RevTech Fund II

RevTech Fund II is a venture capital fund managed by RevTech Ventures, based in Dallas, Texas, specializing in early-stage investments at the intersection of retail and technology. The fund primarily targets opportunities within the retail tech sector, focusing on companies that demonstrate rapid growth and sustainable competitive advantages. RevTech Fund II adopts a strategy of making numerous initial investments, with the potential for larger follow-on investments in promising startups. The fund is committed to providing ongoing support and resources to its portfolio companies, leveraging a management team and a network of experienced mentors to foster development and innovation in the retail technology landscape.

David Matthews

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Loc Nguyen

Associate

Past deals in Texas

Topl

Seed Round in 2020
Topl enables companies to prove their ethical and sustainable practices, by tracking and tracing every step in an organization's supply chain. Topl came out with its first blockchain in 2018, specifically focused on catering to different commodities, and spent much of 2019 assisting companies on how to work on the blockchain. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Houston, Texas.

The Citizenry

Series A in 2020
The Citizenry, Inc. is a Dallas-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in selling handmade household products online. The brand offers a diverse range of items, including textiles, furniture, art, and home accents, all crafted by master artisans from various countries. By partnering directly with these artisans, The Citizenry ensures that its products reflect both modern design and traditional craftsmanship while eliminating unnecessary markups. This approach allows the company to provide ethically crafted luxuries at competitive prices. The Citizenry is committed to supporting artisan communities by reinvesting 10% of its proceeds back into these communities. The name "The Citizenry" signifies the collective of artisans and makers involved in creating these unique products, celebrating the rich cultural heritage behind each item.

Cooklist

Convertible Note in 2020
Cooklist is solving two of humanity's most common problems, “What’s for dinner?” and “What groceries should I buy?” Cooklist solves the first problem by showing users recipes that they can make with the groceries they already have. Cooklist developed the first app that connects directly to the stores a user shops at and automatically downloads all their purchases into a digital pantry in the app. (Think Mint.com for grocery stores). Their algorithms match each product to the ingredients from 1.3MM+ recipes online so users can see their pantry through the eyes of 50,000 chefs whose recipes are available on Cooklist. Cooklist solves the second problem by shifting the focus of grocery shopping away from choosing products and towards choosing recipes that users want to cook. Users can select recipes that they want to eat and Cooklist will automatically generate a shopping list of the items they are missing. Furthermore, Cooklist will allow users to send the cart to grocers like Walmart, Kroger or Amazon for pickup or delivery.

Neighborhood Goods

Series A in 2020
Neighborhood Goods Inc. operates a dynamic department store based in Dallas, Texas, which was founded in 2017. The store showcases a diverse array of brands and products, including apparel, accessories, cosmetics, and groceries, while also providing online sales. Beyond retail, Neighborhood Goods serves as a community hub, offering social spaces, food options, events, and opportunities for learning through live speakers and immersive editorial content. This multifaceted approach aims to create a vibrant environment that brings people together to shop, eat, and engage with new concepts.

UrComped

Venture Round in 2019
UrComped LLC is an online service that connects casino players with access to complimentary accommodations and VIP services at casinos and cruise lines in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2013 and based in Farmers Branch, Texas, UrComped offers its members benefits such as free rooms, show tickets, and dining credits based on their gaming activity. The company addresses the inefficiencies in the casino industry, where players traditionally only receive comp offers from casinos where they have previously played. By utilizing a proprietary algorithm, UrComped enables players to establish their value to casinos, thereby opening the marketplace and allowing players to access comp travel offers from a wide network of partner casinos. This approach not only benefits players but also helps casinos attract new customers they might not have reached otherwise.

Crave Retail

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Crave Retail, Inc. develops a platform, which connects shoppers with in-store inventory. The company provides fitting room screen for shoppers to request new sizes and colors, and it offers product recommendations. It also provides store experience dashboard for real-time insights into store performance, customer engagement, and associate productivity. Crave Retail, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Pensa

Venture Round in 2019
Pensa Systems, Inc. specializes in developing autonomous perception systems aimed at enhancing inventory visibility and management for retailers and manufacturers. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with an additional office in Den Haag, the Netherlands, the company employs advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, computer vision, and autonomous drones to monitor retail shelves. Pensa's innovative solutions provide real-time alerts when products are out of stock, helping brands and retailers minimize stockouts and optimize their supply chains and store operations. By delivering accurate data on in-store inventory, Pensa Systems enables improved product planning and compliance, ultimately boosting revenues and profitability for its clients.

