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Seed / Series A
Pre-revenue - $2 million revenue
Lead or Co-Lead
$250,000 - $1 million
71 Pounds is a cloud-based service that continuously monitors a customer’s shipping activity and automatically files for refunds in real-time, sharing in that savings with its customer.
2013
Lister Delgado
Active
Automation
Future of Commerce
Adrich is the world’s first vconnected smart consumer platform, unveiling true qualitative and quantitative consumer usage data for leading product brands to manage real-time usage feedback, need-based replenishment and innovation measurement.
2019
Lister Delgado
Active
Decisions
Future of Commerce
AIO's platform extracts and understands data, validates it against public and private sources, and generate an accurate 360˚ profile of commercial clients in minutes to speed up decision-making and improve retention.
2021
Lister Delgado
Active
Data-Driven Decisions
Future of Work
Allvision aggregates multiple sources of 3D data and, through machine learning and cloud computing, provides analysis to derive actionable information. This analysis optimizes the ability of businesses and governments to make informed decisions in near real-time.
2018
List Delgado
Active
Decisions
Future of Commerce
ReadrBoard (d/b/a Antenna) is an engagement platform that allows audiences to react to anything on the web. Antenna enables publishers and retailers to better understand what content and products people care about, and why they care about them.
2015
John Cambier
Inactive
Decisions
Future of Commerce
Automated Insights, formerly StatSheet, is an online media company founded in 2007 to transform raw data into compelling narrative content, visual displays and interactive applications.
2010
Lister Delgado
Exited
Automation
Future of Work
Axial Exchange builds patient engagement software that enhances communication among the hospital, its patients, and their providers in order to lower readmissions and raise patient satisfaction.
2011
John Cambier
Inactive
Decisions
Future of Work
Biospatial is a data platform that collects real-time EMS (Emergency Medical Services) data for agencies to track. They can overlay this data with gun crime data, drug abuse statistics, or traffic flows to create actionable insights into medical problems across the US.
2018
John Cambier
Active
Decisions
Future of Work
Boundless Life is an all-inclusive platform to enable families to live a culturally rich digitally nomadic lifestyle.
2021
Chris Langford
Active
Efficiency
Future of Homes
Brightdoor is the leader in on-demand presentation and relationship management software specifically for the real estate industry. Unique in the industry, BrightDoor enables developers, builders and real estate marketers to rapidly deploy electronic media across their entire sales/marketing cycle. The BrightDoor platform brings integrated communications to all real estate sales and marketing channels. With a subscription to the BrightDoor Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, customers gain access to a fully integrated suite of presentation and customer relationship management tools.
2007
John Cambier
Inactive
Decisions
Future of Work
Pack Purchase (d/b/a Canopy) is an online marketplace enabling neighborhood group purchasing of home services. The full-service platform allows buyers to easily discover, schedule and pay for a wide array of home services from local vendors.
2014
Chris Langford
Active
Efficiency
Future of Homes
Ceterus empowers entrepreneurs with niche specific financial reporting and automated accounting. The company’s software works seamlessly with QuickBooks Online to showcase peer-to-peer benchmarks, non-financial KPIs, and other critical, relevant, niche-specific financials all in one easy to access location. Ceterus Accounting empowers entrepreneurs with more time and energy to focus on the work they love to do.
2016
John Cambier
Active
Automation
Future of Work
ChoiceWORX is an intelligent automation software company that is revolutionizing IT Operations via a proprietary platform that leverages the power and scalability of artificial intelligence to automate Service Desk (Apptinuum) and Robotic Process Automation Management (Robotinuum).
2020
John Cambier
Active
Automating Tasks
Future of Work
https://choiceworx.com/
CloudTags is a data platform enabling physical retailers to bridge the online and offline shopping experience. Utilizing tablet computers, iBeacons, and NFC tags, the company creates connected stores that empower shoppers to digitally explore a retailer’s existing content without CRM or POS integrations.
