New York Angels
New York Angels is one of the largest and most active angel investment organizations.
Founded in 2004 as the successor organization to the NYNMA (New York New Media Association) Angel Investor Program, New York Angels is a membership organization of over 110 active angel investors and early stage venture capital funds. The group meets monthly to screen and present early stage technology companies, and its members have invested over $100 million since 2002 into over 90 ventures. In April of 2017, PItchbook identified New York Angels as #3 in their list of the 8 top VCs funding seed rounds of New York-based companies.
Among the NYA membership are nationally known angel investors including Esther Dyson and David S. Rose. The group has one full-time staff, reporting to an 11 person Board of Directors chaired by Brian S. Cohen. Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey is currently Program Director of New York Angels. Since 2012, the membership has increased by 66% and investment activity has grown by over 215%.
New York Angels concentrates on early stage investments in the range of $100,000 - $1,000,000, although it has led deals as large as $2 million. It receives over 2,200 financing applications annually, from which it selects 12-16 companies each month for an in-person screening, where all members of New York Angels are invited to attend. The group meets again for an Investment Breakfast at the end of the month, where 2-4 opportunities present to the membership with a goal to close their current investment round within two months.
The group is considered a leader in the growing field of organized angel investing. It was the first member of the national Angel Capital Association, hosted the ACA Summit conference in 2006, and was the initial test group for the now-standard gust (Angelsoft) funding platform.
Membership as an investor in New York Angels is by invitation only, and members are required to commit to investing at least $50,000 annually in early stage technology deals, in addition to the group's $3,500 annual membership dues.
Requests for funding for entrepreneurial ventures may be self-submitted through the group's website. New York Angels charges no fees to entrepreneurs.
180 past transactions
ActiveProtective
Seed Round in 2016
ActiveProtective is a consumer device company that produces smart garments to reduce traumatic injury using wearable airbag technology. The company's proprietary technology uses 3D motion sensors to determine the stereotypical motions and accelerations that govern the body’s normal, daily activities, in order to determine ’departures’ from what is allowable.
This technique called "fall disambiguation", allows users to determine falls prior to impact, intercept hip fractures, and protect themselves from risks during sports and military sessions by deploying micro-airbag protection.
ActiveProtective was founded in 2006 and is based in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Social Bicycles
Series A in 2017
Social Bicycles Inc., doing business as JUMP Bikes, develops an online platform and software that enables members to find bikes at hub locations and reserve from the Web, mobile applications, or directly from the bike itself. It serves residential properties, municipalities, universities, and corporate campuses in the United States and internationally. Social Bicycles Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brooklyn, New York with locations worldwide. As of April 9, 2018, Social Bicycles Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc.
Biorez, Inc.
Seed Round in 2018
Biorez, Inc. is a early-stage regenerative medicine company engaged in developing bioresorbable scaffold implants to regenerate functional tissue in vivo. Its lead product candidate is an off-the-shelf implant for ACL reconstruction that spares harvesting of patient donor-tissue, and provides a better alternative to cadaver-based materials. The company plans to commercialize its lead ACL technology, as well as expand its platform to develop new and innovative clinical solutions.
Critical Media
Series A in 2004
[Critical Media Inc.](http://www.criticalmediainc.com) develops end-to-end digital video solutions to capture, monetize, distribute and syndicate content online. The company's three business units—[Critical Mention](http://www.criticalmention.com/web/index.php), [ClipSyndicate](http://www.clipsyndicate.com/) and [Syndicaster](http://syndicaster.tv/)—provide robust solutions for corporations, publishers and media organizations to leverage video content. Its real-time broadcast capture infrastructure is the underlying technology of Critical Mention, a dynamic, real-time broadcast monitoring platform. Utilized by 25% of the Fortune 100, Critical Mention provides access to over 15,000 hours of keyword searchable, digitized news broadcasts from 4 continents. Focused on building the world's largest ad-supported repository of fully searchable, authoritative video news and information, ClipSyndicate offers publishers an unmatched distribution platform. Critical Media's most recent addition, Syndicaster offers broadcasters and content owners a comprehensive video ecosystem—a streamlined solution to upload, edit and publish, syndicate and monetize its video assets online.
Critical Media was founded in 2002 under the name Critical Mention by Sean Morgan, one of the founders of Screaming Media—the largest text syndication company on the Internet now owned by Dow Jones, Inc.—and is headquartered in New York City. For more information please visit www.critical-media.com.
Ambient Devices, Inc.
Series C in 2008
Ambient Devices provides a complete solution to offer wireless products to consumers that make tangible interfaces to digital information. Today, this solution includes: the Ambient Information Network™-a back-end service delivery infrastructure and wireless network; and the Ambient Device Design™-a set of hardware specifications to turn everyday objects (like pens, watches, and clocks) into glanceable wireless information devices, customized and branded by product companies.
Bombas
Funding Round in 2021
BOMBAS LLC designs, manufactures, and markets athletic socks for men, women, teens, and girls. It offers ankle, calf, and multipack socks. The company offers its products online in the United States and internationally. BOMBAS LLC was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.
Futurestay, Inc.
Venture Round in 2016
Futurestay is a smart way for vacation rentals to connect to everything that matters: channels, guests, payments, and their own website and brand.
Futurestay has over 110,000 vacation rentals in 120 countries and is the leading independent vacation rental business solution.
It uses Smart Connections to list the property on Airbnb, HomeAway, and Booking.com.
EasyCopay
Series A in 2008
EasyCopay pays your out-of-pocket prescription costs, copays or cash claims automatically with your registered payment card so you can get in and out of the pharmacy quickly.
Futurestay, Inc.
Seed Round in 2014
Futurestay is a smart way for vacation rentals to connect to everything that matters: channels, guests, payments, and their own website and brand.
Futurestay has over 110,000 vacation rentals in 120 countries and is the leading independent vacation rental business solution.
It uses Smart Connections to list the property on Airbnb, HomeAway, and Booking.com.
R Health
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Rejoy Health is a digital therapeutics company that provides evidence-based treatments for back and joint pain. Its wearable sensors and computer-vision app facilitate at-home care for muscle and joint pains.
Clarity Money, Inc.
Series A in 2016
For the first time, in the palm of your hand, you have an advocate to help you manage your money. A partner who is looking out for you.
All within the Clarity Money app, you can lower your bills, cancel wasteful accounts, transfer money, create a savings account and get your credit score. The app also provides unprecedented transparency into your spending.
It’s beautiful, easy to use and there is nothing like it on the market.
Download now on the iOS App store
Sign-up today: https://claritymoney.com/app
HeTexted, Inc.
Seed Round in 2014
HeTexted, Inc. operates an online platform that provides question and answer service for dating questions. Its online platform allows registered users to seek advice in connection with dating and relationship issues by posting texts and other content and seeking answers or advice from other registered users. The company’s platform also offers a paid feature where registered users can engage the services of a dating advice expert for opinion, in depth answers, and situation and text analysis. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.
Shelf
Seed Round in 2017
The workplace has changed. Teams now live in different parts of the country and, possibly, even the world. Collaborating across projects and continents is becoming the new norm. Distributed teams live and die by their ability to quickly learn, share key knowledge and take the right action at the right time.
But there is a problem. Currently stuff is scattered and disorganized all over the place and the products meant to solve this content sprawl, like SharePoint and Confluence, are expensive, difficult to use and hard to search.
In building a solution the Shelf team went beyond software and set out to understand the Science of Organization. They consulted Harvard librarians, change management experts, and information architects. With the help of these global thought leaders, knowledge management best practices were built into the core of the product.
Shelf is designed to help declutter and organize your most important content. Everything about Shelf, from our search to our customer support, reflects the passion and drive of our team to build a better way to harness knowledge and make things easy to find and share. People use Shelf to find the information they need to publish a story, make a pitch, or close an important deal, without the pain of redoing work or wasting time tracking things down.
Its Shelf’s mission to help millions of distributed teams throughout the globe accelerate their ability to learn, share and succeed. We are reimagining the library for the workplace of tomorrow and won’t stop until we’ve integrated all the important places where important content is buried. Shelf is the missing link in a rapidly evolving, distributed workplace.
Daivergent
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Daivergent is a technology platform that allows companies to fulfill data requests at scale by matching to the best-suited workforce: adults with autism. Our software enables autism talent to enter the remote workforce for the very first time, supporting industries from artificial intelligence to healthcare and beyond.
eGifter
Series A in 2013
Based in Huntington, New York, eGifter delivers gift registry services and mobile-based gifting solutions for retailers. It enables its users to send gifts to their friends via Facebook, initiating friend-to-friend marketing; personalize any gift; and invite friends to chip-in on a gift card. The company has deployed its patent-pending, product-centric e-gifting solution as a white-label SaaS platform for retail partners. Its clientele is comprised of American Eagle Outfitters, Pottery Barn, Applebee’s, and several other household brand names. Founded in 2011, eGifter receives funds from the Long Island Angel Network, BDS Capital, Angel Dough Ventures, 94Bits, and several angel investors.
