Redwood Partners

Redwood Partners, founded in 1994 and based in New York, focuses on supporting the talent needs of high-growth technology companies. Over the years, the firm has expanded its services to include seed-level funding and strategic investment in emerging start-ups, particularly in the mobile, Internet, and digital media sectors. Through its affiliated seed fund, Redwood Technology Ventures, the company leverages its extensive industry relationships to identify promising ventures requiring seed stage funding. Redwood Partners emphasizes aligning its efforts with the priorities of CEOs, founders, boards, and investors to foster the development of disruptive organizations that can drive significant industry change.

Michael Flannery

Managing Partner

Devendra Verma

General Partner and Co-Founder

31 past transactions

Alef Edge

Funding Round in 2017
Alef is the first global edge API platform company that empowers enterprises to create, customize, and control their own private mobile network - in 60 minutes. We simplify the complexity of 5G and edge computing through a suite of APIs and tools that allow for more control and security with less overhead, while operating at a fraction of the cost of legacy mobile network providers. Leading systems integrators, distributors, and technology partners, and developers trust us to help power the edge economy and enable companies and communities to connect with a purpose.
Dubset Media Holdings is a a technology solutions company that offers an innovative music marketplace for DJs, artists, labels, publishers, music services, and distributors. Through cutting edge technology, rights management database, and easy to use dashboards, Dubset is creating new mix & remix distribution and monetization opportunities built on transparency, ownership control, and simplicity.

Artichoke

Pre Seed Round in 2016
The workforce is changing dramatically and Artichoke is the business platform to empower this next generation of independent workers. Artichoke gives the independent professional the tools to keep schedules full with revenue producing appointments instead of time wasting administrative tasks. Artichoke is a post revenue SaaS company which combines fintech, client data, and marketing automation to empower entrepreneurs in appointment based businesses to set up shop and start earning quickly.

Soundwall

Series A in 2016
Soundwall is a manufacturer of flat-panel speakers made of aluminum artwork. It allows sound to resonate from a work of art hanging on the wall – creating a sound that is more natural and uniform. Soundwall is a technology that allows users to combine art and music in a revolutionary new way. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Broomfield, Colorado.

Fresco News

Seed Round in 2016
Fresco combines the incredible powers of their mobile devices with the content needs of global news outlets. Their mission is to allow everyone to be a reporter, and really share what matters through the channels previously unavailable to the average person.

CoachTube

Seed Round in 2016
CoachTube online marketplace for athletes to master their sport with instructional videos from the world's greatest coaches. Their mission at CoachTube is to give every athlete, regardless of budget, location, or current abilities, access to the instructions, knowledge, and motivation they need to grow and progress as athletes and students. They do this by providing a variety of courses that are available on-demand, so students can learn where and when it’s convenient for them. Their community of top-tier coaches will change the lives and the trajectory of many student-athletes to achieve their full potential.

Kite

Seed Round in 2016
Kite is an artificial pair programmer which shows examples and documentation for the libraries and terminal commands used while coding. It also detects errors and offers to fix them. The company is based in New York City, founded in 2014.

SpaceoutVR, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Spaceout.VR is a free to play Social VR MMO for iOS & Android. Spaceout.VR monetizes with upgrades and features for entertainment, gaming and communications. Spaceout.VR engages players with fun VR experiences. 360 Video & Photo, Games, Travel and Music power endless content features within our MMO. Spaceout.VR publishes a customized personal Space Station for each new Spacer. We populate personal spaces with the digital content you love based on machine learning and an analysis of your social media graph. Spaceout.VR accesses content from popular platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, SoundCloud and Google Street View. In the Orbital Social Feed you can visit thousands of other Space Stations. Make new friends, like, share and leave messages for other Spacers. Win the game by building the biggest Space Station in VR! Our in-app economy rewards engagement and participation. Purchase and promote new Spaces and premium content with in-app purchases in the Spaceout Store.

YardHub

Seed Round in 2015
YardHub offers an online platform that connects home owners with outdoor home service providers. Its platform enables users to find, order, and pay for outdoor services in the areas of tree, gutter, lawn care, pressure washing, landscaping, pool cleaning, masonry, winter, spring, summer, fall, and miscellaneous services. YardHub was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Somers, New York.

Agogo

Seed Round in 2015
AGOGO is a fully integrated and infinitely extensible audio service that continuously delivers the programming you select when you want it while instantly discovering more from hundreds of trusted online programming and music sources. Channel your world!

Junior Explorers

Seed Round in 2015
Junior Explorers Inc, an innovative social enterprise, with a groundbreaking subscription service aimed at the 40 million elementary school kids in America. Founded with a mission to inspire the next generation of environmental stewards, Junior Explorers teaches kids about wildlife and nature in a fun and engaging way.

