Trailblazer Capital

Trailblazer Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/start-ups, early stage and growth capital. Areas of interest include: all aspects of networking and telecommunications, wireless and mobility focused on services, applications, software and hardware, data base management, storage, and manipulation, and enterprise software focused on security, social networking, cloud computing, ecommerce and digital media. The firm does not invest in life science, biotechnology, medical device, real estate, and natural resource sectors. The firm typically invests in companies based in Texas and Oklahoma. It invests between $0.1 million and $5 million in a company. Trailblazer Capital was founded in 2006 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

George Barber

Venture Partner

David Matthews

Managing Partner

19 past transactions

EnTouch Controls

Series C in 2019
EnTouch Controls, Inc. specializes in designing and developing wireless building management systems tailored for small and medium businesses across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, and hospitality. Founded in 2008 and based in Richardson, Texas, the company offers a comprehensive SaaS-based energy management system that integrates installation, management analytics, and issue resolution tracking. This platform, known as EnTouch 360°, provides real-time dashboards and analytics to enhance enterprise visibility and optimize asset performance. By focusing on HVAC maintenance detection and performance optimization, EnTouch Controls aims to reduce energy costs for its clients, which include national chains, franchise owners, schools, and offices.

EnTouch Controls

Series C in 2018
EnTouch Controls, Inc. specializes in designing and developing wireless building management systems tailored for small and medium businesses across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, and hospitality. Founded in 2008 and based in Richardson, Texas, the company offers a comprehensive SaaS-based energy management system that integrates installation, management analytics, and issue resolution tracking. This platform, known as EnTouch 360°, provides real-time dashboards and analytics to enhance enterprise visibility and optimize asset performance. By focusing on HVAC maintenance detection and performance optimization, EnTouch Controls aims to reduce energy costs for its clients, which include national chains, franchise owners, schools, and offices.

EnTouch Controls

Series C in 2016
EnTouch Controls, Inc. specializes in designing and developing wireless building management systems tailored for small and medium businesses across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, and hospitality. Founded in 2008 and based in Richardson, Texas, the company offers a comprehensive SaaS-based energy management system that integrates installation, management analytics, and issue resolution tracking. This platform, known as EnTouch 360°, provides real-time dashboards and analytics to enhance enterprise visibility and optimize asset performance. By focusing on HVAC maintenance detection and performance optimization, EnTouch Controls aims to reduce energy costs for its clients, which include national chains, franchise owners, schools, and offices.

Oculus360

Series A in 2016
Oculus360 provides data mining and analytics solutions that transform web-scale data resources into predictive real-time intelligence. The company delivers consumer perception insights to identify emerging and latent demand using deep learning and behavioral economics.

EnTouch Controls

Series C in 2015
EnTouch Controls, Inc. specializes in designing and developing wireless building management systems tailored for small and medium businesses across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, and hospitality. Founded in 2008 and based in Richardson, Texas, the company offers a comprehensive SaaS-based energy management system that integrates installation, management analytics, and issue resolution tracking. This platform, known as EnTouch 360°, provides real-time dashboards and analytics to enhance enterprise visibility and optimize asset performance. By focusing on HVAC maintenance detection and performance optimization, EnTouch Controls aims to reduce energy costs for its clients, which include national chains, franchise owners, schools, and offices.

Koupon

Series C in 2014
Koupon Media, Inc. is a digital campaign management platform specializing in the creation, distribution, redemption, and analysis of digital coupons and promotions. Founded in 2011 and based in Addison, Texas, Koupon serves convenience store retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands by facilitating personalized, multi-channel promotions that enhance shopper engagement and drive sales. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services, including campaign management, coupon clearing, and consumer analytics, which integrate with various retailer point-of-sale systems. Koupon is recognized for its extensive network, collaborating with 30 of the top 50 convenience store retailers and over 70 brands, and has successfully delivered over 4 billion offers to date.

JamKazam

Seed Round in 2014
JamKazam, Inc. operates a media platform that enables musicians to collaborate, play, and record music together online in real-time, regardless of their geographic locations. This platform facilitates high-quality audio interactions, allowing users to share recordings and broadcast live sessions to audiences. In addition to its core services, JamKazam offers supplementary products such as JAMBLASTER, a smartphone accessory designed for online musicians, and JAMTRACKS, an application for desktops and iOS that assists users in learning and playing their favorite songs. The company also provides JAMCLASS, which supports online music education for both students and teachers. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, JamKazam is innovating the music landscape by integrating services and content marketplaces, thereby transforming how music lessons and collaborative music experiences are delivered.

cycleWood Solutions

Venture Round in 2014
cycleWood Solutions Inc. is a Dallas-based company that specializes in producing biodegradable and compostable thermoplastic bags aimed at consumers, governments, and retailers worldwide. Founded in 2011, the company employs patented technology to create environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional plastic products. Its flagship products include Xylobag®, a consumer trash bag designed for everyday use that decomposes into humus within 150 days, and Xylomer®, a line of sustainable resins. The company's innovative approach leverages renewable resources to address the growing demand for eco-friendly packaging solutions.

