Steelpoint Capital Partners

Steelpoint is interested in partnering with exceptional companies, at any stage of their growth. They look for innovative technologies that have the power to transform an industry or proven business models that have the opportunity to capture significant market share. They seek companies that have a deep understanding of their market with a strong view of the future and a strategic plan to get there. Because of their commitment to the success of their companies, they prefer to take a lead investor role and seek companies that align with the interests and background of their team. They primarily focus on media & marketing services, IT & communications, healthcare & life sciences markets, consumer products & retail, and business services & other. Steelpoint utilizes its significant capital and human resources to support their investments. Their firm seeks to make investments between $5 and $30 million in leading middle market companies with strong underlying value and growth prospects. In general, they seek out companies that have a minimum of $5 million in revenue, are cash flow breakeven or have a clear path to profitability, with enterprise values up to $200 million. Their investment team has over a century of combined experience in principal investing & entrepreneurial operations. They continually seek to support their portfolio companies by providing ongoing guidance on strategic direction, business development, talent recruitment and capital formation. Drawing on their network of corporate and financial relationships, they provide their teams with access to the resources needed to accelerate growth and reach market dominance. Steelpoint was formed in 2003 as a spin-out of the private equity group of Moore Capital Management. Steelpoint has offices in New York, San Diego, and San Francisco.

Caccavo, James A.

Founder and Managing Partner

Sullivan, James

Managing Director

18 past transactions

ATM.com

Series A in 2021
ATM.com operates as an embedded finance platform that focuses on making micro-investing accessible to a broader audience. The platform facilitates the opening of investment accounts through its unique functionality, which includes features like Robo-Bumpers™ provided by Ant Money Advisors, LLC. By participating in rewards programs, users can generate micro-income that aids in saving and investing in the stock market. This approach empowers individuals to build their investments incrementally, promoting financial growth and literacy in a user-friendly manner.

Modern Pop

Venture Round in 2018
The idea originated after founders and new parents, Julie and Brad Podolec failed at several attempts to find a frozen fruit bar they felt comfortable giving their teething infant. Options fell short. They skimped on fruit, had too much sugar, added juices, vegetable stabilizers, and difficult to pronounce ingredients. It was time for the old classic to evolve, and they decided that there was no better place for this to take root than in Southern California

SKLZ

Venture Round in 2013
SKLZ provides athletic skill and performance training products. They provide products including mini bands, speed chutes, training balls, massage tools, training kits, goals, nets, cones, rebounders, and batting tees. They combine mental and physical training to improve coordination, reaction time, and accuracy. Includes programming and content designed by certified trainers.

Acorns

Series A in 2013
Acorns is a finance company that allows individuals to round up purchases and automatically invest the change. It allows customers to automatically invest in a low-cost, diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds offered by some asset managers including Vanguard and BlackRock. Acorns was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

BrightScope

Series B in 2009
BrightScope®, Inc. is a financial information company that brings transparency to opaque markets. Delivered through web-based software, BrightScope data drives better decision-making for individual investors, corporate plan sponsors, asset managers, broker-dealers, and financial advisors. BrightScope primarily operates in two major segments: Retirement Plans and Wealth Management. Retirement Plans: BrightScope® is the leading independent provider of retirement plan ratings and investment analytics to participants, plan sponsors, asset managers, and advisors in all 50 states. The company maintains a comprehensive database of information on the retirement plan market and adds additional value and insight by quantitatively rating 401k and 403b plans across critical metrics. The BrightScope Rating developed in partnership with leading independent 401k fiduciaries, reviews more than 200 unique data inputs per plan and calculates a single numerical score which defines 401k and 403b plan quality at the company level. BrightScope also publishes distribution rankings for funds in the retirement marketplace, giving asset managers better visibility into how they stack up to others. The company markets a suite of data analytics software products to Fortune 1000 companies, asset managers, broker-dealers, financial advisors, and other market participants. Public ratings for over 55,000 401k and 403b plans as well as rating definitions, criteria, and methodologies are available for free to retirement savers at www.brightscope.com. Wealth Management: On April 26, 2011, the company launched BrightScope Advisor Pages, the first comprehensive and publicly available directory of Financial Advisors. Advisor Pages help consumers discover information and conduct due diligence on their financial advisors. The company believes it can accelerate the growth of the financial advisory industry and increase its legitimacy by creating standards around performance, experience, certifications, fees, and conduct.

