Stout Street Capital

Investment Method: Stout Street prides itself on investing intelligently. Our investments are driven by extensive data analysis, market analysis, and due diligence. We invest in early-stage technology companies innovating in the software, fin tech, advanced materials, robotics, and artificial intelligence. We invest in under-served markets, especially in the middle of the country with an emphasis on the Rocky Mountain area. Investment Portfolio: Stout Street Capital is an seed-stage fund that seeks to invest in early-stage companies focused on improving efficiency and generating bottom-line value in large established sectors in the market. Stout Street’s Value Fund-1 is currently focused on post-revenue, seed-to-series-A investments in companies valued at less than $10 million. Stout Street’s Value Fund-1 is projected to invest in 35+ companies by the end of 2018 with an average investment of 100k.

John Francis

Founding Partner

Clay Gordon

Managing Partner

96 past transactions

Left Hand Robotics

Private Placement in 2018
Left Hand Robotics has developed the first commercial-class, self-driving snow clearing robot capable of removing snow from sidewalks and walkways. The SnowBot Pro is controlled and monitored remotely from an online management dashboard and uses GPS to follow a pre-programmed path. Its rotating brush clears a sidewalk from edge-to-edge in a single pass to meet even the highest standards.

Hover

Seed Round in 2018
The global mobile money industry moves over $1.3 billion per day. Our Android API enables developers to integrate any mobile money service worldwide in an afternoon.

AdStash

Funding Round in 2021
AdStash is a digital signage platform that utilizes programmatic advertising to generate a new revenue stream for businesses. Its services are dedicated to helping businesses of all sizes easily generate new streams of income. The company specializes in developing tools to empower businesses to generate extra income and provide exceptional value to their visitors and customers. AdStash device and app help customers transform their digital screens into revenue-generating content and ad delivery systems.

HT Mobile Apps

Funding Round in 2021
Michigan based HT Mobile Apps is a small but powerful app development company. Their founder, Kathleen Craig, has been working in the community banking sector since 2008, most recently as the consumer eServices leader at a local community bank in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Kathleen’s specific focus in digital channel strategy gives her unique insight into the latest mobile banking trends.

ThreatX

Series A in 2018
Threat X, Inc., an intelligent security management company, provides cloud based cyber security products and services. It offers Threat X, a Web application firewall that utilizes a combination of application profiling and multiple sensor inputs to distinguish malicious attacks from legitimate user behavior. The company also provides managed security, Security-as-a-Service, and security consulting solutions. Threat X, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Louisville, Colorado.

ReturnLogic

Seed Round in 2020
ReturnLogic is a developer of an automation platform intended to make better marketing decisions and prevent costly product returns. Its platform helps brands give their clients an easy returns process while automating workflows for their customer service and warehouse teams, thereby enabling businesses to optimize their product returns strategy.

TopYa!

Series B in 2018
TopYa (Talent Optimization Platform from Youth to Adults) is world's first two way interactive video based mobile application for health & overall fitness by inducing higher physical activity among people of all ages. We founded TopYa! to inspire kids to have fun with sports and physical activity to create habits that lead to active, healthy and longer lives. TopYa! started its operation in India & UK from Jan 2017, and founded Active Fun Academy in India which is the first ever Physical Education solution for schools through technological platform. TopYa! has eventually created video content to cater to people of all ages and providing HR Health & Wellness solutions to various organisations.

Textel

Series A in 2020
Textel provides a cloud-based texting platform for contact centers and businesses specifically designed to dramatically improve the customer experience, increase customer engagement, and improve contact center performance and efficiency. With nearly 800 customers across North America, Textel enables inbound/outbound SMS and MMS texts for organizations who need to connect with customers faster and more efficiently than traditional channels (email, voice, chat). Best of all, Textel users can enable their pre-existing numbers and integrate with industry-leading systems of record (Genesys, Nice inContact, and more).

International ThermoDyne

Venture Round in 2017
International ThermoDyne is the exclusive source for PHELTEX, a cloth-like material that harvests energy from the world around and converts it to electrical power. PhelTex has reached a point in its maturity level where its capabilities are ready for further development. International ThermoDyne is seeking partners who are interested in advancing the PhelTex technology forward for eventual use into their own applications and end products. ITD's first patent-pending, go-to-market product knows as The Opal System provides live data, insight into customer behavior beyond purchase, improved loyalty and retention, increased customer lifetime value, limits on counterfeits, new marketing, and branding opportunities, and facilitated targeted “dialogues” with existing customers. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

OnCall Health

Series A in 2020
OnCall Health is a virtual care platform that is licensed to healthcare providers to use with their patients. Founded in 2016, the company provides technology and services including security, support, analytics, and white label branding to more than 300 healthcare organizations.

