Andrew Craig

Lionheart Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. It was founded in 2019 by health good entrepreneur and Zesty founder, David Langer. The firm makes investments concentrates on making investments that "make humanity more resilient." It makes seed stage investments in companies working on climate protection, mental health and financial inclusion. It has invested in companies based in North America, Europe, and Asia.

It was announced in May 2019 that Lionheart VC has raised $2.1 million for its first fund.

Currently Partner at Homebrew. Previously, VP Product at Twitter leading product management and support. Co-led seed and early stage Internet and digital media investing as Partner at Battery Ventures. Joined Google in 2003, working on product management and partnership initiatives for AdSense.

Satya Patel is a venture capitalist and founder of the venture capital firm Homebrew. Since 2007, Patel has served as a board member of the KIPP Bay Area Schools.

Patel studied at Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a BS in Finance and a BS in Psychology.

Patel started his career working as a project manager for digital marketing platforms. From 2000-2003, he worked as a project manager at DoubleClick, Inc. where he developed DFA and DFP features.

In 2003, he joined Google as an advertising executive. At Google, he worked on product management, developing partnership initiatives, and developing Google Ad Manager and AdSense.

In 2007, Patel joined the IT focused venture capital firm, Battery Ventures. , as a partner.

From 2011-2012, Patel worked as the VP of Product at Twitter.

In April 2013, he co-founded the venture capital firm Homebrew with Hunter Walk. Patel and Walk envisioned supporting companies in the seed stage that they saw as part of a "Bottom Up" based economy. Patel is quoted as saying that Homebrew was founded to "democratize access to products, services, data or customers for constituencies and industries that haven’t had access previously."

By Appointment Only (BAO) is an appointment setting, marketing, and lead generation company headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1997 by Suzanne Higgins. The company has offices in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Arizona.

BAO offers lead generation, sales appointment setting, account-based marketing, lead qualification, contact validation, and account mapping services that are aimed at helping tech company sales teams gain the business intelligence they need to sale their products.

BAO's "top-shelf solution," Advanced Demand Generation (ADG), is aimed at end-to-end sales support. It's key components include market targeting and segmentation, marketing program development, generating in person sales contacts. BAO claims it's ADG solution delivers it's highest rate on investment.

BAO's Opportunity Identification (OppID) solution is aimed at helping clients gain insights into target markets. It helps sales teams target leads by providing them with information based on the which sales leads have active IT initiatives and what target information regarding client's budgets, internal challenges, and current IT installations.

BAO also offers appointment setting services. The company claims to employee 150 representatives that connect with "thousands" of executives on a daily basis to help clients connect with their sales targets.

BAO helps clients develop account-based marketing strategies through lead qualification, contact validation, and account maps. BAO's ABM services are aimed at helping clients identify the best leads and give them the information they need to develop sales plans.

Brightside is an employer-based financial care company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 2017 by Callum King, Jacky Chiu, and Tom Spann.

Brightside was the idea of health care benefits executive, Shawn Leavitt. Leavitt recognized in industry data that financial stress was leading increased to increased healthcare costs, lost workdays, and lost productivity for employers. The company was founded in 2017 to help the 78% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck achieve better financial health. The platform claims to help decrease healthcare cost by reducing financial related stress that leads to approximately 4.5 percent of all deaths in the United States.

In 2019, it was announced that Brightside was one of five companies chosen as part of the Center for Financial Services Innovation's Financial Solutions Lab.

The company announced on June 16, 2020, that it had raised $35.1 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and saw participation from existing investors Comcast Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund.

Brightside's business model helps employers of small to large companies help their employees improve their financial wellbeing. Brightside connects employees with an in-person financial assistant that helps them find and make better financial decisions based on their needs and financial stresses. Brightside's financial assistants are backed by Brightside's financial rule based system that helps them help employees make better financial choices.

Brightside's platform utilizes behavioral science and artificial intelligence to create a "self driving wallet" that automates day-to-day money management tasks such as figuring out what order to pay bills or finding money to set aside for savings. The platform is designed to help employees pay off debt, increase their credit scores, refinance debt, find government and community benefits, and eliminate fees. Brightside does not make any money from financial products and gives any referral bonuses received back to employees it serves as part of its KickForward program.

Pipe is a U.S.-based SaaS company. Founded in 2019, Pipe launched its SaaS financing platform in February 2020.

Pipe is a Los Angeles, California-based financing platform for SaaS companies. Founded in 2019 by Harry Hurst, Josh Mangel, and Zain Allarakhia, Pipe launched its SaaS platform in February 2020. The company's platform claims to offer SaaS companies a debt free alternative to acquire growth capital. It also allows company's who use the platform to offer customer's monthly or quarterly subscriptions rather than the annual pre-paid subscriptions many early stage SaaS companies require in order to gain financing. The company currently works with US-based companies, and foreign companies with a US-based subsidiary.

In June 2020, Pipe announced it had secured $60 million in seed funding. Pipe's seed funding round was led by Fin VC. It also received investments from Tribe Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Lachy Groom, Anthemis, and existing investors Craft Ventures, Fika Ventures, and MaC Ventures.

Pipe's financing platform is subscription based and allows SaaS companies to obtain instant liquidity on their subscription contracts. The platform is designed as a debt free an alternative to equity financing. The platform integrates with a user's existing billing platform to track subscriptions. It then generates capital payout offers based on the annual value of a company's subscriptions. Users are granted instant capital payouts based on the data the platform collects from a user's subscription billing data.

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