Prosper Women Entrepreneurs

Prosper Women Entrepreneurs is a Missouri-based early-stage venture firm established in 2014, dedicated to enhancing access to growth capital for women entrepreneurs. The organization focuses on increasing the number of women investing in early-stage capital markets, thereby fostering a more equitable entrepreneurial landscape. By targeting investments specifically in women-led companies, Prosper Women Entrepreneurs aims to empower female entrepreneurs and support their business development, contributing to broader economic growth and innovation.

Maxine Clark

Managing Partner

Jennifer Ehlen

Founder and Managing Partner

Peter Finley

Managing Director

Hal Gentry

Managing Partner

Mary Jo Gorman

Lead Managing Partner

Carol Matthews

Managing Partner

Past deals in Missouri

Lean Media

Convertible Note in 2017
Lean Media, Inc. specializes in cookieless digital advertising services tailored for agribusiness and rural community advertisers. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri, the company employs geo-targeting techniques to identify individual consumers by mapping IP addresses to a comprehensive consumer insights database. This approach allows for precise audience targeting, focusing on demographics, psychographics, and behavioral insights, which enhances engagement and minimizes advertising waste. Lean Media's offerings include customized campaigns aimed at specific workplaces or mindsets, enabling advertisers to effectively reach individual consumers or specific consumer types across devices. By leveraging these capabilities, Lean Media ensures that advertisements are delivered to the right audience at the right time, optimizing the effectiveness of advertising efforts.

Per Diem Plus, LLC

Seed Round in 2017
Per Diem Plus, LLC develops an application which automatically calculates per diem. The company features include robust expense tracking and receipt scanning tools. It records trucker specific travel related and operating expenses. Per Diem Plus, LLC was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Clayton, Missouri.

Soozie's Doozies, LLC

Venture Round in 2016
Soozie's Doozies, LLC engages in baking cookies. It offers refrigerated cookie dough pouches, cookie dough, butter cookies, butter shortbread, and baked cookie tins. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Union, Missouri.

Mindset App

Seed Round in 2016
Mindset App provides organizational mental wellness with mobile and wearable tech. Discover methods of combating stress at its source, and enjoy the clinically proven long-term benefits. The journal feature in the Mindset app mirrors Cognitive Behavioral Therapy exercises. Increase focus and capture control of the present with quick meditations that will give you a fresh boost. New to meditation? You're sure to find a type that works for you. Meditation pro? Discover new techniques to deepen your practice. Connect a wearable heart rate monitor to the Mindset app for optimal benefit. Connecting helps us learn about your stress levels throughout the day. They notify you when you're stressing and give you de-stress exercises and tips when it matters most. Beat your inner negativity bias by recognizing and celebrating good things, and watch a pattern of positivity start to form in your life. Using proven methods created by clinical specialists, the Mindset app's personalized model guides you to mental wellness. They track your progress, and learn when you're stressed out and the locations that trigger you, to create custom tips that steer you toward optimal mind management so you can become your best self.

MusicSpoke

Seed Round in 2016
MusicSpoke is an online music publishing platform that connects composers, conductors, and performers, allowing them to share and sell new music for choral and ensemble arrangements. Founded in 2013 and based in Lincoln, Nebraska, MusicSpoke serves as a global distribution platform, enabling musicians and educators to purchase sheet music directly from composers. This model not only supports living artists but also facilitates a more direct relationship between creators and their audience, similar to platforms like Etsy for artists.

Janus Choice

Seed Round in 2015
Janus Choice, LLC provides solutions for improving the hospital discharge process and empowering the patient to pick the right skilled nursing facility. The company offers a search engine with a patentable algorithm to hospitals and patients for matching patient’s clinical and social needs with the services provided by the facility; allows patients and their families to make a decision without leaving hospital room, bringing benefits to the hospital by decreasing length of stay, and promoting patient’s choice and improving overall experience; and creates multiple benefits to the facilities participating in the program. It serves patients, hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Rockford, Illinois.

Edis Solutions

Seed Round in 2015
Confluence gathers, filters, combines and presents the pharmaceutical intelligence you need. It turns manual into automatic, risk into reliability and wait into wow. With Confluence you start where it counts: crucial planning and decision-making. Skip the assembly, start with Confluence.

taptl

Seed Round in 2015
taptl develops, manufactures and sells transparent touch-screens. The touch-screens can be used as windows, kiosks, directories, “TVs,” or computers for personal or business use. The technology is currently being marketed to the luxury interiors industry, including retail, yachts, aircrafts, and homes. They are offered in sizes 5”-110”, available in HD and UHD, and are environmentally sustainable, with endless applications.

Janus Choice

Seed Round in 2015
Janus Choice, LLC provides solutions for improving the hospital discharge process and empowering the patient to pick the right skilled nursing facility. The company offers a search engine with a patentable algorithm to hospitals and patients for matching patient’s clinical and social needs with the services provided by the facility; allows patients and their families to make a decision without leaving hospital room, bringing benefits to the hospital by decreasing length of stay, and promoting patient’s choice and improving overall experience; and creates multiple benefits to the facilities participating in the program. It serves patients, hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Rockford, Illinois.

SanusEO

Convertible Note in 2015
SanusEO engagement and intervention platform trigger behavior modification at critical points in transition care saving healthcare dollars while improving patient outcomes. SanusEO is a mHealth company, offering mobile texting and web services to support population health management and help improve both clinical and financial outcomes. It was incorporated in 2012 and is based in St Louis, Missouri.