2015
John Cambier
Inactive
Decisions
Future of Commerce
Distil is the leading Content Protection Network (CPN) and the first cloud-based, intelligent gatekeeper for website content. Distil helps companies protect their web content by making real-time decisions and seamlessly distinguishing human visitors from malicious bots.
2012
Lister Delgado
Exited
Automation
Future of Work
Fenris is the single best source for instant insight and real-time data enrichment on every applicant or policyholder. Fenris' APIs deliver real-time insights and data payloads that enable friction-free customer acquisition and full life-cycle optimization. Their Lead Segmentation and Scoring APIs identify the best customer and ease their way to improve completion and conversion rates. Their LEMA (life events monitoring and alerts) APIs inform you to changes so you can take next best action for cross sell and retention. And their Data Enrichment APIs are staples providing instant prefill payloads for auto, home, life, and small business leveraging our proprietary data on 255m adults, 130m households, 30m small businesses, and 99% of all properties.
2021
John Cambier
Active
Data Driven Decisions
Future of Work
Finmark eliminates the need for complex spreadsheets with a simple to use platform, so founders can easily create, update, and share their financial plans.
2020
Lister Delgado
Active
Automation of Tasks
Future of Work
First is developing a predictive analytics platform to automate the generation and distribution of timely leads based on life-event triggers. First is able to predict when and why people are likely to move, enabling real estate professionals to reach future clients as the right time.
2015
Lister Delgado
Exited
Decisions
Future of Homes
Get Spiffy is the mobile app platform that turns any parking space into a car wash. The Spiffy mobile app allows consumers to schedule, track and pay for mobile car washing and detailing services. The Spiffy brand delivers convenient, trusted and professional services. In addition to on-demand services, the company works with employers and property managers to provide recurring service locations for customers.
2016
Lister Delgado
Active
Efficiency
Future of Commerce
iContact is a leading on-demand email marketing service. iContact allows organizations of all sizes to easily create, send, and track email newsletters, RSS feeds, surveys, and autoresponders. iContact software is delivered as a service (through the browser) for which customers pay a monthly subscription fee. iContact has more than 100,000 customers.
2007
Lister Delgado
Exited
Efficiency
Future of Work
Impossible Objects makes 3D printers that make functional, fiber-reinforced parts at production speeds scaling to minutes or seconds using its proprietary composite-based additive manufacturing technology, CBAM. CBAM works with the widest range of materials, such as fiber fabrics including carbon, glass and Kevlar, and polymers including polyamides and PEEK. CBAM can replace conventional manufacturing techniques while offering greater geometric complexity.
2017
John Cambier
Active
Efficiency
Future of Work
InsightFinder provides innovative machine learning technology to unlock the value in IT operational data, from performance metrics to textual log files, finding root causes for deviations from normal behaviors and recurring patterns, as well as predicting future events and outages, involving staff only when necessary and appropriate to do so. InsightFinder’s core technologies and patented solutions are available via online subscription or on-premise deployment.
2019
Lister Delgado
First
Automation
Future of Work
Our Homeownership-as-a-Service platform connects Aspiring Owners with homes offered by Property Owners. Aspiring Owners become co-owner partners who build equity at a pace they can afford, while Property Owners benefit from improved returns.
2021
Chris Langford
Active
Efficiency
Future of Home
Klearly transforms traditional B2B marketing and sales teams into data-driven, optimized revenue operations. Klearly eliminates the need for bespoke data analysis, management of siloed data sources, and vanity metrics. It is a technology to be used, not managed. Klearly applies machine learning to provide actionable, revenue-centric insights that empower planners and operators to make intelligent, accountable business decisions.
2019
Lister Delgado
Active
Data Driven Decisions
Future of Work
LiveSource integrates complicated supply chains to enable companies to streamline their supply chain operations. The platform, which is purchased on a per-module basis, can assist with item delivery, quality control, tooling, innovation, and more. They are a supplier management cloud solution.