Hookit

Seed Round in 2009
Hookit is a sponsorship analytics and valuation platform for sports. It helps brands maximize their sponsorship investments while empowering athletes, teams, leagues, and federations to prove and increase their value to sponsors. Hookit developed the first, most trusted standard in the global marketplace that effectively measures $5B per month of previously unknown sponsorship value that brands receive from athletes, teams, leagues, venues, and events in social and digital media. Now actively tracking nearly 500,000 sports entities across the largest social and digital media platforms, Hookit has become a must-have tool for digitally-focused, forward-thinking companies like Major League Soccer, Soccer United Marketing, Canadian Olympic Team, Monster Energy, GoPro, McLaren Honda F1, Kantar Media, Liverpool FC, PGA European Tour, and World Surf League, who use Hookit’s platform to drive increased ROI on their sponsorships. Hookit was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Lively

Series C in 2008
Lively’s is a leader in connected health for active aging. With health and safety solutions for older adults and their family caregivers, GreatCall’s innovative suite of mobile products and award-winning approach to customer care helps aging consumers live more independent lives. Products and services include: Lively Mobile, Lively Wearable, Lively Home, Jitterbug Smart2, Jitterbug Flip and health, safety and medical apps such as Urgent Care, GreatCall Link, MedCoach and 5Star. On December 20, 2016, GreatCall acquired Healthsense, the leading provider of passive remote monitoring services for the senior care continuum. The acquisition greatly expands GreatCall's portfolio of connected health services for senior living and healthcare. GreatCall is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy.

Atempo

Series B in 2007
Since 1992, Atempo has provided data management solutions to secure, preserve and move essential business data for thousands of companies around the world. Our integrated suite of solutions include our market leading data backup and disaster recovery offerings (Tina -Time Navigator and Lina - Live Navigator and Backstone Appliances) and our innovative large NAS backup, archiving and migration platform (Miria). Based on high performance data movers our solutions are extremely scalable. Atempo products are suited to data protection needs of midsized to petabyte scale businesses and large distributed enterprises. Atempo is headquartered south of Paris, France, in Les Ulis with operations in Europe, the Americas and Asia; it has a sales and support network of over 100 resellers, partners and Managed Service Providers (MSP) serving our customers worldwide.
Lightbox is a leading digital out-of-home video network in the U.S., reaching 80+ million consumers monthly in the real world. The premium video network consists of 5,000 screens in malls, WeWork locations, and city streets via windowfronts across the U.S.

Lively

Series A in 2007
Lively’s is a leader in connected health for active aging. With health and safety solutions for older adults and their family caregivers, GreatCall’s innovative suite of mobile products and award-winning approach to customer care helps aging consumers live more independent lives. Products and services include: Lively Mobile, Lively Wearable, Lively Home, Jitterbug Smart2, Jitterbug Flip and health, safety and medical apps such as Urgent Care, GreatCall Link, MedCoach and 5Star. On December 20, 2016, GreatCall acquired Healthsense, the leading provider of passive remote monitoring services for the senior care continuum. The acquisition greatly expands GreatCall's portfolio of connected health services for senior living and healthcare. GreatCall is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy.

PacStar Communications

Series D in 2007
Pacific Star Communications (PacStar) is a provider of advanced communications solutions for a wide range of military, intelligence, and commercial applications. PacStar creates and manufactures COTS-based rugged, small form factor expeditionary and mobile communications systems. Separately, it has developed integrated, network communications management software, IQ-Core Software, for the military, federal, state/local government, and emergency responder markets. The company’s patented IQ-Core software, hardware technology, and integration services provide secure, command, control, and communications systems, particularly in remote or infrastructure starved areas. In addition, PacStar’s communications systems are ideally suited for commercial/industrial organizations with mission-critical field communications requirements. PacStar was founded in 2000 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

