HighSage Ventures

HighSage Ventures is a family office established in 2019 and located in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm focuses on investing in both public and private companies, primarily within the global software, internet, consumer, and financial technology sectors. HighSage Ventures is supported by permanent capital, allowing it to take a long-term approach to its investment strategy.

Shawn Campbell

CFO

Owen Wurzbacher

Managing Director and Portfolio Manager

Nicholas Appelo

Investment Professional

35 past transactions

Crimson Education

Venture Round in 2024
Crimson supports students from around the world to become world-class leaders. What started 10 years ago as an admissions consultancy helping Kiwi students get into the world’s top colleges has turned into an ecosystem of online education products that allow students around the world to accelerate their studies from pre-primary to postgraduate. Through rapid innovations in product and tech, we have scaled our impact and supercharged the education careers of over 100,000 students from more than 60 countries. Services include in-depth US, UK, EU and Australian university admissions support, Australia and New Zealand medical school admissions support, local curriculum tutoring, and extracurricular mentoring. Visit the Crimson Education website to learn more about our network, our edtech platforms and free resources for families.

Crimson Education

Series D in 2024
Crimson supports students from around the world to become world-class leaders. What started 10 years ago as an admissions consultancy helping Kiwi students get into the world’s top colleges has turned into an ecosystem of online education products that allow students around the world to accelerate their studies from pre-primary to postgraduate. Through rapid innovations in product and tech, we have scaled our impact and supercharged the education careers of over 100,000 students from more than 60 countries. Services include in-depth US, UK, EU and Australian university admissions support, Australia and New Zealand medical school admissions support, local curriculum tutoring, and extracurricular mentoring. Visit the Crimson Education website to learn more about our network, our edtech platforms and free resources for families.

TheyDo

Series A in 2024
TheyDo is a platform focused on workflow management and customer journey mapping, aimed at enhancing collaboration around customer experience. By providing tools to map customer journeys and structure them within a unified framework, TheyDo enables businesses to streamline their processes, align teams, and prioritize customer needs. The platform also identifies opportunities for improvement, helping organizations work more efficiently and effectively across various teams and products, ultimately reducing time to market.

Avante AI

Seed Round in 2024
SaaS for Employers

Kloudfuse

Series A in 2023
Kloudfuse is a unified observability platform that integrates with over 700 diverse infrastructures, cloud services, and applications. Its open architecture seamlessly connects with existing agents, eliminating the need for additional instrumentation. By harnessing AI and ML, Kloudfuse provides real-time anomaly detection and consolidates metrics, logs, traces, real user monitoring, continuous profiling, and more into a unified observability data lake. Deployed within your VPC, Kloudfuse ensures scalability, cost-efficiency, and top-tier security. Trusted by leading organizations like GE Healthcare, Tata, and Workday, Kloudfuse effortlessly integrates with your existing systems. Learn more at www.kloudfuse.com.

Nomad Homes

Series A in 2023
Nomad Homes is an online real estate brokerage founded in 2019 and headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The company operates in France, Spain, Portugal, and the UAE, providing a software-enabled marketplace for residential real estate across Europe and the Middle East. Nomad Homes enhances collaboration among agents, allowing them to maximize their earning potential. It offers a co-pilot tool to simplify the home buying and mortgage processes for buyers. By focusing on personalized experiences, Nomad Homes aims to standardize buyer representation and improve transaction efficiency, thus facilitating the buying, selling, and renting of real estate. The company is dedicated to creating an infrastructure that fosters seamless transactions and contributes to market growth.

PredictionStrike

Series A in 2023
PredictionStrike is a simulated stock market platform that enables users to buy and sell shares of professional athletes, creating an engaging fantasy contest. This innovative platform allows fans to analyze their favorite athletes' performances while potentially earning monetary returns. By combining elements of sports fandom and investment, PredictionStrike provides users with a unique opportunity to monetize and trade virtual shares based on athlete performance, enhancing the overall experience for sports enthusiasts.

