• Gravy Analytics

  Participated · Equity · Jan 2017

  Gravy Analytics operates a mobile audience intelligence platform that identifies consumers’ passions and interests based on verified attendances at local events, venues and places of interest. The company combines geo-signal knowledge of where consumers go with its AdmitOne™ attendance verification engine to offer predictive segmentation, lifestyle and in-market buyer audience targeting and foot-traffic attribution. Its products are built on stated privacy principles. Led by CEO Jeff White, Gravy serves marketers seeking verified local-attendance and location-based audience insights. The company raised $7.7M in funding and says it will use the proceeds to expand operations. The business is based in Leesburg, Virginia.

• KnowledgeHound

  Participated · Series A · Nov 2016

  KnowledgeHound is a Chicago, IL-based platform that enables brands to activate, explore and analyze market research data to understand customers and design products. Led by founder Kristi Zuhlke, the company offers data analytics and visualization tools to surface insights and find instant answers from research. In November 2016 the company raised $2.7M in a Series A. Backers included George Spencer at Seyen Capital, Gaspar Group, InvestHER and BRJ Ventures. The company said it will use the funds to accelerate development of new technology. The financing is intended to support continued enhancement of its analytics and visualization capabilities for product and customer understanding. KnowledgeHound is a Chicago-based enterprise market research data-retrieval and visualization platform. It offers a natural-language search and data-visualization platform that lets researchers, marketers and sales teams find, visualize and analyze quantitative and qualitative consumer-research data. The company was co-founded by Kristi Zuhlke, a former Procter & Gamble consumer insights manager. KnowledgeHound focuses on improving its search engine, data-visualization and data-science capabilities. The article notes the company raised seed funding to continue investing in those teams and technologies.

• Vestorly

  Participated · Seed · Oct 2014

  Vestorly provides a digital content marketing platform for financial services that uses AI to stream personalized, compliant content and capture behavioral data. The platform lets professionals access new data on audience behavior and share news content; it has tracked 1.3 billion unique data points based on real-time interactions. More than 1,000 firms in global wealth management use the technology. Led by Co-Founder & CEO Justin Wisz, the company intends to continue enhancing its platform with proprietary data science, recruit engineers, and maintain its focus on serving wealth management firms. Vestorly completed an $8.5M funding round to support these efforts, and two new board members joined in conjunction with the financing. Vestorly provides a content marketing platform tailored to the financial services industry, enabling professionals to use AI to deliver personalized, compliant content and access behavioral data. The product was engineered by Torii, a technology platform aimed at improving content management workflows with data science and intuitive user experiences. Led by co-founder and CEO Justin Wisz, Vestorly plans to expand enterprise sales and marketing efforts for its core product. The company also intends to grow the Torii platform into additional verticals. Financially, Vestorly closed a $4.1M Series A and has raised $6.1M in total funding to date. The company is based in New York City. Vestorly provides a content marketing platform that delivers personalized content via email, social media and website embeds to increase engagement for professional service providers and enterprises that support them. The company was founded in 2012 and is led by CEO Justin Wisz. It is currently used by professionals from over 400 financial services firms and institutions. Vestorly raised over $2M in seed funding and plans to use the proceeds to expand its engineering team and enterprise capabilities. Backers in the seed round included AlphaPrime Ventures, Formation 8 and Gaspar Global Ventures.

• Architizer

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2014

  Architizer began seven years ago as a side project by founder Marc Kushner and launched as a community and portfolio site for architects. Since its launch, 40,000 architecture firms have uploaded over 120,000 projects with an average reported price tag of $33 million. The company developed Architizer Source, a marketplace and procurement tool designed to bring transparency to architects’ product purchasing. In private beta since last July with 10 architecture firms, the platform has sourced $50 million worth of deals. Vendors are charged a transaction fee when deals are struck and can use Architizer’s procurement software to respond to orders and speed billing and payments. Kushner estimates architects order $100 billion worth of products annually in North America, representing the market opportunity the company targets. The new capital will be funneled primarily into expanding the Architizer Source product and marketplace. Architizer is a New York City-based online resource for architects that hosts more than 51,000 projects submitted by over 30,000 firms. Founded in 2009 and led by CEO Marc Kushner, the site has grown a social following of over 2 million. The company's core offering is its online project repository and related resources for architecture professionals. In February 2014 Architizer raised $2 million in seed financing to support growth. The company intends to use the funds to expand its offerings to architects and building product manufacturers. Investors and strategic partners tied to the round will also provide board-level support.

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