Second Avenue Partners

Second Avenue Partners provide management, strategy and capital for early stage companies. The following companies are in their portfolio... -Rubicon Interactive -Sports Technologies Inc. -Ice Energy -Newsvine -Azaleos -You Software -Revenue Science -Insitu Group -Bocada -HouseValues.com -WaveMarket -Terabeam -Essention

Nick Hanauer

Partner

Michael B. Slade

Partner

56 past transactions

Azaleos

Series B in 2005
Azaleos Corporation provides the benefits of hosted e-mail and collaboration services for organizations that cannot or will not allow their data to reside outside the datacenter. Azaleos 24X7 remotely managed services for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Active Directory, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server keep information on-premise and under IT control, while uptime, maintenance, and support is handled by experts in its network operations centers.

Seeq

Series C in 2021
Seeq is founded on the premise that companies need better solutions for quickly and easily deriving business insight from their industrial process data. It aims to provide software and services that convert industrial process data into information, enable discovery, increase collaboration, and ultimately drive better business decisions that lead to seamless execution, increased earnings, and continuous improvement. Seeq is an official partner of OSIsoft and recently sponsored its European and US user conferences, as well as US regional seminars. Seeq is also a sponsor of recent Emerson Exchange user conferences. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Northern Reflections

Debt Financing in 2021
Founded in 1985, Northern Reflections (www.northernreflections.com) delivers moderately priced fashions nationwide, strategically focused on the largely underserved demographic of women aged 45 and over. The brand has evolved through the years as stylish and comfortable apparel for multiple occasions that are figure flattering for a mature silhouette. The Company's talented in-house design team creates unique on-trend collections that are produced in easy to care for fabrics with a focus on sustainability and fit.

Inkd.com

Series B in 2011
Inkd (formerly Pressplane) has two main products: Inkd, a true "buy & sell" community (rather like CafePress, Zazzle, Etsy and even stock image companies) wherein designers upload print creative and businesses can download and use the content as a cost effective alternative to hiring a designer, and Zapd, an app that allows users to create instant, themed websites straight from their iPhones.

WISErg

Series B in 2015
WISErg is a hybrid technology company of innovators experienced in technology, waste management, and resource conservation. It has created a proprietary new, oxidative conversion solution to address the urban organic waste stream issue. The entire WISErg team is passionately committed to innovating with technology, solving community problems with local resources, and, ultimately, changing the way we all think about waste. WISErg fusing biological science and engineering into a solution that converts landfill-bound food into premium agricultural inputs. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Issaquah, Washington.

Tommie Copper

Debt Financing in 2018
Tommie Copper is the original, copper-rich apparel and accessories brand, dedicated to enhancing and promoting wellness, performance, and recovery. The Company’s copper and zinc-infused products are a natural solution for increasing performance during sports, work, and everyday activities. Tommie Copper products are the next evolution in performance apparel, empowering individuals to achieve balance in heart, mind, body, and soul. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Mount Kisco, New York.

Modumetal

Series A in 2007
Modumetal has enabled a revolutionary new class of nanolaminated materials with broad application in structural, corrosion and high temperature performance of coatings, bulk materials and parts Modumetal is based on the interaction of different materials at their interfaces. By laminating metals, Modumetal creates a new way to influence material properties. By growing metal using low-cost electrochemical methods, Modumetal enables a whole new class of applications of these materials. Modumetal is currently producing nanolaminated alloys for applications in construction, energy and aerospace markets.

