Pritzker Group

Pritzker Group is an investment holding firm based in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1996, the firm operates through three primary subsidiaries: Pritzker Group Private Capital, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and Pritzker Group Asset Management. Pritzker Group Private Capital focuses on acquiring middle-market companies, particularly in the manufactured products, services, and healthcare sectors, with an emphasis on management-led buyouts and corporate divestitures. Pritzker Group Venture Capital invests in technology companies at various growth stages, targeting sectors such as healthcare IT, artificial intelligence, and e-commerce. Meanwhile, Pritzker Group Asset Management invests in global public equity markets and employs external managers for its investments. The firm’s permanent capital base allows for efficient decision-making and flexible transaction structures, while its extensive network of advisors and strategic partners supports the growth of its portfolio companies. Pritzker Group typically seeks investments in North American companies with enterprise values ranging from $100 million to $750 million.

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283 past transactions

Maisonette

Series A in 2018
Maisonette elegantly aggregates the best children’s products from around the world, creating an expertly curated shopping experience and superior platform for mini-me designer brands and off-the-beaten-path boutiques.

HqO

Private Placement in 2019
HqO is a tenant experience platform that helps landlords create places people love. It puts new experiences, onsite retail and services, and a sense of community directly into the tenants’ hands. Headquartered in Boston and launched in January 2018, HqO partners with landlords, property managers, and brokers who want to attract innovative tenants, provide a premium experience, and increase overall asset value.

Spring Labs

Series A in 2019
Spring Labs is the company building out the spring protocol, a network designed to allow network participants, such as financial institutions, to share information about data, such as credit and identity data, without needing to share the underlying data itself. They allow institutions to directly share information among themselves to verify identities and reduce fraud - all while protecting consumer data. Spring Labs uses an attestation-based approach reducing the risk and severity of data breaches for financial institutions and consumers. The Spring Protocol separates data ownership from data value, allowing competitively-sensitive parties to exchange information directly and in a fundamentally new way. Spring Labs was founded in 2017 and is based in Marina Del Rey, California, United States.

4Degrees

Seed Round in 2018
4Degrees helps professionals build better relationships, and democratize access to social capital - driven by machine learning. The company envisions to equalize opportunity by enabling you to build stronger professional relationships. Its platform identifies the right connections for you to focus on, works with you to strengthen those relationships over time, and helps you activate your network when you need it.

BeachMint

Venture Round in 2012
A next generation social commerce company

TopSchool

Series B in 2009
TopSchool provides a Student Lifecycle Management System – which consists of a student information system at its core, and is complemented by a student portal, a CRM, , and a Reporting/Business Intelligence suite. This offering provides an institution with key insights into their business – insight that can significantly impact lead conversion and student retention efforts.

Pluto TV

Series A in 2014
Pluto, Inc. provides streaming television services for watching live television channels and shows, movies, and Internet videos. The company also offers services in various categories, including news, sports, lifestyle, viral videos, cartoons, and more. It offers services through an app for mobile, web, and connected TV streaming devices. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California with additional locations in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago, and Berlin. As of March 4, 2019, Pluto, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Viacom International Inc.

Built In

Series A in 2016
Built In is a network of online communities operating as a recruitment solution for tech companies and startups in seven major tech markets. Their mission is to help talented people find their professional purpose; companies tell their stories (in a way no job post ever could), and communities connect over a shared passion for tech. The company currently operates seven sites in Chicago, Los Angeles, Colorado, Austin, NYC, Boston, and Seattle, and is headquartered in Chicago. It was founded in 2010.

The Honest Company

Series B in 2013
The Honest Company creates eco-friendly, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes. Its products include eco-friendly diapers and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in California, United States.

Specright

Private Placement in 2019
Specright’s Specification Data Management™platform is a fundamentally different approach to managing products and packaging. By digitizing and mapping specifications such as raw materials, sub-assemblies, packaging and finished goods, Specright enables companies to take action across their supply chain through advanced analytics.

Firm58

Series C in 2010
Firm58 is a trading firm that offers web-based financial management and back office automation solutions. The company aims to help capital markets increase revenue and operational efficiency. The Firm58 trade operations platform helps manage billing, payments, compensation, positions, and client commission agreements across asset classes, including equities, futures, options, foreign exchange, and fixed income. The platform automates complex processes to offer a view of daily profitability. Customers include global market exchanges, institutional brokerages, clearing and non-clearing brokers and dealers, and proprietary trading firms. Firm58 was founded in 2005 and is based in Illinois.

FreightWaves

Series B in 2019
FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. The company's​ SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse. FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market.

Univa

Venture Round in 2011
Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundreds of companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany.

