Right Side Capital Management

Right Side Capital Management, established in 2010, is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage technology investments. It focuses on funding pre-seed rounds, making 75-100 investments annually in startups outside major tech hubs, with pre-money valuations typically ranging from $1M to $3M. The firm prefers capital-efficient businesses and aims to provide a swift investment decision, usually within two weeks. Since 2012, RSCM has invested in approximately 200 companies across 19 U.S. states and several international locations, including Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe.

Kevin Dick

Managing Director

Dave Lambert

Founder and Managing Director

David Lambert

Founder and Managing Director

Jeff Pomeranz

Managing Director

Paul Swiencicki

Growth Partner

Past deals in Market Research

Pear Commerce

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Pear Commerce, Inc., operating as Pear, is a Minneapolis-based company that offers a retail e-commerce platform designed to connect consumer packaged goods (CPG) advertisements with retailers across the United States. Founded in 2018, Pear facilitates retail marketing by enabling consumers to purchase products or claim offers directly from advertisements. The platform integrates seamlessly into existing CPG digital ads and websites, introducing a call to action that directs consumers to local retailers for transaction fulfillment. Additionally, Pear collects valuable consumer data, providing brands with insights into purchasing behavior, which helps enhance marketing effectiveness and drive sales. By bridging the gap between CPGs and retailers, Pear simplifies the shopping experience and empowers brands to optimize their performance marketing strategies.

Breefly

Seed Round in 2018
Breefly, Inc. is a Denver-based company that has developed a subscription-based insights reporting platform. Founded in 2018, Breefly specializes in delivering actionable insights to teams through bite-sized briefs that encompass text, media, and data. The platform is designed to streamline the reporting process for market research professionals, allowing them to create and share engaging content quickly and efficiently. By enabling users to collaborate on insights in a matter of minutes, Breefly empowers teams to make informed decisions more rapidly.

Pulse

Convertible Note in 2018
Pulse Q&A Inc. is an innovative company specializing in an artificial intelligence-based platform that delivers crowdsourced data aimed at technology executives. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company enables users, particularly Chief Information Officers, to gather insights by creating questions and sharing them with peers, customers, or prospects. This process allows users to test messaging and positioning in real time before launching new products or refreshing existing messages. By providing access to relevant conversations and data, Pulse Q&A empowers decision-makers to make informed choices that drive meaningful outcomes in innovation and spending.

CrowdForce

Convertible Note in 2017
CrowdForce operates a crowdsourcing platform that facilitates the delivery of digital, crypto, and financial services to underserved populations. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with operations in Abuja, Nigeria. By leveraging mobile technology, CrowdForce empowers various sectors, including businesses, banks, digital wallet providers, multinational organizations, non-governmental organizations, and government agencies to enhance their outreach and improve service adoption. The company's offline distribution network enables effective market research and provides real-time consumer data, allowing clients to deploy financial products and services more efficiently.

PopCom

Convertible Note in 2017
PopCom, Inc. is a company based in Columbus, Ohio, that designs and manufactures advanced vending machines for consumer products, particularly in regulated sectors such as pharmaceuticals, alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis. Founded in 2012 and rebranded in 2018, PopCom provides touchless vending solutions that utilize automated retail technology, including facial recognition and machine learning. This technology enables the machines to track transactions and generate live sales and product reports, offering deep consumer data and insights. By focusing on secure transactions, PopCom aims to enhance consumer engagement and streamline the purchasing process for a variety of products.

Bamba

Seed Round in 2017
Bamba Corp. is an online data collection platform based in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 2012. The company specializes in facilitating data gathering for various sectors, including market research, education, health, government, infrastructure, and retail. Bamba allows organizations to conduct surveys and collect insights from users worldwide through its cloud-based platform, which can be accessed easily via web browsers. This innovative approach addresses the inefficiencies of traditional paper-based data collection methods, which are often costly and time-consuming. Bamba enhances response rates by incentivizing participants with mobile airtime, available in 122 countries. By leveraging data from SMS, web, and social media, Bamba provides businesses with cost-effective and high-quality consumer insights, enabling them to better understand and reach their target markets.

SkyWatch

Seed Round in 2016
SkyWatch is a company that offers a digital infrastructure for the distribution of Earth observation data and derived intelligence. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, SkyWatch has developed a satellite data intelligence platform that makes satellite data accessible to a wide range of users. Its platform enables developers to integrate Earth observation data into their applications and workflows cost-effectively. By providing access to remote sensing datasets, SkyWatch assists users in analyzing satellite data for various applications, including monitoring agricultural progress, predicting market trends, tracking maritime and aerial movements, and assessing global warming.