Flexe

Seed Round in 2013
FLEXE, Inc. owns and operates a cloud-based warehousing services marketplace that connects organizations in need of additional warehousing and fulfillment services with organizations that have excess capacity. The company’s platform also enables its clients to streamline material handling operations. It serves retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics companies. The company was formerly known as Peerlogistic, Inc. FLEXE, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

FitOn

Series C in 2022
FitOn Inc. develops an application that enables users to work out through live and on-demand classes. It offers FitOn, a fitness application that enables users to join classes without any equipment. The company’s application provides classes in the areas of yoga, Pilates, pre and post-natal, interval training, cardio, dance, and barre. In addition, its services include live leader board; calorie tracking; monitor collective stats, photos, and progress. FitOn Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Pike13

Seed Round in 2013
Pike13, Inc. develops and provides cloud-based and mobile client management software solutions. It also offers scheduling, business performance reporting, staff management, franchise management, and automated billing software; and apps and add-ons. The company serves gyms and trainers, yoga/Pilate/barre centers, wellness studios, martial arts studios, music schools, dance schools, sports instruction centers, swim schools, and kid’s centers. Pike13, Inc. was formerly known as Front Desk Inc. and changed its name to Pike13, Inc. in June 2017. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington. As of January 9, 2018, Pike13, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Jonas Operating Group.

Bocada

Series C in 2005
Bocada, Inc. provides data protection management software. It offers Bocada Enterprise that collects, organizes, stores, and presents information from multi-vendor data protection applications; and Bocada Prism, a data protection service management solution. The company offers its products through partnerships with system integrators, solution providers, value added resellers, and independent consultants. It serves banking, consumer, biotech, health care, software, and telecom sectors. Bocada, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Industrial Generosity

Seed Round in 2014
Industrial Generosity provides its clients with a photo framing service. Its primary product, Sworl, is a free iPhone application that enables its users to print, frame, and deliver custom photo gifts from their iPhones. The company was founded in 2013 by Steve Dodd and Tom Riley. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Cos Bar

Debt Financing in 2021
Cos Bar USA, Inc. offers cosmetics retailing services. The company provides skin care, makeup, fragrance, bath and body, and hair care products. Additionally, it offers brushes, cosmetic bags and cases, lashes, mirrors, skin care tools, tweezers, and sharpeners. Cos Bar USA, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is based in Aspen, Colorado.

TreeRing

Series A in 2012
TreeRing provides services for printing personalized yearbooks that commemorate children’s school experiences. It combines the efficiency of just-in-time digital printing and the collaborative power of online social networks to create personalized printed yearbooks that commemorate each child's unique school experience. The process reduces the yearbook creation and financial burden for schools and invests in the planet's future by planting a tree for every yearbook printed.

Stock+Field

Debt Financing in 2020
Big R Stores is a retail company offering general merchandise and DIY products.

Insitu

Series D in 2007
Insitu designs, develops, produces, and operates high-performance, cost-effective unmanned aircraft systems. The company’s focus is to deliver ISR information to their customers that are located all over the world, whether on land or at sea. To meet new operational needs and address the global market, they have introduced scores of game-changing technologies that have improved imagery and exploitation, operational security, training, airspace safety, reliability, maintainability, and availability. They are fully backed by their parent company, The Boeing Company, and its 95+ years of world-renowned innovation, delivery, performance and value. Insitu Pacific, the company’s Australia-based affiliate, was established to serve the unique needs of the Asia-Pacific region. Insitu also maintains a strong network of partners and suppliers, allowing them to provide specialized, in-country support for any region in the world. Insitu was founded in 1994 and is based in Bingen, Washington, United States.

Fanzter

Series A in 2008
Fanzter Inc. is an American software company that designs and develops consumer-focused mobile and web products. Fanzter's best-known products include Coolspotters.com and the popular iOS applications CoolPapers, Streaks, and Summizer. Fanzter's corporate headquarters are located in Unionville, Connecticut.

