Right Side Capital Management

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, established in 2010. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, focusing exclusively on the pre-seed round of technology startups. Right Side Capital Management aims to support companies with capital-efficient business models that are typically located outside major hubs like the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. The firm invests in a range of technology sectors, including internet and cloud technologies, and operates primarily within the United States and Canada, with occasional investments in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. Right Side Capital Management conducts 75 to 100 investments annually, with portfolio companies spanning 19 states. The firm seeks to provide a clear response to entrepreneurs within two weeks, with investments generally ranging from $50,000 to $500,000 and pre-money valuations between $1 million and $3 million.

Kevin Dick

Managing Partner

Dave Lambert

Managing Director

David Lambert

Founder and Managing Director

Jeff Pomeranz

Managing Director

Paul Swiencicki

Growth Partner

Past deals in Publishing

Ensemble

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ensemble is a publication platform where artists sell artifacts from their creative process and tell the story of their project. Artifacts are auctioned as NFTs on the Zora Protocol.

Rap Plug

Seed Round in 2018
Rap Plug Inc. is a discovery and verification platform specifically designed for musicians and professionals in the music industry, particularly within the hip hop sector. Founded in 2016 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, the company employs machine learning algorithms to identify and verify artists and industry professionals. The platform not only facilitates connections among artists, labels, and producers but also offers essential tools for collaboration and monetization. By serving as a networking hub, Rap Plug enables music industry stakeholders to discover emerging talent and build meaningful professional relationships.

Inklocker

Convertible Note in 2017
Inklocker is a cloud-based printing platform that connects apparel designers with small and medium-sized print shops, facilitating local production of merchandise. By integrating with various e-commerce platforms, including popular shopping carts, Inklocker allows print shops to streamline their operations, outsource jobs, and manage production efficiently. The platform is designed to adapt to the on-demand needs of designers, enabling them to quickly scale direct-to-garment (DTG) printing capabilities. This innovative approach not only enhances the speed and convenience of custom merchandise production but also supports a more localized manufacturing process, ensuring that orders are fulfilled closer to the customer.

Landing Lion

Convertible Note in 2017
Landing Lion, Inc. is a platform designed for modern marketers to create landing pages efficiently without requiring coding skills. Founded in 2015 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for building, A/B split testing, and optimizing landing pages. The platform features a user-friendly drag-and-drop editor, secure hosting, and lead generation capabilities, all aimed at enhancing conversion rates. Pages created with Landing Lion are automatically optimized for search engine performance, improving visibility in both paid and organic search results. By integrating various applications and providing robust visitor tracking and analytics, Landing Lion streamlines the content creation and measurement process, enabling marketers to launch campaigns more effectively.

Inklocker

Convertible Note in 2017
Inklocker is a cloud-based printing platform that connects apparel designers with small and medium-sized print shops, facilitating local production of merchandise. By integrating with various e-commerce platforms, including popular shopping carts, Inklocker allows print shops to streamline their operations, outsource jobs, and manage production efficiently. The platform is designed to adapt to the on-demand needs of designers, enabling them to quickly scale direct-to-garment (DTG) printing capabilities. This innovative approach not only enhances the speed and convenience of custom merchandise production but also supports a more localized manufacturing process, ensuring that orders are fulfilled closer to the customer.

Pippa

Convertible Note in 2017
Pippa is a platform designed to simplify the process of podcasting, making it more accessible and efficient for creators. By offering tools that enhance the sharing and distribution of podcasts, Pippa aims to streamline the experience for both podcasters and their audiences. The platform focuses on increasing profitability for creators, providing features that not only facilitate content sharing but also optimize engagement and reach. Overall, Pippa seeks to transform the podcasting landscape by making it easier for individuals and organizations to share their audio content effectively.

Hardbound

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Hardbound is a mobile application that focuses on transforming spare moments into opportunities for learning through engaging visual stories. The platform specializes in summarizing non-fiction books into concise, interactive narratives that cover a variety of subjects, including science, history, technology, and business. Each week, the company curates new content that allows users to easily explore and enjoy informative mini-stories, making the learning experience both enjoyable and accessible. By offering a unique storytelling approach, Hardbound aims to facilitate knowledge acquisition in a format that is simple and appealing to users.

The Black Sheep

Venture Round in 2016
We're a college newspaper that's actually about college! We post drinking games, college recipes and more!

