• Klever Logic

  Participated · Equity · Nov 2016

  FLASH provides cloud-born software and physical infrastructure that creates seamless customer experiences and connects operators, asset owners, and cities via a real-time marketplace for digital mobility. Its mobility operating system links parking, charging, transportation, and logistics with smart-city ecosystems and integrates with major automakers, mapping, navigation, and payment platforms. FLASH serves over 10,000 customer locations across the U.S. and Canada, processes more than 11 million parkers per month, and handles over $1 billion in annual transactions. Founded in 2011 and based in Austin, Texas, the company offers solutions including electric-vehicle charging, autonomous vehicle staging, and mobility-as-a-service. FLASH plans to expand its mobility OS and payments platform, extend digital services, and invest substantially in talent to support growth. FlashParking builds payment, monitoring and management software for parking-space providers, with its platform first launched in 2011. The company's software offers real-time data and variable pricing options and supports app-enabled parking and valet services. FlashParking positions its technology to extend to electric vehicle charging, vehicle servicing and cleaning, drone launch/landing and maintenance, and hubs for ride-hailing as part of a broader multi-modal transportation hub. CEO and co-founder Juan Rodriguez describes the platform as an operating system ready to support autonomous and robotic vehicle use cases. The company manages 30,000 parking spaces across 34 facilities in the Texas Medical Center and reports 6 million customers using its services each month. FlashParking says those customers generate around $1 billion in transaction revenue. Klever Logic provides a cloud-based parking platform—Flash Valet, FlashPARCS, and FlashMobile—that enables valet, gated, and mobile payments and lets operators manage revenue and operations from mobile, tablet, or desktop. Flash Valet originated as a cashless valet solution and led to the gated-parking product FlashPARCS after operator demand. The integrated platform delivers real-time data and a single system for operators while giving guests a mobile parking experience. In five years Klever Logic’s solutions run in over 800 venues domestically and internationally and process over 1.5M parked vehicles each month. The company plans to expand into property and hospitality management groups and into verticals such as Class A office buildings, hospitals, airports, and large event venues. Recent funding will support executive hires, scaling sales and marketing, streamlining operations, and a forthcoming brand evolution.

• Flash Valet

  Led · Series A · Sep 2012

  Flash Valet provides cloud-based mobile management software that streamlines operations for valet and parking providers. Its platform lets providers track vehicles in real time, manage employee time and attendance (including payroll integration), accept curbside credit-card and mobile payments, and centralize communications and payments. The system offers real-time visibility from phones or any browser and aims to replace cash registers and paper tickets with mobile workflows. Flash Valet is available in over 50 locations across 13 cities in hotels, condos, restaurants and bars, hospitals, airports, arenas and shopping malls and expects to more than triple that footprint over the next two quarters. The company emphasizes limited upfront investment and a single-vendor solution to boost revenue and operational efficiency. Financially, Flash Valet has secured a $1.25 million Series A to support product development and market expansion.

• Ziften Technologies

  Participated · Series A · Jul 2011

  Ziften provides continuous endpoint visibility to enterprises, combining real-time user, device and threat behavior monitoring, analytics, and reporting. Its solution is architected for rapid deployment—hours, not days—and for ultra-low resource consumption so it can scale dynamically across organizations. Ziften’s product is designed to discover, analyze, and respond to security exposures to harden corporate resiliency and augment existing security tools and teams. The company positions itself as a leader in endpoint threat detection and visibility and cites rapid adoption and industry recognition. This funding round is intended to accelerate its go-to-market strategy and extend its global reach. Ziften highlights recent awards and inclusion on vendor lists as signs of market traction. Ziften Technologies builds BLISS (Behavioral Lightweight Intelligence for Stressed Systems), a Desktop Quality of Service (QoS) product that monitors resource consumption and dynamically prioritizes processes across physical and virtual Windows desktops. BLISS uses lightweight behavioral algorithms, classification, and machine learning to make near-zero-administration decisions that improve uptime, performance, security, and reduce errors and annoyances. Ziften says it brings expertise from antivirus and hardware industries and has experience deploying behavioral software to more than 150 million systems worldwide. The company plans to expand its core technologies and bring BLISS to a wider audience of enterprise customers. Early deployments at multiple Fortune 500 customers reportedly improved application performance, uptime on older PCs, and employee productivity. Financially, Ziften has raised $11.3 million to date, including a newly announced $5.5M Series B. Ziften was founded in 2010 and is based in Austin, Texas. Ziften Technologies provides enterprise software designed to help organizations understand and control what applications run across Windows desktop environments. Its platform enables organizations to automatically eliminate, restrict, or accelerate applications based on relative business value. The company was launched and is led by founder and CEO Mark Obrecht, who previously founded WholeSecurity (acquired by Symantec in 2005). Ziften’s team includes experts who previously led product innovations at WholeSecurity, Intel, Cisco, Dell, Akamai, Symantec, AMD and Caltech. The company closed a $5.8M Series A to support its early commercial and product efforts.

• Zilliant

  Participated · Equity · Jul 2010

  Zilliant provides cloud-native pricing optimization, pricing management and revenue intelligence software to help businesses manage the entire pricing lifecycle. In FY2023 the company delivered two consecutive quarters of 60%+ year-over-year bookings growth. In December 2023 Zilliant acquired In Mind Cloud, adding next-generation CPQ that complements its pricing offerings. Its financial sponsor, Madison Dearborn Partners, increased its investment by $35 million to accelerate product enhancements and other growth initiatives. Zilliant strengthened its executive team in 2023 with hires from Salesforce, SAP and other enterprise software firms to support product, technology, revenue and partnerships. The company is positioned for continued record growth in 2024 and will showcase new product innovations at its MindShare 2024 conference in May in Austin, Texas. Zilliant is an Austin, Texas-based AI-driven SaaS company that provides tools to maximize B2B customer relationships. Its Zilliant IQ platform integrates with field sales workflows, CRM applications and e-commerce channels to inform pricing and sales decisions and increase the value of every B2B customer interaction. Led by president and CEO Greg Peters, the company targets growth and profit expansion for B2B enterprises across multiple sectors. In May 2017 Zilliant raised $30M in financing from Goldman Sachs' Private Capital Investing Group. The funds will allow the company to grow globally in the B2B enterprise industry across multiple sectors. Goldman Sachs' Private Capital Investing Group is described as a platform providing junior capital to growth and middle-market companies and is co-headed by Hillel Moerman. Zilliant provides price optimization and margin management solutions for B2B manufacturers, distributors and industrial service companies. Its product suite includes Margin Maximizer, Margin Insight and Margin Manager, which use existing transactional data to improve decisions across price analysis, price setting and execution. The company says customers have experienced significant improvement in their financial performance using its solutions. Zilliant completed $13M in financing from existing partners SMH Private Equity Group, ABS Ventures, Austin Ventures and Trellis Partners. The new capital will be used to accelerate global expansion to meet customer demand. The company is based in Austin, Texas.

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