About:Energy

Seed Round in 2023
About:Energy is a battery intelligence platform that specializes in software development tools aimed at enhancing the development of new battery technologies. By integrating advanced data analysis and modeling capabilities with expertise in battery testing, the platform accelerates the commercialization of energy storage solutions. It reduces the need for extensive physical research, thereby streamlining the design, management, and predictive processes associated with battery development. Through its innovative approach, About:Energy empowers customers to actively participate in the advancement of energy storage technologies, contributing to a more sustainable future.

Zageno

Venture Round in 2023
Zageno Inc. is an online retailer specializing in life science research products, aiming to streamline the purchasing process for researchers globally. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zageno offers a diverse range of over 10 million products, including preparation items, gene editing tools, PCR products, sequencing kits, and various detection and lab accessories. The company features a unique Scientific Score, which provides unbiased, peer-reviewed ratings to assist customers in making informed purchasing decisions. Zageno's platform is designed to enhance convenience and efficiency in acquiring research materials, serving as a reliable sales channel for suppliers and partners in the biotechnology sector. The company also has an office in Berlin, Germany, reflecting its commitment to fostering scientific innovation.

Crimson Education

Venture Round in 2022
Crimson supports students from around the world to become world-class leaders. What started 10 years ago as an admissions consultancy helping Kiwi students get into the world’s top colleges has turned into an ecosystem of online education products that allow students around the world to accelerate their studies from pre-primary to postgraduate. Through rapid innovations in product and tech, we have scaled our impact and supercharged the education careers of over 100,000 students from more than 60 countries. Services include in-depth US, UK, EU and Australian university admissions support, Australia and New Zealand medical school admissions support, local curriculum tutoring, and extracurricular mentoring. Visit the Crimson Education website to learn more about our network, our edtech platforms and free resources for families.

SINAI

Series A in 2022
SINAI Technologies specializes in enterprise decarbonization software that helps organizations monitor, analyze, and reduce their carbon emissions. Founded in 2017, the company offers tools designed to automate carbon analysis and reporting across various operations, thereby transforming how businesses engage with their operations, supply chains, and environmental responsibilities. Their platform tracks emissions across different departments and processes, providing actionable recommendations to help organizations achieve both internal and external sustainability goals. By enabling effective carbon emissions management and risk assessment, SINAI supports companies and government entities in enhancing operational efficiency and mitigating climate-related risks.

Afresh

Series B in 2022
Afresh is an AI-powered company that provides software solutions for tracking demand and managing orders of fresh produce in grocery stores. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco by Matt Schwartz, the company operates a fresh-first supply chain platform designed to navigate the complexities associated with perishable goods for brick-and-mortar retailers and wholesalers. Its platform utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze vast amounts of data, delivering precise item-level predictions of future demand. This enables accurate replenishment recommendations that take into account supply chain constraints, helping clients to minimize waste, enhance product freshness, and improve overall profitability.

Stage

Seed Round in 2022
Stage removes the engineering and data lift required to improve how you price, package, and sell your SaaS products. With our application and APIs, we unlock flexible plans, feature gating and paywalls, adjustable trials, add-ons, usage monitoring, and more to increase paid conversion, sales efficiency, and contract values without engineering. We help software businesses capture all the value they create.

Lattice

Series F in 2022
Lattice is a People Success Platform that integrates essential tools, workflows, and data to assist business leaders in fostering engaged and high-performing employees while cultivating positive workplace cultures. The platform combines various functionalities, including continuous performance management, goal-setting, employee engagement, compensation management, career development, and people analytics, into a cohesive solution. This enables HR, People, and Operations teams to gain valuable insights that enhance organizational culture and drive business outcomes. Lattice serves nearly 5,000 customers globally, including notable companies such as Slack, Asana, Solera Health, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Its effectiveness has earned Lattice recognition as one of the fastest-growing private companies and a certification as a Great Place to Work, with 99% employee satisfaction.

Canalyst

Series C in 2022
Canalyst is a prominent provider of public company data and analysis, operating a cloud-based SaaS platform that offers immediate access to well-structured fundamental data and financial models for global public companies. Founded in 2015, the company aims to modernize the equity research function, helping firms in financial services and corporate markets streamline their operations and enhance the accuracy of their financial analysis. With a workforce of around 200 employees and offices in New York and Vancouver, Canalyst has established itself as a vital resource for hundreds of organizations seeking to minimize redundant tasks and base their analyses on reliable data.