2018
John Cambier
Active
Decisions
Future of Work
Lucerno Dynamics has developed a breakthrough system that can detect and quantify the dynamic uptake of radiolabeled biomarkers in tissue quickly, safely, and inexpensively. Any therapeutic or diagnostic procedure that can use a radiolabeled biomarker is a candidate to use Lucerno technology to help quantify and visualize the result in the target tissue. Identified uses include oncology, Alzheimer’s, kidney function, auto-immune, and more.
2015
John Cambier
Active
Decisions
Future of Work
Mati is a highly functional and natural energy drink made possible by the company’s proprietary manufacturing process that extracts 40% more nutritional content from dried leaves than conventional methods while drastically reducing the bitterness associated with naturally derived caffeine products.
2017
Lister Delgado
Inactive
Using technology originally developed in the lab of Dr. Adam Wax of Duke University, Oncoscope develops proprietary optical biopsy systems that accurately locate pre-cancerous cells in epithelial tissues including the esophagus, colon, lung, bladder, and cervix. This breakthrough cancer diagnostic provides noninvasive, high-coverage detection of cancer not possible with existing methods.
Pangea is the largest college freelance marketplace enabling students to find and manage high-paying, meaningful work.
2021
Lister Delgado
Active
Expertise
Future of Work
Payzer is a mobile and cloud-based financial tool for specialty trade contractors to grow and manage their businesses by enabling them to both close more sales and collect more effectively in the field. With Payzer’s “all-in-one” solution, users can accept and manage payments and customer profiles as well as offer instant loans– all via their mobile devices. The platform provides the flexibility and accessibility contractors need to offer a full range of payment and financing options for their customers and employees.
2016
John Cambier
Active
Efficiency
Future of Commerce
Pendo is the only analytics platform that is built for product development organizations to gain the customer insight required to build more engaging software. Pendo’s platform provided product teams behavioral and attitudinal analytics with actionable tools that enable enterprises to improve customer engagement.
2013
Lister Delgado
Active
Decisions
Future of Work
Poppy is a female-founded flower company on a mission to deliver quality flowers at fair prices using technology to create ease in the ordering process, sourcing flowers from the best, eco-friendly farms in the world, and letting you choose if you want flowers handcrafted by our nationwide network of talented floral designers, or if you want to design them yourself.
2020
Chris Langford
Active
Efficiency
Future of Commerce
Punchlist serves home sellers and sellers’ agents who need to make time-sensitive repairs after inspection in order to close. Customers upload a list of repairs that need to be completed, receive a quote within 24 hours, and have repairs completed within a matter of days.
2019
John Cambier
Active
Efficiency
Future of Homes
Qoreboard is building a platform that allows customers to provide actionable insights and motivational messages to their employees based on their performance using micro-goals. The company replaces generic coaching with specific, individualized, and motivational coaching based on data.
2019
Lister Delgado
Active
Decisions
Future of Work
RightRev empowers businesses to quote and sell seamlessly while streamlining revenue recognition for compliance with the latest accounting requirements
2021
John Cambier
Active
Automation
Future of Work
Reveal Mobile is a leading audience platform for app publishers and developers. Based in Raleigh, NC, the company allows any app publisher or media company to better understand and target their mobile audience. Utilizing patent-pending algorithms, Reveal Mobile offers precise marketing across demographics, real-world and digital interest, location and political affiliation.
2015
Lister Delgado
Active
Decisions
Future of Work
Royalty Exchange operates a centralized platform where all types of royalty assets – music, television and film or patents, intellectual property, and mineral rights – can be bought or sold in an effort to bring value to both the investor and seller.
2014
John Cambier
Exited
Efficiency
Future of Commerce
Sarda provides system manufacturers with game-changing capabilities to increase performance, shrink size, thickness and weight, and increase energy efficiency and battery life. Sarda, a fabless power semiconductor manufacturer, produces voltage regulator modules which integrate a gFET™ (gallium arsenide field effect transistor) switch fabric die, CMOS driver die and passive components in an ultra compact standard semiconductor package. By making the switching speed 10x faster than today’s silicon-based modules, Sarda shrinks the voltage regulator’s footprint and height by 60 to 80%. Sarda integrates multiple voltage regulators in an ultra compact package, reducing cost and enabling granular power delivery.
