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Lightbank has been an incredible partner for us. They truly get into the trenches and are unwavering in their support. From the start, they fully believed in our vision and invested with real conviction. If you’re looking for your first institutional investor, you have to talk with lightbank - they are the real deal. LIGHTBLOCK - LIGHTBANK Lightblock is a research and analytics based blockchain fund that manages a curated basket of blockchain assets.. Having developed our own proprietary modeling capabilities, we utilize internally built metrics to analyze project viability and rely on a long history of pricing and valuation experience to drive investment decisions.WORK WITH US
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Eric Ong. Eric is a Principal at Lightbank. He joined the firm in 2016 as an Associate, became a Vice President in 2018 and a Principal in 2020. He is focused on investments at the earliest stage. He has invested across consumer, enterprise, financial services and marketplace companies. Companies he works with includes Clearcover,Paladin Cyber
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Brad Baum. Brad graduated from the University of Michigan where he co-founded UpRound VC to help support and grow Michigan’s entrepreneurial community. During his time at U of M, Brad worked for Detroit Venture Partners as well as a Beijing-based venture firm located in Ann Arbor. Outside of work, Brad is an active Kairos Fellowand works
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Lightbank has been an incredible partner for us. They truly get into the trenches and are unwavering in their support. From the start, they fully believed in our vision and invested with real conviction. If you’re looking for your first institutional investor, you have to talk with lightbank - they are the real deal. LIGHTBLOCK - LIGHTBANK Lightblock is a research and analytics based blockchain fund that manages a curated basket of blockchain assets.. Having developed our own proprietary modeling capabilities, we utilize internally built metrics to analyze project viability and rely on a long history of pricing and valuation experience to drive investment decisions.WORK WITH US
Leaders must be able to inspire. Can you paint the picture of your vision that will inspire people to work for you and fight on matter what? Does your vision and HAPPENINGS - LIGHTBANK Lightbank Closes New Venture Capital Fund, Raising $180 Million. News. LIGHTBEAT - LIGHTBANK Lightbeat focuses on backing disruptive tech-focused healthcare & biotech startups at their earliest stages.. We believe that healthcare today is on the precipice of changing nearly every industry, touching all of our lives. We cultivate our expertise in building successful companies to meet the expansive need for innovation in the healthcareindustry.
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Eric Ong. Eric is a Principal at Lightbank. He joined the firm in 2016 as an Associate, became a Vice President in 2018 and a Principal in 2020. He is focused on investments at the earliest stage. He has invested across consumer, enterprise, financial services and marketplace companies. Companies he works with includes Clearcover,Paladin Cyber
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Gabe Karp. Gabe joined Lightbank in January 2020. Gabe is also a Partner at Detroit Venture Partners, a Detroit-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies. He serves on several boards of companies in the DVP portfolio and has acted in an executive and/or consultative capacity in several of them to support strategicLIGHTBANK TEAM
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ABOUT US - LIGHTBANK We can proudly claim that we are unique in who we are based on where we are located – we are among the most active investors east of the west coast, and we think our Chicago/Midwest heritage isLIGHTBANK TEAM
Lightbank has been an incredible partner for us. They truly get into the trenches and are unwavering in their support. From the start, they fully believed in our vision and invested with real conviction. If you’re looking for your first institutional investor, you have to talk with lightbank - they are the real deal. LIGHTBLOCK - LIGHTBANK Lightblock is a research and analytics based blockchain fund that manages a curated basket of blockchain assets.. Having developed our own proprietary modeling capabilities, we utilize internally built metrics to analyze project viability and rely on a long history of pricing and valuation experience to drive investment decisions.WORK WITH US
Leaders must be able to inspire. Can you paint the picture of your vision that will inspire people to work for you and fight on matter what? Does your vision and LIGHTBEAT - LIGHTBANK Lightbeat focuses on backing disruptive tech-focused healthcare & biotech startups at their earliest stages.. We believe that healthcare today is on the precipice of changing nearly every industry, touching all of our lives. We cultivate our expertise in building successful companies to meet the expansive need for innovation in the healthcareindustry.