GoodUnited

Funding Round in 2021
GoodUnited, Inc. operates a platform that enables nonprofits to connect and share campaigns with supporters through social links, email templates, and other marketing materials. GoodUnited, Inc. was formerly known as inKind, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Charleston, South Carolina.

Datavia Systems

Seed Round in 2018
Datavia Systems has developed a proprietary technology platform for the acquisition, processing, and storage of image data for various applications such as autonomous transportation. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and FPGA-based imaging software and hardware plugin are used for high resolution and real time image processing. Datavia maximizes power consumption efficiency using state-of-art AI and FPGA’s. Suitable for level 1-5 autonomy.

Thumbraise

Funding Round in 2021
Thumbraise, Inc. operates an online platform that allows investors and founders to connect with short video pitches. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Clayton, Missouri.

Valor Water Analytics

Seed Round in 2016
Valor Water Analytics has developed customized financial data and dashboard tools for water utilities and businesses. The company’s software  including a hidden revenue locator, leak detector, and cutoff analyzer — helps utilities understand water usage patterns and opportunities for conservation. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

OnCall Health

Private Placement in 2020
OnCall Health is a virtual care platform that is licensed to healthcare providers to use with their patients. Founded in 2016, the company provides technology and services including security, support, analytics, and white label branding to more than 300 healthcare organizations.

Ecobot

Seed Round in 2022
Ecobot, Inc. designs and develops software that digitalizes the process of collection of scientific data for regulatory environmental monitoring, reporting, and forecasting. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina.

401Go

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of record-keeping and administration web application designed to offer 401k and other retirement plans. The company's services help to build on smart technology that can be managed in minutes and with zero hidden fees, resulting in more compounding dollars saved, enabling clients to lower their taxable income and save more for the future at the same time, and small businesses to create automated retirement plans.

Cloverleaf.me

Seed Round in 2020
Cloverleaf LLC operates a visualization and scenario-planning platform for team management. Its platform delivers assessments and measures impact by cross mapping a team's personality, skills, and culture; enables identity discovery and employee development; and provides customized career insights. The company’s platform is used agile practitioners, project managers, human resources, business coaches, job seekers, teams, enterprises, individuals, and sales teams. Cloverleaf LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Covington, Kentucky.

Schola

Venture Round in 2020
Schola, Inc. provides an online service for connecting parents to schools. It offers Schola that enables parents to discover, connect, and enroll to PK-12 schools. Its service enables to search for private schools, public district schools, public charters, virtual/online schools. Schola, Inc. was formerly known as SmartToro Consulting, LLC. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Chargezoom

Series A in 2022
Fully Integrated Payments, Easy as 1-2-3. One-click integration connects most major accounting packages with your existing payment gateway. In less than 5 minutes payments will automatically reconcile in real-time, saving hours of effort daily. Chargezoom's integrated payment solution works with over 20 popular payment gateways; nothing to change, no transaction fees, just point, click and integrate! Two-Way Sync Payment Dashboard eInvoicing / Pay by email Compliant Surcharging Subscription Management Tokenized Customer Vault Developer-First API Our Mission is to unify your financial ecosystem.

OnCall Health

Seed Round in 2019
OnCall Health is a virtual care platform that is licensed to healthcare providers to use with their patients. Founded in 2016, the company provides technology and services including security, support, analytics, and white label branding to more than 300 healthcare organizations.

Textel

Seed Round in 2019
Textel provides a cloud-based texting platform for contact centers and businesses specifically designed to dramatically improve the customer experience, increase customer engagement, and improve contact center performance and efficiency. With nearly 800 customers across North America, Textel enables inbound/outbound SMS and MMS texts for organizations who need to connect with customers faster and more efficiently than traditional channels (email, voice, chat). Best of all, Textel users can enable their pre-existing numbers and integrate with industry-leading systems of record (Genesys, Nice inContact, and more).