Seeq

Private Placement in 2017
Seeq is founded on the premise that companies need better solutions for quickly and easily deriving business insight from their industrial process data. It aims to provide software and services that convert industrial process data into information, enable discovery, increase collaboration, and ultimately drive better business decisions that lead to seamless execution, increased earnings, and continuous improvement. Seeq is an official partner of OSIsoft and recently sponsored its European and US user conferences, as well as US regional seminars. Seeq is also a sponsor of recent Emerson Exchange user conferences. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

IUNU

Pre Seed Round in 2017
iUNU is an industrial computer vision company that connects plants, facilities, and people through a single interface. Luna turns commercial greenhouses into precise, predictable, demand-based manufacturers. Luna is an AI born in the heart of Seattle; trained in Silicon Valley and the greenhouses of Skagit Valley; accessible from everywhere. Founded in 2013, iUNU is an industrial computer vision company headquartered in Seattle, with offices in San Francisco and San Diego.

Pike13

Series A in 2014
Pike13, Inc. develops and provides cloud-based and mobile client management software solutions. It also offers scheduling, business performance reporting, staff management, franchise management, and automated billing software; and apps and add-ons. The company serves gyms and trainers, yoga/Pilate/barre centers, wellness studios, martial arts studios, music schools, dance schools, sports instruction centers, swim schools, and kid’s centers. Pike13, Inc. was formerly known as Front Desk Inc. and changed its name to Pike13, Inc. in June 2017. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington. As of January 9, 2018, Pike13, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Jonas Operating Group.

WISErg

Private Placement in 2017
WISErg is a hybrid technology company of innovators experienced in technology, waste management, and resource conservation. It has created a proprietary new, oxidative conversion solution to address the urban organic waste stream issue. The entire WISErg team is passionately committed to innovating with technology, solving community problems with local resources, and, ultimately, changing the way we all think about waste. WISErg fusing biological science and engineering into a solution that converts landfill-bound food into premium agricultural inputs. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Issaquah, Washington.

Lively

Venture Round in 2014
Lively is a Seattle-based music technology company and direct-to-fan mobile platform that brings artists, fans, and brands together by capturing the live performance and encouraging people to live in the moment. Lively provides high-quality audio and video recordings of live performances through an app-based interface. The Lively app is available for download on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Amazon’s Kindle Fire, and tablet devices. Artists use Lively to easily record and upload audio of live performances for purchase by fans shortly following a show, while a professional video can be available within 24 hours. By using the Lively platform, artists create, market, and distribute their shows while creating new revenue streams. Fans are able to connect with their favorite performers in a new way, discover new performances and listen to and watch their shows on their mobile devices, computer, TV, or in the car.

Modumetal

Venture Round in 2015
Modumetal has enabled a revolutionary new class of nanolaminated materials with broad application in structural, corrosion and high temperature performance of coatings, bulk materials and parts Modumetal is based on the interaction of different materials at their interfaces. By laminating metals, Modumetal creates a new way to influence material properties. By growing metal using low-cost electrochemical methods, Modumetal enables a whole new class of applications of these materials. Modumetal is currently producing nanolaminated alloys for applications in construction, energy and aerospace markets.

Ice Energy

Series A in 2007
Ice Energy(R) is clean energy technology company focused on developing utility-scale distributed energy resource and storage technologies. The company's solutions address the increasing demand for clean energy by shifting the largest component of residential and commercial electricity usage - air conditioning - from peak to off-peak periods, when energy generation is cleaner, less expensive and more abundant. The company's utility scale, demand-side distributed energy storage technology provides a scalable, reliable solution to utilities for leveling peak energy demand, controlling costs, and transitioning to a cleaner, smarter, more sustainable power grid. Ice Energy is transforming energy system efficiency and grid reliability by enabling utilities to intelligently manage their load profile. They provide utilities with innovative smart grid solutions that integrate proven distributed storage, two-way closed loop control, and permanent peak load shifting as a renewable portfolio resource.

Knock

Venture Round in 2021
Knock is an award-winning sales and marketing SaaS platform for residential property management companies. The company specializes in the fields of real estate, CRM, residential, information technology, and Software as a service. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Migo, Inc

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2016, Migo is a free mobile search app for personal transportation, helping consumers choose the best way from Point A to Point B.

