Investment to elevate AI, as company continues to accelerate growth strategy of empowering insurance brokers to bind more policies in less time for businesses

NEW YORK, April 17, 2025 — 1Fort, the AI platform for business insurance, today announced it has raised $7.5 million in an oversubscribed funding round led by Bonfire Ventures. The round also included Draper Associates (Tim Draper); Karim Atiyeh, the founder of Ramp; and participation from all existing VCs: Village Global, Operator Partners, 8-Bit Capital, Character VC and Company Ventures. This latest round brings the 1Fort total funding to $10 million.

Insurance brokers and agents face manual, time-consuming processes when serving businesses. Yet 70% of businesses still rely on them for coverage, according to the Hiscox. Despite this reliance, 75% remain underinsured—leaving nearly 24 million businesses exposed as risks grow in severity and frequency with advancing technologies, such as cyber attacks and supply chain disruptions.

1Fort solves these challenges by empowering brokers to bind more top-tier insurance policies for businesses faster using AI. The platform leverages AI to automate various broker workflows, including autofilling insurance applications, retrieving quotes from carriers; comparing coverages; and integrating payment and financing options. Brokers who use 1Fort save on average up to two hours per submission and increase their bind rate by up to 20 percent. Brokers also better retain clients with 1Fort’s complementary risk management software, which businesses manage their policies and proactively prevent claims or losses.

1Fort grew revenue nearly 200% month-over-month in 2024, and has already partnered with over a dozen leading brokerages and A-rated carriers, including Arch, Tokio Marine HCC and Markel. The funding will allow 1Fort to continue to improve the broker experience through AI innovations and talent acquisition and further expand partnerships with carriers and brokers.

“Our mission is to help every business obtain the financial protection they need to keep up with today’s fast-moving risks, and empowering insurance brokers with AI to automate their antiquated workflows is the way to achieving it,” said Anthony Marshi, 1Fort Co-Founder and CEO. “This investment will allow us to grow even faster by doubling down on our AI features and strengthening our broker and carrier partnerships. We’re grateful for our investors who share our vision in transforming business insurance.”

“1Fort has been a great resource for our team, allowing us to move even faster and deliver great products for our clients,” said Travis Hedge, Co-Founder of Vouch, a leading VC-backed broker for startups from idea to IPO.

“Building AI-powered, service-as-software solutions to modernize legacy workflows in the insurance vertical is one of today’s most exciting opportunities,” said Jim Andelman, Bonfire Ventures Co-Founder and Managing Director. “1Fort has already built impressive momentum and is poised to revolutionize this trillion-dollar market.”

Brokers can quote directly for their appointed markets or receive wholesale access to Cyber, Tech E&O, Professional and Management liability insurance. 1Fort is licensed in all 50 states and has partnered with more than a dozen A-rated carriers.

About 1Fort 
1Fort is a leading VC-backed insurtech leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to automate business insurance for brokers. Hundreds of leading independent insurance brokers use 1Fort to save time and earn more on placing business insurance. With a dedicated team and strong backing, 1Fort is on a mission to build the AI platform for the future of business insurance.

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Funding from Menlo Ventures powers Goodfire’s mission to decode the neurons of AI models, reshaping how they’re understood and designed

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2025 — Today, Goodfire, the leading AI interpretability research company, announced a $50 million Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Anthropic, B Capital, Work-Bench, Wing, South Park Commons, and other notable investors. This funding, which comes less than one year after its founding, will support the expansion of Goodfire’s research initiatives and the development of the company’s flagship interpretability platform, Ember, in partnership with customers.

“AI models are notoriously nondeterministic black boxes,” said Deedy Das, investor at Menlo Ventures. “Goodfire’s world-class team—drawn from OpenAI and Google DeepMind—is cracking open that box to help enterprises truly understand, guide, and control their AI systems.”

Despite remarkable advances in AI, even leading researchers have little idea of how neural networks truly function. This knowledge gap makes neural networks difficult to engineer, prone to unpredictable failures, and increasingly risky to deploy as these powerful systems become harder to guide and understand.

