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Robin Hood Ventures

Robin Hood Ventures is a group of angel investors, focused on early-stage, high-growth companies in the Greater Philadelphia region. We help entrepreneurs build great companies, providing capital, mentoring, expertise and connections to help companies reach their potential. Robin Hood generally invests $250k to $500k, and collaborates with angels, institutions and VCs in our network. We invest as a single entity in businesses we know and understand, in a way that gets deals done. Since 1999, we have invested in over 45 companies in industries including software, medical devices, biotech, internet and financial technology.

Ellen Weber

Executive Director

96 past transactions

Immunome

Series A in 2019
Immunome is a biotechnology company that specializes in immunotherapy, biotechnology, and antigen discovery. It features a software platform that enables the simultaneous discovery of novel antigens and the patient-derived, native antibodies that target those antigens.

Sonnest, Inc.

Series A in 2021

Simply Good Jars

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everyday operations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.

Ophidion

Seed Round in 2019
Ophidion is a biotechnology company that delivers a central nervous system therapeutics to targeted sites in the brain. The company uses a Trojan horse strategy to exploit an endogenous receptor-mediated transport system to deliver small molecule drugs and biologics into the brain. They are currently focused on developing a pipeline to deliver gene-silencing therapies to treat neurodegenerative diseases, including diseases of Cognitive Impairment (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease) as well as Huntington’s disease. Ophidion platform technology is amenable to delivering multiple classes of drugs, including small molecules and macromolecules (gene therapeutics, siRNA’s, antibodies, peptides, and other macromolecules). It also has an advanced program that is positioned to start pivotal clinical trials to treat anxiety-related disorders, together with a patented companion biomarker diagnostic to select the appropriate patient population.

LoanLogics

Convertible Note in 2020
LoanLogics is a developer of mortgage loan software used to improve the transparency and accuracy of the mortgage process. LoanLogics has created the mortgage industry’s first Enterprise Loan Quality and Performance Analytics Platform that enables lenders, investors, servicers, and counterparties to improve loan quality, validate compliance, improve profitability, and manage risk, during origination, sale, and servicing of loan assets.

AlphaPoint

Seed Round in 2014
AlphaPoint is a white-label software company helping make illiquid assets liquid. Through its secure, scalable, and customizable distributed ledger platform, AlphaPoint enables customers to launch and operate new products, markets, and services by providing institutions enterprise-grade Blockchain solutions to digitize assets. The company's mission is to bring asset digitization solutions using Blockchain technologies, integration into the new wave of digital currencies, commodities, and equities. AlphaPoint was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Fuego

Seed Round in 2022

Measure Studio

Seed Round in 2023

Proscia Inc.

Series B in 2020
Proscia is a software company that is changing the way the world practices pathology to transform cancer research and diagnosis. With the company’s Concentriq digital pathology platform and pipeline of AI-powered applications, laboratories are leveraging new kinds of data to accelerate discoveries and improve patient outcomes. Proscia’s team of technologists, scientists, and pathologists is bringing a fresh approach to an outdated industry, helping the world to keep pace with the increasing demand for pathology services and fulfill the promise of precision diagnostics.

QR Pharma

Series A in 2016
Annovis Bio is specialty pharmaceutical company founded to develop novel treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative disorders. The company has two compounds in clinical development: Posiphen® targets early stage AD and PD and may stop or slow the progression of the disease; BNC targets late stage AD and may stabilize the decline.

Novira Therapeutics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
Novira Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, discovers and develops antiviral drugs for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B infection. It develops core and cccDNA inhibitor anti-HBV drugs. Novira Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Molecmo Nanobiotechnologies, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. As of December 4, 2015, Novira Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

Burrow, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Burrow, Inc. designs, manufactures, and supplies furniture for use in homes. It offers seating products, such as sofas and sectionals, sleepers, loveseats, armchairs, ottomans, and other seating products; tables and rugs; and accessories, including bundles, pillows, throws, sleep kits, and other accessories. The company sells its products through showrooms; and its stores in Washington, Massachusetts, Texas, and California, as well as online. Burrow, Inc. was formerly known as Penn & Hunt, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York. It has a manufacturing facility in Mexico City, Mexico.

Aereon Solutions

Venture Round in 2004
Aereon Solutions is a provider of wireless and head office based process automation solutions for HVAC, plumbing electrical contracting, and construction companies.

Virion Therapeutics, LLC

Series A in 2018
Virion Therapeutics, LLC, a biotechnology company, develops immune-based treatments for virally-associated cancers and chronic viral infections. It offers ChiVax and ChiVax-gD vaccines to induce potent and sustained T cell-mediated immune responses against transformed and infected cells. Virion Therapeutics, LLC was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Newark, Delaware.
Illumina Radiopharmaceuticals

AgileSwitch

Seed Round in 2013
AgileSwitch plug and play drivers were designed from the ground up to address these challenges and the drivers are among the most efficient and reliable in the market. Furthermore, AgileSwitch drivers can be fully customized to meet the needs and demands of virtually any customer application. With an ongoing product development commitment, AgileSwitch is continuously expanding the product line of gate drivers.