WorkHound

Seed Round in 2019
WorkHound provides a real-time feedback platform for frontline workers to help companies reduce avoidable turnover. It simplifies communication and retention in transportation and healthcare. With the company's insightful analytics, it help companies of all sizes retain frontline workers, boost profitability, and save money. WorkHound was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

FPL Nokero

Seed Round in 2017
FPL Nokero India Pvt Ltd designs, manufactures, and markets LED lighting and integrated solar lighting technology products for commercial, industrial, and residential applications. Its products include LED bulbs, tube lights, street lights, panel lights, downlights, high bay lights, solar bollards, and multi utility solar bulbs. The company markets its products through a network of dealers. FPL Nokero India Pvt Ltd was founded in 2016 and is based in Chennai, India.

Botco.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Botco.ai, Inc. develops a conversational marketing platform that enables chat between businesses and their customers. It offers Botco.ai, an AI powered intelligent chat solution that helps businesses to answer customer’s questions and simplify the buying process. The company’s Botco.ai allows businesses to incorporate conversation templates; answer common questions; and know exactly what their user base is experiencing. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Milpitas, California.

Textel

Private Placement in 2020
Textel provides a cloud-based texting platform for contact centers and businesses specifically designed to dramatically improve the customer experience, increase customer engagement, and improve contact center performance and efficiency. With nearly 800 customers across North America, Textel enables inbound/outbound SMS and MMS texts for organizations who need to connect with customers faster and more efficiently than traditional channels (email, voice, chat). Best of all, Textel users can enable their pre-existing numbers and integrate with industry-leading systems of record (Genesys, Nice inContact, and more).

Homelister

Seed Round in 2019
HomeLister Inc. operates an online real estate brokerage platform. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Return Logic, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Return Logic, Inc. provides a returns management platform for retailers to automate Shopify returns. It offers ReturnLogic for automating returns and exchanges, and leveraging returns data to optimize business. The company’s ReturnLogic also provides brand customization, inventory management, returns processing, pinpoint analytics, and 3PL and ERP integration. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania with an additional office in York.

Popwallet

Seed Round in 2019
Popwallet is a mobile wallet customer experience management platform, working with some of the most innovative brands in the world to reach and engage people in a safe and contactless way through mobile wallets like Apple Wallet and Google Pay. These experiences include dynamic coupons and offers, rebates, loyalty and gift cards, tickets, and other lightweight branded content.

Schola

Seed Round in 2019
Schola, Inc. provides an online service for connecting parents to schools. It offers Schola that enables parents to discover, connect, and enroll to PK-12 schools. Its service enables to search for private schools, public district schools, public charters, virtual/online schools. Schola, Inc. was formerly known as SmartToro Consulting, LLC. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Blockthrough

Seed Round in 2018
Blockthrough helps publishers recover the revenue they lose to adblocking without pissing users off. We believe publishers have the right to monetize the content they produce, and their users deserve an outstanding experience.

Sitter

Seed Round in 2017
SITTER, INC. develops an application that helps parents to find, book, and pay babysitters. SITTER, INC. was formerly known as SitterSquared LLC and changed its name to SITTER, INC. in December 2014. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Boulder, Colorado. As of May 10, 2019 SITTER, INC. operates as a subsidiary of UrbanSitter, Inc.

Idle Smart

Series A in 2018
Idle Smart, L.L.C. provides products for day cabs, electric APUs, and school Buses in the United States and Canada. It offers Idle Smart, an automated engine start stop solution that reduces overnight idle time. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Kansas City, Kansas with location in Lenox, Massachusetts.

RoadBotics

Seed Round in 2017
RoadBotics empowers governments and communities to make objective, data-driven decisions about their public infrastructure assets. We automate image mapping and road assessments, generating interactive maps, unbiased ratings, and practical tools to save time and taxpayer dollars for hundreds of communities across the country and around the world.

BlastPoint

Seed Round in 2018
BlastPoint provides big data solutions that help companies optimize revenue growth. Its user-intuitive software platform is customizable, interactive, and stays constantly up to date. It provides services to customers in retail, the utility industry, emerging franchises, and nonprofit organizations. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

PHARMAJET

Series F in 2017
PharmaJet, Inc. develops and markets needle-free devices for the vaccine delivery sector. The company’s needle-free injectors are used to eliminate needle stick injuries, needle reuse, and cross contamination; and help reduce sharps waste disposal. The company markets its products under the Stratis and Tropis brands. PharmaJet, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Golden, Colorado.

