Summerhill Venture Partners

Summerhill Venture Partners was an early-stage venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 2007, the firm specialized in investing in the wireless, digital media, and information technology sectors. It focused on incubation, seed, and growth capital investments, primarily targeting companies in broadband communications, mobile technologies, software and services, and cloud computing. Summerhill typically made initial investments of at least $500,000 in seed-stage companies and up to $10 million in later-stage ventures, often taking on a lead or co-lead role in its portfolio. The firm aimed to exit its investments within four to six years through avenues such as IPOs, mergers, or sales. However, as of November 30, 2019, Summerhill Venture Partners is out of business.

Gary Rubinoff

Managing Partner

32 past transactions

C2FO

Venture Round in 2016
C2FO is the world’s on-demand working capital platform, providing fast, flexible and equitable access to low-cost capital to nearly 2 million businesses worldwide. Using patented Name Your Rate® technology and a suite of working capital solutions, companies can get paid sooner by the world’s largest enterprises — unlocking billions in risk-free capital. C2FO’s mission is to ensure that every business has the capital needed to thrive and has delivered more than $275 billion in funding around the world. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Kansas City, USA, with offices around the globe, C2FO is working to build a better, more inclusive financial system every day.

ScribbleLive

Series D in 2015
ScribbleLive is a content cloud provider that helps companies manage the lifecycle of their content. It provides global brands with the services and solutions they need to create premium content at scale. The company's managed services provide clients with program and campaign coverage including dashboards and program reporting. Its services offered includes content strategy, creative services, implementation, integration, and IT support. ScribbleLive was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

C2FO

Series E in 2015
C2FO is the world’s on-demand working capital platform, providing fast, flexible and equitable access to low-cost capital to nearly 2 million businesses worldwide. Using patented Name Your Rate® technology and a suite of working capital solutions, companies can get paid sooner by the world’s largest enterprises — unlocking billions in risk-free capital. C2FO’s mission is to ensure that every business has the capital needed to thrive and has delivered more than $275 billion in funding around the world. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Kansas City, USA, with offices around the globe, C2FO is working to build a better, more inclusive financial system every day.

ScribbleLive

Series C in 2014
ScribbleLive is a content cloud provider that helps companies manage the lifecycle of their content. It provides global brands with the services and solutions they need to create premium content at scale. The company's managed services provide clients with program and campaign coverage including dashboards and program reporting. Its services offered includes content strategy, creative services, implementation, integration, and IT support. ScribbleLive was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

BLINQ Networks

Series B in 2014
BLINQ Networks is the pioneer in developing next-generation non-line-of sight (NLOS) wireless backhaul products for compact base stations that enable wireless carriers to address the growth in demand for capacity. BLINQ is funded by highly regarded US and Canadian venture capital firms with strong investment track record in wireless technologies and solutions. Their management team has a proven record in building high-growth businesses in the wireless industry with companies that include Andrew, Flarion and Qualcomm. BLINQ's core engineering team comes from Nortel Networks where they were well recognized for developing innovative, state of the art and cost effective wireless systems that have been deployed worldwide. They are set to make a large impact in the wireless industry at a critical inflection point where the mobile Internet enabled by smart phones and mobile computing devices are driving data usage ever higher.

Sonian

Series C in 2013
Sonian is a pure public cloud information archiving company, providing a service that is easy, flexible, actionable, and reliable for OEM partners and their end customers. Sonian allows companies to preserve, analyze, and access their electronic communications for legal, regulatory, and continuity purposes while gaining organizational insights. More than 25,000 customers in 43 countries trust Sonian’s secure proprietary platform to retain, retrieve, and surface critical data and protect intellectual property. Founded in 2007, Sonian realized that companies were struggling to manage Big Data. As a result, CTO and Founder Greg Arnette recognized earlier than most that there was an enormous opportunity to use the emerging public cloud to solve these problems. Since that time, Sonian has pioneered cutting-edge cloud technologies to protect and provide value for its partners and customers. This has led to many innovations in everything from managing cloud systems and aggregating data to extracting value from and accessing information.