Heal

Seed Round in 2014
Heal brings technology innovation to re-humanize the practice of medicine in a way that is fulfilling for doctors and patients alike. Heal brings a licensed, background-checked pediatrician or family doctor to you, on-demand, on your schedule, for $99 or for an in-network co-pay with select insurance plans. Great doctors are available in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and San Diego from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.

CultureIQ

Private Placement in 2015
CultureIQ, Inc. provides culture management software. Its software enables companies to measure, understand, and strengthen their company culture; collect ongoing employee feedback through research driven and customizable surveys; analyze employee responses and comments to track important culture metrics and surface actionable insights about their culture; and communicate results with their company and colleagues, and implement culture initiatives. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Flyhomes

Seed Round in 2017
Flyhomes is an end-to-end real estate brokerage and technology company that empowers home buyers, sellers, and agents to win. We are transforming the home buying experience through comprehensive consumer education, segmented expertise, financial innovation, and on-demand technology.

Pype

Seed Round in 2017
Pype, Inc. develops and offers software solutions for the construction industry. The company's products include AutoSpecs, a software that develops algorithms to read specs and to pull out action submittals, product data, closeout submittals, and tests and inspections; Closeout that provides a single portal for closeout documentation management with digital document collection from subcontractors and reporting dashboard; eBinder, a platform that compiles turnover documentation; and SmartPlans that automatically extracts submittals and product schedules from drawings. Pype, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Chantilly, Virginia with an additional office in Bengaluru, India. As of August 17, 2020, Pype, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc.

Everdream

Series D in 2003
Digital content agency providing on-demand personal computer and desktop management software services

HqO

Series B in 2019
HqO is a tenant experience platform that helps landlords create places people love. It puts new experiences, onsite retail and services, and a sense of community directly into the tenants’ hands. Headquartered in Boston and launched in January 2018, HqO partners with landlords, property managers, and brokers who want to attract innovative tenants, provide a premium experience, and increase overall asset value.

Yay Lunch

Series A in 2021
Yay Lunch is a food delivery company that offers fresh and healthy lunches and snacks for schools. The company is driven by its mission is to make it easy to give kids healthy lunches they'll love, every day. They're determined to do this in the freshest and least wasteful way possible.

Univa

Series A in 2005
Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundreds of companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany.

Eved

Series C in 2015
Eved is leading the transformation of the $263B meeting and event industry from a manual, highly fragmented, traditional service sector into a comprehensive online marketplace. Eved bridges the entire supply chain with a complete and interactive sourcing, marketing, and e-commerce solution. Eved has been adopted and championed by leaders in the meeting and event industry and now encompasses more than 2,500 users including organizations, third-party meeting and incentive companies, event planning and destination management companies, hotels, event venues and suppliers.

Apervita

Venture Round in 2019
Apervita is a trusted healthcare collaboration platform for quality measurement, clinical intelligence, value optimization, and interoperability. They empower payers and providers and other stakeholders to more efficiently and effectively measure clinical and financial performance, improve clinical quality, and administer and run analytics on value-based contracts. By providing an independent, secure, trusted platform to perform shared analyses, Apervita uniquely allows stakeholders to gain mutual, continuous clinical and financial insights and integrate those insights into various systems and workflows simultaneously and at scale. Serving more than one in three hospitals in the United States and several nationally recognized health plans, Apervita conducts more than 10 billion value-based computations and insights for their clients every year. The company maintains office locations in Chicago and Boston.

CookItFor.Us

Seed Round in 2011
CookItFor.Us connects Cravers with Makers to get recipes made, delivering all the benefits of homemade, without having to cook. Whether you plan meals in advance, or are looking for something to eat last minute, your food selections can be ready for pick up, delivery, dine in, or made right in your home! Choose what works best for you. We facilitate the transaction from order to payment, so that you can fully enjoy each and every bite.
Buzz Referrals enables companies to have their own referral programs that integrate with both social media and their company websites. The company is specialized in e-mail, mobile, and native advertising.

Backlot Cars LLC

Private Placement in 2018
Backlot Cars LLC offers software as a service and develops online community for dealers. The company's clientele include auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies. Backlot Cars LLC was founded in 2013 and is based in Wichita, Kansas. As of November 12, 2020, Backlot Cars LLC operates as a subsidiary of ADESA, Inc.

LeagueLink

Venture Round in 1999
LeagueLink was founded in 1999 and is based in Westminster, Colorado. The company is dedicated to making sports leagues easier to manage and more fun to participate in. The company has created powerful internet-based software that is free to both leagues and athletes.