“Nobody understands the mechanisms by which AI models fail, so no one knows how to fix them,” said Eric Ho, co-founder and CEO of Goodfire. “Our vision is to build tools to make neural networks easy to understand, design, and fix from the inside out. This technology is critical for building the next frontier of safe and powerful foundation models.”

To solve this critical problem, Goodfire is investing significantly in mechanistic interpretability research – the relatively nascent science of reverse engineering neural networks and translating those insights into a universal, model-agnostic platform. Known as Ember, Goodfire’s platform decodes the neurons inside of an AI model to give direct, programmable access to its internal thoughts. By moving beyond black-box inputs and outputs, Ember unlocks entirely new ways to apply, train, and align AI models — allowing users to discover new knowledge hidden in their model, precisely shape its behaviors, and improve its performance.

“As AI capabilities advance, our ability to understand these systems must keep pace. Our investment in Goodfire reflects our belief that mechanistic interpretability is among the best bets to help us transform black-box neural networks into understandable, steerable systems—a critical foundation for the responsible development of powerful AI,” said Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-Founder of Anthropic.

Looking ahead, Goodfire is accelerating its interpretability research through targeted initiatives with frontier model developers. By closely partnering with industry innovators, Goodfire will rapidly enhance and solidify the application of interpretability research. “Partnering with Goodfire has been instrumental in unlocking deeper insights from Evo 2, our DNA foundation model,” said Patrick Hsu, co-founder of Arc Institute – one of Goodfire’s earliest collaborators. “Their interpretability tools have enabled us to extract novel biological concepts that are accelerating our scientific discovery process.”

The company also plans to release additional research previews, highlighting state-of-the-art interpretability techniques across diverse fields such as image processing, advanced reasoning language models, and scientific modeling. These efforts promise to reveal new scientific insights and fundamentally reshape our understanding of how we can interact with and leverage AI models.

The Goodfire team unites top AI interpretability researchers and experienced startup operators from organizations like OpenAI and Google DeepMind. Goodfire’s researchers helped found the field of mechanistic interpretability, authoring three of the most-cited papers and pioneering advancements like Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) for feature discovery, auto-interpretability frameworks, and revealing the hidden knowledge in AI models.

About Goodfire
Goodfire is an AI interpretability research company and public benefit corporation based in San Francisco, dedicated to understanding and intentionally designing advanced AI systems. Backed by Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Anthropic, B Capital, Work-Bench, Wing, South Park Commons, and others, Goodfire believes advances in interpretability will unlock the next frontier of safe and powerful foundation models. Learn more at goodfire.ai and x.com/goodfireAI.

About Menlo Ventures
Menlo Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital firm investing at the forefront of AI. Our portfolio includes more than 80 public companies and over 165 exits through mergers and acquisitions since our founding nearly 50 years ago. Currently managing more than $6 billion in assets, we invest at every stage across Consumer, Enterprise, and Healthcare. Our portfolio companies include Abnormal Security, Anthropic, Benchling, Carta, Chime, Harness, Pinecone, Poshmark, Pillpack, Recursion, Roku, Rover, Siri, Typeface, Uber, and Warby Parker. We strive to have a positive impact on everything we do. When we’re in, we’re ALL IN.

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DENVER, April 17, 2025 — Equitage Ventures, an early-stage AgeTech venture capital firm investing in technology and technology-enabled services companies in senior care, has announced the final close of a new $47.3 million fund providing capital, distribution, and strategic guidance to entrepreneurs addressing the unmet physical, mental, spiritual, and social needs of older adults.

This is the first fund for Equitage, led by an investment team with many decades of experience investing in and operating senior care businesses that includes Russell Hirsch, a co-founder of Generator Ventures; Adam Kaplan, CEO of Solera Senior Living; and Daniel Kaplan, an investor who also worked with Generator Ventures.

Equitage’s limited partner capital spans the care continuum, including senior living and skilled nursing operators, home health and hospice agencies, and home care leaders, as well as corporates from healthcare technology, healthcare real estate, and consumer products. The firm leverages this extensive network to connect portfolio companies with key customers, strategic partners, top-tier talent, and seasoned advisors, empowering them to scale rapidly and deliver their needed, impactful solutions to more older adults and families.

