• Earnix

  Participated · Equity · Feb 2021

  Earnix is a global provider of AI-driven rating, pricing, and product personalization software for insurers and banks, delivered as cloud-hosted SaaS. Its platform combines machine learning and advanced analytics to enable highly personalized offers and real-time pricing decisions. Customers deliver over 1 billion quotes per year through Earnix’s solutions, and the company positions its product as a mission-critical system with rapid ROI. Earnix plans to use new funding to expand into new market segments and regions, increase investment in product innovation, accelerate hiring, and pursue M&A. Founded in 2001 and driven by Israeli technology, it operates offices across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Israel. The company has been recognized by CB Insights and industry outlets for its predictive analytics leadership. Earnix provides integrated customer analytics software that combines predictive modeling and optimization with real-time connectivity to core operational systems to help financial services firms improve product, pricing and marketing decisions. The company emphasizes alignment with changing market dynamics through its optimization and real-time capabilities. Led by CEO David Schapiro and founder Sammy Krikler, Earnix serves the banking and broader financial services verticals. The firm completed a $13.5M financing round, signaling external investor support for its growth plans. Earnix intends to use the funds to accelerate geographic expansion, deepen penetration into the banking vertical and invest in new products. Governance changes accompanying the round include the election of Reuven Ben Menachem as Chairman and the appointment of Haim Shani as a Director.

• Yotpo

  Participated · Series D · Nov 2017

  Yotpo is an eCommerce marketing platform that provides integrated solutions for Loyalty & Referrals, SMS Marketing, Reviews, and Visual UGC to help merchants deepen customer relationships. The company serves thousands of brands and lists mutual customers including Steve Madden, Princess Polly, and Brooklinen. Yotpo integrates with major commerce and marketing tools and is available on platforms such as Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Adobe Commerce, and BigCommerce. The company recently added SMS marketing to its product suite and aims to develop first-to-market technologies to improve one-to-one merchant-customer relationships. Yotpo is a three-time Forbes Cloud 100 company with teams across the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Bulgaria, and Australia. The platform plans further product development and tighter integrations with partners to create more seamless shopping experiences across touchpoints. Yotpo, founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York City, offers an integrated e-commerce marketing platform. Its platform comprises four main products — Yotpo SMS Marketing, Yotpo Loyalty & Referrals, Yotpo Reviews and Yotpo Visual UGC — which integrate with each other and with e-commerce platforms like Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Magento and BigCommerce. The company reports 30,000 paying customers, including brands such as Patagonia, Steve Madden and direct-to-consumer businesses like Princess Polly. Yotpo has exceeded $100 million in annual recurring revenue; its SMS marketing product grew revenue 170% last year while its loyalty product nearly doubled revenue. The company acquired SMSBump in early 2020 and is approximately 70% of the way toward full integration. Yotpo plans to continue investing in product and marketing, pursue strategic acquisitions, and launch new products around customer communication and measuring customer lifetime value. Yotpo builds an e-commerce‑focused marketing cloud offering reviews and ratings, loyalty and referral programs, SMS and visual marketing, and integrations with customer‑care platforms. The company began as a Shopify App Store app and has expanded to integrate with platforms such as Salesforce, Adobe and BigCommerce. Yotpo operates a freemium model with roughly 9,000 paying customers and about 280,000 users on its free tier. Customer count grew 250% in the last year, and the company reported 170% year‑on‑year ARR growth and lower churn amid a recent surge of signups. Leadership cites a target of $100 million ARR next year. Yotpo has pursued product expansion both in‑house and via acquisitions (most recently SMSBump) and plans to use funding to grow its product suite, customer acquisition, integrations and acquisition activity. Yotpo builds a platform that helps businesses solicit and amplify user-generated content — reviews, Q&As, photos and videos — for marketing and customer feedback. It uses AI and a data-driven approach, claiming the highest order-to-review conversion rates and leveraging billions of behavioral data points to time and personalize content requests. Yotpo's algorithms adapt email and submission formats by identifying device and email client, and the company applies sentiment analysis and natural language processing to classify reviews by star rating and text. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, the company has raised $101 million to date. Yotpo says it will use the funding to build out an enterprise-grade platform and continue global expansion. Planned growth includes opening a second U.S. office in Salt Lake and adding 150 employees to bring headcount to over 400. Yotpo is a New York City–based content marketing platform that helps businesses transform user-generated content into a customer content marketing engine to drive qualified traffic back to their sites. Led by CEO Tomer Tagrin, the company closed a $22M funding round in 2016. The round was intended to fund product development — adding features, integrations and more forms of UGC — and to support global expansion. Yotpo planned multiple offices outside the U.S. and Israel and to grow its headcount by 250 people. Management also signaled the option to explore strategic acquisitions. The company has raised $50M in total funding to date and announced the hire of Jeff DiBartolo as Vice President, formerly of Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