Bright.md

Series B in 2017
Bright.md is a developer of an AI-powered virtual-care platform designed to modernize direct-to-patient telehealth for healthcare systems. The company partners with premier healthcare organizations to offer SmartExam to more than 10 million patients who are seeking convenient urgent and primary care online, connecting them to their physicians via a home computer or mobile device reducing visits, enabling patients to receive conveniently, high quality, asynchronous, online care from established and trusted health system providers. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

x.ai

Series B in 2017
X.ai is an artificial intelligence-driven personal assistant that schedules meetings. X.ai builds and maintains an artificial intelligence-powered personal assistant that schedules meetings for the business customers. Backed by its founders and located in New York City. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

RepIQ

Seed Round in 2017
RepIQ is a sales intelligence platform that helps sales representatives to target the right business prospects. The platform's features include smart prospecting, real-time sales visibility, personalized message progression, and data-driven insights. RepIQ was launched in 2016 by Jonathan Suchland and Shawn Carpenter and is based in Illinois.

Mapbox

Series C in 2017
Mapbox is a location data platform providing maps, turn-by-turn navigation, location search, and data to over 2.6M registered developers — powering companies like Facebook, IBM, Instacart, Lonely Planet, Snapchat, Tableau, The Weather Channel, and Yahoo! JAPAN. Mapbox is built on a living map that learns from activity to make improvements over time, so developers building with Mapbox tools have access to the most up to date geospatial information anywhere in the world. Mapbox was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

SpotHero

Series A in 2014
SpotHero Inc. offers parking reservation services that help drivers to reserve parking with garages and lots. It offers SpotHero, a mobile application and website that allows drivers to locate and price discounted parking spots, as well as compare and reserve spots from the Web, and their iPhones and Android devices. SpotHero Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in Detroit, Michigan. It also has operations in Toronto, Canada.

Lightstream

Series A in 2019
Lightstream builds live streaming creative tools and technology with a true passion for live video production, gaming and supporting the explosive growth of creators and their communities. Their cloud-based technology and products transform difficult technical hurdles into streamlined workflows – empowering creators to effortlessly share their passion, talent, and creativity on live streaming platforms like Mixer, Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, and more. Since 2014, they have been building a cloud-based live streaming studio with the goal of removing all the technical hurdles and putting advanced production capabilities in the hands of beginners. Today, they have thousands of creators streaming with Lightstream Studio for thousands of hours every day. They have partnered with Microsoft to offer Lightstream Studio to millions of Xbox and Windows streamers as part of the native OS experience – in addition to licensing their technology to major game studios and media companies.

AirMap

Series A in 2016
AirMap is helping make drones a part of everyday life by building the foundations for the low-altitude air navigation systems of the future. The emergence of small, powerful, and autonomous drones, is transforming society. Drones are being used for agriculture, public safety, aerial photography and cinematography, and soon, package delivery. The next century of aviation innovation is happening at the local level, not across oceans, and it's happening below 500 feet. AirMap is organizing this low altitude information so innovation can take flight. AirMap works collaboratively with industry partners to create the future for drones. It focuses exclusively on providing airspace information so that others in the nascent industry can build amazing vehicles and applications. AirMap is a member of the Small UAV Coalition and the NASA Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) program.

Signal

Series D in 2013
Signal is the leading SaaS provider of data onboarding and real-time identity resolution. The Signal Open Data Platform helps marketers collect data from any offline or online source, synchronize the data across all touchpoints, and distribute it to any marketing or analytics endpoint – all in real-time. Signal’s technology platform empowers people-based marketers to enhance their customer experience by providing relevance across all channels. Signal was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Goshi

Seed Round in 2011
Goshi is a completely mobile, location-based application for discovering, buying or selling cool items in your neighborhood. Posts in online marketplaces are easily lost in the clutter. Goshi offers a simple 3 touch experience when posting using the smartphone's camera. Goshi is different from other marketplaces by focusing on pictures instead of text in a table view. Current online marketplaces are fraught with scams and spam. Goshi reduces fraudulent transactions by using profiles and physical devices. Hubs are used to define a physical space, such as a coffee shop, as the local spot for in-person exchanges of goods. People are social. Goshi has full integration with Twitter and Facebook. Users can log in with an established Facebook, invite friends, and share posts on on Twitter or through email. All listings have comments that allow other community members to create a discussion around an item or negotiate a price for an item or simple to connect with others.

Mapbox

Series B in 2015
Mapbox is a location data platform providing maps, turn-by-turn navigation, location search, and data to over 2.6M registered developers — powering companies like Facebook, IBM, Instacart, Lonely Planet, Snapchat, Tableau, The Weather Channel, and Yahoo! JAPAN. Mapbox is built on a living map that learns from activity to make improvements over time, so developers building with Mapbox tools have access to the most up to date geospatial information anywhere in the world. Mapbox was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Extend

Series A in 2019
Extend, Inc. provides online and offline extended warranties and protection plans as a service. It offers protection plans that are underwritten by various insurance companies. It offers solutions for electronics, appliances, furniture, jewelry and watches, sports and fitness equipment, musical instruments, automotive parts, and other products. Extend, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Comparably

Venture Round in 2016
Comparably provides the most accurate and comprehensive compensation and culture data, to understand employees' true value and needs to make work better.