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Eric Ong. Eric is a Principal at Lightbank. He joined the firm in 2016 as an Associate, became a Vice President in 2018 and a Principal in 2020. He is focused on investments at the earliest stage. He has invested across consumer, enterprise, financial services and marketplace companies. Companies he works with includes Clearcover,Paladin Cyber
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Gabe Karp. Gabe joined Lightbank in January 2020. Gabe is also a Partner at Detroit Venture Partners, a Detroit-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies. He serves on several boards of companies in the DVP portfolio and has acted in an executive and/or consultative capacity in several of them to support strategic VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM FOCUSED ON COMPANIES WITH DISRUPTIVEHAPPENINGSPORTFOLIOTEAMWORK WITH USABOUT USLIGHTBEAT Lightbank is a venture capital firm that specializes in investments in disruptive technology companies in the United States including seed investments and Series A investments. PORTFOLIO - LIGHTBANK Portfolio - Lightbank. A.M. Money. A.M. Money provide no co-signer low-cost, and flexible college financing to help students finance their college education. They know that money is the predominant reason why someone will or will not graduate from college. They have experienced this first hand, and created the student loan product thatthey
ABOUT US - LIGHTBANK We can proudly claim that we are unique in who we are based on where we are located – we are among the most active investors east of the west coast, and we think our Chicago/Midwest heritage isLIGHTBANK TEAM
Lightbank has been an incredible partner for us. They truly get into the trenches and are unwavering in their support. From the start, they fully believed in our vision and invested with real conviction. If you’re looking for your first institutional investor, you have to talk with lightbank - they are the real deal. LIGHTBLOCK - LIGHTBANK Lightblock is a research and analytics based blockchain fund that manages a curated basket of blockchain assets.. Having developed our own proprietary modeling capabilities, we utilize internally built metrics to analyze project viability and rely on a long history of pricing and valuation experience to drive investment decisions.WORK WITH US
Leaders must be able to inspire. Can you paint the picture of your vision that will inspire people to work for you and fight on matter what? Does your vision and LIGHTBEAT - LIGHTBANK Lightbeat focuses on backing disruptive tech-focused healthcare & biotech startups at their earliest stages.. We believe that healthcare today is on the precipice of changing nearly every industry, touching all of our lives. We cultivate our expertise in building successful companies to meet the expansive need for innovation in the healthcareindustry.
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Eric Ong. Eric is a Principal at Lightbank. He joined the firm in 2016 as an Associate, became a Vice President in 2018 and a Principal in 2020. He is focused on investments at the earliest stage. He has invested across consumer, enterprise, financial services and marketplace companies. Companies he works with includes Clearcover,Paladin Cyber
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Gabe Karp. Gabe joined Lightbank in January 2020. Gabe is also a Partner at Detroit Venture Partners, a Detroit-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies. He serves on several boards of companies in the DVP portfolio and has acted in an executive and/or consultative capacity in several of them to support strategicLIGHTBANK TEAM
Stephen Baron. Stephen Baron joined Lightbank as an Advisor in July 2017. His focus is on researching decentralized networks, autonomous systems and alternative asset classes. Stephen applies his unique asset pricing background with proprietary models to analyze distributed consensus algorithm technology. Prior to Lightbank,Stephen was a Fixed
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Brad Baum. Brad graduated from the University of Michigan where he co-founded UpRound VC to help support and grow Michigan’s entrepreneurial community. During his time at U of M, Brad worked for Detroit Venture Partners as well as a Beijing-based venture firm located in Ann Arbor. Outside of work, Brad is an active Kairos Fellowand works
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Eric Lefkofsky. Eric Lefkofsky is partner and co-founder of Lightbank. He is the founder and CEO at Tempus, a technology company that has built an operating system to battle cancer. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), a global e-commerce marketplace, and co-founder of Mediaocean, a leading provider ofintegrated
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Eric Belcher is the CEO of Numerator, a leading data and technology company in the market research industry. Numerator is backed by VistaEquity Partners.
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Andrew joined Lightbank as an advisor in August 2014. In this role, he assists with deal evaluation and structuring. Andrew currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of 346 Investment Partners LLC where he oversees the financial reporting, planning and investments of the single family office.LIGHTBANK TEAM