Healthy Bytes, Inc.
Series A in 2019
Healthy Bytes, Inc. develops a software for personalized and expert nutritional counseling. It offers Healthy Bytes, a platform that connects physicians, employers, and patients to nutritional counseling. The company’s platform also helps users to book their private consultation, and consult registered dietitian online. Healthy Bytes, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri with an additional office in New York, New York.
Evisors
Seed Round in 2011
Evisors is a company which access real world experts from the most prestigious schools and companies.
TalkShoe, Inc.
Angel Round in 2008
TalkShoe, Inc. operates a Website with user generated live and recorded (podcast) voice and audio content. The company offers TalkShoe, a service that enables users to create, join, and listen to live group calls, conversations, discussions, interactive podcasts, and audio blogs. Its service allows people to use voice and text chat to talk with people with similar interests around the world to discuss various topics, including business, computers, sports, religion, politics, music, arts, science, travel, and more. The company serves talkers and listeners, and bloggers and podcasters. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Wexford, Pennsylvania. As of May 2, 2016, TalkShoe, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of iotum inc.
Digit Wireless
Venture Round in 2007
Digit Wireless, operates as a user interface innovation company. It offers Fastap keypad technology solutions that enable to discover, access, and use messaging, mobile data, and voice services. The company licenses its technology to mobile manufacturers and operators. Digit Wireless, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, and Seoul.
Ambient Devices, Inc.
Venture Round in 2006
Ambient Devices provides a complete solution to offer wireless products to consumers that make tangible interfaces to digital information. Today, this solution includes: the Ambient Information Network™-a back-end service delivery infrastructure and wireless network; and the Ambient Device Design™-a set of hardware specifications to turn everyday objects (like pens, watches, and clocks) into glanceable wireless information devices, customized and branded by product companies.
Rebel Girls
Series A in 2020
Rebel Girls is a global multi-platform edutainment brand focused on inspiring and instilling confidence in a generation of girls around the world. Rebel Girls bring the stories of phenomenal women from all over the world to life by way of bestselling books, an award-winning podcast, toys, digital media, and more. The Rebel Girls community spans over 85 countries, with 6M books sold in 49 languages and 8M podcast downloads, reaching 10M girls.
Crowdly
Seed Round in 2013
Crowdly is an advocate marketing platform empowering large consumer brands to build a base of authentic advocates, activate them, and learn from their behavior to increase word-of-mouth promotion and brand advocacy. It specializes in the fields of finance, social media, advertising, and social media marketing.
The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
AllTheRooms
Seed Round in 2014
AllTheRooms is the world’s first and only complete room metasearch engine, combining hotels with home stays (like Airbnb), secret deals (like Hotwire), and all other types of accommodations. Existing hotel-focused metasearch engines, never present travelers with all of the rooms available in a given destination, forcing the traveler to visit dozens of different sites. They save the customer time by combining absolutely every room on the internet.
TrumpIt
Seed Round in 2015
Trumpit is conversations with PHOTOS! Trumpit is the only Augmented Reality app that allows you to REACT to photos your friends send YOU!
Dash
Seed Round in 2014
Dash is a mobile payment platform that allows patrons to view, split, and pay their tab from their smartphone. It integrates directly with the leading hospitality point-of-sale systems, which means it's extremely easy for restaurants to accept Dash as payment. Users benefit from bill splitting, itemized digital transactions, increased security, and ease of closing out a tab at a busy bar. Dash is lives in 30+ markets and processes thousands of transactions weekly.
Dash was founded in 2011 by Jeff McGregor and Gennady Spirin, with backers including Great Oaks VC, Caerus Ventures, New York Angels, and Jonathan Segal.
The Runthrough
Seed Round in 2013
TheRunthrough is an online hub that connects fashion tastemakers with the world’s best luxury and emerging brands. It is a members-only site for fashion editors and stylists to view virtual lookbooks. With one click, industry professionals can request sample products or high-res images for their photo shoots, celebrity events, and print and online publications. TheRunthrough simplifies and streamlines the fashion editing process.
Sociocast
Venture Round in 2011
Sociocast makes it easy for companies to quickly deploy, business-impacting predictive analytics. Working across various verticals and platforms, Sociocast has reinvented the way companies can extract insights from rapidly evolving data. The company’s groundbreaking technology allows businesses to access enterprise-grade prediction at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions, while saving time.
School Loop, Inc.
Seed Round in 2008
School Loop provides online communication systems for K-12 schools in the United States. It offers School Loop, a hosted service that allows teachers to publish assignments, grades, and attendance as well as parents to get the information they need. The company also provides learning management systems; School Loop Plus, a K-12 website system that includes CMS, multilingual voice messaging, personal portals, digital lockers, calendars, and email applications; and OpenLoop, which enables data sharing between School Loop and other applications.
School Loop was founded in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California.
BotFactory
Venture Round in 2016
BotFactory Inc. develops and manufactures desktop electronic circuit printers. The company offers Squink, a circuit printer that allows clients to design and create 3D printed electronic prototypes using print conductive ink, dispense solder paste or glue, and pick and place components. Its products print and create single-multilayered rigid and flexible circuits on various substrates. The company offers its products for Fortune 500 research labs, aerospace companies, universities, and electronics makers. BotFactory Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Long Island City, New York.
Zylö Therapeutics
Series B in 2022
Zylö Therapeutics offers an innovative sustained-release drug-delivery system that was developed by Joel Friedman MD PhD, Adam Friedman MD FAAD, and Andrew Draganski PhD. The delivery system uses patented hydrogel-derived nanoparticles, called Nanopods™, to deliver—in a sustained and controlled manner—notoriously hard-to-deliver therapeutic agents through topical administration.
The company was founded in 2017 and based in Greenville, South Carolina.
Billtrust, Inc.
Seed Round in 2003
Billtrust develops a payment cycle management platform designed to automate every step in the invoice-to-cash process. Its platform accelerates cash flow by automating invoice delivery, invoice payment, and cash application for remarkable cost savings, ease-of-use, and improved customer satisfaction rates, enabling businesses and corporate clients to improve operational efficiency.
The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
GameCo LLC
Seed Round in 2016
GameCo created Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM) a category of Video Game Gambling on casino floors. It is a pioneering company uniting the experience of playing video games with the excitement of gambling by creating Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM). GameCo’s VGM is the first platform to bring video games to the casino floor engaging a new market of casino customers. The first video game gambling platform approved by any regulator in the United States, GameCo’s patented VGM proprietary arcade-style cabinets allows a player’s skill to effect the payout and winnings while maintaining the same casino-based economics as slot machines.
Magnify.net
Series A in 2008
Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers.
Zylö Therapeutics
Series A in 2019
Zylö Therapeutics offers an innovative sustained-release drug-delivery system that was developed by Joel Friedman MD PhD, Adam Friedman MD FAAD, and Andrew Draganski PhD. The delivery system uses patented hydrogel-derived nanoparticles, called Nanopods™, to deliver—in a sustained and controlled manner—notoriously hard-to-deliver therapeutic agents through topical administration.
The company was founded in 2017 and based in Greenville, South Carolina.
Gel-E
Seed Round in 2016
gel-e Life Sciences has developed an advanced wound care platform that can be used across a broad spectrum of clinical and non-clinical settings. By making molecular modifications to natural biopolymers, gel-e’s patented approach provides rapid hemostasis in a clean, safe healing environment. Using non-dilutive grant funding, the company has achieved milestones such as 1 FDA Clearance, 5 issued patents, and 6 peer-reviewed publications.
Cognoptix, Inc.
Venture Round in 2020
Cognoptix is creating and developing an innovative, non-invasive eye test to assist in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. Cognoptix's goal is to provide clinicians with a quick, predictive, reliable, inexpensive, and widely available test, enabling early diagnosis and treatment.
The company was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
CirrusMD Inc.
Seed Round in 2015
CirrusMD Inc. operates a healthcare communication platform for doctors and patients in the United States. The company’s CirrusMD platform facilitates patients to send secure messages and images; schedule a video chat; access to health information; and 24/7 physician access to local doctors. It offers doctor-to-patient video chat and direct messaging through a HIPAA compliant patient profile. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Denver, Colorado.
PEX Card
Series B in 2012
PEX Card is a corporate prepaid card solution small and medium sized companies use to control employee spending.