Realvision

Seed Round in 2017
Realvision is an immersive media technology company that builds 3D media solutions for the real estate industry. Realvision is a technology platform built to support real estate agents, created for professional photographers.

KredosAi

Seed Round in 2024
KredosAI is a fintech company that provides financial solutions with the help of technology. KredosAI is an early-stage company at the convergence of artificial intelligence, behavioral economics, payments, and a dedication to the financial success of those they serve.

Iconic Moments

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Iconic Moments is a NFT Marketplace for the 450,000 Museums and Cultural Institutions around the world.

Optera

Series A in 2023
Optera is the ESG software platform used by many of the world's most established and ambitious corporate sustainability programs. Optera blends a complete emissions platform (scope 1, 2, and 3) with expert in-house practitioners to provide customers with a comprehensive solution to even the most complex carbon accounting challenges. From a first-time inventory and complete scope 3 accounting to science-based targets and achieving net-zero, the Optera platform supports companies at any stage of their ESG journey. Optera also goes beyond internal management and connects our clients with their suppliers, portfolio companies, or customers to enable meaningful action and engagement across their value chain. Companies of every size and industry use Optera from Dell and HPE to Grove Collaborative and William-Sonoma. Our expert team collaborates with leading NGOs such as BSR, CDP, and the World Economic Forum to advance corporate ESG practices globally.

tribute

Seed Round in 2023
Finding a mentor in today’s fast-paced work environment can be tough. Tribute aims to redefine mentorship. Delivering an easy to use app for the enterprise that connects your workforce on-demand through shared life experiences and stories. Promoting a more authentic way to discover and connect with mentors, while using technology to simplify the process of delivering corporate mentoring programs. Tribute provides employers access to the insights they need to demonstrate results, while providing an innovative mentorship experience to serve today’s diverse workforce.

Featured

Seed Round in 2022
Terkel is a knowledge platform that creates community-driven content featuring expert insights. Sign up at terkel.io to answer questions and get published.

Bellwethr

Private Placement in 2019
Bellwethr uses artificial intelligence to increase retention and revenue throughout the customer journey. Bellwethr started around the idea that machine learning and AI should be available to anyone, no matter their technical background. The business was founded in 2017 by Matt Moody, with the sole intention of making artificial intelligence simple enough for anyone to utilize it.

Popwallet

Seed Round in 2018
Popwallet is a mobile wallet customer experience management platform, working with some of the most innovative brands in the world to reach and engage people in a safe and contactless way through mobile wallets like Apple Wallet and Google Pay. These experiences include dynamic coupons and offers, rebates, loyalty and gift cards, tickets, and other lightweight branded content.

Optera

Seed Round in 2020
Optera is the ESG software platform used by many of the world's most established and ambitious corporate sustainability programs. Optera blends a complete emissions platform (scope 1, 2, and 3) with expert in-house practitioners to provide customers with a comprehensive solution to even the most complex carbon accounting challenges. From a first-time inventory and complete scope 3 accounting to science-based targets and achieving net-zero, the Optera platform supports companies at any stage of their ESG journey. Optera also goes beyond internal management and connects our clients with their suppliers, portfolio companies, or customers to enable meaningful action and engagement across their value chain. Companies of every size and industry use Optera from Dell and HPE to Grove Collaborative and William-Sonoma. Our expert team collaborates with leading NGOs such as BSR, CDP, and the World Economic Forum to advance corporate ESG practices globally.

Bridgr

Seed Round in 2023
Bridgr is a Marketplace that allows manufacturing SMBs find and collaborate with qualified experts to sustain, grow and digitalize their operations. It provides both parts a collaborative platform set to help them increase their productivity and work.

Vetty

Seed Round in 2018
Vetty, Inc. designs and develops an artificial intelligence-based employee verification platform for gig-economy marketplaces and enterprises. It offers a mobile and desktop-based identity and background verification platform for the employee hiring process that stores the information needed for the applicant’s background check. It provides various checks, including identity checks, criminal checks, credential checks, financial checks, driving record checks, and drug testing. The company serves hospitality, technology, financial services, staffing, healthcare, commercial drivers, non-profit, marketplaces, and the on-demand economy industries. Vetty, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Pilotly