Destiny joined Lightbank as an intern in October 2013 through a non-profit organization called Urban Alliance. Urban Alliance offered an opportunity for high school seniors across the US to be exposed to professional work environments. BOOM SUPERSONIC UNVEILS ITS PROTOTYPE FOR A COMMERCIAL Boom Supersonic, an aviation startup, unveiled today a full-scale demonstrator of a supersonic passenger jet that aims to be the next-generation Concorde. The XB-1 demonstrator won’t take flight until 2021, but Boom unveiled the prototype to a group of aviation and aerospace executives at Centennial Airport in Denver. TRUCKING: THE NEXT UNICORN MARKETPLACE? Trucking: The Next Unicorn Marketplace? Blog Author: Featured Blogger. This blog was co-authored by Rick Zullo and Erick Goihman.. Trucking: The Next Unicorn Marketplace? With over $5.4B dollars poured into Uber over the last year, we are seeing more and more founders coming to us with an “Uber for X” pitch for their marketplace business. EXTEND RAISES $16 MILLION, BUYS ASSETS FROM AON AFFILIATE Extend Raises $16 Million, Buys Assets From Aon Affiliate To Administer Extended Warranties News. Less than a year after Woodrow Levin’s interest in online insurance was piqued by a fantasy football wager derailed by an injury, his small fintech startup Extend is buying part of Affinity Insurance Service, an affiliate of insurance giant Aon, and administering plans for midsize retailers to FRANK & OAK RAISES $15M Frank & Oak Raises $15M News. Read the full story on WSJ.. A Montreal-based designer and seller of menswear called Frank & Oak (Modasuite Inc.) has raised $15 million in Series B funding to outfit techies and other creative types using some modern sales tactics. VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM FOCUSED ON COMPANIES WITH DISRUPTIVEHAPPENINGSPORTFOLIOTEAMWORK WITH USABOUT USLIGHTBEAT Lightbank is a venture capital firm that specializes in investments in disruptive technology companies in the United States including seed investments and Series A investments. PORTFOLIO - LIGHTBANK Portfolio - Lightbank. A.M. Money. A.M. Money provide no co-signer low-cost, and flexible college financing to help students finance their college education. They know that money is the predominant reason why someone will or will not graduate from college. They have experienced this first hand, and created the student loan product thatthey
ABOUT US - LIGHTBANK We can proudly claim that we are unique in who we are based on where we are located – we are among the most active investors east of the west coast, and we think our Chicago/Midwest heritage isLIGHTBANK TEAM
Lightbank has been an incredible partner for us. They truly get into the trenches and are unwavering in their support. From the start, they fully believed in our vision and invested with real conviction. If you’re looking for your first institutional investor, you have to talk with lightbank - they are the real deal. LIGHTBLOCK - LIGHTBANK Lightblock is a research and analytics based blockchain fund that manages a curated basket of blockchain assets.. Having developed our own proprietary modeling capabilities, we utilize internally built metrics to analyze project viability and rely on a long history of pricing and valuation experience to drive investment decisions.WORK WITH US
Leaders must be able to inspire. Can you paint the picture of your vision that will inspire people to work for you and fight on matter what? Does your vision and LIGHTBEAT - LIGHTBANK Lightbeat focuses on backing disruptive tech-focused healthcare & biotech startups at their earliest stages.. We believe that healthcare today is on the precipice of changing nearly every industry, touching all of our lives. We cultivate our expertise in building successful companies to meet the expansive need for innovation in the healthcareindustry.
HAPPENINGS - LIGHTBANK Lightbank Closes New Venture Capital Fund, Raising $180 Million. News.LIGHTBANK TEAM
Eric Ong. Eric is a Principal at Lightbank. He joined the firm in 2016 as an Associate, became a Vice President in 2018 and a Principal in 2020. He is focused on investments at the earliest stage. He has invested across consumer, enterprise, financial services and marketplace companies. Companies he works with includes Clearcover,Paladin Cyber
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Gabe Karp. Gabe joined Lightbank in January 2020. Gabe is also a Partner at Detroit Venture Partners, a Detroit-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies. He serves on several boards of companies in the DVP portfolio and has acted in an executive and/or consultative capacity in several of them to support strategic VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM FOCUSED ON COMPANIES WITH DISRUPTIVEHAPPENINGSPORTFOLIOTEAMWORK WITH USABOUT USLIGHTBEAT Lightbank is a venture capital firm that specializes in investments in disruptive technology companies in the United States including seed investments and Series A investments. PORTFOLIO - LIGHTBANK Portfolio - Lightbank. A.M. Money. A.M. Money provide no co-signer low-cost, and flexible college financing to help students finance their college education. They know that money is the predominant reason why someone will or will not graduate from college. They have experienced this first hand, and created the student loan product thatthey
ABOUT US - LIGHTBANK We can proudly claim that we are unique in who we are based on where we are located – we are among the most active investors east of the west coast, and we think our Chicago/Midwest heritage isLIGHTBANK TEAM
Lightbank has been an incredible partner for us. They truly get into the trenches and are unwavering in their support. From the start, they fully believed in our vision and invested with real conviction. If you’re looking for your first institutional investor, you have to talk with lightbank - they are the real deal. LIGHTBLOCK - LIGHTBANK Lightblock is a research and analytics based blockchain fund that manages a curated basket of blockchain assets.. Having developed our own proprietary modeling capabilities, we utilize internally built metrics to analyze project viability and rely on a long history of pricing and valuation experience to drive investment decisions.WORK WITH US
Leaders must be able to inspire. Can you paint the picture of your vision that will inspire people to work for you and fight on matter what? Does your vision and LIGHTBEAT - LIGHTBANK Lightbeat focuses on backing disruptive tech-focused healthcare & biotech startups at their earliest stages.. We believe that healthcare today is on the precipice of changing nearly every industry, touching all of our lives. We cultivate our expertise in building successful companies to meet the expansive need for innovation in the healthcareindustry.