PEX Card is a next generation Visa prepaid corporate card service SMBs use to control employee expense spending. We link robust controls via web and mobile apps to Visa prepaid cards so companies can directly manage each employee’s card balance and where they can spend in real time and while on the go.
Managers discuss purchases with staff ahead of card funding to limit over-spending and can then top-up the employee’s card within seconds. If they want to put additional limits on where cards can be used, each employee profile can be set individually – i.e. YES for gas, NO for restaurants.
Signing up for PEX Card simply requires business validation. No credit checks are required (we’re not lending any money). Visit our website to learn more.
Digit Wireless
Series A in 2001
Digit Wireless, operates as a user interface innovation company. It offers Fastap keypad technology solutions that enable to discover, access, and use messaging, mobile data, and voice services. The company licenses its technology to mobile manufacturers and operators. Digit Wireless, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, and Seoul.
Love Stories TV
Seed Round in 2019
Love Stories TV is a video-powered marketplace for wedding planning. We connect couples with the ideas, products, and services they need for their weddings. We connect wedding businesses with a pipeline of customers.
Dame Products
Seed Round in 2016
Dame Products was founded with the purpose of making phenomenal sex toys. The company's mission is to design well-engineered sex toys, to heighten intimacy, and to openly empower the sexual experiences of womankind.
CourseHorse
Seed Round in 2012
CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering the path to personal enrichment.
It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
Good Health Media
Series A in 2009
Good Health Media is an online Health and Medical ad network that provides brands with health condition audiences like Diabetics, High Cholesterol sufferers etc. Using a process called ConditionMatch GHM tracks and targets the most frequent visitors to this niche health content. GHM can then re-target these in market audiences if desired. GHM has a consumer and health care professionals Channel.
Antengo
Seed Round in 2012
Antengo, Inc. provides a mobile application that facilitates real-time, location-based, person-to-person, and business-to-consumer exchanges and transactions. Its market place enables users to post, sell, and barter for electronics, furniture, vehicles, stuff, and more. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Diego, California.
U.S. Integrity
Seed Round in 2021
U.S. Integrity, LLC provides sports protection services to sports leagues and sports books throughout the United States. Its services include integrity monitoring; such as match-fixing, game manipulation, point-shaving, and the misuse of insider information, fraud prevention; analyze irregular bettor patterns and monitors nefarious cross-state wagering syndicates, and consulting services; which contains relevant and current information pertaining to states’ progress on introducing and/or submitting a sports betting bill. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Amper Music, Inc.
Seed Round in 2015
Amper is an artificial intelligence composer, performer, and producer that creates unique music, tailored to any content, instantly. Using its proprietary sample library and datasets, their technology is built from the ground up with an emphasis on high-quality music through the fusion of music theory and AI innovation.
The Amper Score enables enterprise teams to compose custom music in seconds and reclaim the time spent searching through stock music. Amper’s mission is to enable anyone to express themselves creatively through music regardless of their musical background or expertise. Amper builds tools powered by their Creative AI to help people create and customize original music.
Steelike
Seed Round in 2020
Steelike, Inc. develops, produces, and supplies concrete for construction. The company provides Steelike Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) for construction projects including highway infrastructure. Steelike, Inc. was formerly known as Kulish Design Co, LLC and changed its name to Steelike, Inc. in July 2020. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Springfield, Virginia.
Device42
Seed Round in 2014
Device42 is a provider of hybrid IT discovery and application dependency mapping software. It's a leader in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), Application Dependency Mapping (ADM), and DCIM Software Marketplace.
Device42 delivers comprehensive, high-value solutions that help companies automatically maintain an up-to-date inventory of their IP- and non-IP assets, whether physical, logical, or virtual, while seamlessly integrating with their existing service management and DevOps toolsets.
The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in West Haven, Connecticut.
1000museums.com
Venture Round in 2011
1000Museums (1KM) is a global network of museums designed to increase online access and public awareness of collections and exhibitions around the world including the Guggenheim, National Gallery of Art, Phillips Collection, the Louvre, and the Van Gogh Museum. As the world’s leading provider of high quality museum reproductions, 1000Museums supports the financial health of these institutions through complimentary on-demand art products sold both online and in museum stores.
TinyTap
Venture Round in 2017
TinyTap Ltd. develops iPad applications to create personal games for kids. The company allows parents and their kids to turn the moments they share together into personal and educational games. It also allows families, parents, kids, and teachers to create books; create fun games; tell stories and record questions; organize family photos into playable albums and add voice tags; and create fun classroom games and activities. The company also enables author, illustrator, and educator to sell their books, photos, and games through its application. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
CloudFrame, Inc.
Series A in 2022
CloudFrame is a software product company bridging the mainframe innovation gap with a step-by-step, low-risk approach towards modernizing legacy mainframe technologies. CloudFrame’s innovative approach significantly reduces the business and regulatory risk associated with changing mission-critical mainframe applications. By converting legacy programs to portable, Cloud-ready modern code, customers can reduce mainframe costs, integrate new technologies into their business applications, and migrate to Cloud.
Furious Corp.
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.
CloudFrame, Inc.
Seed Round in 2019
CloudFrame is a software product company bridging the mainframe innovation gap with a step-by-step, low-risk approach towards modernizing legacy mainframe technologies. CloudFrame’s innovative approach significantly reduces the business and regulatory risk associated with changing mission-critical mainframe applications. By converting legacy programs to portable, Cloud-ready modern code, customers can reduce mainframe costs, integrate new technologies into their business applications, and migrate to Cloud.
KoolSpan
Series B in 2006
KoolSpan provides robust, cross-platform, end-to-end communication security for the Enterprise and Consumer. KoolSpan’s multiple encryption solutions secure phone calls and messaging on Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry smartphones with an application that is easy to install, manage and use.
KoolSpan’s security and privacy solutions address the growing threat of loss or theft of intellectual property, vital information and proprietary assets. Customers include government organizations and enterprises in over 60 countries worldwide that span government, financial services, industrial/manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare and others. KoolSpan is FIPS 140-2 validated and has 21 issued patents with dozens more pending. KoolSpan is privately held and based in Bethesda, Md.
1000museums.com
Debt Financing in 2013
1000Museums (1KM) is a global network of museums designed to increase online access and public awareness of collections and exhibitions around the world including the Guggenheim, National Gallery of Art, Phillips Collection, the Louvre, and the Van Gogh Museum. As the world’s leading provider of high quality museum reproductions, 1000Museums supports the financial health of these institutions through complimentary on-demand art products sold both online and in museum stores.
Broadband Energy Networks
Venture Round in 2012
Broadband Energy Networks, Inc. provides advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and smart grid solutions and services.
Allstar
Seed Round in 2021
Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.
Anvato
Seed Round in 2008
Anvato, Inc. is a technology platform for media companies to manage and monetize live and on demand video assets.
Anvato serves both publishers and advertisers providing the only end-to-end media content platform with live and on-demand video management, syndication, monetization, and analytics. Anvato's unique technology enables broadcasters to capture live broadcasts, edit live and syndicate to web and mobile devices near real time. Publishers can monetize live streams with dynamic and user-targeted ad insertion.
Anvato allows advertisers to track campaign effectiveness and optimize ad revenue. US Media clients include Univision Communications, and Kantar Video, a division of WPP. Anvato is the recipient of the 2010 Frost and Sullivan Global Innovation Award in Online Video. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.
New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX)
Series A in 2017
New York Shipping Exchange enables the transformation of the container shipping industry through two innovations: a new standardized freight contract and a new way to trade freight digitally. The company is supporting the transformation of container shipping by solving inefficiencies associated with booking downfalls and shipment rollings. They determined to eliminate the distrust between shippers and carriers that has been created by the lack of accountability in ocean contracts.
It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Biorez, Inc.
Series C in 2018
Biorez, Inc. is a early-stage regenerative medicine company engaged in developing bioresorbable scaffold implants to regenerate functional tissue in vivo. Its lead product candidate is an off-the-shelf implant for ACL reconstruction that spares harvesting of patient donor-tissue, and provides a better alternative to cadaver-based materials. The company plans to commercialize its lead ACL technology, as well as expand its platform to develop new and innovative clinical solutions.
uKnow Corporation
Venture Round in 2012
uKnow Corporation provides targeting and optimization solutions to create custom distribution channels for campaigns. The company’s solutions include BluePrints, which enable the creation of custom distribution lists based on user’s definition. uKnow Corporation solution provides planning, targeting, and optimization solutions to advertisers and agencies to plan and target the pages, domains, and sub-domains where their ads will be shown. The company also provides its BluePrints solution for distribution platforms to create custom channels across existing inventory, identify and acquire new inventory, and provide knowledge to determine pricing for inventory that users acquire. uKnow Corporation allows brands and marketers to target and gain visibility into the websites and pages they need to advertise on and the pages they need to avoid. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Guilford, Connecticut.
