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 Seed Fund II and the status of investments made to-date. As North Coast Ventures' second fund, this entity had a broader investment thesis than the more recent seed funds, which focus on Business-to-Business, software companies. This fund includes life science and advanced materials companies in addition to SaaS ventures. Initial investments from Seed Fund II have been made in 18 companies.
These companies include:
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Ahalogy developed a marketing technology platform, which combines category trend data, influencer network and social optimization software to drive ROI. The technology allows brands to better target and measure social media campaigns via an influencer strategy. Ahalogy was sold to Quotient Technology Inc. in 2018. |
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Znode developed a leading .NET ecommerce platform built for multi-store businesses to enable companies to fully customize and personalize the online shopping experience. Znode sold to Yell Group in 2011. |
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Complion has developed a leading web-based solution for clinical trial compliance serving research sites, institutions and CROs/Sponsors. The company sold to RealTime-CTMS in 2022. |
| GenomOncology is a genetic analysis software tool for clinicians and pathology labs to identify tumor mutations and corresponding therapies. | |
| Satelytics is a cloud-based, geospatial analytics software tool for companies in oil and gas, power, pipeline, rail and water businesses. | |
| Intelligent Mobile Support is a cloud-computing platform providing real-time connectivity to experts, collaborative tools and just-in-time access to improve productivity among mobile workers in sales, service, retail, transportation and healthcare. | |
| 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. | |
| Public Insight is a job market data and analytics platform that transforms market data into actionable insights. | |
| Cryothermic Systems Inc. has developed a cost-effective cryo cooling system to initiate and continue cooling to quickly lower core body temperature. Applications include pre-hospital use by EMS, ICY use for fever control and prevention of heat stroke for athletes, among other applications. |