Visual Feeder
Seed Round in 2022
Visual Feeder operates an online marketplace that connects property owners with opportunities to monetize vacant spaces by projecting branded visual content onto windows in high-traffic retail locations. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Balto Software
Series B in 2021
Balto develops AI-powered real-time guidance and conversation analytics for contact centers. Its SaaS platform listens to live calls and provides instant prompts, tips, and corrective suggestions to sales and service agents to identify pain signals, handle objections, and balance talk time, with dashboards for managers to monitor performance and compliance. The solution aims to prevent missed opportunities and costly compliance mistakes by guiding agents during calls and flagging non-compliant language. The platform serves sales, customer service, accounts receivable, and compliance quality use cases. Balto was founded in 2017 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Balto Software
Seed Round in 2019
Balto develops AI-powered real-time guidance and conversation analytics for contact centers. Its SaaS platform listens to live calls and provides instant prompts, tips, and corrective suggestions to sales and service agents to identify pain signals, handle objections, and balance talk time, with dashboards for managers to monitor performance and compliance. The solution aims to prevent missed opportunities and costly compliance mistakes by guiding agents during calls and flagging non-compliant language. The platform serves sales, customer service, accounts receivable, and compliance quality use cases. Balto was founded in 2017 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Truss Holdings, Inc. operates an online marketplace that simplifies the leasing process for small and medium-sized businesses seeking office, co-working, industrial, and retail spaces. Founded in 2016 and based in Deerfield, Illinois, its platform employs machine learning to match businesses with suitable properties, allowing users to virtually tour listings, compare prices, and manage lease documents seamlessly. The company offers dedicated brokers to support clients throughout the process, ensuring a smooth experience. Truss is noted for its commitment to price transparency, enabling business owners to compare costs of traditional office and co-working spaces effectively. Through its technology-driven approach, Truss provides a cost-effective solution for businesses looking to find the right space quickly and confidently.
Jiobit
Venture Round in 2018
Jiobit is a company specializing in real-time location-tracking technology for children, adults, and pets. Its flagship product is a compact and durable tracking device that works in conjunction with a smartphone app, allowing users to monitor the location of their loved ones in over 120 countries, including multi-level buildings. The device boasts an impressive battery life, lasting weeks on a single charge, and offers advanced features such as custom geofencing, smart alerts, and a detailed location history. Jiobit's team comprises experienced engineers, designers, and marketers, collectively holding numerous patents from prior ventures in consumer product innovation. Headquartered in Chicago, with a development center in Silicon Valley, Jiobit aims to provide peace of mind to parents while enabling freedom for children and pets.
Balto Software
Seed Round in 2018
Balto develops AI-powered real-time guidance and conversation analytics for contact centers. Its SaaS platform listens to live calls and provides instant prompts, tips, and corrective suggestions to sales and service agents to identify pain signals, handle objections, and balance talk time, with dashboards for managers to monitor performance and compliance. The solution aims to prevent missed opportunities and costly compliance mistakes by guiding agents during calls and flagging non-compliant language. The platform serves sales, customer service, accounts receivable, and compliance quality use cases. Balto was founded in 2017 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.
The Minte
Seed Round in 2018
The Minte is a Chicago-based company that provides hotel-style housekeeping services primarily for residents of high-rise apartment buildings. Established in 2017, the company employs a building-centric model for staffing housekeepers, ensuring consistent and trusted cleaning services. The Minte's offerings include a range of cleaning tasks, such as floor sweeping, countertop wiping, dishwashing assistance, decluttering, and comprehensive bathroom refreshing. Its services can be conveniently booked through a mobile app or by utilizing a dash-like button located at the apartment entrance, allowing residents to maintain a professionally clean living space akin to that of a hotel room.
Provi is a Chicago-based company that operates the largest online marketplace for the wholesale alcohol industry. Founded in 2016, Provi connects buyers, such as liquor stores, bars, and restaurants, with distributors and suppliers, simplifying the historically complex ordering process. The platform enhances communication and operational efficiency for both on-premise and off-premise buyers by centralizing orders and providing tracking and analytics tools. With a presence in key U.S. markets, Provi serves about 10 percent of licensed retailers, contributing to significant time and cost savings while reducing errors in the ordering process. The company has been recognized for its workplace culture and has formed strategic partnerships to further enhance its service offerings. Through its innovative approach, Provi is reshaping the wholesale alcohol landscape.
Kin Insurance
Series A in 2018
Kin Insurance, Inc. is a digital insurance agency that specializes in homeowners insurance and related products. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in St. Petersburg, Florida, the company aims to enhance the convenience and affordability of insurance by operating directly with consumers, eliminating the need for external agents. Kin Insurance offers a variety of products, including homeowners, mobile home, condo, flood, and landlord insurance, among others. The company leverages extensive property data to ensure precise pricing and improve underwriting outcomes, providing personalized coverage options and efficient claims services through its technology-driven platform.