Heal

Seed Round in 2015
Heal brings technology innovation to re-humanize the practice of medicine in a way that is fulfilling for doctors and patients alike. Heal brings a licensed, background-checked pediatrician or family doctor to you, on-demand, on your schedule, for $99 or for an in-network co-pay with select insurance plans. Great doctors are available in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and San Diego from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.

Viv

Series B in 2015
Viv Labs, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence interface that enables to interact with devices, services, and other platforms for individuals. The company was formerly known as Six Five Labs, Inc. and changed its name to Viv Labs, Inc. in May 2014. Viv Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. As of October 7, 2016, Viv Labs, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Samsung Research America, Inc..

Beyond Credentials

Seed Round in 2011
Beyond Credentials is an online platform that operates pitch pages connecting companies with job candidates. It was launched in January 1998 and is operated from Chicago, Illinois, the United States.

TicketsNow

Series A in 2007
TicketsNow.com, Inc. operates an online resale marketplace for sports, concert, and theater tickets. Its online marketplace enables buyers to choose and purchase event tickets from licensed brokers and individual sellers. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. TicketsNow.com, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.

ShopThing

Series A in 2022
shopthing is an online selling and retail company, they use the way people shopping in online and sell through live video commerce. they sell products like dresses, shoes, books, and handbags. live online selling provides the customer to book orders on call and message. Customers can buy and return their products through their apps.also, customers can open a new stores on their own, if they enroll on the company websites.

IrisVR

Series A in 2016
IrisVR, Inc. develops virtual realty (VR) software applications for architecture, engineering, and construction industries. The company offers Prospect, a software solution that converts 3D model and detects VR devices to experience 3D files; and Scope, a solution for 360° panoramas for mobile VR that tracks head movement and allows looking around. It also offers supported native file formats. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

BacklotCars

Series A in 2018
BacklotCars allows auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies to transact without having to go to physical auctions. Through BacklotCars, auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies can transact without having to go to physical auctions. The company’s end to end solution is truly seamless for dealers as BacklotCars provides vehicle inspections, transportation, and inventory finance services. The online marketplace offers a 24-7 “bid-ask” marketplace along with vehicle inspections and is used by dealers in 46 states. It’s designed to make the process of selling cars easier for both buyers and sellers by addressing longstanding pain points of online transactions like certified inspections. BacklotCars was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

AiCure

Series C in 2019
AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments. It enables intelligent decision-making and improving health outcomes. It has developed patented facial recognition and motion-sensing technology to confirm medication ingestion in real-time. AiCure's platform has the potential to revolutionize the cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery systems by enhancing treatment and reducing risks. Their software captures and understands video, audio, and behavioral data to establish the link between patients, disease, and treatment. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

project44

Series B in 2018
Project44, Inc. provides a cloud-based visibility platform for shippers and third-party logistics companies. It offers pricing, routing, and scheduling solutions; tracking and exception management solutions; digital documents and payments solutions; and visibility, tracking, and carrier performance analytics solutions. The company’s solutions connect, automate, and provide visibility into key transportation processes to accelerate insights and shorten the time it takes to turn those insights into actions. It supports various transportation modes and shipping types, including parcel, final-mile, less-than-truckload, volume less-than-truckload, truckload, rail, intermodal, and ocean. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in Paris, France.

Augury

Series B in 2017
Augury is building the machine diagnostics back-end of the Internet-of-Things. Augury's platform automatically diagnoses machines based on the sounds that they make. This is achieved by connecting vibration and ultrasonic sensors to smartphones and pairing them with machine learning algorithms. Augury is in on-going pilots with the largest HVAC service companies and is pursuing its vision to be inside everything that has moving parts.

Livly

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Livly connects customers with local merchants and their products. Livly started as a platform to connect customers and local restaurants. We brought customers through the door with tailored offers in our app. Now we also produce food on behalf of restaurants for takeaway only.