C2FO

Series C in 2013
C2FO is the world’s on-demand working capital platform, providing fast, flexible and equitable access to low-cost capital to nearly 2 million businesses worldwide. Using patented Name Your Rate® technology and a suite of working capital solutions, companies can get paid sooner by the world’s largest enterprises — unlocking billions in risk-free capital. C2FO’s mission is to ensure that every business has the capital needed to thrive and has delivered more than $275 billion in funding around the world. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Kansas City, USA, with offices around the globe, C2FO is working to build a better, more inclusive financial system every day.

ScribbleLive

Series B in 2013
ScribbleLive is a content cloud provider that helps companies manage the lifecycle of their content. It provides global brands with the services and solutions they need to create premium content at scale. The company's managed services provide clients with program and campaign coverage including dashboards and program reporting. Its services offered includes content strategy, creative services, implementation, integration, and IT support. ScribbleLive was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

BLINQ Networks

Series B in 2012
BLINQ Networks is the pioneer in developing next-generation non-line-of sight (NLOS) wireless backhaul products for compact base stations that enable wireless carriers to address the growth in demand for capacity. BLINQ is funded by highly regarded US and Canadian venture capital firms with strong investment track record in wireless technologies and solutions. Their management team has a proven record in building high-growth businesses in the wireless industry with companies that include Andrew, Flarion and Qualcomm. BLINQ's core engineering team comes from Nortel Networks where they were well recognized for developing innovative, state of the art and cost effective wireless systems that have been deployed worldwide. They are set to make a large impact in the wireless industry at a critical inflection point where the mobile Internet enabled by smart phones and mobile computing devices are driving data usage ever higher.

Jumptap

Venture Round in 2012
Jumptap is a mobile ad network and the leader in targeted mobile advertising. Reaching 107 million mobile users in the U.S. and 156 million mobile users worldwide, Jumptap uses its extensive technology portfolio, as well as industry-first partnerships with third-party data providers, to understand mobile audiences better than any other ad network and provide intelligent targeting with scale. Through its large network of premium publishers and apps, and constant campaign optimization, Jumptap delivers the best ROI for advertisers and highest yield for publishers and developers. Jumptap has pioneered mobile advertising privacy standards and is committed to unlocking mobile opportunities for all parties through its ongoing industry research, such as its Understanding Mobile Audience series and monthly MobileSTAT reports.

Sonian

Series C in 2012
Sonian is a pure public cloud information archiving company, providing a service that is easy, flexible, actionable, and reliable for OEM partners and their end customers. Sonian allows companies to preserve, analyze, and access their electronic communications for legal, regulatory, and continuity purposes while gaining organizational insights. More than 25,000 customers in 43 countries trust Sonian’s secure proprietary platform to retain, retrieve, and surface critical data and protect intellectual property. Founded in 2007, Sonian realized that companies were struggling to manage Big Data. As a result, CTO and Founder Greg Arnette recognized earlier than most that there was an enormous opportunity to use the emerging public cloud to solve these problems. Since that time, Sonian has pioneered cutting-edge cloud technologies to protect and provide value for its partners and customers. This has led to many innovations in everything from managing cloud systems and aggregating data to extracting value from and accessing information.

ScribbleLive

Series A in 2011
ScribbleLive is a content cloud provider that helps companies manage the lifecycle of their content. It provides global brands with the services and solutions they need to create premium content at scale. The company's managed services provide clients with program and campaign coverage including dashboards and program reporting. Its services offered includes content strategy, creative services, implementation, integration, and IT support. ScribbleLive was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

Jumptap

Venture Round in 2011
Jumptap is a mobile ad network and the leader in targeted mobile advertising. Reaching 107 million mobile users in the U.S. and 156 million mobile users worldwide, Jumptap uses its extensive technology portfolio, as well as industry-first partnerships with third-party data providers, to understand mobile audiences better than any other ad network and provide intelligent targeting with scale. Through its large network of premium publishers and apps, and constant campaign optimization, Jumptap delivers the best ROI for advertisers and highest yield for publishers and developers. Jumptap has pioneered mobile advertising privacy standards and is committed to unlocking mobile opportunities for all parties through its ongoing industry research, such as its Understanding Mobile Audience series and monthly MobileSTAT reports.

