Participated · Seed · Jan 2025

Mobly provides a platform for brands to create, manage, and analyze event-driven campaigns at scale, focusing on smarter lead capture and streamlined workflows. The platform automates CRM enrichment and engagement, and claims to reduce the industry's average speed-to-lead from 11 days to just a few minutes. Its tools are designed to improve lead quality and conversion rates, delivering measurable results for marketing and sales teams. In 2024 Mobly achieved rapid growth, reporting a 5x increase in revenue and 4x user growth. The company was founded in 2023 by Zach Barney and Kris Jenkins and serves a rapidly growing customer base. Mobly plans to use new funding to accelerate product development, add features and integrations, and expand marketing and strategic partnerships. Mobly is a Lehi, Utah-based mobile-first software platform that captures qualified leads at in-person events and syncs them to CRM and marketing automation systems. Its event-agnostic Mobly app lets field teams search contacts by name or company or scan badges and business cards using AI-powered optical character recognition. The product targets field marketing, demand generation, sales, and revenue leaders to provide more accurate records, pipeline visibility, forecasting, and operational continuity. The company plans to use its latest funding to scale go-to-market operations, expand its engineering team, and accelerate development of new enterprise features and capabilities. Mobly is led by co-founder and CEO Zach Barney, co-founder and COO Kris Jenkins, and CTO Joe Turner. Financially, the company raised $2.5M in a Seed round and previously secured a $445K angel investment.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2024

Hark provides a Voice of Customer (VoC) platform that captures video and audio customer feedback, offers AI-driven sentiment and data analysis, and streamlines customer support. Its platform opens pathways for customers to communicate with companies and, with AI, speeds resolution of issues. The solution performs detailed sentiment analysis across multiple customer touchpoints and gleans customer insights at scale. The platform is already in use at a number of companies. Hark intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach and to continue building additional platform features. The company is led by CEO and Co‑Founder Fran Brzyski and Co‑Founder and Chief Product Officer Matt Ring and is based in New York City.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2023

Sailes is an AI company based in Kansas City, MO and New York City that builds patent-pending Sailebots and proprietary standalone infrastructure to automate all points in the prospecting lifecycle. The product deploys globally compliant, personalized AI agents to multiply enterprise sales reps and complete prospecting activities. The company reports adoption from Fortune 500 customers across commercial sectors including real estate, heavy equipment, financial services, environmental, social, and corporate governance, and manufacturing. Led by CEO and founder Nick Smith, Sailes positions its offering as sales with AI for enterprises rather than simple enablement. The company intends to use new funding to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Financial specifics in the article note a recent Series A plus total funding to date. Saile.ai provides a SaaS AI solution that automates the entire prospecting life cycle with Sailebots that perform Digital Labor sales tasks for mid-market and global enterprise businesses. Co-founded by enterprise sales veteran Nick Smith and technologist Clive Cadogan, MsC, the company serves Fortune 500 customers including Schneider Electric, LPL Financial Services, Finning Caterpillar, JLL Commercial Real Estate, and BrandSafway group. The company is based in Kansas City, MO and maintains offices in New York. Saile.ai intends to use recent funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach. The company raised seed financing in late 2022 as part of its current funding status.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2023

Ovation offers a hospitality-focused software platform that begins with a two-question guest survey and expands into tools for managing feedback, online reviews, and day-to-day store operations. The Salt Lake City company positions itself as a partner rather than a traditional SaaS vendor, emphasizing human connection to drive higher customer satisfaction and revenue. Its technology is used by more than 1,000 restaurant brands, including Dave's Hot Chicken, Swig, The Great Greek, and Mooyah, reaching thousands of individual restaurant locations. Operators use Ovation to surface actionable insights and resolve issues before they lead to lost business, enabling timely guest recovery. Investors who also use the product praise its ability to deliver real-time, store-level insights. Ovation has raised $12 million in total funding to date, indicating prior capital of about $9 million before the latest round. The new funds will support continued product development and expansion across additional restaurant groups, furthering its mission to strengthen guest relationships in multi-unit dining.

Led · Seed · Nov 2022

WorkTorch operates a service-industry career platform that offers job postings, candidate screenings, scheduling features, candidate matching, and talent-management tools. The company is led by Deborah Gladney and Angela Muhwezi-Hall and is based in Wichita, Kansas. WorkTorch reports a roster of over 40,000 service-industry applicants actively looking for jobs and more than 60 paying corporate clients, including mid-size and national service companies such as Dunkin’ Donuts and Homewood Suites by Hilton. The platform is used by employers for hiring and talent management across the service sector. The company plans to expand its city footprint using new funding to enter multiple new markets. QuickHire is a career discovery platform focused on connecting service workers with job and advancement opportunities. The company officially launched in April 2021 and is run by co-founders Deborah Gladney and Angela Muhwezi-Hall. QuickHire serves over 60 paying clients, including Fuzzy’s Taco Shop and Homewood Suites by Hilton, and has more than 11,000 job seekers on the platform. The business is growing amid a prolonged tight labor market in the service industry and currently targets the Wichita and Kansas City metro areas. Management plans to expand across the Midwest and add skilled-labor verticals in 2022. QuickHire recently raised financing to invest in technology and expand its team.