2012
John Cambier
Exited
Efficiency
Future of Work
Second Nature (fka FilterEasy) is a subscription commerce solution delivering high-quality air filters directly to consumers on a predetermined schedule. By working directly with the nation’s largest residential air filter manufacturer, the company is able to deliver the exact filters a property needs at a cost that’s less than the stores ensuring that the filters are changed regularly.
2015
Lister Delgado
Active
Future of Homes
Sense Photonics is building solid state LiDAR systems that will enable the mass adoption of autonomous vehicles.
2017
John Cambier
Active
Automation
Sift Media is an automated mobile ad purchasing platform based on a proprietary app graph algorithm aiming to inform purchase decisions of real-time bidding (RTB) inventory.
2015
Lister Delgado
Active
Decisions
Future of Work
Silbo is a software platform for recreational sports leagues and referees to connect and facilitate the scheduling of games. Their platform, RefXchange, enables leagues to upload games, and referees to self-select which games they would like to officiate, making them the “Uber of Sports Officiating”.
2018
Lister Delgado
Active
Efficiency
Future of Commerce
Social Solutions is the leading provider of performance management software and services for the human services sector. Founded in 2000 by human service professionals, its ETO (Efforts to Outcomes) software and services give organizations a clear picture of which efforts are having the greatest impact on the social issues they strive to address. With this knowledge, organizations can reinforce what’s working, adjust what isn’t, and more easily report quantified successes to key stakeholders.
2007
John Cambier
Exited
Decisions
Future of Work
https://www.socialsolutions.com/
SwitchBoard is a live video technology creating new ways for brands, producers and developers to distribute content online by powering the world’s first live audience network.
2015
John Cambier
Active
Efficiency
Future of Work
Deja Mi (d/b/a WedPics) is a leading consumer app for wedding photos and video aggregation. The app is a free, fast and convenient way to collect all wedding guests’ photos and videos in one central, private location.
2014
Lister Delgado
Exited
Efficiency
Recent Portfolio News
biospatial announces contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Leveraging the sharing of aggregate data analytics made possible through biospatial’s data use agreements with state and local EMS agencies, biospatial is providing the CDC with near real-time EMS syndromic surveillance trend data from EMS responses across the nation. The contract supports the mission of the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) through access to biospatial’s EMS data and analytics platform.
Franchise plan is giving a new shine to Spiffy’s growth profile, says CEO Wingo
Get Spiffy, the on-demand vehicle maintenance startup run by serial investor and entrepreneur Scot Wingo, is entering a new phase of growth with the help of a quick-starting franchise program.
Fenris Digital Announces $2.7M Investment to Modernize Insurance and Financial Applications
Insurance technology company Fenris raised $2.7 million in new funding. Fenris, a data and analytics company focused on streamlining and modernizing the process of quoting insurance products, will use this funding to meet the growing demand from clients for its API-delivered insights and data, with a strong focus on expanding its sales and marketing resources.
DC wedding flower startup Poppy raises $1.7 million
Poppy, a D.C. startup with a mission of disrupting the wedding flower business by serving as a high-tech direct go-between for florists and consumers, has raised $1.65 million in new funding for expansion.
Sense Photonics jumps into self-driving fray with new sensor technology
Sense Photonics has developed new detection technology that hits a key milestone required for self-driving cars, the laser sensor company said on Friday.
Sift Media ranked #61 on the 2020 Deloitte Technology Fast 500orth Carolina mega-deal
For the past 26 years, Deloitte has been honoring the most innovative public and private technology companies that hail from cities across North America. The Technology Fast 500 was created to recognize the passion and dedication it takes to be an industry disruptor.