Led · Equity · Jun 2022

Zello offers a voice-first instant communication platform powered by push-to-talk technology that connects deskless and operations teams with one touch. The company reports over 5 million monthly active users, 170 million registered users, and supports 8 billion voice messages per month, with over 1 million new app downloads a month. Zello advertises 99.99% uptime and lists enterprise customers including PepsiCo, Bechtel, Waste Connections, the Salling Group, Lufthansa, Hyatt, Yellow, Hilton, Cemex, and Holcim. It provides its enterprise platform at no cost to qualified first responders through a program that now supports over 1,500 organizations across 65 countries. Zello says it began as a social radio with consumer growth DNA and has since transformed into business uses for retail, transportation, construction and hospitality. The company raised capital to support continued expansion of its voice-first communications for frontline workforces worldwide.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2016

Get Smart Content offers analytics and personalization products that help marketing teams research audience behavior and deliver relevant, personalized content at scale. The platform supports cross-channel personalization for enterprise customers, including HPE, GE and IBM. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Jim Eustace. It intends to use the new funds to expand sales operations and drive marketing initiatives. With this latest round, Get Smart Content has raised a total of $6.92M. The company is based in Austin, TX. Get Smart Content, led by founder and CEO Jim Eustace, offers a multi-channel personalization platform with three core products. Smart Content provides a user-friendly administrative interface for designing campaigns that deliver the right content to the right person at the right time. Intelligence turns website and marketing data into insights, identifying top-performing content sequences, roadblocks and untapped potential. Connections is a suite of integrations with CMS, web analytics, marketing automation, CRM, third-party data providers and other marketing technologies to enable cross-channel personalization. Enterprise B2B clients include HP, Siemens, Iron Mountain and Rockwell Automation. The company plans to use new capital to expand its sales team for enterprise and mid-market customers, and to hire additional customer support and services staff while continuing innovation efforts.