Refinery Ventures

Refinery Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on investing in information technology, digital health, and human capital technology sectors. The firm invests in early scale companies by bridging the gap and mentoring its teams between post-seed and Series A funding. Refinery Ventures was established in 2017 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

16 past transactions

Livegistics

Seed Round in 2022
Livegistics is a software company that provides the construction and heavy hauling industries with cloud-based logistical tracking technologies. The company allows the contractors to operate more efficiently while also equipping owners, municipalities, and construction managers with real-time data and analytics. Its digital platform provides real-time visibility into the supply chain, reducing costs and coordination issues. As a trusted source of data, its customers receive real-time, accurate information, optimizing loads and improving invoicing, audits, and compliance.

Titaniam

Seed Round in 2022
Titaniam provides enterprises and SaaS vendors with a full suite of data security/privacy controls in a single, enterprise-grade solution. This includes highly advanced options such as encryption-in-use that enables encrypted search and analytics without decryption, and also traditional controls such as tokenization, masking, various types of encryption, and anonymization. Titaniam also offers BYOK/HYOK (bring/hold your own key) for data owners to control the security of their data. If attacked, Titaniam minimizes regulatory overhead by providing evidence that sensitive data retained encryption. Titaniam’s interoperable modules can be combined to support hundreds of architectures across multiple clouds, on-prem, and hybrid environments. Titaniam provides the equivalent of 3+ categories of solutions making it the most effective, and economical solution in the market. Titaniam is featured by Gartner, IDC, and TAG Cyber and has won coveted industry awards e.g. SINET16 and at RSAC2022.

TealBook

Series B in 2021
Tealbook is an enterprise software company that connects buyers and suppliers and provides the data needed to make procurement decisions. Tealbook’s innovations in buyer/supplier relations have earned recognition, including being named to the CIX Top 20 and a spot on the prestigious 2018 Gartner Cool Vendor list. Tealbook was founded in 2014 by Stephany Lapierre and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

RedCircle

Series A in 2021
RedCircle helps creators build, distribute, grow, and monetize their podcast. They are a team of engineers and software people from San Francisco who are passionate about podcasting and building technology that gives power back to the community and its creators. They couldn’t be more excited to work with you.

TealBook

Series A in 2021
Tealbook is an enterprise software company that connects buyers and suppliers and provides the data needed to make procurement decisions. Tealbook’s innovations in buyer/supplier relations have earned recognition, including being named to the CIX Top 20 and a spot on the prestigious 2018 Gartner Cool Vendor list. Tealbook was founded in 2014 by Stephany Lapierre and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

TealBook

Seed Round in 2020
Tealbook is an enterprise software company that connects buyers and suppliers and provides the data needed to make procurement decisions. Tealbook’s innovations in buyer/supplier relations have earned recognition, including being named to the CIX Top 20 and a spot on the prestigious 2018 Gartner Cool Vendor list. Tealbook was founded in 2014 by Stephany Lapierre and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Winston Privacy

Venture Round in 2020
Winston is the first convenient privacy product for everyone. It is a hardware device that provides complete protection from hackers, corporate spies, and warrantless government surveillance. It packaged its proprietary anti-tracking technology into a simple plug-and-play solution that anyone can use. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Astronomer

Seed Round in 2019
For data teams looking to increase the availability of trusted data, Astronomer provides Astro, a modern data orchestration platform, powered by Apache Airflow, that enables the entire data team to build, run, and observe data pipelines-as-code. Astronomer is a commercial developer of Airflow, the de facto standard for expressing data flows as code, used by hundreds of thousands of teams across the world.

Folio Photonics

Seed Round in 2019
Folio Photonics is developing an optical data storage disc with a two-terabyte capacity manufactured using a highly scalable, low-cost method. It also redefines archival data storage with its modern optical solution. Their patented solution, the data film disc, is disruptive in cost, capacity, and archival lifetime. The company also develops optical data storage discs and systems.

ENGAGE Talent

Series A in 2018
ENGAGE is the world’s first AI-powered recruiting platform to combine Talent Mapping, Competitive Intelligence, Passive Candidate Sourcing, and Outbound Recruiting in one brilliant Talent Targeting and Engagement engine. ENGAGE is an AI-powered recruiting platform that helps companies identify and target new talent that they were not finding via traditional methods and in traditional pools. ENGAGE aggregates data from over 30K sources to create talent profiles on 100M professionals and 13M companies. ENGAGE's AI and machine learning engine predicts the likelihood that a candidate will respond to a conversation about a potential job change, and recommends personalized messaging based on factors like their career progression, skills, peer actions, and the news and events surrounding their company. ENGAGE's product helps recruiters connect with new talent pools, at the right time, with the right message. The result is a more efficient and productive talent acquisition team who fills roles proactively by engaging qualified talent instead of waiting for the right applicant to come to them. By leveraging ENGAGE predictions and recommendations, our customers have identified candidates for difficult-to-fill roles in a fraction of the time and doubled their candidate response rates.

Torch

Seed Round in 2017
Torch is a leadership development platform with integrated coaching, software, and feedback to raise high performers to the next level. It was founded by a team of executive coaches and experienced psychologists who are passionate about helping senior leaders perform at their highest level. Torch is on a mission to empower leaders to build high growth, high-performance cultures by building the awareness and skills required to manage and lead effectively. Our proven model blends human intelligence and digital technology to accelerate talent development and deliver measurable leadership outcomes.

Halo Health

Series A in 2017
Doc Halo’s clinical communication platform is transforming patient care by streamlining real-time communication among physicians, nurses and staff. The mobile app and online console provide secure, HIPAA-compliant texting. Robust care coordination tools integrate with hospital systems to allow instant access to EHRs, critical and clinical teams, physician on-call schedules, call centers, labs and directories. Exclusively focused on healthcare, Doc Halo is used by some of the most prestigious organizations in the country.

Fooji

Series A in 2017
Connection is like magic — it gives people community, a sense of belonging. And for brands, it generates loyalty. We’re reinventing how brands and fans connect, bridging the online-to-real-life gap by delivering delightful experiences on demand. From ideation and sourcing to logistics and customer service, we partner with brands to turn consumers into forever fans.
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