Purple

Seed Round in 2016
Purple is a conversational media platform that connects individuals who are passionate about a topic, to curious people who want to learn about it. Their platform allows users to create channels about a topic where they send out interactive stories, and cover exciting events live through messaging. Here is a demo video of our politics channel so you can see how the service works on SMS.

Forestry

Seed Round in 2016
Forestry.io Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in content management software designed for static websites. Founded in 2016 and based in Canoe Cove, the company offers a headless content management system that simplifies the processes of posting and updating content. The platform supports popular static site generators like Jekyll and Hugo, making it suitable for creating documentation sites. By utilizing an open-source, Git-backed approach, Forestry.io enables seamless collaboration on content development. Its system organizes official documents and synchronizes content from frequently visited sites, ultimately streamlining the content creation process. This allows developers to customize the visual editing experience to better fit their websites or applications, thereby saving time and effort in managing web content.

Rocketbook

Seed Round in 2016
Rocketbook is a company that specializes in reusable note-taking products that connect traditional writing surfaces to cloud services. Its flagship product, the Rocketbook notebook, allows users to write with pen and paper while seamlessly digitizing their notes for storage in the cloud. The notebook features a unique QR code application that scans each page and directs the notes to designated cloud locations, facilitating efficient organization and retrieval. Additionally, the Rocketbook can be erased in a microwave, making it a sustainable alternative to traditional paper. This innovative approach has garnered significant funding and attention, positioning Rocketbook as a leader in the eco-friendly note-taking market.

StoryFit

Pre Seed Round in 2016
StoryFit Inc. offers artificial intelligence insights and machine learning solutions for the book publishing, movie, and television production industries. The company’s products include StoryFit Metadata and StoryFit Analytics, which enables the publisher to analyze the metadata using artificial intelligence and provide insights related to audience targeting, reader personas, writing evaluation, faceted comps, and informed marketing intelligence. StoryFit Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Candidly

Convertible Note in 2016
We source photographers for local events and deliver edited photos back within 24 hours.

doDOC

Seed Round in 2015
doDOC Corp. operates a cloud-based writing platform that enhances document preparation and compliance processes for various users, including academic institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and environmental consultants. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, the platform facilitates the drafting of scientific articles, reports, essays, and theses, allowing users to format documents with a single click. It supports real-time collaboration, enabling multiple users to simultaneously work on the same document while maintaining strict control over permissions and an audit trail for accountability. The platform also simplifies the importation of existing documents, automatic citation management, and the inclusion of images and tables. By streamlining the writing and management experience, doDOC significantly accelerates report generation and improves overall productivity, making it suitable for a range of organizations from startups to large enterprises.

Wonders

Convertible Note in 2015
Wonders is a mobile journal app for premium quality visual stories about travel and outdoors. They source these stories from hand-picked community of photographers, publishers and brands. With Wonders 2.0 (November 2015) users can also purchase featured photographs as premium-quality prints or digital wallpapers, allowing featured photographers to earn income traveling full-time. Download Wonders now at: http://apple.co/1L3tZA3 Visit our site at: www.wndrs.com

Spoon Media Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
Spoon Media Inc. operates a digital media network focused on food content tailored for millennials. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the company, also known as Spoon University, offers a variety of resources including simple recipes, restaurant reviews, and food-related news. The platform aims to make food more accessible and relatable for its audience, highlighting dining options that may be overlooked. Spoon Media Inc. functions as a subsidiary of Her Campus Media LLC.

Sidelines

Convertible Note in 2014
Sidelines, Inc. is an online platform that connects informed content creators with their audiences, focusing on enhancing engagement through premium digital publications. Founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, the company allows writers to showcase their work while providing content publishers with expert discussions that are integrated into their sites. This approach not only amplifies the voices of content creators but also enables brands to effectively target their desired demographics through sponsored content that fosters authentic discussions. Sidelines operates a social network for sports fans, where users can engage with fellow enthusiasts by sharing opinions, photos, videos, and articles about their favorite teams, further enriching the community experience.

Twigtale

Convertible Note in 2014
Twigtale is a company dedicated to supporting parents through personalized and accessible expert advice for significant transitions in a child's life, such as welcoming a new baby, moving, or facing challenging experiences like illness or loss. The platform offers tailored guidance, which includes creating engaging children's books and videos that are crafted by child development experts and customized by parents. This approach not only provides valuable insights for caregivers but also results in captivating stories that resonate with children. Twigtale serves a diverse customer base, including individual parents, groups, partners, and sponsors, all aimed at fostering informed decision-making in child development and growth.

