Thomas M. Balderston

Managing Principal

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Tom Balderston

Managing Principal

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Eric Chapman

Managing Principal

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Andrew Cousins

Senior Associate

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Justin Desrosiers

Managing Principal

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Sky Lance

Managing Principal

Schuyler G. Lance

Managing Principal and Founder

18 past transactions

CleanFiber, LLC

Venture Round in 2018
CleanFiber, LLC develops cellulose insulation materials for attics, walls, and floors of residential and commercial new construction and retrofit applications. CleanFiber, LLC was formerly known as UltraCell Insulation, LLC and changed its name to CleanFiber, LLC in September 2018. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Blasdell, New York with additional office in Buffalo, New York.

Elemeno Health, Inc.

Series A in 2022
Elemeno Health, Inc. develops and offers mobile software for hospitals to eliminate medical errors. It provides a checklist tool for frontline healthcare teams in hospitals and medical centers. Elemeno Health, Inc. is based in the United States.

SHARE

Series A in 2022
SHARE Mobility helps professional transportation operators use mobility-as-a-service to reach new customers, automate dispatching, and increase fleet efficiency. Organizations use SHARE Mobility to create mobility-as-a-service programs that connect private and public transit services and makes it easy to schedule and use mobility. We are delivering on mobility-as-a-service's promise to create equitable access to jobs, education, and healthcare. We give organizations the tools to make it possible

Upswing

Series A in 2021
Upswing providing a highly flexible and personalized experience to learners and coaches. The company's online academic coaching platform offers students with the ability to select coaches based upon various criteria including price, quality, subjects and previous experiences with other students, thereby enabling students to select coaches and learn from them. Each session is recorded, aggregated, and reported back to admins so they can become equipped with the tools necessary to help fight student attrition. The data science behind our sessions enables early alerts and predictive measures to better ensure student success.

Line

Seed Round in 2022
Line Financial is a Public Benefit Corporation that delivers revolving lines of credit on its app as well as at online and in-store essential shopping destinations like pharmacies, grocery stores and more without credit-history, pay-slips, or credit-scores. Line is eliminating FICO, Credit and all other types of cards that don't belong in a post COVID world.

MoCaFi

Seed Round in 2020
MoCaFi is a developer of a personal finance platform designed to leverage mobile technologies, data analytics, and strategies to improve the financial behaviors of underbanked communities. The company's platform offers financial products and services in the areas of check cashing, custom loans, debit cards, financial literacy, data analytics, and personal finance via its mobile application and financial card, enabling users to check their balance, cash their paychecks and send money safely at no extra cost.

ULTRA Testing

Series A in 2019
Ultranauts is a New York-based company that provides high-quality software testing services. Its competitive advantage comes from employing high functioning individuals on the Autism Spectrum, who can have heightened abilities that are an exact match for software testing - e.g. pattern recognition, focus, attention to detail, tolerance for repetition. Ultranauts is founded in 2012 by two MIT engineers, Rajesh Anandan and Art Shectman.

Fit4D

Series B in 2020
Cecelia Health is tech-enabled diabetes and chronic disease management company that combines technology with expert clinical coaching. It aims to transform the lives and health outcomes of people with diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic conditions. Cecelia Health helps people with chronic conditions adhere to their medications and related nutrition, health, and wellness programs. During COVID-19, Cecelia Health has also been offering telehealth support to patients. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Board on Track

Seed Round in 2015
BoardOnTrack provides expertise, training, powerful, web-based tools, and a membership community to the foot soldiers in the battle to improve our nation's public school system. The charter school is a multi-million dollar public enterprise. Running it with a group of volunteers is a daunting task. BoardOnTrack helps in leveraging the efforts of volunteer board members into real results: academic excellence and organizational sustainability. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts.

Querium Corporation

Series B in 2017
Querium Corporation is building a smart, scalable, online assessment platform for Math, Science, and Engineering. It features a patent-pending expert system, advanced simulation technology, and an easy-to-use interface. The company helps students master critical STEM skills, preparing them for college and beyond. Their platform delivers personalized, bite-sized lessons with an expert system, step-by-step tutoring assistance that motivates students to succeed. The StepWise Virtual Tutor uses A.I. technology that mimics a master teacher or master tutor and is available 24/7. Querium was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA.

Nepris Inc.

Series A in 2020
Nepris Inc. operates a Web-based platform that connects teachers and industry professionals for making curriculum topics that are relevant to students. Its platform automatically matches the skills of an industry professional with that of a teacher’s request based on a curriculum topic or an activity; and enables an industry professional to virtually connect with a classroom for an interactive discussion with the students or to help evaluate projects in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Embodied Labs, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Embodied Labs, Inc. develops a virtual reality training platform that offers training support to family and caregivers. It offers The Embodied Labs immersive training platform that provides users with access to a growing library of virtual experience labs that simulate key problems and situations facing older adults and their caregivers. Embodied Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California. It has locations in Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area, California; Chicago, Illinois; and Greenville, South Carolina.

KickUp

Series A in 2019
Kickup, Inc. develops and operates a collaboration platform that helps school districts to design, coordinate, and assess their professional learning activities. Its platform also give educational leaders an actionable picture of their program's effectiveness. The company serves superintendents, directors of PD, and district leaders. Kickup, Inc. was formerly known as Pedagology, LLC and changed its name to Kickup, Inc. in February 2015. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Edovo

Series A in 2018
Jail Education Solutions provides intuitive educational courses where inmates are rewarded for learning. With their unique tablet technology, we help unlock the potential of millions of incarcerated people. Edovo increases access to invaluable resources for individuals involved in the criminal justice system.

Solstice

Venture Round in 2021
Solstice Power Technologies, Inc. develops customer management software for solar power companies. It provides an online platform for solar marketplace that offers subscriber aggregation and management services to solar developers, utilities, and other providers of shared solar energy. Solstice Power Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Solstice Initiative, Inc. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reconnect, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Reconnect, Inc. operates a platform that leverages software, hardware, and data to improve outcomes and provides ongoing support during pretrial, reentry, and recovery. Its solutions are used by drug courts, probation, parole, and TPAs. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Cumberland Center, Maine with additional offices in Portland, Maine; Brooklyn, New York; and Boston, Massachusetts.

CleanFiber, LLC

Venture Round in 2018
CleanFiber, LLC develops cellulose insulation materials for attics, walls, and floors of residential and commercial new construction and retrofit applications. CleanFiber, LLC was formerly known as UltraCell Insulation, LLC and changed its name to CleanFiber, LLC in September 2018. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Blasdell, New York with additional office in Buffalo, New York.

Yellowdig

Venture Round in 2020
Yellowdig's software platform creates a social layer on top of existing enterprise learning systems used by colleges, universities, and organizations. Unlike pre-existing social technology, Yellowdig is designed for higher education institutions. The platform provides instructors and learners with a private and secure experience, controlled and protected within the institution's designated environment. Yellowdig was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.