Inkd.com

Series A in 2008
Inkd (formerly Pressplane) has two main products: Inkd, a true "buy & sell" community (rather like CafePress, Zazzle, Etsy and even stock image companies) wherein designers upload print creative and businesses can download and use the content as a cost effective alternative to hiring a designer, and Zapd, an app that allows users to create instant, themed websites straight from their iPhones.
Qliance Medical Management Inc. operates a network of clinics that provides primary and preventive care services. The company also offers services in the areas of wellness care, chronic disease management, behavior and lifestyle management, specialist and hospital care coordination, and urgent care. In addition,, it provides Qliance telemedicine, a healthcare service available through phone or video that allows healthcare providers to assess, diagnose, and treat various minor illnesses and prescribe medication when appropriate for patients in Washington, Kentucky, Iowa (video only), Nebraska, Illinois, Oklahoma (video only), Arizona, Pennsylvania, Oregon, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. The company was formerly known as BlissMD Inc. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Seattle, Washington with locations in Kent, Tacoma, Bellevue at Expedia, and Lynnwood. Qliance Medical Management Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Qliance Medical Group of Washington PC.

RealSelf

Series C in 2018
RealSelf brings transparency to the elective medical & aesthetic treatment market which represents a wide range of services—from a simple skin treatment to cosmetic surgery. At the heart of RealSelf is a community of people sharing personal experiences, unbiased stories, and candid advice. Thousand of medical experts also participate on RealSelf. Doctors and clinicians have posted over two million answers to questions and routinely upload educational videos, special offers, and patient before & after photos. The company is a Seattle based startup, backed by world-class investors and has achieved profitability.

Atomic Moguls

Series A in 2007
Atomic Moguls, Inc. provides entertainment and sports fantasy applications for social-networking sites. It offers fantasy games and sports content on social networks enabling fans to follow their favorite sports, teams, and college conferences in the places they spend time online. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Atomic Moguls

Venture Round in 2008
Atomic Moguls, Inc. provides entertainment and sports fantasy applications for social-networking sites. It offers fantasy games and sports content on social networks enabling fans to follow their favorite sports, teams, and college conferences in the places they spend time online. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Industrial Generosity

Seed Round in 2014
Industrial Generosity provides its clients with a photo framing service. Its primary product, Sworl, is a free iPhone application that enables its users to print, frame, and deliver custom photo gifts from their iPhones. The company was founded in 2013 by Steve Dodd and Tom Riley. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Slope

Seed Round in 2016
Slope develops and provides collaboration, workflow, and review and approval tools for producing business content. Its solution allows users to organize campaigns, initiatives, client work, and other similar projects into their collections; plan out deliverables, assign responsibilities, and set due dates for various projects; upload, store, and share files; collect feedback and approvals from internal and external collaborators; handle various multimedia files, including time-coded comments and image annotations; see what team is working and track progress across various projects; and manage team and organization, as well as includes notifications and activity stream. The company serves marketing managers, content marketers, video producers, creative managers, graphic designers, and creative agencies in the United States and internationally. Slope was founded in 2013 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

WISErg

Series C in 2018
WISErg is a hybrid technology company of innovators experienced in technology, waste management, and resource conservation. It has created a proprietary new, oxidative conversion solution to address the urban organic waste stream issue. The entire WISErg team is passionately committed to innovating with technology, solving community problems with local resources, and, ultimately, changing the way we all think about waste. WISErg fusing biological science and engineering into a solution that converts landfill-bound food into premium agricultural inputs. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Issaquah, Washington.

