Led · Equity · Feb 2026

Crew is a startup focused on ‘can-to-curb’ valet waste management and on-demand trash removal, paying gig workers per pickup much like DoorDash does for food delivery. The idea grew out of CEO and co-founder Cameron Lam’s experience managing multiple Airbnb properties, where he recognized a recurring need for timely trash services. The company positions itself as a tech-enabled marketplace that connects property owners with gig workers who haul trash to the curb or remove it entirely. Management says demand is currently outstripping supply, and Crew is preparing to scale operations to reach the many customers on its waitlist. To fund this growth, the team is assembling a $2.5 million round and has already accepted a term sheet from Upstream Ventures. The recent win at Utah Tech Week both validates market fit in the eyes of local investors and brings in fresh capital to accelerate expansion. While specific revenue or user figures were not disclosed, the company stresses rapid customer adoption as its primary growth driver.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

Pavewise develops a cloud-based platform designed to boost efficiency and compliance across road construction projects. The software blends production tracking, analytics, compliance automation, and granular weather data to turn unpredictable job-site conditions into actionable insights. Contractors use Pavewise to minimize downtime, avoid costly rework, reduce regulatory risk, and improve overall profitability. Led by co-founder and CEO Bryce Wuori, the Bismarck, ND company targets field crews and project managers who need real-time visibility into every stage of a paving job. The firm plans to invest heavily in sales, marketing, and crew acquisition to accelerate its go-to-market strategy following its latest capital raise. No operating metrics such as revenue or user count were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2023

SupportPay provides a web and mobile platform for divorced, single, step, co-parents, and caregivers to manage and exchange shared expenses, child support, custody, schedules, and communications. Users can view, pay, and document every bill and shared expense and receive a certified record for compliance, court, and tax purposes. The app serves more than 75,000 consumers worldwide and is offered as an employee benefit for global brands like Hearst. The company plans to use the funds to expand operations, deliver additional payment options for families, expedite enterprise adoption, and expand its offering to support any family member involved in sharing, managing, and tracking expenses and schedules. Led by founder and CEO Sheri Atwood, SupportPay supports both web and mobile access. The company is based in Charlotte, NC and aims to grow adoption among employers and families. SupportPay operates an online platform that tracks and manages child and spousal support, automating payment tracking, billing, receipt management, payments and producing a certified record. The service enables parents to share expenses and provides organized documentation that benefits family lawyers and has reduced court time. Founder Sheri Atwood rebuilt the product after purchasing the company's assets following liquidation and refocused the business on revenue and increasing paid users. During the COVID-19 pandemic daily registrations tripled and demand for child support modifications increased six-fold, with divorce filings expected to jump 50% early next year. To meet that demand the company is seeking outside financing to build family-law infrastructure and expand marketing to courts, family lawyers, and mediators; it also hired Erika Englund as chief strategy officer. SupportPay provides a platform to automate child support payments and enable parents to share and track additional expenses such as medical, child care, education, and extracurricular activities. The service manages base payments, tracks shared expenses, lets parents pay one another through the app, keep detailed records, set payment reminders, dispute or approve charges, and print court-certified documents. The platform is available online and via mobile apps for iOS and Android as well as tablets. Led by Founder & CEO Sheri Atwood and CTO/COO Jyoti Das, the company currently has nearly 40,000 users. SupportPay has raised over $7m since 2014 and recently closed a new financing to support growth. The company will use the funds to expand its team and ramp up marketing to reach parents, family law professionals, and government agencies across the country. SupportPay provides a platform to automate child support payments and let parents submit, share and pay child-related expenses. The platform allows a parent to manage monthly child support payments, submit additional expenses with attached receipts, and lets the other parent review items and make or schedule payments directly. It stores complete child-support information and provides a certified record suitable for court or tax purposes. SupportPay is available as a web, Android and iOS application. The company, led by Founder & CEO Sheri Atwood and based in Santa Clara, CA, closed an additional $1.5M funding round and has raised $2.6M to date. It plans to use the funds to support growth, expand channels and enhance the platform’s features. SupportPay provides a private, secure platform to standardize billing and automate payments for shared child-related expenses—medical, child care, education and other costs not covered by court orders. The product includes expense tracking, reminders and transparent access to transactions, and is available online and as Android and iOS apps. SupportPay offers both a free tier and a subscription option and was built on the Salesforce1 Platform. The service was beta-tested by Ittavi in January and officially launched roughly three-and-a-half months before the article; it reports about 2,100 users across Australia, Canada, the U.K., and the U.S. The company cites a large market opportunity (Atwood notes 39 million divorced couples in North America exchanging over $200 billion and a nearly $1 trillion global market) and says there are no competing services addressing this space.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2023

Scription is a Calgary-based technology company founded in 2020 that offers Scription360, a subscription maintenance program for commercial foodservice equipment. The platform replaces hourly repair rates with monthly fixed-price coverage and uses predictive maintenance and data analytics to align incentives between service providers and restaurant operators. Scription says the model reduces total cost of ownership, increases equipment uptime, simplifies operations, and improves replacement planning for quick-serve franchise brands. The company plans to expand Scription360 throughout North America and has appointed Gerritt Graham as CEO to lead that expansion. To date Scription has raised $10.35M, including a $2.5M pre-seed in 2023 led by Markd and a $7.85M seed closed in January 2025 led by IA Capital with participation from Markd. The company positions itself as an outcome-based service platform that lowers operators' cost of risk through predictive analytics and aligned service incentives. Scription is an Edmonton, Canada–based Insurtech led by CEO Justin Villiers. The company’s platform leverages historical maintenance data to intelligently price and offer insurance for maintenance contracts tailored to individual pieces of equipment. Scription’s programs give service companies recurring aftermarket revenue and repairs exclusivity while equipment owners receive more predictable costs and fewer breakdowns. The startup raised $2.5M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to launch and onboard anchor customer brands. The company combines domain expertise and technology to help firms launch new aftermarket service programs.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2023

Science On Call is a Chicago, IL–based provider of an AI-powered help desk that offers 24/7/365 tech support for restaurants. Led by CEO Andy Freivogel, the company fields a dedicated team of restaurant technologists whom customers can text, call, or email to resolve issues across point of sale, internet, Wi‑Fi, online ordering, email and phone systems. Its team leverages a proprietary database of technology resolutions compiled from hundreds of restaurants to solve common tech problems in minutes. Customers include Gregorys Coffee, Go Get Em Tiger Coffee, &pizza, and Primanti Bros, which use the service to ease staff burden and reduce internal IT spending. The company intends to use the funds to expand product offerings and enhance its go-to-market strategy. The recent $2.6M seed financing is intended to support those plans.