Intrommune Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Intrommune is developing the revolutionary oral mucosal immunotherapy (OMIT) treatment platform for food allergies. OMIT is a long-term, patient-friendly, disease-modifying solution for the 220 million people, including 9 million adults and 6 million children in the U.S., who suffer from life-altering food allergies. Intrommune’s lead product, INT-301, is expected to be a safe, effective and convenient therapy for patients who suffer from peanut allergy. There is no FDA-approved treatment for peanut allergy or any other food allergy.

ReturnLogic

Seed Round in 2020
ReturnLogic is a developer of an automation platform intended to make better marketing decisions and prevent costly product returns. Its platform helps brands give their clients an easy returns process while automating workflows for their customer service and warehouse teams, thereby enabling businesses to optimize their product returns strategy.

Simply Good Jars

Series A in 2022
Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everyday operations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.

OcuTerra Therapeutics

Series B in 2021

Virion Therapeutics, LLC

Convertible Note in 2019
Virion Therapeutics, LLC, a biotechnology company, develops immune-based treatments for virally-associated cancers and chronic viral infections. It offers ChiVax and ChiVax-gD vaccines to induce potent and sustained T cell-mediated immune responses against transformed and infected cells. Virion Therapeutics, LLC was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Newark, Delaware.

BrilliantPad

Series D in 2021

Drop ’til You Shop

Venture Round in 2013
Drop ’til You Shop® helps online retailers sell goods faster, more profitably and with a sense of adventure. Their live-sale shopping events have been described as “an obsessive video game” (Bloomberg), “an adrenaline-fueled tizzy of competitiveness” (TechCrunch) and “a nail-biting, multiplayer game of Deal or No Deal” (Yahoo! Finance). In addition to supercharging customer engagement, their patent-pending technology monitors real-time traffic to make intelligent decisions about pricing, product selection and availability, working to increase conversion rates, margins and sell-through.

Beckon Ice cream

Angel Round in 2020

WizeHive, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
WizeHive provides two products focused on helping organizations automate and streamline their business activities. WizeHive Zengine is a next generation cloud-based platform that empowers a non-technical person to quickly build custom business applications, while also allowing developers to extend an application via plugins that add integrations & complex functionality. Zengine can be used to track customers, job candidates, projects or more and replaces paper processes, outgrown spreadsheets, or generic software products. Our original product, WizeHive Select, is the web's leading platform for the intake of applications for grants, scholarships, awards, & competitions. The result is the elimination of paper and time spent copying, collating, and organizing all of that information. In addition, its collaboration and decision making tools provide a simplified way to help them make better, faster decisions. WizeHive Select is being used by over 600 global organizations including Disney, United Way, BlackBoard, & American Heart Association to collect millions of online applications each year.

Life.io

Seed Round in 2015
Life.io is the world’s first web-based platform specifically designed to help people make better decisions every moment, to take care of themselves more, to engage more, to simply live more. Delivered through insurance companies or employers, it’s always on, sharing inspired ideas on how to live better today and every day after.

CloudMine

Debt Financing in 2014
Rethink how you develop mobile applications. Significantly reduce your time to deployment, total cost, and overall ease of mind when it comes to developing mobile applications, integrating disparate datasets and maintaining IT infrastructures. CloudMine is a Managed Mobility solution that: 1) Eliminates the need for ongoing maintenance and management of mobile applications. 2) Accelerates app development by 70% through mobile-optimized infrastructure and a suite of prefabricated web services. 3) Standardizes your mobility platform to provide IT-approved common tooling across all business units.

Vuzit

Angel Round in 2008
Vuzit (pronounced views-it) is a Philadelphia-based software company that is addressing the need for a universal, yet enterprise-level, method for sharing, viewing and controlling documents, images and other sensitive content on the web. Organizations are increasingly faced with the technical complexity, legal liabilities and risks associated with sharing documents containing sensitive information online, such as financial records, business contracts, copyrighted material and medical data. Regulatory bodies and organizations are clamoring for better control and monitoring over their valuable information. At the same time, the Internet and the advent of products such as the PDF file, are making document distribution easier, but less secure. The Vuzit family of products addresses these needs, with products built for the small business as well as the multinational giant. The Vuzit DocuPub Platform is a robust, standards-based set of APIs, Web Services and libraries that enable you to embed over 40 different file types in your website or application. The Vuzit Platform contains dozens of features to help control how documents and content are accessed online. Vuzit SecureVu, available mid-2009, allows you superior distribution control over documents in and out of the corporate firewall.

DailyWorth.com, Inc.