ProAmpac

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
ProAmpac is a leading global flexible packaging company with enhanced product offerings unparalleled in the industry. We are steadfast in our unwavering commitment to provide creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace. We are guided in our work by four core values that are the basis for our success

PLZ Corp

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
As the North American leader in specialty aerosol product manufacturing, the PLZ Aeroscience family of companies specializes in the development, manufacturing, packaging and distribution of a comprehensive line of contract fill, brand and private label products. They formulate, blend, fill and package more than 2,500 brand and private label products, including industrial solvents, lubricants and degreasers, adhesives, sanitary supply disinfectants, insecticides, cleaners, polishes, air fresheners, and personal care products. Since 1947, they have filled billions of aerosol cans for thousands of customers. In fact, each PLZ Aeroscience company is a success story in itself with deep history, strong name recognition, and solid brand reputation across numerous industries. PLZ Aeroscience sets a high standard in on-time delivery of quality products. Their products adhere to federal and state VOC-regulated requirements and are compliant long before implementation deadlines, which enables us to avoid product performance fluctuations and delivery interruptions due to formulation and labeling changes. It’s their privilege to support your entry to market and assist you in reaching the next level of success. PLZ Aeroscience is a member of Pritzker Group which owns and operates market leading companies in the manufactured products, services and healthcare sectors. The firm’s history as an entrepreneurial family-owned enterprise and its permanent, proprietary capital base allow PLZ the flexibility to invest in serving its customers' needs over the long term.

Whimseybox

Seed Round in 2012
Whimseybox uses creative content to help people discover and buy craft supplies online. They are on a mission to power creativity, and they started in 2011 with a $15 monthly subscription that helps people Stop Pinning + Start Making (tm). Since then, they have expanded to launch a custom ecommerce shop with thousands of supplies.(If you can purchase it in a big box craft store, they probably sell it!) Users can find creative inspiration in the thousands of projects posted on Whimseybox.com and then easily purchase the supplies to make them from the Supply List posted under each project. In 2014 they launched Whimseybox Influencer, the only affiliate program designed specifically for DIY + craft bloggers and websites. This custom technology allows bloggers to easily embed Whimseybox Supply List widgets directly in their blog posts and earn a share of the sales they drive while helping their readers find + purchase the right supplies for a project.

Wise Apple

Seed Round in 2017
Wise Apple makes life easier by making lunch better - delivering fresh, custom, pre-packaged, ready-to-serve lunches and snacks directly to your door. The service takes away the daily challenge and stress parents face when planning and packing their children's lunch. Wise Apple lunches are chef-crafted, and kid-approved using the highest quality, nutritious ingredients. The service offers items for a range of preferences including gluten-free, dairy-free and nut-free options. Launched in 2016, by Rebecca Sholiton and Nate Cooper, Wise Apple is on a mission to see food through kids eyes, making good-for-you food fun for kids.

SinglePlatform

Series A in 2011
SinglePlatform, LLC offers local listing enhancement services that help small businesses to get discovered by consumers searching online. It allows local businesses to manage and update local business information in top sites and applications. SinglePlatform, LLC has a strategic partnership with Belly Inc. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York. SinglePlatform, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Constant Contact, Inc.

Tovala

Private Placement in 2020
Maestro Food Co., doing business as Tovala, manufactures and supplies a domestic cooking appliance that cooks food using M-pots technology. The company provides Smart Oven, a steam-based oven, and markets them with meal kit subscription services. The company also supplies raw food to the appliance owners for cooking purposes. It also provides an application for recipes. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Bliss Experiences Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Bliss Experiences Inc. develops an all-in-one-workspace tool that centralizes all information in one repository for the travel and events industry. Its platform Reposite lets you upload client information and your supplier database and connects travel agents and event planners to suppliers and centralizes all their transactions. Bliss Experiences Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Journera

Series A in 2018
Journera, Inc., a travel technology company, develops experience management platform for the travel industry. It offers Global Experience Record, a platform that enables travel providers and application developers to unify the travel experience across airlines, hotels, ground transportation, restaurants, and entertainment providers. The company’s software also provides real-time view of customer journeys for travel companies. Journera, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Plus One Robotics

Series B in 2021
Plus One Robotics builds robot perception software and solutions. They mitigate the persistent shortage of manual labor and allow your personnel to flow from monotonous tasks to higher value work. Through the integration of off-the-shelf high performance manipulators with their advanced vision capabilities, your robots will bridge the gap between steady state volume and surge. Plus One’s novel approach to human/robot collaboration and supervised autonomy ensures the systems are scalable, flexible, and fault tolerant.

Specright

Series B in 2021
Specright’s Specification Data Management™platform is a fundamentally different approach to managing products and packaging. By digitizing and mapping specifications such as raw materials, sub-assemblies, packaging and finished goods, Specright enables companies to take action across their supply chain through advanced analytics.

Catalytic

Seed Round in 2016
Catalytic Inc. operates a SaaS based automation platform to remove data processing tasks. The product enable business users to rapidly build an intelligent automation layer to process data, documents, emails, web sites, and systems by coordinating people, bots, and AI. It can be used to automate tasks such as, scanning and generating documents & spreadsheets, automated response to triggers, and collection of data; connect to systems to push and pull data and to create custom integrations with APIs and SFTP; and to automate cognitive tasks with machine learning. Catalytic Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in Naperville, Illinois.

