Qbox Inc. specializes in managed cloud hosting solutions for Elasticsearch, an open-source full-text search engine, facilitating data exploration and analytics for a diverse clientele that includes both startups and Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Qbox provides a user-friendly dashboard that allows clients to easily launch their own Elasticsearch clusters while handling essential operational tasks such as deployment, scaling, monitoring, patching, and support. The company also offers production and development support, consulting, and training for Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform it helped develop. Qbox operates globally, serving clients in major cities across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, ensuring that organizations can effectively manage their data infrastructure and focus on deriving insights from their data.
Btiques
Seed Round in 2012
Btiques, Inc. is an online and mobile marketplace designed to connect users with products from various participating boutiques. Founded in 2012 and based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the platform allows boutique stores to showcase and sell their items to a broader audience, facilitating discovery by new customers. Users can find, follow, and shop from their favorite boutiques, as well as explore new ones, all through a user-friendly application. Btiques addresses the challenges faced by small fashion boutiques, many of which struggle to establish an online presence due to limited inventory and resources. By leveraging social commerce, Btiques enables these boutiques to sell their products directly within social media environments, catering to the increasing consumer reliance on social networks for purchase decisions. This innovative approach aims to streamline the selling process for boutiques while enhancing the shopping experience for consumers.
MineWhat
Seed Round in 2012
MineWhat Inc. is a technology company based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, founded in 2012. It specializes in developing an online platform designed for ecommerce businesses, offering a retail profitability solution that enhances shopping experiences through predictive merchandise intelligence. Its SaaS product provides auto shopping assistance and behavior analytics across multiple devices, including web, mobile, and tablet. By automating personalized selling, MineWhat enables online retailers to better understand customer preferences, correlating shopper behavior with products, brands, and categories. This approach empowers category managers, buyers, and planners to gain predictive insights and optimize their product offerings, ultimately aiming to increase profitability for every SKU, category, and brand.
Acumen Holdings
Series B in 2012
Arkansas-based Acumen Brands operates a portfolio of ecommerce sites in a diverse array of industries, which include work apparel (toughweld.com), medical scrubs (scrubshopper.com) and country lifestyle apparel (countryoutfitter.com). Our proven business model generates online conversions through an intimate understanding of SEO, SEM, social media marketing and the right balance of price, assortment and availability. Our talented group of young minds continues to generate amazing growth by innovating, iterating and having a healthy dose of data fanaticism. We understand the art and science of insights based product merchandising.
Acumen Holdings
Series A in 2010
Arkansas-based Acumen Brands operates a portfolio of ecommerce sites in a diverse array of industries, which include work apparel (toughweld.com), medical scrubs (scrubshopper.com) and country lifestyle apparel (countryoutfitter.com). Our proven business model generates online conversions through an intimate understanding of SEO, SEM, social media marketing and the right balance of price, assortment and availability. Our talented group of young minds continues to generate amazing growth by innovating, iterating and having a healthy dose of data fanaticism. We understand the art and science of insights based product merchandising.