• CircleBack

  Participated · Equity · Jul 2015

  CircleBack provides a platform for individuals and organizations to keep contact data organized and current across every device. It updates contact details when people move jobs, change phone numbers, or switch locations. Led by founder and CEO Manoj Ramnani, the company manages more than 1 billion contacts for its users and is used by over 2.5 million people and organizations. The company is based in Vienna, VA. CircleBack will use the funds from the recent round to continue to expand operations. CircleBack has developed a patented engine that leverages an artificial intelligence algorithm to process billions of data points from millions of users every day to improve contact-data accuracy. The company offers iOS and web-based solutions for consumers to maintain contact quality in address books and to push updates directly into corporate contact databases. Its product targets both businesses and consumers to enhance relationship management through a CRM data application. CircleBack is led by founder and CEO Manoj Ramnani. The company received a credit facility and intends to use the funds to continue to grow operations. The amount of the facility was not disclosed.

• Evergram

  Led · Seed · Nov 2012

  Evergram builds a “future messaging” platform that aggregates text, photos, and videos into attractive online albums for occasions including weddings, birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, retirements, showers, social causes, and living memorials. The service lets contributors leave messages for recipients to view later, and albums can be set public to the group or private to recipients. Evergram emphasizes time-shifted content as more meaningful than typical social posts and plans a freemium business model where album givers make micro-payments to monetize the product. The company is in beta and currently free to users, with an iOS app available in the App Store. Evergram was co-founded by Duncan Seay and Jeff Saden; Seay’s experience with a cancer diagnosis inspired the living memorial use case. Financially, Evergram has approximately $1 million in seed funding and is in the process of raising a larger round.

• AppTap

  Led · Equity · Jan 2012

  AppTap provides a publisher-facing app recommendation platform that analyzes page content and delivers personalized app suggestions based on what users are reading and searching for. It also operates an advertising network that gives app developers access to millions of app users through a network of premium web publishers and carrier partners, including Sprint. The platform can be added to any website to surface contextual app recommendations. AppTap currently serves more than 150 million app recommendations per month. The company intends to use new funding to enhance its app recommendations service, broaden its app advertising capabilities for developers, and expand global distribution partnerships. All product and growth plans described are drawn from the reported company statements.

• ShowUhow

  Led · Series A · Aug 2010

  ShowUHow builds official online video instruction guides and web-based sales and customer-support tools aimed at products advertised as “some assembly required” or otherwise complex for general consumers. Its clients include brands sold at Best Buy, Costco and ToysRUs across consumer electronics, toys, outdoor recreation and furniture. The company says its videos, software and services can help manufacturers reduce customer support costs and avoid product returns. ShowUHow is a venture-backed, San Diego–based business. Following the financing, Giles Bateman, a co-founder of Price Club/Costco and former chairman of CompUSA, joined ShowUHow’s board of directors. The article notes the company is not related to the hip hop artist T-Pain who performs the song “Show U How.”

• DubMeNow

  Led · Equity · Feb 2010

  DubMeNow is a mobile contact-sharing platform whose flagship app launched on iPhone less than one year ago. The app has nearly 1 million downloads and the company projects over $2.7M in revenue for the fiscal year. Dub has established partnerships with DataTel and Moodle and announced integrations with SXSW and Higher Logic. Through those partnerships the company is set to be deployed to over 750 universities and, together with DataTel, to more than 1,000 universities. The company was founded 19 months ago by a group of engineers led by CEO Manoj Ramnani, who previously sold a mobile software services company. Dub positions itself against competitor Bump on users but emphasizes revenue and partnerships as its differentiator.

No current team members are available.