C2FO

Series A in 2011
C2FO is the world’s on-demand working capital platform, providing fast, flexible and equitable access to low-cost capital to nearly 2 million businesses worldwide. Using patented Name Your Rate® technology and a suite of working capital solutions, companies can get paid sooner by the world’s largest enterprises — unlocking billions in risk-free capital. C2FO’s mission is to ensure that every business has the capital needed to thrive and has delivered more than $275 billion in funding around the world. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Kansas City, USA, with offices around the globe, C2FO is working to build a better, more inclusive financial system every day.

BLINQ Networks

Series A in 2011
BLINQ Networks is the pioneer in developing next-generation non-line-of sight (NLOS) wireless backhaul products for compact base stations that enable wireless carriers to address the growth in demand for capacity. BLINQ is funded by highly regarded US and Canadian venture capital firms with strong investment track record in wireless technologies and solutions. Their management team has a proven record in building high-growth businesses in the wireless industry with companies that include Andrew, Flarion and Qualcomm. BLINQ's core engineering team comes from Nortel Networks where they were well recognized for developing innovative, state of the art and cost effective wireless systems that have been deployed worldwide. They are set to make a large impact in the wireless industry at a critical inflection point where the mobile Internet enabled by smart phones and mobile computing devices are driving data usage ever higher.

Sonian

Series B in 2010
Sonian is a pure public cloud information archiving company, providing a service that is easy, flexible, actionable, and reliable for OEM partners and their end customers. Sonian allows companies to preserve, analyze, and access their electronic communications for legal, regulatory, and continuity purposes while gaining organizational insights. More than 25,000 customers in 43 countries trust Sonian’s secure proprietary platform to retain, retrieve, and surface critical data and protect intellectual property. Founded in 2007, Sonian realized that companies were struggling to manage Big Data. As a result, CTO and Founder Greg Arnette recognized earlier than most that there was an enormous opportunity to use the emerging public cloud to solve these problems. Since that time, Sonian has pioneered cutting-edge cloud technologies to protect and provide value for its partners and customers. This has led to many innovations in everything from managing cloud systems and aggregating data to extracting value from and accessing information.

Vantrix

Venture Round in 2010
Vantrix specializes in the optimization and delivery of digital content over wireless or wired networks to connected devices striving for the best performance, highest quality and most cost-effective solutions available. With a heritage in video and image optimization, Vantrix has developed a high-performance, scalable platform to meet the unique needs of service providers today and into the future. Vantrix solutions are deployed in more than 65 networks worldwide. Vantrix Corporation was formerly known as VoiceAge Networks Corporation. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada with additional offices in London, Dubai, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong.

Sonian

Series A in 2009
Sonian is a pure public cloud information archiving company, providing a service that is easy, flexible, actionable, and reliable for OEM partners and their end customers. Sonian allows companies to preserve, analyze, and access their electronic communications for legal, regulatory, and continuity purposes while gaining organizational insights. More than 25,000 customers in 43 countries trust Sonian’s secure proprietary platform to retain, retrieve, and surface critical data and protect intellectual property. Founded in 2007, Sonian realized that companies were struggling to manage Big Data. As a result, CTO and Founder Greg Arnette recognized earlier than most that there was an enormous opportunity to use the emerging public cloud to solve these problems. Since that time, Sonian has pioneered cutting-edge cloud technologies to protect and provide value for its partners and customers. This has led to many innovations in everything from managing cloud systems and aggregating data to extracting value from and accessing information.

