Participated · Equity · Jul 2023

K4Connect is a healthtech company that provides enterprise technologies to senior living communities, based in Raleigh, N.C. Its core product is FusionOS, a patented integration platform that connects new and emerging technologies and aggregates health and behavioral data across systems and applications. K4Connect also offers the K4Community Engagement Suite to improve resident engagement and staff workflows. The company says FusionOS helps operators optimize caregiver workflows, lower costs, and improve resident care; its FusionOS and Engagement Suite serve tens of thousands of residents and staff across U.S. senior living communities. K4Connect raised $8.9M in a recent financing, bringing total capital raised to $39M, and plans to use proceeds to drive further adoption in the senior living market and continue advancing its technology. The company is led by CEO F. Scott Moody and announced Mike Weller will join as COO. K4Connect builds a software platform that integrates any number of disparate smart devices, systems and applications into a single responsive system. Its initial K4-branded products, including K4Community, are specifically tailored for seniors and individuals living with disabilities. The company has focused productization around senior living and accessibility use cases. K4Connect is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Financially, the company has raised an additional $12 million in venture funding during the pandemic period, bringing total capital raised to $35 million since the start of the pandemic. The recent funding includes participation from both existing and new investors tied to the senior-living and real-estate industries. K4Connect offers a FusionOS-based platform (branded K4Community) that bundles voice assistance, pre-provisioned Alexa devices, home automation (thermostats, lights, sensors), video and messaging, resident directories, games and community communications for senior living and care facilities. The company sells its SaaS on a per-resident basis (ranging from a few dollars to tens of dollars per month depending on modules) and includes support and facility productivity tools like event management, surveys and resident/family management. K4Connect serves over 800 continuing care, independent living and assisted living communities and has a 57-person full-time team. The product roadmap has been adjusted during the COVID-19 outbreak (Project COVID 911) to prioritize communications, content delivery, expanded video chat and pre-provisioning to limit in-room installations. The platform also supports livestreamed programming, dining booking tools and resident-to-resident and resident-to-staff video chat. The company is actively developing solutions to expand beyond facility-based communities into affordable housing and seniors living independently. K4Connect is a Raleigh, N.C.-based technology company that creates solutions to serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities. It provides K4Community, a platform designed for residents, staff and operators of senior living communities that integrates smart home, smart wellness and smart living technologies into a single system. The company also develops an underlying Fusion platform/OS to unify those technologies and deliver tools and data for care and hospitality teams. K4Connect intends to use the new funding to further develop K4Community and the Fusion platform, expand its customer base, and accelerate partnerships across consumer and senior living-specific companies. It reports more than 13,000 residents across dozens of senior living communities from Florida to California as customers. The company is led by co-founder and CEO F. Scott Moody and has raised over $22M to date following this round. K4Connect provides K4Community, a responsive platform that integrates smart technologies to foster family and community engagement for senior living residents. K4Community lets residents control their apartments, connect with family and friends through photo sharing and video chats, and stay engaged via event calendars and newsletters. The platform also enables community operators to improve care and hospitality with value-added amenities. K4Connect intends to use the Series A proceeds to accelerate growth of K4Community, its first product. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Scott Moody and is based in Raleigh, N.C.

Led · Series B · Sep 2021

Blueprint offers a technology platform that gives professional residential real estate market participants a single, secure dashboard to view transactions, upload documents, receive automated status updates, collaborate, and e-sign. Partners include multi-state investors, lenders, wholesalers, proptech startups, and builders who transact frequently and need transparency throughout the closing process. The company’s agency, Blueprint Title, is licensed in 26 states and operational in 19. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Nashville, Blueprint recently acquired an underwriter, Southwest Land Title Insurance Company, which is licensed in Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas with additional states planned. Blueprint says it will use new funding to accelerate footprint expansion and continue building out the Blueprint platform.

