Leading Edge Ventures
VC Fund
Newark, United States
Leading Edge Ventures is a VC fund in Newark focused on Software and Analytics. Seed & early stage venture capital investment
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Leading Edge Ventures invests in
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologySaaSMedical
Stages Leading Edge Ventures invests in
Series ASeedPre-SeedFunding Round
Countries Leading Edge Ventures invests in
United States
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Ashley Abney
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Jeff Davison
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Vance Kershner
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (50%)
- Analytics 3 (38%)
- Information Technology 3 (38%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
- Medical 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (50%)
- Seed 2 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Ashley Abney
Chief Executive Member
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Chief Executive Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jeff Davison
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Vance Kershner
General Partner & Founder
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General Partner & Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Pliant.io
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Pliant orchestrates end-to-end automation and connectivity processes. Pliant empowers the digital enterprise to modernize and transform with one unified API-driven platform. Our approach differs from other solutions by providing a strategic, powerful platform that spans departments, technologies, and domains. | $10M / Series A / May 06, 2021 | |
Tangen Biosciences
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Tangen Biosciences LLC develops medical instrument that provides rapid nucleic acid detection, with the specificity and sensitivity of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification. | Series A / Jun 20, 2019 | |
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Pliant.io
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Pliant orchestrates end-to-end automation and connectivity processes. Pliant empowers the digital enterprise to modernize and transform with one unified API-driven platform. Our approach differs from other solutions by providing a strategic, powerful platform that spans departments, technologies, and domains. | $2.4M / Pre-Seed / May 21, 2019 | |
scaleMatters
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scaleMatters is a data-FIRST business intelligence company that helps SaaS and subscription businesses reduce customer acquisition costs and unleash rapid growth.Too many SaaS companies are flying blind, wasting upwards of 50% of their sales and marketing dollars on fruitless strategies, broken processes, and underperforming people.Fundamentally, CEOs and revenue leaders lack the accurate data and insights they need to make good decisions and instead operate on intuition and gut feel.scaleMatters’ comprehensive approach to data integrity, business intelligence, and insights transforms SaaS companies into high performing sales and marketing engines.Our business intelligence platform, SellScience™, enables CEOs and revenue leaders to easily understand the end-to-end cost effectiveness of their customer acquisition strategies and invest their sales and marketing dollars more efficiently.This approach has proven to reduce CAC for SaaS companies by 25-75%, freeing up that capital for accelerating growth and/or increasing profitability. | $2.9M / Seed / Mar 31, 2019 | |
HighQA
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HighQA is a Software Platform for Manufacturing Quality Inspection. Automate your inspection process, cut costs, improve cross-department communication and enable supply chain collaboration. Use Inspection Manager to extract manufacturing and inspection requirements from any 2D blueprint, CAD drawing or 3D model and instantly create a database ofyour projects, generate reports and effectively manage inspection schedules. Inspection Manager helps you manage project details, deadlines and reports for a smoother and expedited delivery to your customers. | $2M / Series A / Dec 01, 2018 | |
Othot
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Othot is an advanced analytics solution for higher education institutions. It is an artificial intelligence solution that enables colleges and universities to optimize the relationship between the institution and the individual throughout the entire student-to-alumni lifecycle. It was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | $3.5M / Series A / Jun 13, 2018 | |
BeneFix
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In a part of the country where it’s more common to see an Amish buggy than an electric car, BeneFix, an insurTech start-up, is working to change how health insurance brokers manage small group benefits with their simple, speedy, and secure technology. BeneFix offers health insurance brokers a digital platform that delivers 100% accurate quotes100 times faster. Based in Lancaster, Pa., BeneFix manages data from thousands of plans offered by major carriers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, offering quotes in minutes from a simple-to-use online interface reminiscent of Zillow.Less than two years after founder Matt Ranauro first had the idea for the platform, the business had a brick-and-mortar office in Lancaster City, over 1,000 customers, and, most recently, became one of nine central Pennsylvania finalists competing for a $100,000 investment from AOL co-founder Steve Case’s “Rise of the Rest” initiative. The success is due, Ranauro believes, to three factors. First, his own passion for the product. Ranauro has co-founded several tech companies, most notably ILL Co., a company that has built apps for HBO and Nickelodeon, analytics platforms for KPMG and products for the Mayo Clinic.With each company, Ranauro needed to find health insurance for himself and his co-founders and employees. “It took about two months just to find out what was available, then get enrolled in those products.” He said. “Which seems crazy, right? In 2017?”The question became: how do we streamline this and make it a better experience for everyone?Ranauro’s previous experience is the second factor that contributes to the success and growth of BeneFix. The final is the Insurtech industry itself. With insurance, and health insurance particularly, still lagging behind other industries in terms of using and creating technologies that work, the Insurtech industry, a $4.5 trillion industry, has attracted the attention of venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs alike.Lancaster (Ranauro’s hometown) may be Amish country, full of farms, buggies and country roads, but BeneFix is out to prove that it’s also fertile soil for creating a company that will revolutionize the health insurance industries’ outdated model. | $2M / Seed / Apr 10, 2018 | |
redIq
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redIQ transforms static property data into actionable intelligence. Using sophisticated data parsing and processing tools, we allow clients to quickly and accurately extract the vast troves of rent roll and operating data from the files they receive in seconds rather than hours. This data is immediately aggregated and analyzed using cutting-edgedata visualization tools to provide unique insights. Clients can then share controlled subsets of that information in a dynamic, easy-to-consume format.It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | $900K / Apr 14, 2015 |
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FAQ
What does Leading Edge Ventures invest in?
Leading Edge Ventures invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 8 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 Leading Edge Ventures?
The team at Leading Edge Ventures includes Ashley Abney (Chief Executive Member), Jeff Davison (General Partner) and Vance Kershner (General Partner & Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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