SJF Ventures

SJF Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Durham, North Carolina, with additional offices in San Francisco and New York. The firm specializes in providing growth capital to early and mid-stage companies, primarily focusing on sectors such as resource efficiency, sustainability, and technology-enhanced services. SJF Ventures invests between $3 million and $10 million in companies with annual sales ranging from $2 million to $30 million and aims for rapid sales growth and strong profitability. It targets specific areas including energy efficiency, smart grid technologies, sustainable agriculture, health and wellness technologies, and digital media services. The firm is selective in its investment approach, seeking to partner with entrepreneurs dedicated to creating positive societal impacts through their businesses. SJF Ventures typically prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies and aims for exits within five years through strategic mergers or initial public offerings. Founded in 1999, SJF Ventures emphasizes a commitment to sustainability and innovation in its investment strategy.

Clarkson, Perry

Principal

Rick Defieux

Co-Founder and Investment Committee Chair

Daniel Geballe

Managing Director

David Griest

Managing Director

Arrun Kapoor

Managing Director

Alan Kelley

Managing Director

Jackie Lipkin

Principal

93 past transactions

Authorium

Series A in 2023
Authorium automates complex processes and transforms traditional documents and files into interactive, actionable resources. We consolidate and replace legacy, siloed, and cobbled together applications with modern, cloud-based equivalents that are compatible with existing enterprise resource planning and mission-critical operational systems. In doing so, we unlock the value of data trapped in documents to enable everyone – from project specialists to CIOs to Deputy Administrators – to gain meaningful, mission-critical insights. The platform ensures comprehensive compliance, enhances cross-functional collaboration and visibility, dramatically increases efficiency, improves review and approval processes, and frees up staff time for higher-value work.

Respondology

Series A in 2023
Respondology develops a customizable comment moderation tool for businesses or anyone with a large online audience. It enables brands of all types to regain control of their presence in social media by immediately and discreetly removing damaging social comments and bots across paid, organic, and influencer social marketing.

Terabase Energy

Series B in 2022
Terabase Energy is a digital solutions company whose products and services reduce costs and accelerate deployment in large-scale solar. The company's proprietary software is used by more than 400 engineering, procurement, and construction firms, developers, and independent power producers in 28 countries.

Elemeno Health

Series A in 2022
Elemeno Health is a team-based medical information platform—a personal assistant for doctors and nurses. Team communication and point-of-care training are essential to keeping our healthcare workforce healthy and ready to meet the COVID surge. With Elemeno, frontline staff can access the most current practices, checklists, and videos needed to deliver the best care possible and stay safe. We launched Elemeno to improve practice consistency and reduce medical errors. They have fundamentally transformed training and accelerated the adoption of best practices, improved patient outcomes, and saved providers millions. Elemeno closes the knowledge-practice gap at the frontlines to help improve patient safety. Our proprietary cloud-based platform provides context-driven microlearning. We transform complicated practices into bite-sized steps (decision guides, checklists, “how to” videos) to help doctors and nurses deliver the right practice at the right time. Social elements include recognition and gamification. With a built-in feedback loop, leadership learns what works, what doesn’t, and what their staff really need. Elemeno, founded in 2016 and based in Oakland, California, is a web application. Deployed without hospital IT resources. Accessible on any device.

Tive

Series B in 2022
Tive is a Boston-based startup that helps companies take the surprises out of their supply chains through true end-to-end visibility. It is the easiest way for companies to manage their supply chain – and get results. Unlock unparalleled insight and enhanced visibility. They help companies improve efficiency and meet regulatory requirements by providing an end-to-end sensor solution to visualize, optimize, and monitor operations in real-time.

TemperPack

Venture Round in 2022
TemperPack is seeking to solve the world's packaging problems through sustainable design. The company specializes in custom solutions for clients to scale in the perishable food and life sciences industries. TemperPack is also the first insulated packaging company to develop a certified fully curbside recyclable insulated shipping solution. TemperPack was founded in 2015 for the purpose of bringing sustainable packaging technology to companies that ship large volumes of perishable goods.

mPulse Mobile

Venture Round in 2022
MPulse Mobile specializes in conversational AI and digital engagement solutions for the healthcare industry. The company combines technology, analytics, and industry expertise that helps healthcare organizations activate their customers to adopt healthy behaviors.

Mercado Labs

Series A in 2021
Mercado is a supply chain company that features a cloud-based platform that helps businesses to connect to everyone involved in their supply chain. Its platform connects teams, business departments, suppliers, partners, and service providers. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Ayla Networks

Venture Round in 2021
Ayla Networks empowers leading manufacturers by simplifying the inherent complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling them to turn their products into smart connected systems and transform their businesses to compete in the game-changing world of connectivity. Delivered as a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Ayla’s Agile IoT platform provides the flexibility and modularity to enable rapid changes to practically any type of device, cloud or app environment. Ayla Networks was named a 2015 Cool Vendor in the Internet of Things by Gartner, Inc. Ayla’s investors include Cisco, the International Finance Corporation, SAIF Partners, Crosslink Capital, Voyager Capital, Linear Venture and SJF Ventures. For more information, visit www.aylanetworks.com. Ayla Networks was founded in 2010 and is based in San Jose, California.