HAPPENINGS - LIGHTBANK Lightbank Closes New Venture Capital Fund, Raising $180 Million. News.LIGHTBANK TEAM
Eric Ong. Eric is a Principal at Lightbank. He joined the firm in 2016 as an Associate, became a Vice President in 2018 and a Principal in 2020. He is focused on investments at the earliest stage. He has invested across consumer, enterprise, financial services and marketplace companies. Companies he works with includes Clearcover,Paladin Cyber
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Gabe Karp. Gabe joined Lightbank in January 2020. Gabe is also a Partner at Detroit Venture Partners, a Detroit-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies. He serves on several boards of companies in the DVP portfolio and has acted in an executive and/or consultative capacity in several of them to support strategicLIGHTBANK TEAM
Brad Baum. Brad graduated from the University of Michigan where he co-founded UpRound VC to help support and grow Michigan’s entrepreneurial community. During his time at U of M, Brad worked for Detroit Venture Partners as well as a Beijing-based venture firm located in Ann Arbor. Outside of work, Brad is an active Kairos Fellowand works
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Stephen Baron. Stephen Baron joined Lightbank as an Advisor in July 2017. His focus is on researching decentralized networks, autonomous systems and alternative asset classes. Stephen applies his unique asset pricing background with proprietary models to analyze distributed consensus algorithm technology. Prior to Lightbank,Stephen was a Fixed
LIGHTBANK TEAM
Eric Lefkofsky. Eric Lefkofsky is partner and co-founder of Lightbank. He is the founder and CEO at Tempus, a technology company that has built an operating system to battle cancer. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), a global e-commerce marketplace, and co-founder of Mediaocean, a leading provider ofintegrated
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Eric Belcher is the CEO of Numerator, a leading data and technology company in the market research industry. Numerator is backed by VistaEquity Partners.
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Destiny joined Lightbank as an intern in October 2013 through a non-profit organization called Urban Alliance. Urban Alliance offered an opportunity for high school seniors across the US to be exposed to professional work environments. TRUCKING: THE NEXT UNICORN MARKETPLACE? Trucking: The Next Unicorn Marketplace? Blog Author: Featured Blogger. This blog was co-authored by Rick Zullo and Erick Goihman.. Trucking: The Next Unicorn Marketplace? With over $5.4B dollars poured into Uber over the last year, we are seeing more and more founders coming to us with an “Uber for X” pitch for their marketplace business. FRANK & OAK RAISES $15M Frank & Oak Raises $15M News. Read the full story on WSJ.. A Montreal-based designer and seller of menswear called Frank & Oak (Modasuite Inc.) has raised $15 million in Series B funding to outfit techies and other creative types using some modern sales tactics. VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM FOCUSED ON COMPANIES WITH DISRUPTIVEHAPPENINGSPORTFOLIOTEAMWORK WITH USABOUT USLIGHTBEAT Lightbank is a venture capital firm that specializes in investments in disruptive technology companies in the United States including seed investments and Series A investments. PORTFOLIO - LIGHTBANK Portfolio - Lightbank. A.M. Money. A.M. Money provide no co-signer low-cost, and flexible college financing to help students finance their college education. They know that money is the predominant reason why someone will or will not graduate from college. They have experienced this first hand, and created the student loan product thatthey
ABOUT US - LIGHTBANK We can proudly claim that we are unique in who we are based on where we are located – we are among the most active investors east of the west coast, and we think our Chicago/Midwest heritage isLIGHTBANK TEAM
Lightbank has been an incredible partner for us. They truly get into the trenches and are unwavering in their support. From the start, they fully believed in our vision and invested with real conviction. If you’re looking for your first institutional investor, you have to talk with lightbank - they are the real deal. LIGHTBLOCK - LIGHTBANK Lightblock is a research and analytics based blockchain fund that manages a curated basket of blockchain assets.. Having developed our own proprietary modeling capabilities, we utilize internally built metrics to analyze project viability and rely on a long history of pricing and valuation experience to drive investment decisions.WORK WITH US
Leaders must be able to inspire. Can you paint the picture of your vision that will inspire people to work for you and fight on matter what? Does your vision and LIGHTBEAT - LIGHTBANK Lightbeat focuses on backing disruptive tech-focused healthcare & biotech startups at their earliest stages.. We believe that healthcare today is on the precipice of changing nearly every industry, touching all of our lives. We cultivate our expertise in building successful companies to meet the expansive need for innovation in the healthcareindustry.
HAPPENINGS - LIGHTBANK Lightbank Closes New Venture Capital Fund, Raising $180 Million. News.LIGHTBANK TEAM
Eric Ong. Eric is a Principal at Lightbank. He joined the firm in 2016 as an Associate, became a Vice President in 2018 and a Principal in 2020. He is focused on investments at the earliest stage. He has invested across consumer, enterprise, financial services and marketplace companies. Companies he works with includes Clearcover,Paladin Cyber
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Gabe Karp. Gabe joined Lightbank in January 2020. Gabe is also a Partner at Detroit Venture Partners, a Detroit-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies. He serves on several boards of companies in the DVP portfolio and has acted in an executive and/or consultative capacity in several of them to support strategic VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM FOCUSED ON COMPANIES WITH DISRUPTIVEHAPPENINGSPORTFOLIOTEAMWORK WITH USABOUT USLIGHTBEAT Lightbank is a venture capital firm that specializes in investments in disruptive technology companies in the United States including seed investments and Series A investments. PORTFOLIO - LIGHTBANK Portfolio - Lightbank. A.M. Money. A.M. Money provide no co-signer low-cost, and flexible college financing to help students finance their college education. They know that money is the predominant reason why someone will or will not graduate from college. They have experienced this first hand, and created the student loan product thatthey
ABOUT US - LIGHTBANK We can proudly claim that we are unique in who we are based on where we are located – we are among the most active investors east of the west coast, and we think our Chicago/Midwest heritage isLIGHTBANK TEAM
Lightbank has been an incredible partner for us. They truly get into the trenches and are unwavering in their support. From the start, they fully believed in our vision and invested with real conviction. If you’re looking for your first institutional investor, you have to talk with lightbank - they are the real deal. LIGHTBLOCK - LIGHTBANK Lightblock is a research and analytics based blockchain fund that manages a curated basket of blockchain assets.. Having developed our own proprietary modeling capabilities, we utilize internally built metrics to analyze project viability and rely on a long history of pricing and valuation experience to drive investment decisions.WORK WITH US
Leaders must be able to inspire. Can you paint the picture of your vision that will inspire people to work for you and fight on matter what? Does your vision and LIGHTBEAT - LIGHTBANK Lightbeat focuses on backing disruptive tech-focused healthcare & biotech startups at their earliest stages.. We believe that healthcare today is on the precipice of changing nearly every industry, touching all of our lives. We cultivate our expertise in building successful companies to meet the expansive need for innovation in the healthcareindustry.