Zinch

Venture Round in 2009
[Zinch](http://www.zinch.com) has a simple goal: to level the college admissions playing field and provide a means by which individuality and greatness can be extracted from everyone during the admissions process. Zinch aims to give every student an equal opportunity to say, "This is me. Love me, hate me, recruit me, or trash me. This is who I am." Students place their profiles on Zinch (with an emphasis on the non-transcript stuff that schools try so hard to uncover for best matching), and the colleges search for them, rather than vice-versa. via: [Zinch](http://www.zinch.com/static/history.html)

Livly

Seed Round in 2019
Livly is a platform for activating new digital experiences and revenue streams for buildings.We’ve built Livly to deliver great digital experiences to residents and revenue to owners, regardless of property type, asset class, and market. We know that landlords are brand focused—in fact, we created Livly in a set of highly branded apartments. With that foundation, we’re incorporating the right level of branded touches to our platform to help your residents feel at home, while also getting the most value from Livly.

Scopely

Private Placement in 2017
Scopely, Inc. develops mobile and tablet touchscreen-based games for casual and core gamers worldwide. It offers fleet command games; and game design, live, marketing, analytics, business development, advertising, and other services. Scopely, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Culver City, California.

BrightNest

Seed Round in 2011
BrighNest is a free online resource that provides people the tools, tips and motivation they need to keep their homes in great shape. BrightNest also has a product for real estate professionals that helps them increase repeat business and referrals. (brightnestpro.com)

ezza nails

Private Placement in 2019
ezza salon llc offers nail care services to the clients. It offers services, including manicures and pedicures. In addition, the company also provides a collection of polishes. Furthermore, it operates custom stations which provide tech easels and built-in outlets. The company also offers online booking services. ezza salon llc was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Level Ex

Series A in 2017
Level Ex is a developer of professional medical video games designed for physicians to capture the challenges of practicing medicine. The company uses state-of-the-art video game technology and cognitive neuroscience to capture the challenges of practicing medicine, allowing physicians to keep up-to-speed on rare and challenging cases, new medical devices and drug therapies.

Apervita

Private Placement in 2019
Apervita is a trusted healthcare collaboration platform for quality measurement, clinical intelligence, value optimization, and interoperability. They empower payers and providers and other stakeholders to more efficiently and effectively measure clinical and financial performance, improve clinical quality, and administer and run analytics on value-based contracts. By providing an independent, secure, trusted platform to perform shared analyses, Apervita uniquely allows stakeholders to gain mutual, continuous clinical and financial insights and integrate those insights into various systems and workflows simultaneously and at scale. Serving more than one in three hospitals in the United States and several nationally recognized health plans, Apervita conducts more than 10 billion value-based computations and insights for their clients every year. The company maintains office locations in Chicago and Boston.

Rael

Series A in 2018
Rael Inc. researches, develops, and sells natural and organic feminine care products. It offers pads, liners, and tampons made from organic cotton. The company sells its product online. Rael Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Buena Park, California.

Visibly

Series A in 2016
Visibly, Inc., a healthcare technology company, provides online eye examination services to patients in the United States. It provides a refractive eye exam that measures a person’s prescription for glasses or contact lenses. The company was formerly known as Opternative, Inc. and changed its name to Visibly, Inc. in November 2018. Visibly, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Apervita

Series A in 2015
Apervita is a trusted healthcare collaboration platform for quality measurement, clinical intelligence, value optimization, and interoperability. They empower payers and providers and other stakeholders to more efficiently and effectively measure clinical and financial performance, improve clinical quality, and administer and run analytics on value-based contracts. By providing an independent, secure, trusted platform to perform shared analyses, Apervita uniquely allows stakeholders to gain mutual, continuous clinical and financial insights and integrate those insights into various systems and workflows simultaneously and at scale. Serving more than one in three hospitals in the United States and several nationally recognized health plans, Apervita conducts more than 10 billion value-based computations and insights for their clients every year. The company maintains office locations in Chicago and Boston.

NewRiver

Venture Round in 2006
NewRiver REIT is a Real Estate Investment Trust specializing in buying, managing, developing and recycling convenience-led, community-focused retail and leisure assets throughout the UK.

Tovala

Series B in 2020
Maestro Food Co., doing business as Tovala, manufactures and supplies a domestic cooking appliance that cooks food using M-pots technology. The company provides Smart Oven, a steam-based oven, and markets them with meal kit subscription services. The company also supplies raw food to the appliance owners for cooking purposes. It also provides an application for recipes. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

WeDo

Convertible Note in 2016
WeDo is like the Google Analytics of your life. By taking out the friction of tracking your life, we can offer powerful correlations that are proven to improve your overall wellness.

