Windcrest Partners

Windcrest Partners is a venture capital firm that offers private equity investment services to firms in the energy, network, games, healthcare administration, and internet technology industries. It was founded in 1967 and is based in New York.

James Gellert

Partner

Michael Gellert

Partner and Co-Founder

27 past transactions

Wyng

Series C in 2015
Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands, powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers.

Festicket

Series A in 2014
Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation and travel packages.

GoodData

Series E in 2014
GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processes across the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work. Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Wyng

Series C in 2014
Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands, powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers.

Festicket

Seed Round in 2013
Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation and travel packages.

Wyng

Series B in 2012
Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands, powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers.

GoodData

Series C in 2012
GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processes across the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work. Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Axial

Series A in 2012
Axial Networks, Inc. operates an online platform that connects private companies with capital sources, facilitating financial transactions in the private capital markets. The platform allows users to create professional profiles to enhance credibility with potential investors, enabling them to connect both online and in-person for deal sourcing and relationship building. It serves a diverse range of sectors, including healthcare, real estate, financial services, and technology, and offers various capital types such as growth capital, acquisition financing, and asset-based loans. By providing tools for CEOs to identify growth opportunities and for capital providers to enhance market coverage and efficiency, Axial aims to streamline the process of accessing capital. Additionally, advisors and bankers can utilize the platform to connect with transaction-ready buyers and manage deal processes effectively. Founded in 2004 and based in New York, Axial was previously known as Axial Market, Inc. before rebranding in 2010.

Voxer

Venture Round in 2012
Voxer is a powerful push-to-talk service that works worldwide on any iOS or Android device. You can instantly send voice, text and photos to individuals and groups in real time.

Violin Memory

Series D in 2012
Violin Systems specializes in extreme performance enterprise storage solutions designed for mission-critical applications. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company utilizes its proprietary Concerto OS™, an integrated storage operating system, to enhance the efficiency and capabilities of information and application storage infrastructures. Violin's all-flash storage platforms are recognized for their exceptional low latency, reliability, affordability, density, scalability, and overall performance. By offering tightly integrated data services, Violin delivers advanced solutions for data protection, business continuity, and data reduction, which contribute to significant capital and operational cost savings for businesses. Founded in 2005 and later acquired by Quantum Partners LP in 2017, Violin Systems is positioned as a leader in the storage technology sector, transforming how organizations manage and utilize their data.

Regent Education

Series B in 2012
Regent is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of financial aid management software solutions for higher education institutions. SaaS solutions are designed to inter-operate with and enhance existing ERP systems, while enabling institutions to realize a positive, quantifiable ROI in the same fiscal period in which they are deployed.

SmartRecruiters

Series A in 2012
SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform to find, engage, and hire talent. It has full functionality for recruitment marketing and collaborative hiring built on a modern cloud platform with an open marketplace for 3rd party recruitment services. It was founded in 2010 in US.

Mobilize.me (Ohio)

Seed Round in 2012
Provider of a marketing platform designed to create and manage mobile presence. The company's marketing platform helps users to tap the power of mobile marketing, follows industry search engine trends and improves search engine results and ranking, enabling businesses to succeed online by improving their mobile presence.

Wyng

Series A in 2011
Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands, powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers.

GoodData

Series B in 2011
GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processes across the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work. Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Axial Networks

Seed Round in 2010
Axial is a provider of technology-enabled applications and services used to discreetly connect the participants in the private capital markets to discover and execute financial transactions. The company's mission is to connect every private company with the capital necessary to finance or exit its company. The network allows providers of capital to private companies, including lenders, equity investors, and strategic buyers, to find and be found by the right opportunities from the right entrepreneurs and the right bankers at the right time. Advisors and entrepreneurs use Axial to create and manage their company's professional profile, explore and execute financial transactions, and win new business.

Wyng

Series A in 2010
Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands, powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers.