PierianDx

Venture Round in 2021
PierianDx is catalyzing global adoption of genomic sequencing in healthcare by empowering physicians in the laboratory and clinic to more effectively diagnose and treat patients with cancer and other complex diseases. PierianDx’s industry-leading genomic SaaS solutions, CAP and CLIA accredited laboratory, and shared knowledgebase are used by health systems, cancer centers and commercial laboratories worldwide driving the most integrated approach across the clinical care spectrum. From genomic sequencing and biomedical informatics in the laboratory to reporting and decision support at the patient’s bedside, PierianDx has rapidly become the trusted source of ‘wisdom’ in every advanced genomic report.

Ellipsis Health

Series A in 2021
Ellipsis Health is an early-stage start-up developing affective computing for existing patient/care team interactions to create a real-time, behavioral health vital sign for each patient. It provides a simple, cost-effective way for health systems to continually screen their patient population for conditions such as depression and get patients the support they need.

Rhithm

Seed Round in 2021
Rhithm is a wellness check-in tool. The platform selects an ideal 1-2 minute activity video to regulate well-being based on user given data from a simple emoji assessment. This data is available on dashboards to reflect and connect with as desired at the campus, district/network and state levels.

Take Command Health

Series A in 2021
Take Command Health is an innovative health insurance software provider for small businesses and independent professionals. Take Command Health enables small employers to reimburse employees tax-free for health insurance using a small business HRA (QSEHRA). The company empowers employees and independent professionals to make smart health insurance decisions using our innovative plan choice software and health management tools.

PosiGen

Series D in 2021
PosiGen is a provider of residential renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions. We are a Third Party Ownership company (TPO), which allows us to offer renewable energy systems and energy efficiency retrofits to the people who need it most: Low- to moderate-income homeowners. Our mission is to help these low- to moderate-income individuals, families, and businesses achieve greater fiscal autonomy and energy independence by lowering their utility bills. At its core, PosiGen is a young social enterprise with an enormous ambition: To increase the financial autonomy of low- to moderate-income homeowners nationwide, by decreasing their dependence on utility-provided energy.

SchooLinks

Series A in 2021
SchooLinks is a modern, AI-powered college and career readiness platform that helps K12 districts streamline their counseling activities and improve district outcomes. The student-centric experience creates a wealth of behavioral data, and its machine learning algorithms leverage those data to personalize college recommendations and content to further drive student engagement. SchooLinks then delivers actionable insights to counselors that help them act in real-time to become more effective. On a district level, the data models power a full suite of accountability tools to allow administrators to monitor and accomplish desired college and career readiness outcomes.

Interplay Learning

Series B in 2021
Interplay Learning is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality and 3D solutions. It provides an online training platform that enables its users to conduct training via 3D simulations designed for career training in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical, energy auditing, manufacturing, facility maintenance, and construction codes.

Terabase Energy

Series A in 2020
Terabase Energy is a digital solutions company whose products and services reduce costs and accelerate deployment in large-scale solar. The company's proprietary software is used by more than 400 engineering, procurement, and construction firms, developers, and independent power producers in 28 countries.
Perishable Shipping Solutions provides pick & pack e-commerce order fulfillment services for food and beverage brands requiring temperature-controlled storage and shipping. PSS operates from bicoastal facilities; its offerings include environmentally responsible packaging and dedicated customer success teams.

mPulse Mobile

Series C in 2020
MPulse Mobile specializes in conversational AI and digital engagement solutions for the healthcare industry. The company combines technology, analytics, and industry expertise that helps healthcare organizations activate their customers to adopt healthy behaviors.

TemperPack

Series C in 2020
TemperPack is seeking to solve the world's packaging problems through sustainable design. The company specializes in custom solutions for clients to scale in the perishable food and life sciences industries. TemperPack is also the first insulated packaging company to develop a certified fully curbside recyclable insulated shipping solution. TemperPack was founded in 2015 for the purpose of bringing sustainable packaging technology to companies that ship large volumes of perishable goods.

Springboard

Series B in 2020
Springboard is an online learning platform that prepares students for the tech industry’s sought-after careers. With expert mentorship from professionals, a bleeding-edge curriculum, and a network of support from day one, they make sure students have everything they need to excel in their program and in their next job. The platform's one-size-fits-all approach is made for working professionals who are ready to level up or make a career shift. And the tuition-back guarantee means students can take charge and invest in themselves. Springboard's data science career track comes with a job guarantee, ensuring students secure a job within six months of graduation or get a full refund. The platform's self-paced courses offer students the opportunity to develop job-ready skills that they display in an industry-worthy capstone or portfolio project.

ROOM

Series A in 2020
ROOM is a startup that specializes in reshaping the modern workspace. It designs a modern workplace system through flexible alternatives that make more room for people at work and also build prefabricated, self-assembled, sound-proofed, ventilated, and powered booths. It enables users to make extra room in the budget without compromising quality and provides employees with a place to take a video call or get some uninterrupted time to focus on work. The company was co-founded by Morten Meisner-Jensen and Brian Chen in 2018.

