, LLC.

Better Mobile Security

Seed Round in 2014
Better Mobile Security is a Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) solution provider that uses predictive AI technology to identify and stop mobile security threats without compromising end-user productivity or privacy. Better MTD’s predictive protection comes from its Deep Thinker AI platform that applies artificial intelligence and learning models to identify known and unknown threats at the device, network, and application levels. It also works seamlessly with leading Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutions to protect corporate resources and can be easily deployed to vast mobile networks with just a few clicks. Better Mobile Security solution also integrates with Microsoft Intune and Azure AD(AAD) single sign-on. The company's security platform combines sophisticated machine learning / artificial intelligence with its real-time threat intelligence to automatically detect attacks from malware, network, OS vulnerabilities, out-of-date operating systems, and many other breaches. It protects mobile devices and invaluable enterprise data from malware, network, and OS-layer attacks.

Furious

Seed Round in 2014
Furious Corp. provides PROPHET, a business optimization SaaS platform that connects various data and systems, and offers analytics, reporting, and yield management tools to the advertising business. It offers PROPHET Professional, a product that allows seeing inventory, audience, and pricing across sales channels for smaller publishers with limited advertising delivery systems; and PROPHET Enterprise that provide advertising modules, such as mission control, forecasting, and planning. The company also provides PROPHET Addressable an additional functionality that can be integrated into the planning component of PROPHET Enterprise offers tools to optimize inventory yield and maximize revenue when selling addressable or targeted television; and REV, a media proposal platform. In addition, it offers deployment, training, and support services. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

TripleLift

Series A in 2014
TripleLift is a technology company focused on enhancing the advertising experience through its programmatic native advertising platform. It utilizes advanced computer vision technology to create ads that seamlessly integrate with user content across various platforms, including television, walled gardens, and the open web. By enabling brands to amplify their content via in-feed native ads, TripleLift ensures that these advertisements align with the unique design of numerous publishers. This approach not only improves the experience for consumers and advertisers but also allows publishers to automate the delivery of native ads and monetize their in-feed inventory, generating new revenue streams.

LocalVox Media

Debt Financing in 2014
LocalVox Is a local, social & mobile marketing platform that helps local businesses market themselves online, across a network of publishers, social media, search, mobile, email newsletters & even their own website – and is as simple to use as email. Our mission is to help local businesses market themselves in an online world that’s become too fragmented and complex for them to manage. With a single partner and platform, local merchants can now take back control of their brand and marketing and message customers across all the channels they need to be online and have a partner there to help them through the process. We’ve been named the third hottest startup in NYC by Business Insider and the best high tech tool for new business entrepreneurs by Good Day New York and have been featured on numerous online publications for the innovative solutions we provide. However, we take the greatest pride in our customers, their successes and the long term partnerships we build with them. We have hundreds of successful clients on the platform from big name brands like Whole Foods, Chelsea Piers and Macy’s to single person service businesses. From getting in front of prospective clients at the moment of intent to messaging existing customers, LocalVox lets merchants focus on their business and maximize the value of Internet marketing.

Sightly

Seed Round in 2014
Sightly Enterprises, Inc. operates a local video platform designed to connect consumers with local businesses through personalized video advertising. Founded in 2006 and based in Del Mar, California, the company specializes in mobile and in-stream video marketing solutions that enable businesses to enhance their visibility in an increasingly video-centric marketplace. Sightly's technology allows for dynamic ad personalization and targeted campaigns across various platforms, including YouTube and Google, tailored to meet specific client objectives. Utilizing an advanced segmentation and optimization engine driven by local data, Sightly provides a comprehensive solution for local brand awareness and customer engagement. Its platform facilitates scalable campaign management through features such as automated bidding and refined audience targeting, ensuring cost-effective investment in the most relevant geographic areas. With a focus on maximizing the effectiveness of video advertising, Sightly empowers businesses to engage with both existing and potential customers effectively.

