Participated · Series D · Mar 2019

Movius offers MultiLine™, a unified secure communications platform that lets employees use a single smartphone for both personal and business communications. MultiLine provides a dedicated, secure business line for calling, texting and apps such as WhatsApp to meet compliance requirements. The product is used by businesses of all sizes and industries, including many tier‑one global banks. Movius works with global partners such as T‑Mobile, BlackBerry, BT Global, and Bridge Alliance. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has additional offices in Atlanta, London, and Bangalore. Movius is expanding MultiLine’s deployment into regulated sectors including healthcare, pharmaceutical, government, and legal services, as well as non‑regulated industries and SMBs to reduce device costs. Movius offers a carrier-grade network that enables businesses to provision a second, company-controlled phone number for voice and text on employees' devices. The service is designed to help employers retain control of communications as workforces mobilize and employees use personal phones. Movius counts more than 1,400 business customers and works with carrier partners including Sprint, Telstra and Telefonica. The company emphasizes secure interactions across voice, SMS and other channels used by customers. Movius recently appointed John Loiacono, a former Adobe and Sun executive, as CEO to lead its next chapter of growth. With this funding, the company signals an intent to scale commercial adoption while maintaining carrier relationships. Movius offers a cloud-based enterprise mobility platform that lets businesses and end-users manage separate work mobile phone lines on BYOD or COPE devices. Its applications are designed to streamline productivity and communications costs while addressing corporate compliance needs. The platform is used by some of the world’s largest mobile carriers and serves more than 50 million people worldwide. Led by CEO Krish Panu, Movius has five offices worldwide. The company intends to use the funds to invest in expansion and innovation to serve existing contracts and increase subscribers on the Movius platform. Movius Interactive is an Atlanta, GA-based provider of mobile identities and converged messaging solutions. The company offers a mobile applications platform called CAFÉ (Communication Applications Framework Engine) and a patented identities management application, myIdentities. Led by CEO Dominic Gomez, Movius focuses on delivering identity and messaging products for mobile environments. The company raised $13M in funding to support its growth. Movius intends to use the proceeds to accelerate its global expansion and scale its product deployment internationally.

Participated · Series B · Mar 2017

Prevedere is an intelligent forecasting software company that provides strategic insights by analyzing economic trends through its ERIN Predictive AI Platform. The company offers a suite of ERIN products including ERIN Discover, ERIN Predict, ERIN Scenario, and recently launched ERIN Protect for AI-based performance monitoring and alerting. ERIN Predict systematically creates, simulates, and refines thousands of predictive models, while ERIN Discover identifies leading drivers and indicators and ERIN Scenario generates optimistic, pessimistic, and baseline forecasts. Prevedere increased its millions of data series to include high-frequency data sets on the current pandemic to improve model inputs. Many leading consumer packaged goods, retail, logistics, and manufacturing companies use Prevedere to generate economic intelligence, spot opportunities, and mitigate risks. The company will use the $25M strategic financing to accelerate market adoption and enhance the ERIN platform. Prevedere offers a cloud predictive analytics platform that uses artificial intelligence and smart data discovery to produce real-time predictive models of future sales, revenue, costs and other KPIs. The software targets enterprises in manufacturing, consumer goods, retail, construction, insurance and financial services. Customers use its models to inform budgeting, production, marketing, pricing, staffing and other decisions to improve their bottom lines. The company is led by founder and CEO Rich Wagner and is based in Columbus, OH and Sunnyvale, CA. Prevedere has raised external capital previously, including a $6.7M Series A. It intends to use the new funding to accelerate market adoption of its solutions. Prevedére provides patent-pending Economic Intelligence™ software that leverages external economic performance drivers to improve forecast accuracy and help companies make better decisions on inventory and working capital. The software integrates within companies’ existing enterprise financial planning and analysis (FP&A) systems to provide fact-based answers to the “why” and “when” of an enterprise’s performance. Its customer base spans all industries as well as private equity and financial investment firms. Use cases include enabling chief financial officers to address price adjustments, performance fluctuations and market forecasts. The company intends to use new funding to accelerate go-to-market strategies and product development. Prevedére was founded in 2012 by Rich Wagner and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2015

Nod Labs develops gesture-controlled wearable rings that let users interact with VR headsets, drones and other connected devices using natural hand gestures. The company released its original gesture-controlled Nod Ring in 2014 and has since added the Nod Backspin, a gaming-focused ring that includes a thumb joystick and gaming buttons. Both devices support multiple VR platforms (Google Cardboard, Oculus DK2, OSVR HMD, Samsung Gear VR and ZEISS VR One) and can control 3DR, DJI and Parrot drones. Nod positions its hardware for both VR gaming and broader connected-home and entertainment use, and makes devices available to developers on Nod.com. Financially, the company has completed early fundraising and is actively marketing the Backspin to expand its product reach.

Led · Series B · Dec 2014

SERVIZ operates an on-demand booking and job-allocation technology platform and a proprietary network of independent service professionals to deliver lower-cost home repairs. The company offers more than 300 services across five primary categories, including handyman, plumbing, carpet cleaning, appliance repair, and electrical. SERVIZ pros are background-checked, licensed, and insured, and work is backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Headquartered in Sherman Oaks, CA, the company currently serves the greater Los Angeles area, including Orange County, and plans nationwide expansion. Management reports the platform scheduled over 10,000 appointments across five categories within five months of launch, with appointment volume growing more than 50% month-over-month. SERVIZ’s stated mission is to eliminate excessive mark-ups charged by traditional home services providers. SERVIZ operates an on-demand home services platform via Serviz.com and an iPhone app, offering more than 300 services from handyman work to plumbing, carpet cleaning and appliance repair. The service provides upfront, all-inclusive pricing (users pay $45–$60 per hour depending on service, and parts are marked up 20%), real-time technician tracking, same-day booking, paperless estimates/payments, and a 100% satisfaction guarantee. SERVIZ requires pros to pass criminal background checks, carry insurance, and maintain licenses where applicable. The company positions itself to disrupt the $400 billion home services industry and says additional service categories are coming soon. SERVIZ announced general availability in the greater Los Angeles area and is headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California. The company completed a $10.7M funding round in February led by Groupon, with participation from angel investors and the two founders.

Led · Equity · Oct 2014

InSilixa is developing a new generation of high-performance molecular diagnostic (MDx) platforms that leverage integrated circuit manufacturing technologies, particularly CMOS processes. Its fully integrated CMOS biochips and point-of-care systems are designed to be cost-efficient, disposable, mass-deployable, and to offer high clinical performance, specificity, and parallelism. The company intends first-generation products to target highly multiplexed genomic tests for point-of-care and near-patient diagnosis of infectious diseases, including rapid pathogen identification and detection of genetic mutations conferring antibiotic resistance. InSilixa is building a platform-based architecture enabled by semiconductor technology to allow cost-effective and rapid retargeting to different diagnostic applications and genomic panels. The underlying technologies were exclusively licensed from Caltech, The University of Texas at Austin, and Stanford University. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, InSilixa was founded in 2012 and aims to democratize and drive down the cost of molecular diagnostics worldwide.