Cooks Venture

Series A in 2020
Cooks Venture operates as a regenerative pasture-raised chicken and meat company. It ships selected cuts of pasture-raised heirloom chicken and pasture-raised meats, which are individually sealed and ready to cook. The company is supportive of and committed to adopting the Better Chicken Commitment. It is exclusively using its own approved breed and is certified by Global Animal Partnership Step Level 4 where birds have access to diversified pastures.

Catalant

Series E in 2020
Catalant is a software company that provides global enterprises with software solutions to access business expertise on demand. The company helps more than 30% of the Fortune 100 get from strategy to execution faster, with software that helps businesses accelerate mission-critical work and more than 65,000 experts and 1,000 firms who help them deliver it. Catalant platform is designed to enable the process of strategy execution, starting with entering in a business’ most important strategic objectives, aligning work and breaking it down into distinct elements, accessing and deploying needed internal and external resources, collaborating to execute it, measuring the work’s value, and providing insights to keep improving how it all gets done. It has built a global network of more than 27,000 boutique firms, custom teams, and independent experts, as well as best-in-class software tools for engaging and managing this market. Catalant is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and serves customers around the world.

PierianDx

Series B in 2019
PierianDx, Inc. is a technology company that develops a genomic software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution designed to manage, analyze, and interpret complex genomic tests for clinical laboratories in the United States. The company offers the Clinical Genomicist Workstation, a platform that streamlines the workflow for patient cases, handling everything from sequencing and analysis to report generation and integration with electronic health records. PierianDx aims to enhance the adoption of genomic sequencing in healthcare, enabling physicians to diagnose and treat patients with cancer and other complex diseases more effectively. The company also provides consulting and technical services to support its clients, which include health systems, children's hospitals, comprehensive cancer centers, and reference laboratories. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, PierianDx has established itself as a trusted source for advanced genomic reporting and decision support in clinical care.

Waycare

Series A in 2019
WayCare optimizes traffic management systems leveraging predictive analytics, and enables two way vehicle to city communication. Waycare is shaping the future of city mobility, enabling cities to take full control of their roads by harnessing in-vehicle information and municipal traffic data for predictive insights and proactive traffic management optimization. Waycare’s platform enables municipalities to capitalize on the enormous amount of data coming from various transportation modes, including connected and autonomous vehicles, to improve traffic safety and proactively manage the city’s roads.

Solera Health

Series C in 2019
Solera is a preventive care benefits manager that connects patients, payers, and physicians with a new class of non-clinical healthcare providers, simply and securely. The platform emphasizes value-based health solutions that specifically cater to the needs of users, ensuring they access appropriate health technologies timely. Solera's proprietary platform matches members to appropriate health programs tailored to their specific needs, ensuring effective management and improvement of their overall health. Solera offers programs targeting various health concerns, including weight management, diabetes prevention, hypertension, mental health, musculoskeletal issues, tobacco cessation, women's health, and digestive health.

Civitas Learning

Private Equity Round in 2019
Civitas Learning’s student success intelligence platform leverages each institution’s unique data to help them chart the best course to improved outcomes for students. The platform is grounded in unparalleled work in data science, built into workflows with integrated applications, and implemented on-site with seasoned strategic service teams. Today, Civitas Learning works with 375 colleges and universities, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with their growing community of customers, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to help graduate a million more students per year by 2025.

EnTouch Controls

Series C in 2019
EnTouch Controls provides SaaS-based energy management systems (EMS) for retail and restaurant chains. The company EnTouch 360°™ service platform integrates turnkey installation, management analytics, and issue ticketing and resolution tracking that detects HVAC maintenance issues, optimizes performance, and lowers energy costs for national chains, franchise owners, schools and offices.

TemperPack

Series B in 2019
TemperPack is seeking to solve the world's packaging problems through sustainable design. The company specializes in custom solutions for clients to scale in the perishable food and life sciences industries. TemperPack is also the first insulated packaging company to develop a certified fully curbside recyclable insulated shipping solution. TemperPack was founded in 2015 for the purpose of bringing sustainable packaging technology to companies that ship large volumes of perishable goods.

ShipMonk

Series A in 2018
ShipMonk integrates with its sales channels to make shipping and fulfillment stress-free, so you can focus on scalable growth. It offers direct-to-consumer fulfillment and technology tools for e-commerce companies. Its tools are intended to provide personal and attentive fulfillment and inventory management technologies for today's global economy, enabling small and midsized companies to focus on building their brand and achieving growth.

Cecelia Health

Venture Round in 2018
Cecelia Health is tech-enabled diabetes and chronic disease management company that combines technology with expert clinical coaching. It aims to transform the lives and health outcomes of people with diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic conditions. Cecelia Health helps people with chronic conditions adhere to their medications and related nutrition, health, and wellness programs. During COVID-19, Cecelia Health has also been offering telehealth support to patients. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, United States.

EnTouch Controls

Series C in 2018
EnTouch Controls provides SaaS-based energy management systems (EMS) for retail and restaurant chains. The company EnTouch 360°™ service platform integrates turnkey installation, management analytics, and issue ticketing and resolution tracking that detects HVAC maintenance issues, optimizes performance, and lowers energy costs for national chains, franchise owners, schools and offices.