The firm is actively seeking to invest in companies that will truly transform healthcare and is deploying capital into themes where it sees urgent need, real opportunity or long-term transformation. This includes compliance infrastructure for senior housing and skilled nursing facilities, documentation automation for home and facility-based care, passive monitoring, oral health, dementia and behavioral health, care navigation, and family caregiving. This first fund will target early-stage tech and services companies, allowing Equitage to back best-in-class founders and executives operating in markets where the firm believes it can add the most value.

Equitage is eager to meet with companies building the next-generation senior care companies and encourages founders to proactively reach out at any stage to discuss funding opportunities. Please contact EquitageVC.com for more information regarding the firm and the Equitage I fund.

About Equitage
Equitage is an early-stage AgeTech venture capital firm investing in technology and technology-enabled services companies in senior care. The firm provides capital, distribution, and strategic guidance to entrepreneurs addressing the unmet physical, mental, spiritual, and social needs of older adults. For more information on Equitage, visit EquitageVC.com.

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SEOUL, South Korea, April 17, 2025 — t’order, a leader in the Korean restaurant tech space, has officially launched its Series C fundraising round, targeting $50 million USD from both domestic and global investors. While the identities of participating institutions remain undisclosed, the round has attracted significant interest from a range of investors, including leading venture capital firms, private equity firms, and financial institutions. To guide the process, t’order has appointed Samil PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers Korea), the nation’s largest accounting and advisory firm, as its exclusive financial advisor.

Founded in 2019, t’order has quickly become Korea’s leading table-ordering platform, transforming the dining experience with its cutting-edge, fully digital ordering and payment system. The company has installed over 260,000 tablets nationwide, driving a monthly GMV (gross merchandise volume) exceeding $317 million USD, positioning itself as a dominant force in Korea’s restaurant tech sector. With more than $7.4 billion USD in cumulative transaction volume processed to date, t’order is poised for continued growth and innovation.

Currently valued at approximately $220 million USD, t’order has evolved into a comprehensive digital operating system for restaurants, driving significant improvements in operational efficiency, unlocking new revenue streams, and enhancing the overall customer experience. t’order has successfully completed integrations with major POS providers Toast and Clover, paving the way for its U.S. market entry. These integrations provide a seamless experience for North American restaurant operators and chains, further strengthening t’order’s position in the global market.

A key growth driver for t’order is its in-tablet advertising business, which delivers over 3 billion ad impressions monthly across more than 25 million orders. This advertising channel is gaining significant attention as a powerful offline medium, engaging customers during the average 85-minute dwell time at restaurant tables. t’order is also collaborating with large enterprise advertisers to develop real-time, data-driven ad campaigns based on factors such as table size, product type, location, and demographic profiles, ushering in a new era of targeted in-venue marketing.

In 2024, t’order raised $23 million USD in its Series B round, backed by Korea Development Bank, LB Investment, No & Partners, and Eugene Investment & Securities. The funds were used to accelerate product innovation, develop advanced table-ordering devices, enhance R&D for AI-driven personalization and data analytics, and scale nationwide deployment.

With this Series C round, t’order aims to strengthen its leadership in Korea while expanding into new verticals and international markets. Leveraging its extensive dataset, the company plans to provide personalized insights and decision-support tools to restaurateurs, solidifying its position as a category-defining player in global foodservice tech.

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Former Confluent and Salesforce Executive Joins Experienced Business Leaders Validating Company’s AI-Driven Approach to Service Resolution

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 17, 2025 — Neuron7.ai, the leader in AI for service resolution intelligence, today announced the appointment of Genesys Chief Sales Officer (CSO) Larry Shurtz to its board of directors. Shurtz brings more than 25 years of experience building high-performing go-to-market and commercial organizations at leading technology companies, including Confluent, Salesforce and Oracle.

As CSO at Genesys, a global cloud leader in AI-Powered Experience Orchestration, Shurtz leads the company’s global go-to-market strategies, including commercial activities, field sales, the partner ecosystem and demand generation. Prior to Genesys, Shurtz was the Chief Revenue Officer at Confluent, where he grew revenue more than 60%. Previously Shurtz spent a decade at Salesforce, where he led a 1,300-person team to $2.1 billion in revenue.