SyncOnSet Technologies

Seed Round in 2013
SyncOnSet Technologies is an entertainment technology company that specializes in digitizing physical production and managing creative content for the film and television industry. The company provides an Emmy-winning software platform that offers essential management tools for production teams. Its services include script breakdowns, budgeting, expense tracking, photo management, inventory, and asset management. By optimizing workflows and facilitating secure communication, SyncOnSet enables production crews to focus on their creative tasks, ultimately enhancing efficiency in the production process.

The Runthrough

Seed Round in 2013
The Runthrough is an online platform designed to connect fashion tastemakers with leading luxury and emerging brands. It operates as a members-only site catering to fashion editors and stylists, enabling them to access virtual lookbooks. Through this platform, industry professionals can efficiently request sample products and high-resolution images, which are essential for their photo shoots, celebrity events, and various print and online publications. By facilitating these processes, The Runthrough aims to simplify and enhance the fashion editing workflow.

Crowdly

Seed Round in 2013
Crowdly is an advocate marketing platform that enables large consumer brands to cultivate and engage a community of genuine advocates. Founded in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company focuses on enhancing word-of-mouth promotion and brand advocacy through the activation of these advocates and analysis of their behaviors. By specializing in finance, social media, advertising, and social media marketing, Crowdly provides brands with the tools to effectively harness the power of their advocates, ultimately driving increased engagement and visibility in the market.

Clever Goats Media

Seed Round in 2013
Clever Goats Media, LLC specializes in creating educational applications for children. Founded in 2012 and located in New York, the company provides a range of interactive products, including games, workbooks, and storybooks, designed to enhance learning experiences for young users. Through its innovative offerings, Clever Goats Media aims to make education engaging and accessible for children.

Sokanu

Angel Round in 2013
Sokanu Interactive Inc. operates a career-matching platform that assists individuals in discovering and exploring various career options. Established in 2010 and based in Vancouver, Canada, Sokanu provides an online database designed to match personal interests and characteristics with suitable careers. The platform utilizes a combination of science and technology to enhance the user experience, facilitating career exploration for individuals while also helping companies better understand and optimize their talent. Through its innovative approach, Sokanu aims to improve the alignment between individuals and their career paths.

oneQube

Seed Round in 2012
oneQube offers the complete audience development solution: a powerful platform and unrivaled expertise to analyze, optimize and reach your audience. You need an audience development program that performs across all social platforms. OneQube's innovative digital Audience Management Platform [AMP] and proven expertise – all delivered through a repeatable methodology - drives business results. Our cloud-based Audience Management Platform [AMP] enables you to develop, manage and market to custom digital audiences. Startups to Fortune 500 companies use oneQube to build big data audience databases and develop highly customized audience by understanding the who, what and how to reach them. [AMP]'s proprietary Audience Graph, a fully segmented dynamic dataset of 350 million digital personas including their interests, social media profiles and employment history. Capabilities: - Audience Data Warehousing - Audience Analytics - Data Enhancement - Audience Licensing - Social Listening - Look-alike Audiences - Cross-network targeting & re-targeting Analyze audience segments down to the individual audience participant level. Data profiles allow users to: - Build relevant, highly engaged communities. - Inform content creation. - Market to them based on their self-identified preferences. - Extend marketing reach with look-alike audiences.

Movio

Seed Round in 2012
The MoviMe founders are movie fans, problem solvers, frequent flyers, and technology geeks. They realized that was just not possible to download a movie in an airport, hotel or any place out of the home for that matter. Simply put, most public Wi-Fi systems do not have sufficient internet access or available bandwidth to download a movie in a reasonable amount of time. So their founders set out to solve the problem – to enable movie fans, like us (that’s where MoviMe comes from), to download new releases or their favorite movies in just minutes, not hours! MoviMe assembled a team of experts in video, Wi-Fi networks, content delivery and app development to create a service that combines on-demand with on-the-go. They set out to create a service that would enable users to get the content they wanted, when they wanted it, on any mobile device -- all at a reasonable price.

TripleLift

Seed Round in 2012
TripleLift is a technology company focused on enhancing the advertising experience through its programmatic native advertising platform. It utilizes advanced computer vision technology to create ads that seamlessly integrate with user content across various platforms, including television, walled gardens, and the open web. By enabling brands to amplify their content via in-feed native ads, TripleLift ensures that these advertisements align with the unique design of numerous publishers. This approach not only improves the experience for consumers and advertisers but also allows publishers to automate the delivery of native ads and monetize their in-feed inventory, generating new revenue streams.