Trust Digital

Series C in 2008
Trust Digital LLC provides enterprise smartphone security and management software for government organizations and various companies. It offers solutions to secure, deploy, and manage smartphones for information technology organizations. The company offers EMM Console, a browser-based solution to centrally manage the different smartphones used by mobile workers, as well as to provide policy management tools, reporting capabilities, and compliance enforcement facilities to secure smartphones and ruggedized devices. It serves financial services, government, healthcare, and education industries.

Jumptap

Series D in 2008
Jumptap is a mobile ad network and the leader in targeted mobile advertising. Reaching 107 million mobile users in the U.S. and 156 million mobile users worldwide, Jumptap uses its extensive technology portfolio, as well as industry-first partnerships with third-party data providers, to understand mobile audiences better than any other ad network and provide intelligent targeting with scale. Through its large network of premium publishers and apps, and constant campaign optimization, Jumptap delivers the best ROI for advertisers and highest yield for publishers and developers. Jumptap has pioneered mobile advertising privacy standards and is committed to unlocking mobile opportunities for all parties through its ongoing industry research, such as its Understanding Mobile Audience series and monthly MobileSTAT reports.

Vantrix

Series B in 2007
Vantrix specializes in the optimization and delivery of digital content over wireless or wired networks to connected devices striving for the best performance, highest quality and most cost-effective solutions available. With a heritage in video and image optimization, Vantrix has developed a high-performance, scalable platform to meet the unique needs of service providers today and into the future. Vantrix solutions are deployed in more than 65 networks worldwide. Vantrix Corporation was formerly known as VoiceAge Networks Corporation. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada with additional offices in London, Dubai, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong.

