Participated · Seed · Mar 2019

Shotzr provides a platform that delivers contextually personalized creative assets at scale for channels such as Facebook, Instagram, web properties, and digital display. The company’s technology links audience signals to more effective imagery to improve campaign engagement and return on ad spend. Shotzr offers a platform, API and channel integrations to distribute tailored creative across marketing campaigns. The firm says its platform is unlocking a $15B opportunity in the digital marketing landscape and that clients use its assets to deliver higher ROAS. Shotzr was founded in early 2017 and is based in Denver, Colorado. The company recently closed a $3M Series Seed equity financing to fund the next stage of roadmap investments.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2018

Automox offers a cloud-native endpoint management platform that automates configuration, patching, inventory, and security workflows across Windows, Mac, Linux, servers, and PCs. From a central dashboard customers can enforce policies, orchestrate compliance checks, deploy critical patches and updates, run custom scripts, and generate technical and executive reports. The company has introduced features such as Data Extract for historical patch insights and a Community Worklet Catalog for shared workflow automations. Automox reports nearly 2,000 customers and over 160 employees, and says customers have seen a 50% reduction in labor hours for patch management, an 80% reduction in corporate attack surface, 2–3x less effort, and 15x faster infrastructure hardening versus competitors. Its customer base grew 200% from June 2019. The company says it will use the new funding to support product development. Automox provides a cloud-native cyber hygiene platform that helps security and IT teams automate the fundamentals of endpoint hardening. Its platform claims to reduce corporate attack surface by up to 80% and to cut alert fatigue for downstream endpoint detection and response tools. The company emphasizes proactive reduction of vulnerabilities rather than relying solely on tools that identify adversaries after they breach infrastructure. Automox will use new capital to accelerate key feature development and to expand its sales and marketing teams to support a rapidly growing enterprise customer base. The company's technology will be offered through the CrowdStrike Store and CrowdStrike is participating in the round through its Falcon Fund in partnership with Accel. Automox has raised a total of $42 million to date. Automox offers a cloud-based, automated patch management and configuration management platform that supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and third-party software. The product serves as a patching system of record for IT managers and system administrators, enabling tracking, control and management of the patch process. Automox emphasizes security, improved productivity and time savings for customers. The company protects tens of thousands of customer endpoints and counts customers such as Greyhound Lines, Hootsuite, NASA, Quicken, Yale University, Xerox and Dollar Shave Club. Led by founder and CEO Jay Prassl, Automox plans to use new capital to accelerate engineering, sales and marketing growth. Automox offers a cloud-based platform that provides patch management and endpoint protection across Windows, Mac, and Linux for geographically dispersed client and server infrastructures. The platform gives IT managers real-time access to configuration and patch status for every endpoint and automates patch execution and policy enforcement to reduce vulnerabilities and meet corporate security standards. Customers include Dollar Shave Club, Hootsuite, Quicken, Gaia, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Dizzion, and NTT Data Services. The company is led by founder and CEO Jay Prassl and is based in Boulder, CO. Automox raised $2.0M in funding and will use the proceeds to accelerate product development, marketing and sales, and to expand its OEM program. The recent round signals backing from experienced investors in the security sector. Automox offers a cloud-based platform that fully automates patch remediation across Windows, Linux, Mac, and third-party software without requiring additional servers or complex setup. The platform also supports system configuration management and continuous infrastructure monitoring and inventory. It is designed to provide security improvements, increased productivity, and time savings for companies of any size. The company is led by founder and CEO Jay Prassl and operates from Boulder, Colo. Automox closed a $1.3M financing to accelerate its product roadmap. The investment is intended to fund additional development hires and increase the pace of new feature releases.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2018

The Minte places full-time, company-employed housekeepers onsite at apartment and condo properties so residents can book consistent, hotel-style cleaning services. Housekeepers undergo an eight-day training program, many coming from hotel housekeeping backgrounds, and managers perform random spot checks and review resident ratings in real time. The company uses eco-friendly P&G products and supplies, keeps housekeeping carts on site, and offers live customer service and backup staff coverage. At roughly 20 months old it employs about 60 people and serves just under 70 properties in Chicago and about 20 in D.C., adding six to ten new properties per market each month. The Minte says over half of its cleans are on recurring packages and it offers à la carte pricing for individual cleans. It recently launched its app, plans smart-home integration and wider distribution of a physical in-unit “button” device, and intends to expand into condos, corporate housing and a third city in early 2019.

Participated · Seed · May 2017

IronCore Labs is a developer of a customer-controlled data platform for software vendors, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, and Bozeman, Montana. Led by CEO Patrick Walsh, the company provides a SaaS-based service that shifts control of security and compliance keys to the owner of the data. This approach enables enterprises to store sensitive data in the cloud without loss of security or control and allows SaaS vendors to sell more software. IronCore closed a $1.5m seed round and will use the funds to launch its solution publicly. The product targets cloud software companies that need customer-side control of encryption and compliance. In conjunction with the financing, Richard Harjes of Next Frontier Capital joined IronCore's board of directors.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2016

FullContact builds contact-management and identity products, combining its own primary data with web-sourced data to create unified contact records. The company maintains a database of about 40 billion contacts and serves individuals (via freemium mobile apps), businesses, and software developers through APIs. FullContact says its user numbers are in the 'millions' and, per investors, was on track to more than double recurring revenue for the fourth straight year. The company is developing FullContact Connect to let users own an ID and control content online, and is working on "remove yourself" privacy capabilities. Planned uses for new funding include acquisitions, hiring, business development, and adding new features to expand beyond contact management. FullContact was founded in 2010 and is based in Denver. FullContact is a Denver, CO-based provider of address book solutions offering a connected suite of apps and APIs that enhance contacts with relational insights and keep them organized, synchronized, up to date, and safe. Led by CEO Bart Lorang, the company recently released major updates to its iOS and Gmail-based applications to help users get more from their address books on mobile, the web and inside email. FullContact provides both consumer-facing apps and developer APIs focused on contact enrichment and synchronization. The company intends to use new funding to continue developing applications for additional devices, with upcoming releases of FullContact for Mac and FullContact for Android. Financially, the company closed a $10M funding round that brought total funding to nearly $20M. FullContact offers a suite of contact-management APIs that perform contact enrichment, deduplication, name normalization and location normalization to turn partial contacts into richer social profiles. The company serves customers including PRNewswire, UserVoice, SnapEngage, Yesware and Pardot. FullContact plans to use its new funding to grow the product team and broaden its platform, and is preparing to launch the FullContact Cloud Address Book web application (currently in private beta). The Cloud Address Book, built on FullContact's API platform, syncs contacts from cloud, mobile and desktop sources, normalizes and merges entries, enriches profiles with social data, and supports tags, searches and sharing. FullContact is a TechStars graduate and is hiring to support its product expansion. FullContact offers a developer-facing API that converts partial or out-of-date contact records into complete contact profiles by drawing on a database of over 100 million contact records. The data returned can include phone numbers, emails, postal addresses, names, titles, companies, social profile URLs, images, birthdays, instant messenger handles, and other publicly available information. The company uses a crowdsourcing model to update contact information and restricts usage — its technology cannot be used with advertising networks, ad exchanges, or services that tie cookies to contact data. Any software application can leverage FullContact’s contact database via the API; over 750 developers currently use it. Financially, the company has completed a Series A raise (see deal details). FullContact was founded in 2010 and graduated from the TechStars accelerator.