Zageno

Series C in 2021
Zageno Inc. is an online retailer specializing in life science research products, aiming to streamline the purchasing process for researchers globally. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zageno offers a diverse range of over 10 million products, including preparation items, gene editing tools, PCR products, sequencing kits, and various detection and lab accessories. The company features a unique Scientific Score, which provides unbiased, peer-reviewed ratings to assist customers in making informed purchasing decisions. Zageno's platform is designed to enhance convenience and efficiency in acquiring research materials, serving as a reliable sales channel for suppliers and partners in the biotechnology sector. The company also has an office in Berlin, Germany, reflecting its commitment to fostering scientific innovation.

Karat

Series C in 2021
Karat Inc. specializes in technical interviewing software designed to assist organizations in hiring software engineers. Founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, Karat offers a platform that enables the recording of technical interviews, captures candidates' coding abilities, structures feedback, and generates recommendations for hiring teams. Through its network of interview engineers and a purpose-built interviewing infrastructure, Karat aims to address the global shortage of software engineers by expanding hiring capacity and improving the quality of engineering talent. The platform also focuses on reducing pedigree bias and increasing access to underrepresented candidates in the tech industry, thereby fostering a more diverse talent pool.

Built Technologies

Series D in 2021
Built Technologies, Inc. is a Nashville-based company that specializes in cloud-based construction loan administration and draw management software. Founded in 2014, the company has developed a platform that enhances productivity, mitigates risk, and improves the overall experience for its users. The software facilitates real-time visibility into construction portfolios, streamlines complex loan administration processes, and accelerates fund disbursement for projects. By integrating file management, custom draw workflows, and comprehensive reporting and risk management features, Built Technologies serves a diverse range of stakeholders, including lenders, borrowers, builders, developers, consultants, and inspectors. The platform aims to reduce construction loan risk, increase loan profitability, and simplify compliance for all users involved in the construction lending process.

Omaha National

Series B in 2021
Omaha National offers workers' compensation insurance and payroll services specifically designed for small to medium-sized businesses. By leveraging a combination of established strategies and proprietary technology, the company provides tailored solutions that include payroll-plus-compensation programs, claims management, payroll alerts, and medical management services. These offerings aim to facilitate care and support for injured workers while simultaneously reducing costs for employers. Through collaboration with agents and brokers, Omaha National focuses on meeting the unique needs of each client, ensuring that they receive effective claims management and support.

Frontify

Series C in 2021
Frontify AG is a software-as-a-service company based in St. Gallen, Switzerland, founded in 2013. It specializes in brand management through its cloud-based platform, which allows organizations to manage their branding efficiently and consistently. The platform provides access to various tools, including a brand portal, media library, pattern library, and style guides, facilitating collaboration among employees in marketing, design, and development. By streamlining branding operations, Frontify enhances brand consistency across communication channels, enabling companies to create compelling brand experiences. Its user-friendly interface supports project collaboration, feedback loops, and approvals, ultimately increasing productivity. Frontify's offerings include Digital Asset Management, CI/CD Guidelines, Web and Print Publishing, and Design Systems, all designed to strengthen brand visibility and coherence.

Untapped

Series C in 2021
Untapped is a diversity recruiting platform that allows companies to hire diverse teams. The platform integrates with Applicant Tracking Systems to help discover, attract, engage, and hire talents. Untapped was founded in 2017 by Adam Gefkovicz and Ben Herman and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

JuliaHub

Series A in 2021
JuliaHub is a platform that facilitates modeling, simulation, and the development of user-built applications, primarily targeting scientists, engineers, and innovators. Established in 2015 by Viral Shah in Cambridge, Massachusetts, JuliaHub provides high-performance computing capabilities that enable users to bring their innovative ideas to fruition at any scale. The platform supports the open-source Julia programming language, which is designed to simplify programming tasks related to data science, machine learning, and scientific computing. This includes applications in research, backtesting, trading, and contract modeling. With features that emphasize ease of use and an intuitive syntax, JuliaHub enhances the user experience while maintaining robust performance for complex data analysis and computations.

