Stephens Group

The Stephens Group is a private, family-owned firm that invests its capital in private and public companies with exceptional management teams resulting in high returns on invested capital in growing industries. They invest in businesses across a broad range of industries, providing growth equity, recapitalization and leveraged buy-out financing to both private and public companies.

Elizabeth Stephens Campbell

Co-Founder and Co-Chairman

Ronald M. Clark

COO and General Counsel

Aaron Clark

MD

RD

Rob Dickinson

VP

Evan Grisham

VP

CH

Clay Hunter

MD

GJ

Grant Jones

MD

Allie Laborde

Principal - Business Development

DM

Davis Malone

Associate

KM

Kyle McCuen

VP

AP

Anthony Porcelli

Associate

Robert L. Schulte

CFO

WK

W. Kent Sorrells

MD

Mark Steenhoek

Principal - Operations

Warren Stephens

Chairman, President and CEO

JT

Jens Talbert

VP

TS

Timothy S. Trzebiatowski

MD

Tim Trzebiatowski

MD

Past deals in Consumer Goods

Paragon Networks International

Venture Round in 2001
Paragon Networks International is an innovative manufacturer of broadband digital integrated access and optical metro internetworking platforms. They are a leading provider of application specific service deployment and wide area network optimization solutions to wireless service providers (WSP) and network service providers (NSP) worldwide. Utilizing either wireline, wireless, or optical transmission facilities, their products provide voice and data service connectivity, performance monitoring, compression, aggregation, layer 3 routing, quality of service (QOS) filtering, and protection switching of both client and operations support systems (OSS) traffic. Their solutions deliver superior network performance and control at substantial cost savings to their clients.

Loanpal, LLC

Venture Round in 2020
Loanpal, LLC provides financing for clean energy home improvement projects. The company finances the full scope of a clean energy project, such as the installation of new roof, support new solar panels, and home improvements. Additionally, it offers home purchasing loans and refinancing services. The company was formerly known as Paramount Equity Mortgage, LLC and changed its name to Loanpal, LLC in November 2019. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Roseville, California. Loanpal, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Paramount GR Holding, LLC.

Stephens Media

Venture Round in 1993
Stephens Media™ started with this idea: Give readers what they can't get anywhere else - hometown news. That idea grew into a multi-media company that anticipates what customers need and provides it. Stephens Media™ is an industry leader that remains true to its roots, while looking to the future. Stephens Media LLC is the successor in interest to Donrey Media Group. Donrey Media Group was founded in 1949 by Donald W. Reynolds. In 1993, companies associated with Jackson T. Stephens of Little Rock, Arkansas purchased Donrey Media Group, following the death of Mr. Reynolds. In 2002 the name of the company was changed to Stephens Media Group. In 2006, the name was shortened to Stephens Media. Stephens Media publishes 11 daily newspapers, 64 weeklies, magazines, specialty publications and more than 100 websites operating in seven states. Stephens Media also owns the domain name, lasvegas.com, which is licensed to another company. It also holds a 50% interest in Hawaii.com. Stephens Media also owns 50% of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, LLC, publisher of four daily newspapers in Washington and Benton County, Arkansas.

Kele

Acquisition in 2020
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Loanpal, LLC

Venture Round in 2020
Loanpal, LLC provides financing for clean energy home improvement projects. The company finances the full scope of a clean energy project, such as the installation of new roof, support new solar panels, and home improvements. Additionally, it offers home purchasing loans and refinancing services. The company was formerly known as Paramount Equity Mortgage, LLC and changed its name to Loanpal, LLC in November 2019. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Roseville, California. Loanpal, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Paramount GR Holding, LLC.
Summit Industrial Construction, LLC operates as an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company in the United States. It provides full EPC services and direct hire various trades, including civil/concrete, structural steel erection, mechanical (piping), rigging/equipment setting, and millwright services. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Houston, Texas with an additional office in Atlanta, Georgia.

Alltel

Venture Round in 1968
Alltel is a telecommunications company that provides consumers and businesses with wireless communication services, products, and solutions. The company serves the transportation, retail, insurance, healthcare, construction, and financial services industries. Alltel’s wireless services include wireless voice and data communication services, postpaid and prepaid wireless calling cards, roaming and long-distance calling services, and data solutions. The company provides text and video messaging, digital gaming, radio streaming, internet access, and emailing services as well as business intelligence, field service automation, security, and systems management services. It also offers mobile handsets and accessories. Alltel is based in Rockport Texas, United States and operates as a subsidiary of Verizon Wireless and AT&T.