Venture Round in 2011
DailyWorth.com, Inc. operates a platform to receive daily emails filled with financial and career advice, thought-provoking articles, and an occasional kick in the pants for women. It sends emails on money, including tips on savings, investing, credit and debt, taxes, insurance, and real estate; work, such as career advice, job search, negotiating, running a business, and freelancing; and life, which include finding a balance, education, health, travel, inspiration, and giving. The company also sends family advice, including marriage, kids, relationships, and elder care services; retirement tips, including estate planning and IRA and 401 (K); and tools, such as MoneyClarity, MoneyType, and WorthFM; and digital reviews. DailyWorth.com, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York.

Tassl

Series A in 2017
Tassl is revolutionizing network engagement with easy-to-use cloud based engagement analytics software for universities, alumni, students, volunteers and other network contributors. Our complete solution is the simply way to manage events, activities, and mobile communications while recording engagement metrics that provide valuable insights & integrate into the network's current system of record. Built to meet the complex structures of Higher-Ed, non-profits, & other professional networks, Tassl provides a centralized management tool to support the entire ecosystem. Additionally, Tassl's support tools for local volunteers provides local insights, and our mobile app bring the network right to the constituents fingertips.

Simply Good Jars

Convertible Note in 2020
Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everyday operations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.

FEMSelect Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
FEMSelect is making a lasting impact on women's health by delivering an innovative technology platform. It is the developer of EnPlace, a minimally invasive and mesh-free system for pelvic floor ligament fixation. Using EnPlace takes approximately 30 minutes. The patented delivery system enables the precise guidance, insertion, and deployment of the anchor unit. The anchor is designed to be introduced through the vaginal wall and secured to the pelvic floor ligament to provide stabilization. FEMSelect was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Modi’in, Israel.

Compliance Assurance

Venture Round in 2011
Compliance Assurance Corporation provides on-demand governance risk and compliance solutions to the insurance industry. Its products include Compliance Assured Enterprise that provides compliance packages for the insurance carrier and its extended enterprise; and Compliance Assured Producer Network that offers the Compliance Officer with the tools to mitigate the risks associated with extended enterprise compliance. The company provides enterprise solutions to streamline governance, risk, and compliance processes; reduce costs of compliance; manage and mitigate risks; and provide visibility into an insurers extended enterprise. Compliance Assurance Corporation was founded in 2003 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

KickUp

Series A in 2019
Kickup, Inc. develops and operates a collaboration platform that helps school districts to design, coordinate, and assess their professional learning activities. Its platform also give educational leaders an actionable picture of their program's effectiveness. The company serves superintendents, directors of PD, and district leaders. Kickup, Inc. was formerly known as Pedagology, LLC and changed its name to Kickup, Inc. in February 2015. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Burrow, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Burrow, Inc. designs, manufactures, and supplies furniture for use in homes. It offers seating products, such as sofas and sectionals, sleepers, loveseats, armchairs, ottomans, and other seating products; tables and rugs; and accessories, including bundles, pillows, throws, sleep kits, and other accessories. The company sells its products through showrooms; and its stores in Washington, Massachusetts, Texas, and California, as well as online. Burrow, Inc. was formerly known as Penn & Hunt, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York. It has a manufacturing facility in Mexico City, Mexico.

Genome Profiling, LLC

Seed Round in 2016
Genome Profiling, LLC, a bioinformatics company, engages in the discovery of novel epigenetic biomarkers for treating diagnosing, and predicting chronic and life-threatening diseases. It offers GenPro Analytics, a software platform to discover novel epigenetic biomarkers that scientists and medical professionals use to predict, diagnose, and monitor the likelihood and progression of disease in individuals with more sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Life.io

Seed Round in 2016
Life.io is the world’s first web-based platform specifically designed to help people make better decisions every moment, to take care of themselves more, to engage more, to simply live more. Delivered through insurance companies or employers, it’s always on, sharing inspired ideas on how to live better today and every day after.

Burrow, Inc.

Series B in 2019
Burrow, Inc. designs, manufactures, and supplies furniture for use in homes. It offers seating products, such as sofas and sectionals, sleepers, loveseats, armchairs, ottomans, and other seating products; tables and rugs; and accessories, including bundles, pillows, throws, sleep kits, and other accessories. The company sells its products through showrooms; and its stores in Washington, Massachusetts, Texas, and California, as well as online. Burrow, Inc. was formerly known as Penn & Hunt, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York. It has a manufacturing facility in Mexico City, Mexico.

Sidecar

Series B in 2015
Sidecar is an e-commerce marketing company that builds the advanced technology retailers need to optimize cross-channel online shopping campaigns. With a team of data science and e-commerce experts, our state-of-the-art machine learning engine, and a massive volume of data, Sidecar is the magic behind retail's most efficient and powerful online shopping campaigns.

Lia Diagnostics

Seed Round in 2018
LIA Diagnostics Inc. develops and supplies a pregnancy test kit. The company provides pregnancy tests to addresses the challenges surrounding privacy, usability, and sustainability. It offers flushable tests kits. LIA Diagnostics Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Proscia Inc.

