The Iron Yard
101 N Main St Ste 400, Greenville, South Carolina, 29601, United States
Overview
We exist to create exceptional value for people and their ideas. We do this by providing mentorship and capital for startups through our EdTech and Digital Health accelerators as well as full-time code education via The Iron Yard Academy. Through our large, deep and growing network of instructors, mentors, programmers, designers, entrepreneurs, investors, employers and collaborative spaces we have developed a thriving community where serendipity happens en-masse. We are people-centric. We put our students, teams, investors, and supporters first in all of our decision making. Our success is entirely dependent on their success. Our challenge is immense. The world has huge problems that need to be solved, many of which technology is perfectly suited to address. Companies around the globe are answering this call, but anyone with boots on the ground can feel the acute shortage of people needed to rise to the occasion. That gap is widening right now, and over the next decade the shortfall will effect industries, economies, businesses and individuals as they fight to add value in digital world. The Iron Yard is a solution at that juncture of supply, demand, business and a broken education system. We are committed to training up the highest-quality developers and startups in the world, both in skill and in character. We want to accomplish this alongside talented, passionate people who share our vision, love what they do, and want to have a whole lot of fun along the way.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- EdTech
- Health Care
- Hospitality
- Software
Investment portfolio
- PivotDesk
Participated · Equity · May 2014
PivotDesk is a B2B online marketplace for office sharing, positioning itself as an Airbnb-like solution for flexible workspace that avoids long-term leases. The company connects businesses or landlords with extra office space to entrepreneurs, remote workers, and small startup teams. PivotDesk announced a $3.8 million round of funding to support its expansion into 23 new cities. The funds are earmarked for marketing in those cities and for additional business development initiatives that CEO David Mandell has not yet detailed. PivotDesk is a Techstars graduate and currently comprises about 20 employees, mostly based in Boulder, where the team is executing the nationwide expansion. The company emphasizes enabling underutilized office space to generate revenue while fostering potential partnerships and entrepreneurial energy within buildings. PivotDesk operates a management and matchmaking platform that helps startups find flexible, month-to-month space inside companies with unused long-term leases. The service emphasizes cultural and operational fit, using detailed profiles and a matching process that requires interest from both parties before sharing contact information. PivotDesk provides tools for listings, communications, billing, documentation and verifies insurance and sublease rights to reduce risk. The company is a TechStars Boulder alum and is launching in New York, San Francisco and Denver with plans to expand to additional cities over the next year (including a crowdsourced next-city vote). Since its beta launch last fall PivotDesk has matched 100 companies and now lists over 200 spaces. Its monetization is a 10 percent commission each time a cohabiter renews a monthly lease; the company is backed by over $3 million in Series A funding from Foundry Group.
- ChartSpan Medical Technologies
Participated · Seed · Sep 2013
ChartSpan provides managed care coordination and compliance programs as a managed service provider for chronic care management in the United States. The company serves more than 100 practices and health systems. Led by CEO Jon-Michial Carter, ChartSpan operates from Greenville, South Carolina. It focuses on delivering chronic care management programs and ensuring compliance for client practices and health systems. ChartSpan plans to use newly raised capital to scale its operations nationally. No other financial details were disclosed in the articles. ChartSpan Medical Technologies provides patient compliance management and care coordination services to health systems and ambulatory practices throughout the U.S. Its patient engagement solutions aim to help providers maximize reimbursements, improve care coordination and ensure MIPS and APM compliance. The company is led by brothers Jon‑Michial Carter (CEO) and Patrick Carter (CMO). ChartSpan closed $16M in venture capital funding led by Cypress Growth Capital. It intends to use the funds to expand its presence in the Appalachian region and grow headcount. ChartSpan has created more than 200 jobs in the past 15 months and expects to create 300 additional jobs in the next 18 months; it graduated the Iron Yard’s Health Accelerator (sponsored by Mayo Clinic) in 2013 and was the #1 most downloaded medical iOS app in the U.S. from 2014–2016. ChartSpan Medical Technologies builds a patient engagement platform that lets patients request, receive, send and manage healthcare records from any doctor via smartphone, tablet or computer. The company also offers medical managed services, including chronic care management, which providers use to engage patients, ensure compliance and increase top-line revenue. In March the company added a new chronic care management module to its product suite. ChartSpan signed more than $9m in provider-based customer contracts in less than 45 days, indicating rapid commercial traction. The company plans to use the newly raised funds to support growth of operations and to hire more than 300 clinical and technology staff in the next 12 months. ChartSpan is led by CEO Jon-Michial Carter and is a graduate of The Iron Yard’s Healthcare Accelerator Program; it has raised $6m in venture funding during the past three years. ChartSpan offers an iPhone and iPad medical app that lets users receive, manage, and send health and immunization records. On a mobile device, users can import an electronic healthcare record from any source or take a picture of their record to create a digital record. ChartSpan then extracts the data and populates each user’s electronic, personal database. The company raised $1.7M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to build its engineering, distribution, and marketing teams. Led by CEO & CoFounder Jon Michial Carter, ChartSpan plans to release a Google Play (Android) version in the coming weeks. Prior financings include a $1M seed round in September 2014 and nearly $250K in pre-seed funding in August 2013. ChartSpan Medical Technologies is a Greenville, SC-based mobile app that collects and centralizes patients' electronic healthcare data. The app converts paper healthcare records to digital data without manual data entry by taking a picture or importing records from email or electronic fax. ChartSpan extracts the data and populates each user's electronic personal database. Led by CEO and cofounder Jon-Michial Carter, the company has raised more than $1M in seed funding. It intends to use the funds to build its engineering, distribution, and marketing teams. The seed round was led by investor and healthcare leader Don Byrne.
Team
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