TripleLift

Seed Round in 2012
TripleLift is a technology company focused on enhancing the advertising experience through its programmatic native advertising platform. It utilizes advanced computer vision technology to create ads that seamlessly integrate with user content across various platforms, including television, walled gardens, and the open web. By enabling brands to amplify their content via in-feed native ads, TripleLift ensures that these advertisements align with the unique design of numerous publishers. This approach not only improves the experience for consumers and advertisers but also allows publishers to automate the delivery of native ads and monetize their in-feed inventory, generating new revenue streams.

uKnow Corporation

Venture Round in 2012
uKnow Corporation, founded in 2008 by Peter Gasparini and Greg Fairnak, is based in Guilford, Connecticut, and specializes in providing targeting and optimization solutions for digital advertising. The company's primary product, BluePrints, allows advertisers and agencies to create custom distribution lists and channels tailored to specific brands, products, or services. This solution helps users identify the most effective pages, domains, and sub-domains for their advertising campaigns while ensuring brand safety. By enabling precise targeting across a vast range of inventory, uKnow Corporation enhances the visibility of advertisements while circumventing privacy concerns associated with traditional user-based targeting technologies. The company aims to streamline the advertising process for brands and marketers by offering clarity on where to allocate their resources effectively.

Antengo

Seed Round in 2012
Antengo, Inc. is a San Diego-based company that offers a mobile application designed to facilitate real-time, location-based exchanges and transactions between individuals and businesses. Founded in 2010, Antengo's platform enables users to post, sell, and barter a wide range of items, including electronics, furniture, and vehicles. The application is free to use, providing an accessible marketplace for users to engage in person-to-person and business-to-consumer interactions.

Eco-Mail

Seed Round in 2012
Eco-Mail Inc., founded in 2010 and based in Mount Kisco, New York, specializes in providing a digital mail solution aimed at modernizing document management for large enterprises, including banks. Its Digital Mail Platform transforms incoming physical mail into digital assets, facilitating streamlined internal operations and enhancing delivery and response times. By converting traditional mail processes into secure digital systems, Eco-Mail enables clients to improve audit and compliance controls while significantly reducing the costs associated with paper mail. The platform is adaptable for various institutions, offering a Software as a Service (SaaS) model or a private installation for larger clients, effectively eliminating outdated infrastructure and optimizing productivity and security.

PublicStuff

Seed Round in 2011
PublicStuff LLC is a technology company based in New York that develops a mobile application designed to enhance communication between residents and local governments. Founded in 2009, the application allows residents to report community issues, comment on these reports, and receive important city alerts regarding events, emergencies, and service changes. Additionally, users can access various city services like bill payments, pet adoptions, and waste collection schedules. The platform facilitates a two-way interaction, enabling governments to address resident concerns effectively, reduce operational costs, and utilize data for informed decision-making. PublicStuff also offers web platforms, push notifications, and translation services to further improve community engagement. In 2015, the company became a subsidiary of Accela, Inc.

C3 Metrics

Seed Round in 2011
C3 Metrics, Inc. operates as a media analytics company that offers a media measurement attribution platform. Its multi-dimensional machine-learning bayesian algorithm enables advertisers to realize an improvement in ROI. The company serves clients in travel, education, automotive, pharma, ecommerce, insurance, retail, financial services, high-tech/B2B, and CPG industries. C3 Metrics, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Localytics

Series A in 2011
Localytics is a mobile app analytics and marketing platform that helps businesses enhance their mobile app acquisition, engagement, and retention strategies. It offers a suite of tools that integrate marketing capabilities—such as push notifications, in-app messaging, and email marketing—with robust analytics features. This allows companies to utilize real-time user data for personalized and automated marketing campaigns. Localytics serves over 6,000 apps across more than 2 billion devices, catering to notable clients like Live Nation, HSN, Comcast, and The New York Times. By focusing on mobile and web app engagement, Localytics equips organizations with the insights and tools necessary for improving user interaction and loyalty.

