• EnTouch Controls

  Participated · Series C · Aug 2015

  Founded in 2008 in Dallas, Texas, ENTOUCH offers a turnkey energy-management platform that digitizes and optimizes operations for multisite businesses in sectors such as retail, hospitality, banking, entertainment, fitness, healthcare, and senior living. The company is unique in owning its entire technology stack, allowing it to integrate heterogeneous building systems into a single cloud solution. ENTOUCH claims industry-leading deployment speed and quality, and its ENTOUCH 360 service boasts a 100 % renewal rate. Management reports another record-breaking year marked by rapid growth driven by measurable energy savings, operational efficiencies, and sustainability outcomes for customers. The new capital will be used to accelerate product development and expand go-to-market initiatives, further enhancing its client value proposition. Although specific revenue figures were not disclosed, the company highlights strong momentum and a growing customer base. ENTOUCH positions itself as a catalyst for sustainability and profitability in the built environment.

• Netsocket

  Participated · Series B · Apr 2013

  NetSocket provides network service assurance solutions designed to deliver a trouble-free unified communications experience for enterprises and service providers. The company’s Cloud Experience Manager (CEM) optimizes Microsoft Lync UC service management and user experience. NetSocket plans to apply its service assurance, routing, and policy-control software into virtualized networks and Software Defined Networking (SDN) architectures. The company announced a new product targeted at the growing SDN market, with a product announcement and launch planned for this summer. NetSocket is based in Plano, Texas, and aims to use recent funding to accelerate that SDN-focused solution launch. The company highlights an expanded collaboration with Microsoft as evidence of traction in its UC offering.

• Vobi

  Led · Series A · Jan 2013

  Vobi is an Austin-based cloud collaboration startup that uses mobile phone numbers as the primary identity to instantly create collaborative workspaces. The platform links a user’s phone number to their email and cloud accounts (Box, Dropbox, Salesforce) and surfaces an activity stream and shared content during calls or sessions. Users can access Vobi via iOS and Android apps or by entering a cell phone number on a desktop without installing a smartphone app, leveraging carriers’ subscriber databases. The company has been in stealth for around two years, has filed patents, and says its technology is fully functional. Vobi plans to commercialize at scale through carrier partnerships and to sell the base feature as a subscription through mobile operators and operator app stores. It raised $1.5 million in Series A funding to support those commercialization efforts.

• Koupon

  Led · Series B · Apr 2012

  Koupon Media is a mobile coupon delivery, fulfillment and analytics platform serving retailers and consumer product brands. The platform delivers offers via QR code, bar code, text message, email and social-media sites and supports fulfillment integration with retailer POS systems. Those integrations provide brands product control and detailed analytics to better determine consumer buying behavior. The company plans to use the newly raised capital to further develop its technology platform and bring it to market. Koupon Media raised $4.5M in a Series B round led by Trailblazer Capital, following a $2M Series A in 2011. Founded in 2011 by T.J. Person and Scott Hutchinson and based in Frisco, TX, the company focuses on mobile couponing solutions. Koupon Media builds a mobile coupon delivery, fulfillment and analytics platform for consumer product brands, delivering single-use coupons via QR code, bar code, text message, email and social-media websites. Its fulfillment platform has been integrated with a variety of retailer point-of-sale (POS) systems and provides brands product control and detailed analytics. The company was founded in 2011 by mobile technology entrepreneurs CEO T.J. Person and Scott Hutchinson and operates from Dallas with additional offices in Chicago. Koupon Media operates the consumer-facing site www.kou.pn for delivering digital coupons to mobile devices. The company raised $2M in a Series A round and intends to use the funding to further develop its technology and bring it to retailers, consumer product brands and marketing agencies. The new capital is intended to support product development and commercial rollout of its POS-integrated fulfillment and analytics platform.

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