Greycroft is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology start-ups and investments in the Internet and mobile markets. With offices in two of the most important business hubs in the world, New York and Los Angeles Greycroft uniquely positioned to serve entrepreneurs who have chosen us as their partners. The firm leverages an extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring their products to market, and build successful businesses.  Greycroft manages in excess of $1 billion and has made over 200 investments since its inception in leading companies including Acorns, App Annie, Bird, Botkeeper, Bright Health, Boxed, Braintree, Buddy Media, Everything But The House, Extreme Reach, Huffington Post, Icertis, JW Player, Maker Studios, Plated, Scopely, Shipt, TheRealReal, Thrive Market, Trunk Club, Venmo, WideOrbit, and Yeahka. Greycroft has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Greycroft

Ridge Ventures funds experienced founders redefining how the world interacts with software.    Whether for the cloud or the edge, we look for companies delivering advanced technologies, new distribution models and incredible user experiences to market.    While we’re focused on SaaS and infrastructure solutions for the enterprise, we also back startups in adtech, gaming and ecommerce.    We are firm believers in “where there’s a big problem, there’s a big opportunity.”  We love Series A deals and helping create something out of chaos.

Ridge Ventures

Loeb NYC is a startup lab and early-stage private investor built on the belief that aligning the right people with the right ideas creates successful companies. They are entrepreneurs, strategic partners, mentors, and industry experts who have launched and scaled enduring companies across industries utilizing proven strategies and techniques.

Loeb.nyc

Acrew is a leading stage agnostic venture capital firm focused on investing in transformative companies, as well as diversifying the perspectives and cap tables of leading technology growth companies.

Acrew Capital

Correlation Ventures is a new breed of venture capital firm, leveraging world-class analytics to offer entrepreneurs and other venture capitalists a dramatically better option when they are seeking additional capital to complete a financing round.

Correlation Ventures

Norwest is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies. Since its inception, it has invested in more than 600 companies and partnered with over 140 active companies across our venture and growth equity portfolio. The firm invests in early to late-stage companies across a wide range of sectors with a focus on consumer, enterprise, and healthcare. It offers a deep network of connections, operating experience, and a wide range of impactful services to help CEOs and founders scale their businesses.

Norwest Venture Partners

Relevance Ventures is an early-stage venture firm, based in Nashville, Tennessee, that focuses primarily on companies providing solutions in two sectors: fintech/enterprise software and health + wellness solutions.  Since 2011, Relevance has grown from a public-private partnership with the state of Tennessee concentrated on regional technology investments into a leading investment firm targeting major disruptors across the nation with more than $115M in total assets under management. Relevance is fixated on deploying capital into startups that create positive change for the everyday consumer, empower businesses to reach their full potential, and help reduce the burden on our nation’s healthcare system. The Relevance team is comprised of unique, battle-tested members that have worked in a variety of industries including Fintech, EdTech, CPG, Healthcare and on Wall Street. Their experiences evaluating, expanding, and exiting businesses allows them to establish relationships with founders and industry partners that are built upon robust guidance and strong interpersonal relationships. The firm’s investment mandate and geographic location enables them to anchor deals across the country contributing anywhere from $250K to $2.5M in financing rounds depending upon stage, size, growth trajectory, and the long-term potential of the business. Frequently investing alongside top-tier coastal venture partners, the firm has built a robust, collaborative deal-making network throughout the venture community. The team’s relatively small size enables them to move quickly while leveraging their network to syndicate deals to ensure timely completion. Relevance Ventures is considered an entrepreneur-friendly venture firm focused on creating mutually beneficial opportunities and long-lasting partnerships with founding teams.  Relevance’s two principal general partners are members of the Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia, making it one of the few (if not only) Native-owned independent early stage venture firms in the United States.

Relevance Ventures (formerly Relevance Capital)

For three decades, Northwood Ventures has been a leading investor in venture capital and buyout opportunities. Northwood prides itself on being a fundamental investor seeking to maximize long-term cash on cash returns. We partner with experienced, successful management teams to generate superior returns. We structure our investments uniquely to meet the individual requirements of each portfolio company. Northwood has participated in the creation and growth of many leading companies in the communications, retail/consumer, manufacturing and financial services sectors. We invest at all stages of company growth, including industry consolidations. Our unique, long-term investment horizon, experienced professionals, and entrepreneurial orientation have made us an attractive partner for leading management teams across the United States for many years.

Northwood Ventures

National Veterinary Associates is a provider of veterinary and pet care services for hospitals and communities. It specializes in medical and surgical services, pet boarding, and daycare centers.

National Veterinary Associates

UNAVETS is a veterinary healthcare company that offers treatments for pets. The company focused on supporting clinics with its ''shared services'' model, providing marketing, finance, operations, purchasing, human resources, and IT support to all its clinics. UNAVETS innovates and develops new service lines, improving digital engagement with its customers and promoting collaboration and continuous professional development and veterinary training for clinical teams. It was established in 2019 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

UNAVETS

Halle is a growth equity investment firm focused on middle-market companies in the Healthcare, Consumer, and Business Services sectors.

Halle Capital Management

Petabyte Technology

Petabyte Technology provides a veterinary management solution that emphasizes practice productivity and exceptional patient care. The company's cloud-based software gives veterinary practitioners greater understanding and control over their business. Petabyte Technology was founded in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, WA.