Amperity

Series D in 2021
Amperity is a developer of a customer data management platform designed to enhance customer initiatives through actionable data. The platform aggregates raw data from various sources, including e-commerce, email, and loyalty systems, to create a comprehensive and up-to-date view of customers. By standardizing and augmenting this information with custom attributes such as lifetime value, Amperity enables companies to connect with, identify, and understand their customers more effectively. This capability improves marketing performance, accelerates the generation of accurate customer insights, and facilitates the delivery of exceptional customer experiences. Amperity aims to empower both technical and business teams by streamlining data management processes, ultimately fostering long-term customer loyalty and driving growth for many well-known brands.

Mark43

Series E in 2021
Mark43, Inc. specializes in developing innovative software solutions for law enforcement agencies. Its primary offerings include the Mark43 Records Management System (RMS), which facilitates data collection and management, and the Mark43 Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, a cloud-based solution designed for emergency response. These platforms enable law enforcement officials to efficiently gather, manage, analyze, and share critical information, including criminal profiles and activity updates. By linking to federal, state, and local databases, Mark43's software enhances decision-making and resource allocation through advanced analytics tools that provide valuable insights into crime patterns and hotspots. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Mark43 aims to improve public safety and community well-being by leveraging cutting-edge technology in law enforcement.

Lendbuzz

Series C in 2021
Lendbuzz, Inc. operates an innovative car financing platform that utilizes machine learning algorithms to assess the creditworthiness of individuals, particularly those with thin or no credit history. Founded in 2015 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company focuses on providing financing solutions for consumers who are often underserved by traditional banks, including international students, foreign professionals, and expatriates. By analyzing a range of background information—such as employment, education, and financial history—Lendbuzz is able to extend loans and refinancing options with favorable terms, regardless of credit score or the presence of a social security number. The platform partners with auto dealerships to facilitate access to financing, allowing consumers to purchase vehicles while enabling dealerships to serve a broader and more diverse client base.

airSlate

Series B in 2021
airSlate, Inc. is a technology company based in Brookline, Massachusetts, that specializes in workflow automation and document management solutions. Founded in 2006, the company provides a range of no-code tools, including document generation, contract negotiation, and robotic process automation. Its offerings also include electronic signature solutions, customizable web forms, and comprehensive workflow automation software designed to streamline document processes across various industries such as finance, human resources, legal, and marketing. airSlate's products, which include pdfFiller, signNow, and USLegal, integrate with major platforms like Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365, allowing users to enhance operational efficiency and improve employee satisfaction. Additionally, the company offers online certification programs focused on automation. Formerly known as PDFfiler, airSlate rebranded in January 2019 to reflect its expanded capabilities in the digital transformation space.

Beekeeper

Series B in 2020
Beekeeper is a mobile communication platform designed specifically for non-desk employees, facilitating real-time messaging and targeted communication across various shifts, locations, and languages. By integrating operational systems and communication channels into a single secure hub, Beekeeper enhances employee engagement and retention while automating processes and minimizing reliance on paper. The platform enables frontline workers to access essential resources such as schedules and paystubs, share files, and assign tasks through group chats or predefined streams. With accessibility from both desktop and mobile devices, Beekeeper empowers organizations to improve productivity and streamline workplace operations effectively.

Lendbuzz

Funding Round in 2020
Lendbuzz, Inc. operates an innovative car financing platform that utilizes machine learning algorithms to assess the creditworthiness of individuals, particularly those with thin or no credit history. Founded in 2015 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company focuses on providing financing solutions for consumers who are often underserved by traditional banks, including international students, foreign professionals, and expatriates. By analyzing a range of background information—such as employment, education, and financial history—Lendbuzz is able to extend loans and refinancing options with favorable terms, regardless of credit score or the presence of a social security number. The platform partners with auto dealerships to facilitate access to financing, allowing consumers to purchase vehicles while enabling dealerships to serve a broader and more diverse client base.
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