GoodData

Series A in 2010
GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processes across the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work. Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

GoodData

Seed Round in 2009
GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processes across the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work. Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Applause

Series B in 2008
Applause is a crowd-sourced digital quality testing enabling companies to deliver digital experiences to their customers. Software is at the heart of how all brands engage users, and digital experiences must work flawlessly everywhere. With 300,000+ testers available on-demand around the globe, Applause provides brands with a full suite of testing and feedback capabilities. This approach drastically improves testing coverage, eliminates the limitations of offshoring and traditional QA labs, and speeds time-to-market for websites, mobile apps, IoT, and in-store experiences. Thousands of leading companies — including Ford, Fox, Google, and Dow Jones — rely on Applause as a best practice to deliver high-quality digital experiences that customers love. It was founded in 2007 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States/

GoodData

Seed Round in 2008
GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processes across the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work. Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Dalet

Post in 2004
Dalet solutions enable broadcasters and media professionals to create, manage and distribute content to both traditional and new media channels, including interactive TV, the Web and mobile networks. Dalet combines into a single system a robust and proven Asset Management platform with advanced metadata capabilities; a configurable workflow engine, and a comprehensive set of purpose-built creative and production tools. This integrated and open environment enables end-to-end management of the entire News, Sports and Program content chain, and allows users to significantly improve efficiency, and to maximize the use and value of their assets.

Systinet

Seed Round in 2001
Systinet has the expertise you need to successfully transform your business and operations using SOA. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) revolutionizes the way your organization develops, uses, and manages information technology. Applying this architectural concept to realize clear business benefits requires deep knowledge of the core tenets of SOA and a clear understanding of the best approach for applying them to your IT infrastructure. Systinet consultants apply their expert knowledge of SOA principles, practices, and standards to simplify the process for you. They help you to leverage your existing investments and evolve a more agile technology infrastructure that leads to quicker return on investment. Critical to a successful SOA are products, best practices, and experience. In addition to their award-winning products, Systinet has developed specialized service offerings that fit every stage of a successful SOA — from initial assessment, through design, development and implementation, to effective ongoing management. Let Systinet’s professional service experts guide you through the process of designing and implementing your SOA. Their multi-phased approach of Assess, Implement and Manage is supported by industry leading products, knowledge, services, and technical support to provide a winning strategy for the organization.

Unplugged Games

Seed Round in 2001
Founded in June 2000, Unplugged Games is devoted exclusively to games for wireless platforms. They believe that the portability, ubiquity, and ease of use of wireless devices will make them the gaming platform of choice for tens of millions of people worldwide; they plan to be the market leader in delivering and supporting compelling multiplayer wireless game experiences. Collectively, Unplugged Games's staff has produced more than 100 game products in a wide variety of media--including conventional computer games, online-only games, board games, and paper roleplaying games.

Passport New Media

Series B in 2000
To provide children ages 2 to 12 with premium interactive content through a fast, focused and safe experience that is free of any charges and, most importantly, fun. Brothers Brian and David Pass founded Passport New Media, Inc. in January 1999 in Los Angeles, California, to develop Your Own World™ – or YOW™ for short – company's flagship service. Privately-held and funded by the Megunticook Fund (Boston, Massachusetts) and private investors & 23 employees.

Ennov

Seed Round in 1997
Headquartered in Paris, with offices in Greensboro, NC, Durham, NC and Cambridge, UK, Ennov makes the most cost effective, comprehensive, and user-friendly solutions for regulated content management. We’re proud to serve over 500 customers with a total of 250,000 users, ranging from leading pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechnology companies throughout the Life Sciences industry.

Appriss

Seed Round in 1995
Appriss provides proprietary data and analytics solutions to effectively and efficiently address safety, fraud, risk, and compliance issues for government and commercial enterprises worldwide. Their customers are leading commercial enterprises, information service providers, and government agencies with a focus on healthcare, retail, and workplace and community safety. We are a team of technology and data science experts driven to solve complex business and societal problems. Their customers are leading commercial enterprises, information service providers, and government agencies with a focus on retail, healthcare, and public safety.
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