Voltaiq

Series A in 2018
Voltaiq has built the industry’s first Enterprise Battery Intelligence™ (EBI) software platform, helping its customers optimize battery performance, reliability and financing, while avoiding costly recalls and catastrophic battery fires. Voltaiq’s EBI platform is the only purpose-built, fully automated software solution that marshals vast quantities of battery data from across the full product lifecycle, providing a window into real-time battery function and a detailed view into future performance and behavior. Founded in 2012 by two UC Berkeley PhDs, Voltaiq’s global customer base includes industry leaders in transportation, consumer electronics, energy storage, and the full battery supply chain. For more information, please visit

mPulse Mobile

Series B in 2018
MPulse Mobile specializes in conversational AI and digital engagement solutions for the healthcare industry. The company combines technology, analytics, and industry expertise that helps healthcare organizations activate their customers to adopt healthy behaviors.

SeamlessDocs

Series C in 2018
The leading provider of online government services, SeamlessDocs is the fastest and easiest way for governments to go digital. The SeamlessDocs platform allows agencies to create online forms, accept eSignatures, process payments, trigger workflows and manage submission data, enabling IT and administration to make their government processes beautiful. Founded in 2012, SeamlessDocs works with more than 400 municipal departments across the United States, as well as Canada and The Caribbean.

Jopwell

Series A in 2017
Jopwell is a career platform that helps Black, Latino/Hispanic, and Native American students and professionals unlock opportunities for career advancement, not only when looking for a job but at all career stages. Launched by former Goldman Sachs employees Porter Braswell and Ryan Williams in Jan. 2015, the Jopwell platform enables partner companies to search and recruit from a pipeline of candidates from backgrounds historically underrepresented at top-tier companies – from technology startups and investment banks to nonprofits and hospitals. They are a Manhattan-based, venture-backed team that Inc magazine named among the “5 Most Interesting Startups" to come out of Y Combinator's summer 2015 Demo Day. In 2017, Jopwell was named one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies” in the enterprise category and one of Entrepreneur’s “100 Most Brilliant Companies.” Co-founders Porter and Ryan were also featured on Fast Company’s 2017 list of “100 Most Creative People in Business.” Their mission is to leverage the power of technology to create access to opportunities and make the workforce more colorful.

TemperPack

Series A in 2017
TemperPack is seeking to solve the world's packaging problems through sustainable design. The company specializes in custom solutions for clients to scale in the perishable food and life sciences industries. TemperPack is also the first insulated packaging company to develop a certified fully curbside recyclable insulated shipping solution. TemperPack was founded in 2015 for the purpose of bringing sustainable packaging technology to companies that ship large volumes of perishable goods.

Solera Health

Series B in 2017
Solera is a preventive care benefits manager that connects patients, payers, and physicians with a new class of non-clinical healthcare providers, simply and securely. The platform emphasizes value-based health solutions that specifically cater to the needs of users, ensuring they access appropriate health technologies timely. Solera's proprietary platform matches members to appropriate health programs tailored to their specific needs, ensuring effective management and improvement of their overall health. Solera offers programs targeting various health concerns, including weight management, diabetes prevention, hypertension, mental health, musculoskeletal issues, tobacco cessation, women's health, and digestive health.

Carrum Health

Seed Round in 2017
Healthcare is unreasonably complex and costly. At Carrum Health, we're applying a common sense approach to simplify the payment model and produce greater value for employers and their employees. We do so by directly connecting progressive self-insured employers to top-quality regional healthcare providers through the industry’s first comprehensive bundled payment solution. Our innovative platform reimagines how care is paid for and delivered, improving the value of health benefits for employers and their members.

Voxy

Series C in 2017
Voxy provides truly personalized English language instruction to corporations, educational institutions, and governments across the globe. Based on more than 30 years of academic research, Voxy’s solution meets the needs of each user by combining patented technology that adapts lessons in real-time with personalized live instruction all delivered in a fully mobile experience. Launched in 2010, it has been used by millions of learners and hundreds of institutions in over 50 different countries. Voxy’s innovative approach has been recognized by major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN. Backed by leading investors in education technology, Voxy is headquartered in New York City and has an office in São Paulo.

RaiseMe

Series A in 2017
The college landscape today is broken for millions of students. Equal access to higher ed has become one of the greatest issues of our time. At RaiseMe, we're reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year in financial aid for college. Rather than waiting until the end of high school to award financial aid, which is too late to affect students' college ambitions or specific application decisions, RaiseMe enables students to earn "micro-Scholarships" automatically throughout high school based on their individual achievements in and outside of the classroom. Students have already earned over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from our university partners. We're on the look out for talented individuals to help us build a large, impactful business and a product that will change millions of lives.

Solera Health

Series A in 2017
Solera is a preventive care benefits manager that connects patients, payers, and physicians with a new class of non-clinical healthcare providers, simply and securely. The platform emphasizes value-based health solutions that specifically cater to the needs of users, ensuring they access appropriate health technologies timely. Solera's proprietary platform matches members to appropriate health programs tailored to their specific needs, ensuring effective management and improvement of their overall health. Solera offers programs targeting various health concerns, including weight management, diabetes prevention, hypertension, mental health, musculoskeletal issues, tobacco cessation, women's health, and digestive health.

