For more than two decades, The Benaroya Company has been among the region's leading private venture capital firms. We enter into active relationships with the companies we fund — vital, promising businesses that demonstrate bold vision, great market potential, compelling technology, proven management team, and strong financial discipline.
In prior years three Benaroya portfolio companies have gone public and over twenty have had private exits. Prior technology investments include: Tegic. Coinstar, Zones, Commquest, Peapod, Open Interface and Capital Stream.
For more information, please contact John Carleton:
John Carleton
Phone: (425) 440-6713
Email: johnc@benaroya.com
Portfolio Companies:
Avalara
Avalara eliminates the hassle of managing sales and use tax for small and medium businesses with fully-automated, Web-service-based solutions. Now offering integrations with more SMB financial applications than any other sales tax solution on the market, Avalara is focused on providing the easiest, most accurate and affordable way for businesses to address all their statutory sales and use tax requirements.
www.avalara.com
Avail-TVN
Avail Media is the only company today to deliver to its customers a combined MPEG-4 linear IPTV and Video On Demand (VOD) solution. Founded in early 2007, Avail Media is the product of a merger of two successful IPTV companies, followed by the acquisition of an equally successful VOD provider. As a result, today Avail Media is the emerging leader in providing managed content aggregation services through a fully-integrated, head-end infrastructure for the profitable deployment of IP video.
The Avail Media solution includes a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality-encoded in MPEG-4, IP-encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD, and designed for future value-added services. Avail Media possesses an extensive content library, including transport rights from the top national programmers, including ABC-Disney, Turner, NBC Universal, MTV Networks, Fox Cable Networks, which is complemented by its VOD rights from the major Hollywood movie studios, such as Buena Vista/Disney, DreamWorks, Lionsgate Films, MGM, NBC Universal, New Line Cinema, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros. Avail Media also offers a proprietary software suite, ViewTrak™, which allows both carriers and content providers the ability to track programming activations on a real-time basis. Avail Media's solutions have been designed for and are today used by digital video providers of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail Media has a solution to suit your digital media services requirements.
www.availmedia.com
buuteeq
buuteeq is the world’s first Digital Marketing System (DMS) for independent hotels. It fuses technology ingenuity with online marketing savvy to help hotels increase occupancy and reduce distribution costs by converting more direct reservations through online bookings. buuteeq’s DMS includes a content management system, multi-channel digital marketing, content publishing, online reservations, and integrated business intelligence. Hotels simply upload assets and data through an easy-to-use web-based ‘BackOffice’ and populate multiple digital marketing channels — from websites to Facebook to mobile apps, booking engines and more — automatically, using proven-effective formats. buuteeq was founded in February 2010 by former Microsoft executives Forest Key and Adam Brownstein and is headquartered in Seattle.
www.buuteeq.com
Calico Energy Services
Calico Energy Services offers a secure software platform that simplifies Smart Grid data management and services – providing customers with energy intelligence, improved efficiency, reduced costs, and increased profit through a unified solution.
Our flagship platform, Energy Intelligence Suite™, is an award-winning software service that provides modular solutions for Smart Grid integration and enablement. These include: energy data aggregation and analytics, command and control, demand side management, electric vehicle load management, rate programs, and intuitive technologies that engage residential, small business, and commercial customers in reducing energy use.
Calico’s solutions are delivered by our team of industry specialists, who lead an honest assessment to help you plan, integrate, and rapidly deploy a successful solution – from a single module that solves a specific energy challenge to a broad, turn-key platform.
http://www.calicoenergy.com
Carena
Carena combines the best of modern medicine and technology with the service and attention of an old fashioned house call. Our physicians provide the finest medical care available-24 hours a day, 7 days a week-at your home or place of work. By eliminating the delays and expense associated with an emergency room we can lower the total cost of care. Clients include self-insured employers, busy families and people that need immediate or chronic care outside of the clinic. Carena®: Health care that comes to you®.
www.carenamd.com
Cequint
Cequint provides enhanced caller ID services for the wireless carriers. The Company's patented City ID technology delivers comprehensive location information during an incoming call. City ID is designed for incorporation into products ranging from entry-level cellular handsets to advanced mobile smart phone devices. City ID adds value to this category of products, independent of the carrier network, by delivering location information to the user.
www.cequint.com
Cozi Group, Inc.
