Rheaply
Funding Round in 2022
Founded in 2016, Rheaply operates a cloud-based platform facilitating the exchange of resources among organizations. It connects Fortune 500 companies, startups, schools, and nonprofits to buy, sell, trade, donate, or rent assets, promoting waste reduction and circular economy.
Penrod
Venture Round in 2022
Penrod specializes in Salesforce.com solutions and consulting services. It offers products like Service Cloud for sales increase and self-service simplification, Marketing Cloud for customer engagement across channels, and Configure Price Quote for product configuration and quote generation. Penrod serves healthcare, consumer products, manufacturing, and financial services sectors, with a strategic partnership with NEWaukee. Founded in 2011 by Joe Taylor and Chris Widmayer, Penrod is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with additional offices in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Dallas.
chicago2barbershop
Grant in 2021
Chicago's 2 Barbershop offers professional hair cutting services with an emphasis on individual style.
Threekit Inc. is a company that specializes in 3D product configuration and visualization solutions. Founded in 2005 and based in Chicago, Illinois, Threekit offers a platform that enables brands to create and manage high-quality visual content at scale, enhancing customer engagement and conversion rates. The platform provides a range of services including interactive 3D visualization, photorealistic 2D imagery, augmented reality, and virtual reality solutions. Threekit’s technology allows businesses of all sizes to automate and produce thousands of customizable product visuals efficiently. Its flagship product, Virtual Photographer, generates realistic, computer-rendered images for e-commerce applications. By facilitating real-time customization through a 3D configurator, Threekit empowers companies to enhance their visual commerce and drive business growth.
Chicago Public Schools
Grant in 2021
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is the third largest school district in the United States. Chicago Public Schools has set ambitious goals to ensure that every child-in every school and every neighborhood-has access to a world-class learning experience from birth, resulting in graduation from high school college-and career ready. Please visit our website at www.cps.edu to learn more about the organization.
Zencity
Venture Round in 2021
Zencity is a government technology company that specializes in community engagement solutions for local governments. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York City and Tel Aviv, Zencity provides a platform that enables government agencies to collect, analyze, and act on feedback from residents. The platform offers a suite of tools designed to gather comprehensive community input through various online and offline channels. By utilizing advanced AI and machine learning, Zencity transforms millions of feedback points into reliable, actionable insights. This empowers over 300 government agencies, including those in major cities like Los Angeles and Chicago, to prioritize their resources effectively, improve service delivery, and foster deeper connections with their communities, ultimately enhancing public trust.
Founded in 2012, G2 is a Chicago-based platform facilitating real-time business software reviews. It aggregates over 1.3 million user reviews to assist professionals, buyers, investors, and analysts in making informed decisions about software and services.
Founded in 2016, Rheaply operates a cloud-based platform facilitating the exchange of resources among organizations. It connects Fortune 500 companies, startups, schools, and nonprofits to buy, sell, trade, donate, or rent assets, promoting waste reduction and circular economy.
Zencity is a government technology company that specializes in community engagement solutions for local governments. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York City and Tel Aviv, Zencity provides a platform that enables government agencies to collect, analyze, and act on feedback from residents. The platform offers a suite of tools designed to gather comprehensive community input through various online and offline channels. By utilizing advanced AI and machine learning, Zencity transforms millions of feedback points into reliable, actionable insights. This empowers over 300 government agencies, including those in major cities like Los Angeles and Chicago, to prioritize their resources effectively, improve service delivery, and foster deeper connections with their communities, ultimately enhancing public trust.
Threekit Inc. is a company that specializes in 3D product configuration and visualization solutions. Founded in 2005 and based in Chicago, Illinois, Threekit offers a platform that enables brands to create and manage high-quality visual content at scale, enhancing customer engagement and conversion rates. The platform provides a range of services including interactive 3D visualization, photorealistic 2D imagery, augmented reality, and virtual reality solutions. Threekit’s technology allows businesses of all sizes to automate and produce thousands of customizable product visuals efficiently. Its flagship product, Virtual Photographer, generates realistic, computer-rendered images for e-commerce applications. By facilitating real-time customization through a 3D configurator, Threekit empowers companies to enhance their visual commerce and drive business growth.