Portfolium

Series A in 2016
Portfolium partners with colleges and universities to help students connect learning with opportunity. The ePortfolio network helps connect 3.75M+ students from over 190 partner institutions with 50,000+ employers based on their proven skills and competencies. Portfolium's cloud-based platform empowers students with lifelong opportunities to capture, curate, and convert skills into job offers while giving learning institutions and employers the tools they need to assess competencies and recruit talent. The platform is used by over 3600 institutions to help assess the effectiveness of their programs and courses, certify students’ competencies, and empower students to showcase their achievements and skills with evidence. It was founded in 2014 by Aerospace Engineer, Adam Markowitz and is based in San Diego, California.

LeadGenius

Series B in 2016
LeadGenius is an end-to-end sales solution that provides companies with a way to generate, qualify, deliver, and convert leads. It helps sales teams grow and scale across all levels of the sales process. LeadGenius was launched by Anand Kulkarni, Prayag Narula, and Dave Rolnitzky in 2011.

Yieldbot

Series C in 2016
Yieldbot is a true technology company aiming to do nothing short of revolutionize the way media value is created for consumers, brands and publishers. They strive to consistently outperform expectations creating a better, more relevant web with their technology. In so doing, they believe they will enable the media industry to realize its true value for all three of the constituents that make the web what it is, and what it will become.

Ayla Networks

Series C in 2016
Ayla Networks empowers leading manufacturers by simplifying the inherent complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling them to turn their products into smart connected systems and transform their businesses to compete in the game-changing world of connectivity. Delivered as a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Ayla’s Agile IoT platform provides the flexibility and modularity to enable rapid changes to practically any type of device, cloud or app environment. Ayla Networks was named a 2015 Cool Vendor in the Internet of Things by Gartner, Inc. Ayla’s investors include Cisco, the International Finance Corporation, SAIF Partners, Crosslink Capital, Voyager Capital, Linear Venture and SJF Ventures. For more information, visit www.aylanetworks.com. Ayla Networks was founded in 2010 and is based in San Jose, California.

Solera Health

Series A in 2016
Solera is a preventive care benefits manager that connects patients, payers, and physicians with a new class of non-clinical healthcare providers, simply and securely. The platform emphasizes value-based health solutions that specifically cater to the needs of users, ensuring they access appropriate health technologies timely. Solera's proprietary platform matches members to appropriate health programs tailored to their specific needs, ensuring effective management and improvement of their overall health. Solera offers programs targeting various health concerns, including weight management, diabetes prevention, hypertension, mental health, musculoskeletal issues, tobacco cessation, women's health, and digestive health.

TransLoc

Series A in 2016
Transloc's mission is to make transit the first choice for all. In its first ten years, Transloc created America's first live regional transit map, the first bus tracking mobile app, and was awarded a transit innovation award by the White House. Public transit should be the first and most convenient choice for people to travel within their community. Transloc is creating the technology that will enable transit to become that choice and we are working to change the future of mobility.

Versify Solutions

Venture Round in 2016
Versify is a provider of analytical and performance management solutions for the Energy and Utility industry. The software is used by power traders, generation managers, compliance officers, and leading renewable energy providers in the area of Wind and Distributed Generation. Versify's strength is the ability to present complex market and pricing data along with operational data in a near real time basis for ease of use that allows for rapid decision making and delivers rapid ROI. Versify helps clients optimize asset performance, reduce risk, and drive significant cost savings and revenue. It enables power producers and reliability coordinators to optimize key functions and processes for asset performance, event logging, outage management, trading, and compliance to improve operational and financial performance. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.

EnTouch Controls

Series C in 2016
EnTouch Controls provides SaaS-based energy management systems (EMS) for retail and restaurant chains. The company EnTouch 360°™ service platform integrates turnkey installation, management analytics, and issue ticketing and resolution tracking that detects HVAC maintenance issues, optimizes performance, and lowers energy costs for national chains, franchise owners, schools and offices.

Civitas Learning

Series D in 2015
Civitas Learning’s student success intelligence platform leverages each institution’s unique data to help them chart the best course to improved outcomes for students. The platform is grounded in unparalleled work in data science, built into workflows with integrated applications, and implemented on-site with seasoned strategic service teams. Today, Civitas Learning works with 375 colleges and universities, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with their growing community of customers, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to help graduate a million more students per year by 2025.

Cecelia Health

Series A in 2015
Cecelia Health is tech-enabled diabetes and chronic disease management company that combines technology with expert clinical coaching. It aims to transform the lives and health outcomes of people with diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic conditions. Cecelia Health helps people with chronic conditions adhere to their medications and related nutrition, health, and wellness programs. During COVID-19, Cecelia Health has also been offering telehealth support to patients. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, United States.

EnTouch Controls

Series C in 2015
EnTouch Controls provides SaaS-based energy management systems (EMS) for retail and restaurant chains. The company EnTouch 360°™ service platform integrates turnkey installation, management analytics, and issue ticketing and resolution tracking that detects HVAC maintenance issues, optimizes performance, and lowers energy costs for national chains, franchise owners, schools and offices.