Pressed Roots

Convertible Note in 2019
Pressed Roots Inc. is a beauty salon that specializes in providing services for customers with curly and textured hair. Founded in 2018 by Piersten Gaines and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the salon aims to deliver a luxurious salon experience tailored to the unique needs of textured hair. By focusing on this niche market, Pressed Roots seeks to address the challenges faced by individuals with curly hair, offering specialized treatments and products that enhance their natural beauty.

EnTouch Controls

Venture Round in 2019
EnTouch Controls, Inc. specializes in designing and developing wireless building management systems tailored for multi-site small and medium businesses. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Richardson, Texas, the company provides SaaS-based energy management systems that enhance enterprise visibility, connectivity, and asset optimization. Its EnTouch 360° service platform offers a comprehensive solution that includes turnkey installation, management analytics, and issue ticketing for HVAC maintenance. This platform is particularly beneficial for various sectors, including retail, property management, restaurants, healthcare, education, and hospitality, as it helps optimize performance and reduce energy costs through real-time dashboards and analytics.

Neighborhood Goods

Series A in 2019
Neighborhood Goods Inc. operates a dynamic department store based in Dallas, Texas, which was founded in 2017. The store showcases a diverse array of brands and products, including apparel, accessories, cosmetics, and groceries, while also providing online sales. Beyond retail, Neighborhood Goods serves as a community hub, offering social spaces, food options, events, and opportunities for learning through live speakers and immersive editorial content. This multifaceted approach aims to create a vibrant environment that brings people together to shop, eat, and engage with new concepts.

Theatro

Convertible Note in 2019
Theatro is a software company that specializes in developing business applications for wearable computing devices aimed at the indoor mobile workforce. Primarily serving the retail and hospitality sectors, Theatro offers a suite of productivity applications designed to enhance communication and management for in-store employees. Their solutions include cloud-based services, wearable computers, in-door location tracking, and analytics tools that integrate with existing technologies such as WiFi and business intelligence systems. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Theatro aims to improve sales associate productivity, conversion rates, and overall store profitability through its innovative technology.

EnTouch Controls

Convertible Note in 2019
EnTouch Controls, Inc. specializes in designing and developing wireless building management systems tailored for multi-site small and medium businesses. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Richardson, Texas, the company provides SaaS-based energy management systems that enhance enterprise visibility, connectivity, and asset optimization. Its EnTouch 360° service platform offers a comprehensive solution that includes turnkey installation, management analytics, and issue ticketing for HVAC maintenance. This platform is particularly beneficial for various sectors, including retail, property management, restaurants, healthcare, education, and hospitality, as it helps optimize performance and reduce energy costs through real-time dashboards and analytics.

Glass-Media

Convertible Note in 2019
Glass-Media, Inc. specializes in digital marketing solutions for Fortune 1000 companies with physical retail locations. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company offers an innovative, IoT-based platform that enhances customer experiences through projection technology. This platform transforms storefronts and indoor glass surfaces into interactive, high-definition displays that capture engagement data. Glass-Media's proprietary software enables real-time optimization of marketing campaigns at the point-of-sale, allowing brands to measure key performance indicators and return on investment effectively. Unlike traditional signage approaches, Glass-Media focuses on a data-driven strategy to connect online and offline customer interactions, thereby facilitating an integrated omni-channel experience for brick-and-mortar retailers.

Pensa

Series A in 2019
Pensa Systems, Inc. specializes in developing autonomous perception systems aimed at enhancing inventory visibility and management for retailers and manufacturers. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with an additional office in Den Haag, the Netherlands, the company employs advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, computer vision, and autonomous drones to monitor retail shelves. Pensa's innovative solutions provide real-time alerts when products are out of stock, helping brands and retailers minimize stockouts and optimize their supply chains and store operations. By delivering accurate data on in-store inventory, Pensa Systems enables improved product planning and compliance, ultimately boosting revenues and profitability for its clients.

Vessel

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Vessel is an engagement and monetization enabler for location-based content creators and publishers. Our technology enhances food and travel city guides with monetizable, vertical-video based interactive maps. This allows the creator's traffic to discover, review, and convert all within the content creator's page instead of bouncing to third parties (Google, Yelp, etc).