<div>Petabyte Technology (Petabyte) operates a SaaS-based veterinary services platform that provides practice management solutions for veterinarians. It covers a gamut of use cases within veterinary practices such as billing, inventory, and prescriptions. Its solutions also include an analytics platform, which can be used as a standalone tool or in conjunction with its practice management product (“Rhapsody”), and a mobile client companion app that facilitates appointment scheduling and virtual check-ins (“Boop”). The app also provides access to medical records and wellness plans.</div>

Pet ownership is at an all time high in the United States and the pet care economy is booming.

Pet Care Tech

Petabyte Technology Raises $15M in Series B Funding

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 Petabyte Technology (Petabyte) operates a SaaS-based veterinary services platform that provides practice management solutions for veterinarians. It covers a gamut of use cases within veterinary practices such as billing, inventory, and prescriptions. Its solutions also include an analytics platform, which can be used as a standalone tool or in conjunction with its practice management product (“Rhapsody”), and a mobile client companion app that facilitates appointment scheduling and virtual check-ins (“Boop”). The app also provides access to medical records and wellness plans.
 
 
 Petabyte entered a partnership with National Veterinary Associates (NVA), an operator of more than 1,000 veterinary hospitals and pet resorts across North America, Australia, and Singapore, in August 2021. As part of the arrangement, the two companies revealed plans to collaborate on the development of cloud-based software for veterinary practices. The company announced the Petabyte Consortium in August 2021, with participation from veterinary groups including the National Veterinary Associates (NVA), easyvet, and the EU-based UNAVETS. The consortium was formed to build software and set a global standard in handling data and workflows for veterinary practices.
 
 
 Petabyte raised USD 15 million in a Series B funding round in September 2021. The round included participation from NVA, UNAVETS, and Norwest Ventures Partners. The fresh funds are expected to be allocated toward the company’s growth initiatives and establishing partnerships.
 
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 Digitail offers a cloud-based software platform for veterinarians that provides an online booking system, electronic record keeping, stock management, invoicing, billing, etc. The platform, which can be accessed from any device (mobile phones, laptops, desktops), is available in different packages on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis; USD 95 per month for mobile vets, USD 79 per month for small clinics, and USD 159 per month for large clinics. As of March 2021, the platform served 2,000 veterinarians across 16 countries.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In January 2023, the company raised 
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 led by Atomico to expand its operations in the US and Canada. The round follows its USD 2.5 
 million seed funding in March 2021, led by the VC firm byFounders and Gradient Ventures (Google&rsquo;s AI fund).
 
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Digitail

Gudog is a Spanish on-demand platform that connects dog owners with dog sitters for at-home dog sitting, dog walking, and dog daycare services. The company operates in France, UK, Germany, Ireland and Spain. In February 2019, the company merged with HouseMyDog, a similar company headquartered in the UK, to mutually expand its reach to more than 25,000 dog sitters on its platforms. As of February 2019, Gudog was considered to be the market leader in Spain. In February 2021, the company announced the acquisition of Host My Pet, a Finnish online pet sitting services company, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is aimed at expanding operations into Nordic countries, starting with Finland. With the acquisition, the combined entity’s 17 full-time employees will serve approximately 650,000 pet owners across Europe.

GuDog

Urban Leash is an on-demand pet care service provider that offers dog walking and cat sitting services. The app is GPS-embedded, which allows pet owners to track the whereabouts of pets. Its dog walking services and cat services are are offered in Boston within the Fenway and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods, whereas cat sitting services are also provided in several other areas in Brookline. Urban Leash also provides care services for small animals, such as feeding fish, small birds, and small mammals. Administering medication is offered without any fees.

Urban Leash

TeleTails is a veterinary telehealth platform that allows pet owners to obtain advice from veterinarians and behaviorists when needed. The company’s software provides care teams with the ability to offer live video consultations, flexible messaging, and cross-team communication. In May 2020, the company launched TeleTails Instant in response to the Covid-19 pandemic to make veterinary services available at no cost during the crisis.

TeleTails

Based in the UK, PawSquad provides on-demand veterinary telehealth services through video consultations and online chats. Pet owners can instantly access veterinary practitioners without pre-scheduling. The company also offers home visits on request. Advice from general practitioners is priced at around USD 26 per visit, while specialist consultations are priced at around USD 62 per visit. PawSquad provides specialist services in dermatology and plans to introduce other areas, such as endocrinology, behavior, gastroenterology, and oncology in the future. As of February 2021, the company operated more than 1,500 clinics across 12 countries in Europe and had an employee base of more than 22,000, including 6,0000 veterinary professionals.In March 2021, was acquired by UK-based veterinary service provider IVC Evidensia, that operates across Europe, for an undisclosed amount. IVC Evidensia operated more than 1,500 clinics across 12 countries in Europe as of February 2021. The company also has an employee base of more than 22,000, including 6,0000 veterinary professionals.The acquisition will allow PawSquad to expand geographically while also providing pet owners accessibility to IVC Evidendsia’s veterinary professionals through PawSquad’s telehealth platform.

PawSquad

Companies that provide digital veterinary platforms to connect pet owners directly with online veterinary services.

Companies that provide mobile-based platforms to match pet owners with providers of pet services such as pet boarding, pet sitting, and dog walking.

Startups that offer innovative insurance solutions via digital platforms specialized for pet insurance coverage.

Companies that develop and offer technological solutions, such as self-cleaning tech, smart feeding devices, and interactive toys, to enhance and monitor pets' health and well-being.

Uses IoT technology to remotely monitor and interact with pets

AI and ML technologies enable pet owners to monitor and improve pet care

Offers digital platforms, such as veterinary telehealth services, to support the wellness of pets

Petabyte Technology

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