Participated · Equity · Jan 2022

BasicBlock is a Lincoln NE-based trucking financial technology company that builds financial products to allow independent carriers to grow their fleets. Its tools provide streamlined financial services for fleets and carriers worldwide, with a particular focus on factoring. The company plans to use the $78M equity funding to continue focusing on factoring while adding and expanding services for carriers to grow their fleets. BasicBlock also intends to grow operations into Chicago. The company is led by CEO Taylor Monks and COO Brett Byman.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2022

Based in Atlanta, Tourial provides a no-code design studio that uses existing product assets (screenshots, video, GIFs, templates) to create interactive product experiences and click-through demos. The platform aims to capture the advantages of video and demo environments while avoiding their production complexity, and it exposes buyer intent and engagement data to accelerate sales cycles. Tourial positions its product for use across website CTAs, paid media, outbound, events, post-demo collateral, and product releases. Customers cited in the article include DataRobot, Salesloft, Sprinklr, InsightSquared, TopHat, and Dun & Bradstreet. The company announced a $3.4M seed funding round and intends to use the capital to recruit talent, develop new features, expand channel usage, and enhance the data and insights available to marketing and sales teams. Leadership mentioned includes CEO and co-founder Jason Graub and co-founder Andy Binkley.

Led · Equity · Oct 2021

Press Hook is a tech-enabled public relations platform founded in October 2020 by Michelle Songy in Brooklyn. It connects brands—ranging from consumer packaged goods to emerging tech companies—with the media in a cost-effective way. Core features include a searchable database of digital press kits, tools for journalists to request interviews or product samples from press contacts, and functionality to place products into guides for journalists. The platform serves clients across CPG and early-stage tech sectors. Founder Michelle Songy previously built mobile payments app Cake Technologies, which she sold to American Express, and later ran a PR firm for startups. Press Hook recently raised $1.5M in funding.