Seed Round in 2017
Pilotly enables media publishers to run digital focus groups at scale with precise audience segmentation. Our research solution is composed of a multi-platform video portal / APIs, interactive engagement tools for viewers, and dynamic reporting for clients. Our platform collects data and displays it instantly to an online dashboard. Today content creators waste nearly a billion dollars a year on videos that either never find an audience or never find proper distribution. Pilotly helps creators make better business decisions based on actual viewer data from their target audience. Unlike current pilot tests that only offer reporting once, we are able to publish updated reports with actionable insights on-demand. Furthermore, our viewers remain within Pilotly to watch many pilots; so over time, we better understand their preferences as they increase their engagement with our platform. We are building the big data pipeline behind media entertainment. Try it, www.pilot.ly

Cheddar Up

Venture Round in 2017
Collect payments and information online for anything. Cheddar Up is the easiest way to move your community online, save time, and focus on more important stuff. Manage group collections without paper and hassle. Create your collection in seconds and share it. Anyone can pay – even those who don’t have Cheddar Up. Whether you’re collecting for a teacher gift, troop fees, event (or anything in between)…we’ve got you covered. With Cheddar Up you can collect for more than just payments. Request extra information (t-shirt size, contact info, etc.) or collect for multiple items. Cheddar Up’s “payment + form” functionality means there’s no need for checks, paper forms, or trips to the bank.

Hook Security

Seed Round in 2023
Hook Security, a cybersecurity SaaS training company, is introducing a new and better way to train all organizations to recognize security threats. We are motivated by the simple vision that everyone, everywhere, will recognize and respond to manipulation by technology. Our core productized services include phishing simulations, detailed reporting, API interfaces into cybersecurity stacks, and email client plugins that train users on counterfeit emails at the point of use. We are pioneering Psychological Security (psysec) as the next evolution of Information Security (infosec).

Optera

Seed Round in 2022
Optera is the ESG software platform used by many of the world's most established and ambitious corporate sustainability programs. Optera blends a complete emissions platform (scope 1, 2, and 3) with expert in-house practitioners to provide customers with a comprehensive solution to even the most complex carbon accounting challenges. From a first-time inventory and complete scope 3 accounting to science-based targets and achieving net-zero, the Optera platform supports companies at any stage of their ESG journey. Optera also goes beyond internal management and connects our clients with their suppliers, portfolio companies, or customers to enable meaningful action and engagement across their value chain. Companies of every size and industry use Optera from Dell and HPE to Grove Collaborative and William-Sonoma. Our expert team collaborates with leading NGOs such as BSR, CDP, and the World Economic Forum to advance corporate ESG practices globally.

Costello

Seed Round in 2018
Costello is sales co-pilot software that helps your team keep deals and conversations on track so you close more deals. Costello helps you stay on top of everything you need to do to win a deal. You can see all the critical information about every deal in your pipeline on one screen. Reps start their day knowing which deals to focus on. Costello highlights gaps in each deal so you can quickly identify at-risk and bad fit deals. It identifies the questions that matter most in your sales process and then help your reps beat the competition by guiding them through the critical moments in sales calls that determine whether you win or lose. Learn more at: https://andcostello.com/

CureMint

Seed Round in 2021
CureMint, Inc. develops a procurement software for the dental industry. It offers CureMint, a dental procurement software that helps dental organizations by providing an ordering experience, spend visibility, and office management features. The company’s software is also used to create and manage various formularies that populate the users’ custom catalog and store with the products and prices they want their employees to purchase; prioritize the products they need; and build automated reviews and approval workflows for each user, office, and group. CureMint, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Fluent Forever

Seed Round in 2020
Fluent Forever Inc. develops an application that offers material to learn speaking a foreign language and remember it forever. Its application offers Spanish (Latin American and Castilian), French, Italian, Russian, German, Portuguese (Brazilian), Korean, and Japanese languages. Fluent Forever Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Curate

Seed Round in 2021
SaaS for curating the products and people of event professionals.

Tomahawk Robotics

Private Placement in 2018
The backbone of any useful robotic solution is predicated on user-centric design, intuitive control technologies and the intelligent application of electro-mechanical technology. We’ve spent our professional career developing and delivering industry leading robotic control software, ruggedized hardware and innovative robotic systems. Our robotic solutions are built to safely work alongside people and work in unstructured environments. They manipulate the space and objects found in the real world, as an extension of the user, in a safe and cost-effective way.