Radian6

Series A in 2007
Radian6 helps companies listen to what people are saying about them online and engage in those conversations across the social web. From blogs and comments to multimedia, boards, forums and communities like Twitter, Radian6 gathers the discussions happening online and gives businesses the ability to analyze, manage, track, and report on their social media monitoring and engagement efforts. Radian6 provides the social media monitoring platform for marketing, communications and customer support professionals. The company's flexible dashboard enables monitoring all forms of social media with results appearing in real-time, as discovered. Analysis widgets, streamlined reporting, integrated workflow capabilities and our Insights platform give users the ability to uncover influencers, track and measure engagement and determine which conversations are having an impact online. Integrated social media, CRM, and web analytics also help companies define their social media ROI. Product Attributes: * Data is captured in real-time as discovered and delivered to dashboard analysis widgets. * The UI is easy to use with text, pictures and video inside the dashboard. * The solution covers all forms of social media including blogs, top video and image sharing sites, forums, opinion sites, mainstream online media and emerging media like Twitter. * Automated sentiment analysis * Radian6 has now extended its platform to equip team members with deep social media listening and measurement capabilities within the tools they already use. With features developed on their platform API and Social Metrics Framework for integrating third-party data, Radian6 now supports the integration of social customer relationship management (CRM), web analytics, and other enterprise systems. * Conversational dynamics are constantly tallied to track the viral nature of each post. This allows for easy sorting by publish date, comment count, unique commenters and calculated engagement. * There is no limit to keywords when setting up topic profiles. Billing is tied to results, not the parameters used. * Multiple languages are supported including; English, French, Italian, German, Simple Chinese, Russian, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese. * Results can be filtered by country, by source and by media type. * Numerous analysis widgets can be set up to analyze within a date range or for pre-set days. * The most influential sites for a topic profile can be calculated based on user-weighted scoring. * Configurable email and instant messenger alerts for staying top of things while away from your desk * Design your own daily email reports including posts, graphs and charts * Team work flow abilities for tagging, classification and assignment of posts to team members including recording of internal notes, engagement responses and ticket status for on-demand reporting and graphs. The Radian6 Insights platform: * Radian6 Insights combines the coverage and depth of Radian6 with additional content from third party insights partners to offer a deeper understanding of who is participating and where conversations are being held. * Use Radian6 Insights to gain a deeper understanding of both what is being said on the social web as well as who is saying it. * Quickly gain access to valuable meaning behind your social traffic, such as demographics, influence, location information, sentiment, topic categorization, and more. * Use capabilities from different Insights partners together for unparalleled deep-dive analysis. * Moving beyond keyword based analysis, Insights help deliver key information that you may not be aware of. * Receive real time, ongoing social intelligence surrounding your brand, your industry or any area of interest. The Engagement Console: * Is a complete real-time social web client. * Helps you coordinate team social media engagement across the enterprise. * Shows Radian6 topic profiles right alongside your personal or corporate Twitter, Facebook and Chatter streams. * Lets you set one-click workflow for frequently used post routing, assignment, and classification. * Feeds data to your Radian6 dashboard for reporting and analysis. The Summary Dashboard: * Monitor the health of your brand on the social web in one convenient application with the Radian6 Summary Dashboard. * Understand your social conversation without the time or resources required for a full-time analyst, with real time, high-level summaries of your brand on the social web. * These summaries are available in real time, automatically update and can be easily accessed and shared. * At a glance, monitor volume, sentiment, demographics, influencers and more. Radian6 Mobile: * Since the social web doesn't stop when you're away from your desk, stay plugged into your brand on the go with Radian6 Mobile. * Focus the entire social web into one mobile application. * Interact with your community or route posts to the right people with workflow functions all while away from your desk. * Quickly monitor overall volume, sentiment and more with the Summary feature. * Coming soon to the iTunes store and the Apple iPhone. Additional mobile devices to follow. Coverage includes: * over 150M blogs * over 420 video and image sharing sites such as [YouTube](/organization/youtube), Google Video, [Flickr](/organization/flickr), [Metacafe](/organization/metacafe), [Revver](/organization/revver), Vech, [Daily Motion](/organization/dailymotion), [Bebo](/organization/bebo), Grouper, [BrightCove](/organization/brightcove) and many more. * over 25k online mainstream news sites * over 90 million Tweets on [Twitter](/organization/twitter) * hundreds of thousands of discussions boards * public spots on social networks including [Facebook](/organization/facebook) & [Linkedin](/organization/linkedin) Groups * comments appearing on social media posts We are the only provider who has invested significantly in a proprietary social media crawler that goes far beyond simple RSS feed tracking allowing for the broadest and fastest coverage of the social web in the market.

Intellon Corporation

Venture Round in 2006
Intellon Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company, engages in the design, develop, manufacture, and marketing of integrated circuits (ICs) for powerline communications or high-speed communications over existing electrical wiring in the United States and internationally. They provides HomePlug-based ICs for home networking, networked entertainment, broadband over powerline access, ethernet-over-coax, smart grid management, and other commercial applications. The HomePlug-based ICs provide connectivity between broadband modems or routers and personal computers, set-top boxes, gaming consoles, and other electronic products within a home; and monitors electrical distribution system, as well as helps in distributing Internet, video-on-demand, and other services.

BridgePort Networks

Series C in 2006
BridgePort Networks, Inc. develops fixed-mobile convergence applications. The company provides MobileVoIP applications and solutions to telecommunications service providers. It provides infrastructure software that bridges mobile and voice over IP (VoIP) services with a single phone number; MobileIGNITE, a mobile to VoIP roaming solution for communications service providers; and the NomadicONE Network Convergence Gateway extends identity phone number services over multiple access networks, including mobile, cable, DSL, Wi-Fi, and other broadband networks. The company offers Dual-mode Handover, Mobile Business, Mobile IP-Centrex, and Mobile IP-PBX applications, which are designed to be used and integrated with users' current applications for communications. It serves mobile providers, integrated providers, broadband providers, and MVNO providers. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. As of February 1, 2008, BridgePort Networks, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CounterPath Corporation.

