Venture Fund Investments
champion hill ventures
Chapel Hill, NC
Champion Hill Ventures is an NC based venture investor focused on early stage deep technology, applied science, synthetic biology and other overlooked problems many VC firms tend to avoid.
cofounders capital
Cary, NC
Cofounders Capital is a free startup accelerator and early stage seed fund focused on software ventures in the Triangle. The Cofounders Capital Lab and Fund is managed by serially successful entrepreneur, David Gardner, with a team of over eighty advisers and volunteer mentors who are all investors in the fund, eager to support entrepreneurship in the Triangle and to help its portfolio companies and entrepreneurs succeed.
excelerate health ventureS
Research Triangle Park, NC
Excelerate Health Ventures is redefining healthcare venture investing. The firm is founded by experienced entrepreneurs with extensive startup and investment experience and a hands-on, roll-up your sleeves and a make it happen operational team. In addition to general experience in healthcare and venture capital, Excelerate brings specific scientific, business, financial, intellectual property and start-up experience that benefit its portfolio companies and co-investors. The team is passionate and dedicated to the healthcare market.
fulcrum equity partners
Atlanta, GA
Fulcrum Equity Partners manages over $600 million and makes equity investments in rapidly growing business that are led by strong entrepreneurs and management teams. The firm targets companies within the healthcare, B2B SaaS, and technology-enabled services industries. Fulcrum provides financing to meet a wide range of needs including internal growth initiatives, acquisitions, shareholder liquidity, buy-outs, recapitalizations, and divestitures.
good growth capital
Charleston, SC
Good Growth Capital (GGC) is an early stage venture capital firm known for its exceptional expertise in finding, cultivating and assessing complex science and technology start-ups. Formed by a team of experienced operators, the firm’s strong capacity for understanding early stage science and technology investments enables it to invest well at an earlier stage than most venture capital firms, giving priority access to high-performing investment opportunities. GGC invests in seed stage and Series A deals through the General Fund family and in pre-seed and seed stage companies through the Infinite Corridor Fund. GGC is majority women- and minority-owned and is uniquely positioned geographically in both the Southeast and New England.
hatteras venture partners
Durham, NC
Hatteras Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that builds transformational companies in the areas of biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, healthcare IT, and related opportunities in human medicine. The firm typically invest in companies built on cutting-edge science from leading academic institutions. Hatteras has invested in companies across the United States in most of the major hotspots for health innovation. Given its headquarters location in RTP, NC, Hatteras plays a leadership role in building companies in North Carolina and the Southeastern United States, where technology is plentiful but resident venture capital is limited.
IDEA fund partners
Durham, NC
As one of the oldest and most active early-stage investment firms in the Southeast, IDEA Fund’s investment philosophy has been honed from years of experience. This experienced team funds entrepreneurs who are applying technology and business model innovations to industries in the earliest stages of digital disruption with an emphasis on underserved people, places and stages.
JUMPSTART NOVA
Nashville, TN
Jumpstart Nova invests in seed and Series A healthcare companies led by Black founders who are building companies in tech-enabled services, biotech, diagnostic devices, health IT, digital health, and consumer health and wellness. With the insight and support of the leaders of the healthcare industry, the firm catalyzes the growth of its portfolio companies.
las olas venture capital
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Las Olas Venture Capital (LOVC) is a seed-stage lead investor VC firm. The firm typically invests up to $2M in seed rounds of B2B software companies and then works closely with the founders to get them to the next level. Las Olas believes there is a new generation of B2B companies that are emerging out of places that are largely ignored by traditional venture capital, and that this is a global phenomenon driven by the mass digitization of industries. LOVC aims to be the partner of choice for those founders.