CoreLink Surgical

Venture Round in 2016
CoreLink Surgical empowers and helps surgeons and their teams with the highest quality and most effective spinal implant systems. It leverages insight and ideas with unique capabilities and best practices. Its product development is rooted in a heritage of old-world craftsmanship with rigorous detail of cutting-edge innovation.

Spitzer Industries, Inc.

Venture Round in 2007
Spitzer Industries, Inc., a custom steel fabricator, delivers of steel fabrication of individual process skids, assembled modules, and combined solutions for energy industry customers. The company provides engineered packages, heavy vessels, columns and towers, and structural steel; and project management, engineering, design, and procurement services. It offers products for oil and gas production, processing, and transmission, as well as for refining and petrochemical, offshore oil and gas processing and production, and subsea oil and gas tiebacks industries worldwide. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Power-One

Venture Round in 1995
Power-One designs and manufactures energy-efficient power conversion and power management solutions, including inverters for alternative/renewable energy (solar and wind) and products for routers, data storage and servers, wireless communications, optical networking, semiconductor test equipment, industrial markets and custom applications. Power-One, with headquarters in Camarillo, California, has global sales offices, manufacturing, and R&D operations in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Power-One is a public company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol PWER.
Jefferson National is a recognized innovator of a leading tax-advantaged investing platform for RIAs, fee-based advisors and the clients they serve. Trusted partner to a network of nearly 4,000 advisors, Jefferson National provides greater efficiency, transparency and choice through an adaptable technology platform, award-winning distribution strategy and cost-effective servicing capabilities.

Loanpal, LLC

Venture Round in 2020
Loanpal, LLC provides financing for clean energy home improvement projects. The company finances the full scope of a clean energy project, such as the installation of new roof, support new solar panels, and home improvements. Additionally, it offers home purchasing loans and refinancing services. The company was formerly known as Paramount Equity Mortgage, LLC and changed its name to Loanpal, LLC in November 2019. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Roseville, California. Loanpal, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Paramount GR Holding, LLC.

Energy Transfer Partners

Venture Round in 2002
Energy Transfer is a Texas-based company that began in 1995 as a small intrastate natural gas pipeline operator and is now one of the largest and most diversified investment grade master limited partnerships in the United States. Growing from roughly 200 miles of natural gas pipelines in 2002 to approximately 56,000 miles of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), refined products, and crude oil pipelines today, the Energy Transfer family of partnerships remains dedicated to providing exceptional service to its customers and attractive returns to its investors.
Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLC is an employee owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to individuals, institutional investors, investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, insurance companies, state or municipal government entities, corporations, foundations, unions, sovereign wealth funds, public plans, financial intermediaries, non-profits, church plans, foreign governments, and endowments. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also launches and manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds. It invests in public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. For the equity portion, the firm invests in value stocks of companies across all market capitalizations including small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. It also invests in dividend-paying stocks. For the fixed income portion, the firm invests in high-yield corporate securities, bank loans, convertible bonds, senior or secured bonds, and preferred stock. It employs long and short, short selling, margin trading, and hedging strategies to make its investments. The firm employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a focus on bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolios against the S&P 500 Index and various Russell and BofA Merrill Lynch indices. The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments. Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management was founded in 1980 and is based in Los Angeles, California with an additional office in Corona Del Mar, California.

Continuum Energy

Venture Round in 2006
Continuum Energy is an integrated energy products and services company that serves over 500 producers and 90,000 retail customers across 23 states. They own and operate gathering, processing, treating, compression and transportation assets for natural gas, crude oil and NGLs. And They’re dedicated to delivering innovative, quality solutions that exceed the expectations of its customers. With midstream assets in key production areas throughout the United States, more than 44,000 HP of compression, 1,000 miles of pipeline, rail terminal services, a transportation fleet, and marketing services, They provide comprehensive services for both natural gas and crude oil producers. They supply the industry from wellhead to burner tip.
Bear State Financial provides money management and community banking services.

