We believe our portfolio companies have the potential to become the next generation of industry leaders and disruptors, and we’re excited to support them on their path to success. Our ‘Why We Invested Series’ provides an introduction to our incoming founders, what makes their companies unique and lessons learned from their entrepreneurial journey.
RentSpree offers a range of services to individuals and enterprises in the rental space, such as solutions for tenant screening, rent payments, marketing and renter management. They recently achieved the milestone of one million users on their platform through their partnerships with 250+ associations, brokerages and proptech platforms, and they now rank in the top 13% of Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies of 2022.
Picnic is a cybersecurity firm going after an aspect of risk that the industry doesn’t spend nearly enough time talking about: attacks by social engineers. Social engineers are hackers who use public information about you, your company and your personal and professional networks to craft attacks designed to fool, coerce or manipulate you into performing a desired action that will harm you or your company. Financial fraud, operational interruption and IP theft all begin with social engineering.
The pandemic created monumental shifts in how people work, communicate and build community. The success of remote work has helped us reimagine how and where work gets done, but it’s also created a new set of challenges for HR leaders as they seek to attract and retain top talent and build a healthy company culture. Epoch is creating an avenue for companies to take HR remote and deliver world-class company culture, regardless of where their employees are geographically located.
Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) tools are software products that enable organizations to automate or semi-automate security tasks. This enables a quicker response to attacks and the overall strengthening of a company’s cybersecurity system. Revelstoke launched the next generation SOAR platform. Its patented Unified Data Layer eliminates nearly all coding requirements and creates the flexibility to switch out technologies and products.
Any tool that can dramatically increase the productivity of recruiters is really important because people have to interview and screen multiple candidates for every open position. Qualifi is an on-demand phone interview platform. It eliminates the need for scheduling phone interviews, increases the productivity of recruiters and helps mitigate bias in the hiring process.
A growing number of corporate accountants are seeking to modernize their tech stack to cut down on the time they spend on data entry and other mechanical tasks. This allows accountants more time to focus on driving strategy and growth. Gappify, whose leadership team consists of CPAs and former Big 4 professionals, is building cloud-based automation solutions to help accountants consolidate and speed up their mission critical processes, such as accrual management and vendor management.
As vertical SaaS platforms increasingly become the system of record in their industry, customers look to them for expanded capabilities, including payment and banking tools. Unfortunately most vertical SaaS platforms do not have the in-house expertise or engineering bandwidth to develop a fully embedded fintech suite of tools, and so they typically end up deploying an amalgamation of integrations that are not optimized for customer happiness or maximum revenue. JustiFi solves this challenge by providing vertical SaaS platforms with a full suite of embedded fintech tools that can be deployed to their current customer base.
More and more people are turning to extended reality (XR) as a key tool in the operation and growth of their organizations. However, they face significant hurdles in expanding their operations from early-stage pilots to organization-wide solutions. As people move towards mass XR adoption in the enterprise space, they’re looking for full-fledged solutions to help manage and scale their XR deployments. ManageXR built the solution with their enterprise level management layer for XR devices.
The SpecTrust team built a no-code risk defense layer that sits between a website or app and its users to make sure risk and fraud teams have what they need to spot bad actors. SpecTrust empowers cybercrime fighters to instantly assess high-risk behavior, orchestrate automated assessments and mitigate cybercrime threats before they become losses. Because users never write a line of code, they can respond to evolving attack threats in minutes and accelerate delivery of risk defense roadmaps from years to weeks — all while freeing up their engineers to focus on growth.
Yardstik is the market’s first comprehensive, fully integrated human security software platform. Pure white–label, it leverages deep background screening, certification administration, verification management, training systems and industry–specific nuance. It offers a unique operating model tailored to marketplaces and SaaS platforms, with an API-first approach adaptable to virtually any industry.