Jim Savage
Partner @ Longworth Venture Partners
Boston, United States
Jim Savage is a Series A investor at Longworth Venture Partners in Boston focused on Software and SaaS. Jim Savage is Partner at Longworth Venture Partners, a Boston-based seed & early-stage investor. Before co-founding Longworth, Jim Savage spent 20 years launching and building internet & digital media companies. As CEO of PlanetAll, Inc., one of the first social networking services, Jim directed the company from its first round of venturefunding through to a successful acquisition by Amazon.com.Previously, Jim was a founding executive at ZDNet, a leading digital media company, which enjoyed a successful IPO and was later acquired by CBS. Before ZDNet, Jim was an Executive Vice President at Thomson (formerly Prentice Hall), where he managed the online services of the tax publishing division. Jim started his career managing digital media initiatives at McGraw-Hill.Jim's investments and board activities include Applause, Inc. (formerly uTest), OwnerIQ, Triblio, Straighterline, Estimize, Constant Contact (NASDAQ: CTCT), Olapic (Acquired by Monotype), Grab Networks (acquired by Blinkx), Softricity (acquired by Microsoft), Sermo (acquired by WorldOne), Moodlerooms (acquired by Blackboard) and Creative Market (acquired by Autodesk). Jim graduated from Harvard University.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
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Industries Jim Savage invests in
Stages Jim Savage invests in
Countries Jim Savage invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (23%)
- SaaS 2 (15%)
- Video 2 (15%)
- Content 2 (15%)
- Marketing 2 (15%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (31%)
- Seed 3 (23%)
- Series E 2 (15%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Series F 1 (8%)
Investments
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Applause
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Applause is a crowd-sourced digital quality testing enabling companies to deliver digital experiences to their customers. Software is at the heart of how all brands engage users, and digital experiences must work flawlessly everywhere. With 300,000+ testers available on-demand around the globe, Applause provides brands with a full suite of testingand feedback capabilities. This approach drastically improves testing coverage, eliminates the limitations of offshoring and traditional QA labs, and speeds time-to-market for websites, mobile apps, IoT, and in-store experiences.Thousands of leading companies — including Ford, Fox, Google, and Dow Jones — rely on Applause as a best practice to deliver high-quality digital experiences that customers love. It was founded in 2007 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States/ | $35M / Series F / Sep 14, 2016 | |
Olapic
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Olapic is a visual marketing platform that helps brands reach their consumers visually. With Olapic, users can collect, curate, create, and activate visual content, driving brand engagement to new heights. It is an enterprise, all-in-one user-generated, influencer, and short-form video content platform that provides content and scale users needwhile ensuring it’s optimized across all its marketing channels.It was established in 2010 and is headquartered in New York. | $15M / Series B / Jun 23, 2015 | |
Triblio
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Triblio account based marketing software enables marketers to create ABM campaigns to:Customize messaging, content, and CTAs by account segments: prospect vs. customer, product interest, content topic interest, firmagraphics, or funnel stageUnify marketing and sales messaging across corporate channels for specific account targetsConnectsales and email cross-sell/upsell campaigns across multiple channelsIncrease engagement of unknown contacts and visitors within target accountsDetermine purchase intent and contentinterest unknown and unknown visitor behavior by accountRequest a demo at http://www.triblio.com | $3.4M / Seed / Jun 05, 2014 | |
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Applause
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Applause is a crowd-sourced digital quality testing enabling companies to deliver digital experiences to their customers. Software is at the heart of how all brands engage users, and digital experiences must work flawlessly everywhere. With 300,000+ testers available on-demand around the globe, Applause provides brands with a full suite of testingand feedback capabilities. This approach drastically improves testing coverage, eliminates the limitations of offshoring and traditional QA labs, and speeds time-to-market for websites, mobile apps, IoT, and in-store experiences.Thousands of leading companies — including Ford, Fox, Google, and Dow Jones — rely on Applause as a best practice to deliver high-quality digital experiences that customers love. It was founded in 2007 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States/ | $43M / Series E / Jan 14, 2014 | |
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Olapic
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Olapic is a visual marketing platform that helps brands reach their consumers visually. With Olapic, users can collect, curate, create, and activate visual content, driving brand engagement to new heights. It is an enterprise, all-in-one user-generated, influencer, and short-form video content platform that provides content and scale users needwhile ensuring it’s optimized across all its marketing channels.It was established in 2010 and is headquartered in New York. | $5M / Series A / Jul 30, 2013 | |
Kitsy Lane