RaiseMe

Seed Round in 2015
The college landscape today is broken for millions of students. Equal access to higher ed has become one of the greatest issues of our time. At RaiseMe, we're reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year in financial aid for college. Rather than waiting until the end of high school to award financial aid, which is too late to affect students' college ambitions or specific application decisions, RaiseMe enables students to earn "micro-Scholarships" automatically throughout high school based on their individual achievements in and outside of the classroom. Students have already earned over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from our university partners. We're on the look out for talented individuals to help us build a large, impactful business and a product that will change millions of lives.

Novinium

Venture Round in 2015
Novinium maximizes the ROI of cable-reliability programs with rehabilitation solutions that result in less cable being replaced, reduce hazard exposure, require shorter outages, and offer up to a 40-year warranty. Whether performing turnkey rehabilitation or tailored rejuvenation, only Novinium, with its proprietary technology and process flexibility, delivers more rehabilitation at the lowest total cost per foot. Underground cable rejuvenation goes by several names, including chemical restoration, dielectric enhancement, cable treatment, and silicone injection. Whatever the name, Novinium and its partners deliver the most advanced formulations and methods for extending the reliable life of underground cable. They offer a full spectrum of cable-rejuvenation technologies to provide the highest level of circuit system reliability — always with the least capital intensity and the most advantageous life-cycle cost. All of the commercially significant cable-rejuvenation technologies in use around the world were invented by Novinium founders and their Novinium teammates. The Novinium team brings together the industry’s most experienced cable-rejuvenation specialists. That experience, combined with unrelenting process and technology improvements, means that circuit owners benefit from improved circuit reliability and the lowest capital cost. Their customers see immediate, tangible results: capital investments in their technologies have saved over US$1 billion globally, and that number grows every day. Circuit owners around the world have come to rely upon the rejuvenation technology and advancements invented by their experts. Only Novinium can offer circuit owners access to the most knowledgeable rehabilitation team in the world. Providing twice the life and twice the reliability for your cables, Novinium offers circuit owners a portfolio of injection fluids and injection processes that can be tailored to your needs.

Nextracker

Series B in 2015
Nextracker creates smart solar tracker solutions that improve the performance of solar PV plants through advanced data monitoring and control software and global services. Nextracker has been the number-one global market-share solar tracker company for several years running, according to research firm WoodMackenzie. It has delivered or fulfilled more than 35 GW of smart solar trackers for projects on five continents, including some of the largest solar farms in the world. Its TrueCapture and NX Navigator smart monitoring and control software platforms have revolutionized tracker performance, and represent its commitment to continuous innovation.

Validic

Series A in 2014
Validic is a technology platform that offers digital health and remote care programs for healthcare organizations. It connects to over 400 in-home clinical and mobile health devices and applications. The company's mission is to improve the quality of human life by building technology that makes personal data actionable.

Yieldbot

Series B in 2014
Yieldbot is a true technology company aiming to do nothing short of revolutionize the way media value is created for consumers, brands and publishers. They strive to consistently outperform expectations creating a better, more relevant web with their technology. In so doing, they believe they will enable the media industry to realize its true value for all three of the constituents that make the web what it is, and what it will become.

Ayla Networks

Series B in 2014
Ayla Networks empowers leading manufacturers by simplifying the inherent complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling them to turn their products into smart connected systems and transform their businesses to compete in the game-changing world of connectivity. Delivered as a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Ayla’s Agile IoT platform provides the flexibility and modularity to enable rapid changes to practically any type of device, cloud or app environment. Ayla Networks was named a 2015 Cool Vendor in the Internet of Things by Gartner, Inc. Ayla’s investors include Cisco, the International Finance Corporation, SAIF Partners, Crosslink Capital, Voyager Capital, Linear Venture and SJF Ventures. For more information, visit www.aylanetworks.com. Ayla Networks was founded in 2010 and is based in San Jose, California.

Aseptia

Series C in 2014
Aseptia develops food processing technologies that design to deliver nutritious foods. Their technology products include fruit sauces, tomato products, vegetables, soups, and beverages. Their production of products maintains the flavors and nutrients of fresh food without the use of preservatives and refrigeration.

EnTouch Controls

Series B in 2013
EnTouch Controls provides SaaS-based energy management systems (EMS) for retail and restaurant chains. The company EnTouch 360°™ service platform integrates turnkey installation, management analytics, and issue ticketing and resolution tracking that detects HVAC maintenance issues, optimizes performance, and lowers energy costs for national chains, franchise owners, schools and offices.

HYLA Mobile

Series C in 2013
HYLA Mobile is a provider of mobile device trade-in and reuse solutions it enables information access for new users. The company provides products and services that capture, extend and optimize the life and value of used mobile devices. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Farmers Branch, Texas.

Easy Metrics

Series A in 2013
Easy Metrics is a SaaS-based business intelligence platform that helps companies identify and optimize their labor costs. The company's labor management system delivers 40% productivity improvements while providing significantly enhanced insights into labor-intensive activities. Cost savings are often shared with employees, producing both economic and job quality benefits. Easy Metrics also provides a subscription-based cloud solution that customers can implement on a facility-by-facility basis. This enables easy adoption and rapid scale-up within new customers, without substantial up-front capital or deployment costs. They created a system where individual metrics were tracked per work process and incorporated multiple variables in the process mapping to create fair and consistent labor standards across all work processes. Founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, USA.