HAPPENINGS - LIGHTBANK Lightbank Closes New Venture Capital Fund, Raising $180 Million. News.LIGHTBANK TEAM
Eric Ong. Eric is a Principal at Lightbank. He joined the firm in 2016 as an Associate, became a Vice President in 2018 and a Principal in 2020. He is focused on investments at the earliest stage. He has invested across consumer, enterprise, financial services and marketplace companies. Companies he works with includes Clearcover,Paladin Cyber
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Gabe Karp. Gabe joined Lightbank in January 2020. Gabe is also a Partner at Detroit Venture Partners, a Detroit-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies. He serves on several boards of companies in the DVP portfolio and has acted in an executive and/or consultative capacity in several of them to support strategic HAPPENINGS - LIGHTBANK Lightbank Closes New Venture Capital Fund, Raising $180 Million. News.LIGHTBANK TEAM
Stephen Baron. Stephen Baron joined Lightbank as an Advisor in July 2017. His focus is on researching decentralized networks, autonomous systems and alternative asset classes. Stephen applies his unique asset pricing background with proprietary models to analyze distributed consensus algorithm technology. Prior to Lightbank,Stephen was a Fixed
BOOM SUPERSONIC UNVEILS ITS PROTOTYPE FOR A COMMERCIAL Boom Supersonic, an aviation startup, unveiled today a full-scale demonstrator of a supersonic passenger jet that aims to be the next-generation Concorde. The XB-1 demonstrator won’t take flight until 2021, but Boom unveiled the prototype to a group of aviation and aerospace executives at Centennial Airport in Denver.LIGHTBANK TEAM
Brad Baum. Brad graduated from the University of Michigan where he co-founded UpRound VC to help support and grow Michigan’s entrepreneurial community. During his time at U of M, Brad worked for Detroit Venture Partners as well as a Beijing-based venture firm located in Ann Arbor. Outside of work, Brad is an active Kairos Fellowand works
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Eric Belcher is the CEO of Numerator, a leading data and technology company in the market research industry. Numerator is backed by VistaEquity Partners.
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Andrew joined Lightbank as an advisor in August 2014. In this role, he assists with deal evaluation and structuring. Andrew currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of 346 Investment Partners LLC where he oversees the financial reporting, planning and investments of the single family office.LIGHTBANK TEAM
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Lightbank has been an incredible partner for us. They truly get into the trenches and are unwavering in their support. From the start, they fully believed in our vision and invested with real conviction. If you’re looking for your first institutional investor, you have to talk with lightbank - they are the real deal. ABOUT US - LIGHTBANK We can proudly claim that we are unique in who we are based on where we are located – we are among the most active investors east of the west coast, and we think our Chicago/Midwest heritage is PORTFOLIO - LIGHTBANK Portfolio - Lightbank. A.M. Money. A.M. Money provide no co-signer low-cost, and flexible college financing to help students finance their college education. They know that money is the predominant reason why someone will or will not graduate from college. They have experienced this first hand, and created the student loan product thatthey
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Lightbank has been an incredible partner for us. They truly get into the trenches and are unwavering in their support. From the start, they fully believed in our vision and invested with real conviction. If you’re looking for your first institutional investor, you have to talk with lightbank - they are the real deal. ABOUT US - LIGHTBANK We can proudly claim that we are unique in who we are based on where we are located – we are among the most active investors east of the west coast, and we think our Chicago/Midwest heritage is PORTFOLIO - LIGHTBANK Portfolio - Lightbank. A.M. Money. A.M. Money provide no co-signer low-cost, and flexible college financing to help students finance their college education. They know that money is the predominant reason why someone will or will not graduate from college. They have experienced this first hand, and created the student loan product thatthey
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A.M. MONEY
A.M. Money provide no co-signer low-cost, and flexible college financing to help students finance their college education. They know that money is the predominant reason why someone will or will not graduate from college. They have experienced this first hand, and created the student loan product that they wished was available when they were going through college.View Website
ACLAIMANT
Aclaimant is the insight-driven workflow solution for safety and riskmanagement.