FitOn

Series B in 2021
FitOn Inc. develops an application that enables users to work out through live and on-demand classes. It offers FitOn, a fitness application that enables users to join classes without any equipment. The company’s application provides classes in the areas of yoga, Pilates, pre and post-natal, interval training, cardio, dance, and barre. In addition, its services include live leader board; calorie tracking; monitor collective stats, photos, and progress. FitOn Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Closer Mobile, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Closer Mobile, Inc. operates in the technology industry. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Seeq

Series A in 2013
Seeq is founded on the premise that companies need better solutions for quickly and easily deriving business insight from their industrial process data. It aims to provide software and services that convert industrial process data into information, enable discovery, increase collaboration, and ultimately drive better business decisions that lead to seamless execution, increased earnings, and continuous improvement. Seeq is an official partner of OSIsoft and recently sponsored its European and US user conferences, as well as US regional seminars. Seeq is also a sponsor of recent Emerson Exchange user conferences. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

JeNu Biosciences

Venture Round in 2012
JeNu Biosciences, LLC designs and develops ultrasound-based skincare devices for women. The company offers JeNu Ultrasonic Infuser, a tool for applying skincare products. JeNu Biosciences, LLC was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Hermosa Beach, California.

Modumetal

Venture Round in 2019
Modumetal has enabled a revolutionary new class of nanolaminated materials with broad application in structural, corrosion and high temperature performance of coatings, bulk materials and parts Modumetal is based on the interaction of different materials at their interfaces. By laminating metals, Modumetal creates a new way to influence material properties. By growing metal using low-cost electrochemical methods, Modumetal enables a whole new class of applications of these materials. Modumetal is currently producing nanolaminated alloys for applications in construction, energy and aerospace markets.

AudienceScience

Series E in 2005
AudienceScience has transformed how global advertisers measurably connect their consumers, data, and media with an easy to use and fully transparent Enterprise Advertising Management system. It specializes in the fields of digital media, advertising platforms, and SaaS. It was founded in 2003 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

TalentSpring

Seed Round in 2009
TalentSpring allows employers to select one of their job openings and go immediately to the best active and passive resumes. TalentSpring uses semantic matching algorithms to find resumes that match all of the criteria for a specific job opening. TalentSpring ranks resumes by their quality within their industry (from unqualified to qualified to A-Player). TalentSpring believes recruiters must have powerful tools that gives them "1 click" access to the top 100 resumes nationwide that are both the best match to the open position and the top quality candidates nationwide.

Seeq

Series B in 2018
Seeq is founded on the premise that companies need better solutions for quickly and easily deriving business insight from their industrial process data. It aims to provide software and services that convert industrial process data into information, enable discovery, increase collaboration, and ultimately drive better business decisions that lead to seamless execution, increased earnings, and continuous improvement. Seeq is an official partner of OSIsoft and recently sponsored its European and US user conferences, as well as US regional seminars. Seeq is also a sponsor of recent Emerson Exchange user conferences. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Modumetal

Venture Round in 2012
Modumetal has enabled a revolutionary new class of nanolaminated materials with broad application in structural, corrosion and high temperature performance of coatings, bulk materials and parts Modumetal is based on the interaction of different materials at their interfaces. By laminating metals, Modumetal creates a new way to influence material properties. By growing metal using low-cost electrochemical methods, Modumetal enables a whole new class of applications of these materials. Modumetal is currently producing nanolaminated alloys for applications in construction, energy and aerospace markets.

Slope

Seed Round in 2018
Slope develops and provides collaboration, workflow, and review and approval tools for producing business content. Its solution allows users to organize campaigns, initiatives, client work, and other similar projects into their collections; plan out deliverables, assign responsibilities, and set due dates for various projects; upload, store, and share files; collect feedback and approvals from internal and external collaborators; handle various multimedia files, including time-coded comments and image annotations; see what team is working and track progress across various projects; and manage team and organization, as well as includes notifications and activity stream. The company serves marketing managers, content marketers, video producers, creative managers, graphic designers, and creative agencies in the United States and internationally. Slope was founded in 2013 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Seeq

