• Travefy

  Participated · Equity · May 2015

  Travefy develops online and mobile travel tools that allow groups to collaborate on trip details, build rich itineraries, and collect shared expenses. The company offers free consumer tools as well as white‑labeled and integrated platform partnerships for online travel agents, travel management companies, vacation providers, and travel brands. Led by CEO David Chait, Travefy is based in Lincoln, NE. The company raised $1.8M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to accelerate expansion and drive product innovation. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article. Travefy is a group travel planning platform founded in 2012 by CEO David Chait and based in Lincoln, NE. The product lets users invite friends to travel, poll dates and locations, collaborate on trip details, book hotels, and manage expenses. The company has released a beta of a new management tool to track and settle group expenses, built in partnership with SlidePay. A mobile app was scheduled for release in Fall 2013. Travefy intends to use newly raised funds to scale and commercialize the platform. The company previously received an angel investment from Linseed Capital and a grant from the Nebraska Innovation Fund's Prototyping Program.

• Prairie Cloudware

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2013

  Prairie Cloudware, based in Omaha, Neb., offers the Digital Payments Guardian, a cloud-based platform that enables financial institutions to centrally store customers' payment accounts and cards and serve them across laptops, smartphones, tablets and wearables. The platform routes tokenized payment information through existing payment rails and integrates with financial institutions' digital banking services to centralize and secure consumer payment data. The company positions its service to help banks reinforce their role as trusted payment providers while decreasing the cost of fraud and improving return on investment. CEO Kevin Kammer said the solution provides safe, convenient ways for customers to make digital payments online and in stores. Prairie Cloudware completed a $3.2 million capital raise from Invest Nebraska and several local investors to fund commercialization. About a year earlier the company raised a first round of capital, mainly from local investors, which allowed it to hire a team of payments veterans. Prairie Cloudware develops mobile payment solutions aimed at allowing bank and credit union customers to make payments safely and conveniently. The company is early stage and is building a prototype and team in the Omaha/Lincoln area. Kevin Kammer is CEO and the company emphasizes serving financial institutions that wish to protect their payment franchise. Management cites market opportunity projections for mobile payments to underscore demand for its solutions. The recent capital raise will fund research and development and prototyping of key components of its solution set. Prairie Cloudware positions itself as focused solely on mobile payment solutions for banks and credit unions.

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