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 IV and the status of investments made to-date. Seed IV focuses on supporting Business-to-Business (B2B), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ventures. Initial investments from Seed Fund IV have been made in 13 companies.
These companies include:
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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. |
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Thrivable is a real-time, market research platform for healthcare, enabling organizations to go from question to insight in hours with easy-to-use survey tools and an on-demand patient panel. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Hearty has developed an automated “matchmaking” solution for HR recruiting. Leveraging their growing community of vetted, top-tier talent, Hearty is able to provide hiring managers and HR leaders with an innovative, affordable, technology driven talent placement solution. |
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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. |
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Bubble offers an online insurtech platform for homebuyers and owners to easily protect everything and everyone under the roof, starting with digitally bundled home and life insurance. The company’s specialized AI algorithms combine data from real estate transactions with its own extensive library, to streamline the process of buying insurance, from quote to application to approval. |
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The Bloomfilter application provides software teams complete visibility into their projects to optimize team member contributions on projects, and improve communication, predictability and efficiency across the software development lifecycle. |
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Wizest is an investment platform that democratizes access to financial experts. Instead of picking stocks, investors pay a low monthly subscription and can pick a team of financial experts on Wizest to invest on their behalf. |
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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. |
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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 |
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The Emvitals solution enables whole-population proactive mental health outreach and empowers individuals with their own emotional health data while connecting them to evidence-based care and resources. |
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Strimo is a Maine-based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) platform that helps cannabis operators (cultivators, processors and distributors) go “beyond seed to sale.” |