Think Through Learning

Series B in 2013
Think Through Learning's key product line, Think Through Math, is America's leading online math remediation software. There are almost 3,000,000 students in over 180,000 classrooms who are paid subscribers to Think Through Math. Think Through Math is a unique SaaS system integrating student motivation, instant on-demand interventions from state-certified US math teachers, and award winning adaptive math instruction that teaches students higher order thinking skills. Winner of the 2014 and 2012 CODiE for Best Math Instructional Solution, Think Through Math is proven to raise students understanding of math. Each student starts with an adaptive placement test that moves them right to the math they need to learn. Extensive guided feedback supports them. When they are stuck, a U.S., state-cerfiied, classroom experienced math teacher will pop up within 10 seconds to tutor them in real time. A January, 2015 independent research study commissioned by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) of 755,440 students who used Think Through Math showed that students using the system on a regular basis improved their math scores an average of 23%. The study is available of the TEA website. Numerous other studies have proven Think Through Math significantly improves students understanding of math.

Versify Solutions

Series C in 2013
Versify is a provider of analytical and performance management solutions for the Energy and Utility industry. The software is used by power traders, generation managers, compliance officers, and leading renewable energy providers in the area of Wind and Distributed Generation. Versify's strength is the ability to present complex market and pricing data along with operational data in a near real time basis for ease of use that allows for rapid decision making and delivers rapid ROI. Versify helps clients optimize asset performance, reduce risk, and drive significant cost savings and revenue. It enables power producers and reliability coordinators to optimize key functions and processes for asset performance, event logging, outage management, trading, and compliance to improve operational and financial performance. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.

Vital Farms

Venture Round in 2013
Vital Farms is a provider and manufacturer of pasture-raised eggs and poultry in the United States. The Vital Farms team has created a company that provides nutritious food for consumers, differentiated products for channel partners, attractive economics for farmers, responsible land use for communities, and ethical, humane living conditions for animals. It also prioritizes the long-term benefits of each of its stakeholders, including farmers and suppliers, customers and consumers, communities and the environment, and crew members and stockholders. Vital Farms was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States.

Optoro

Series A in 2013
Optoro is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider with a returns management system (RMS) for brands, retailers, and 3PLs. The RMS spans the entire returns lifecycle— from return initiation, return methods, dispositioning/grading, restock, and ultimately resale. Optoro's RMS threads together the returns experience from customer-facing returns channels (website portal) to back-end operational systems like WMS.

BioSurplus

Series A in 2012
BioSurplus is a leading provider of equipment management solutions and pre-owned scientific instruments to the life sciences industry.

FieldView Solutions

Venture Round in 2011
FieldView Solutions helps data center managers, IT and Facilities Management professionals make better use of their physical floor space, rack space, power and cooling by showing them real-time representations of all the critical systems in their data center. Their core platform, FieldView, a web-based enterprise solution, has been leveraged by many of the largest data centers in the US, Europe and Asia since 2006.

MediaMath

Series B in 2011
MediaMath is an online advertising platform. This platform develops and delivers digital advertising media and data management technology solutions.

Optoro

Series A in 2011
Optoro is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider with a returns management system (RMS) for brands, retailers, and 3PLs. The RMS spans the entire returns lifecycle— from return initiation, return methods, dispositioning/grading, restock, and ultimately resale. Optoro's RMS threads together the returns experience from customer-facing returns channels (website portal) to back-end operational systems like WMS.

Community Energy

Series A in 2010
Community Energy has been leading renewable energy development for more than a decade. By launching the market for direct sales of renewable energy to retail electric customers, Community Energy first leveraged consumer choice to build demand for early new renewable projects, and went on to develop and deliver wind energy at record scale. CEI is now developing utility-scale solar generation in the East, Mid-West and West as it continues to open new markets for solar and wind generation.

HYLA Mobile

Series A in 2010
HYLA Mobile is a provider of mobile device trade-in and reuse solutions it enables information access for new users. The company provides products and services that capture, extend and optimize the life and value of used mobile devices. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Farmers Branch, Texas.

FieldView Solutions

Series A in 2009
FieldView Solutions helps data center managers, IT and Facilities Management professionals make better use of their physical floor space, rack space, power and cooling by showing them real-time representations of all the critical systems in their data center. Their core platform, FieldView, a web-based enterprise solution, has been leveraged by many of the largest data centers in the US, Europe and Asia since 2006.

Truist

Venture Round in 2008
Truist is a financial services company that emphasizes economic empowerment and racial equity, particularly in minority and underserved communities. Established through the merger of SunTrust and BB&T, Truist Ventures serves as its corporate venture capital arm, focusing on investments in technology companies that align with its mission. Additionally, the Truist Foundation aims to inspire and enhance the quality of life within communities through philanthropic initiatives. Truist also offers a range of philanthropic solutions designed to help corporations and nonprofit organizations effectively engage their donors and volunteers, providing a comprehensive suite of products and services to support their charitable efforts.

CleanScapes

Series A in 2008
CleanScapes began operations for providing StreetScape maintenance for Seattle's Historic Pioneer Square District. Today they proudly provide StreetScapes Maintenance and solid waste collection in Seattle, Shoreline, Portland, and San Francisco.

groSolar

Venture Round in 2008
groSolar provides turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solar photovoltaic (PV) projects for developers, financial, commercial, government, utility, and other institutional clients. groSolar has designed, built, installed, and procured equipment for more than 90 MW of solar PV systems from coast to coast and more than 2,000 installations.

