• ExplORer Surgical

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2016

  ExplORer Surgical offers a platform that combines video, role-specific digital procedural playbooks, and time-stamped intraoperative data capture to support virtual proctoring, case support, clinical trials data collection, and product launches. The company originated from a research laboratory in the University of Chicago Medical Center Department of Surgery and integrates remote, HIPAA-compliant two-way video connectivity so offsite team members can join procedures. Its Remote Case Support feature, launched in early 2020, drove a 6X increase in sales over the last year. ExplORer has built more than 1,000 unique procedures on its platform and onboarded over 10 new medical device customers in under three months, including large global MedTech companies and startups. The company plans to use the new funding to grow headcount from about 30 to roughly 50, expand technology, marketing, and customer success teams, and deliver additional platform updates; it also expects to raise another round later this year. ExplORer Surgical offers a software-as-a-service platform for intraoperative surgical and interventional procedure workflow management and analytics. The platform lets hospital and device company teams guide, track and analyze activity in the operating room, during training events and throughout stages of clinical use. Each team member sees their own content on any connected device, and the system collects live procedural data. Led by CEO and co-founder Jennifer Fried, the company is based in Chicago, IL. ExplORer intends to use the recently raised funds to accelerate growth of its surgical software platform. The article does not disclose revenue or user metrics. ExplORer Surgical offers a software-as-a-service interactive digital playbook to manage, track and analyze intra-operative activity and information for operating rooms and interventional suites. The platform supports team coordination during procedures and delivers granular analytics on procedure activity. Customers include hospitals and medical device manufacturers that use the tool to improve intraoperative workflow and data capture. The company was founded out of a research laboratory at the University of Chicago Medical Center and is led by CEO Jennifer Fried. ExplORer intends to use the new financing to accelerate commercialization of its workflow management platform. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois. ExplORer Surgical builds an interactive surgical playbook as a software-as-a-service intraoperative workflow management tool. The platform aims to optimize operating room teamwork by preventing delays and disruptions caused by missing or incorrect instruments. It also seeks to reduce instances of opened-but-unused disposable items and to capture granular intraoperative data in real time. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Jennifer Fried, with Dr. Alex Langerman as Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Marko Rojnica, Eugene Fine as CTO, and Tom Knight as COO. ExplORer says it will use the funding to scale operations.

• ReviewTrackers

  Participated · Equity · Jun 2014

  ReviewTrackers provides review and customer feedback solutions that help businesses analyze and act on customer reviews. Its platform empowers more than 65,000 businesses with tools to analyze, amplify, and maximize customer feedback to accelerate customer acquisition and improve customer retention. The company serves small, medium and enterprise customers across many industries. Led by CEO Chris Campbell, ReviewTrackers plans to use new capital to strengthen its core product offering and scale its sales and customer success teams. As part of that expansion, it intends to hire over 100 people in downtown Chicago. Founded over seven years ago and based in Chicago, IL, the company raised $10M in funding from PeakSpan Capital. ReviewTrackers provides a customer feedback platform that aggregates reviews from over 70 review sites for enterprise brands. Its software enables brands to manage online reviews, uncover hidden customer insights, make data-driven decisions and improve brand reputation. The platform is used by over 25,000 businesses. ReviewTrackers raised $4M in growth capital in an equity round led by American Family Ventures, complemented by debt financing from Square 1 Bank. The financing brings the company's total capital raised to $6.1M. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate development of its software. ReviewTrackers is led by CEO Chris Campbell and is based in Chicago, IL. Review Trackers provides a platform that compiles customer reviews from major forums like OpenTable, Google+ and TripAdvisor, as well as smaller niche feedback sites, and helps businesses manage their online reputation. The company offers subscription plans starting at $29/month. Founder and Chief Tracking Officer Chris Campbell launched the company in 2013 after participating in Startup Chile in 2012 and later joining the Gener8tor accelerator. Review Trackers emphasizes customer service and building features tuned to business needs. The company plans to use roughly half of the new funding to double its engineering team this year and bring roadmap features to market, and the other half to grow its sales team and focus on customer acquisition. Over the last year, revenue at Review Trackers grew about 80% a month.

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