Acceleration Fund II Portfolio Companies

Since 2006, North Coast Ventures has deployed nearly $100M into 65+ high-growth ventures. As a Cleveland-based capital partner, North Coast Ventures is dedicated to our mission of providing capital, harnessing industry expertise and leveraging networks to help our startups succeed. 

From growth forecasting and marketing strategy development to talent recruitment and investor relations, we provide extensive operational support to our portfolio. We also help our founders get their foot in the door with industry leaders like Progressive, Cleveland Clinic, First Energy and KeyBank. At North Coast Ventures, we leverage this lethal combination of domain knowledge and connections to propel our companies from just an idea all the way to Series A.

Below is the portfolio composition of Acceleration Fund II and the status of investments made to-date. Acceleration II focuses on supporting Business-to-Business (B2B), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ventures. Initial investments from Acceleration Fund II have been made in 14 companies.

These companies include:

	Standard Bariatrics provides surgical instruments for sleeve gastrectomy procedures. In August 2022, the company entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Teleflex Inc.
	Proformex is an inforce management platform offering data aggregation, analytics and portfolio monitoring for life insurance and annuities to create more efficient and profitable experiences for policy owners.
	NaviStone is a software solution to identify and engage unique direct mail prospects via website visitor and behavior tracking technology.
	Remesh is a software solution for market researchers that uses machine learning and natural language processing to understand groups of people engaged in real-time moderated discussion.
	ScriptDrop is a prescription delivery platform that connects patients and pharmacies with drivers and couriers. The company has developed a platform to manage prescription delivery.
	AmpliFund offers SaaS grants management solutions for the public sector and nonprofit organizations.
	Alviere is a Banking-as-a-Service platform that enables businesses to provide financial services, such as mobile payments, card issuance and payment processing, to their customers.
	ReadySet Surgical provides cloud-based solutions for hospital and surgery center supply chain and surgical staff. Their suite of products creates workflow efficiencies while reducing surgical operating costs.
	Leasecake is a Florida-based lease and location management software company. Leasecake allows tenants, brokers and landlords to manage location-related services, from lease management and lease accounting to insurance agreements and franchise operations
	DAtAnchor’s Anchor platform is an easy to use, unique data security solution, which provides seamless strong encryption, automated data governance and dynamic access control.
	Real Time Intelligence (RTI) provides a supply chain visibility software platform (eP360) that passively collects data via third party sensors to provide insights into the movement of assets (especially reusable packaging in the food and automative industries) within a supply chain.
	Vytalize has developed an all-in-one value-based care platform for primary care providers. Their platform combines a Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO), virtual clinic, digital health solutions and financial incentives to drive better outcomes and lower costs.
	7SIGNAL is a cloud-based Wireless Network Monitoring (WNM) platform that continuously troubleshoots wireless networks for performance issues - maximizing network uptime, device connectivity and network ROI for hospitals, enterprises, manufacturing centers and more.
	Society Brands is a technology and operational platform that acquires ecommerce consumer products companies that primarily sell on Amazon and their own direct-to-consumer (DTC) sites.
	Unify Jobs is a software platform for the talent acquisition market. The company has developed a solution designed for employers to directly connect with job seekers and achieve equity, reduce turnover and accelerate upskilling.