Participated · Series B · Jan 2020

Feathr provides a marketing technology platform that enables professionals in the association and event industries to leverage data to create personalized and effective marketing. The platform drives membership growth, attendee acquisition, and sponsor promotion for its clients. Today more than 500 associations and event organizers use Feathr to market thousands of events, initiatives, and member programs to more than one hundred million customers around the world. The company is led by CEO Aleksander Levental and is based in Gainesville, Florida. Feathr plans to use the funds from this round to accelerate enhancements to its product offerings and to expand its team. The articles do not disclose revenue figures or other financial metrics beyond the fundraise. Feathr builds a mobile app for conferences that extracts attendees' social data into shareable virtual business cards and uses a recommendation engine to surface the most relevant contacts. The product is positioned to quantify the value of events and could enable targeted advertising down the line. The company also plans to generate revenue by building private-label apps for conference organizers. Feathr won a 'Relocate your company to Austin' competition at SXSW, and plans to move from Gainesville, Fla. to Austin, Texas. The team of eight employees will begin migrating over the next three months. The company reported over $54,000 in revenue in Q1 and said it is set to become cash-flow positive in the near future.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2016

Admiral’s VRM platform helps publishers build visitor relationships, drive revenue, and improve retention through AI-powered marketing automation and 1st-party data innovations. The company serves thousands of premium publishers and networks worldwide, including CNBC, Hearst, New York Post, Paramount, Rotten Tomatoes, and USA Today Sports. Admiral positions itself as marketing automation for media publishers, drawing inspiration from B2B SaaS platforms like HubSpot, Drift, and Salesforce but applied at a B2C level. Recent product focus areas highlighted include copyright access control and expanded AI-driven publisher marketing capabilities. The company announced a partnership with The Trade Desk’s OpenPass and intends to expand internationally while growing its Revenue, Product, and Customer Love teams. Admiral also strengthened its leadership with board additions from Harbert Growth Partners and Birchmere Ventures. Admiral offers an analytics and revenue-recovery platform that helps web and mobile publishers measure adblocking impact, engage users to improve ad quality, and automatically recover lost revenue. Its Measure module is free for select publishers and sizes losses down to the impression and dollar, while Engage, Recover, and Transact are performance-priced so publishers pay only when revenue is recovered. Admiral also offers a WordPress plugin to measure adblock impacts and runs a Partner Program to recover and share revenue with adtech partners. The company plans to use new funding to expand its New York-based sales and marketing to premium publishers worldwide and to grow adoption of its plugin and partner program. Admiral markets a guaranteed, performance-priced approach to recovering revenue and invites publishers to qualify for up to $1,000,000 of free revenue recovery.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2014

Lehigh Technologies manufactures micronized rubber powders (MRP) using a cryogenic turbo mill process that converts end-of-life tires and other post-industrial rubber into micron-scale powders. Its MRP is a lower-cost, sustainable specialty material used in applications such as tires, asphalt, coatings and polyurethanes. The company reports more than 60 customers among leading tire, asphalt and plastics companies worldwide. Lehigh has expanded into Europe and is pursuing further global expansion initiatives. It is backed by venture capital firms including Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Index Ventures, and Leaf Clean Energy Company. In July 2015 Lehigh secured a $15 million venture loan facility to support working capital needs and capital expenditures. Lehigh Technologies commercializes micronized rubber powder (MRP) technology that transforms end-of-life rubber into a sustainable specialty chemical used to replace oil-based materials. Its MRP is applied across high-performance tires, industrial rubber, consumer and industrial plastics, asphalt and coatings, and construction materials. The company reports its MRP has been used in the manufacture of over 250 million tires and that it serves six of the world's top ten tire manufacturers. Led by CEO Dr. Alan Barton and based in Tucker, GA, Lehigh intends to use new funding for geographic expansion and technology innovation. The company raised $8M from a group of investors including JSR Corp, Leaf Clean Energy, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Index Ventures and Florida Gulfshore Capital. Its technology aims to reduce costs and waste in a wide range of end-use markets. Lehigh Technologies is a Tucker, Georgia–based sustainable materials company that has developed micronized rubber powder (MRP) technology. Its MRP process transforms end-of-life tire and post-industrial rubber into materials incorporated into high-performance tires, consumer and industrial plastic goods, asphalt and coatings, and construction products. Customers include tire companies. Led by CEO Dr. Alan Barton, the company said it will use new funding to expand its geographic reach and research and development initiatives. The company completed a $16M financing as reported. Investors in the round included Leaf Clean Energy, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Index Ventures and NGP Energy Technology Partners. Lehigh Technologies processes end-of-life tires into ultra-fine rubber powder that can replace standard rubber in hoses, shoe soles, bicycle tires, paints and sealants. The company uses a cryogenic separation process to freeze and more efficiently remove steel and fiber before grinding, producing powders down to 50 microns. Removing steel and fiber more effectively also makes those components easier to recycle, and using Lehigh powder can cut oil use in manufacturing by about 10 percent. Lehigh sells its powder in 1,000–2,000 lb bags primarily to industrial concerns rather than as consumer products. The company is located in Tucker, Georgia, and in 2007 formed a strategic partnership with MTR, the Southeast US’s largest collector of scrap tires. Lehigh was named one of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers for 2010, selected as one of 26 companies.

Participated · Series C · Jun 2012

Prioria Robotics develops small unmanned aerial systems designed to perform sophisticated aerial security and surveillance tasks for military and civilian customers. The company was founded in March 2003 by business and engineering graduates from the University of Florida and is led by CEO Bryan da Frota. Prioria completed the final tranche of a $5.5M Series C funding round. The company intends to use the new financing to advance its platforms. Athenian Venture Partners joined the round alongside lead investor Advantage Capital Partners and existing investor Florida Gulfshore Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Karl Elderkin of Athenian Venture Partners joined Prioria’s board.