X-1

Series C in 2007
Music can improve your mood, increase endurance, and bestow vital motivation. Would Rocky have been able to beat Clubber Lang (a.k.a. Mr.T) without "eye of the tiger" playing in his training montage. We here at H2O Audio think not. They also believe that the inspirational and spiritual power of music should not be reserved only for the Rocky Balboas and other land loving athletes of the world. As surfers, wakeboarders, paddlers, and swimmers we encourage H2O Audio users to experience their music in any element. Like many other inventive business endeavors the seed of H2O Audio was planted in graduate school, i.e. FedEx. The first brain child of the founding fathers was a waterproof CD case fashioned with a pair of crudely engineered waterproof headphones. At the time people couldn't fathom, pun intended, the need for an underwater music player. Fortunately for swimmers, surfers, wakeboarders, paddlers, and water enthusiasts everywhere they were not deterred. In 2002 a plan was set forth to design an mp3 housing that would allow users to take their music anywhere and everywhere. The result was a waterproof housing for the iRiver mp3 player that can operate at depths of up to 200ft (DV Series.) In 2005 the H2O Audio family evolved to accommodate the leader in personal mp3 players, Apples iPod. As Apple continues to alter the handheld music player universe and the demand for waterproof protection increases H2O Audio will continue to offer the best waterproof iPod cases and waterproof accessories in the industry. Lap swimmers will suffer in silence no more, triathletes will conquer land and sea without missing a beat, and rock and roll will no longer be just an obstacle and a survival maneuver for kayakers. Waterproof your playlist and experience music in any element.

Promptu Systems

Venture Round in 2007
Promptu makes Voice User Interface (VUI) makes applications. Promptu applications run on the company's fully automated Network Speech Recognition (NSRâ„¢) platform to insure privacy, security, scalability and speed. Promptu applications are available in 40 languages and dialects, can be optimized for regional accents, and support real-time review and editing of transcribed text. The company is based in Menlo Park, California. Promptu's major equity holders include Steelpoint Capital Partners LP, Insight Communications, Lauder Partners, and private investors.

Workshare

Series B in 2007
Workshare’s innovative and intelligent platform empowers professionals to compare, protect and share their high stakes documents on any device. Content owners can accurately track and compare amendments made by all contributors. While businesses have secure ways to work collaboratively and control the process of constant change. Headquartered in the UK, in London, Workshare also operates offices in the US and Australia. More than two million professionals in 70 countries now use Workshare solutions on their desktop, mobile or tablet. For more information visit www.workshare.com or follow @Workshare on Twitter.

Promptu Systems

Series C in 2006
Promptu makes Voice User Interface (VUI) makes applications. Promptu applications run on the company's fully automated Network Speech Recognition (NSRâ„¢) platform to insure privacy, security, scalability and speed. Promptu applications are available in 40 languages and dialects, can be optimized for regional accents, and support real-time review and editing of transcribed text. The company is based in Menlo Park, California. Promptu's major equity holders include Steelpoint Capital Partners LP, Insight Communications, Lauder Partners, and private investors.

Boingo Wireless

Series C in 2006
Boingo Wireless, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIFI), the world's leading Wi-Fi software and services provider, makes it easy, convenient and cost-effective for people to enjoy Wi-Fi access on their laptop or mobile device at more than 325,000 hotspots worldwide. With a single account, Boingo users can access the mobile Internet via Boingo Network locations that include the top airports around the world, major hotel chains, cafés and coffee shops, restaurants, convention centers and metropolitan hot zones. Boingo and its Concourse Communications Group subsidiary operate wired and wireless networks at large-scale venues worldwide such as airports, major sporting arenas, malls, and convention centers, as well as quick serve restaurants. For more information about Boingo, please visit http://www.boingo.com.

Imaginova

Series C in 2006
Imaginova is a leading digital media and commerce company. Our rapidly expanding network of brands has become the premier online destination for the intellectually curious. The Imaginova Network of owned and operated Web sites and affiliates reaches more than 10 million monthly unique visitors. These websites include Livescience.com, Space.com and Newsarama.com. Our award-winning, original content (editorial, video and widgets) is both informative and entertaining. Imaginova’s Commerce business offers innovative consumer optics and science-themed products direct to the consumer. These products are available at Orion.com. Founded in 1999, Imaginova is headquartered in New York City with offices and news bureaus in California, Virginia, Toronto and Paris. Imaginova is led by an experienced management team and is backed by a prestigious group of institutional investors.
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