SessionM, Inc. is a cloud-based customer engagement and loyalty platform that enables brands to enhance their relationships with customers through personalized interactions. The platform collects and analyzes customer behavior from various channels, including in-store, online, and mobile, allowing for real-time data integration and insights. By utilizing advanced machine learning and a rules-based engine, SessionM delivers tailored marketing automation and loyalty solutions, which help businesses engage customers more effectively with targeted offers and recommendations. The company's services also include a reporting tool that assesses the impact of loyalty programs on revenue. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, SessionM operates globally with additional offices in major cities such as New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, London, and Amsterdam. Incorporated in 2010, the company has positioned itself as a key player in the customer loyalty sector, focusing on helping enterprises create profitable customer relationships.
Appiphony
Venture Round in 2017
Founded in 2006, Appiphony specializes in designing, developing, and launching custom Salesforce-based commercial apps for leading technology companies. With deep expertise in the Salesforce platform, they offer tools like Strike (open-source components for Lightning development) and ISV Quick Start workshops to support the developer community.
SessionM, Inc. is a cloud-based customer engagement and loyalty platform that enables brands to enhance their relationships with customers through personalized interactions. The platform collects and analyzes customer behavior from various channels, including in-store, online, and mobile, allowing for real-time data integration and insights. By utilizing advanced machine learning and a rules-based engine, SessionM delivers tailored marketing automation and loyalty solutions, which help businesses engage customers more effectively with targeted offers and recommendations. The company's services also include a reporting tool that assesses the impact of loyalty programs on revenue. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, SessionM operates globally with additional offices in major cities such as New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, London, and Amsterdam. Incorporated in 2010, the company has positioned itself as a key player in the customer loyalty sector, focusing on helping enterprises create profitable customer relationships.
tectonic
Venture Round in 2015
Tectonic is a technology and business services firm that caters to mid-sized and enterprise clients, specializing in cloud-based automation and actionable insights. Headquartered in Denver, with additional offices in Chicago, Houston, and Los Angeles, the company focuses on integrating big data, analytics, and marketing automation. Tectonic assists clients in modernizing their operations by automating processes related to data management, customer relationship management, and marketing technology. This approach enables organizations to predict and influence customer behavior, facilitating a comprehensive transformation of their business practices in both digital and physical environments.
Magnet 360
Series B in 2013
Magnet 360, LLC is a consulting firm specializing in Salesforce multi-cloud implementation strategies and services. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the company also has offices in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Magnet 360 focuses on assessing the go-to-market goals of organizations and offers expertise in areas such as marketing automation, community cloud solutions, and engagement strategies. The firm serves a diverse clientele that includes Fortune 500 companies across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, technology, and retail. As a partner in Salesforce consulting and implementation, Magnet 360 integrates multiple marketing disciplines to enhance client engagement and drive positive outcomes. The company operates as a subsidiary of MindTree Limited.
Magnet 360
Series A in 2011
Magnet 360, LLC is a consulting firm specializing in Salesforce multi-cloud implementation strategies and services. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the company also has offices in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Magnet 360 focuses on assessing the go-to-market goals of organizations and offers expertise in areas such as marketing automation, community cloud solutions, and engagement strategies. The firm serves a diverse clientele that includes Fortune 500 companies across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, technology, and retail. As a partner in Salesforce consulting and implementation, Magnet 360 integrates multiple marketing disciplines to enhance client engagement and drive positive outcomes. The company operates as a subsidiary of MindTree Limited.
InStranet
Acquisition in 2008
InStranet, Inc. is a provider of multi-channel knowledge applications designed to automate content and knowledge delivery for servicing and sales initiatives across various platforms, including contact centers, field sales, and web self-care. The company’s offerings include the Contact Centers In-Line Application, which organizes content and knowledge into context-sensitive and customer-specific categories, and the Content Application Foundation, a toolkit that facilitates content management, personalization, search, application integration, and user management. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, InStranet also has offices in Paris and London, and it has established technology and distribution partnerships in Europe and Asia. As of August 2008, it operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce.com.