Inspovation Ventures

Inspovation: That magic moment when inspiration collides with innovation to launch a new opportunity or define a new path. We are a group of senior executives who provide advice and angel funding in mobile, SaaS and cloud computing.The partners and affiliates at Inspovation have built many companies and had the good fortune of taking a few public.... Our fondest memories are the earliest days of a company when we truly thought that our innovation would change the world and the entire team functioned as a close-knit family. This is the stage at which we choose to partner with startups. In addition to investing, we like to fill the gaps and be the partners on call for entrepreneurs starting new companies. We act as advisors and leverage our collective network for initial customer acquisition, recruiting, fundraising and more. Inspovation Ventures has so far had 22 investments and eight exits: Google acquired Appurify (app testing service) Apple acquired Swell (personalized news and entertainment on your smartphone) Google acquired Firebase (cloud tools and infrastructure to build better apps) Jive Communications acquired Vocalnet (affordable, customized cloud voice for business) Google acquired Flutter (gesture recognition technologies) Manpower Group acquired LearnUp (career management platform) Revcontent acquired Flipora (personalization and recommendations via machine learning) Lightbend acquired OpsClarity (advanced monitoring for application infrastructure) Other recent investments include: Credibase, Verbling, Next Force Technology, Haystack TV, Lemonade Factory, Synqq, ShopSocially and RefleXion. Inspovation invests up to $500K in selected start-ups and has streamlined the funding process to keep the time-to-investment to a minimum.Read More