Bitsbox

Venture Round in 2018
Bitsbox is a provider of a monthly subscription box used to offer increasingly advanced projects that teach children to code. The company's subscription box provides monthly coding projects that teach gradeschoolers how to program application through a website, that runs on phones and tablets, enabling children to learn to code in a hassle free way. It teaches real coding with crazy fun projects that come in the mail every month. Bitsbox was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Optera

Seed Round in 2021
Optera is the ESG software platform used by many of the world's most established and ambitious corporate sustainability programs. Optera blends a complete emissions platform (scope 1, 2, and 3) with expert in-house practitioners to provide customers with a comprehensive solution to even the most complex carbon accounting challenges. From a first-time inventory and complete scope 3 accounting to science-based targets and achieving net-zero, the Optera platform supports companies at any stage of their ESG journey. Optera also goes beyond internal management and connects our clients with their suppliers, portfolio companies, or customers to enable meaningful action and engagement across their value chain. Companies of every size and industry use Optera from Dell and HPE to Grove Collaborative and William-Sonoma. Our expert team collaborates with leading NGOs such as BSR, CDP, and the World Economic Forum to advance corporate ESG practices globally.

Teltoo

Seed Round in 2017
Teltoo uses P2P technologies to improve online video delivery. Teltoo works alongside its clients preferred CDN, turning video distribution into a reliable experience. It integrates into broadcasters' workflow and works on the browser's background without expecting its clients to install any plug-ins. Teltoo also offers an analytics dashboard that shows bandwidth savings and activity and is compatible with most video players. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado.

The Food Corridor

Seed Round in 2017
The Food Corridor, LLC provides an online marketplace for food businesses to connect with commercial food assets. The company provides services, which includes online booking, payment processing, disbursement, and invoicing. It helps food businesses to find and book commercial kitchens, equipment, commissaries, processors, co-packers, and food storage spaces. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Prospectify

Seed Round in 2017
Prospectify, Inc. develops and operates an automated prospecting platform. Its platform enables users to use data search, data enrichment, and verification systems to build targeted lists and outreach campaigns. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Gilbert, Arizona. As of August 8, 2019, Prospectify, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of AngelList LLC.

Schola

Venture Round in 2021
Schola, Inc. provides an online service for connecting parents to schools. It offers Schola that enables parents to discover, connect, and enroll to PK-12 schools. Its service enables to search for private schools, public district schools, public charters, virtual/online schools. Schola, Inc. was formerly known as SmartToro Consulting, LLC. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Textel

Private Placement in 2020
Textel provides a cloud-based texting platform for contact centers and businesses specifically designed to dramatically improve the customer experience, increase customer engagement, and improve contact center performance and efficiency. With nearly 800 customers across North America, Textel enables inbound/outbound SMS and MMS texts for organizations who need to connect with customers faster and more efficiently than traditional channels (email, voice, chat). Best of all, Textel users can enable their pre-existing numbers and integrate with industry-leading systems of record (Genesys, Nice inContact, and more).

interviewIA

Seed Round in 2021
interviewIA is committed to systematically building an Inclusive Future of Work in a world where organizations can be objective and inclusive in hiring to create thriving, diverse, engaged cultures of high-performing employees. interviewIA is redefining the actual practice of interviewing by creating the first solution to bring human calibration, structure, and data-driven interview outcomes into one, fully integrated, easy-to-use cloud application. interviewIA uses deep learning Intelligence Amplification (IA) technology and human-centered design to redefine the method of interviewing.

Viviota

Funding Round in 2021
Viviota software provides unprecedented performance improvements in engineering data management and automated analysis — reducing costs and improving time-to-market for new vehicles, tools and devices. Viviota’s powerful software dramatically simplifies data management complexity and fully integrates into existing design, prototyping, and test environments—releasing the full potential of sensor data—and accelerating time-to-insight and innovation. Located in Austin, Texas, Viviota is a member of the HPE Partner Network, National Instruments Partner Alliance, and a graduate of the Capital Factory Accelerator Program. www.viviota.com

Optera

Seed Round in 2022
Optera is the ESG software platform used by many of the world's most established and ambitious corporate sustainability programs. Optera blends a complete emissions platform (scope 1, 2, and 3) with expert in-house practitioners to provide customers with a comprehensive solution to even the most complex carbon accounting challenges. From a first-time inventory and complete scope 3 accounting to science-based targets and achieving net-zero, the Optera platform supports companies at any stage of their ESG journey. Optera also goes beyond internal management and connects our clients with their suppliers, portfolio companies, or customers to enable meaningful action and engagement across their value chain. Companies of every size and industry use Optera from Dell and HPE to Grove Collaborative and William-Sonoma. Our expert team collaborates with leading NGOs such as BSR, CDP, and the World Economic Forum to advance corporate ESG practices globally.