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BEAUTYLISH
Beautylish, a social commerce website for the cosmetics industry, was founded in February 2010 with the goal of improving the way that everyone discovers and learns about the beauty products that they use everyday. Users can watch YouTube makeup tutorial videos, discover cosmetic and skin care product reviews, and learn celebrity makeuptips and secrets.
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BENCHPREP
BenchPrep was launched in January of 2009 to offer study preparations tools for the GMAT and has since expanded to nine titles. BenchPrep apps are now available for subject areas ranging from K-12 to test prep to professional certifications and focus on social learning, data analytics, and cross-device synchronization to make the overall learning experience convenient, engaging and fun. The Company works with best-in-class education publishers including McGraw Hill Professional, Law School Admission Council and American Council on Education. The Company is in the process of building the world's first cross-platform educational apps publishing platform that focuses on the social and analytical aspects of learning. Watermelon’s content-agnostic solution delivers interactive apps on smart phones (iPhone, Android), tablets (iPad, Kindle), desktop (Windows, Mac) andthe Web.
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BENZINGA
Benzinga is a news and analysis service that focuses on global markets. Benzinga provides original, accurate and timely global financial content every day. The service features content from industry experts and experienced analysts while also covering the newsof the day.
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BILLTRIM
BillTrim’s mission is to get your bills to the lowest amount possible, monitor them for even lower rates and continue to do so forever so that you never have to worry about overpaying for a service again.BillTrim’s proprietary technology and professional team work around the clock to reduce your bills. We know all the tricks of negotiation. Once you sign up, we do all the work and you get all the savings for a small percentage of your savings.Our work is guaranteed and at no risk. If we cannot save you money, then you owe us nothing.View Website
BLUEPRINT
Supercharge your behavioral health practice. Automatically track patient progress, make measurement-informed decisions, and get reimbursed for doing so with Blueprint.View Website
BOOM TECHNOLOGY
Boom was founded on the philosophy that we need to overcome the challenges to supersonic passenger flight, not surrender to them. They're making a supersonic aircraft affordable for business travel. Their ultimate goal is routine supersonic flight for everyone.View Website
CANCERIQ
CancerIQ helps healthcare providers use genetic information to predict, preempt, and prevent cancer across populations in both urbanand rural settings.
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CATALYTIC
Catalytic’s AI-powered automation SaaS platform bridges the gap between people, data and existing technologies, providing configurable automated actions that replace routine office work, like gathering data and creating documents. Business users can build their own process-driven solutions, which can be scaled throughout their business, leading to unprecedented efficiency and competitive edge. Clients like Bosch, Dentsu Aegis Network, Mayo Clinic and UL have used Catalytic to better execute on their companies’ core purpose and mission, deliver high-quality customer experiences, and realize greater profitability.View Website
CLASSKICK
Created by teachers and engineers, Classkick is a magic whiteboard on tablets where students work and get immediate help from their instructor and peers. This is crucial because in school the #1 driver of learning is student feedback. With the app, teachers add content in seconds, see every students' work at once, and cut grading time in half. Students can raise their hand privately and engage each other with peer help. Best of all,it’s free!
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CLEARCOVER
Clearcover is the smarter car insurance choice, offering better coverage for less money.View Website
CLEVERSENSE
The Clever Sense Platform makes sense of the real world by harvesting and sifting through the vast amount of information available on the Web. The platform is designed to connect the online world with the offline world: delivering the right information to the users in the right context (right time, right place, right intent).View Website
Acquired by Google
COFFEE MEETS BAGEL
Coffee Meets Bagel is the most fun, simple and private way to meet quality singles. Leveraging Facebook social graph, CMB introduces members to singles close to their network, one person a day at noon.View Website
CONTENTLY
Contently is an open marketplace for writers and publishers. Contently provides a platform where real journalists can manage their freelance careers and where brands-turned-publishers can create and manage editorial operations. We like to think of ourselves as the "anti-content-farm."View Website
CROWDRISE
Crowdrise is a crowd-sourcing community of volunteers and fundraisers that are answering the call to service and online fundraising for charity. Charities can use Crowdrise to raise money in new ways by turning their grassroots supporters into grassroots fundraisers.View Website
Acquired by GoFundMeDRAFTDAY
DraftDay offers short term fantasy sports games for real money. Game buy-ins range from free to $500, and all major US professional sportsare offered.
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Acquired by MGT
DRIVIN
With a first-of-its-kind intelligent marketplace, DRIVIN helps you optimize your inventory and increase profitability. We’ll acquire the right used vehicles for your lot based on your dealership’s unique standards and market, and eliminate unwanted inventory. It’s time to reimagine your inventory strategy.View Website
Acquired by KAR Auction ServicesEVENTUP
Eventup helps people find and book venues for their events. It is the only comprehensive guide to over 5,000 commercial and residential venues ranging from swanky Malibu beach homes and celebrity mansions, to wineries and art galleries and small clubs and large banquet halls. Eventup will save you hours of research looking for the perfect venue. Plus, you're connected directly to the venues to request quotes, schedule site visits and manage all your event details. It's free and easy.View Website
Acquired by Gather TechnologiesEXPEL
Expel provides transparent managed security. It’s the antidote for companies trapped in failed relationships with their managed security service provider (MSSP) and those looking to avoid the frustration of working with one in the first place.View Website
EXTEND
Happy Customers. Instant Revenue. Extend generates new revenue for merchants, increases overall purchase conversions, and provides customers with streamlined product protection and peace of mind.View Website
FIVERR
Browse. Buy. Done. Fiverr® gives you instant access to millions of Gigs from people who love what they do. It’s the easiest way for individuals and businesses to get everything done, at unbeatablevalue.