Cooklist

Seed Round in 2018
Cooklist is solving two of humanity's most common problems, “What’s for dinner?” and “What groceries should I buy?” Cooklist solves the first problem by showing users recipes that they can make with the groceries they already have. Cooklist developed the first app that connects directly to the stores a user shops at and automatically downloads all their purchases into a digital pantry in the app. (Think Mint.com for grocery stores). Their algorithms match each product to the ingredients from 1.3MM+ recipes online so users can see their pantry through the eyes of 50,000 chefs whose recipes are available on Cooklist. Cooklist solves the second problem by shifting the focus of grocery shopping away from choosing products and towards choosing recipes that users want to cook. Users can select recipes that they want to eat and Cooklist will automatically generate a shopping list of the items they are missing. Furthermore, Cooklist will allow users to send the cart to grocers like Walmart, Kroger or Amazon for pickup or delivery.

Arcade

Seed Round in 2018
Arcade Solutions, Inc. develops a comprehensive workforce engagement software platform designed to enhance employee communication, recognition, and training. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with an additional office in Melbourne, Australia, Arcade's platform enables sales teams to connect and collaborate effectively while gamifying employee goals to improve performance and retention. The software provides an integrated solution for rewards, recognition, contests, and staff training, catering to organizations of various sizes across multiple industries. By fostering a competitive yet supportive environment, Arcade aims to elevate employee engagement and drive measurable results for businesses worldwide.

GuestX

Seed Round in 2018
GuestX is a enterprise software platform intended to streamline ticketing experience. The company's platform is holistic ticketing and visitor engagement suite which accommodates multi-venue ticket sales across all sales channels, one-of-a-kind shared photo memories, kiosk and mobile entertainment, guest analytics among others, enabling businesses to grow their visitors, increase revenue and build lasting relationships with members.

Neighborhood Goods

Seed Round in 2018
Neighborhood Goods Inc. operates a dynamic department store based in Dallas, Texas, which was founded in 2017. The store showcases a diverse array of brands and products, including apparel, accessories, cosmetics, and groceries, while also providing online sales. Beyond retail, Neighborhood Goods serves as a community hub, offering social spaces, food options, events, and opportunities for learning through live speakers and immersive editorial content. This multifaceted approach aims to create a vibrant environment that brings people together to shop, eat, and engage with new concepts.

Pensa

Seed Round in 2018
Pensa Systems, Inc. specializes in developing autonomous perception systems aimed at enhancing inventory visibility and management for retailers and manufacturers. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with an additional office in Den Haag, the Netherlands, the company employs advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, computer vision, and autonomous drones to monitor retail shelves. Pensa's innovative solutions provide real-time alerts when products are out of stock, helping brands and retailers minimize stockouts and optimize their supply chains and store operations. By delivering accurate data on in-store inventory, Pensa Systems enables improved product planning and compliance, ultimately boosting revenues and profitability for its clients.

Arcade

Funding Round in 2016
Arcade Solutions, Inc. develops a comprehensive workforce engagement software platform designed to enhance employee communication, recognition, and training. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with an additional office in Melbourne, Australia, Arcade's platform enables sales teams to connect and collaborate effectively while gamifying employee goals to improve performance and retention. The software provides an integrated solution for rewards, recognition, contests, and staff training, catering to organizations of various sizes across multiple industries. By fostering a competitive yet supportive environment, Arcade aims to elevate employee engagement and drive measurable results for businesses worldwide.

Xclaim Mobile

Convertible Note in 2016
XClaim Mobile, Inc. develops an enterprise-grade mobile offer platform. The company offers Xclaim, a mobile offer platform to streamline users’ move to mobile by enhancing existing digital campaigns. Its software gives users with location-based clean and fast marketing; detects device, location, and wallet type; and customizes their offer to be accepted by Apple Pay, Android Pay, and MS Wallet. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

ShoppeThat

Seed Round in 2015
ShoppeThat is an online marketplace like eBay or Bonanza that serves ALL categories & not another crafts-only site - with a "Mall" image at a low rate, with simplicity transparency & better multi-channel importing & advertising tools for merchants and true friendly support. We anticipate the convergence of eCommerce & traditional retail as well as the need to find for our shoppers what they want in an age of pay to play shopping sites. Ultimately we see these coming convergences: Comparison & Discovery Shopping Engines + Marketplaces Brick & Mortar + Ecommerce An excerpt from our Mission and Philosophy.. "Overall Mission & Philosophy of the whole company Easy to use both in the UX and the site policies & rules – selling & shopping should be easy & fun Quality customer service Balanced between shoppers & merchants Automation & Technology - Automation is rising, there's no way to stop it. Instead embrace it and prepare - create income streams not just jobs & maximize efficiency within the company by automating as much as possible & strive for technological advancement ; in the future with mass technological unemployment, marketplace sites & freelancing will become a massive part of the global economy compared to now. Companies in this area can play a vital role in the future economy & have a responsibility there."

