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Worldpay for Platforms: The money inside your software
A donation, a gym membership, a tuition bill. Worldpay for Platforms helps software companies turn everyday payments into part of their product - and part of their income.
Growth Street: Grow bigger. Keep the wheel.
The software founder knows the industry. The investor knows the next hundred problems. Growth Street Partners builds its deals around keeping both at the table.
DCM Ventures bets across borders
A venture firm built between Silicon Valley and Asia has spent three decades looking for ideas that travel. Its most useful export may be the people who know what changes along the way.
Nexa Equity bets on the software nobody talks about
Roofing estimates. Warehouse shifts. School tickets. Nexa Equity backs the software behind everyday work, then helps its founders build the companies around it.
Payabli follows the money. All of it.
Getting paid is only the beginning. Payabli helps software companies turn the messy work of accepting, sending and tracking money into a business of its own.
Glow Services makes the phone sale bigger than the phone.
The device is only the beginning. Glow connects financing, insurance and trade-in behind a retailer’s brand - and brings the capital relationships to help pay for it.
Wisetack puts the loan inside the quote.
A contractor can solve the problem and still lose the job. Wisetack puts monthly payments into the estimate, changing the conversation before the customer says no.
Progress Partners knows who should meet next
A fleet software founder, a streaming-TV platform and a weather-data business face different futures. Progress Partners helps find the buyer, investor or acquisition that fits.
Cybersoft makes lunch add up.
Behind every school lunch is a second serving of paperwork. Cybersoft connects the menus, money, and inventory so the people feeding children can get on with it.
ROLLER makes room for fun
The hard part of a day out can happen before the first ride. ROLLER connects the tickets, waivers, payments and memberships that stand between a guest and a good time.
Tekmetric puts the repair shop in plain sight
A glass wall helped Sunil Patel earn his customers’ trust. His software company takes the same idea into inspections, estimates and payments - now across more than 15,000 shops.
Modern Campus makes the next step obvious
A college can offer the right course and still lose the student. Modern Campus builds software for the awkward space between being interested and getting somewhere.
Embrace buys the software people cannot quit.
Foundry floors. College plans. Tax payments. Embrace buys the specialist software behind ordinary work - and bets that the next chapter deserves fresh code and fresh capital.
Spyne’s best edit was its own business.
Spyne started with software for photographers. It found a bigger business helping car dealers look good online - and now wants to answer the customers those pictures bring in.
SPRY PT and the work after the visit
A therapy session ends. The paperwork keeps going. SPRY connects the clinical note to the business behind it, with a wager that fewer handoffs can make room for more care.
AIO's real menu: fewer moving parts
A restaurant can have a full dining room and a back office full of loose ends. AIO is betting that orders, wages, ingredients and marketing work better when they share a brain.
Aline and the art of the handoff
A senior living community runs on thousands of small exchanges. Aline is betting that connecting them - from the first phone call to the dinner bill - is where better operations begin.
LASSO puts the whole show on the same page.
A technician, a flight, a lighting rig, a last-minute cue. LASSO connects the backstage details that decide whether an event company runs smoothly or spends its life catching up.
Northstar: One club. Why five systems?
A private club can run a restaurant, a golf course and a small hotel before lunch. Northstar wants every department to remember the same member.
Tribute Technology: The obituary is the front door.
Tribute Technology connects funeral-home software, sympathy gifts, and local broadcasts around a page people visit when someone dies. Its business reveals how much work sits behind a few words of remembrance.
Ungerboeck and the art of keeping a date
A room booking is a promise made by half a dozen departments. Ungerboeck, now Momentus Technologies, built a business around helping them keep it.
Veeva Systems made the paperwork the product.
Medicines need evidence, approvals, and a paper trail. Veeva built a business around that work - then began replacing the platform that helped it get started.
ThisFish Inc. gives fish a paper trail. Without the paper.
A seafood traceability project found its real problem on the factory floor. Now ThisFish turns scales, scanners and cameras into a running account of what a fish is worth - and where it came from.
Simpro Software and the cost of a lost hour
An electrician and a software student started with a job list. Simpro grew by connecting the small handoffs that decide whether a trade business actually makes money.
Command Alkon and the value of a single pound
A little extra cement in every load becomes a very large bill. Command Alkon connects the plant, the truck and the office to help materials producers catch the losses hiding in their daily routine.
Buildertrend puts a price on forgetting.
A missed receipt. An unsigned change. A bill nobody remembers. Buildertrend built a business around the small things that make a construction project expensive.
Moatable Found Its Moat in the Daily Grind
A real estate agent and a long-haul trucker have more in common than you think. Moatable is building a software business around the small decisions that make their working days pay.
Ministry Brands runs the week behind Sunday.
The sermon lasts an hour. The administration lasts all week. Ministry Brands has built a business connecting the work that keeps churches running.
DaySmart and the price of an empty chair
A salon chair, a dog walk, a children’s class: each sells time that cannot be put back on the shelf. DaySmart builds software around that unforgiving fact.
Storable makes room for the work.
A storage unit is simple. Running thousands of them is not. Storable’s bet is that the real money lives in the connections between the tools.