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FLYWHEEL
Flywheel is a managed WordPress hosting platform built specifically for designers and creative agencies. Flywheel makes it simple to build, launch, and manage client sites with its easy-to-use dashboard built from the ground up for the modern web designer. With nightly backups, blazing-fast load times, WordPress-specific security, and an awesome support team full of WordPress developers, Flywheel helps thousands of designers across the world launch projects every day.View Website
Acquired by WP EngineFOODA
Chicago-based Fooda is America's premier provider of services to captive audiences. Fooda has a large network of top local businesses and provides its services to groups such as schools, corporations, organizations, and residential communities. Fooda provides its services via on-site locations as well as mobile and web-basedtechnology.
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GAMEFLIP
Gameflip is the Trusted Marketplace for Gamers to safely and securely buy & sell video games, accessories, gift codes, in-game skins, and everything gaming related.View Website
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HEXAGRAM
Leading native ad exchange that empowers content marketers to be able to reach 40,000 publishers through one account. Hexagram also has the most transparent reporting interface in the market to measure ROI and publishers get the maximum possible yield through a real time auction, which simultaneously considers every single source of demand for everyimpression.
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Acquired by Perion
HIGH GROUND
HighGround: High Ground offers an innovative enterprise SaaS solution for the problem plaguing modern businesses of every size. Leave the costs of low engagement behind and step into the future of the workplace: socially-driven performance and loyalty-based engagement. They address the emerging trends in the workplace head-on with an integrated social platform and real-time results. The software touches each and every employee from Sales to Management through multifaceted platform that proves easy to implement and even easier to use.View Website
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Hireology is a full-suite technology based hiring platform that includes everything recruiters need to manage their hiring process. With integrated job postings, predictive tests and analysis, interview guides, background checks, skills verification and more, Hireology’s web-based platform helps businesses make consistent and repeatable hiring decisions.View Website
LEAP
The Leap Platform turns branded retail stores into a turnkey, scalable sales and marketing channel. Leap deploys and operate high impact stores that introduce customers to brands each and every day.View Website
LOCU
Locu's mission is to structure the world's information to power the next generation of web and mobile applications and help local merchants connect with consumers.View Website
Acquired by GoDaddy
NEUMOB
Neumob give users a faster mobile VPN experience that purports to actually save battery life by reducing the necessity to keep pinging the network. It also built an SDK to give developers the ability to build that same experience right inside their mobile apps. They had companies like Hotel Tonight and The Economist using their software to speed up their mobile apps.View Website
Acquired by CloudflareOBAZ
Obaz is an Ecommerce marketplace connecting indie fashion and home brands with consumers through various social channels including Pinterest, Facebook, and a network of over 25,000 bloggers.View Website
Acquired by Groupon
OVIA HEALTH
Ovia Health (f.k.a. Ovuline) uses clinically proven guidelines and machine learning to help couples have children. Ovia Health uses a woman’s unique data to help her conceive faster and have a healthypregnancy.
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PALADIN CYBER INSURANCE We know that running a business has a lot of challenges, making sure your business is secure shouldn't be one of them. Cyber protection is completely necessary but unnecessarily complex. Making sure you’re secured and covered takes time, patience and a lot of financial resources. But it doesn’t have to. Our mission is to protect SMBs from modern security threats in a comprehensive, easy to use package. We prevent breaches with military grade tools and training, rapidly resolve issues when they occur, and insure against financial loss to keep businesses running. Simply put we help prevent your business from getting hacked, and keep you financially secure if you are.View Website
PAYTIENT
Paytient is an employer-sponsored payment platform for employees’medical expenses.
Alongside any health plan, Paytient enables employees to live better lives by accessing care earlier without financial harm.View Website
PERBLUE
PerBlue is a mobile gaming company based in Madison, WI. PerBlue is fueled with the passion to build great products and entertain millions of people, they endeavor to change the world with fun and innovativemobile game play.
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QWIKI
Qwiki co-founded by entrepreneur Doug Imbruce and Internet industry pioneer Dr. Louis Monier (founder of AltaVista). The company’s technology transforms data into interactive, rich media narratives, delivering an "information experience.” Qwiki debuted in September 2010 at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference, where it won the TechCrunchDisrupt Cup.
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Acquired by Yahoo
REVERB
Reverb is changing how musicians value, buy, sell, and trade instruments. Reverb has quickly become the leading Marketplace forMusic Gear.
