Tyler Newton
Managing Partner @ Catalyst Investors
New York, United States
Tyler Newton is a Series B investor at Catalyst Investors in New York focused on Software and SaaS. Tyler Newton is based out of New York, New York and is the Managing Partner of Catalyst Investors and is the Board of Directors of Procurement Sciences AI. Tyler previously worked at The RepTrak Company as a Board Chair and Director. Tyler Newton attended the Middlebury College. Tyler Newton is a certified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (33%)
- SaaS 2 (13%)
- Medical 2 (13%)
- Health Care 2 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (27%)
- Series C 4 (27%)
- Series D 3 (20%)
- Series E 2 (13%)
- Private Equity 1 (7%)
Investments
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| Procurement Sciences AI is a Vertical AI SaaS that offers a transformative platform powered by advancements in generative AI. A growth-stage vertical AI SaaS company was disrupting the government contracting procurement process from start to finish with various AI tools, copilots, and autonomous agents. | $30M / Series B / Nov 05, 2025 | ||
| Rivet is fixing the adversarial relationship between healthcare providers and payers, arming providers with more sophistication and productivity to improve financial transparency and operational efficiency. | $20.5M / Series B / Jun 21, 2022 | ||
| BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time,distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York. | $100M / Series E / Oct 20, 2020 | ||
| Weave is the all-in-one customer communication and engagement platform for small business. From the first phone call to the final invoice and every touchpoint in between, Weave connects the entire customer journey. Weave’s software solutions transform how local businesses attract, communicate with and engage customers to grow their business. Thefirst Utah company to join Y Combinator, Weave has set the bar for Utah startup achievement & work culture. In the past year, Weave has been included in the Forbes Cloud 100, Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, and Glassdoor Best Places to Work. To learn more, visit www.getweave.com/newsroom/With over 15,000 customers, Weave was the first Utah company to join Y Combinator and has received several renowned awards, including the Fortune 100 Best Companies 2019, Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 and Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startups, the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, Glassdoor’s 2019 and 2020 Best Places to Work and 2019 Top CEOs. | $70M / Series D / Oct 24, 2019 | ||
| ChowNow is an ordering platform dedicated to helping local restaurants grow and compete in a sustainable way. ChowNow helps local restaurants thrive. By helping diners discover the restaurants' delicious creations and helping restaurants connect with customers. ChowNow powers branded online ordering systems for independent restaurants via therestaurants’ own websites, on Facebook and Google pages, through ChowNow-created apps, and via ChowNow’s website, while also providing the restaurant partners key customer insights and marketing support.The company does its services for a reasonable monthly fee, without the predatory third-party commissions charged by competitors. It also enables diners to connect with independent restaurants in communities to order takeout and in some cases delivery, in a way that’s sustainable and fair to restaurants.ChowNow was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Playa Vista, California. | $21M / Series C / May 08, 2019 | ||
| Weave is the all-in-one customer communication and engagement platform for small business. From the first phone call to the final invoice and every touchpoint in between, Weave connects the entire customer journey. Weave’s software solutions transform how local businesses attract, communicate with and engage customers to grow their business. Thefirst Utah company to join Y Combinator, Weave has set the bar for Utah startup achievement & work culture. In the past year, Weave has been included in the Forbes Cloud 100, Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, and Glassdoor Best Places to Work. To learn more, visit www.getweave.com/newsroom/With over 15,000 customers, Weave was the first Utah company to join Y Combinator and has received several renowned awards, including the Fortune 100 Best Companies 2019, Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 and Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startups, the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, Glassdoor’s 2019 and 2020 Best Places to Work and 2019 Top CEOs. | $37.5M / Series C / Dec 06, 2018 | ||
| Galvanize is a school for entrepreneurs, engineers, and data scientists. It is a learning community for technology with nine physical and two remote campuses, where innovative startups, aspiring students, and large enterprises benefit from this dynamic, unique business ecosystem. Galvanize is backed by investors including, but not limited to,Catalyst Investors, ABS Capital Partners, University Ventures, New Markets Venture Partners, and Colorado Impact Fund.The company was co-founded by Tony Mugavero, Chris Onan, Jim Deters, and Lawrence Mandes in 2012, and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. | $32M / Series C / Jul 19, 2018 | ||
| BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time,distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York. | $55M / Series D / Jun 28, 2018 | ||
| ChowNow is an ordering platform dedicated to helping local restaurants grow and compete in a sustainable way. ChowNow helps local restaurants thrive. By helping diners discover the restaurants' delicious creations and helping restaurants connect with customers. ChowNow powers branded online ordering systems for independent restaurants via therestaurants’ own websites, on Facebook and Google pages, through ChowNow-created apps, and via ChowNow’s website, while also providing the restaurant partners key customer insights and marketing support.The company does its services for a reasonable monthly fee, without the predatory third-party commissions charged by competitors. It also enables diners to connect with independent restaurants in communities to order takeout and in some cases delivery, in a way that’s sustainable and fair to restaurants.ChowNow was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Playa Vista, California. | $20M / Series B / Oct 24, 2017 | ||
| Weave is the all-in-one customer communication and engagement platform for small business. From the first phone call to the final invoice and every touchpoint in between, Weave connects the entire customer journey. Weave’s software solutions transform how local businesses attract, communicate with and engage customers to grow their business. Thefirst Utah company to join Y Combinator, Weave has set the bar for Utah startup achievement & work culture. In the past year, Weave has been included in the Forbes Cloud 100, Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, and Glassdoor Best Places to Work. To learn more, visit www.getweave.com/newsroom/With over 15,000 customers, Weave was the first Utah company to join Y Combinator and has received several renowned awards, including the Fortune 100 Best Companies 2019, Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 and Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startups, the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, Glassdoor’s 2019 and 2020 Best Places to Work and 2019 Top CEOs. | $23M / Series B / Sep 07, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Catalyst Investors
Catalyst employs a research-driven deal flow origination process to identify high-growth sectors and businesses within technology-enabled services. Catalyst targets growth-stage businesses with proven business models and attractive unit economics and sectors that are being driven by fundamental, long-term growth trends and have substantialaddressable markets. Catalyst makes both control and influential minority investments, typically has meaningful influence and board representation, and seeks to create value after investment through active involvement in creating, evaluating, and monitoring a portfolio company's business strategy, performance against budget, acquisition efforts, and capital structure evolution. Catalyst leverages its Advisory Group of seasoned industry professionals to provide portfolio companies with access to experienced industry executives and referrals to potential customers or strategic partners.
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Tyler Newton
Managing Partner
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Gene Wolfson
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What does Tyler Newton invest in?
Tyler Newton invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Medical startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 15 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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