BTEC Turbines LP

Venture Round in 2006
BTEC Turbines LP provides engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and support services for power islands and plants worldwide. It offers turnkey power plant, remanufactured gas turbine package, and gas turbine package upgrade services; and services for control systems, such as turbine, supervisory, generator, and fuel control systems. The company also manufactures and fabricates heavy equipment, including large filter systems for air and oil, natural gas metering skids, and gas scrubbing and cleaning systems; and offers field services, such as construction management, operator training, commissioning management, long-term maintenance, and technical support. In addition, it sells, ships, and installs gas turbines and generators. BTEC Turbines LP was founded in 1997 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Delta and Pine Land Company

Venture Round in 1994
Delta and Pine Land Company engage in the breeding, production, conditioning, and marketing of cotton planting seed primarily in USA.

Vestcom International Inc.

Venture Round in 2007
Vestcom create unique Integrated Shopper Marketing solutions by maximizing the power of the retailer’s most valuable real estate .Vestcom continues to innovate and enhance the shopping experience.

Revolution

Venture Round in 2019
Revolution manufactures and supplies closed-loop plastic bags and other products used in agricultural, consumer, and industrial markets. The company is based in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Centra Industries

Venture Round in 2007
Centra is a World Class manufacturer of precision aerostructure components and assemblies. Its Core Competencies are broken into 3 categories: Multi-Axis High Velocity machining of complex Aluminum structures Multi-Axis High Torque machining of specialty hard to machine aircraft alloys such as titanium, Inconel and hardened steels Assembly of Major Aircraft Sub-Structures Centra has invested significantly in technologies to support its Core development and is considered by its customers to be a world leader in these categories.

NSC Minerals

Venture Round in 2013
NSC minerals is a salt and liquid calcium chloride suppliers company. supply of Quality Products and Customer-Focus. The company also supplies salt for retail, animal feed, and hide curing applications.

Universal Fiber Systems, LLC

Venture Round in 2007
Universal Fiber Systems LLC. is an innovation-driven global leader in the production of high quality synthetic fibers for a broad array of applications and industries. Serving customers in the production of the flooring, industrial, military, medical and apparel industries, you will find the fiber products manufactured by Their companies in most major brands and prominent projects around the world.

Prism Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2007
Prism Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an acute care pharmaceutical company, engages in developing and commercializing cardiovascular injectable products in the United States. Its products include NEXTERONE, an anti arrhythmic agent in the form of injectable amiodarone; and PM103, an intravenous formulation of clopidogrel bisulfate. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

Silicon Energy

Series B in 1999
Silicon Energy's powerful business-to-business platform provides leading interactive energy e-business solutions for optimizing energy usage and the energy procurement processes.

Westrock Coffee Company, LLC

Venture Round in 2017
Westrock Coffee Company roasts, produces, and exports coffee. It offers coffees and teas; coffee accessories, such as creamer, sugar, etc.; and brewing equipment and dispensers, as well as provides direct delivery to offices or industries. The company supplies its products and services for offices, convenience stores, grocery stores, universities, coffeehouses, and restaurants; and exports its products through its subsidiary company.

A.O.G. Corp.

Funding Round in 1945
A.O.G. Corp., provides natural gas distribution service in Arkansas and Oklahoma. The company is based in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Vestcom International Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2007
Vestcom create unique Integrated Shopper Marketing solutions by maximizing the power of the retailer’s most valuable real estate .Vestcom continues to innovate and enhance the shopping experience.

Brand Group Holdings

Venture Round in 2011
Brand Group Holdings provides personal and business banking services. Brand Group Holdings is a $2.3 billion bank holding company located in the Atlanta Metropolitan area, operating as BrandBank. Bartow Morgan, Jr. is the CEO and the great, great grandson of the founder, E.M. Brand, who established the bank on the courthouse steps in Lawrenceville, GA in 1905.

vXchnge

Venture Round in 2010
vXchnge is the leading data center-as-a-service provider dedicated to protecting global and emerging brands, while improving the business performance of its customers. Through its strategically sited, carrier-neutral colocation data centers across the US, vXchnge delivers unmatched reliability, scalability and security for its customers. vXchnge’s broad geographic footprint puts its customers at “the Edge”, where they can serve customers locally, and reach more businesses and more consumers in more markets. The company is headquartered in Tampa, Florida. For more information, visit http://www.vxchnge.com or connect on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

StubHub

Venture Round in 2020
StubHub, Inc. owns and operates an online fan-to-fan ticket marketplace. Its online ticket marketplace enables fans to buy and sell tickets to sports, concert, theater, and other live entertainment events. Its marketplace also enables fans to sell their tickets when they can't go. StubHub, Inc. was formerly known as Liquid Seats, Inc. and changed its name to StubHub, Inc. in December 2003. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of February 13, 2020, StubHub, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of viagogo AG.
Acute Technological Services (ATS) provides welding engineering and welding services worldwide. ATS has more than 20 years experience in providing engineered welding solutions. A leader in the welding industry, ATS is advancing the science of welding engineering and generating technical innovations through the application of new technologies.

