Participated · Series A · Feb 2025

Beamable builds decentralized infrastructure for gaming and provides an open, extensible game server platform. The platform lets developers create online games and virtual worlds in minutes and quickly add player auth, analytics, social, commerce, inventory, content management, meta-game features, GenAI and Web3 capabilities. The company is led by CEO Jon Radoff. Beamable plans to develop and scale its Network, a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) intended to redefine how backend infrastructure for games is built and operated. It raised $13.5M in Series A financing to fund development and scaling of the Network. The company is based in Boston, MA. Beamable provides a Software-as-a-Service platform that helps game makers continuously operate, update, monetize and socialize their games. The platform is integrated with the Unity 3D engine, enabling developers to focus on creativity and differentiation. Led by CEO Jon Radoff, the company has signed up over 100 game studios since last year. Over 20 million users have accessed games built on Beamable, resulting in $150M in revenue transacted through the platform. Beamable raised approximately $5M in an equity funding round and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations and its business reach. The company is based in Boston, MA. Disruptor Beam builds franchise-based mobile games, including Game of Thrones Ascent (2013) and Star Trek Timelines. The company says revenue grew more than 300% last year, driven largely by Timelines, and over 15 million people have played its games. It plans to keep developing existing titles and launch new franchise games currently in development. Next up is The Walking Dead: March to War, a multiplayer strategy game scheduled for release sometime in 2017. Leadership also plans to use funding to build out a publishing platform for marketing, customer acquisition and support. The team is monitoring the impact of the new Star Trek Discovery TV show and may incorporate elements from the show into Timelines.

Led · Equity · Oct 2018

Mavrck operates a platform for brands and media companies to source and engage influencers for marketing campaigns. The company says it connects roughly 3 million creators with about 5,000 marketers across 500 consumer brands and has paid out over $200 million to creators to date. Mavrck will integrate Later’s Linkin.bio click and engagement analytics into its dashboard following the acquisition. Later brings social scheduling, analytics and Linkin.bio linking, with over 2 billion pageviews and nearly 7 million creators and small businesses using its suite. Mavrck’s leadership frames the product and M&A moves as positioning the company to capture growth in the creator economy, and the team has spoken about future shifts such as VR where creators may play a role. The company is using the new capital and the Later acquisition to expand its enterprise-facing creator marketing capabilities. Mavrck operates a platform that lets brands and media companies source, vet, and engage influencers and creators for sponsored content across social platforms, blogs, podcasts, and more. Its "Influencer Index" lists millions of contactable macro- and micro-influencers and the company has connected brands with more than 3 million creators, reaching over 240 million consumers. About 500 brands and 5,000 marketers use Mavrck, which employs patented algorithms, first-party opt-in data, and roughly 25 search filters (audience demographics, historical performance, fraud risk) to match creators to campaigns. Mavrck also enables customers to import or invite existing influencer relationships to build ambassador networks and handles campaign workflow and payments. The company plans to use new capital to double down on its platform, build recommendation engines powered by petabytes of historical data, and double its team while investing in business development. Founded in 2014, Mavrck emphasizes leveraging creator-driven social proof amid rapid growth in influencer marketing spend. Mavrck is an all-in-one influencer marketing platform that automates influencer workflows and measures campaign performance. It offers tools to automate and measure the process and to detect fraud by analyzing statistically significant samples of an account’s followers and of accounts that engage with content to identify bots. The company recently added features for Pinterest and is an official Pinterest marketing partner. Customers include P&G, Godiva and PepsiCo, and Mavrck says recurring revenue has grown 400% year-over-year. Mavrck has raised another $5.8M, bringing total capital raised to $13.8M, and says the funds will support increased demand and channel partnerships. The company previously raised a Series A in 2015 when it focused on micro-influencers and has since broadened into a wider, "all-in-one" platform. Mavrck provides a micro-influencer marketing platform for brands to identify and activate influential consumers at scale across multiple social networks. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Lyle Stevens. It recently launched a free Fan Grader analysis tool for brands to identify influential Facebook fans and added an Instagram integration that analyzed more than one million posts in its first two weeks. Customers include more than 30 premier brands such as Gillette, Hershey’s, Bota Box and Hydro Flask, and the company has agency partnerships with Mullen Lowe and GroupM. The company will use the funds to accelerate its growth. Mavrck is based in Boston, MA. Mavrck builds a platform that helps brands identify and engage long-tail or micro-influencers and manage reciprocity-driven campaigns. The company emphasizes conversions over impressions, positioning its product to deliver measurable leads and purchases. In a pilot with Unilever’s Clear product, Mavrck provided 1,000 influencers unique links that generated 15,000 email signups and more than 3,500 purchases within 30 days. Across its campaigns the company reported an average cost per lead of $1.52 and said its CTR and CPL compared favorably to Facebook News Feed ads and Promoted Tweets, though its cost per engagement was higher. Co-founder and CEO Lyle Stevens says the next major challenge is scaling the influencer base, and the company planned to engage communities to add zeros to its numbers as it moved into 2015. Mavrck is a TechStars Boston graduate and is focused on expanding reach while maintaining influencer authenticity and monitoring to prevent spam-like behavior.