Shareable Social

Convertible Note in 2014
Shareable Social is a content marketing platform that helps businesses build their brand through social media. We create a consistent online presence for our clients by posting daily content on their Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages. It's basically like putting your social media content on auto-pilot. This active social media presence provides our clients with increased visibility, web traffic, client engagement and brand awareness.

Pubble

Convertible Note in 2014
Pubble is a web platform that specializes in creating live question-and-answer communities, offering a range of solutions tailored to various needs. Its services include an “Ask Me Anything” plugin, community-supported FAQ pages, and live event Q&A features. Pubble's platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing websites, blogs, Facebook pages, and mobile applications. By utilizing Pubble, clients can effectively build, manage, and analyze their audience engagement, gaining valuable insights into visitor interactions. This capability allows organizations to enhance customer engagement and foster a more interactive community experience.

Standard Analytics

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Standard Analytics IO, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2014 that focuses on enhancing scientific publishing through a collaborative, data-rich, web-first platform. The company develops an API designed to make scientific data, analytics, and results easily discoverable, reusable, and verifiably reproducible. By integrating concepts from software development such as dependency management and continuous integration, Standard Analytics aims to reinvent how science is published, consumed, and shared. Its content management system supports academic publishing by incorporating raw data and code in their native formats, thereby streamlining the peer review process and improving search capabilities, ultimately reducing costs for publishers.

Litographs

Convertible Note in 2014
Litographs is a business that specializes in creating unique literary merchandise, including posters, t-shirts, and tote bags, using text from classic and contemporary books. The company collaborates with artists worldwide to produce designs that visually represent themes, characters, or settings from literature. When viewed from a distance, the artwork offers a striking visual, while the text remains fully legible upon closer inspection. In addition to its focus on artistic expression, Litographs is dedicated to promoting literacy by partnering with the International Book Bank, which donates a new, high-quality book to a community in need for every product sold. This commitment to literature and education underpins the company's mission to connect authors with their fans through tasteful and customizable merchandise.

Polymorph

Convertible Note in 2013
Polymorph powers the monetization infrastructure for modern enterprises. Polymorph is a white-label SaaS monetization platform for publishers to maximize revenue, reduce costs and deliver better ad experiences.The Polymorph platform offers end-to-end ad serving stack, yield optimization tools, APIs, access to demand on server-side and self-serve workflows. Modern enterprises who want to monetize with advertising choose our customizable and developer friendly platform as it aligns with their needs/strategies. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sketchfab

Angel Round in 2013
Sketchfab, Inc. operates a platform that facilitates the publishing, discovery, and sharing of three-dimensional content. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Paris, the company has cultivated a large community of creators who collectively contribute millions of 3D models. This platform not only empowers users to showcase their work but also allows for immersive and interactive experiences. Furthermore, Sketchfab offers a marketplace where buyers and sellers can confidently transact 3D models, utilizing features such as a real-time viewer and model inspector to enhance the purchasing experience.

Cont3nt

Seed Round in 2012
Cont3nt.com operates as a real-time marketplace for entrepreneurial media and visual journalism. The company’s Web-based tool allows freelancers and citizen journalists to connect with publishers to sell and distribute their content, such as photos and videos in real-time globally. Its platform also enables media distributors to upload multimedia content, determine licensing and pricing, and sell to publishers. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Dulles, Virginia.

Prolific Works

Seed Round in 2012
Prolific Works operates an online publishing platform aimed at connecting authors with new readers. The platform facilitates visibility for authors, allowing them to promote their work effectively and build their audience. By offering features such as sneak peeks and bonus content, Prolific Works enables authors to engage with their existing fans while attracting new ones. This approach allows authors to focus more on their writing while enhancing their marketing efforts and reaching the right readership.

Marquee

Seed Round in 2012
Marquee is an easy to use, flexible platform that's perfect for telling stories. At the heart of Marquee is an easy to use authoring tool that makes adding content as simple as dragging and dropping files onto a page. The content is fully responsive, and optimized to look great on any device. The platform is designed to be flexible to scale to meet the needs of content producers of any size - from individuals up to large organizations. Content is stored as structured data, rather than templates, to ensure that content will always work on any device. In essence, content published on Marquee is future-proof. Marquee is a 2012 TechStars NYC company.

Libboo

Seed Round in 2012
Libboo connects buzzers (readers who love to share and talk about books) with books they'll enjoy, to create the next digital bestseller and help talented authors get discovered. Buzzers get rewards such as free ebooks, and increase their influence by sharing great writing with their friends and followers via social media, email, and other online channels.
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