The Venture Codex

Participated · Series A · Jan 2018

Unreel.me is a technology-driven video streaming company focused on OTT distribution and provides a customizable video player for networks and publishers. The platform builds big-data-focused OTT apps and sites as an alternative to satellite and cable distribution. It gives publishers full control over their content and a centralized hub to manage data, content and users across multiple apps. The company was launched in 2015 by advertising and media veterans Dan Goikhman, Krish Arvapally, Ryan James and Akshay Arvapally. Unreel.me recently raised $1.5M in a Pre-Series A financing and intends to use the funds to expand the team, support growth of its owned-and-operated and partner streaming services, and scale operations. Unreel Entertainment is a San Mateo, CA-based social video startup co-founded by Dan Goikhman and Krish Arvapally in early 2015. Its core product uses data and an AI crawler called Bumblebee to crawl the web and index trending scenes in online video based on engagement data from Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and Facebook. Unreel catalogs video moments internet users are talking about for discovery and sharing across social media. The company provides tools for content creators, publishers, and MCNs to create, distribute, and monetize video networks through advertising, paywalls or subscriptions, and e-commerce. It will use the funds to release publishing tools for content creators and owners to better understand and monetize their video libraries and audiences. The beta has about 100,000 monthly active viewers month-to-date, and partners include Malka Media, GTChannel, SurrealVR, MMA League World Series of Fighting, and the upcoming comedy horror Paranormal Activity Security Squad.

Led · Equity · Aug 2016

The Miami Bay Beverage Company is a Branford, CT-based maker of protein-infused water whose flagship product is trimino. Trimino contains 7 grams of whey protein, B-complex vitamins, zero sugar, zero carbs and 28 calories, and is available in four flavors. The product is carried in more than 5,000 supermarkets, convenience stores, drug, fitness and other retailers, including TOPS, Price Chopper, WinCo Foods, NOCO Express Convenience Stores, Market Street, Central Market, Brookshire’s and in over 700 7‑Eleven stores in Texas, Florida and Chicago. Led by CEO Peter Dacey, the company intends to use the new capital to expand down the East Coast and through Virginia. The article reports a $2.5M funding round that the company received to support that expansion.

Led · Equity · May 2014

ActualMeds offers web-based platforms designed to facilitate patient data collection and automate coordination of care for medication management in patients with chronic diseases. The company plans to use recent funding to support technology development as well as certification and patent costs. It operates in the health care IT space, focusing on tools that streamline medication management and care coordination. The company is led by CEO Patricia Meisner and is based in East Hartford, Connecticut. In May 2014 ActualMeds reported receiving new funding that supplements an earlier investment from Connecticut Innovations in 2011.