• Numerous

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2015

  Numerous, founded in 2013 by John Scalo and Charlie Wood, is an app designed to help users track and aggregate the numbers that matter in their lives. Available on iOS and Android, it uses customizable tiles to display metrics ranging from fitness, elevation, and countdowns to Salesforce, Stripe, Google Analytics, Coinbase, and social follower counts. The product includes alerts, IFTTT and Nest integrations, and two new APIs (Metrics and Channels) so developers can create/update numbers and connect additional data sources. Numerous recently launched a major redesign with a new logo, user experience, integrations, and features, and is positioning itself to serve both consumer and business/dashboard use cases. The company plans to expand platform support with forthcoming Mac and web apps and to add real-time sports data and other data types. Financially, Numerous has raised $700,000 in seed funding to date from FG Angels, Techstars Ventures, and Stage One Capital, and has hinted that a Series A is not far off.

• Ortto

  Participated · Equity · Jul 2015

  Autopilot offers a multi-channel marketing automation platform positioned between basic email tools and complex enterprise systems, aiming to democratize personalized marketing. The company launched Flight School, an education platform with guides, templates and training to increase marketer adoption. Autopilot reports over 3,000 company signups and integrates with partners including GoodData, Salesforce, Segment, Slack, Twilio and Zapier. Clients named in the article include Cambium Networks, Dolby, Freshdesk, Narrative and PandaDoc. Pricing is advertised starting at $20 per month for 1,000 contacts. The company said it will use new financing to expand access to personalized customer journeys and lower barriers to entry for SMBs and larger companies alike. Bislr, founded in 2011 by Michael and Peter Sharkey, has developed an OS for marketing automation, content management and real-time analytics. The platform enables marketers to create and optimize lead-nurturing campaigns, landing pages and campaign/microsites for social and mobile without IT support. Bislr launched the latest version of its intelligent marketing OS in February 2013. Customers include Cambium Networks, DocuSign and SOL Republic. The company said it will use new funding to expand sales and marketing efforts and further develop the product. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. Bislr provides a drag-and-drop website builder that integrates with existing marketing automation (MA) and customer relationship management (CRM) tools. Its sites include "social apps" to embed social content, are automatically optimized for mobile, and collect detailed visitor profiles and activity. Bislr pulls social data when possible to surface real-time tweets and Facebook updates from visitors and exposes analytics and A/B testing that can automatically select better variations. The company was founded by CEO Michael Sharkey with his two brothers and had been testing the system with a few small businesses. It is officially launching and is opening up to serve larger customers. Financially, Bislr announced a $3.5 million Series A funding round led by Southern Cross Venture Partners with participation from Tim Draper and Terry and Katrina Garnett.

• Autopilot

  Participated · Equity · Jul 2015

  Autopilot provides marketing automation software that sends targeted emails and texts to existing customers to increase engagement and revenue. The company positions its targeting technology as affordable for small and mid-sized businesses, according to CEO Mike Sharkey. Its product also facilitates webinars and events and the company is launching a feature called Insights for tracking marketing goals. Customers pay on a subscription basis; Autopilot counts Microsoft, Atlassian, Lyft and roughly 2,300 other customers. Financially, the company has raised a total of $32 million to date. The founders relocated to San Francisco, and CEO Mike Sharkey previously built a startup that was sold to HomeAway. Autopilot is a cloud-based multi-channel marketing automation platform that helps companies connect their marketing systems, automate touchpoints, and convert customers. The platform supports email, SMS and physical mail and includes built-in integrations with partners such as Salesforce, Segment, Slack, Twilio, Zapier and GoodData. Autopilot says it will use the new financing to bring personalized marketing to the masses and to transform every business with powerful customer journeys. The company also launched Flight School, a marketing education platform that offers pre-built customer-journey templates called Guides, best-practice content, and shareable HTML, video and e-book resources to lower the barrier to entry. Since launching four months prior, Autopilot has signed up over 3,000 companies; pricing on the self-service product starts at $4 per month for 500 contacts. The company has raised $20.5M in total venture funding to date. Autopilot (formerly Bislr) provides marketers a visual marketing automation platform that consolidates campaign tools—landing pages, blogs, email campaigns—and lead database management into a single service. The platform emphasizes ease of use to reduce complexity and broaden adoption compared with traditional marketing automation tools. It integrates with CRM systems such as Salesforce and Netsuite to connect campaign activity with sales workflows. The company plans to release an SDK later this year to give developers access to its lead intelligence and automation apps. Autopilot recently raised a $10 million Series B to fund growth and product development. The funding is intended primarily to accelerate customer acquisition and further product enhancements.

• Bottlenose

  Participated · Series A · Jul 2013

  Bottlenose provides a high-performance, cloud-based platform (Nerve Center) that analyzes massive volumes of real-time stream data to surface emerging risks, threats, crises, and opportunities without customers having to specify queries. The product handles structured and unstructured streaming sources and correlates signals across social, enterprise, and media data to detect incidents such as intrusions. The company analyzes roughly 72 billion data records and messages daily, covers 98% of live TV and radio in real time (about 40 hours of audio/video per minute), and serves 18 global organizations including Pepsi and Warner Bros. Bottlenose has about 40 full-time employees and plans to grow toward ~80 with the new capital. The firm holds eight patents covering capabilities like cross-source correlation. Management says it will expand the product line and move toward more full-stack offerings with announcements planned later in the year. Bottlenose is a web platform that aggregates multiple social media accounts and organizes streams into a single interface. Its free beta uses a sonar tool to connect tweets, mentions, hashtags, images and other media and serves about 100,000 professional marketers (it had about 50,000 users in 2012). The company is developing Bottlenose Enterprise, which expands trend and real-time data analysis with features for audience response, sentiment, impressions, volume and correlations. Enterprise is in private invite beta and targets Fortune 500 customers, with dozens in pilot or as customers. The enterprise product is already being used by brands including Pepsi, FleishmanHillard, Razorfish and DigitasLBi. Bottlenose raised $3.6M in Series A and plans to use the funds to scale engineering, sales and marketing ahead of a public launch of Bottlenose Enterprise in the fall. Bottlenose provides live attention monitoring and analytics solutions for social marketers, enterprises, brands and interactive agencies to gain insights about audiences, campaigns and markets and to detect emerging trends and conversations. The service was in public beta at the time of the report. The company said it will use the new funding to further develop its solutions. Bottlenose is led by CEO and co-founder Nova Spivack. In conjunction with the financing, John Frankel of ff Venture Capital joined Bottlenose’s advisory board and is expected to play a strategic role in the roll out of the company’s Pro offerings. Those Pro offerings were expected to be rolled out early in Q1 of 2013.

• Cohuman

  Participated · Equity · Jan 2011

  Cohuman is a web-based task management service that lets users assign tasks and collaborate across groups. The product is distributed on a freemium basis with a subscription "Professional" tier for monetization. The company reports usership has tripled to over 15,000 since launching at Disrupt in September. Cohuman is headquartered in San Francisco and has a team of eight people. CEO Matthew Work says the product addresses shortcomings of contemporary messaging technologies. The company plans to use the new funding to focus on business app integration and mobile development.

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