OVAL PARK CAPITAL
Raleigh, NC
Oval Park Capital invests in early-stage companies in underserved markets in the United States. The firm supports exceptional and diverse founders that have developed and are commercializing disruptive technologies to solve complex problems in large inefficient global industries. While Oval Park is generally industry-agnostic, most of its portfolio companies operate in large, inefficient, global industries where scientific and engineering breakthroughs can rapidly generate value. Some of these industries include healthcare, financial, cybersecurity, agricultural, sustainable food, animal health, clean energy, water, construction, and industrial technologies.
overline
Atlanta, GA
Overline is an Atlanta-based, founder-operator led venture capital firm focused on investing in seed-stage businesses in the Southeast region of the United States. The firm invests early—from the concept stage, through initial traction and company-building, leading pre-seed and seed rounds.
panoramic VENTURES
Atlanta, GA
Panoramic Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Atlanta that takes a “wider-view” approach to investing by targeting the Southeast and Midwest and placing a focus on diverse founders and university startups. Panoramic opens new doors for overlooked founders, giving more entrepreneurs access to capital to build leading tech companies.
tech square ventures
Atlanta, GA
Tech Square Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. The firm helps visionary founders build companies that reshape industries and create new markets. The Tech Square platform is built on a strategic network of innovation ecosystem, corporate, and university relationships that help founders inform and accelerate go-to-market strategies. Engage helps enterprise startups get their products to customers by partnering with industry-leading Fortune 500 corporations.
topmark partners
Tampa, FL
Topmark Partners has invested together for 20 years, generating strong returns throughout several funds and across multiple business cycles. Since 1999, the team has collectively invested over $75 million in over 45 companies. Investors in our funds include some of the nation’s largest financial institutions and highly successful entrepreneurs. Topmark Partners has demonstrated a proven ability to develop trusted relationships with highly dynamic management teams. The firm catalyzes the rapid growth of technology-enabled companies led by passionate entrepreneurs solving business problems. These companies are often delivering solutions that transform industries.
Direct Company Investments
BIOSPATIAL
Durham, NC
biospatial combines EMS electronic patient care reports (ePCR) from our growing network of thousands of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers with other electronic healthcare data sources using proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) to support the missions of public sector and commercial healthcare entities.
CASE STATUS
Charleston, SC
Case Status is the leading mobile client portal and messaging platform for law firms. Empower your clients with case information while you focus on high-priority tasks and communication. If your bank can do it, why can't you?
Today, your clients have access to real-time information about their bank account, Amazon deliveries, and even their Dominos pizza. Case Status equips clients with a firm-branded mobile app that provides a real-time case status on their case, cutting down on 50% or more of updates and inbound calls. Case Status is a stand-alone platform designed for client communication and management. But it also connects to tools you already use to manage your practice, allowing Case Status to be your client control center.
CUREMINT
Durham, NC
CureMint is the intelligent solution for dental procurement and accounts payable (A/P). CureMint empowers dental organizations with a cloud-based source-to-pay platform that manages their entire procurement lifecycle in one easy-to-use place. CureMint’s Procure module delivers a streamlined ordering experience that office staff will love while arming managers with the tools necessary to gain full control and visibility across their organization. CureMint’s Pay module removes the costly blindspots that exist between procurement and accounts payable departments by removing silos and streamlining invoicing and other A/P processes.
EmpowHR
Atlanta, GA
EmpowHR provides cloud-based employee benefit enrollment platforms. Our flagship EmpowHR platform is tailor made for SMB employer groups. Our EmpowHR+ system is perfect for enterprise and/or private insurance exchange environments. Our distribution channels include brokers/agents/carriers/TPA's.
GET SPIFFY
Research Triangle Park, NC
Imagine your car feeling new again. Born and raised in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, our team at Spiffy has always had an affinity for technology. Since 2014, we’ve used that passion to pursue our goal of truly convenient and environmentally-friendly car care for individuals and fleets across the country.
KLEARLY
Research Triangle Park, NC
Klearly transforms traditional B2B marketing, sales, and customer success teams into data-driven, optimized functions working together to generate revenue. Using machine learning and prescriptive analytics, Klearly provides a software application to empower teams with actionable, revenue-centric insights.
KREPLING
Chattanooga, TN
Krepling is a centralized, frictionless, e-commerce platform, powering all forms of digital and subscription-based commerce. We enable brands, business owners, and enterprises across the globe to sell and scale online through a simple, user-friendly platform built for centralization. Krepling currently powers businesses on six different continents, enabling them to sell in 200+ countries and scale in global online markets.
LUCID DRONE TECHNOLOGIES
Charlotte, NC
Lucid Drone Technologies provides a holistic solution to deploy industrial spraying drones for labor-intensive jobs from design to service. The company provides their customers with a safer, faster and smarter alternative to traditional spraying methods while reducing costs and adding top-line revenue.