Bamba

Convertible Note in 2016
Bamba Corp. is an online data collection platform based in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 2012. The company specializes in facilitating data gathering for various sectors, including market research, education, health, government, infrastructure, and retail. Bamba allows organizations to conduct surveys and collect insights from users worldwide through its cloud-based platform, which can be accessed easily via web browsers. This innovative approach addresses the inefficiencies of traditional paper-based data collection methods, which are often costly and time-consuming. Bamba enhances response rates by incentivizing participants with mobile airtime, available in 122 countries. By leveraging data from SMS, web, and social media, Bamba provides businesses with cost-effective and high-quality consumer insights, enabling them to better understand and reach their target markets.

RankPeek

Convertible Note in 2015
RankPeek Inc. is a technology company that operates a platform designed for monitoring, managing, and responding to product reviews on various shopping websites. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the platform allows marketers to track their product reviews and ratings across multiple online retailers. It offers features such as the ability to post replies to reviews, access to actionable insights, and analytics that help brands enhance their product ratings and overall customer engagement. Additionally, RankPeek provides customer relationship management tools that facilitate interactions with reviewers, addressing their queries and expressing gratitude for positive feedback. The platform also includes a dashboard for monitoring product performance and identifying reviews that require attention from customer support, thereby helping clients improve their reputation in the marketplace.

Remesh

Seed Round in 2015
Remesh Inc. operates an AI-powered platform that facilitates live conversations with customers or employees, allowing users to engage with up to 1,000 participants simultaneously. Founded in 2013 and based in the United States, the company focuses on gathering and analyzing audience responses in real-time. This technology enables organizations to quickly collect valuable insights and opinions, empowering them to make more informed business decisions. By integrating artificial intelligence with market research, Remesh provides a unique solution for advertisers and brands to understand the collective thinking of their target audiences, thus enhancing their ability to communicate effectively and respond to consumer needs.

RankPeek

Convertible Note in 2015
RankPeek Inc. is a technology company that operates a platform designed for monitoring, managing, and responding to product reviews on various shopping websites. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the platform allows marketers to track their product reviews and ratings across multiple online retailers. It offers features such as the ability to post replies to reviews, access to actionable insights, and analytics that help brands enhance their product ratings and overall customer engagement. Additionally, RankPeek provides customer relationship management tools that facilitate interactions with reviewers, addressing their queries and expressing gratitude for positive feedback. The platform also includes a dashboard for monitoring product performance and identifying reviews that require attention from customer support, thereby helping clients improve their reputation in the marketplace.

RankPeek

Convertible Note in 2015
RankPeek Inc. is a technology company that operates a platform designed for monitoring, managing, and responding to product reviews on various shopping websites. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the platform allows marketers to track their product reviews and ratings across multiple online retailers. It offers features such as the ability to post replies to reviews, access to actionable insights, and analytics that help brands enhance their product ratings and overall customer engagement. Additionally, RankPeek provides customer relationship management tools that facilitate interactions with reviewers, addressing their queries and expressing gratitude for positive feedback. The platform also includes a dashboard for monitoring product performance and identifying reviews that require attention from customer support, thereby helping clients improve their reputation in the marketplace.

Poptip

Seed Round in 2012
Poptip is a conversation analysis platform that helps brands and media fully understand public opinion in real-time and make decisions quickly based on that opinion. The platform simultaneously empowers the public’s voice and turns their opinions into actionable data. Poptip’s clients include L’Oreal, NBA, ESPN, NFL, Spotify, Budweiser and Yoplait. The New York-based company was founded in 2012 by Kelsey Falter. Poptip has raised $2.4 million to date in funding notably from Lerer Ventures, SoftBank Capital and RSE Ventures. For more information, please visit www.poptip.com.

Medreddie

Medreddie is a company that focuses on streamlining the procurement of medical equipment and conducting market research to enhance healthcare delivery. Its platform leverages artificial intelligence to analyze the competitive landscape, formulate fair request for proposal (RFP) questions, and facilitate effective communication with vendors and peers. By improving the procurement process, Medreddie enables hospitals to acquire essential equipment, ultimately aiming to enhance patient outcomes.
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