Participated · Series B · Aug 2024

Cents offers an all-in-one platform for laundry businesses combining AI-native business management software, proprietary hardware, and integrated payments. The company provides tools including point-of-sale systems, on-machine payments, marketing automation, AI customer service, and pickup & delivery services. Cents is trusted by over 4,500 laundromat locations and processes $1 billion in payments annually. The firm positions itself as the leading operating system for laundromats, dry cleaners, and multi-family laundry operations. With the Series C, Cents plans to accelerate its AI-powered product suite, expand its product line, invest in payment hardware infrastructure, and enhance support and customer experience. The company emphasizes partnerships with route operators and equipment distributors as part of its go-to-market strategy.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2023

Gooten is a NYC-based technology and fulfillment company that provides order management systems to power on-demand production. Founded in 2015, its platform gives clients the flexibility to grow and manage a global network of production partners and distribute orders using dynamic, configurable rules. Brands can tap Gooten’s fulfillment network of more than 250 product types and 90 manufacturing facilities globally. The company powers on-demand listings for more than 10,000 businesses. Gooten is globally distributed with teams across North America, Europe and South America. It recently completed a financing to support continued growth and expansion. Gooten provides a cloud-native order management system that powers on-demand production and is supported by its Global Managed Fulfillment Network of more than 90 manufacturing facilities. Its enterprise-grade OMS offers customizable business rules and serves customers ranging from Fortune 100 retailers to global creator and merchandising platforms and independent brands. The platform currently powers over 10,000 businesses. Leadership includes CEO Brian Rainey and President Maddy Alcala. Gooten plans to expand international capabilities with new fulfillment partnerships in Korea, Japan, India, Latin America, Brazil, and Western Europe. The company also intends to enhance its suite of technology tools and services to help customers streamline order management operations. Gooten delivers on-demand, print-on-demand manufacturing and a smart supply-chain solution that lets merchants outsource production and fulfillment. Its platform aims to reduce inventory waste and over-production for brands and retailers. The company has processed over 4 million orders in the last 18 months and employs more than 100 people. Gooten raised $15 million in combined primary equity and debt to support continued growth and global expansion. Management is focusing on scaling merchant and enterprise retail services under newly promoted President Maddy Alcala, who will oversee marketing, sales, and company strategy. Gooten, formerly Makeable, provides custom print fulfillment via an intuitive API, JavaScript and native iOS/Android SDKs, a Shopify app, and B2B direct sales of merchandise and promotional products. The company announced a rebrand and management change, appointing Brian Rainey as CEO and naming Micah Smith as Co‑Founder and CTO. Leadership says the new team has reduced the company’s burn rate and refocused the business strategy to support continued growth. Gooten reported it fulfilled its one millionth order following a strong 2015 holiday season. The company emphasizes enhancing its core offerings for white‑labeled print sales and automated fulfillment. Recent financing and management changes are presented as steps to capitalize on the e‑commerce fulfillment market opportunity.

Participated · Series D · Feb 2023

Jobber provides a platform for home-service businesses (HVAC, lawn care, plumbing, cleaning, painting and ~50 other categories) to book customers, manage appointments, invoice, accept payments, send quotes, and access simple marketing and lending tools. The company serves mainly SMBs and sole traders — its sweet spot is businesses with fewer than 20 employees — with users in some 60 markets and the U.S. and Canada as its largest countries. Usage has grown to 200,000 users, with roughly $13 billion billed and collected via the platform in the last year. Revenues are up three-fold over the past two years and now exceed $100 million annually; Jobber has been mostly profitable since soon after founding but is investing heavily in growth now. The product roadmap includes more analytics and potential video integrations for remote assessments, while intentionally avoiding competing on customer discoverability. Jobber has about 600 employees and plans to hire more to support product expansion and growth. Jobber provides management software for sole traders and small home‑services businesses to schedule appointments, organize work, set up billing, manage accounts, and market services online. Its product targets trades such as cleaning, electrical, landscaping, and plumbing across 50 service segments. The company reports roughly 100,000 customers in 47 countries. Jobber’s growth has been driven by increased digital adoption among younger tradespeople and pandemic‑era shifts in consumer behavior. Leadership includes CEO and co‑founder Sam Pillar and co‑founder/CTO Forrest Zeisler. The company does not disclose revenue or valuation in the article but had previously raised $16 million before this round. Jobber offers mobile apps, scheduling tools, online invoicing, and customer management specifically aimed at professional home and mobile service businesses that often rely on desktop or pen-and-paper workflows. The product set targets inefficiencies in field service operations by mobilizing workers and streamlining billing and scheduling. Since launching in 2011, the company says more than 3.5 million customers have used its platform. Jobber reports it has processed over $1 billion in invoices. Competitors in its segment include mHelpDesk, HouseCall Pro, Breezeworks, and vWorkApp, while larger enterprise players include ServiceMax and Bella Solutions. Jobber offers a web-based service that combines CRM, task management, job tracking, scheduling, invoicing, and QuickBooks integration specifically for small field-service businesses. The product emphasizes ease of use so operators can start with minimal training and is available on major mobile platforms. The service is priced at $30 per month. Jobber targets the large share of small field-service firms that still use outdated software or pen and paper and aims to modernize their operations. The company reports steady growth in its customer base and cites a Gartner stat that roughly 75 percent of companies don’t use software to manage their business. Jobber was founded in 2010 and is based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Participated · Series C · May 2022