Knockri

Private Placement in 2020
Knockri Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based video soft skill assessment tool that reduces hiring bias and eliminates unsuccessful interviews. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Felt

Seed Round in 2018
Felt, LLC. develops an iOS application that allows users to personalize their photos and prints them. Its application enables users to add decorative frame, doodles, and a handwritten message on the front and back of photos and greeting cards; and prints, seals, stamps, and mails them to the addresses given in the application by the users. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Telluride, Colorado.

The Minte

Seed Round in 2018
The Minte offers hotel-style housekeeping services. It uses a building-centric model for staffing housekeepers. The Minte's services can be booked via app or by pressing a dash-like button out the door. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Chicago in Illinois.

ClinOne

Seed Round in 2017
ClinOne clinical trial management solution designed to access to mission-critical clinical trial details through web & mobile devices.

Bellwethr

Seed Round in 2019
Bellwethr uses artificial intelligence to increase retention and revenue throughout the customer journey. Bellwethr started around the idea that machine learning and AI should be available to anyone, no matter their technical background. The business was founded in 2017 by Matt Moody, with the sole intention of making artificial intelligence simple enough for anyone to utilize it.

Knockri

Seed Round in 2020
Knockri Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based video soft skill assessment tool that reduces hiring bias and eliminates unsuccessful interviews. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Cloverleaf.me

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Cloverleaf LLC operates a visualization and scenario-planning platform for team management. Its platform delivers assessments and measures impact by cross mapping a team's personality, skills, and culture; enables identity discovery and employee development; and provides customized career insights. The company’s platform is used agile practitioners, project managers, human resources, business coaches, job seekers, teams, enterprises, individuals, and sales teams. Cloverleaf LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Covington, Kentucky.

Tomahawk Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
The backbone of any useful robotic solution is predicated on user-centric design, intuitive control technologies and the intelligent application of electro-mechanical technology. We’ve spent our professional career developing and delivering industry leading robotic control software, ruggedized hardware and innovative robotic systems. Our robotic solutions are built to safely work alongside people and work in unstructured environments. They manipulate the space and objects found in the real world, as an extension of the user, in a safe and cost-effective way.

Powderkeg

Private Placement in 2019
Powderkeg is a growing community of more than 10,000 tech entrepreneurs, investors and professionals building innovative companies across America. Powderkeg helps its members connect and scale their companies with powerful resources and technologies, including their community-as-a-service platform, helping connect founders to resources like capital Powderkeg founders have collectively raised more than $1 billion in capital and are disrupting industries, creating wealth, and changing the world from areas beyond Silicon Valley.

Sickweather

Equity Crowdfunding in 2018
Sickweather is the world's only predictive, hyperlocal illness data platform. A Doppler radar for illness, Sickweather knows where sick people are clustered. Boasting a patented social listening technology that detects illness trends in real-time at a hyper-local level, in more than 120 countries, Sickweather data is modeled into 15-week forecasts and a threat level index called the SickScore.

RoadBotics

Seed Round in 2018
RoadBotics empowers governments and communities to make objective, data-driven decisions about their public infrastructure assets. We automate image mapping and road assessments, generating interactive maps, unbiased ratings, and practical tools to save time and taxpayer dollars for hundreds of communities across the country and around the world.

Prieto Battery

Series B in 2018
Prieto Battery Inc. designs and manufactures rechargeable 3D lithium-ion batteries. It offers its products for renewable, electric/hybrid vehicles, consumer products, and government applications. Prieto Battery Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Fort Collins, Colorado.

OnCall Health

Private Placement in 2019
OnCall Health is a virtual care platform that is licensed to healthcare providers to use with their patients. Founded in 2016, the company provides technology and services including security, support, analytics, and white label branding to more than 300 healthcare organizations.

Fluent Forever

Private Placement in 2020
Fluent Forever Inc. develops an application that offers material to learn speaking a foreign language and remember it forever. Its application offers Spanish (Latin American and Castilian), French, Italian, Russian, German, Portuguese (Brazilian), Korean, and Japanese languages. Fluent Forever Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Left Hand Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
Left Hand Robotics has developed the first commercial-class, self-driving snow clearing robot capable of removing snow from sidewalks and walkways. The SnowBot Pro is controlled and monitored remotely from an online management dashboard and uses GPS to follow a pre-programmed path. Its rotating brush clears a sidewalk from edge-to-edge in a single pass to meet even the highest standards.

