Led · Equity · Sep 2022

Ocelot provides an AI-based platform to facilitate easier communications between universities and their students around applications for financial aid and other services. Its services include texting, chatbots, live chat interfaces, video libraries and counseling interfaces for financial aid offices to assess satisfactory academic progress (SAP). The platform is used by some 8 million students and nearly 500 colleges and universities, which saw about 12 million questions asked and answered through Ocelot in the last year. The company was founded in 2003 by Damon Vangelis and Talin Andonians became CEO in 2021. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Ocelot was bootstrapped until this raise and has been profitable from the start. The company says it will use the funding to expand its products, particularly financial aid-related tools and additional services around institution–student interactions.

Led · Series A · Apr 2022

RentRedi is an all-inclusive landlord-tenant platform and mobile-first app that enables landlords to automate rent collection, market rentals, receive and manage maintenance requests, and handle tenant applications and payments. For tenants, the platform simplifies applying for properties, paying rent and reporting issues. Co-founded by father-and-son Ryan Barone (CEO and CTO) and Ed Barone (CMO), the company focuses on helping landlords manage rentals from anywhere. Since 2020 the platform has added more than 10,000 actively subscribed landlords who manage over 85,000 properties. RentRedi has raised $17m in total funding to date and will use the new proceeds to expand operations, extend business reach and scale its mobile-first technology. The company intends to streamline the renting process for both landlords and tenants with this funding.

Led · Series B · Mar 2022

TokenEx is a cloud tokenization provider based in Oklahoma City, OK, led by founder and CEO Alex Pezold. The company collects data via API calls or managed file transfers before it enters an organization’s internal systems and exchanges that sensitive data for nonsensitive tokens. Those tokens can be sent to any API endpoint, creating a layer of abstraction that safeguards against cyber and ransomware attacks while increasing customer freedom, control, and interoperability. TokenEx’s solution can secure and desensitize any structured data element to reduce risk, streamline operations, and enable clients’ most critical business processes. The company raised $100M in a Series B and intends to use the funds to invest in its product, customer service, and account management teams and to scale global operations.

Led · Series B · Mar 2022

Hiver is described as the world’s first helpdesk built for Google Workspace, providing a SaaS collaboration tool that streamlines helpdesk workflows for businesses using Google Workspace. The company powers more than 1,500 customers, including Canva, Vacasa, Flexport, Pluralsight, Oxford Business Group, and Upwork. Hiver reports over 700 G2 reviews with roughly 80% five‑star ratings and is listed on several G2 Best Software lists, including top products for customer satisfaction. The product emphasizes ease of onboarding, simplified workflows, and 24×7 customer support that customers rate highly. The company says the new funding will give it ammunition to pursue market and product opportunities to build a leading customer service solution for businesses. Its website and blog announce the Series B and provide additional company information and customer references. Hiver is a Google Chrome extension that lets teams manage shared email addresses (e.g., support@, sales@) and collaborate directly inside Gmail. It provides shared inboxes, assignment of emails to coworkers, a separate comments column with @-mentions, collision alerts, templates, scheduled sending, shared drafts, and simple if/then automations. Hiver follows a SaaS pricing model with plans starting at $14 per user per month and charges extra for automations and Salesforce integration. The company is based in India, employs about 50 people, and serves roughly 1,000 companies—many in the U.S.—including HubSpot, Vacasa, Pinterest and Lyft. The product requires G Suite and works better on desktop; Hiver also offers basic mobile apps that remain relatively limited. The addition of automation rules shows ongoing product development to streamline assignment and categorization of conversations.

Led · Series A · Feb 2022

raffle.ai offers a next-generation, AI-based enterprise search platform that uses contextual learning to understand meaning and intent across documents, websites and image files. The product delivers fast, natural-language search that customers can deploy in hours or days, contrasted with competitors that take months. Customers across several countries and languages have implemented the platform, including rollouts in five languages, and report efficiency gains such as a 25% reduction in customer support inquiries. The company plans to more than double headcount by the end of 2022 and to continue penetrating European and US markets. The announcement notes an $18 million Series A commitment to support these expansion plans and global growth. raffle.ai emphasizes rapid time-to-value and reductions in support calls, tickets and search times as core benefits for enterprise customers.