• Allotrope Medical

  Participated · Series A · Jun 2021

  Allotrope Medical develops StimSite™, an FDA-cleared smooth muscle stimulation device that leverages surgeons’ existing laparoscopic and robotic instruments to identify and locate the ureter during pelvic operations. The company is led by founder and CEO Albert Huang, MD, and is based in Houston, TX. StimSite™ is positioned as an intraoperative tool to reduce ureteral injury risk by improving ureter visualization. Allotrope Medical intends to use newly raised funds to accelerate its commercialization plans. The company closed a $4M Series A financing to support those efforts. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article. Allotrope Medical is a Houston-based medical device company developing an innovative surgical device intended to identify ureters and decrease the rate of injury during surgery. The company is led by Founder and CEO Albert Huang MD and is advancing the device through continued development funded by a recent financing. The round was led by Houston Health Ventures with syndication support from the Houston Angel Network; the amount raised was undisclosed. In conjunction with the financing, David Franklin, Managing Director of HHV, will join the Board of Directors alongside Donald Gonzales MD (Founder/CMO, Spirox Inc.) and Mira Sahney (former SVP and GM, Gynecology and ENT Divisions, Smith & Nephew). Allotrope said it will use the funds to continue device development and is targeting commercial availability in late 2018. No operating metrics or prior funding details were disclosed in the article.

• Spine Align

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2020

  Spine Align is a Baltimore, MD-based medical device company developing a portfolio of intraoperative products that assess and assist with corrective surgeries for spinal alignment. Its flagship product, LiveAlign, is designed to enable surgeons to measure, visualize and adjust patients' spinal alignment during surgery. The company closed a $1.75M seed round to support development efforts to achieve FDA 510(k) clearance for LiveAlign in 2021. Spine Align was co-founded by Amir Soltanianzadeh (CEO), Dr. David Gullotti (CTO) and Dr. Nicholas Theodore. The venture originated as a spinout from the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design.

• Membrion

  Led · Series A · Mar 2020

  Seattle-based Membrion, led by CEO and founder Greg Newbloom, provides adaptive water-infrastructure solutions built around its proprietary ceramic desalination membranes. The technology is designed to process the toughest industrial waste streams, allowing manufacturers to reclaim usable water and valuable minerals while meeting evolving environmental regulations and climate-driven pressures. Membrion positions its membranes as a reliability tool for future-proofing production facilities against regulatory shifts and supply-chain risks. With the fresh capital, the company plans to scale operations and accelerate product development. Since inception, Membrion has raised a cumulative $43 million. No revenue or customer counts were disclosed in the article, but the company emphasizes industrial adoption and continued R&D as key growth drivers.

• Record360

  Led · Equity · Feb 2017

  Record360, founded in 2013 by former Enterprise Rent-A-Car employee Shane Skinner, provides a mobile app that records photos and videos with location and time stamps and stores them as an independent third-party record. The platform is designed to prevent false damage claims on rental cars, Airbnb properties and other assets, and it also serves freight, logistics, and manufacturing clients. The company says it offers “the most advanced video and notation based asset condition documentation software on the market.” Record360 is a 13-person, Seattle-based company that reported revenue growth of over 250 percent in 2016. Total funding to date is $2.2 million. The company plans to use the fresh $500,000 to fund product development, sales and marketing. Record360 provides a dashboard and mobile app that automates inspection and asset condition reporting for vehicles, equipment, and property across the enterprise and points-of-sale. Its platform allows users to capture time- and date-stamped, geo-tagged video and images, along with highlights and annotations to document asset and property condition. The product is used to standardize and streamline condition reporting workflows for customers across industries. Clients include Able Freight, Quixote, Penske Jaguar Land Rover, and Road Machinery, LLC. The company was founded by Shane Skinner and Damon Haber. In 2015 it raised $1.5M in seed funding to support its growth.

• BuildPulse

  Participated · Equity · Nov 2016

  BuildPulse offers a plug-and-play cloud-based analytics platform that integrates with existing building automation systems to provide automated reporting and insights on energy use. The software requires no manual setup and helps operators find opportunities and verify efficiency changes. Customers include Fortune 500 companies, education institutions, and local governments. The company was founded in 2014 by Brice Kosnik and Jason Burt and graduated from the 9MileLabs accelerator in 2014. BuildPulse employs eight people. It recently raised additional capital to expand its building energy analytics platform, bringing total funding to date to $1.8 million.

No current team members are available.