Led · Series B · Feb 2017

CrediFi offers a software-as-a-service big-data platform serving the commercial real estate finance market, providing data and analytics driven by a database of over seven million commercial properties. The platform tracks $13 trillion in both balance-sheet and securitized loans to increase transparency around borrowers, lenders and transactions. Customers include American financial institutions and banks, property companies, hedge fund managers and US government agencies. The company intends to use the new funding to expand go-to-market efforts and to recruit executive and team talent in New York and Israel. CrediFi was founded in 2014 and is led by CEO Ely Razin; it is dual headquartered in New York City and Tel Aviv and currently employs 65 people. CrediFi is a New York City- and Tel Aviv-based provider of cloud-based data services and analytics for commercial real estate finance. Its platform collects and analyzes data across loan origination, portfolio management and competitive analysis, and includes visualization technologies to map lending and property activity as well as services to provide ultimate ownership information. The company serves premier asset holders, hedge funds, large institutional banks and other CRE market participants. Led by CEO Ely Razin, CrediFi leverages technology and human expertise to surface opportunities and risks across property types from multifamily and offices to distribution centers and senior housing. The company has 75 employees and intends to use the funds to accelerate growth, expand its sales and marketing organization, and support a major upcoming product launch. As of this round the company has raised $23 million to date. CrediFi operates a cloud-based critical data and analytics platform for the commercial real estate (CRE) finance sector, led by CEO Ely Razin. The platform provides institutional-grade loan, financial, property, and market information and asset analytics accessible on desktop and mobile. Available information includes detailed breakdowns of property loans, building tenants and occupancy data, amounts of capital invested in properties, and legal and compliance data. At launch the company had coverage relating to over 10 billion square feet of U.S. property and $1 trillion in commercial real estate loans. Its service is in use by several institutions, including premier asset holders, hedge funds, and large-scale institutional banks. CrediFi plans to use new funding to expand its customer-facing organization while continuing platform expansion.

Led · Series D · Mar 2015

Quid describes itself as “the artificial intelligence company that accelerates research and insights to address the world’s most complex issues.” The company processes millions of documents and creates visual maps of the results, for example helping a business visualize the online response to a product launch. Quid broadened its scope from tracking emerging technologies (as it did in 2010) to a wider set of research and insight applications. It launched its current platform at the beginning of last year and says it has signed up 80 clients since that launch. Customers cited in coverage include Hyundai, Microsoft, and the Boston Consulting Group. Quid recently announced a $39 million Series D round. Quid builds software that visualizes trends across the tech industry, selling subscriptions to blue‑chip clients. The company’s platform is used by customers such as Microsoft, which pays about $1 million annually for a subscription. Quid plans to use new funding to hire 18 additional engineers on top of its current 45‑person team and to further develop its product. Management says it will focus first on nailing the tech sector and then expand into other industries. CEO Bob Goodson frames the product as a tool to mine insights from rapidly growing volumes of data and help customers make more informed decisions.