• Outbrain

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2013

  Outbrain operates content-recommendation widgets that display sponsored links beneath news articles on publishers such as CNN, Le Monde and The Washington Post. The company runs an open-web advertising platform that generates revenue by serving clickbait-style sponsored links to third-party websites. Outbrain has filed for an IPO and said the recent $200 million financing should be its last traditional private round ahead of going public. In its IPO filing Outbrain reported $767 million in revenue for 2020 and $228 million in revenue for Q1 2021, with net income of $4.4 million in 2020 and $10.7 million in Q1 2021. The company was previously in talks to merge with rival Taboola but that merger was canceled; Taboola went public via a SPAC. Outbrain’s leadership says it plans to continue delivering innovation to premium media partners worldwide and expand its global advertising platform as the advertising market recovers. Outbrain is an online content discovery platform that delivers personalized online, mobile and video content to audiences while enabling publishers to better understand their audiences through data. The platform serves 200 billion personalized content recommendations per month and reaches over 561 million unique visitors globally. Top-tier publications using Outbrain include CNN, ESPN, Le Monde, Fox News, The Guardian, Slate, The Telegraph, New York Post, Times of India and Sky News. The company intends to use new funding for product innovation both organically and through acquisitions. Outbrain recently acquired Los Angeles-based software company Reeve to algorithmically maximize revenue for publishers. Founded in 2006, the company is based in New York City. Outbrain operates a content-recommendation platform that places organic and paid story suggestions (including sponsored content) on publisher pages. The service is installed on more than 100,000 sites and works with a network of about 700 premium publishers, including CNN, Hearst, Rolling Stone, and Fast Company. Outbrain says it serves roughly 100 billion recommendations each month. The company monetizes by including sponsored content alongside organic recommendations. Leadership says the next year’s priorities are scaling the business, building out mobile and self-serve products, and expanding into new markets. The company recently hired its first CFO as it evaluates growth and potential public-market options. Outbrain is a content discovery platform that helps online publishers recommend additional content through a widget using contextual analysis, collaborative filtering and personalization. The system personalizes links based on cookies without tying recommendations to personally identifiable information and does not share data across publishers. It serves inbound links to a publisher's own content (unpaid) and outbound links to other sites that are paid for by Outbrain's buyers and involve revenue sharing. Outbrain's recommendations are viewed more than 3.5 billion times per month and generate over 200 million monthly clicks; mobile already accounts for about 5%–10% of its business. The company has soft-launched video recommendation technology and offers an Outbrain for Mobile widget to link to mobile-optimized content. Outbrain says it will use additional funding to invest in business development and global expansion, building on its acquisition of Surphace and offices in London, Paris and Hamburg, with further moves into Europe and Asia planned. Outbrain provides an online content-recommendation service for publishers that recommends content links to increase page views, generate revenue and enhance user experience. The core service is free for publishers and is used by outlets such as USA Today, iVillage, Boston.com, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, TheStreet, The Boston Globe and Slate. The company recently acquired Surphace Inc. (formerly Sphere) and said it will invest in advancing its recommendation technologies. Outbrain plans to use new funding to scale operations, expand business development and sales teams in the United States, and continue growth in Israel and across Europe. Founded in 2006 by Yaron Galai and Ori Lahav, Outbrain has R&D in Netanya, Israel and is New York–based. To date the company has raised $29M.

• Clarizen

  Led · Series E · Jun 2012

  Clarizen, founded in 2006 and led by CEO Avinoam Nowogrodski, provides cloud-based enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that connect social context with tasks and projects. The company is based in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. Clarizen has more than 2,000 customers in 76 countries. It will use the funds to expand globally, focusing on customer success, including onboarding and support, and to continue product innovation to support the enterprise market. The company has now raised $90M in total and recently closed a $35M Series F venture round. Clarizen provides online project-management tools for teams and businesses. It has expanded its product with an Android app and Clarizen Anywhere, a browser plugin and Outlook add-on. The company reports rapid growth, adding more than 100 new customers per month and revenue up 300% year-over-year in 2011. Clarizen says it does not currently plan to raise more venture capital, though that could change depending on growth needs. To date it has raised a total of $49 million in venture funding. Clarizen offers an online collaborative project and work management platform that centralizes project, resource and employee work details. The product is aimed at businesses that need to manage multiple projects and resources from a single, centralized online system. The company reports more than 1,000 organizations use its platform and has experienced 400% year-over-year growth. Clarizen intends to use its new funding for new product development, global expansion, business development, and sales and marketing initiatives. The current traction and growth metrics suggest strong commercial adoption among enterprise customers. Clarizen provides collaborative online work and project management software that lets businesses manage projects and resources in a single, online environment. The company says its products are now in use by over 500 customers. In 2009 Clarizen reported sales grew more than 400% year-over-year and it added more than 100 customers in Q3 alone. The extra financing will be used to expand its marketing and sales operations. Clarizen was founded in 2005 and has raised a total of $24 million in venture capital to date. Clarizen is a web-based project management and collaboration tool designed for non-project managers and operational/functional managers. It emphasizes collaborative planning and execution, letting team members and external contractors enter and update tasks independently while giving project owners a unified view. Key features include activating only ready portions of a project, switching portions back to draft, pausing and replanning tasks, an included partner license per company subscription, and email-based task updates that require no login. The company has been selling its solution for about a year and reports over 200 customers, with current contract closures predominantly for 12-month terms. Clarizen has raised $15M in funding. As part of its marketing, the company offered five free one-year subscriptions to TechCrunch readers and a promotional free subscription for purchasers who mention the TechCrunch post.

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