uKnow Corporation

Seed Round in 2011
uKnow Corporation, founded in 2008 by Peter Gasparini and Greg Fairnak, is based in Guilford, Connecticut, and specializes in providing targeting and optimization solutions for digital advertising. The company's primary product, BluePrints, allows advertisers and agencies to create custom distribution lists and channels tailored to specific brands, products, or services. This solution helps users identify the most effective pages, domains, and sub-domains for their advertising campaigns while ensuring brand safety. By enabling precise targeting across a vast range of inventory, uKnow Corporation enhances the visibility of advertisements while circumventing privacy concerns associated with traditional user-based targeting technologies. The company aims to streamline the advertising process for brands and marketers by offering clarity on where to allocate their resources effectively.

PayPerks

Angel Round in 2010
PayPerks, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2009 that specializes in a financial capability and engagement platform designed for low- and middle-income consumers. The company utilizes sweepstakes-based awards to encourage users to engage with educational content on topics like budgeting, saving, and nutrition. By offering cash prizes for completing tutorials and surveys, PayPerks aims to drive positive behavior change among its users while simultaneously providing value to financial institutions. These institutions can integrate PayPerks into their products, such as prepaid debit cards, to enhance customer engagement, retention, and loyalty. PayPerks has received multiple accolades, being recognized as a promising new idea for the emerging middle class and as a notable contender in the prepaid sector. Through its transparent and accessible educational resources, PayPerks seeks to help consumers manage their finances more effectively while minimizing fees and maximizing convenience.

Localytics

Seed Round in 2010
Localytics is a mobile app analytics and marketing platform that helps businesses enhance their mobile app acquisition, engagement, and retention strategies. It offers a suite of tools that integrate marketing capabilities—such as push notifications, in-app messaging, and email marketing—with robust analytics features. This allows companies to utilize real-time user data for personalized and automated marketing campaigns. Localytics serves over 6,000 apps across more than 2 billion devices, catering to notable clients like Live Nation, HSN, Comcast, and The New York Times. By focusing on mobile and web app engagement, Localytics equips organizations with the insights and tools necessary for improving user interaction and loyalty.

SetJam

Debt Financing in 2010
SetJam is an online search engine designed for TV shows and movies, addressing the challenge of content accessibility across numerous platforms. By providing a streamlined interface, SetJam allows users to watch television online with ease, akin to traditional broadcasting. The company develops specialized widgets that enhance static entertainment websites, transforming them into interactive viewing destinations. This innovation enables site owners to boost their revenue through affiliate income generated from user interactions that direct traffic to third-party sources. Through its services, SetJam aims to promote legal content consumption, fostering a new, personalized, and social television experience.

velos

Series A in 2010
Sociocast’s Big Data platform provides businesses with predictive analytics for their high volume, time-ordered data sets. Our first solution is focused on the Advertising & Media vertical where we help data aggregators, ad networks, and ad agencies maximize the utilization of their first-party, proprietary data for advertising and media initiatives. We are integrated with 10+ companies ranging from web to mobile data owners and have shown great results in market

Little Pim

Pre Seed Round in 2008
Little Pim Corporation develops foreign language learning programs for kids. The company provides Spanish, French, Chinese, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, and Hebrew language learning programs. It markets and sells language learning video series, flashcard sets, books, and music products online. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in New York, New York.

Little Pim

Series A in 2008
Little Pim Corporation develops foreign language learning programs for kids. The company provides Spanish, French, Chinese, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, and Hebrew language learning programs. It markets and sells language learning video series, flashcard sets, books, and music products online. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in New York, New York.

Freewheel

Series B in 2008
FreeWheel manages the economics of content for the enterprise-class world of entertainment, offering technical infrastructure for revenue rights management and business operations, wrapped in advisory services. Founded and led by a team of executives from the world’s leading technology companies, FreeWheel’s solutions have already armed companies like ABC, AOL, DIRECTV, ESPN, NBC Universal, Sky, Turner, and Viacom with the technology and services they need to profitably scale their professional content across devices and revenue models.
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