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Kitsy Lane is a marketing platform where boutique owners can customize their own online storefront and promote it in social networks. Kitsy Lane empowers Boutique Owners to run their own online jewelry and accessories boutique on their own time – and make money while they're at it. Thanks to an easy-to-use, innovative marketing platform,Boutique Owners get to customize their own online storefront, choose the pieces they want to sell, give personal shopping advice, and promote fabulous finds across their social networks. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts. | $3.5M / Series A / Jan 09, 2013 | |
Jeeng
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Jeeng is bringing the power of AI and data intelligence to digital publishers with our proprietary solutions for driving audience engagement and revenue. Our dynamic team of automation and data experts is delivering transformative data-driven engagement strategies to the fast-changing publishing industry.Our unique content personalizationsolution is the only one of its kind that leverages first-party, opt-in data to help publishers build loyal, engaged, 1:1 subscriber relationships. With our platform, publishers can end their reliance on the walled gardens of search and social media and move beyond cookies to more accurately curate content and ads and deliver them directly to subscribers at the right time, on the right channel.Named a Fast Growth Icon, an Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Company, a Crain’s Fast 50 and Red Herring 100 Winner, Jeeng fuels the multichannel messaging strategy for over 700 publishers, including The Atlantic, Crain’s Harper Collins, and Vox Media. With a proven track record for growth, we’ve seen a solid 165% CAGR over the last 5 years, and we invest heavily in R&D with over 50% of our global team working directly in technology development. | $10M / Series A / Nov 28, 2012 | |
Estimize
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Estimize is an online crowdsourcing platform that shares and reviews fundamental financial estimates from independent, buy-side, and sell-side analysts, along with those of private investors and students. It acts as an online community and discussion forum for hedge funds and asset management professionals to interact and get a true view of marketexpectations. Estimize is also available on major financial research platforms such as Bloomberg, Quantopian, and more. The platform was launched in 2011 and its operations are based in New York, United States. | $1.2M / Series A / Sep 11, 2012 | |
OwnerIQ
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OwnerIQ provides online advertising solutions and marketing channels for brands, retailers, and manufacturers. It offers Path to Purchase Targeting solution that enables users to reach potential customers online by targeting them in various phases of purchases, such as in-market shopping, intent, ownership, and duress as well as drives new onlinecustomers; Retailer Targeted Marketing solution that provides advertisers with data and transparency to their targeted media campaigns as well as transforms online retailers into targeted audience segments; and Vendor Targeted Marketing solution that enables retail advertisers to reach audiences as well as creates online marketing channels to reach in-market shoppers and drive greater sales.In addition, the company provides reporting suites such as campaign performance and purchase intent impact reports as well as product ownership and intender network trends reports that offers advertisers and partners with insight into in-market shopping behavior, consumer brand and product preferences, and retail channel activity.OwnerIQ was founded in 2006 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | $7.5M / Series E / Jul 02, 2012 | |
Creative Market
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Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets, including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes, from independent creators around the world. | $1.3M / Jun 07, 2012 | |
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Co-Investors
About Longworth Venture Partners
Longworth Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that has led investments in some innovative and successful technology companies.Our fund size and investment strategy allow us to put the right amount of money to work at the right time -- whether an initial seed-stage investment (e.g., $250,000) or a larger growth round (e.g., $4 million).We have the resources to help you through the entire lifecycle of your company.When we invest in a company, we work closely with the executive team as board members and active advisors. To us, that means helping you succeed without getting in the way. It also means committing time and resources when you need support. From introductions to customer prospects, to recruiting team members, to help with strategy, we strive to have a meaningful impact on the success of your business.
Longworth Venture Partners Contacts
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Jim Savage
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Paul Margolis
Partner
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David Nanto
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What does Jim Savage invest in?
Jim Savage invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Video startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Jim Savage last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jim Savage closed in Sep 2016. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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