Led · Series A · Mar 2024

Fuel Me operates a fuel procurement and management platform that uses technology to streamline fuel management, distribution, and purchasing workflows for commercial customers. The company completed over 20,000 fuel deliveries and now serves an expanding roster of Fortune 500 clients, indicating significant operational scale. Co-founded by CEO Carlo Passacantando and COO Boy Schook, Fuel Me combines technology and services to drive operational efficiency, cost savings, and sustainability for clients. The company plans to use new capital to accelerate development of advanced technology while continuing to deliver services to existing customers. Leadership has stated the funding will support rapid market-share expansion as the company targets evolving needs in the U.S. and global energy markets. No revenue figures or prior funding rounds were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2023

Elate provides a cloud-based strategic planning platform that helps companies communicate vision, create alignment, and drive outcomes across disparate teams. Led by CEO Brooks Busch, the platform goes beyond traditional OKRs by guiding leaders through a strategic planning process with recommendations and best practices. It removes internal siloes to maximize transparency and enables customers to build, deliver, and report on their strategy quickly and efficiently. In March 2023 Elate raised $4.9M in a Series A financing. The company intends to use the funds to invest in product development and to support current and future customers through an expanded go-to-market strategy. Elate is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Elate provides an operational platform that unifies internal technologies and disparate data, connecting CRM, accounting, and other software to a single dashboard. The dashboard enables real-time decision-making, performance tracking, and cross-department collaboration to help leaders define and measure key initiatives. Its product aims to drive organizational alignment and increase operations visibility across initiatives such as pricing changes and product releases. Led by co-founders Brooks Busch (CEO) and Abby Parker (COO), the company added software veterans Rob Wagner, Sean Gibbens, and McHale Gardiner to the founding team. Elate counts Boardable, Malomo, Remodel Health, and Xiber among its early customers. The company recently raised $530,000 in a pre-seed funding round and plans to use the proceeds to grow its product, sales and marketing teams and further develop the platform.

Led · Series A · Mar 2023

Launched in 2020, Bach offers an iOS and Android app that helps groups discover, plan and book trips end-to-end. Users can invite friends, chat, decide on locations based on costs and interests, assemble itineraries, and track expenses with an expense-splitting feature. The app also includes a curated marketplace of local experiences bookable through the platform. Bach currently provides experiences in major U.S. destinations such as Scottsdale, Nashville and Las Vegas and plans to be available in 30 cities by the end of Q1 2023. The company is approaching 500,000 parties planned and two million users, and has doubled bookable experiences from 800 to over 1,600 with a target of 3,000 in 2023. Bach is launching a web marketplace next month and aims to use recent funding to make strategic hires and expand the platform beyond bachelorette parties. Bach is a NYC-based marketplace and iOS app for bachelor and bachelorette trips that lets groups discover, decide, and plan in one place. The platform includes group chat, expense splitting, polling, and itinerary creation, and enables booking by integrating with local providers. Offerings bookable through the app range from private chefs and Instagram mural tours to goat yoga, ATV excursions, party buses and yacht charters. The company is led by CEO Mike Petrakis and COO Sarah Sprague. Bach raised USD8M in funding and Corazon Capital partner Phil Schwarz has joined the company’s board. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach. BACH is a mobile-first platform that centralizes planning and booking tools for bachelor and bachelorette parties, offering shared itineraries, group chat, polls, expense-splitting, and a marketplace of bookable local experiences. Founder Mike Petrakis began building the product in 2019, launching just before the COVID-19 pandemic and rereleasing the app in January 2021. In its first few months in 2020 the app saw 100,000 users, and traffic grew tenfold after the 2021 rerelease. The product is built with React and React Native on the frontend and JavaScript/Node.js on the backend; it currently exists only as an app with a desktop version likely coming. BACH has about 20 full-time employees, operates mostly remotely with several staff in the Philadelphia area, and occasionally uses Fitler Club’s Offsite coworking space for in-person work. The company has raised $4 million in seed funding since origination and is raising to expand the team and address supply-side challenges as it pursues becoming a leading platform for group travel.

Led · Series A · Mar 2022

REACH is a cloud-based digital commerce and collaboration platform built for real-time customer transactions, combining document collaboration, e-signature, video conferencing, ID verification, payments, audit trails, and recordings in a single platform. The solution requires no downloads, offers an open API and integrations with systems like Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics, and includes a self-service mode for enterprises. REACH targets higher-value or complex B2C transactions where a human agent is needed, with cited use cases including mortgages, insurance policies, bank loans, and automotive sales. Since the pandemic the company has rapidly built enterprise adoption across financial services, insurance, mortgage and automotive industries and counts customers such as American Express, Mercedes‑Benz (Daimler AG), British American Tobacco, and SCSK Corporation. REACH reported an 8x increase in revenue from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021 and has raised a total of $13 million to date. The company says it will use proceeds from the Series A to accelerate platform adoption, sales, marketing, product development, and go-to-market activities.

Led · Series A · Mar 2022

Reach offers a cloud platform that combines document collaboration, e-signature, video conferencing, identity verification and payments to enable real-time customer transactions. The platform lets customers fill forms, sign documents, confirm identity and complete transactions while on live audio or video chats with agents, with a complete audit trail and recordings for compliance. The solution integrates via an open API or through business-system integrations such as Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics, and includes a proprietary machine-learning identity-verification algorithm and a self-service mode. Customers include American Express, Mercedes-Benz (Daimler AG), British American Tobacco and SCSK Corporation. The company has offices in San Francisco and New York City and is led by CEO Yair Ravid. Financially, Reach completed a $7m Series A, bringing total funding to $13m, and will use the proceeds to accelerate adoption of its virtual workplace platform and expand sales, marketing, product development and go-to-market activities.