Escalate Capital Partners
VC Fund
Austin, United States
Escalate Capital Partners is a leading mezzanine firm focused exclusively on providing capital to venture-backed expansion and late-stage companies within technology, life sciences and service based industries. The Escalate team combines experience in venture capital and commercial finance to deliver a broad array of senior, subordinated andmezzanine debt solutions that are less dilutive than equity and provide more flexibility than conventional debt from banks or asset-based lenders.As a company expands operations on a path to profitability, it should also look to broaden sources of capital beyond equity and traditional debt to achieve an optimal blend between overall cost and capital flexibility. Escalate's facilities are tailored to finance permanent working capital requirements, acquisitions and buy outs.Escalate can also structure syndicated transactions incorporating equity and debt through an extensive network of venture capital and debt financing partners.As a private debt fund with over $495 million in cumulative capital commitments, Escalate offers patient, stable capital tailored to each company’s unique needs. The Escalate investment team has 80+ years of combined experience and has invested more than $2 billion in over 500 companies.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
- Fund size:
- $282M
- Last fund:
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Industries Escalate Capital Partners invests in
SoftwareInformation TechnologySaaSHealth CareAnalytics
Stages Escalate Capital Partners invests in
Funding RoundDebt FinancingSeries BVenture - Series UnknownPrivate Equity
Countries Escalate Capital Partners invests in
United StatesAustralia
Contacts
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Chris Julich
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Larry Bradshaw
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Ross Cockrell
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Simon James
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Tony Schell
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (40%)
- Information Technology 5 (20%)
- SaaS 4 (16%)
- Health Care 4 (16%)
- Analytics 3 (12%)
Stage
- Funding Round 7 (28%)
- Debt Financing 6 (24%)
- Series B 4 (16%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (12%)
- Private Equity 2 (8%)
Country
- United States 19 (76%)
- Australia 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Chris Julich
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Larry Bradshaw
Team Member
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Team Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Ross Cockrell
Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Co-Founder and Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Simon James
CFO
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CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Tony Schell
Team Member
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Team Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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HPS / PayMedix
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PayMedix began as the healthcare payment platform for Health Payment Systems (HPS) in 2008. HPS, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a privately held healthcare technology and services organization with an independent network of 96 hospital facilities and 22,600 individual providers. PayMedix has processed more than $5 billion in medicalpayments for hospital systems and physician practices and can be implemented with any PPO or HMO network. | $16M / Private Equity / Jan 13, 2026 | |
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HPS / PayMedix
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PayMedix began as the healthcare payment platform for Health Payment Systems (HPS) in 2008. HPS, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a privately held healthcare technology and services organization with an independent network of 96 hospital facilities and 22,600 individual providers. PayMedix has processed more than $5 billion in medicalpayments for hospital systems and physician practices and can be implemented with any PPO or HMO network. | $17M / Debt Financing / Jan 13, 2026 | |
Optimize Health
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Optimize.health is a provider of a digital healthcare platform that enables the deployment of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) programs.It uses easy-to-use equipment and software. The software is designed to facilitate provider compliance when billing to new Medicare CPT codes for RPM while providing a great user experience for both patients andproviders. Its system is designed to be profitable for physicians starting in the first month.Chuks Onwuneme, Jeff LeBrun, and Otto Sipe established the company in Seattle, Washington in 2015. | $18M / Series B / Sep 30, 2023 | |
AeroSafe Global
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AeroSafe Global develops and produces aerogels and related materials for temperature-sensitive shipping needs in the United States. Its products are used in various thermal insulation applications to transport biomedical, pharmaceutical, and other temperature-sensitive products. The company provides a reliable, simple, and sustainable temperaturesensitive supply chain solutions to the world’s leading biopharma companies.AeroSafe Global delivers cold-chain services for the biopharma industry that results in zero temperature excursions for every client, every product, every time. With proprietary packaging, logistics, and operational services, the company builds customized solutions that ensure the safe delivery of temperature-sensitive biopharmaceuticals. | $43M / Aug 29, 2023 | |
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AeroSafe Global
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AeroSafe Global develops and produces aerogels and related materials for temperature-sensitive shipping needs in the United States. Its products are used in various thermal insulation applications to transport biomedical, pharmaceutical, and other temperature-sensitive products. The company provides a reliable, simple, and sustainable temperaturesensitive supply chain solutions to the world’s leading biopharma companies.AeroSafe Global delivers cold-chain services for the biopharma industry that results in zero temperature excursions for every client, every product, every time. With proprietary packaging, logistics, and operational services, the company builds customized solutions that ensure the safe delivery of temperature-sensitive biopharmaceuticals. | $78M / Private Equity / Aug 29, 2023 | |
Soundstripe
