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Advantage Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in growth equity, lending, and mezzanine debt capital investment in companies at all stages of development: early, expansion equity, and later stage; except seed. It focuses on small businesses.

Advantage Capital invests in low income communities, both urban and rural, and other investmentssupporting state and local economic development efforts. It seeks to invest in companies that develop or apply proprietary technologies or approaches to products, systems, and services primarily in the communication, information technology, information technology services, telecommunication services and communication equipments, business services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences, and energy industry, but also considers other opportunities.

Advantage Capital seeks to invest in rural businesses involved in the production, processing and supply of agricultural products. It also provides debt capital in the form of senior debt, mezzanine debt, subordinated loans, government-guaranteed lending, business capital for investments and loans in underserved areas, and equity capital to real estate development firms and real estate projects.

Advantage Capital primarily invests in Connecticut, Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Maine, Midwest, Oregon, New York, Texas, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and the District of Columbia in the United States. It seeks to make an initial investment between $0.5 million and $10 million in companies with sales value less than 5 million.

Advantage Capital can make larger and further investments based on pre-set milestones or subsequent financing events and prefers to co invest with other investment firms in the form of equity or deeply subordinated debt, to support bank lending. Occasionally, smaller investments are made depending on the stage of the investment.

Advantage Capital typically invests in preferred equity securities and current or preferred debt instruments that are either convertible or issued with warrants. It seeks to invest in states and communities that are underserved by traditional sources of risk capital and focuses on state and federal economic development initiatives that bring businesses, technologies and jobs to communities that need them.

David Bergmann, Martin Bodenham, and Steven T. Stull founded Advantage Capital in 1992. It has its its headquarters in New Orleans in Louisiana and additional offices across the United States.

Financials

Advantage Capital has raised a total of $77M in funding over 1 round. This was a Debt Financing round raised on May 22, 2014.

Advantage Capital is funded by Citi.

Advantage Capital has raised a total of $346M across 13 funds, their latest being Advantage Capital Partners Illinois. This fund was announced on Jan 1, 2009 and raised a total of $55M.

People

Advantage Capital has 52 current employee profiles, including President Steven T. Stull.

Advantage Capital has 1 board member or advisor, Thomas W. Keaveney.

Technology

Advantage Capital uses 20 technology products and services including HTML5, Google Analytics, and jQuery, according to G2 Stack.

Advantage Capital is actively using 35 technologies for its website, according to BuiltWith. These include Viewport Meta, IPhone / Mobile Compatible, and SPF.

Skribble is a platform for electronic signatures that presupposes the identification of the signatures. The platform provides the legally suitable electronic signature for every type of contract even if the law requires the same legal weight as a handwritten signature. It allows signing documents electronically with just a few clicks legallybinding in accordance with Swiss & EU law.

Skribble was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Location

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Financials

Skribble has raised a total of CHF5.1M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jun 6, 2020 from a Seed round.

Skribble is funded by 7 investors. Zürcher Kantonal Bank and Helvetia Venture Fund are the most recent investors.

People

Skribble has 7 current employee profiles, including CISO & Co-Founder Waldemar Dick.

Skribble has 1 board member or advisor, Eric Kuenzi.

Technology

Skribble is actively using 52 technologies for its website, according to BuiltWith. These include Viewport Meta, IPhone / Mobile Compatible, and SPF.

Apollo Global Management is an asset management firm that specializes in credit-oriented capital and real estate markets.

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. We seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three business strategies: yield, hybrid and equity.

Through our investment activity across our fully integrated platform, we serve theretirement income and financial return needs of our clients, and we offer innovative capital solutions to businesses.

Our patient, creative, knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of June 30, 2021, Apollo had approximately $472 billion assets under management.

Apollo uses 22 technology products and services including HTML5, Google Analytics, and jQuery, according to G2 Stack.

Apollo is actively using 16 technologies for its website, according to BuiltWith. These include Viewport Meta, IPhone / Mobile Compatible, and Google Font API.

Location

New York, New York, United States.

Financials

Apollo has raised a total of $399.4M in funding over 3 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Mar 20, 2018 from a Post-IPO Equity round.

Apollo is registered under the ticker NASDAQ:APO. Their stock opened with $19.00 in its Mar 30, 2011 IPO.

Apollo has raised a total of $50.6B across 10 funds, their latest being Accord Fund III Series B. This fund was announced on May 20, 2020 and raised a total of $250M.

Apollo has made 55 investments. Their most recent investment was on Feb 3, 2022, when Hero FinCorp raised ₹20B.

Apollo has made 2 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on May 20, 2021, when Figure raised $200M.

Apollo has had 26 exits. Apollo's most notable exits include Airbnb, Charter Communications, and Cimpress.

Apollo has acquired 79 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Miller Homes on Dec 24, 2021.

People

Apollo has 37 current employee profiles, including Co-President, Lead Partner, Private Equity Scott Kleinman.

Apollo has 12 board members and advisors, including Jay Clayton.

Bold is a a publishing and editing platform for enterprise.Bold is a platform for writing long-form content at work.

Use cases include things like engineering tutorials, product specs, memos, onboarding docs, etc.

Location

San Francisco, California, United States.

Financials

Bold has raised a total of $1M in funding over 1 round. This was a Seed round raised on Jan 1, 2016.

Bold is funded by Index Ventures.

Technology

Bold is actively using 6 technologies for its website, according to BuiltWith. These include Viewport Meta, IPhone / Mobile Compatible, and Google Font API.

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a world-class, category-defining business.

The company brings more than three decades of experience in building and supporting companies. Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship andbusiness enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries. Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others.

Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz founded it in Palo Alto, California in 1983.

Accel uses 99 technology products and services including HTML5, Google Analytics, and jQuery, according to G2 Stack.

Accel is actively using 70 technologies for its website, according to BuiltWith. These include Viewport Meta, IPhone / Mobile Compatible, and SPF.

Location

Palo Alto, California, United States.

Financials

Accel has raised a total of $18.3B across 33 funds, their latest being Accel Growth Fund VI. This fund was announced on Jun 29, 2021 and raised a total of $1.8B.

Accel has made 1,756 investments. Their most recent investment was on Feb 2, 2022, when SuperShare raised $6.5M.

Accel has made 142 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on Jan 11, 2022, when Lincode raised.

Accel has had 345 exits. Accel's most notable exits include Animoca Brands, Truebill, and Meta.

People

Accel has 88 current employee profiles, including Chief Operating Partner Tracy Sedlock.

Accel has 7 board members and advisors, including Christine Esserman.