Series A in 2018
Proscia is a software company that is changing the way the world practices pathology to transform cancer research and diagnosis. With the company’s Concentriq digital pathology platform and pipeline of AI-powered applications, laboratories are leveraging new kinds of data to accelerate discoveries and improve patient outcomes. Proscia’s team of technologists, scientists, and pathologists is bringing a fresh approach to an outdated industry, helping the world to keep pace with the increasing demand for pathology services and fulfill the promise of precision diagnostics.

Miria Systems, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Miria Systems, Inc., is a provider of Digital Business Automation Solutions in the cloud. Miria offers advanced technology solutions built on the IBM DBA Platform, for capture & OCR, AP Automation, Payment Automation & Optimization, and automation of other financial processes. Miria offers additional applications to completely configure the full ActiveOps solution to each unique business. As a subsidiary of OSG Billing, and an IBM Gold Business Partner, Miria enables the digital transformation of business processes through the highest standards of advanced digital business automation technologies.

Burrow, Inc.

Series B in 2020
Burrow, Inc. designs, manufactures, and supplies furniture for use in homes. It offers seating products, such as sofas and sectionals, sleepers, loveseats, armchairs, ottomans, and other seating products; tables and rugs; and accessories, including bundles, pillows, throws, sleep kits, and other accessories. The company sells its products through showrooms; and its stores in Washington, Massachusetts, Texas, and California, as well as online. Burrow, Inc. was formerly known as Penn & Hunt, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York. It has a manufacturing facility in Mexico City, Mexico.

ReturnLogic

Seed Round in 2016
ReturnLogic is a developer of an automation platform intended to make better marketing decisions and prevent costly product returns. Its platform helps brands give their clients an easy returns process while automating workflows for their customer service and warehouse teams, thereby enabling businesses to optimize their product returns strategy.

FEMSelect Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
FEMSelect is making a lasting impact on women's health by delivering an innovative technology platform. It is the developer of EnPlace, a minimally invasive and mesh-free system for pelvic floor ligament fixation. Using EnPlace takes approximately 30 minutes. The patented delivery system enables the precise guidance, insertion, and deployment of the anchor unit. The anchor is designed to be introduced through the vaginal wall and secured to the pelvic floor ligament to provide stabilization. FEMSelect was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Modi’in, Israel.

NanoPack

Venture Round in 2008
NanoPack, Inc., a materials science company, develops and markets barrier materials primarily for use in food packaging applications. The company’s products include polyethylene terephthalate, polylactic acid, and OPP barrier coated films; and liquid coatings to create packaging films. Its products are used in snack foods, nuts, dried fruit, coffee, cereals, beef jerky, dry mix ingredients, baked goods, confectionery products, spices, and air freshener products industries. NanoPack, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Wash Cycle Laundry

Series A in 2020
Wash Cycle Laundry will pick up your dirty laundry on a bike and bring it back clean tomorrow. Cleaning clothes can be a dirty business. They use eco-friendly "free and clear" laundry detergents for all their wash-and-fold, and only non-perc solvents for all their dry cleaning. Most standard dry cleaners use "PERC" in their dry cleaning process, which the State of California believes to be a carcinogen. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Wash Cycle Laundry

Convertible Note in 2019
Wash Cycle Laundry will pick up your dirty laundry on a bike and bring it back clean tomorrow. Cleaning clothes can be a dirty business. They use eco-friendly "free and clear" laundry detergents for all their wash-and-fold, and only non-perc solvents for all their dry cleaning. Most standard dry cleaners use "PERC" in their dry cleaning process, which the State of California believes to be a carcinogen. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Novira Therapeutics, Inc.

Series A in 2013
Novira Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, discovers and develops antiviral drugs for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B infection. It develops core and cccDNA inhibitor anti-HBV drugs. Novira Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Molecmo Nanobiotechnologies, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. As of December 4, 2015, Novira Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

ThruPore Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
ThruPore Technologies Inc. develops porous carbon support structures for industrial catalysts. It develops heterogeneous catalysts in pellets and powders. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Bear, Delaware.

Preclick

Series A in 2007
Preclick is a media asset management software company founded to provide digital photographers the fastest, easiest and most convenient way to organize, print, preserve and share their digital photos. Preclick builds software for major corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Wal-Mart, 3M, SanDisk, Costco and many online photofinishers including PhotoWorks, dotPhoto and Adorama. Preclick has collaborated with HP in building HP Photosmart Essential (formerly HP Image Zone Express), the free software that makes it extremely easy to print your photos at home or to effortlessly share them online with your friends and family. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. As of September 1, 2009, Preclick Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Smilebox, Inc.