Truss Holdings, Inc. operates an online marketplace that simplifies the leasing process for small and medium-sized businesses seeking office, co-working, industrial, and retail spaces. Founded in 2016 and based in Deerfield, Illinois, its platform employs machine learning to match businesses with suitable properties, allowing users to virtually tour listings, compare prices, and manage lease documents seamlessly. The company offers dedicated brokers to support clients throughout the process, ensuring a smooth experience. Truss is noted for its commitment to price transparency, enabling business owners to compare costs of traditional office and co-working spaces effectively. Through its technology-driven approach, Truss provides a cost-effective solution for businesses looking to find the right space quickly and confidently.
Kin Insurance
Seed Round in 2017
Kin Insurance, Inc. is a digital insurance agency that specializes in homeowners insurance and related products. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in St. Petersburg, Florida, the company aims to enhance the convenience and affordability of insurance by operating directly with consumers, eliminating the need for external agents. Kin Insurance offers a variety of products, including homeowners, mobile home, condo, flood, and landlord insurance, among others. The company leverages extensive property data to ensure precise pricing and improve underwriting outcomes, providing personalized coverage options and efficient claims services through its technology-driven platform.
Avail is an online platform designed to assist independent landlords and property managers in managing rental properties. Founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, Illinois, Avail provides a comprehensive suite of tools that simplifies the rental process. Its offerings include rental listings, tenant screening, customized leases, online rent payments, maintenance tracking, and rent price analysis. The platform caters specifically to landlords with fewer than 10 units, filling a gap in the market for accessible online management tools. With its user-friendly interface, Avail allows landlords to efficiently advertise vacant units, process rental applications, conduct credit checks, and handle lease agreements digitally. As of now, Avail serves approximately 70,000 landlords, making it a valuable resource for both novice and experienced property managers seeking to enhance their operations. Since December 2020, Avail has operated as a subsidiary of Move, Inc.
Jiobit is a company specializing in real-time location-tracking technology for children, adults, and pets. Its flagship product is a compact and durable tracking device that works in conjunction with a smartphone app, allowing users to monitor the location of their loved ones in over 120 countries, including multi-level buildings. The device boasts an impressive battery life, lasting weeks on a single charge, and offers advanced features such as custom geofencing, smart alerts, and a detailed location history. Jiobit's team comprises experienced engineers, designers, and marketers, collectively holding numerous patents from prior ventures in consumer product innovation. Headquartered in Chicago, with a development center in Silicon Valley, Jiobit aims to provide peace of mind to parents while enabling freedom for children and pets.
LogicGate
Seed Round in 2016
LogicGate provides enterprise process automation solutions. Its Risk Cloud Platform enables businesses to proactively manage risk across the organization through interconnected views, enhancing collaboration and adaptability.
Jiobit
Convertible Note in 2016
Jiobit is a company specializing in real-time location-tracking technology for children, adults, and pets. Its flagship product is a compact and durable tracking device that works in conjunction with a smartphone app, allowing users to monitor the location of their loved ones in over 120 countries, including multi-level buildings. The device boasts an impressive battery life, lasting weeks on a single charge, and offers advanced features such as custom geofencing, smart alerts, and a detailed location history. Jiobit's team comprises experienced engineers, designers, and marketers, collectively holding numerous patents from prior ventures in consumer product innovation. Headquartered in Chicago, with a development center in Silicon Valley, Jiobit aims to provide peace of mind to parents while enabling freedom for children and pets.
Page Vault
Series A in 2016
Page Vault Inc. is a Chicago-based company that provides a software solution designed for legal professionals to capture web content, including social media, corporate websites, and blog posts, in a forensically defensible and legally admissible manner. Founded in 2013, Page Vault offers a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service platform that allows users to archive web pages as they appear online, preserving essential metadata and generating easy-to-print PDF documents. Its solution is particularly beneficial for those working in intellectual property, family law, insurance defense, general litigation, and website compliance. The company serves a diverse clientele, including law firms, government offices, corporate general counsels, insurance providers, legal consulting companies, solo practitioners, eDiscovery firms, and non-profit organizations.
Page Vault
Seed Round in 2015
Page Vault Inc. is a Chicago-based company that provides a software solution designed for legal professionals to capture web content, including social media, corporate websites, and blog posts, in a forensically defensible and legally admissible manner. Founded in 2013, Page Vault offers a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service platform that allows users to archive web pages as they appear online, preserving essential metadata and generating easy-to-print PDF documents. Its solution is particularly beneficial for those working in intellectual property, family law, insurance defense, general litigation, and website compliance. The company serves a diverse clientele, including law firms, government offices, corporate general counsels, insurance providers, legal consulting companies, solo practitioners, eDiscovery firms, and non-profit organizations.