Vascular Solutions

Venture Round in 1998
Vascular Solutions, Inc. (Vascular) is a medical device company focused on providing clinically advanced solutions to interventional cardiologists and interventional radiologists worldwide. Vascular's hemostat (blood clotting) products principally consist of the D-Stat Dry hemostat, a topical thrombin-based pad with a bandage used to control surface bleeding, and the D-Stat Flowable, a thick yet flowable thrombin-based mixture for preventing bleeding in subcutaneous pockets. Its extraction catheters consist of the Pronto V3 and Pronto LP extraction catheters. Its vein products include the Vari-Lase endovenous laser. Its access products include micro-introducer kits, MICRO Elite and EXPRO Elite snares, the Guardian hemostasis valve and guide wires used in connection with percutaneous access to the vasculature. It offers specialty catheters consisting of a variety of catheters for clinical uses, including the Langston dual lumen catheters and Twin-Pass dual access catheters.

Viking Range

Venture Round in 1992
Viking Range, LLC manufactures commercial kitchen equipment. The company offers cooking equipment, including freestanding ranges, range tops, cooktops, ovens, microwaves, and warming drawers; ventilation equipment, such as wall hoods, chimney wall hoods, island hoods, custom ventilator systems, rear downdrafts, and hood and ventilator packages; refrigeration equipment, including built-in refrigeration, wine cellars, freestanding refrigeration, under counter refrigeration, and ice machines; kitchen cleanup equipment, such as dishwashers; outdoor equipment, including cooking, ventilation, refrigeration, and carts and cabinets; and culinary equipment, such as cookware, cutlery, specialty cookware, bakeware, and tools.

Kodiak Gas Services

Venture Round in 2011
Kodiak Gas Services is a provider of contract compression and related services for the oil and gas industry in North America. Servicing the producers in both the upstream and midstream segments of the value chain, Kodiak provides 24/7 access to technical and mechanical support backed by a 98% mechanical availability guarantee. With over 285 employees, Kodiak provides services in the Permian, Eagle Ford, Scoop/Stack and other basins of the United States.

CS Disco

Series E in 2019
DISCO is a legal technology company that applies artificial intelligence and cloud computing to legal problems to help lawyers and legal teams improve legal outcomes for clients. Corporate legal departments, law firms, and government agencies around the world use DISCO as an e-discovery solution for compliance, disputes, and investigations. The company is reinventing legal technology to automate and simplify complex and error-prone tasks that distract from practicing law. DISCO was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas.

FloWorks International

Venture Round in 2011
FloWorks International supplies pipes, valves, fittings, and related products to refining, chemical and petrochemical, mining, power generation, oil and gas, marine or offshore, midstream and upstream, and food and beverage markets worldwide. It offers stainless steel pipe fittings and flanges, high alloy machined parts, gate, globe, and check valves, pipeline and floating ball valves, resilient seated, high-performance, and triple offset butterfly valves, pump protection valves, slurry valves, and thermostatic control valve systems. FloWorks International was founded on 1974 and is headquartered in Texas.

Helomics Holding Corporation

Venture Round in 2001
Helomics® is a comprehensive personalized healthcare company, bringing the next generation of diagnostics to the oncology field. Helomics is dedicated to improving patient outcomes by providing a personalized comprehensive tumor profile utilizing a proprietary set of laboratory platforms that leverage both tissue-based live and fixed cellular based analysis allowing physicians to characterize malignant tumors on a personalized basis. Helomics’ novel molecular and cellular markers and bioinformatics services support treatment decisions by providing vital information based on the specific biological processes of each individual’s cancer.

