Led · Series B · Jan 2024

Steller is an AI-powered trip planner and social media app that helps users create, share, and discover travel stories using photos and videos. The platform integrates social-media-style videos about destinations and lets users search for travel options, explore activities and accommodations, and build itineraries. Users can post videos, create guides, and share travel itineraries on the app. The company has recently upgraded the app and plans to use new funding for continued product development. Steller is based in Kirkland, Washington. As of the article, the company has raised $42 million total.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2015

Binary Fountain offers a cloud-based patient feedback management platform built around a proprietary healthcare-centric natural language processing engine. The platform mines patient feedback from surveys, online ratings and review sites, social media, and other data sources to deliver actionable insights. Its solution suite is designed to help healthcare organizations improve patient satisfaction, engagement, and operational intelligence. The company says it is already deployed across leading hospitals and health systems and is building what it describes as the largest scalable repository of opinion content in healthcare. The new funding will be used to quickly expand the team and further develop powerful feature sets. Binary Fountain is a SaaS-based social intelligence company whose cloud platform extracts operational feedback from customers and distills it into actionable insights for operators. Its flagship real-time solution mines credible customer feedback from social media and enterprise systems and integrates social media content and survey data into operational decision-making. The company has processed well over 3.5 million reviews for more than 1,400 locations. Binary Fountain plans to use the financing to hire a nationwide sales force focused on Healthcare, MDU, Education, and Media verticals and to accelerate customer acquisition and technology development. The investment will also be used to enhance the company's suite of cloud-based social intelligence products. CEO Ramu Potarazu said the funding will allow the company to fully focus on growing the business and providing market-leading services across targeted sectors. The company is based in McLean, VA.

Participated · Equity · Jul 2012

Zipline Games is a Seattle-based mobile game studio that develops consumer titles and a developer platform. The studio has released mobile games including Wolf Toss and Slots Tycoon for iPhone and Android. Zipline also builds Moai, a cross-platform development platform using the Lua programming language that provides cloud services like storage, leaderboards, achievements, and notifications. The company targets more advanced game studios—including console developers—seeking tools to build compelling mobile experiences. Moai has been used by studios such as Double Fine Productions and 6waves (StrikeFleet Omega), with apps reaching top 20 lists on the Apple App Store, Google Play, and Chrome Web Store. Zipline employs 16 people and plans to use the recent funding to create more games and accelerate development of Moai, with partner announcements forthcoming.