ServiceChannel

Venture Round in 2008
ServiceChannel provides companies with a platform to procure, manage and pay for facility maintenance and operations services from commercial service providers. By providing a real-time, web-based view of service data across all trades, locations, and contractors, companies use ServiceChannel to maintain brand equity and drive significant ROI for their organizations without relinquishing control to outsourcers or investing in new infrastructure. ServiceChannel was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, United States.

groSolar

Series B in 2007
groSolar provides turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solar photovoltaic (PV) projects for developers, financial, commercial, government, utility, and other institutional clients. groSolar has designed, built, installed, and procured equipment for more than 90 MW of solar PV systems from coast to coast and more than 2,000 installations.

Rustic Crust

Series B in 2007
Rustic Crust is a New Hampshire based bakery specializing in all natural, Old World crusts and flatbreads that are as convenient as they are delicious. Founded in 1996 as Ever Better Eating, they offer a variety of ready-made crusts and frozen topped flatbread pizzas, each crafted with dough formed by hand, allowed to slowly ferment, double proofed, and baked in custom ovens for rich flavor.

Intechra Holdings

Series C in 2007
Intechra, LLC, an electronics lifecycle management company, provides information technology asset disposition, value recovery, and computer recycling services to businesses and governments. It offers information technology asset disposition service, such as data security, service plans, and computer remarketing services. The company also provides logistics services, including chain of custody, secured transport, and on-site services. In addition, it offers recycling of ferrous and nonferrous metals, circuit boards, wires and cables, CRT glass and CRT units, batteries, and mercury-containing devices; and plastic casings, storage media, and software disks. Further, the company operates an online store; and sells laptops, personal computers, and computer parts. It serves small and mid-sized businesses, cities, and schools. Intechra, LLC was formerly known as Recycled Computers International, LLC. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Jackson, Mississippi.

MedPageToday

Venture Round in 2007
MedPage Today is a health care media company that delivers breaking medical news to physicians and patients. Healthcare professionals who read MedPage Internet-based content and pass a subsequent test receive continuing medical education credits from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, which is an active partner in producing MedPage content.

Telkore

Series A in 2007
Founded in 2004, Telkore has grown from a handful of employees located in its current office in Mechanicsburg, PA to a nationally recognized cell site construction, maintenance and inspection company. With additional offices in Arizona and North Carolina now, Telkore has doubled its workforce and gained national recognition for its emphasis on quality, safety and training.

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.

Intechra Holdings

Venture Round in 2006
Intechra, LLC, an electronics lifecycle management company, provides information technology asset disposition, value recovery, and computer recycling services to businesses and governments. It offers information technology asset disposition service, such as data security, service plans, and computer remarketing services. The company also provides logistics services, including chain of custody, secured transport, and on-site services. In addition, it offers recycling of ferrous and nonferrous metals, circuit boards, wires and cables, CRT glass and CRT units, batteries, and mercury-containing devices; and plastic casings, storage media, and software disks. Further, the company operates an online store; and sells laptops, personal computers, and computer parts. It serves small and mid-sized businesses, cities, and schools. Intechra, LLC was formerly known as Recycled Computers International, LLC. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Jackson, Mississippi.

groSolar

Series A in 2006
groSolar provides turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solar photovoltaic (PV) projects for developers, financial, commercial, government, utility, and other institutional clients. groSolar has designed, built, installed, and procured equipment for more than 90 MW of solar PV systems from coast to coast and more than 2,000 installations.

Preclick

Venture Round in 2005
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.

B.B.Hobbs Company

Funding Round in 2004
BB Hobbs are experts in automated drip irrigation and fertigation systems for commercial farms. Our drip systems combined with liquid fertilizer programs dramatically improve crop yield and quality.

HB Home Bistro

Series A in 2003
HB is a cozy storefront bistro nestled amidst the bustling nightlife of Boystown. Executive Chef, Victor Morenz, and Sous Chef, Corey Bowers are dishing up inventive New American fare; familiar flavors executed in unfamiliar ways. At HB you’ll feel like you are having your own private dinner party; you bring the champagne, thay all bring the food!

Selectech

Series B in 2003
SelecTech produces proprietary flooring from recycled scrap using a unique injection molding process. SelecTech FreeStyle commercial floor tiles are installed by several nationwide retail chains.

Salvage Direct

Series B in 2002
Salvage Direct facilitates the efficient sale of salvage vehicles from auto insurers to licensed vehicle dismantlers via on-line auction.
PosiGen is a provider of residential renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions. We are a Third Party Ownership company (TPO), which allows us to offer renewable energy systems and energy efficiency retrofits to the people who need it most: Low- to moderate-income homeowners. Our mission is to help these low- to moderate-income individuals, families, and businesses achieve greater fiscal autonomy and energy independence by lowering their utility bills. At its core, PosiGen is a young social enterprise with an enormous ambition: To increase the financial autonomy of low- to moderate-income homeowners nationwide, by decreasing their dependence on utility-provided energy.
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