The Citizenry

Seed Round in 2015
The Citizenry, Inc. is a Dallas-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in selling handmade household products online. The brand offers a diverse range of items, including textiles, furniture, art, and home accents, all crafted by master artisans from various countries. By partnering directly with these artisans, The Citizenry ensures that its products reflect both modern design and traditional craftsmanship while eliminating unnecessary markups. This approach allows the company to provide ethically crafted luxuries at competitive prices. The Citizenry is committed to supporting artisan communities by reinvesting 10% of its proceeds back into these communities. The name "The Citizenry" signifies the collective of artisans and makers involved in creating these unique products, celebrating the rich cultural heritage behind each item.

Pnp Loyalty

Seed Round in 2015
PnP Loyalty, L.L.C. provides a Software-as-a-Service solution that supports various loyalty marketing needs for chain restaurants and retail stores. Its platform lets clients to customize non-transactional based segments, such as day parts, age ranges, and more, as well as offers POS integration, email and SMS integration, and ROI reporting aspects. The company is based in Dallas, Texas.

UrComped

Seed Round in 2015
UrComped LLC is an online service that connects casino players with access to complimentary accommodations and VIP services at casinos and cruise lines in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2013 and based in Farmers Branch, Texas, UrComped offers its members benefits such as free rooms, show tickets, and dining credits based on their gaming activity. The company addresses the inefficiencies in the casino industry, where players traditionally only receive comp offers from casinos where they have previously played. By utilizing a proprietary algorithm, UrComped enables players to establish their value to casinos, thereby opening the marketplace and allowing players to access comp travel offers from a wide network of partner casinos. This approach not only benefits players but also helps casinos attract new customers they might not have reached otherwise.

EverThread

Seed Round in 2015
EverThread, Inc. specializes in the design, customization, development, manufacturing, and sale of digitally printed textiles both in the United States and internationally. The company provides users with the ability to select and customize designs, colors, fabrics, and scales. Operating an online marketplace, EverThread connects designers with a community of creative professionals and enthusiasts. The textiles are printed on natural fiber fabrics such as cotton, linen, and silk, which can be used in apparel and home décor items like chairs and curtains. The company's advanced visualization technology enhances the online shopping experience, allowing retailers to present high-resolution views of their products, thereby improving consumer engagement and reducing marketing and operational costs. EverThread is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

OrderMyGear

Seed Round in 2013
OrderMyGear LLC is a Dallas-based company that specializes in group and team shopping cart software for online team stores and group ordering. Founded in 2008, it provides a platform that connects dealers, vendors, and sports teams, facilitating the sale of team apparel, uniforms, and sporting goods. The company’s services include building online stores, creating custom artwork, and offering customer support through live chat during business hours. OrderMyGear aims to streamline the merchandising, ordering, and fulfillment processes for teams, leagues, and educational institutions, making it easier for users to purchase a variety of products conveniently. As a leader in the sports gear industry, it is recognized for its commitment to quality, customer service, and innovation.

CultureMap

Seed Round in 2013
CultureMap, LLC offers an online magazine. It provides various insights and opinions about entertainment, city life, fashion, food, real estate, music, events, society, social scene, and travel. The company is based in Houston, Texas with additional offices in Dallas and Houston. As of April 8, 2015, CultureMap, LLC operates as a subsidiary of ViewMarket. As of February 15, 2017, CultureMap, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Gow Broadcasting, LLC.

OrderMyGear

Convertible Note in 2012
OrderMyGear LLC is a Dallas-based company that specializes in group and team shopping cart software for online team stores and group ordering. Founded in 2008, it provides a platform that connects dealers, vendors, and sports teams, facilitating the sale of team apparel, uniforms, and sporting goods. The company’s services include building online stores, creating custom artwork, and offering customer support through live chat during business hours. OrderMyGear aims to streamline the merchandising, ordering, and fulfillment processes for teams, leagues, and educational institutions, making it easier for users to purchase a variety of products conveniently. As a leader in the sports gear industry, it is recognized for its commitment to quality, customer service, and innovation.