• Edmit

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2017

  Edmit is a Boston, MA-based college price comparison and bidding platform led by co-founder and CEO Nick Ducoff. The product gives students price and value transparency about colleges by letting them build a profile with personal and academic information. Students receive a personalized net tuition estimate that incorporates aid, scholarships, and discounts, and can connect directly with top-choice colleges. The platform also provides tools intended to help students secure a better price. Edmit plans to use the funding to develop coverage for every four-year college in the U.S. and to accelerate the release of its public beta. The company raised $855k in pre-seed funding to support those product and go-to-market efforts.

• Little Borrowed Dress

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2014

  Little Borrowed Dress rents a curated collection of bridesmaid dresses online, offering 12 classic styles in 18 colors and designing garments to fit a range of body shapes without alterations. The company designs and manufactures its line in New York City and uses multiple fit models to accommodate varied body types. Rentals start at $50 for cocktail lengths and $75 for full-length gowns for a two-week period; dresses can also be purchased new for $150 and $185 respectively. The service guarantees availability for orders placed at least eight weeks before the wedding and ships dresses to arrive two weeks before the event with prepaid return packaging. Customer-facing features include a real wedding section with albums of past customers and a swatch request option to help brides choose colors and fabrics. The startup emphasizes saving bridesmaids money and simplifying the ordering process compared with traditional bridesmaid dress retail.

• Magnetic

  Participated · Series B · Jun 2012

  Magnetic builds digital advertising and marketing technology that helps marketers prospect, acquire, convert and reactivate customers across channels in real time. The company is merging with MyBuys, a San Mateo provider of a multi-channel marketing and personalization platform, to combine capabilities. The united company will operate under the Magnetic name and be led by Magnetic CEO James Green; MyBuys CEO Rita Brogley will join Magnetic’s board. Magnetic says the combined entity will serve 700 customers globally and generate $100 million in revenue. The company intends to use the new funding for product innovation across its combined offerings. The combined product set will cover display, email, on-site and mobile channels in real time. Magnetic is a NYC-based provider of search retargeting solutions. It offers search retargeting capabilities and a proprietary keyword generation solution designed to power both brand awareness and direct response campaigns. The technology enables advertisers to target and engage users outside of search engines with creative messages. The company intends to use the capital to further accelerate growth and product development. Led by CEO James Green, Magnetic currently employs over 40 people and operates offices in Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles. The article does not disclose revenue or user metrics. Magnetic (formerly Domdex) operates a data marketplace that sells search-engine–derived signals to ad networks, ad exchanges, and demand-side platforms so advertisers can better target display ads. The company positions its product as bringing the power of search intent outside of search engines and into media-rich display inventory. Magnetic works with more than 90 ad agencies, networks, and DSPs and its technology also functions on mobile devices, though mobile campaigns are still limited. The company plans to expand beyond running the marketplace to work directly with advertisers and networks to combine ads with search data and to help manage those campaigns. Financially, Magnetic has completed its first round of institutional funding and will use the new capital to grow its services and operations. The startup is based in New York City.

• DataHero

  Participated · Equity · May 2012

  DataHero provides a SaaS platform that lets non-technical business users create charts, graphs and dashboards by connecting to pre-defined cloud services and internal spreadsheet data. The product includes connectors to services such as Salesforce.com, Eventbrite and Box, and it supports linking multiple data sources. Users can sign up for a free two-week trial or use a free tier; paid plans start at $59 per month for individuals and $89 per month for teams. Most usage comes from desktops, laptops and tablets, with limited smartphone adoption reported. The company announced a partnership with HubSpot to surface HubSpot data alongside other services and to offer agencies reduced pricing. Leadership changes include hiring Ed Miller as CEO while founder Chris Neumann moves to chief product officer. DataHero is a Palo Alto, CA-based web application offering a cloud-based data visualization platform. Founded in 2011 by CEO Chris Neumann and Jeff Zabel, the platform lets users connect to the data services they use daily and produce dynamic visualizations. It includes integrations with online services such as SendGrid, Desk.com and Quandl and has introduced group licensing options for its premium service. The company raised an additional $3.15M in seed funding led by existing investor Foundry Group. DataHero intends to use the funds to expand its team and continue development of enterprise features. Datahero is building a web-based service that aims to make data visualization and analysis easy for non-experts. The company launched a private alpha and plans to open the service to the public later this year. Users will be able to import data from partner services or from basic CSV files while Datahero attempts to automatically interpret and display the data. Power users can manually manipulate the data and visualizations for more control. The founders emphasize democratizing analysis for individuals, small companies and enterprises and say visualization is only the first area they plan to tackle. With the team’s background in big data and consumer-facing design, the company expects to add more advanced analysis tools over time.

• Nemedio

  Participated · Seed · May 2012

  Nemedio offers solutions aimed at accelerating development timelines for medical technologies. The company's core offering focuses on tools and services to speed medical-technology development. Publicly reported financing activity shows Nemedio has raised a total of $8,151,639 to date. That total comprises a $1,000,000 pre-seed, a $2,500,000 seed, and three additional series rounds listed as 'Series Unknown' totaling $4,651,639. Several venture firms have backed the company across rounds, indicating recurring investor interest. Funding data is reported by Diffbot.

No current team members are available.