Biorez, Inc.
Seed Round in 2020
Biorez, Inc. is a early-stage regenerative medicine company engaged in developing bioresorbable scaffold implants to regenerate functional tissue in vivo. Its lead product candidate is an off-the-shelf implant for ACL reconstruction that spares harvesting of patient donor-tissue, and provides a better alternative to cadaver-based materials. The company plans to commercialize its lead ACL technology, as well as expand its platform to develop new and innovative clinical solutions.
PICKUP NOW, Inc.
Series B in 2021
PICKUP is a real-time, last-mile logistics network that enables consumers to experience same-day delivery of big, heavy, and specialty retail items. The company develops a delivery mobile application designed to provide a convenient way to move packages to desired places. Its application offers a network of on-demand professional and verified movers that help retailers to transform the delivery experience, enabling users to move packages on a short notice and improve sales conversion.
PICKUP was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Critical Mention, Inc.
Series A in 2004
Critical Mention provides the most comprehensive Web-based real time broadcast monitoring service and is changing the way corporate communications and business intelligence professionals search, track and view vital information from television and radio. The company's CriticalTV platform provides real-time search, monitoring and email alerts for organizations that require up-to-the-minute news about their company, clients, competitors, industry news and more.
PainQx
Venture Round in 2017
PainQx is a diagnostic/software company that has developed a next generation approach to objectively measure pain in humans. The PainQx platform achieves this by assessing neural activity from a patient’s brain and processing and decoding the data through proprietary algorithms. The output is a scaled pain and neurological side effects biomarker that is directly correlated to a patient’s pain state.
The PainQx system is currently being used as a clinical assessment tool by companies using pain as a primary or secondary clinical end point to measure their drug’s and/or device’s efficacy.
Futurestay, Inc.
Venture Round in 2017
Futurestay is a smart way for vacation rentals to connect to everything that matters: channels, guests, payments, and their own website and brand.
Futurestay has over 110,000 vacation rentals in 120 countries and is the leading independent vacation rental business solution.
It uses Smart Connections to list the property on Airbnb, HomeAway, and Booking.com.
PainQx
Seed Round in 2017
PainQx is a diagnostic/software company that has developed a next generation approach to objectively measure pain in humans. The PainQx platform achieves this by assessing neural activity from a patient’s brain and processing and decoding the data through proprietary algorithms. The output is a scaled pain and neurological side effects biomarker that is directly correlated to a patient’s pain state.
The PainQx system is currently being used as a clinical assessment tool by companies using pain as a primary or secondary clinical end point to measure their drug’s and/or device’s efficacy.
CirrusMD Inc.
Series A in 2017
CirrusMD Inc. operates a healthcare communication platform for doctors and patients in the United States. The company’s CirrusMD platform facilitates patients to send secure messages and images; schedule a video chat; access to health information; and 24/7 physician access to local doctors. It offers doctor-to-patient video chat and direct messaging through a HIPAA compliant patient profile. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Denver, Colorado.
KoolSpan
Series A in 2004
KoolSpan provides robust, cross-platform, end-to-end communication security for the Enterprise and Consumer. KoolSpan’s multiple encryption solutions secure phone calls and messaging on Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry smartphones with an application that is easy to install, manage and use.
KoolSpan’s security and privacy solutions address the growing threat of loss or theft of intellectual property, vital information and proprietary assets. Customers include government organizations and enterprises in over 60 countries worldwide that span government, financial services, industrial/manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare and others. KoolSpan is FIPS 140-2 validated and has 21 issued patents with dozens more pending. KoolSpan is privately held and based in Bethesda, Md.
New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX)
Venture Round in 2021
New York Shipping Exchange enables the transformation of the container shipping industry through two innovations: a new standardized freight contract and a new way to trade freight digitally. The company is supporting the transformation of container shipping by solving inefficiencies associated with booking downfalls and shipment rollings. They determined to eliminate the distrust between shippers and carriers that has been created by the lack of accountability in ocean contracts.
It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.
GameCo LLC
Series A in 2016
GameCo created Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM) a category of Video Game Gambling on casino floors. It is a pioneering company uniting the experience of playing video games with the excitement of gambling by creating Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM). GameCo’s VGM is the first platform to bring video games to the casino floor engaging a new market of casino customers. The first video game gambling platform approved by any regulator in the United States, GameCo’s patented VGM proprietary arcade-style cabinets allows a player’s skill to effect the payout and winnings while maintaining the same casino-based economics as slot machines.
New View Surgical, Inc.
Series B in 2021
New View Surgical, Inc. develops VisionPort technology which combines four devices, which includes laparoscope, camera, light source, and access port into one providing surgeon with complete control of both visualization and instrumentation. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
GameCo LLC
Series A in 2016
GameCo created Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM) a category of Video Game Gambling on casino floors. It is a pioneering company uniting the experience of playing video games with the excitement of gambling by creating Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM). GameCo’s VGM is the first platform to bring video games to the casino floor engaging a new market of casino customers. The first video game gambling platform approved by any regulator in the United States, GameCo’s patented VGM proprietary arcade-style cabinets allows a player’s skill to effect the payout and winnings while maintaining the same casino-based economics as slot machines.
Cognition Therapeutics
Seed Round in 2007
Cognition Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage neuroscience company. It develops drugs to restore normal cellular damage responses in neurodegenerative and neuro-ophthalmic disorders. It offers CT1812, an oral brain-penetrant small molecule drug to restore the damaged cellular processes that drive diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD), geographic atrophy and other conditions. Cognition Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Peel Away Labs
Seed Round in 2018
The idea for PEEL AWAYS started out small, in my dorm room at the University of Arizona. I couldn’t help but notice how few students washed their sheets…and how much time went between washes. Next thing I knew, PEEL AWAYS was my new pet project. So how do you get people to wash their sheets? By creating such an amazing sheet that it doesn’t have to be washed at all.
Our team at Peel Away Labs has tried and tested over 30 prototypes to give you the softest, absorbent disposable sheet out there. Each layer of PEEL AWAYS is breathable, flexible and comfortable, night after night. It’s even gentle on the environment by saving precious water, so while your wallet gets a break, Mother Nature does too. We want to change the way you think about bedding. Try PEEL AWAYS for yourself, and enjoy a fresh, clean sheet one layer at a time.
Futurestay, Inc.
Series A in 2022
Futurestay is a smart way for vacation rentals to connect to everything that matters: channels, guests, payments, and their own website and brand.
Futurestay has over 110,000 vacation rentals in 120 countries and is the leading independent vacation rental business solution.
It uses Smart Connections to list the property on Airbnb, HomeAway, and Booking.com.
Social Bicycles
Seed Round in 2013
Social Bicycles Inc., doing business as JUMP Bikes, develops an online platform and software that enables members to find bikes at hub locations and reserve from the Web, mobile applications, or directly from the bike itself. It serves residential properties, municipalities, universities, and corporate campuses in the United States and internationally. Social Bicycles Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brooklyn, New York with locations worldwide. As of April 9, 2018, Social Bicycles Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc.
Nutrino Health Ltd.
Series A in 2018
Nutrino Health Ltd. develops a nutrition insights software platform that offers nutrition-related data services and analytics. The company offers FoodPrint, a personalized recommendation software that offers meal suggestions and health statistics. It serves individuals, businesses, and professionals. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of November 21, 2018, Nutrino Health Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Medtronic plc.
Capillary Biomedical
Seed Round in 2018
Capillary Biomedical is a medical device startup developing technologies for diabetes management. They aim to dramatically simplify glucose monitoring and insulin delivery, reducing the burden on both patients and the overall healthcare system. The company is based in Irvine, CA and is a spin-out of the Artificial Pancreas Center at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA.
First Due
Seed Round in 2017
First Due Size Up is on a mission to end first responder injuries due to a lack of information. The platform programmatically gathers information from online and offline sources, translates that data into an easy-to-consume format and makes it accessible to First Responders at the time of dispatch on any device, completely integrated with 911, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and customized to the agencies Standard Operating Procedures. Think of us as SaaS+SmartData+EmergencyResponse to reduce cost and save lives.
Elysium Therapeutics
Angel Round in 2017
Elysium Therapeutics is a health care company that focuses on biotechnology, fitness, medical, and robotics. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Danville, California.
Boundless Mind, Inc.
Seed Round in 2017
Boundless Mind, Inc. offers artificial intelligence platform for behavior design to help people be healthy, wealthy, happy, and wise. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California. As of October 16, 2019, Boundless Mind, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Thrive Global Holdings, Inc.
Citelighter
Seed Round in 2014
Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time.