Catalyst Acoustics Group

Venture Round in 2019
Catalyst Acoustics Group, a holding company, manufactures commercial and architectural acoustic noise control products. The company offers acoustic, seismic, vibration, and noise control solutions. The company serves industrial, architectural, commercial, construction, healthcare, government, and other industries. Catalyst Acoustics Group is based in Agawam, Massachusetts.

Coda Petroleum

Venture Round in 2011
Coda Petroleum Inc. is an oil and energy company based out of Calle Laguna del Marquesado Nª 19, Nave 16 Edificio Adriana 1ª Planta, Polígono Industrial La Resina (Villaverde), Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain.

TierPoint

Private Equity Round in 2016
TierPoint, LLC, is a leading national provider of information technology and data center services, including colocation, cloud computing and managed IT services, with corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO. TierPoint was formed in 2010 through the strategic combination of some of the country's most respected and innovative data centers and IT solution providers whose origins date back as early as 1995.

Armor

Series B in 2011
The leader in active cyber defense, Armor offers customer-centric security outcomes for retail and eCommerce enterprises, healthcare organizations, payment leaders and financial institutions. Armor protects highly sensitive data for the most security-conscious companies in the world. With its proven cybersecurity approach and proprietary cloud infrastructure built specifically for security, compliance and performance, responsible businesses choose Armor to reduce their risk. For more information, visit armor.com or call 1-844-682-2858.

Active Power

Series C in 1999
Active Power, Inc. (Active Power) incorporated designs, manufactures and services uninterruptible power supply (UPS) products and modular infrastructure solution (MIS) products that provide electrical power continuity and integrated infrastructure platforms for data centers and other mission critical applications. Its products and solutions are designed to deliver continuous conditioned power during power disturbances and outages, voltage sags and surges,

Rules-Based Medicine

Series A in 2007
Rules-Based Medicine (RBM), the world's leading multiplexed biomarker testing laboratory, provides comprehensive protein biomarker products and services based on its Multi-Analyte Profiling (MAP) technology platform. RBM's biomarker testing service provides pre-clinical and clinical researchers with reproducible, quantitative, multiplexed immunoassay data for hundreds of proteins in a cost-effective manner, from a small sample volume and from multiple species. Their biomarker testing laboratory is CLIA certified and supports GLP studies.

Inform Technologies

Venture Round in 2010
Inform Technologies is a new technology solution for established media brands that automatically searches, organizes and links content to provide a rich, compelling experience that attracts and retains readers. The technology relies upon artificial intelligence tools, natural language processing, identification of topics, and the continual scanning and processing of content as it is published anywhere on the Internet.

NeuroVasx

Venture Round in 2007
NeuroVasx is a medical device company engaged in the development and commercialization of technologies for the minimally-invasive treatment of hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes in the United States and internationally. The company offers cPAX, a polymer strand delivered through a micro catheter for the minimally-invasive treatment of hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes as well as for the embolization of cerebral and intracranial aneurysms, abnormal bulges, and sacs in the wall of an artery in the brain. Its products are used to treat acute stroke and other cerebrovascular disorders. NeuroVasx was founded in 1997 and is based in Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States.

CS Disco

Series D in 2018
DISCO is a legal technology company that applies artificial intelligence and cloud computing to legal problems to help lawyers and legal teams improve legal outcomes for clients. Corporate legal departments, law firms, and government agencies around the world use DISCO as an e-discovery solution for compliance, disputes, and investigations. The company is reinventing legal technology to automate and simplify complex and error-prone tasks that distract from practicing law. DISCO was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas.

CS Disco

Venture Round in 2020
DISCO is a legal technology company that applies artificial intelligence and cloud computing to legal problems to help lawyers and legal teams improve legal outcomes for clients. Corporate legal departments, law firms, and government agencies around the world use DISCO as an e-discovery solution for compliance, disputes, and investigations. The company is reinventing legal technology to automate and simplify complex and error-prone tasks that distract from practicing law. DISCO was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas.

ViaCell

Venture Round in 2000
ViaCell is a biotechnology company focused on the area of women’s health. The company develops ViaCord, which enables families preserve their baby’s umbilical cord blood at the time of birth for possible future medical use; and ViaCyte, to broaden reproductive choices for women through the cryopreservation of human unfertilized eggs. ViaCell is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Pearlman Enterprises, Inc.

Acquisition in 2017
Pearlman Enterprisesiof Norcross, Georgia, develops and distributes supplies, tools, and equipment used in the fabrication and maintenance of hard surfaces for residential, commercial, and industrial end-markets.