Semperis develops identity-driven cyber resilience technology purpose-built for hybrid identity environments including Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta. Its patented platform is used to spot directory vulnerabilities, intercept attacks in progress, and rapidly recover from ransomware and other data integrity emergencies. The company says its technology protects over 100 million identities and is used by leading global organizations. Semperis operates internationally with research and development teams distributed across the United States, Canada, and Israel. The company plans to use new funding to further invest in product innovation and to support its global customer base. Recent executive hires add C-suite experience in cybersecurity IPOs and public companies. Semperis builds identity-driven cyber resilience technology and incident response services focused on hybrid Active Directory and other enterprise directory systems. Its flagship Directory Services Protector platform is categorized by Gartner as an identity threat detection and response (ITDR) solution. The company says its patented technology protects over 50 million identities and can cut recovery time by 90% after attacks. Semperis plans to use new funding to accelerate global hiring, expand its identity-focused incident response team, and dedicate significant resources to research and development. The company operates internationally with headquarters in Hoboken, New Jersey and R&D teams distributed across the United States, Canada, and Israel. Semperis also publishes free tools and hosts the Hybrid Identity Protection conference and podcast series to advance AD security best practices. Semperis provides identity-driven cyber resilience and automated disaster recovery solutions for enterprise directory services, with patented technology to fully automate Microsoft Active Directory recovery. Its platform continuously monitors directories for vulnerabilities, intercepts attacks in progress, and enables rapid response to breaches and operational errors, reducing downtime from days or weeks to minutes. The company protects over 40 million identities from cyberattacks, data breaches, and operational errors. Semperis is headquartered in New York City, with research and development teams distributed between San Francisco and Tel Aviv, and hosts the Hybrid Identity Protection conference. The company has completed six consecutive profitable quarters. With the new funding it plans to expand its global presence and accelerate hiring across all functional areas.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2020

FiscalNote delivers legislative and regulatory data, policy news and analysis, stakeholder management, collaboration and advocacy tools to customers worldwide. The company serves more than 4,000 clients, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Reserve Board, 3M, AstraZeneca and the American Hospital Association. Led by Founder & CEO Tim Hwang, FiscalNote operates offices in the US, Belgium, India and Korea. The product suite focuses on aggregating and analyzing regulatory and legislative information to help organizations manage policy risk and advocacy. FiscalNote intends to use recent financing to accelerate technology and service development, pursue strategic acquisitions, expand into new international markets and refinance existing debt. FiscalNote builds a platform for analyzing government risk, using proprietary code to parse millions of regulatory and legislative actions and generate actionable insights for investor, compliance, and legal professionals. Its product suite includes powerful legislative searching, tracking, and forecasting tools alongside federal and state regulatory data and analytics. The company offers a mobile application that lets users access and analyze every bill at every stage from all fifty states, D.C., and Congress. FiscalNote's customers include Southwest Airlines, Aetna, Lyft, the Democratic Governors Association, VMWare, Planned Parenthood, Allergan, the University of Virginia, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. The company emphasizes design and real-time analytics and says it aims to unlock legislative and regulatory data with best-in-class analytics, insights, and predictions. Financially, the company has raised multiple rounds and recently completed a financing that increased its total funding to over $30 million. Founded in 2013 by CEO Tim Hwang, FiscalNote provides legislative searching, tracking, and forecasting products built on artificial intelligence and design. Its flagship product is Prophecy, and the company said it will introduce a regulatory product called Sonar later this year. FiscalNote's product suite is used by customers including Uber, the Democratic and Republican Governors Associations, VMWare, Planned Parenthood, United Therapeutics, Allergan, Auction.com, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. In March 2015 FiscalNote raised $10M in a Series B funding round to support expansion into new markets. The company previously raised a $7M Series A in November 2014. FiscalNote provides the Prophecy platform, which applies artificial intelligence to real-time and historic legislative data and offers search and advanced notification functionality. The Prophecy platform was launched in early 2014. Customers include Planned Parenthood, New Balance, VMware, Natural Resource Defense Council, Ally Financial, Allergan, both the Republican and Democratic Governors Associations, and the University of Virginia School of Law. FiscalNote closed a $7M Series A led by Visionnaire Ventures with participation from AME Cloud Ventures, NEA, Green Visor Capital, Winklevoss Capital and angel investor Duke Chung. The company intends to use the funds to continue content expansion, increase engineering capacity to cover information domestically and globally, and grow its sales and marketing teams. FiscalNote was co-founded by CEO Tim Hwang, Jonathan Chen and Gerald Yao. FiscalNote aggregates legislative data posted to public sources to help businesses stay up-to-date with state and local legislation. It is developing the PoliticalGenome Project, which analyzes bill language and the histories of legislators to predict a bill's success. The nine-person startup uses machine learning and natural language processing and plans to boost its algorithm and expand its ML/NLP team. FiscalNote is conducting a closed beta with customers that include legal and marketing departments within Fortune 500 companies, national advocacy groups, and financial institutions. Founders include CEO Tim Hwang, CTO Jonathan C. Chen, and CFO Gerald Yao, and the advisory board includes Chris Lu, Youngsuk "Y.S." Chi, and LegalZoom CEO John Suh. The company intends to expand beyond legislation into other industries and geographies.