Citelighter offers functionality to assist in creating project outlines, aggregating personalized content, as well as automates the reference or bibliography process. Additionally, captured facts are indexed and offered to users via Citelighter's fact-recommendation system.
Front Range Biosciences, Inc.
Venture Round in 2017
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.
Shoppable
Seed Round in 2012
Shoppable is a profitable technology company with a suite of e-commerce products surrounding Shoppable's patented, universal checkout API. Shoppable's solutions enable advertisers, retailers, and publishers to create shoppable sites, content, ads, videos, mobile apps, recipes, and other innovative commerce experiences.
The company was founded in 2011 in San Francisco and is now headquartered in New York.
Front Range Biosciences, Inc.
Seed Round in 2017
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.
EnergySage
Series A in 2015
EnergySage, LLC operates an online marketplace for solar and other clean energy technologies for homeowners, businesses, and non-profits. It offers educational, analytical, and shopping tools to help consumers determine suitable clean energy solutions and proceed with installing solar, wind, geothermal, or other technologies. EnergySage, LLC was founded in 2009 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Authorea, Inc.
Seed Round in 2014
Authorea is a provider of a collaborative platform that is designed to read, write, discuss, and publish research. Its platform serves as a powerful document editor for researchers and provides collaborative editing, automatic citation formatting, tracking changes and it has the ability to make any document public or fully private that enables researchers to write documents together and attach references, figures, data, and source code. It improves how researchers work and make breakthrough discoveries by tackling one of the most important parts of the research cycle which is communication.
SureDone Inc.
Seed Round in 2013
SureDone Inc. operates a cloud-based eCommerce platform that enables users for selling across various marketplaces. It offers SureDone, a solution that allows users to plug multiple channels into it and manage listings, inventory, orders, and fulfillment out of one platform; and to add new or used products on eBay, Amazon, Google Shopping, and their eCommerce storefront. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.
Critical Mention, Inc.
Series B in 2005
Critical Mention provides the most comprehensive Web-based real time broadcast monitoring service and is changing the way corporate communications and business intelligence professionals search, track and view vital information from television and radio. The company's CriticalTV platform provides real-time search, monitoring and email alerts for organizations that require up-to-the-minute news about their company, clients, competitors, industry news and more.
Altruik
Series B in 2011
Altruik was acquired and merged with SearchDex. www.searchdex.com
Altruik is focused on making search engine optimization easy and scalable for eCommerce companies and online businesses. By using their technology to increase visibility in the search engines, companies can generate more site traffic, more visits to their content and product inventory pages, and higher click-through rates.
Their automated Search Engine Optimization (SEO) solution easily integrates with all Content Management Systems (CMS) and legacy systems and efficiently manages the search engine optimization process. Plus, it offers several advantages over other options by:
1. Handling many of the labor-intensive and tedious tasks associated with implementing site-wide SEO changes. As a result, eCommerce companies and site owners save the time and ongoing cost of ensuring that their site content is visible to prospective customers
2. Ensuring that SEO best practices are implemented in a way that is fully compliant with the search engines
3. Seamlessly overcoming SEO barriers created by a company’s infrastructure, including inflexible legacy or Content Management Systems, limited technology resources, and lack of access to relevant performance and search data
Xperiti
Seed Round in 2019
Xperiti is an AI-powered enterprise software designed to give investment management firms a strategic advantage in research. Xperiti’s platform offers access to calls with unique industry experts. Xperiti uses speech to text software to transcribe those calls, and natural language processing to reflect back actionable insights in the form of call summaries, analytics, and expert consensus.
Dash
Seed Round in 2013
Dash is a mobile payment platform that allows patrons to view, split, and pay their tab from their smartphone. It integrates directly with the leading hospitality point-of-sale systems, which means it's extremely easy for restaurants to accept Dash as payment. Users benefit from bill splitting, itemized digital transactions, increased security, and ease of closing out a tab at a busy bar. Dash is lives in 30+ markets and processes thousands of transactions weekly.
Dash was founded in 2011 by Jeff McGregor and Gennady Spirin, with backers including Great Oaks VC, Caerus Ventures, New York Angels, and Jonathan Segal.
Magnify.net
Venture Round in 2009
Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers.
Board on Track
Seed Round in 2015
BoardOnTrack provides expertise, training, powerful, web-based tools, and a membership community to the foot soldiers in the battle to improve our nation's public school system. The charter school is a multi-million dollar public enterprise. Running it with a group of volunteers is a daunting task. BoardOnTrack helps in leveraging the efforts of volunteer board members into real results: academic excellence and organizational sustainability.
It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts.
Localytics
Series A in 2011
Upland Localytics is a mobile app analytics and marketing platform. It gives companies the insights and tools they need to improve their mobile app acquisition, engagement, and retention efforts. It provides a family of cloud-based enterprise work management software applications for information technology, process excellence, finance, professional services, and marketing functions within organizations.
The company's platform is used in more than 6,000 apps on more than 2 billion devices by companies such as Live Nation, HSN, Comcast, and The New York Times.
SynchroPET Inc.
Debt Financing in 2015
SynchroPET Inc. provides adaptable and multiuse PET imaging systems. It offers PET/MRI, which provides accessible functionalities for exhaustive preclinical research; Mini-PET, a labtop PET imaging device that is easily moved to different stations within the laboratory; RatCAP, an “O” buoyance traveler that does not impede the animal’s movement; and Wrist PET Detector, a non-invasive PET scanner that circles the wrist for clinical applications. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Stony Brook, New York.
HeTexted, Inc.
Seed Round in 2013
HeTexted, Inc. operates an online platform that provides question and answer service for dating questions. Its online platform allows registered users to seek advice in connection with dating and relationship issues by posting texts and other content and seeking answers or advice from other registered users. The company’s platform also offers a paid feature where registered users can engage the services of a dating advice expert for opinion, in depth answers, and situation and text analysis. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.
ImagineAir
Seed Round in 2015
ImagineAir offers personal air taxi services. It operates a fleet of Cirrus SR-22s. It offers direct flights to and from over 1000 airports in the southern and eastern U.S.
ImagineAir was co-founded by Aaron Sohaki, Ben Hamilton, and Paul Fischer in 2005 and is based in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
CirrusMD Inc.
Seed Round in 2016
CirrusMD Inc. operates a healthcare communication platform for doctors and patients in the United States. The company’s CirrusMD platform facilitates patients to send secure messages and images; schedule a video chat; access to health information; and 24/7 physician access to local doctors. It offers doctor-to-patient video chat and direct messaging through a HIPAA compliant patient profile. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Denver, Colorado.
Laugh.ly
Seed Round in 2017
Laugh Radio is changing the way people experience stand up comedy. Their mobile app, Laugh.ly is set to launch summer of 2016. It will allow big and small name comedians to grow and monetize their fan base. The company has lined up more than 400 comedians whose content will stream on its app, and a total of 20,000 individual tracks.
Aereon Solutions
Venture Round in 2004
Aereon Solutions is a provider of wireless and head office based process automation solutions for HVAC, plumbing electrical contracting, and construction companies.
New View Surgical, Inc.
Series A in 2017
New View Surgical, Inc. develops VisionPort technology which combines four devices, which includes laparoscope, camera, light source, and access port into one providing surgeon with complete control of both visualization and instrumentation. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
EnerKnol, Inc.
Convertible Note in 2014
EnerKnol is an innovative energy policy data and analytics company, conceived to solve the vast market need for real-time access to the critical regulatory information required to make decisions in the energy industry, from fossil fuels, to power & utilities, environmental commodities, renewables, and beyond.
EnerKnol—Energy Knowledge—is a name that captures how simple, yet how fundamental their solution is. As Sir Francis Bacon famously declared, “Knowledge itself is power”. And that’s the driving ethos behind EnerKnol—that knowledge of power is necessary to drive investment and innovation, and fulfill their mission to transform the energy industry for the better.
Brain Sentry
Seed Round in 2012
Brain Sentry is engaged in the development of a helmet-mounted device that alerts when an athlete suffers a potentially dangerous impact.
The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.
Cisse Trading Co
Series A in 2014
Cocomama is a women-owned business that manufactures delicious baking and hot cocoa mixes. It crafts organic cocoa products, cocoa powders, baking mixes, and brownie thins are used to produce cakes, pastries, and cookies with ingredients sourced from countries like the Dominican Republic, Madagascar, and Indonesia, providing customers with tasty chocolate products.
True Made Foods, Inc.
Convertible Note in 2016
True Made Foods, Inc. produces and sells vegetable-based sauces and ketchups. It markets its products through a network of supermarkets and online retailers, as well as online. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Alexandria, Virginia with a manufacturing location in Henderson, North Carolina.