Led · Series B · Sep 2021

Blueprint Title focuses on title insurance for professional and business customers rather than consumer policies. It targets professional groups seeking a better title insurance experience, emphasizing cost and service delivery amid limited pricing flexibility in the sector. The company notes title insurance has a low claims rate (roughly 1–4%) and operates in a concentrated U.S. market where four firms hold about 90% share. Blueprint said it anticipates 400% revenue growth in 2021 versus 2020. To support a strategy of offering lower, profitable pricing, Blueprint purchased underwriting firm Southwest Land Title Insurance Company so it can be full-stack and both write and sell coverage. The company recently closed a $16 million Series B to fund this growth. Blueprint Title has developed a proprietary digital platform that includes honest pricing, e-signature transactions, and smart-document management. The company targets professional real estate investors who need quick, affordable, turnkey closings and says its tools deliver cost savings to that buyer category. Blueprint employs approximately 22 people and was established in 2017 in Nashville. It currently operates in Tennessee, Texas, Colorado, Ohio, Maryland, DC, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The company announced plans to expand to additional investor markets throughout 2020 and appointed Michael Anderson as chief technology officer. Blueprint recently secured $8.5 million in Series A financing led by Santander Innoventures to support its smart tools and growth.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2020

WattBuy operates a marketplace and API platform that enables consumers and partner enterprises to discover and purchase cleaner, cost-saving electricity solutions and personalized energy analytics. Its APIs and channel partnerships embed energy marketplaces into partners such as Samsung SmartThings, Intuit Mint and Updater. The company reports significant customer growth over the past 12 months and serves enterprises across multiple verticals seeking to offer branded energy marketplaces. WattBuy plans to double its team, expanding product, data science and business-development functions, and will soon launch a nationwide community and rooftop solar service. The company is also building additional personalized energy products, services and tools to unlock distributed energy resources for customers. WattBuy announced the hiring of Bobby Tulsiani as its first chief financial officer. Since its founding in 2017, WattBuy has raised $16 million in venture funding to date. WattBuy operates an online electricity marketplace and provides turnkey APIs that let consumers and enterprise partners browse, compare, and select electricity plans. Its personalized recommendation engine and a machine-learning-based calculator estimate hourly electricity usage, costs, and carbon footprint for nearly every U.S. home. The company partners with real-estate platforms like Updater, personal-finance companies, and energy services businesses to embed its marketplace and streamline the move/start-of-service experience. WattBuy is improving its ML model and expanding its API integrations with funding from the latest round. It serves customers in deregulated markets covering over 140 million Americans across 14 states, offering comparisons among 100+ providers and roughly 5,000 plans, with average potential savings of $360 per year. The company has also worked with Schmidt Futures and NREL to build a comprehensive national electricity rates database. WattBuy operates an electricity marketplace that leverages a personalized recommendation engine to help residents set up electricity plans based on preference and usage. The company currently operates in Texas, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Founded in August 2017 by Naman Trivedi and Ben Hood and based in Seattle, WA, WattBuy participated in Techstars’ Kansas City Accelerator in June 2018. The startup raised seed funding to support growth and product development. It intends to use the funds to expand market access and deepen its data science capabilities. No revenue or user metrics were reported in the article.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2018

RapidSOS builds mission-critical artificial-intelligence tools for emergency response, connecting data from more than 600 million devices, sensors and cameras to 22,000+ federal, state, local and defense agencies. Its flagship product, RapidSOS HARMONY, automatically detects emergencies, unifies real-time data and video feeds, and helps coordinate faster, more effective responses. The company’s safety network is used by one million first-responder professionals and has supported over one billion emergencies across a dozen countries. RapidSOS collaborates with more than 200 global enterprises, including half of the U.S. Fortune 10, to modernize 911 and field-response workflows. With the new capital, the team plans to deepen AI-driven interoperability, scale its safety network, and expand internationally while targeting the prevention of one million emergencies by 2030. Having now raised more than $450 million in total, RapidSOS is currently the highest-funded emergency-response AI company.