Participated · Series A · May 2022

Civic Eagle builds Enview, a legislative intelligence and collaboration platform that leverages state and federal legislation to support government relations and advocacy work. Its software keeps users automatically updated on fast-moving legislation and enables collaboration across stakeholder teams. Customers named in the article include Comcast, Google, Common Cause, and The Center for Secure and Modern Election. Since bringing Enview to market in 2019, 100+ organizations and 2,000+ users have tracked and influenced 50,000+ bills. The company emphasizes a design-first, social-impact-driven approach and is led by an all-Black founding team that includes CEO Damola Ogundipe and COO Yemi Adewunmi. The new funding is intended to expand public policy data innovation, accelerate product development, and scale sales and marketing efforts.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2021

Sugar offers a two-part product: a mobile app for residents and a web-based dashboard for building owners and managers that enables community engagement, keyless entry, rent payment and maintenance requests. The platform integrates with existing hardware and software stacks and can plug into keyless-entry hardware to enable digital keys, which the company cites as a primary adoption driver. Sugar sells the consumer app directly to building owners and managers and provides management dashboards to monitor engagement metrics and online ratings. The startup has clients across residential communities, real estate investment groups, Airbnb rentals, hotels and other residential properties, and has rollouts within portfolios that together manage over 655 properties and 150,000 active doors in 22 states. Prior to the seed close the company reported consistent month-over-month growth and achieved six-figure ARR four months after launch. Sugar has grown its team from two employees last year to nine full-time employees and plans key hires in engineering and sales with the new capital.