Series B in 2020
Seeq is founded on the premise that companies need better solutions for quickly and easily deriving business insight from their industrial process data. It aims to provide software and services that convert industrial process data into information, enable discovery, increase collaboration, and ultimately drive better business decisions that lead to seamless execution, increased earnings, and continuous improvement. Seeq is an official partner of OSIsoft and recently sponsored its European and US user conferences, as well as US regional seminars. Seeq is also a sponsor of recent Emerson Exchange user conferences. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Bocada

Venture Round in 2006
Bocada, Inc. provides data protection management software. It offers Bocada Enterprise that collects, organizes, stores, and presents information from multi-vendor data protection applications; and Bocada Prism, a data protection service management solution. The company offers its products through partnerships with system integrators, solution providers, value added resellers, and independent consultants. It serves banking, consumer, biotech, health care, software, and telecom sectors. Bocada, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Location Labs

Series A in 2002
Location Labs provides mobile security solutions for people worldwide. The company offers Phone Controls which provides anti-virus and cloud-based backup solutions for protecting people who carry phones, including kids, families, and individuals; Locator that enables users to see where important people are on a map, get automatic location alerts, and keep track of where they have been; and Drive Safe that locks the phone automatically when it is moving. The company also offers Sparkle, a mobile platform that enables its users to manage analytics, MDM, and enhanced location remotely in the cloud. Location Labs was founded in 2000 and is based in Emeryville, California.

Azaleos

Series C in 2007
Azaleos Corporation provides the benefits of hosted e-mail and collaboration services for organizations that cannot or will not allow their data to reside outside the datacenter. Azaleos 24X7 remotely managed services for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Active Directory, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server keep information on-premise and under IT control, while uptime, maintenance, and support is handled by experts in its network operations centers.

Ice Energy

Series C in 2010
Ice Energy(R) is clean energy technology company focused on developing utility-scale distributed energy resource and storage technologies. The company's solutions address the increasing demand for clean energy by shifting the largest component of residential and commercial electricity usage - air conditioning - from peak to off-peak periods, when energy generation is cleaner, less expensive and more abundant. The company's utility scale, demand-side distributed energy storage technology provides a scalable, reliable solution to utilities for leveling peak energy demand, controlling costs, and transitioning to a cleaner, smarter, more sustainable power grid. Ice Energy is transforming energy system efficiency and grid reliability by enabling utilities to intelligently manage their load profile. They provide utilities with innovative smart grid solutions that integrate proven distributed storage, two-way closed loop control, and permanent peak load shifting as a renewable portfolio resource.

Fanzter

Series B in 2009
Fanzter Inc. is an American software company that designs and develops consumer-focused mobile and web products. Fanzter's best-known products include Coolspotters.com and the popular iOS applications CoolPapers, Streaks, and Summizer. Fanzter's corporate headquarters are located in Unionville, Connecticut.

Inspo Network

Private Placement in 2018
Inspo is a Creator-driven media company transforming the $50B lifestyle market for creators, consumers, and brands. Inspo helps leading Creators inspire their audiences through original, short-form premium video experiences. Its video platform creates thousands of original, television-quality shows reaching more than 120 million loyal viewers. Inspo enables Brands to integrate their products into Creator videos with ease, certainty and scale.
Qliance Medical Management Inc. operates a network of clinics that provides primary and preventive care services. The company also offers services in the areas of wellness care, chronic disease management, behavior and lifestyle management, specialist and hospital care coordination, and urgent care. In addition,, it provides Qliance telemedicine, a healthcare service available through phone or video that allows healthcare providers to assess, diagnose, and treat various minor illnesses and prescribe medication when appropriate for patients in Washington, Kentucky, Iowa (video only), Nebraska, Illinois, Oklahoma (video only), Arizona, Pennsylvania, Oregon, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. The company was formerly known as BlissMD Inc. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Seattle, Washington with locations in Kent, Tacoma, Bellevue at Expedia, and Lynnwood. Qliance Medical Management Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Qliance Medical Group of Washington PC.