Localytics
Series B in 2012
Upland Localytics is a mobile app analytics and marketing platform. It gives companies the insights and tools they need to improve their mobile app acquisition, engagement, and retention efforts. It provides a family of cloud-based enterprise work management software applications for information technology, process excellence, finance, professional services, and marketing functions within organizations.
The company's platform is used in more than 6,000 apps on more than 2 billion devices by companies such as Live Nation, HSN, Comcast, and The New York Times.
ProterixBio
Series A in 2004
Developer of proprietary blood-based biomarker tests to transform the management of chronic respiratory diseases. The company is focused on addressing the unmet need for tools to provide a real-time, biological assessment of a patient’s disease state. ProterixBio's products will enable health care providers to better manage their patients and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations, leading to improved outcomes and reduced health care costs.
It was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts.
Kinnos Inc.
Seed Round in 2017
Kinnos Inc. manufactures a powdered additive for infectious disease decontamination. The company provides Highlight, a patent-pending additive for disinfectants. It also provides real-time color-change feedback to enforce thoroughness of cleaning. In addition, it also provides Highlight Wipes, a wipe dispensing machine and Highlight Powder, a disinfectant additive. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Tommy John
Seed Round in 2013
Tommy John, Inc. manufactures and markets undershirts and underwear for men, wives, and girlfriends. It sells its products online and through a network of retail shops in the United States; and ships its products internationally. The company was formerly known as TJP Enterprises, LLC. Tommy John, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.
Front Range Biosciences, Inc.
Series B in 2019
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.
Aristotle Circle
Series B in 2011
Aristotle Circle connects parents to experts in admissions, education, and child
development. The company offers services ranging from pre-K to graduate school
admissions to Special Needs education and advocacy. Aristotle Circle’s network of
more than 200 vetted experts grows daily and currently serves over 500 clients in 26
states and 7 countries.
Comixology
Debt Financing in 2010
Founded in 2007 with the mission of bringing comics to people everywhere, comiXology — in just five short years — has revolutionized the comic book and graphic novel world. From creating the industry leading platform for digital comics to tools and services for brick and mortar retailers, comiXology has lead the charge in exposing new audiences to the rich history and culture of comic books.
With the development of the Comics by comiXology digital comics platform — available across iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire and the Web — comiXology provides the easiest way worldwide for people to enjoy comics at just the click of a button! Regularly ranking as the top grossing iPad app in the entire iTunes App Store, Comics by comiXology was recently selected as a preloaded app on Amazon’s Kindle Fire.
Providing digital comics across multiple platforms, comiXology will not stop until everyone on the face of the earth has been turned into a comic book fan.
For more information, please visit www.comixology.com.
Standard Analytics IO, INC.
Seed Round in 2015
Standard Analytics helps humans and machines to re-use, quote, share, and reproduce science. The company builds an API for Science to make the data, analytics, and results of any data-driven science discoverable, easy to reuse, and verifiably reproducible. Inspired by the software development workflow, it brings dependency management, continuous integration, and semantic web technologies to science. Fundamentally, the company introduces a new way to publish, consume, and share science and a new form of arguing, backed by quantitative evidence.
Standard Analytics was established in 2014 and is headquartered in New York.
Collectively
Seed Round in 2014
Collectively is a venture-backed, international team of software professionals dedicated to making work more human.
Atlis
Seed Round in 2015
Atlis has digitized the word of mouth channel for local business referrals on a large scale.Highlights include:
- Local search platforms using average star ratings are antiquated, creating a poor user experience, and causing significant harm to local business reputations. These products still live in the desktop era.
- The system has removed negativity from the consumer feedback loop to prevent toxicity and abuse of local businesses, instead empowering satisfied customers to have a larger voice than ever before.
- Atlis has taken the preferred channel of "friendly advice" and applied it to a city-wide audience, letting users ask each other for various local businesses, products, and services to receive suggestions directly in real-time.
- Atlis tracks user preferences and collects a repository of the word-of-mouth advice across an entire city, making that dataset consumable via a passive search experience, as well. Machine learning will eventaully transform this the data collection into smart, personalized search results that knows what people would have suggested to you.
- Company launched in NYC in October 2016 with its R&D team based in Tel Aviv. It has already built an engaged user base of over 10,000 and has signed up over 200 local businesses (without any B2B efforts). It has also secured valuable partnerships with Google, OpenTable, and others.
Nutrino Health Ltd.
Seed Round in 2012
Nutrino Health Ltd. develops a nutrition insights software platform that offers nutrition-related data services and analytics. The company offers FoodPrint, a personalized recommendation software that offers meal suggestions and health statistics. It serves individuals, businesses, and professionals. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of November 21, 2018, Nutrino Health Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Medtronic plc.
Brain Sentry
Series A in 2014
Brain Sentry is engaged in the development of a helmet-mounted device that alerts when an athlete suffers a potentially dangerous impact.
The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.
PEX Card
Venture Round in 2010
PEX Card is a corporate prepaid card solution small and medium sized companies use to control employee spending.
PEX Card is a next generation Visa prepaid corporate card service SMBs use to control employee expense spending. We link robust controls via web and mobile apps to Visa prepaid cards so companies can directly manage each employee’s card balance and where they can spend in real time and while on the go.
Managers discuss purchases with staff ahead of card funding to limit over-spending and can then top-up the employee’s card within seconds. If they want to put additional limits on where cards can be used, each employee profile can be set individually – i.e. YES for gas, NO for restaurants.
Signing up for PEX Card simply requires business validation. No credit checks are required (we’re not lending any money). Visit our website to learn more.
Front Range Biosciences, Inc.
Series A in 2018
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.
Vizibility
Series A in 2011
Vizibility helps people package and promote their online presence with a powerful Mobile Business Card. Build trust and credibility quickly when you make an accurate, powerful and lasting impression.
Your mobile business card is like a personalized, mobile-friendly website with key content about you and your organization. It's instantly accessible from any smartphone without an app. And it's a snap to share using QR codes and Microsoft Tag barcodes, NFC mobile wallet cards, Apple Passbook and special buttons and links.
Vizibility's mobile identity management platform is integrated and resold by printers and web-to-print vendors which are seeking to offer valuable new features, generate new revenue streams and differentiate themselves from competitors. U.S. Patents 7,831,609, 7,987,173, 8,095,534, 8,271,650, 8,275,837 and 8,280,879. Other patents pending.
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.
Angel Round in 2010
Pinterest, Inc. provides visual discovery engine in the United States and internationally. The company’s engine allows people to find inspiration for their lives, including recipes, home and style ideas, travel destinations, and others. It shows them visual recommendations based on people personal taste and interests. The company was formerly known as Cold Brew Labs Inc. and changed its name to Pinterest, Inc. in April 2012. Pinterest, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
BYNDL Inc.
Convertible Note in 2014
BYNDL is a mobile transaction services company providing payments, permissions and relationship solutions for Unattended Retail environments.
BYNDL brings the power of mobile transactions to point-of-decision selling situations, enabling mobile apps and vending machines alike to accept mobile payments and deliver mobile coupons.
BYNDL’s open, integrated software-as-a-service (SaaS) mobile transaction service mobile-enables Unattended Retailing companies’ software and machines, resulting in reduced operating costs, increased margins and new revenue opportunities.
BYNDL’s stored value payment solution dramatically reduces the impact of transaction fees across multiple small value purchases.
Only BYNDL can support any mobile device or technology, any payment method or settlement process, provide stored value, and integrate with existing software and systems. BYNDL Bundles Your New Digital Life. For more information, please visit www.byndl.com.
CE Interactive
Series A in 2007
Wirewize is a product of CE Interactive, a New York-based software and services company that has developed the definitive platform to help users manage, support, improve and simplify their consumer electronics experience. CEI represents the next generation of support services, and provides its solutions to consumer electronics retailers, manufacturers, service providers and consumers.
CEI's unique information delivery technologies provide cross-brand model specific support solutions at all critical customer touch points; on the retail floor, through a call center help desk, through a service or installation event, and by the customer directly over the web.
Social Standards
Seed Round in 2015
Social Standards, Inc. develops market research tools to discover and deliver actionable business insights with authentic analysis of social data. Its tool provide consumer voice measurement and marketing insights for beverage alcohol, beauty, personal care, food and beverage, quick serve restaurants, and other industries. Social Standards, Inc. was formerly known as BarTrendr, Inc. and changed its name to Social Standards, Inc., in July 2016. The Company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Oakland, California
Magnify.net
Series A in 2007
Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers.