Core Essence Orthopaedics

Series B in 2011
Core Essence Orthopaedics is staffed with experienced surgical device developers and executives who share a vision and have a track record of understanding and penetrating the market, providing significant resources to support education in the O.R. and achieving wide acceptance of new and superior technologies and devices. Their company is committed to enabling surgeons to perform minimally invasive and arthroscopic procedures and empowering those surgeons to meet the growing needs of their active patients—restoring function and quality of life through minimally invasive and arthroscopic surgical techniques. They focus on medical devices for soft tissue and skeletal repair of the extremities.

CloudMine

Series A in 2015
Rethink how you develop mobile applications. Significantly reduce your time to deployment, total cost, and overall ease of mind when it comes to developing mobile applications, integrating disparate datasets and maintaining IT infrastructures. CloudMine is a Managed Mobility solution that: 1) Eliminates the need for ongoing maintenance and management of mobile applications. 2) Accelerates app development by 70% through mobile-optimized infrastructure and a suite of prefabricated web services. 3) Standardizes your mobility platform to provide IT-approved common tooling across all business units.

ChargeItSpot, LLC

Series A in 2015
ChargeItSpot, LLC provides cell phone charging stations and kiosks in the United States and Canada. The company’s cell phone charging stations include touchscreen interface, data tracking and reporting, and promotional features. It operates customizable charging stations in retail stores, malls, casinos, stadiums, hospitals, and arenas, as well as conferences, trade shows, festivals, and special events. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Inpensa

Venture Round in 2017
Inpensa is focused on helping corporate executives make better investments through strategic plannig, ROI analysis and benefits realization. ​ Inpensa is an innovative SaaS Technology company focused on delivering solutions to organizations to better define project spend through strategic planning and prioritization, review and analyze via business case management, and track the value received even beyond the life of the investment. Inpensa was founded by thought leaders (who were practioners) from leading Fortune 500 Firms. The team collectively brings an array of expertise in various fields including Financial Management, Project Portfolio Management, Enterprise Cost Optimiztion and others. The solutions developed at Inpensa is purpose built to solve complex problems in streamlined and simple way.

ExpressCells

Venture Round in 2020
ExpressCells is a biotechnology company that uses genetic engineering to create custom cell lines for biological research and drug discovery. The company's primary focus is on creating research tools that will speed drug discovery and provide better disease models for basic researchers. ExpressCells was established by Oscar Perez-Leal and Matt Handel in 2018 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Gel-E

Seed Round in 2016
gel-e Life Sciences has developed an advanced wound care platform that can be used across a broad spectrum of clinical and non-clinical settings. By making molecular modifications to natural biopolymers, gel-e’s patented approach provides rapid hemostasis in a clean, safe healing environment. Using non-dilutive grant funding, the company has achieved milestones such as 1 FDA Clearance, 5 issued patents, and 6 peer-reviewed publications.

uTu

Seed Round in 2017
After spending collective decades studying, building, and delivering technologies that connect enterprises to people they arrived at the conclusion that AI powered conversations are going to redefine the relationship between technology and people. They hung a shingle in fall of 2016, got the band back together, and started cranking out some badass code. Their aim is to be part of the vanguard that charts this new world.

Sidecar

Series C in 2019
Sidecar is an e-commerce marketing company that builds the advanced technology retailers need to optimize cross-channel online shopping campaigns. With a team of data science and e-commerce experts, our state-of-the-art machine learning engine, and a massive volume of data, Sidecar is the magic behind retail's most efficient and powerful online shopping campaigns.

Lia Diagnostics

Convertible Note in 2020
LIA Diagnostics Inc. develops and supplies a pregnancy test kit. The company provides pregnancy tests to addresses the challenges surrounding privacy, usability, and sustainability. It offers flushable tests kits. LIA Diagnostics Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sidecar

Series A in 2014
Sidecar is an e-commerce marketing company that builds the advanced technology retailers need to optimize cross-channel online shopping campaigns. With a team of data science and e-commerce experts, our state-of-the-art machine learning engine, and a massive volume of data, Sidecar is the magic behind retail's most efficient and powerful online shopping campaigns.

Immunome

Debt Financing in 2015
Immunome is a biotechnology company that specializes in immunotherapy, biotechnology, and antigen discovery. It features a software platform that enables the simultaneous discovery of novel antigens and the patient-derived, native antibodies that target those antigens.

Intrommune Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
Intrommune is developing the revolutionary oral mucosal immunotherapy (OMIT) treatment platform for food allergies. OMIT is a long-term, patient-friendly, disease-modifying solution for the 220 million people, including 9 million adults and 6 million children in the U.S., who suffer from life-altering food allergies. Intrommune’s lead product, INT-301, is expected to be a safe, effective and convenient therapy for patients who suffer from peanut allergy. There is no FDA-approved treatment for peanut allergy or any other food allergy.