Led · Series A · Jun 2017

Dispatch provides a field service and customer experience platform featuring persona-based mobile and web applications, platform APIs, and cloud/on-premise connectors. Its platform enables enterprises to collect and strategically leverage data about the last mile of the service delivery process. The company was founded in 2013 by Avi Goldberg and is based in Boston, MA. Dispatch intends to use the investment to enhance its suite of products, expand partnerships, and hire across all departments at its Boston headquarters. The article does not disclose operating metrics or financial details beyond the announced investment. Dispatch provides an enterprise software platform that lets users schedule appointments, receive job status updates, share real-time location information, communicate directly with customers and accept payments. Led by CEO Avi Goldberg, the company focuses on managing all aspects of installations, maintenance and repairs for home-service providers. Dispatch will use the $12M Series A proceeds to expand operations. Beyond the capital, a partnership with ServiceMaster will make Dispatch the software platform of choice for ServiceMaster’s home warranty and pest control brands. The platform is currently used by more than 20,000 service providers. Dispatch has launched a proprietary scheduling and delivery platform to bring businesses into the on‑demand economy, offering a mobile extension for legacy systems plus self‑serve products and APIs for marketplaces and developers. The platform lets customers instantly find and book scheduled or immediate services online or via smartphone and track provider arrival in real time. Dispatch targets enterprise businesses—integrating with CRM, ERP and workforce management systems to improve visibility into contractors and service performance—and startups and developers building on‑demand marketplaces via SDKs and APIs. One early customer, Handyman Connection, adopted Dispatch to reduce wait times and improve scheduling in the home services market. The company positions itself to become the underlying infrastructure linking consumers and the on‑demand economy with legacy businesses. Dispatch closed a $3.1M seed financing round as reported in the announcement.

Led · Series B · Feb 2017

Disruptor Beam develops story-rich, socially-driven games that connect fans around entertainment franchises and can be played on mobile devices and platforms such as Facebook. The company focuses on licensed titles and has released Game of Thrones Ascent (2013) and Star Trek Timelines (January 2016). It plans to launch The Walking Dead: March to War in 2017. Founded by game industry veteran Jon Radoff, Disruptor Beam aims to scale its portfolio of franchise-based games. The company raised new capital to support that growth. In February 2017 it completed a financing to accelerate growth and support its games throughout 2017.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2015

KnowledgeVision Systems offers a Software-as-a-Service platform that enables creation, distribution, tracking, storage and management of high-quality multimedia presentations. The KnowledgeVision System is available in four editions for individuals to enterprises and is a collection of apps, technologies and services for business video. The company added an iPad application, Knovio Mobile, to enable multimedia presentation creation on mobile devices. In 2014 KnowledgeVision delivered 31.1 million minutes of video content, had over 50,000 registered authors, and posted revenue growth of over 68%. Its average account size increased by 75% over the prior two years, reflecting greater use of the product's multiple functions. Management said it will double the sales team and open a second sales office in Chicago to support continued expansion. KnowledgeVision Systems provides a Software-as-a-Service solution for creating, sharing, and tracking online multimedia presentations. Its main tools, KVStudio and Knovio, convert PowerPoint decks into video- and audio-narrated content for learning, marketing, sales, and communications. The company is led by CEO Michael Kolowich, COO Allen Deary, and newly appointed SVP of Sales and Channels Thomas Gensch. KnowledgeVision serves customers across financial services, healthcare, technology, and education markets. It recently closed an additional nearly $1.2M in Series A-2 financing to support growth. The company plans to use the funds to accelerate market penetration and to launch a series of new enterprise enablement initiatives this quarter. KnowledgeVision Systems provides cloud-based services that let users create interactive video experiences by synchronizing presentation slides with video or audio streams. The platform supports reference links, navigation, searchable transcripts and social media tools. Its online presentations are used for e-learning, content marketing, sales enablement, corporate communications and investor relations. Led by CEO Michael Kolowich, the company aims to expand its products and services. To support that expansion, KnowledgeVision closed a $1.65M financing round. New investors in the financing included Rand Capital among others. KnowledgeVision Systems develops cloud-based online video presentation technology that synchronizes presentation slides with video or audio streams, reference links, navigation, searchable transcripts and social media tools. Led by CEO Michael Kolowich, the company provides services to create interactive video experiences for users. Its online presentations are used for e-learning, content marketing, sales enablement, corporate communications and investor relations. The company is based in Lincoln, Massachusetts. KnowledgeVision closed a new $1.875M round of financing and intends to use the capital to fund new product initiatives and expand adoption worldwide. KnowledgeVision Systems, based in Concord, Massachusetts, creates tools and services for online, on-demand and live multimedia presentations. Its KVStudio subscription software synchronizes video or audio, PowerPoint and other images, footnotes, and virtual handouts into interactive presentation experiences. Customers include technology, healthcare, financial services, retail, professional services, and not-for-profit organizations using the product for sales and marketing, training and professional development, and communications. The company is led by CEO and President Michael E. Kolowich. KnowledgeVision closed a $2M Series A financing intended to expand its software tool and service offerings and accelerate market development activities worldwide. In conjunction with the funding, Jeffrey P. Parker and Charles R. Lax joined the company's Board of Directors.