BoardBookit
Series A in 2018
BoardBookit, Inc. develops a board portal software for companies and boards of directors to simplify and enhance their board meetings and communications. It offers BoardBookit, a board room empowerment platform that provides secure tools to enhance information sharing, communication, and decision making between companies and their boards of directors. The company serves customers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. BoardBookit, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Pond5
Angel Round in 2008
Pond5 Inc. operates an online video library that enables users to upload and sell royalty free footage, photos, illustrations, music, sound effects, after effects, public domain, and 3D models. It offers services to filmmakers, creators, and video, film, and television producers. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Prague, Czech Republic; Geneva, Switzerland; and Dublin, Ireland.
SureDone Inc.
Venture Round in 2014
SureDone Inc. operates a cloud-based eCommerce platform that enables users for selling across various marketplaces. It offers SureDone, a solution that allows users to plug multiple channels into it and manage listings, inventory, orders, and fulfillment out of one platform; and to add new or used products on eBay, Amazon, Google Shopping, and their eCommerce storefront. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.
ORCA, Inc.
Series A in 2009
ORCA is a fintech platform for building payment processing alternatives for social networks, online games to accept and optionally aggregate payments, create loyalty programs, and send marketing messages.
Tire Agent Corp.
Seed Round in 2020
Tire Agent Corp. operates a mobile tire store that offers online ordering and provides installation at home or office. The company operates as a search engine and aggregator for tires and wheels. The company's agents provide each customer with personalized tire recommendations based on their vehicle and how many miles a year they drive. Tire Agent Corp. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.
Front Range Biosciences, Inc.
Venture Round in 2020
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.
Tripshare
Angel Round in 2012
Tripshare is the only way to discover the world, create and edit your itinerary BEFORE you book, share it with friends, family, or colleagues and finally price and book your trip – all in a single online experience. Now travel planning is fast, easy and fun!
Are you planning a complex trip, perhaps with multiple destinations? Are you obsessed with vacation perfection? Is "winging it" not an option? Try Tripshare.
ProterixBio
Series B in 2005
Developer of proprietary blood-based biomarker tests to transform the management of chronic respiratory diseases. The company is focused on addressing the unmet need for tools to provide a real-time, biological assessment of a patient’s disease state. ProterixBio's products will enable health care providers to better manage their patients and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations, leading to improved outcomes and reduced health care costs.
It was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts.
Moven
Series A in 2014
Moven focuses on enabling banks and non-bank partners to leverage the Moven platform to acquire, engage, retain, and grow their customer base. Moven's app, debit card, and contactless payment sticker provide real-time spending insights that motivate customers to make smarter decisions and save more.
Moven Enterprise was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Atomation
Seed Round in 2018
Atomation, founded in Tel Aviv and now with headquarters in Saint Louis, Missouri, is a business-to-business solutions company that uses an innovative Internet of Things (IoT) platform to connect existing, in-field, legacy objects and assets to the internet. Focused on making the data gathered by sensors into useful and actionable information, Atomation solves problems differently with affordable and simple solutions that allow businesses to transform operations and optimize their bottom line.
Ambient Devices, Inc.
Series B in 2008
Ambient Devices provides a complete solution to offer wireless products to consumers that make tangible interfaces to digital information. Today, this solution includes: the Ambient Information Network™-a back-end service delivery infrastructure and wireless network; and the Ambient Device Design™-a set of hardware specifications to turn everyday objects (like pens, watches, and clocks) into glanceable wireless information devices, customized and branded by product companies.
Everwaters
Angel Round in 2016
Our mission is to help every family around the world drink clean water.
We think water filters should mean "filtering" our water, keeping us safe from lead, heavy metals, fluoride, pharmaceuticals, and just about anything else that may be in our tap water - at home or on the go. For too long, we had to choose low-quality water filters that have little regard for you and your family. We knew there was a better way, so we created Everwaters to bring high-quality water filters at great prices for the whole family.
Cookstr
Series A in 2009
Cookstr’s mission is to organize the world‘s best cookbooks and recipes and make them universally accessible.
Cookstr develops and delivers innovative products and technologies for partners – market leaders in the media, healthcare and food industries – to support enjoyable and healthy consumer lifestyles focused on quality home cooking. Cookstr's flagship product is our hand-curated database of thousands of cookbook recipes by hundreds of well-known chefs and cookbook authors, which we offer directly to consumers via the Cookstr website, www.cookstr.com, and license as a "channel" to our partners.
Love Stories TV
Seed Round in 2018
Love Stories TV is a video-powered marketplace for wedding planning. We connect couples with the ideas, products, and services they need for their weddings. We connect wedding businesses with a pipeline of customers.
Board on Track
Venture Round in 2015
BoardOnTrack provides expertise, training, powerful, web-based tools, and a membership community to the foot soldiers in the battle to improve our nation's public school system. The charter school is a multi-million dollar public enterprise. Running it with a group of volunteers is a daunting task. BoardOnTrack helps in leveraging the efforts of volunteer board members into real results: academic excellence and organizational sustainability.
It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts.
SetJam
Debt Financing in 2010
More TV shows and movies are available online than through cable. No one watches them though because they're scattered across dozens of sites. At SetJam we've abstracted this complexity and created a place where people can watch TV online in a way that rivals old TV in its simplicity. In so doing, we believe that we can drive a mass audience to legal content and build the basis for a new kind of TV that is personal, interactive, and social.
Citelighter
Convertible Note in 2016
Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time.
Citelighter offers functionality to assist in creating project outlines, aggregating personalized content, as well as automates the reference or bibliography process. Additionally, captured facts are indexed and offered to users via Citelighter's fact-recommendation system.
New View Surgical, Inc.
Series A in 2019
New View Surgical, Inc. develops VisionPort technology which combines four devices, which includes laparoscope, camera, light source, and access port into one providing surgeon with complete control of both visualization and instrumentation. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Citelighter
Seed Round in 2015
Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time.
Citelighter offers functionality to assist in creating project outlines, aggregating personalized content, as well as automates the reference or bibliography process. Additionally, captured facts are indexed and offered to users via Citelighter's fact-recommendation system.
ProterixBio
Venture Round in 2007
Developer of proprietary blood-based biomarker tests to transform the management of chronic respiratory diseases. The company is focused on addressing the unmet need for tools to provide a real-time, biological assessment of a patient’s disease state. ProterixBio's products will enable health care providers to better manage their patients and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations, leading to improved outcomes and reduced health care costs.
It was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts.
CE Interactive
Series A in 2008
Wirewize is a product of CE Interactive, a New York-based software and services company that has developed the definitive platform to help users manage, support, improve and simplify their consumer electronics experience. CEI represents the next generation of support services, and provides its solutions to consumer electronics retailers, manufacturers, service providers and consumers.
CEI's unique information delivery technologies provide cross-brand model specific support solutions at all critical customer touch points; on the retail floor, through a call center help desk, through a service or installation event, and by the customer directly over the web.
PayPerks
Angel Round in 2010
PayPerks, Inc. provides sweepstakes-based award programs. Its educational rewards platform allow users to win cash prizes for learning, and taking tutorials and surveys on various topics, such as budgeting and saving, prepaid card, nutrition, and more. PayPerks, Inc. was formerly known as Arlyn Davich LLC. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York.
eDataSource
Series A in 2006
Founded in 2003 as the industry's first email intelligence company, eDataSource pioneered the use of live consumer inboxes to analyze email success metrics. Their multi-source monitoring solution now includes the most cutting edge, AI-powered machine learning tracks over 90% of all commercial emails sent globally. No other players in the email monitoring space offer anything like our combination of data-depth and breadth of ISP representation.
This leading-edge technology empowers marketers with the deepest, most precise, and easily accessible information to improve critical success metrics of their email marketing programs. eDataSource provides tools and services for the world's leading brands, agencies, and email service providers.
Bandwagon
Seed Round in 2014
Bandwagon facilitates real-time sharing of taxis and hired vehicles. Through web and mobile apps, they connect people who are traveling in the same direction. Shared trips are affordable, fun, and environmentally-friendly.
Bandwagon builds transportation software and systems. Their primary area of expertise is building products that increase the efficiency of for-hire vehicle fleets, and increase the connectivity of these fleets with traditional transit systems. Bandwagon also offers transportation strategy consulting to large organizations, municipalities and transportation management agencies.
Bandwagon was inspired by an ethic of repair and a belief that cities are fundamentally collaborative & creative enterprises. The Company’s mission is to create products and services that increase urban access to mobility and reduce energy costs and pollution, by reorganizing existing transportation infrastructure. Their products provide efficient access to traditional transportation networks where they exist, and create new mobility where traditional transportation infrastructure is underdeveloped.
Kasisto
Series A in 2017
Kasisto enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers via human-like, intelligent conversations anytime, anywhere.
Its digital experience platform, KAI, powers omnichannel virtual assistants and chatbots who are fluent in banking across mobile apps, websites, messaging platforms, and voice-enabled devices.