ChargeItSpot, LLC

Series A in 2016
ChargeItSpot, LLC provides cell phone charging stations and kiosks in the United States and Canada. The company’s cell phone charging stations include touchscreen interface, data tracking and reporting, and promotional features. It operates customizable charging stations in retail stores, malls, casinos, stadiums, hospitals, and arenas, as well as conferences, trade shows, festivals, and special events. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Simply Good Jars

Seed Round in 2019
Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everyday operations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.

AgileSwitch

Series A in 2016
AgileSwitch plug and play drivers were designed from the ground up to address these challenges and the drivers are among the most efficient and reliable in the market. Furthermore, AgileSwitch drivers can be fully customized to meet the needs and demands of virtually any customer application. With an ongoing product development commitment, AgileSwitch is continuously expanding the product line of gate drivers.

Sidecar

Series A in 2012
Sidecar is an e-commerce marketing company that builds the advanced technology retailers need to optimize cross-channel online shopping campaigns. With a team of data science and e-commerce experts, our state-of-the-art machine learning engine, and a massive volume of data, Sidecar is the magic behind retail's most efficient and powerful online shopping campaigns.

Molecular Detection

Venture Round in 2009
Molecular Detection Inc. (MDI) is developing and commercializing a portfolio of "sample-to-answer" Detect-Readyâ„¢ molecular diagnostic tests for the rapid detection of infectious diseases. The company is preparing to launch its first product, the Detect-Ready assay for the rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a growing problem among hospitals and other health facilities around the globe.

ExpressCells

Series A in 2019
ExpressCells is a biotechnology company that uses genetic engineering to create custom cell lines for biological research and drug discovery. The company's primary focus is on creating research tools that will speed drug discovery and provide better disease models for basic researchers. ExpressCells was established by Oscar Perez-Leal and Matt Handel in 2018 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

AgileSwitch

Debt Financing in 2015
AgileSwitch plug and play drivers were designed from the ground up to address these challenges and the drivers are among the most efficient and reliable in the market. Furthermore, AgileSwitch drivers can be fully customized to meet the needs and demands of virtually any customer application. With an ongoing product development commitment, AgileSwitch is continuously expanding the product line of gate drivers.

Cooler Heads

Convertible Note in 2020

Proscia Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Proscia is a software company that is changing the way the world practices pathology to transform cancer research and diagnosis. With the company’s Concentriq digital pathology platform and pipeline of AI-powered applications, laboratories are leveraging new kinds of data to accelerate discoveries and improve patient outcomes. Proscia’s team of technologists, scientists, and pathologists is bringing a fresh approach to an outdated industry, helping the world to keep pace with the increasing demand for pathology services and fulfill the promise of precision diagnostics.

OneTwoSee

Debt Financing in 2015
OneTwoSee is a Philadelphia-based company that sits at the intersection of digital media, sports and technology. We're on our third-generation of a highly scalable technology platform that delivers real-time sports gamecenters by combining statistics, game data, advanced analytics and social media into a rich, engaging fan experience. Our gamecenters are white labeled and easily integrate into customers' own branded sites and platforms -- be it on browser-based PCs, tablets, smartphones, smart TVs and in-arena displays. Our licensed products -- applications spanning major collegiate and professional sports including baseball, football, basketball, hockey and soccer -- enable anyone with an audience interested in big-time sports to further monetize their audiences with new, high-value ad and sponsorship inventory. Customers easily plug into our managed platform and see immediate ROI. OneTwoSee's customers now include some of the largest names in sports media along with leading companies in the publishing, consumer electronics and enterprise technology sectors.

QR Pharma

Post in 2020
Annovis Bio is specialty pharmaceutical company founded to develop novel treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative disorders. The company has two compounds in clinical development: Posiphen® targets early stage AD and PD and may stop or slow the progression of the disease; BNC targets late stage AD and may stabilize the decline.

Genome Profiling, LLC

Convertible Note in 2020
Genome Profiling, LLC, a bioinformatics company, engages in the discovery of novel epigenetic biomarkers for treating diagnosing, and predicting chronic and life-threatening diseases. It offers GenPro Analytics, a software platform to discover novel epigenetic biomarkers that scientists and medical professionals use to predict, diagnose, and monitor the likelihood and progression of disease in individuals with more sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

OneTwoSee

Venture Round in 2014
OneTwoSee is a Philadelphia-based company that sits at the intersection of digital media, sports and technology. We're on our third-generation of a highly scalable technology platform that delivers real-time sports gamecenters by combining statistics, game data, advanced analytics and social media into a rich, engaging fan experience. Our gamecenters are white labeled and easily integrate into customers' own branded sites and platforms -- be it on browser-based PCs, tablets, smartphones, smart TVs and in-arena displays. Our licensed products -- applications spanning major collegiate and professional sports including baseball, football, basketball, hockey and soccer -- enable anyone with an audience interested in big-time sports to further monetize their audiences with new, high-value ad and sponsorship inventory. Customers easily plug into our managed platform and see immediate ROI. OneTwoSee's customers now include some of the largest names in sports media along with leading companies in the publishing, consumer electronics and enterprise technology sectors.