EnTouch Controls

Series B in 2013
EnTouch Controls, Inc. specializes in designing and developing wireless building management systems tailored for small and medium businesses across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, and hospitality. Founded in 2008 and based in Richardson, Texas, the company offers a comprehensive SaaS-based energy management system that integrates installation, management analytics, and issue resolution tracking. This platform, known as EnTouch 360°, provides real-time dashboards and analytics to enhance enterprise visibility and optimize asset performance. By focusing on HVAC maintenance detection and performance optimization, EnTouch Controls aims to reduce energy costs for its clients, which include national chains, franchise owners, schools, and offices.

Oculus360

Seed Round in 2013
Oculus360 provides data mining and analytics solutions that transform web-scale data resources into predictive real-time intelligence. The company delivers consumer perception insights to identify emerging and latent demand using deep learning and behavioral economics.

Koupon

Venture Round in 2013
Koupon Media, Inc. is a digital campaign management platform specializing in the creation, distribution, redemption, and analysis of digital coupons and promotions. Founded in 2011 and based in Addison, Texas, Koupon serves convenience store retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands by facilitating personalized, multi-channel promotions that enhance shopper engagement and drive sales. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services, including campaign management, coupon clearing, and consumer analytics, which integrate with various retailer point-of-sale systems. Koupon is recognized for its extensive network, collaborating with 30 of the top 50 convenience store retailers and over 70 brands, and has successfully delivered over 4 billion offers to date.

cycleWood Solutions

Seed Round in 2013
cycleWood Solutions Inc. is a Dallas-based company that specializes in producing biodegradable and compostable thermoplastic bags aimed at consumers, governments, and retailers worldwide. Founded in 2011, the company employs patented technology to create environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional plastic products. Its flagship products include Xylobag®, a consumer trash bag designed for everyday use that decomposes into humus within 150 days, and Xylomer®, a line of sustainable resins. The company's innovative approach leverages renewable resources to address the growing demand for eco-friendly packaging solutions.

NetSocket

Series B in 2013
NetSocket is a company that focuses on virtualized, software-defined networking, offering solutions that enhance network-service assurance for unified communication. Its flagship product, the Netsocket Virtual Network (NVN), delivers on the promises of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) through advanced automation applications operating on a fully virtualized network infrastructure. Additionally, NetSocket developed the Cloud Experience Manager, a tool designed to optimize service management for Microsoft Lync. Founded in 2006 and based in Plano, Texas, NetSocket aims to improve the efficiency and reliability of network services.

Vobi

Series A in 2012
Vobi provides instant collaboration video/voice/messaging/document and screen sharing across iOS/Android/Web/Windows/Mac. Vobi leverages the power of the network to deliver rich content based on the context of the conversation (who is calling whom, their location, their communication history). Network and call events can automatically trigger collaboration sessions pre- populated with content relevant for the conversation. Based in Austin, Texas, Vobi is backed by VC investor Trailblazer Capital.

Nitero

Series B in 2012
Nitero, Inc. is a semiconductor company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in the development of chips that enhance virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences. Founded in 2009, the company focuses on creating an ultra-low power 60 GHz Wi-Fi solution that achieves speeds up to ten times faster than current Wi-Fi standards, with minimal latency. Nitero's innovative technology utilizes phased-array beamforming millimeter wave chips to address the challenges of wireless VR and AR, allowing for multi-gigabit data transmission and eliminating the need for wired connections. This advancement significantly enhances user immersion in virtual environments. Nitero operates as a subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices and has a presence in both the United States and Australia, drawing on years of research from the National ICT Australia. The company is actively developing its mobile 60 GHz products and is expanding its team to support this growth.

EnTouch Controls

Series A in 2012
EnTouch Controls, Inc. specializes in designing and developing wireless building management systems tailored for small and medium businesses across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, and hospitality. Founded in 2008 and based in Richardson, Texas, the company offers a comprehensive SaaS-based energy management system that integrates installation, management analytics, and issue resolution tracking. This platform, known as EnTouch 360°, provides real-time dashboards and analytics to enhance enterprise visibility and optimize asset performance. By focusing on HVAC maintenance detection and performance optimization, EnTouch Controls aims to reduce energy costs for its clients, which include national chains, franchise owners, schools, and offices.

Spawn Labs

Series A in 2009
Spawn Labs develops an anywhere, anytime platform that provides remote, real-time, interactive access to products, content, and experiences that rely heavily on video. The company's first application for this platform gives gamers the freedom to play their console video games, alone or with friends, at home or on the road from any network-connected computer. The company also sells a version of this application to the world's leading game developers for remote game-play access to console development kits. Spawn Labs is a private company headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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