CS Disco

Series C in 2016
DISCO is a legal technology company that applies artificial intelligence and cloud computing to legal problems to help lawyers and legal teams improve legal outcomes for clients. Corporate legal departments, law firms, and government agencies around the world use DISCO as an e-discovery solution for compliance, disputes, and investigations. The company is reinventing legal technology to automate and simplify complex and error-prone tasks that distract from practicing law. DISCO was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Goodman Networks

Debt Financing in 2009
Goodman Networks, Inc. provides telecommunication network services in the United States. The company executes network implementation, enhancement, and maintenance programs for telecommunication facilities. It offers professional services, such as deployment engineering, radio frequency design and optimization, core network deployment, integration, network operations center solutions, and staff augmentation; infrastructure services that include site acquisition, architecture and engineering, construction management, construction, and technician and outside plant support services; and operations support services, including program management, logistics, subcontract administration, quality and safety, and procurement services. The company offers wireless, backhaul, distributed antenna systems, small cell, and other solutions. Goodman Networks, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Plano, Texas.

Fuego

Venture Round in 2004
Fuego provides BPM System software that makes your critical enterprise assets work the way you do and change as you change.

TierPoint

Private Equity Round in 2020
TierPoint, LLC, is a leading national provider of information technology and data center services, including colocation, cloud computing and managed IT services, with corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO. TierPoint was formed in 2010 through the strategic combination of some of the country's most respected and innovative data centers and IT solution providers whose origins date back as early as 1995.

Sound Seal Holdings

Acquisition in 2019
Sound Seal is a manufacturer and designer of commercial acoustical noise control solutions. It also offers industrial curtains and enclosures, architectural panels and baffles, wood walls and ceilings, acoustic floor underlayments and metal enclosures, and acoustic ceiling systems.

Inform Technologies

Series B in 2006
Inform Technologies is a new technology solution for established media brands that automatically searches, organizes and links content to provide a rich, compelling experience that attracts and retains readers. The technology relies upon artificial intelligence tools, natural language processing, identification of topics, and the continual scanning and processing of content as it is published anywhere on the Internet.

Moonfruit

Series A in 2010
Moonfruit is a London-based team of developers, designers, and entrepreneurs who are passionate about great design, great products, and supporting small businesses, startups, and design communities. 90% of Moonfruit's customers are small businesses who want to build sites, their way. They expect a higher level of design tools to help build better designed sites for their customers. It is the no.1 hosted website builder in the UK and is growing rapidly in the rest of the world. A third of its users are in the US. Over 3.4 million sites have been built using their software. The software allows users, with no previous web design experience, to design and build sites optimized for web and mobile. Users customize the style and layout of their site so that it reflects their personal brand without having to understand any coding, HTML or CSS providing total design control for everyone. The software features unique drag and drop tools allow literal design by users. Website features, like forums, shopping basket or social media integration, can be added from internal libraries or external sources. Moonfruit provides a variety of packages to suit users including free, standard and business premium subscriptions.

SmartSignal

Series B in 2002
SmartSignal Corporation provides Predictive Diagnostic software and services. Its solutions include EPI*Center, CycleWatch, SHIELD, xConnector, and PlantAPS. The company offers equipment and process failure detection and diagnosis. SmartSignal has strategic partnerships with OSIsoft, Accenture, Microsoft, and MRG (Management Resources Group, Inc). The company caters to power generation and oil and gas sectors. Its clientele include BP, Caterpillar, Duke Energy, GDF Suez, Invenergy, Scottish and Southern, and TransAlta. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Lisle, Illinois.

Raymedica

Venture Round in 2003
Raymedica, Inc. is an emerging medical device manufacturer with headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Raymedica’s goal is to develop innovative solutions for the surgical treatment of patients with low back pain who have not responded to conservative care, thus improving the quality of life for these patients worldwide. This mission is accomplished by expanding and improving the technology invented by Raymedica’s founder, Charles D. Ray, M.D. Currently, the company’s efforts are devoted to the development of the PDN® prosthetic disc nucleus for the treatment of low back pain associated with degenerative disc disease. The PDN device is surgically implanted into the evacuated nucleus disc space of the lumbar spine. Once implanted, the device is intended to increase or maintain disc height thereby restoring normal biomechanics, thus relieving pain.