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Acquired by Etsy
RISKMATCH
RiskMatch is an analytics firm that delivers web-based solutions for insurance intermediaries and underwriting partners throughout the U.S. Their patented platform provides an array of portfolio management and placement solutions, analytics, internal and external benchmarking capabilities, and information management services designed to enhance performance, reduce costs, facilitate growth,and improve clientservice.
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Acquired by VertaforeSNAPSHEET
Snapsheet is the first self-service mobile application for settling auto insurance claims by photo. Using Snapsheet, insurance carriers can reduce cycle time per claim and lower the cost to receive an estimate. Snapsheet offers a full suite of products to help insurance carriers, adjusters and customers analyze and receive claimsefficiently.
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SNAPTRAVEL
SnapTravel lets users book hotels at highly discounted rates over SMSand FB Messenger.
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SPOTHERO
SpotHero is a platform that allows parking lots and garages to drive extra customers to their existing locations. SpotHero offers a service that connects these lots and garages with consumers through both online and mobile applications. The SpotHero platform makes it easy to purchase parking ahead of time and reserve a parking spot for a day event, or even find monthly parking.View Website
SPROUT SOCIAL
Sprout Social is a social media management platform for businesses. Sprout powers smart social communication for leading brands and agencies, including Anthropologie, GrubHub, Hyatt, Spotify and Zipcar. A powerful platform for social business available via web browser, iOS and Android apps, Sprout enables brands to more effectively communicate on social channels, collaborate across teams and provide an exceptional customer experience. Headquartered in Chicago, Sprout is a Twitter Certified Product, Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer and Google+ Pages APIPartner.
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SQUARE ROOTS
Square Roots is an urban farming accelerator — empowering 1,000’s of millennials to join the real food revolution.View Website
TAKELESSONS
TakeLessons is the largest online marketplace for private lessons. TakeLessons began as a marketplace for music lessons, and is expanding into lifelong learning categories, such as crafts, hobbies, sports, fitness, etc. TakeLessons began as a marketplace for music lessons, and has since expanded into other lifelong learning categories.View Website
TALENTBIN
Talentbin: TalentBin is a talent search engine and recruiting CRM that helps technical recruiters discover, communicate with, and track recruiting interaction with previously unfindable talent from across the web. Like a "Google for people", TalentBin consumes "implicit professional activity" individual engage in online -- their tweets about "Ruby on Rails", the online email lists they talk about Hadoop on, or that they're listed as an inventor on a Lockheed Martin patent for "fire control radar" -- makes sense of it, and then composites it together into individual profiles in the TalentBin search index.View Website
Acquired by Monster
TASTYWORKS
Tastyworks is an online brokerage firm allowing investors to trade options, stocks, and futures.View Website
Acquired by IG GroupTEAM LIQUID
Team Liquid is a global eSports franchise with over 50 professional players competing across 10 teams.View Website
TEMPUS
Tempus assists doctors and other healthcare professionals in delivering personalized care for their cancer patients. The Tempus platform analyzes molecular and clinical data to empower physicians to make real-time data-driven decisions.View Website
UPTAKE
Uptake is a technology company whose products harness data from sensors in real-time to provide predictive insights and actionable solutions for major industries. Uptake combines a proprietary cloud-based platform, the Uptake Core, with unique data science methods and deep industry expertise, enabling global customers to be more productive and effective.View Website
VETTERY
Vettery is a trusted hiring marketplace built to help people find their dream job. They take the best from the recruiting and technology worlds by connecting employers and talent through a curated marketplace of vetted candidates.View Website
Acquired by Adecco
ZEEL
Zeel is a revolutionary way to book same-day, in-home massages with licensed and vetted therapists.Zeel delivers Massage On Demand® from licensed, vetted therapists to customers in their homes, hotels and offices same-day, in as little as an hour. Booking takes seconds on the Zeel iOS or Android app. Zeel Massage On Demand® is available in the greater New York City area, the San Francisco Bay Area, greater Los Angeles and South Florida.Zeel delivers Massage On Demand® – top-quality massages from licensed, vetted massage therapists to homes, hotels, workplaces, and events in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. With Zeel, customers enjoy a massage in the comfort, convenience, safety, and privacy of the place and time of their choosing, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with start times as early as 8 am and as late as 10:30 pm. Booking, scheduling, and payment are made easy with the Zeel app for iPhone and Android. Zeel Massage On Demand is available in the following metro areas and their surrounding cities: Boston, Chicago, Denver, the NYC Tri-State Area, the San Francisco Bay Area, Greater Los Angeles Area, San Diego, Palm Springs, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Tampa, and Washington D.C. - with more locations coming soon.View Website
UDEMY
Udemy is a website that empowers anyone to teach and learn online. On Udemy, there are thousands of online courses from the best instructors in the world. Furthermore, if you're an expert you can share your knowledge by creating an online course on Udemy. Udemy's platform makes it easy for experts to build an online course. Instructors can use video, PowerPoint, PDFs, audio, zip files and live classes to quickly build a course and share their expertise with anyone in theworld.
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