The company was founded in 2013 by Dror Oren, Zor Gorelov, Sasha Caskey, and Ruth Brown and headquartered in New York, New York.
uKnow Corporation
Seed Round in 2011
uKnow Corporation provides targeting and optimization solutions to create custom distribution channels for campaigns. The company’s solutions include BluePrints, which enable the creation of custom distribution lists based on user’s definition. uKnow Corporation solution provides planning, targeting, and optimization solutions to advertisers and agencies to plan and target the pages, domains, and sub-domains where their ads will be shown. The company also provides its BluePrints solution for distribution platforms to create custom channels across existing inventory, identify and acquire new inventory, and provide knowledge to determine pricing for inventory that users acquire. uKnow Corporation allows brands and marketers to target and gain visibility into the websites and pages they need to advertise on and the pages they need to avoid. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Guilford, Connecticut.
Design2Launch
Venture Round in 2005
Design2Launch, Inc. provides graphic management solutions. It offers Design2Launch System, a digital workflow solution for the communication and collaboration needs of marketing, creative, advertising, production, research and development, legal, and packaging professionals in the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, automotive, and consumer package marketplaces. Design2Launch System consists of various modules, including Visual Asset Manager, a digital asset management system that enables indexing, storing, and retrieval of digital assets; Supplier Submission Management to collect, review, and catalog the digital assets submitted by outside agencies and suppliers; and Routing, Collaboration, Mark up, and Approval system to capture and record annotations, mark ups, and sign offs. Its modules also include D2L Soft Proofing and D2L Hard Proofing for color management and communication; File Transfer Manager to distribute files from one location to another; Graphic Delivery System that enables users to provide links to files stored in the Visual Asset Manager to both registered and non registered/temporary users; and Project Tracking tool, which enables users to run customized reports containing project information. The company also provides technical support, design guidance, and training services. Design2Launch, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.
Magnify.net
Series A in 2008
Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers.
eJamming, Inc.
Series A in 2005
[eJamming](http://www.ejamming.com) allows musicians located anywhere to get together for jam sessions. Your drummer is in New York, lead guitar is in India, your bass player is somewhere else, and you're on keyboard. No problem. eJamming lets you jam anyway. And you can talk to the other musicians via a VOIP feature.
All you need is digital instrument (midi enabled) and an internet connected computer. Download the client (Mac or PC), and either get the old band back together virtually or find a musician on the service.
Concert Window, Inc.
Convertible Note in 2014
Concert Window, Inc. operates an online platform that enables to watch live concerts. Its online ticketing platform allows customers to purchase tickets in advance or on the day of the show. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.
First Due
Seed Round in 2015
First Due Size Up is on a mission to end first responder injuries due to a lack of information. The platform programmatically gathers information from online and offline sources, translates that data into an easy-to-consume format and makes it accessible to First Responders at the time of dispatch on any device, completely integrated with 911, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and customized to the agencies Standard Operating Procedures. Think of us as SaaS+SmartData+EmergencyResponse to reduce cost and save lives.
Zive, Inc.
Seed Round in 2017
Zive, Inc., a consumer software company, develops 'Kiwi for Gmail', an email desktop application for Mac and Windows users. Kiwi for Gmail is up to 2.0, which comes with a new toolbar and allows users to multitask. The application turns G Suite applications like docs and slides, into Windows desktop applications. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
BeautyBooked, Inc.
Seed Round in 2014
BeautyBooked, Inc. operates a Website that allows users to search and book appoints for local day spas and salons. The company’s site allows users to book appointments for blowout, nails, haircut, tanning, facial treatments, massage, hair color, makeup, brows and lashes, bikini wax, body treatment, and laser and medi services. It primarily serves customers in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, and Miami. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York. As of January 19, 2016, BeautyBooked, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of StyleSeat, Inc.
Kasisto
Seed Round in 2014
Kasisto enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers via human-like, intelligent conversations anytime, anywhere.
Its digital experience platform, KAI, powers omnichannel virtual assistants and chatbots who are fluent in banking across mobile apps, websites, messaging platforms, and voice-enabled devices.
The company was founded in 2013 by Dror Oren, Zor Gorelov, Sasha Caskey, and Ruth Brown and headquartered in New York, New York.
BuyYourFriendADrink.com
Seed Round in 2008
BuyYourFriendADrink.com is an ecommerce company. It operates as an automated sampling solution for the beer, wine, and spirits industry. The company offers an e-commerce platform that enables its users to to buy gift certificates for friends from bars within the network. BuyYourFriendADrink.com was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Palma De Mallorca.
Crimson Hexagon
Series A in 2010
Crimson Hexagon helps global brands better understand their consumers. With instant access to the world’s largest volume of unstructured text and images across social, online public, and enterprise-held data sources, Crimson Hexagon’s AI-powered consumer insights platform allows clients to analyze audiences, track brand perception and campaign performance, and even detect competitive and market trends. Their clients include Anheuser-Busch InBev, Adidas, General Mills, Paramount Pictures, Starbucks, and Twitter.
Localytics
Seed Round in 2010
Upland Localytics is a mobile app analytics and marketing platform. It gives companies the insights and tools they need to improve their mobile app acquisition, engagement, and retention efforts. It provides a family of cloud-based enterprise work management software applications for information technology, process excellence, finance, professional services, and marketing functions within organizations.
The company's platform is used in more than 6,000 apps on more than 2 billion devices by companies such as Live Nation, HSN, Comcast, and The New York Times.
Authorea, Inc.
Seed Round in 2016
Authorea is a provider of a collaborative platform that is designed to read, write, discuss, and publish research. Its platform serves as a powerful document editor for researchers and provides collaborative editing, automatic citation formatting, tracking changes and it has the ability to make any document public or fully private that enables researchers to write documents together and attach references, figures, data, and source code. It improves how researchers work and make breakthrough discoveries by tackling one of the most important parts of the research cycle which is communication.
Enertiv, Inc.
Seed Round in 2016
Enertiv, Inc., a digital energy company, provides data driven energy efficiency solutions to real estate, energy services, tech companies, energy software, and utilities markets worldwide. It offers energy data and analytics, sub metering and automated billing, measurement and verification, CircuitAPI, and energy consumption monitoring solutions. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.
KoolSpan
Series C in 2008
KoolSpan provides robust, cross-platform, end-to-end communication security for the Enterprise and Consumer. KoolSpan’s multiple encryption solutions secure phone calls and messaging on Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry smartphones with an application that is easy to install, manage and use.
KoolSpan’s security and privacy solutions address the growing threat of loss or theft of intellectual property, vital information and proprietary assets. Customers include government organizations and enterprises in over 60 countries worldwide that span government, financial services, industrial/manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare and others. KoolSpan is FIPS 140-2 validated and has 21 issued patents with dozens more pending. KoolSpan is privately held and based in Bethesda, Md.
CrowdTangle
Convertible Note in 2013
CrowdTangle makes it incredibly easy to find & track content on the social web.
Carnegie Speech
Series B in 2012
Carnegie Speech Company, Inc., a speech assessment and tutoring software company, provides speech training technology to help to speak English clearly. It offers Carnegie Speech Assessment, which rate the proficiency of spoken English; Native Accent, which teach to pronounce English clearly; and YOUTH Database, a set of recordings of children reading words, phrases, and sentences in English. The company serves BPO and education markets.
Carnegie Speech Company, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Body Labs
Seed Round in 2014
Body Labs is a horizontal solution provider of human-aware AI that understands the way we move and how we’re shaped to make our world more personal. The company is comprised of the best in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and body modeling. It aims to deliver human-aware AI as the next digital platform to empower the capture and use of 3D body motion and shape for numerous industries.
It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
VinePair Inc.
Seed Round in 2017
VinePair operates an online platform that enables wine consumers to discuss, share, and understand about wine and other beverages. It offers weekly titles, newsletters, blogs, and many others.
The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, United States.
Social Standards
Series A in 2017
Social Standards, Inc. develops market research tools to discover and deliver actionable business insights with authentic analysis of social data. Its tool provide consumer voice measurement and marketing insights for beverage alcohol, beauty, personal care, food and beverage, quick serve restaurants, and other industries. Social Standards, Inc. was formerly known as BarTrendr, Inc. and changed its name to Social Standards, Inc., in July 2016. The Company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Oakland, California
Modalyst
Seed Round in 2016
Modalyst is dropshipping automation software for ecommerce businesses.
Modalyst automates the ecommerce dropshipping operations for online stores and connects them to the best suppliers and items to dropship.
Modalyst gives storeowners all the workflow tools to manage suppliers, import product catalogs, sync inventory data, and process orders.
Modalyst has direct integrations with Shopify, Wix, and Bigcommerce platforms.
