• ScaleIP

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2024

  ScaleIP offers an IP business intelligence solution built on proprietary IP transaction data to help IP teams identify high-intent target companies for patent monetization. The product aims to reveal viable commercial partnerships that conventional patent analytics tools miss. Customers include over 130 IP dealmakers across enterprises, universities, labs, and hospitals who use the platform to license, sell, or decide whether to keep or abandon patents, seek collaborators, and determine patent market value. The company plans to use recent funding to accelerate its ability to help more IP teams monetize undervalued patents. ScaleIP emphasizes saving labor time, generating new revenue streams, and improving patent decision-making through transaction-data-driven intelligence. The company was formerly known as LicenseLead.

• Spiral

  Participated · Equity · Nov 2022

  Spiral was co-founded in 2018 by Elena Zhizhimontova and Andrew DiLosa, who previously worked as software engineers on Amazon's Fire TV division. The company offers AI-powered software that aggregates and analyzes customer feedback from multiple channels to help companies spot bugs and other issues. Spiral sells to medium-to-large customers in banking, fintech, connected devices and insurance, and its software is used by more than 12 clients. The 7-person startup is expanding its engineering and sales teams and aims to reach a headcount of 12 by the end of Q1 2023. Leadership says they are seeing substantial incoming customer inquiries even as budgets tighten, with demand for conversion and retention-focused solutions. Spiral participated in Amazon’s Alexa Accelerator and previously raised $2.4 million in 2019.

• Spot

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2022

  Spot provides a customizable virtual workspace where teams interact via avatars in a branded office setting while accessing integrated chat, threads, channels, reactions, screen sharing, and video conferencing through a web browser. The platform is positioned as a more integrated solution compared with Slack, Discord, and Teams by combining immersive metaverse elements with legacy-style communication tools. Spot is used by teams at major companies named in the filing, and the product targets high-performing distributed organizations seeking to enhance team experience and retention. The company emphasizes accessibility—no special hardware is required, only a web browser—to drive adoption across remote workforces. Spot plans to use its recent funding to enhance technical capabilities, expand the team, and attract more users. Founded by Outreach co-founders Gordon Hempton and Wes Hather in 2020, the company is based in Seattle. Spot is a year-old, seven-person company building software that creates virtual representations of offices, described by CEO Gordon Hempton as "The Sims for the Enterprise." Hundreds of virtual worlds have been created with Spot for events and virtual headquarters, and the product is currently in a closed beta. Hempton said the company plans to create a true digital world that connects teams to each other both inside and outside of their organizations. Adoption is being driven by the pandemic-fueled shift to remote and hybrid work, and Spot competes with platforms such as Gather, Teamflow, Virbela, and Branch. The company is led by Outreach co‑founders Gordon Hempton and Wes Hather, who left Outreach in 2019 and 2020 respectively. Financially, Spot has raised $1.7M in new funding, backed in part by Seattle firm Founders' Co‑op.

No current team members are available.