Yellowdig

Convertible Note in 2020
Yellowdig's software platform creates a social layer on top of existing enterprise learning systems used by colleges, universities, and organizations. Unlike pre-existing social technology, Yellowdig is designed for higher education institutions. The platform provides instructors and learners with a private and secure experience, controlled and protected within the institution's designated environment. Yellowdig was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

QR Pharma

Series A in 2015
Annovis Bio is specialty pharmaceutical company founded to develop novel treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative disorders. The company has two compounds in clinical development: Posiphen® targets early stage AD and PD and may stop or slow the progression of the disease; BNC targets late stage AD and may stabilize the decline.

DailyWorth.com, Inc.

Series A in 2013
DailyWorth.com, Inc. operates a platform to receive daily emails filled with financial and career advice, thought-provoking articles, and an occasional kick in the pants for women. It sends emails on money, including tips on savings, investing, credit and debt, taxes, insurance, and real estate; work, such as career advice, job search, negotiating, running a business, and freelancing; and life, which include finding a balance, education, health, travel, inspiration, and giving. The company also sends family advice, including marriage, kids, relationships, and elder care services; retirement tips, including estate planning and IRA and 401 (K); and tools, such as MoneyClarity, MoneyType, and WorthFM; and digital reviews. DailyWorth.com, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York.

Burrow, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Burrow, Inc. designs, manufactures, and supplies furniture for use in homes. It offers seating products, such as sofas and sectionals, sleepers, loveseats, armchairs, ottomans, and other seating products; tables and rugs; and accessories, including bundles, pillows, throws, sleep kits, and other accessories. The company sells its products through showrooms; and its stores in Washington, Massachusetts, Texas, and California, as well as online. Burrow, Inc. was formerly known as Penn & Hunt, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York. It has a manufacturing facility in Mexico City, Mexico.

Deepwave Digital

Seed Round in 2020
Deepwave Digital, Inc. manufactures artificial intelligence (AI)-based hardware/software sensor solutions for radio frequency (RF) and wireless system companies. . The company’s products include Artificial Intelligence Radio Transceiver (AIR-T) which is a software defined radio. It offers software, such as AirPack, AirStack Sandbox, and Spectrum Sensing that enables RF and wireless systems to receive, detect, and identify signals in the spectral environment. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

OWIT Global

Series A in 2020
OWIT Global, a provider of global insurance technology, offers solutions to simplify innovation and future-proof insurance processing. It provides discrete and specialized cloud-based microservices to the Global Insurance Industry. Its microservices are designed to operate standalone or to integrate with existing environments. OWIT has developed a library of microservices, which are combined in different configurations, to create targeted solutions. These include Bordereaux Management, Cyber Rating & Distribution, A&H and Specialty Point of Sale, Document Generation, Portal Configuration, including the capability to tailor and build a full suite of PAS microservices. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Lia Diagnostics

Seed Round in 2015
LIA Diagnostics Inc. develops and supplies a pregnancy test kit. The company provides pregnancy tests to addresses the challenges surrounding privacy, usability, and sustainability. It offers flushable tests kits. LIA Diagnostics Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Immunome

Series A in 2020
Immunome is a biotechnology company that specializes in immunotherapy, biotechnology, and antigen discovery. It features a software platform that enables the simultaneous discovery of novel antigens and the patient-derived, native antibodies that target those antigens.

AgileSwitch

Venture Round in 2020
AgileSwitch plug and play drivers were designed from the ground up to address these challenges and the drivers are among the most efficient and reliable in the market. Furthermore, AgileSwitch drivers can be fully customized to meet the needs and demands of virtually any customer application. With an ongoing product development commitment, AgileSwitch is continuously expanding the product line of gate drivers.

Embedded Wireless Devices

Series C in 2000
embedded wireless devices develops and markets the most optimized total solutions in silicon for wireless, audio and internet applications. These technological advancements enable such applications as wireless PBX, wireless home networking, PDAs, VoIP devices, MP3 players/recorders and Internet appliances. Consisting of digital and analog components plus complete on-chip software, ewd's solutions shorten product development cycles and significantly reduce the product's complexity and overall cost. Core competencies include wireless/Internet applications and protocols, multiple programmable basebands, multitasking architectures, digital signal processing, flash memory addressing, and power/battery management.
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Knoa Software

Venture Round in 2000
Knoa® Software delivers enterprise and cloud solutions that generate unique insights to increase the performance and optimize the end-user experience of SAP, Siebel and other platforms. Knoa's patented software provides CIOs and business executives the actionable metrics needed to ensure their organizations and users realize the full value of their enterprise application investment. Headquartered in Union Square, New York, Knoa’s solutions have helped hundreds of global corporations and government organizations make impactful, real-time, fact based decisions that enrich and maximize the experience for over a million end users.