MEDICOM
Raleigh, NC
Medicom is a high growth healthcare technology company that is dedicated to creating innovative solutions for patients, health systems, and life sciences companies. Medicom's core technology is a health information network that connects disparate PACS, EMRs, EHRs, and RIS' so that information can be easily located, accessed, and shared across various healthcare enterprises.
ONE DIGITAL TRUST
McLean, VA
We have reinvented personal estate planning for the Digital Age. Our next-generation digital platform makes it simple for users to create and update their estate plans through life-stages. We offer our solution directly to financial institutions and in turn, they deliver it to their customers.
PEOPLELOGIC
Durham, NC
Peoplelogic is the first end-to-end People Intelligence platform, helping to provide data-driven decision making. The tool unlocks insights hidden within your organization's data fabric to empower leaders and managers to improve performance, productivity, and accountability.
POPPY
Washington, DC
Flowers for the big day, or just every day.
QOINS
Atlanta, GA
Qoins is an automated micro-payment platform that uses your spare change to help pay off your debts faster!
QUINSITE
Chapel Hill, NC
Quinsite helps hospitals, specialty practices, and healthcare administration nationwide effectively leverage their data to boost revenue, increase productivity, optimize resource utilization, and improve quality management. Our Comprehensive Healthcare Analytics Platform™ offers real-time, robust dashboards and reports tailored to meet your needs, enhance decision-making, and ease the burden for operational leadership. Enjoy innovative solutions complimented by our expert team to guide implementation and ongoing utilization success.
REVIBE TECHNOLOGIES
Wake Forest, NC
Revibe Technologies is dedicated to helping children and adults overcome obstacles faced in the classroom and workplace by fusing psychology with technology. School psychologist Rich Brancaccio founded Revibe in 2013 to create a specialized tool to help kids overcome their difficulties by leveling the playing field through technology. Revibe is a wearable that leverages proprietary algorithms to help kids adults combat distraction through gentle vibration reminders.
SOUNDSTRIPE
Nashville, TN
Soundstripe provides a SaaS platform enabling amateur, professional, and enterprise creators (social media influencers, bloggers, videographers, and more) to access its royalty-free library of over 7.5K+ curated music tracks across more than 50 genres, 100K+ high quality video clips and 65K+ sound effects with one simple subscription.
THE LOOMA PROJECT
Durham, NC
Looma exists to connect shoppers to the people and stories behind food & beverage products. Our first product, Loop™, is a network of smart tablets in grocery stores that play short, human-centric films connecting producer to consumer. The data generated by Loop™ fuels our proprietary film production and optimization processes, forming a flywheel we believe will one day power the world’s most sophisticated platform for human-centric point-of-decision video.
ALLOBEE (acquired by The Riveter)
Raleigh, NC
Allobee is a platform designed with the overwhelmed entrepreneur and small business owner in mind. Whether in need of business support services like bookkeeping and tech assistance, or upleveling your visibility with podcast editing, website development, graphic design, or social media, Allobee is a one-stop business solution to give you time back when you need it most. Allobee’s algorithm connects business owners nationwide to a vetted, underutilized workforce of experienced, professional women who have left the traditional 9 to 5, and provides a seamless workflow to the logistics of hiring, paying, and managing projects to completion.
VITALFLO HEALTH
Raleigh, NC
VitalFlo is redefining the standard of care for asthma management by providing actionable recommendations to patients when they need it most: before they have an asthma attack. Our handheld medical device and digital health management app enables asthmatic patients to track their lung health and asthma medications at home. Through our integrated platform, we provide population-level insights to healthcare provider networks, diagnostic support to physicians, and actionable recommendations to patients when they need it most.
Our vision is to build a future without asthma attacks.
UBIQUITOUS
Chattanooga, TN
Ubiquitous unlocks influencer marketing for the biggest brands in the world with a heavy focus on TikTok. We are a full-service solution built with mature data infrastructure that utilizes predictive analytics and machine learning to optimize influencer marketing strategy on top of our world class strategy and execution team. Whether you're focused on brand awareness, improving social presence through creator-led organic content creation, or developing a direct growth strategy, we've got you covered. We've worked with brands and marketing agencies of all sizes - including Lyft, Disney, American Eagles, Netflix, Lyft, FabFitFun, and 200+ others.