Curiosity

Series A in 2014
Why do people sneeze in sunlight? Why is a black hole called a "singularity"? Why aren't fish electrocuted when lightning hits the water? Curiosity answers the questions you never knew to ask, and digs into the things you've always wondered about. The company spun out of Discovery in 2014 and today reaches an audience of 70 million a month globally through a website, iOS and Android app, weekly podcast, daily email, Chrome extension, and Amazon Alexa skill. With five new stories on a variety of topics every day (plus thousands more to discover), it helps people have fun learning about everything from the scientific and relatable to the awe-inspiring and downright weird. Count on Curiosity to explain even the densest subjects in a way that's entertaining, witty, and easy to understand.

Kollective Technology

Series B in 2010
Kollective Technology operates as an enterprise content delivery network provider. Its cloud-native enterprise peering platform leverages existing network infrastructure to offset bandwidth constraints and deliver Live Events, Video on Demand, and software via SCCM. The company is headquartered in Bend, Oregon.

Retrofit

Venture Round in 2012
Retrofit, Inc. provides personalized and holistic weight management solutions and disease prevention products that transform lives and workplaces. It offers metabolic syndrome, diabetes prevention, healthy weight, healthy living, personalized coaching, smart app and dashboard, self-monitoring devices, interactive classes, and online community solutions. The company serves employers and individuals. Retrofit, Inc. was formerly known as Strong Suit Wellness LLC. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of April 17, 2018, Retrofit, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Livongo Health, Inc.

Augmentir

Private Placement in 2019
Augmentir, Inc. develops and designs an augmented operations platform. the solutions include industry, manufacturing, third party service, and service. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

Dina

Series A in 2021
Prepared Health is focused on helping people get well faster and stay well longer in the comfort of their homes. They believe there’s a better way to coordinate care that happens outside of the hospital, a way that empowers the patient, connects personal caregivers and care providers, and enables payers to keep their members healthier, safer, and happier at home. With the enTouch Network, everyone stays connected in real-time, receiving care updates as they happen, and improving the odds a patient's in-home care will be a success.

Pictarine

Seed Round in 2012
Discover the easiest way to enjoy your photos and your friends' photos from all your online photo-services. Enjoy your photos from all your services, backup the best ones on your computer, and discover your friends last photos. Bookmark your favorite photos in playlists and share them with your friends by email, Facebook or Twitter. Services available: Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram, Twitter, Dropbox, 500px, Shutterfly, Photobucket, Twitpic, Lockerz, Windows Live, Mobypicture, Yfrog, Tumblr

Rewind Me

Seed Round in 2012
Rewind.Me is a New York City based startup working to change the way consumers and marketers benefit from personal data. People today generate and control a great deal of personal data – from the apps on our smartphones to the services we use online, the personal or sports tracking devices we use, as well as our credit card and electronic transactions and more. There's a lot of value in all of this data. We believe that people should have control over how their data is used and benefit directly from the value it contains. We're building apps and services to deliver this control and unlock this value.

Backlot Cars LLC

Private Placement in 2019
Backlot Cars LLC offers software as a service and develops online community for dealers. The company's clientele include auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies. Backlot Cars LLC was founded in 2013 and is based in Wichita, Kansas. As of November 12, 2020, Backlot Cars LLC operates as a subsidiary of ADESA, Inc.

Tovala

Private Placement in 2018
Maestro Food Co., doing business as Tovala, manufactures and supplies a domestic cooking appliance that cooks food using M-pots technology. The company provides Smart Oven, a steam-based oven, and markets them with meal kit subscription services. The company also supplies raw food to the appliance owners for cooking purposes. It also provides an application for recipes. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Riviter

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Riviter, Inc. provides visual search engine to recognize products located in any image and match them to items in retailer's inventory. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Food Genius

Series A in 2012
Food Genius, Inc., a technology company, provides data and restaurant menu analysis services to the food industry. It offers Food Genius Reports, a Web-based restaurant menu and flavor research platform that provides clients with data and emerging restaurant trends gathered from various menu items at various restaurant locations in the United States. The company serves brands, manufacturers, distributors, and restaurant chains. Food Genius, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of April 13, 2016, Food Genius, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of US Foods, Inc.

Built In

Seed Round in 2014
Built In is a network of online communities operating as a recruitment solution for tech companies and startups in seven major tech markets. Their mission is to help talented people find their professional purpose; companies tell their stories (in a way no job post ever could), and communities connect over a shared passion for tech. The company currently operates seven sites in Chicago, Los Angeles, Colorado, Austin, NYC, Boston, and Seattle, and is headquartered in Chicago. It was founded in 2010.