Located in Seattle, Cozi was founded by a group of Microsoft veterans with a vision of creating technology that would address the complex, dynamic needs of family life. Its first product, Cozi Central, is a software service that tracks, coordinates, and manages all the things busy families do. It combines a shared calendar, remotely-accessible shopping list management tool, messaging tools, and an engaging screensaver that displays digital family photos. Cozi Central is free to families.
www.cozi.com
Delafield Hambrecht, Inc.
Delafield Hambrecht, Inc. is the only full service investment bank headquartered in Seattle, Washington. We provide investment banking services to public and private companies, predominantly in the emerging growth markets of technology, healthcare and consumer products and retail. We provide investment advice to institutional investors through our research, sales and trading arms. We manage money for sophisticated investors in a series of asset management products.
www.delafieldhambrecht.com
DNA Response, Inc.
DNA Response, Inc. (DNA) provides turnkey e-Commerce, on-line marketing, and order management services to companies in the $300 Billion Direct Response market. Our clients sell products direct to consumers using TV, Radio, Print Catalogs, Web and mobile as their sales channels. DNA utilizes state-of-the art cloud computing technologies and services to improve operational efficiency by reducing transaction costs, eliminating credit card declines, and lowering order cancellations and product returns, while simultaneously increasing on-line revenue for our clients. DNA Response's ECOM2TM platform provides universal order management for processing orders in real time from all the sales channels with full visibility to the business for our clients. DNA generates incremental revenues and help build a brand for our clients by provides comprehensive e-Commerce and on–line marketing services. www.DNAResponse.com
Prepared Response
Prepared Response develops and maintains Web-based security applications to help save lives, mitigate property damage, and allow emergency response personnel to act quickly, decisively, and safely during any facility-related emergency incident. The Company, headquartered in the Pacific Northwest, was formed in September 2000.
www.preparedresponse.com
Pacific Star Communications
Pacific Star Communications delivers networking technologies to a global customer base. Founded in 2000, its proprietary product line is a leader in secured, deployable communications technologies for military, emergency preparedness, and corporate customers.
www.pacstar.com
Scout Analytics
Scout Analytics (formerly AdmitOne Security). Scout Analytics is a revenue optimization solution for digital publishers. Scout Analytics categorizes a visitor’s revenue potential and predicts revenue opportunities by ranking the visitor’s loyalty. The proven solution provides revenue optimization for both subscription and advertising models in a number of verticals, including information providers, media, and SaaS.
www.scoutanalytics.com
Sparkbuy Inc.
Sparkbuy is a comparison shopping engine for consumer electronics. Featuring over half a million data points about thousands of devices, Sparkbuy makes it ridiculously easy to shop for the perfect gadget.
sparkbuy.com
Sunstream
Sunstream specializes in enhancing the waterfront living experience by providing greater access and a fast, reliable gateway to boating for enthusiasts worldwide. As the largest hydraulic boat lift manufacturer, Sunstream's innovative, reliable lifts protect boats at virtually any mooring location and expedite deployment for a multitude of users, including recreational boaters, law enforcement agencies, and the US Navy and US Coast Guard.
www.sunstreamcorp.com
Swype, Inc.
Swype’s patented technology provides a faster and more intuitive way to input text on touch-screens. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the keyboard, users can enter text at over 40 words per minute. The company’s product is commercially available and ready for worldwide licensing and commercial deployment on all popular and proprietary touch screen platforms.
www.swypeinc.com
Zipline Games
Zipline Games is a Seattle based mobile games company and the creator of the Moai game development platform. Zipline was founded by game industry veterans experienced with the challenges of mobile games development, with the vision of making development faster and easier so developers can focus on creating innovative games with great game-play.
www.ziplinegames.com
Zoomingo, Inc.
Zoomingo was co-founded by Krishnan Seshadrinathan and Shirish Nadkarni, who also co-founded Livemocha, the world’s largest language learning website with more than 10 million users. Shirish also founded mobile email pioneer TeamOn, which was acquired by RIM in 2002. Zoomingo (which stands for “Zoom-in and go”) is a shopping discovery application that helps you find the best sales in local retail stores in town. Zoomingo catalogs thousands of actual items on sale at a store by store level at top retail chains such as Macys, JC Penney, Target, Nordstrom as well as smaller boutiques.
www.zoomingo.com