Jumptap

Series C in 2006
Jumptap is a mobile ad network and the leader in targeted mobile advertising. Reaching 107 million mobile users in the U.S. and 156 million mobile users worldwide, Jumptap uses its extensive technology portfolio, as well as industry-first partnerships with third-party data providers, to understand mobile audiences better than any other ad network and provide intelligent targeting with scale. Through its large network of premium publishers and apps, and constant campaign optimization, Jumptap delivers the best ROI for advertisers and highest yield for publishers and developers. Jumptap has pioneered mobile advertising privacy standards and is committed to unlocking mobile opportunities for all parties through its ongoing industry research, such as its Understanding Mobile Audience series and monthly MobileSTAT reports.

BTI Systems

Series C in 2006
BTI delivers solutions that transform the economics, performance and innovation of global networks through intelligent networking software and systems. Leading content, cloud and service providers choose BTI to drive improved operational efficiencies and profitably deliver high-value services to businesses and consumers around the globe. With more than 380 customers, BTI is headquartered in North America, and operates regional sales, marketing, and R&D centers of excellence throughout the world.

Third Brigade

Series B in 2005
Third Brigade is a privately-held security and compliance software company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. Trend Micro bought the business to accelerate its dynamic datacenter security strategy, and to provide customers with access to critical security and compliance software and vulnerability response services. These all contribute to protecting physical, virtual and cloud servers, and corporate endpoints, from sophisticated malware and malicious activity.

Jumptap

Series B in 2005
Jumptap is a mobile ad network and the leader in targeted mobile advertising. Reaching 107 million mobile users in the U.S. and 156 million mobile users worldwide, Jumptap uses its extensive technology portfolio, as well as industry-first partnerships with third-party data providers, to understand mobile audiences better than any other ad network and provide intelligent targeting with scale. Through its large network of premium publishers and apps, and constant campaign optimization, Jumptap delivers the best ROI for advertisers and highest yield for publishers and developers. Jumptap has pioneered mobile advertising privacy standards and is committed to unlocking mobile opportunities for all parties through its ongoing industry research, such as its Understanding Mobile Audience series and monthly MobileSTAT reports.

Capella

Series D in 2005
Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella's intelligent subsystems provide the best performing wavelength management products on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs.

Ellacoya Networks

Venture Round in 2005
Ellacoya Networks is a provider of carrier-grade Broadband Service Optimization solutions that leverage deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to give broadband service providers the visibility and control necessary to optimize Internet services for their subscribers. The Ellacoya e30 and e100 hardware platforms and rich suite of software applications identify subscribers, classify and control applications on a per-subscriber basis, improve performance and customer satisfaction, and deliver revenue-generating IP services. Deployed in some of the world’s largest carrier IP networks, it is the only company that provides the scalability and functionality necessary to enable more compelling applications and competitive service offerings -- and to profit from them. Ellacoya Networks is privately held and based in Merrimack, New Hampshire with offices in London, Tokyo and Singapore.

Simpler Networks

Series B in 2005
Simpler Networks Inc. operates as a telecommunications equipment and software manufacturer in Canada. The company specializes in automated distribution frames enabling copper loop management and also offers EZ-MDF, an automated main distribution frame hardware and software, which automates the labor-intensive process of manipulating central office and street cabinet distribution frames. The company sells technology, products, and solutions directly to local service providers and through partners in North America and Europe. Simpler Networks Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Dorval, Canada.

Jumptap

Series A in 2005
Jumptap is a mobile ad network and the leader in targeted mobile advertising. Reaching 107 million mobile users in the U.S. and 156 million mobile users worldwide, Jumptap uses its extensive technology portfolio, as well as industry-first partnerships with third-party data providers, to understand mobile audiences better than any other ad network and provide intelligent targeting with scale. Through its large network of premium publishers and apps, and constant campaign optimization, Jumptap delivers the best ROI for advertisers and highest yield for publishers and developers. Jumptap has pioneered mobile advertising privacy standards and is committed to unlocking mobile opportunities for all parties through its ongoing industry research, such as its Understanding Mobile Audience series and monthly MobileSTAT reports.
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