Red Carpet Rollout: Meet Our Most Recent Investments

“Running a fund” doesn’t mean much without the companies we invest into. Finding companies is an adventure. Writing checks is always satisfying. BUT, getting to work alongside our founders to build something bigger  is THE BEST PART of the gig. 

For all the work that these companies do—before and after we meet them—it seems fitting to give them a little red carpet moment. So, here’s a quick recap of our recent investments. It’s a privilege to shine a little light on what they do and share our excitement for all that lies ahead. Without further delay, here they are:

Percent Pledge is a SaaS platform that radically simplifies workplace giving and volunteer programs for large and mid-size companies. Founder and CEO Joel Pollick created Percent Pledge with a vision to make it easier for companies of any size to engage employees who care about philanthropy and social impact in a meaningful way. 

While platforms of the past limited workplace giving to a narrow selection of options, Percent Pledge seamlessly connects employees with a broad spectrum of ways to give, enabling individual employees to carefully select and curate how heir individual charitable contributions and actions are routed, with just a few clicks. <more>

Boston-based veterinary biotech company Hilltop Bio offers a suite of regenerative therapies focused on helping four-legged animals reduce inflammation and heal from injuries or disease. 

When founder and CEO Amanda Drobnis–a lifelong horse rider–suffered a serious hip injury at the age of 29, her doctors gave her two options: a full hip replacement or an experimental treatment. Curious about the latest advancements in regenerative medicine, Amanda chose to experiment. Within a few weeks of treatment she was back on her feet and back in the saddle. 

After experiencing the benefits of regenerative therapy herself, Amanda set forth to use the same technology to develop products for animals. Today, Hilltop Bio sells a portfolio of products to veterinary practices across the country. The company is expanding with the release of new products and expansion from the equine market into the companion animals / canine market. <more>

Acceleron Bank is riding a wave of innovation that brings game-changing tech to credit unions and community banks, an underserved market that plays a critical role in the U.S. economy.  With their lead products, Acceleron offers a foreign exchange (FX) technology that enables small banks and credit unions to process foreign wires for their customers. Currently, these banks must outsource this service to larger banks, which makes the transaction slow for the end customer, as well as unprofitable for the community bank or credit union. 

We love this company’s focus on smaller banks and credit unions, the financial backbone of the U.S. small business economy. While large banks dominate the headlines (and the top end of the market), small businesses continue to choose smaller institutions for their business banking. Until recently, these institutions have been priced out of earlier waves of fintech innovation, curtailing the ways they pass the benefits on to the businesses they serve. It’s great to see that changing with innovators like Acceleron leading the charge! <more>

SmartConcil is a SaaS platform that simplifies and automates the monthly process of financial reconciliation by transforming how financial data is gathered, standardized, prepared, and presented for analysis. Without an automated way to do this, the grind of reconciliation has become paralyzing. SmartConcil eliminates the manual and repetitive reconciliation process, converting non-standard tasks into a standard flow; Collecting, categorizing, and matching information according to the business rules of each customer.  With SmartConcil, finance teams can rapidly integrate data from disparate sources and identify mismatched information in real time, increasing the reliability of financial metrics and dramatically reducing the time and effort spent each month on these tasks.

We are inspired and excited by the progress this team is making, both by serving a diversity of customers in the financial services industry and through their expansion into other markets. portfolio! <more>

And Still We Rise is a platform for delivering training and mental health programming to better support diverse communities in corporate, educational, and civic settings. Founder and CEO Natasha Holmes first created ASWR to provide counseling and therapy services to black & brown folks and other client groups underserved by traditional mental health resources. After building a successful  mental health practice, the company expanded to offer programmatic solutions for companies, universities, and government agencies that need better tools for supporting their constituents. Today, ASWR translates the best practices from clinical therapy into programmatic solutions that go beyond what internal HR or community relations departments are trained, qualified, or prepared to do.

This has become a serious and recognized problem for organizations, where people leaders tend to be generalists and lack the specialized training to respond to traumatic events. ASWR is part of a fast moving effort to bring cultural competency into mental wellness services. Their training and mental health support programming is like a SWAT team, trained to handle situations and diverse stakeholder groups in a way that the generalists cannot.  <more>

Beyond proud to support this amazing team as they bring their solutions to a national market! 

Boutiq offers an end-to-end revenue optimization solution for short-term rental investors. The platform seeks to help home buyers and real estate investors achieve the highest-possible ROI on luxury vacation rental home purchases. Boutiq essentially functions as a vertically integrated asset manager supercharged by Boutiq's proprietary ML / AI forecasting and pricing technology, providing customers with a full suite of services, such as research, underwriting, property setup & design, management, and other revenue optimization tools.

Boutiq then publishes properties through their platform as upscale short-term vacation rentals and lists them for rent to travelers under the Boutiq brand across platforms such as Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com, as well as their own direct-booking portal at Boutiq.co

For homeowners and real estate investors, Boutiq puts the "vacation" back in owning a vacation home and the "passive" back in earning passive rental income. <more>

More About RevUp Capital

RevUp Capital invests in B2B and B2C companies that are revenue-driven and ready to double down on growth. We deploy cash and capacity to help companies grow from $1-3M to $10-30M, quickly and efficiently, using a revenue-based model. Companies enter our portfolio with $500K-$3M in revenue, a strong growth rate, and a team that’s ready to scale. Our typical investment range is $300K-$500K.

We invest into a company's market-facing activity using a cash and capacity model. We pair our cash investment with dedicated support from the RevUp Growth Platform: a powerful resource to build a data-driven growth engine, delivered by people who get the work done. Rather than take equity, companies return investment through a small percentage of revenue over time. More at www.revupfund.com