Beckon, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Beckon, Inc. provides omnichannel analytics software for marketers. It provides performance analytics, visualization, and reporting solutions. The company’s software-as-a-service platform integrates marketing data and delivers dashboards and scorecards for cross-channel marketing intelligence. Beckon, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Mateo, California. As of November 19, 2018, Beckon, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Aclate, Inc..

Ophidion

Venture Round in 2019
Ophidion is a biotechnology company that delivers a central nervous system therapeutics to targeted sites in the brain. The company uses a Trojan horse strategy to exploit an endogenous receptor-mediated transport system to deliver small molecule drugs and biologics into the brain. They are currently focused on developing a pipeline to deliver gene-silencing therapies to treat neurodegenerative diseases, including diseases of Cognitive Impairment (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease) as well as Huntington’s disease. Ophidion platform technology is amenable to delivering multiple classes of drugs, including small molecules and macromolecules (gene therapeutics, siRNA’s, antibodies, peptides, and other macromolecules). It also has an advanced program that is positioned to start pivotal clinical trials to treat anxiety-related disorders, together with a patented companion biomarker diagnostic to select the appropriate patient population.

ChargeItSpot, LLC

Seed Round in 2014
ChargeItSpot, LLC provides cell phone charging stations and kiosks in the United States and Canada. The company’s cell phone charging stations include touchscreen interface, data tracking and reporting, and promotional features. It operates customizable charging stations in retail stores, malls, casinos, stadiums, hospitals, and arenas, as well as conferences, trade shows, festivals, and special events. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Molecular Detection

Series B in 2012
Molecular Detection Inc. (MDI) is developing and commercializing a portfolio of "sample-to-answer" Detect-Readyâ„¢ molecular diagnostic tests for the rapid detection of infectious diseases. The company is preparing to launch its first product, the Detect-Ready assay for the rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a growing problem among hospitals and other health facilities around the globe.

Biomeme

Convertible Note in 2020
Biomeme Inc. provides an online platform for molecular DNA diagnostics and on-site disease tracking using a smartphone. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

DocDep

Seed Round in 2011
DocDep’s cloud-based products Sonar and SmartCap have been designed specifically for the Private Equity/Venture Capital industry. Sonar enables GPs to oversee their portfolio on a fund by fund basis. Seamlessly communicate with LPs (Capital Calls, Return of Capital, K-1s, Portfolio Updates, etc.) while ensuring timely submission of documents by portfolio companies (interim financial reports, BOD presentations, etc.). SmartCap allows Venture Capital/Private Equity firms to manage the cap tables for all of their portfolio companies. DocDep also provides unique solutions for investment-backed companies. Allow Radar to improve document management for portfolio companies while ensuring they remain due diligence ready. Radar’s cloud based solution allows companies to easily store and access business information as well as share relevant documents with outside advisers. SmartCap enables investment-backed businesses to easily manage their cap table through multiple rounds of fundraising and conduct what-if analysis to analyze the impact of potential funding or exit scenarios.

Unirisx, LLC

Debt Financing in 2016
Unirisx, LLC provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions that allow insurers, brokers, and intermediaries to launch, distribute, and manage insurance products. It offers Unirisx Solution Suite, a SaaS/cloud based policy administration and underwriting technology solution that enables general insurers and intermediaries to write, sell, and manage insurance products. The company also provides Unirisx Underwriting Center, a platform that directs the underwriter to priority tasks, pending activities, and critical action items related to submissions, referrals, renewals, and cancellations, as well as facilitates collaboration, access to expert advice, knowledge sharing, and streamlining agent/broker communications; and Unirisx Agency/Broker Center that offers agility in managing various aspects of the insurance business, including leveraging market opportunities based on real-time performance information. In addition, it offers Unirisx Coverholder Solutions, a Web based insurance management solution that enables coverholders to manage, process, and report businesses; direct to consumer channel solutions; and a solution to facilitate quoting, binding, policy administration, reporting, forms management, and manuscript document management processes for specialty, and excess and surplus lines. The company offers its solutions for personal, commercial, and specialty lines, including ocean/marine, excess and surplus, professional liability, and others. It serves clients in Asia, EMEA, and the United States. Unirisx, LLC was founded in 2009 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with additional offices in the United Kingdom and Malaysia. It also has marketing offices in Sydney, Australia; Delhi and Mumbai, India; and internationally.

Thermalin Diabetes

Convertible Note in 2020
Thermalin hopes to disrupt the $30B insulin/insulin delivery market with a disposable, postage-stamp-sized glucose management system enabled by our first-in-class stabilized, highly concentrated, and ultra-rapid acting insulin. This same new insulin molecule in "ordinary" (U-100) concentration will enable the factory-filling of reservoirs for existing insulin pumps. In addition to this lead program, Thermalin is developing partnerships on no-cold-chain basal and mix insulins and on glucose-responsive insulins.