Signal

Series C in 2012
Signal is the leading SaaS provider of data onboarding and real-time identity resolution. The Signal Open Data Platform helps marketers collect data from any offline or online source, synchronize the data across all touchpoints, and distribute it to any marketing or analytics endpoint – all in real-time. Signal’s technology platform empowers people-based marketers to enhance their customer experience by providing relevance across all channels. Signal was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Cloud Technology Partners

Series B in 2015
Cloud Technology Partners helps companies plan, design, and build cloud solutions for applications and infrastructures that reduce IT costs, streamline operations, and accelerate time to market. With a comprehensive cloud-focused service portfolio and targeted methodologies and tools, the company enables businesses and institutions to innovate through cloud computing. Its comprehensive framework for cloud adoption and dedicated software development capabilities help clients achieve business results faster, no matter where they are in their cloud transformation. Cloud Technology Partners was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

HopSkipDrive

Series A in 2016
HopSkipDrive, Inc. provides ridesharing services for children aging five years and above. The company develops HopSkipDrive, a ride service for kids to help users in their busy schedule. The company provides transportation for schools, districts, government agencies, and families. It serves customers in the Los Angeles area. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Maisonette

Private Placement in 2018
Maisonette elegantly aggregates the best children’s products from around the world, creating an expertly curated shopping experience and superior platform for mini-me designer brands and off-the-beaten-path boutiques.

Shortlist

Seed Round in 2011
Shortlist helps you make more meaningful connections at professional events. We turn the traditional business model on its head to create a triple-win for attendees, organizers and exhibitors.

Apprentice

Private Placement in 2018
Apprentice.io develops an intelligent manufacturing execution system that helps life science teams scale faster. From small and large molecule to cell and gene therapy, Apprentice's cloud-based system leverages artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and Pharma 4.0 to increase an organization's speed to market. Run your entire batch campaign and leverage data for continuous process improvement. It was formed in 2014 and headquartered in New Jersey, United States.

Catalytic

Seed Round in 2016
Catalytic Inc. operates a SaaS based automation platform to remove data processing tasks. The product enable business users to rapidly build an intelligent automation layer to process data, documents, emails, web sites, and systems by coordinating people, bots, and AI. It can be used to automate tasks such as, scanning and generating documents & spreadsheets, automated response to triggers, and collection of data; connect to systems to push and pull data and to create custom integrations with APIs and SFTP; and to automate cognitive tasks with machine learning. Catalytic Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in Naperville, Illinois.

SevenFifty

Series A in 2016
SevenFifty powers a connected beverage alcohol supply chain, bringing innovative technology to the massive but antiquated wholesale alcohol sales and distribution industry. A first-of-its-kind communication platform and marketplace, SevenFifty helps importers, producers, distributors, and retail buyers connect with each other and do business in a modern world. Founded by industry professionals in 2012, SevenFifty now operates in 40 U.S. markets. In 2017, SevenFifty launched SevenFifty Daily, an online magazine about the business and culture of the beverage alcohol industry.

Openpath

Private Placement in 2018
Openpath is a mobile access control solutions. Openpath allows anyone to use their mobile phone to open an authorized door with the wave of a hand, without needing the phone or app open. Openpath's patented Triple Unlock technology delivers 99.9% reliability for a secure, frictionless and fast entry experience. With a robust cloud solution, Openpath provides a comprehensive suite of enterprise cloud capabilities, future-proofing the needs of the built environment. The company has introduced innovative Tailgating and Lockdown Solutions providing the ability to lock/unlock any door, zone or building in an emergency from a mobile device.

Vettery

Series A in 2016
Vettery is fundamentally changing the way people hire and get hired. Vettery matches highly qualified candidates with over 4,000 top companies through its automated, data-driven marketplace. By connecting people directly to hiring managers, Vettery offers employers the best way to cost-effectively scale a team with quality hires. Vettery develops machine learning models that track real-time data, monitor trends and predict hiring behavior in order to effectively place candidates with more accuracy, speed and compatibility.

Spring

Venture Round in 2013
Spring was founded on the belief that local commerce should be easier than it is. By innovating on the intersection between the customer and the merchant – the transaction – we can unlock value for both parties. That means richer, actionable intelligence for our merchant partners – and richer rewards for their loyal customers. With offices in Chicago, San Francisco and Nashville, Spring launched in 2013 focusing on major metropolitan areas. We're rapidly expanding our market coverage so if you are a merchant interested in working with us, please visit Spring for Merchants for more information. If you are a customer, check back often to see when Spring is coming to you!

Sight Machine

Series B in 2016
Sight Machine specializes in manufacturing analytics and used by Global 500 companies to make better, faster decisions about their operations. Sight Machine's analytics platform, purpose-built for discrete and process manufacturing, uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics to help address critical challenges in quality and productivity throughout the enterprise. The platform is powered by the industry’s only Plant Digital Twin, which enables real-time visibility and actionable insights for every machine, line, and plant throughout an enterprise. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.