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Soundstripe is a provider of unlimited, royalty-free music, stock video, and sound effects for use in videos, podcasts, and other media projects. It is driven by a unique subscription model that lets content creators pay a fee for usage of all the media in Soundstripe’s catalog, with a la carte licenses also available. This approach has led to over6 million licenses being issued for tens of thousands of customers in over 140 countries since Soundstripe’s inception in 2016. The company is based in Nashville and was named to the Top 100 of the 2020 Inc. 5000 list, cementing its place as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. It was selected for The Tennessean’s Top Workplaces list in both 2019 and 2020, winning special awards for Values and Best in Leadership for co-founders Travis Terrell, Micah Sannan, and Trevor Hinesley. Soundstripe also won the Game-Changing Startup award in the Entertainment, Sports, and Media category at The Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s 2019 NEXT Awards, and was named one of the city’s Top 10 startup cultures by Powderkeg. For more information, visit soundstripe.com. | $9M / Series B / Aug 30, 2022 | |
Enboarder
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Enboarder is an onboarding and engagement platform that focuses on new hire experience and engagement rather than just tasks, forms and paperwork. The workflow engine accomplishes this by coaching managers via mobile phone at all stages during the onboarding process. It turns busy hiring managers into rock stars in the eyes of their new employeesby ensuring they know what to do to “wow their new hires”. For new employees, Enboarder delivers rich engaging content directly to their mobile phones from the moment they sign their offer letter. There are no applications to be downloaded, no usernames or logins. Enboarder just works…on any device. Best of all, HR can construct and build engaging workflows on their own, without requiring help or resources from IT, consultants or creative staff. Enboarder can be implemented rapidly and works seamlessly with your existing HR technology applications. | $32M / Series B / Feb 09, 2022 | |
ThreatQuotient
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ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. It provides Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators ofcompromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure.It improves the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations with a platform that accelerates and simplifies investigations and collaboration within and across teams and tools. Integrating an organization’s existing processes and technologies into a unified workspace, ThreatQuotient’s solutions reduce noise, highlight top priority threats, and automate processes to provide greater focus and decision support while maximizing limited resources. Its threat-centric approach supports multiple use cases including incident response, threat hunting, spear phishing, alert triage, and vulnerability management, and also serves as a threat intelligence platform.ThreatQuotient has been recognized for product excellence and industry leadership by several award programs in 2021. It has won four 2021 Globee Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, including Gold for Security Investigation, Silver for both Threat Intelligence Technology and Hot Security Company of the Year, and Bronze for Threat Hunting, Detection, Intelligence, and Response. ThreatQuotient also won three 2021 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Gold for Security Investigation, and Silver for both Threat Detection, Intelligence and Response, and Best Cybersecurity Company. Additionally, ThreatQuotient was recognized as McAfee Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year and the company was listed in the 2021 CRN Partner Program Guide.Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang. | $13M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 06, 2021 | |
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ThreatQuotient
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ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. It provides Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators ofcompromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure.It improves the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations with a platform that accelerates and simplifies investigations and collaboration within and across teams and tools. Integrating an organization’s existing processes and technologies into a unified workspace, ThreatQuotient’s solutions reduce noise, highlight top priority threats, and automate processes to provide greater focus and decision support while maximizing limited resources. Its threat-centric approach supports multiple use cases including incident response, threat hunting, spear phishing, alert triage, and vulnerability management, and also serves as a threat intelligence platform.ThreatQuotient has been recognized for product excellence and industry leadership by several award programs in 2021. It has won four 2021 Globee Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, including Gold for Security Investigation, Silver for both Threat Intelligence Technology and Hot Security Company of the Year, and Bronze for Threat Hunting, Detection, Intelligence, and Response. ThreatQuotient also won three 2021 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Gold for Security Investigation, and Silver for both Threat Detection, Intelligence and Response, and Best Cybersecurity Company. Additionally, ThreatQuotient was recognized as McAfee Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year and the company was listed in the 2021 CRN Partner Program Guide.Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang. | $9.5M / Debt Financing / Apr 06, 2021 | |
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AeroSafe Global
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AeroSafe Global develops and produces aerogels and related materials for temperature-sensitive shipping needs in the United States. Its products are used in various thermal insulation applications to transport biomedical, pharmaceutical, and other temperature-sensitive products. The company provides a reliable, simple, and sustainable temperaturesensitive supply chain solutions to the world’s leading biopharma companies.AeroSafe Global delivers cold-chain services for the biopharma industry that results in zero temperature excursions for every client, every product, every time. With proprietary packaging, logistics, and operational services, the company builds customized solutions that ensure the safe delivery of temperature-sensitive biopharmaceuticals. | $47.5M / Private Equity / Sep 10, 2020 | |
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FAQ
What does Escalate Capital Partners invest in?
Escalate Capital Partners invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Funding Round and Debt Financing stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Escalate Capital Partners?
The team at Escalate Capital Partners includes Chris Julich (Managing Director), Larry Bradshaw (Team Member) and Ross Cockrell (Co-Founder and Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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