Allbound

Series A in 2018
Allbound is a saas platform that helps companies accelerate growth through their resellers and distributors with more predictably and lower costs by providing sales reps with a single SaaS toolset for training, content marketing, collaboration, and customer success. The company's partner relationship management (PRM) software from partner onboarding, to enablement, marketing collaboration, and deal registration. Allbound provides cloud-based channel sales that allow organizations to give real-time access to sales enablement, marketing tools, and resources. It helps companies build successful partner programs.

Powderkeg

Seed Round in 2018
Powderkeg is a growing community of more than 10,000 tech entrepreneurs, investors and professionals building innovative companies across America. Powderkeg helps its members connect and scale their companies with powerful resources and technologies, including their community-as-a-service platform, helping connect founders to resources like capital Powderkeg founders have collectively raised more than $1 billion in capital and are disrupting industries, creating wealth, and changing the world from areas beyond Silicon Valley.

rMark Bio

Seed Round in 2019
rMark Bio, Inc., a software company, designs and develops artificial intelligence solutions for pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, medical device companies, and investment firms. It offers Fabric, a platform that understands the real-time business strategies of research and development, medical affairs, marketing, and commercial teams to provide field representatives with clear and concise decisions that remove inefficiencies and increase ROI for thought leader engagements. rMark Bio, Inc. was formerly known as rMark Biogenics, LLC. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Incident Response Technologies (IRT) formed in 2005 with the vision of providing public safety organizations with intuitive, cloud-based solutions to assist with incident response. Founded and staffed by incident response professionals with dozens of years of front line experience, IRT developed its flagship product, the Rhodium™ Incident Management Suite. This solution is now deployed by hundreds of public safety organizations including police, fire, EMS, emergency management, and campus security.

Schola

Private Placement in 2020
Schola, Inc. provides an online service for connecting parents to schools. It offers Schola that enables parents to discover, connect, and enroll to PK-12 schools. Its service enables to search for private schools, public district schools, public charters, virtual/online schools. Schola, Inc. was formerly known as SmartToro Consulting, LLC. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

WorldViz

Series A in 2018
WorldViz is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of virtual reality, visual simulation, 3D software, and real-time motion tracking. Its Virtual Reality solutions come with the industry’s favored 3D multi-purpose software platform VIZARD, custom application programming, 3D graphics design, real-time optical motion tracking, and expert onsite installation & training. It was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.

Curate

Seed Round in 2018
SaaS for curating the products and people of event professionals.

Hippo Manager

Series A in 2018
Hippo Manager is a cloud-based veterinary electronic practice management software for small and large animal veterinary practices. It is their mission to assist veterinary practices in leveraging technology to improve operations through increasing the quality of patient care, creating better patient access to records, and developing new revenue streams for veterinarians.

Cloverleaf.me

Private Placement in 2020
Cloverleaf LLC operates a visualization and scenario-planning platform for team management. Its platform delivers assessments and measures impact by cross mapping a team's personality, skills, and culture; enables identity discovery and employee development; and provides customized career insights. The company’s platform is used agile practitioners, project managers, human resources, business coaches, job seekers, teams, enterprises, individuals, and sales teams. Cloverleaf LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Covington, Kentucky.

Volt

Seed Round in 2024
Respond Flow is an SMS software for any business that wants to save time and resources on marketing, sales, and service. Using a local 10-Digit number, users can schedule and send targeted messages to customers and prospects, while maintaining a personal touch. This helps businesses build a loyal customer base, close more deals, and increase customer satisfaction.

401Go

Series A in 2024
Developer of record-keeping and administration web application designed to offer 401k and other retirement plans. The company's services help to build on smart technology that can be managed in minutes and with zero hidden fees, resulting in more compounding dollars saved, enabling clients to lower their taxable income and save more for the future at the same time, and small businesses to create automated retirement plans.

ShowLabs

Venture Round in 2023
Operator of a content studio intended to help brands from reaching efficient asset creation and effective go-to-market plans. The company combines robotic camera systems, workflow and studio automation software and a proprietary production process to create consistent, ready-to-deploy digital assets for e-commerce platforms, enabling brands to access suitable tools to scale their businesses and increase revenue.