Garland Capital Group
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Garland Capital Group is an investment firm that facilitates growth-focused equity investments in high-growth companies. It creates opportunities for growth-stage companies to successfully launch industry-disrupting products and services in traditional markets. The firm also involves in the process of collaborating and teaching entrepreneurs onvarious factors, including how to run their businesses, lead teams, build a client or customer base, and know when to scale.Garland Capital Group was founded in 2012 by Gary Holdren, former president and chief executive officer at Huron Consulting Group. It is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Garland Capital Group invests in
Stages Garland Capital Group invests in
Countries Garland Capital Group invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Gary Holdren
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (75%)
- Mobile 2 (50%)
- Finance 2 (50%)
- Apps 1 (25%)
- SaaS 1 (25%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (75%)
- Seed 1 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gary Holdren
Founder and CEO
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Founder and CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
TurboAppeal
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Founded in 2015, TurboAppeal provides sophisticated, yet simple property tax appeal services that combine exceptional customer service with the best in class technology to make the process of appealing each year intelligent and seamless. At our core, the machine-learning algorithm gets more accurate and smarter as we do more and more appeals,meaning that we are only improving. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, each year we are opening up more offices throughout the country. | $4M / Series A / Oct 04, 2016 | |
Shiftgig
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Shiftgig is a technology company that helps staffing agencies transform the way people work.Our flagship digital staffing software, Deploy, helps staffing firms empower their workforce to browse and claim work that fit their skills and schedules. We also give agencies deep insights into their clients and workers, allowing you to focus onstrategic growth and coaching by eliminating repetitive tasks of running day-to-day operations. To learn more, visit shiftgig.com. | $11M / Series A / Nov 13, 2014 | |
Coolfire
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Coolfire provides connected workstream collaboration software to enhance real-time event awareness, control, and response. By eliminating the barriers between operational teams and data, Coolfire empowers people to make better decisions faster. Connected teams see events as they happen, access highly organized workspaces with critical event data,and allow the assigned team to coordinate a response. By integrating cross-functional teams, assets, and event data into a common operational picture, organizations can orchestrate tasks, people and resources with greater visibility before, during and after the event. Built for the speed of the US Special Forces and for the scale of Enterprise Rent-A-Car. | $3.3M / Seed / Oct 27, 2014 | |
SimpleRelevance
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SimpleRelevance's machine learning technology was acquired in December 2015 by Rise Interactive. To see more information about Rise, visit their page here: www.riseinteractive.comRead more about the machine learning technology below.SimpleRelevance is the only machine learning platform that leverages your existing tools and workflow topersonalize your digital marketing messages. SimpleRelevance is the only multi-channel optimization platform that uses internal and external data to automate and execute smarter marketing messages. SimpleRelevance combines customers’ behavioral, demographic, and psychographic data, with patent-pending technology to create digital marketing messages that are individually personalized down to the time of day the message is sent, subject line, and product recommendations shown. The result? Higher conversions, sales, and ROI. | $750K / Series A / May 23, 2013 |
Co-Investors
Hyde Park Venture Partners
2 deals together
Lakewest Venture Partners
2 deals together
Billiken Angels Network
1 deal together
Camber Creek
1 deal together
Chicago Ventures
1 deal together
Corazon Capital
1 deal together
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What does Garland Capital Group invest in?
Garland Capital Group invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 4 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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The team at Garland Capital Group includes Gary Holdren (Founder and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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