Alef Edge

Funding Round in 2015
Alef is the first global edge API platform company that empowers enterprises to create, customize, and control their own private mobile network - in 60 minutes. We simplify the complexity of 5G and edge computing through a suite of APIs and tools that allow for more control and security with less overhead, while operating at a fraction of the cost of legacy mobile network providers. Leading systems integrators, distributors, and technology partners, and developers trust us to help power the edge economy and enable companies and communities to connect with a purpose.

WR1 Inc

Seed Round in 2015
WR1 is a members' club platform for creators and brands that makes it easy to turn fans, social following and audiance into recurring revenue and own the fan data. The platform makes it easy to start a membership club, fan-community or fanclub with unique built in monetization tools. Set up subscription plans with free pricing to monetize exclusive content such as livestreams, videos, music, images, polls, texts and gifs. Set up additional digital services such as video greetings, Digital Meet & Greets, Donations, Pay Per View content and collectable NTFs. WR1 provide full content control to place content behind subscriptions, post public to free followers of the club, schedule release of content on date or days after enrollment and expiration of content. The clubs provides game-chaning members’ tools that rewards engagement in the community, such as inviting friends, share and staying active in the community, view and follow fellow club members on map, DMs and group chats, club leaderboard and more. WR1 is the leading platform in the creator economy offering more ways to monetize digitally than any other platform on the market.

Jackpocket

Seed Round in 2015
Jackpocket is on a mission to create a more convenient, and responsible way to participate in the lottery. Jackpocket is a licensed third-party lottery courier app. Lottery fans use Jackpocket to place orders for their favorite games, check lottery results, join lottery pools for better odds, and get automatic alerts when they win. Over $450 million in lottery prizes to date have been won on Jackpocket, including a $9.4 million prize in NJ—the biggest mobile gaming win in U.S history. Jackpocket is available in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Texas, Washington DC, and West Virginia, with many new markets on the horizon.

Measurence

Convertible Note in 2015
Actionable data platform for the physical world. Our hardware-enabled data platform detects presence, location and activity of people within and around physical spaces. We use the hyperlocal data we collect to generate key insights on how to increase ROI of marketing investments for businesses that rely on physical locations: insurance companies, banks, automotive, retailers, outdoor media agencies and more.

Thrively

Seed Round in 2013
Thrively is a family website that helps kids discover and pursue their passions in life. Their approach is to focus on children’s strengths and introduce them to those activities where they are most likely to Thrive.

Alef Edge

Seed Round in 2013
Alef is the first global edge API platform company that empowers enterprises to create, customize, and control their own private mobile network - in 60 minutes. We simplify the complexity of 5G and edge computing through a suite of APIs and tools that allow for more control and security with less overhead, while operating at a fraction of the cost of legacy mobile network providers. Leading systems integrators, distributors, and technology partners, and developers trust us to help power the edge economy and enable companies and communities to connect with a purpose.

SponsorHub

Venture Round in 2013
SponsorHub is the first online marketplace for discovering, buying and selling sponsorships. They help marketers reach the right audience at the right time while offering sellers a robust forum to reach a wide range of potential partners. SponsorHub’s user friendly platform provides greater access, easier execution and unique, effective tools to list and evaluate sponsorship opportunities, including the SponsorHub Score, the first industry metric to quantify the value of each opportunity and bring unprecedented transparency to the industry. The end result is higher ROI for sponsors and better monetization for producers.

Rallyverse

Seed Round in 2013
Rallyverse helps enterprises and marketers to scale their social and content marketing. The Rallyverse platform discovers, curates and recommends the most relevant content for marketers, creating ready-to-publish status updates and tweets. Over one hundred Rallyverse clients in financial services, automotive, technology, real estate and retail have enjoyed increased community growth and engagement rates with the Rallyverse platform, all while decreasing the time and effort required to manage their social marketing efforts. The company is based in New York City.

Just Sing It

Seed Round in 2013
Just Sing It (formerly of AnyoneGame) lets users sing and share their favorite songs on Facebook/Twitter, apply voice filters to ‘Instagram their voice’ and guess songs with other game players and even potential love interests. In just two weeks since launching out of beta in the US, Just Sing It has hit #1 in the Music category of the App Store and garnered more than 500,000 songs on the platform with a 5 star rating in the App store. Users who have downloaded the app continue to build their song library with an average of 5.6 songs recorded per player, proving the singing is a truly sticky phenomenon in the US. Even celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan have shared their favorite songs on Twitter and count themselves as fans.

