Perkins Coie

With 19 offices and more than 1,000 lawyers across the United States and Asia, Perkins Coie has provided legal service to great companies ranging from startups to industry giants in a variety of fast‐moving industry sectors for more than 100 years. **What We Do** With one of the nation’s largest and most active technology‐oriented business practices, Perkins Coie’s [Emerging Companies and Venture Capital](www.perkinscoie.com/emerging_companies) practice offers one of the premier legal resources in the nation for venture capital funds and high‐growth, venture‐backed companies in a number of regions and industries, including among others technology, life sciences, healthcare, Internet, software, digital media, retail, telecommunications and cleantech. From incorporation to exit, we are committed to helping our clients build great companies. Our clients act quickly to take advantage of rapidly changing markets, and they face significant financial, management and competitive opportunities and challenges as they grow. Having handled thousands of venture financings over the years and with significant experience dealing with a variety of private debt and equity financing transactions for both emerging company and venture capital fund clients, we provide practical, strategic advice to help our clients overcome difficult challenges throughout various stages of their growth. Our work goes beyond just financings. We are well‐versed in all VC related matters, so our clients regularly look to us for strategic, mission‐critical guidance related to corporate governance for newly formed startups, IP protection and enforcement for cutting‐edge technologies, strategic partnering transactions, crisis management and government relations and policy, to name a few. **For more information, contact** **[Buddy Arnheim](www.perkinscoie.com/barnheim)** Co-Chair, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital BArnheim@perkinscoie.com **[Melanie Rubocki](www.perkinscoie.com/mrubocki)** Co-Chair, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital MRubocki@perkinscoie.com **[Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Team]**(http://www.perkinscoie.com/emerging_companies/?op=professionals)

Buddy Arnheim

Partner, Chair of Emerging Companies and VC Practice

Steven Hedberg

COO

Dick Rohde

Partner

Trevor Varnes

CFO

10 past transactions

Ledgible

Series A in 2022
Verady provides accounting and audit products and infrastructure networks through the Ledgible platform, where financial institutions, corporations, and regulators can audit, account, and verify blockchain assets. Verady believes traditional accounting systems, firms, and standards are currently lacking functionality around blockchain assets. Verady's Ledgible platform will be the bridge between these new assets and traditional financial verification and accounting which is needed to further their acceptance and growth.

Nanom

Seed Round in 2021
Greenvolt Nano creates nano-enhanced materials for use in battery technology. It provides a pathway to clean, inexpensive, and renewable energy sources while reducing environmental toxicity. And makes products smarter, efficient, and longer lasting. It is founded in 2017.

SingleFile Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
SingleFile Technologies is a companies and law firms fill out reports, manage filings, maintain internal records and remain in good standing

Modal

Seed Round in 2017
Modal, previously known as Drive Motors Inc., specializes in online car-buying solutions tailored for auto dealer groups, banks, and brands in the United States. The company provides a platform that facilitates digital transactions seamlessly integrated into existing websites and showrooms. Modal's technology functions as a transparent transaction layer, enhancing the user experience while maintaining the original interface. The platform includes features such as Checkout, which enables digital transactions directly on web pages, Shop, a connected sales tool that streamlines the commerce experience, and Trade, which integrates with the buying journey. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Modal is supported by a team with backgrounds in leading technology firms and backed by significant investors, positioning itself as a transformative force in the automotive retail industry.

nura

Seed Round in 2017
The nuraphone is a new headphone that integrates unique technology to automatically measure your hearing (from the outer ear all the way to the brain) and adapt music perfectly to you. In order for headphones to deliver the right sound, they must be matched to the listener. Nuraphones even recognize you when you put them on.

Marketwired

Series D in 2003
Marketwired is a social communications company that provides solutions for global press release distribution, industry-leading social media monitoring and analytics, and a fully integrated marketing communications platform for content creation, optimization, distribution, and measurement. Its solutions are catered to everyone, from Fortune 500 enterprises to start-ups. Marketwired plays a critical role in shaping the everyday conversations that happen in newsrooms, corporate boardrooms, and social networks around the world, helping communicators move markets, change public opinion, and affect consumer behavior. Marketwired is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has 6.4 billion U.S. dollars of investments under management. Marketwired was founded in 1983 by [Nick Koudas](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/dr-nick-koudas) and [Michael Terpin](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-terpin-2). It is headquartered in Toronto, O.N.

Marketwired

Venture Round in 2001
Marketwired is a social communications company that provides solutions for global press release distribution, industry-leading social media monitoring and analytics, and a fully integrated marketing communications platform for content creation, optimization, distribution, and measurement. Its solutions are catered to everyone, from Fortune 500 enterprises to start-ups. Marketwired plays a critical role in shaping the everyday conversations that happen in newsrooms, corporate boardrooms, and social networks around the world, helping communicators move markets, change public opinion, and affect consumer behavior. Marketwired is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has 6.4 billion U.S. dollars of investments under management. Marketwired was founded in 1983 by [Nick Koudas](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/dr-nick-koudas) and [Michael Terpin](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-terpin-2). It is headquartered in Toronto, O.N.

Scene7

Series B in 2001
Adobe [acquired](http://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/8df47bafeccc8db6c9830dc69df1e5a3) Scene7 in May 2007 and now offers Scene7 as one of its products. Scene7 – provider of the leading on-demand rich media platform – enables companies to grow revenues, enhance customer experience and cut production costs. With Scene7, businesses can improve the entire selling and marketing cycle – from attracting customers, to guiding them to the right products and services, to successfully converting them into loyal buyers. The company offers rich media solutions built on a robust, integrated technology platform – for unrivaled breadth, depth, scalability and ease of ongoing rich media use. Adobe acquired Scene7 in May 2007.

Scene7

Series A in 2001
Adobe [acquired](http://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/8df47bafeccc8db6c9830dc69df1e5a3) Scene7 in May 2007 and now offers Scene7 as one of its products. Scene7 – provider of the leading on-demand rich media platform – enables companies to grow revenues, enhance customer experience and cut production costs. With Scene7, businesses can improve the entire selling and marketing cycle – from attracting customers, to guiding them to the right products and services, to successfully converting them into loyal buyers. The company offers rich media solutions built on a robust, integrated technology platform – for unrivaled breadth, depth, scalability and ease of ongoing rich media use. Adobe acquired Scene7 in May 2007.

Marketwired

Series A in 1990
Marketwired is a social communications company that provides solutions for global press release distribution, industry-leading social media monitoring and analytics, and a fully integrated marketing communications platform for content creation, optimization, distribution, and measurement. Its solutions are catered to everyone, from Fortune 500 enterprises to start-ups. Marketwired plays a critical role in shaping the everyday conversations that happen in newsrooms, corporate boardrooms, and social networks around the world, helping communicators move markets, change public opinion, and affect consumer behavior. Marketwired is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has 6.4 billion U.S. dollars of investments under management. Marketwired was founded in 1983 by [Nick Koudas](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/dr-nick-koudas) and [Michael Terpin](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-terpin-2). It is headquartered in Toronto, O.N.
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