Kinems Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Kinems, a movement-based educational platform with progress monitoring, empowering special education students to reach their full potential. It brings teaching, learning, and therapy for students with disabilities. Students use therapeutic body movements to play computer-based learning games based on state standards; therapists and teachers easily control the settings to tune the activities and gameplay to the specific and precise learning and developmental needs of each child. The system monitors progress and thoroughly documents all interventions. And because Kinems integrates math and literacy content, PT/OT sessions are no longer time away from academic learning but instead reinforce it. In 2013, Michael Boloudakis and Simos Retalis formed the company in New York, New York.

Swaag

Seed Round in 2013
Swaag is socially driven mobile community focused on lifestyle, fashion and expression. Users have the ability to take photos and tag them with the brands of clothing they are wearing. Users can also share photos directly to Facebook and Twitter through the app. Our mission is to help people discover new brands of fashion and be inspired to dress differently (while having fun!)

Joinem

Seed Round in 2012
Joinem's core proposition is WePower™ group savings –the special guaranteed savings of up to 25 percent off the lowest online prices on thousands of first-run name brands, when the target number of shoppers will buy together.

Tapad

Angel Round in 2011
Tapad is a global marketing technology company providing a comprehensive suite of identity-based marketing solutions. By leveraging the company’s proprietary and privacy-safe Tapad Graph. Their groundbreaking, proprietary technology assimilates billions of data points to find the human relationship between smartphones, desktops, laptops, tablets, connected TVs, and game consoles. The result: an unprecedented understanding of consumer behavior across related screens and the ability to reach the right people on the right device at the right time. With Tapad, publishers and advertisers can deepen consumer engagement with a more fluid experience while increasing campaign cost-effectiveness. The company is reinventing personalization for the modern marketer through its identity-driven solutions. The Tapad Graph combines the company’s proprietary Device Graph with behavioral signals so marketers can finally see their customers as unique individuals, and ultimately, deliver personalization at scale.

Dstillery

Series A in 2008
Dstillery is the leading AI ad targeting company. We empower brands and agencies to target their best prospects for high-performing programmatic advertising campaigns. Backed by our award-winning Data Science, Dstillery has earned 21 patents (and counting) for the AI technology that powers our precise, scalable audiences. Our newest technology, ID-free®, is patented, privacy-safe behavioral targeting that reaches 100% of ad impressions and can be used with any Dstillery product. Our premier user segment product, Custom AI Audiences, is a just-for-your-brand targeting solution that refreshes hundreds of millions of users every 24 hours to deliver the best performance. To learn more, visit us at www.dstillery.com.

Clicker

Seed Round in 2008
Clicker is the ultimate guide to Internet television. As massive amounts of programming move online, consumers are entering a world of infinite choices, all on-demand. Great! Finding the show you want to watch? Painful. Thousands of episodes from thousands of shows are housed on thousands of different sites, mixed amongst billions of random videos. Clicker culls all broadcast programming, and TV-quality Web originals, from these silos and delivers them in one seamless, organized experience so you can easily find, save, share and even contribute content for any show or episode online.

FusionOne

Series A in 2008
FusionOne provides mobile content portability, helping mobile subscribers transfer their content between mobile devices and sharing their content with popular internet applications-anytime, anywhere. FusionOne's products currently support millions of subscribers on many major carriers worldwide. Founded in 1998, FusionOne is headquartered in San Jose, California with additional offices in Tallinn, Estonia. For more information, visit www.FusionOne.com.

Takkle

Series A in 2007
TAKKLE is a online resource focused on high school athletics, provides a platform and tools for high school athletes to create player and team profiles, share videos and photos, track and view statistics, and allows students to connect with team coaches and college sports recruiters for advancement opportunities. The site has drawn a monthly audience of close to one million athletes(2), both male and female, and has attracted an impressive array of advertisers, including Procter & Gamble's Tampax brand, Gatorade, and Spalding.

Thumbplay

Series A in 2004
Thumbplay is a provider of mobile entertainment in the U.S. Thumbplay.com features licensed music, video and games from several large entertainment companies, including: EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. Thumbplay Music — which launched in private beta on January 7, 2010 and in public beta on March 4, 2010 — is a cloud-based music service that provides unlimited access to more than 8 million songs under license from every major record label and more than 25,000 indie labels. The mobile app is currently available on BlackBerry and Android smartphones and PCs/Macs. It will be available on iPhone within the first half of 2010. Headquartered in New York City, Thumbplay was founded in September 2004 by Are Traasdahl and Evan Schwartz. Investors include Bain Capital Ventures, SoftBank Capital, i-Hatch Ventures, Redwood Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Meritech, Brookside Capital Partners and Cross Creek Capital.

Memlink

Venture Round in 2000
Memlink is a developer of all optical switching solutions.
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