“Larry’s background and strategic insight perfectly align with Neuron7’s mission,” said Neuron7.ai CEO Niken Patel. “His leadership, developed at some of the world’s most influential companies, will be instrumental in helping Neuron7 deliver breakthrough growth and exceptional customer outcomes.”

“Service organizations are under significant pressure to deliver growth and profits while staying ahead of rising customer expectations, necessitating new AI-driven approaches focused on helping people resolve issues,” said Shurtz. “I’ve been impressed with Neuron7’s ability to deliver significant value and impact for their customers and look forward to helping them execute on their vision for resolution intelligence.”

Shurtz joins Neuron7’s impressive list of advisors and investors, including Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, and Keith Block, former co-CEO of Salesforce whose Smith Point Capital led the company’s recent $55 million Series B funding round.

Neuron7 recently received the Service Council 2024 Global Service Innovation Award and counts several Fortune 1000 as customers. The company’s approach to AI-driven service transformation is improving service operations and delivering tangible business benefits. Companies leveraging Neuron7 are achieving 90+% AI resolution accuracy, 46% faster case resolution times and millions of dollars in service cost savings.

About Neuron7.ai
Neuron7 is the leader in Service Resolution Intelligence, helping customers achieve 90%+ resolution accuracy faster. By bringing together knowledge from thousands of people, vast data sources and interactions across your service environment, Neuron7 creates a Smart Resolution Hub. AI guides your teams through the best next steps with turn-by-turn guidance in your CRM, chat or other existing workflow. Customers resolve issues faster, the first time and get answers in seconds. Neuron7’s solutions are purpose-built for complex service environments, including medical devices, high tech and industrial equipment, providing a single system of intelligence across self-service, call centers, technical support, field service and engineering. Neuron7 is backed by Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, Smith Point Capital and ServiceNow Ventures. Learn more at neuron7.ai.

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NEW YORK, April 17, 2025 — Book an Author, a tech-driven marketplace simplifying author discovery, event booking, book fairs, and bulk sales, has been chosen to participate in the 2025 Gold House Ventures Founder Fellowship In partnership with New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). This highly selective program provides exceptional diverse-led startups with mentorship, funding opportunities, and strategic resources to accelerate growth. 

Book an Author is revolutionizing traditional publishing by making authentic storytelling more accessible. The platform empowers educators and event organizers with time-saving tools to bring authentic storytelling experiences to their communities while creating new revenue streams for authors and publishers.

“As someone with experience in both education and publishing, I’ve witnessed the challenges schools face connecting with authors and the difficulties writers encounter reaching audiences,” said Yobe Qiu, CEO and Co-Founder of Book an Author. “Through this fellowship with Gold House and NYCEDC, we’re gaining invaluable mentorship to address these pain points systemically.” 

Serena Li, COO and Co-Founder, added: “This fellowship arrives at a crucial growth stage for our company. Becoming a Gold House Ventures Founder Fellow connects us with a powerful community that shares our vision for democratizing access to diverse stories. Their support will help us scale responsibly while maintaining our commitment to equity in the literary world.” 

The Gold House Ventures Founder Fellowship is renowned for identifying and accelerating the most promising diverse-led startups. Book an Author’s selection recognizes its potential to reshape the literary landscape through technology. 

About Book an Author
Book an Author is a tech-powered marketplace that simplifies connecting with authors for school visits, speaking engagements, and bulk book purchases. To learn more, visit https://www.bookanauthor.com/

About Gold House Ventures
Gold House Ventures (GHV) invests in early stage Asian Pacific founded startups, which produced one-third of unicorns in the last two decades and one-half of IPOs in the last two years. GHV’s in-house accelerator has graduated 115+ startups that have raised $2b since 2020; placed 100+ multicultural board members and advisors at startups; and convened the world’s leading celebrities, creative franchises, and promotional opportunities to help its portfolio build and scale. To learn more, please visit https://goldhouse.org/founderfellowship/

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PENNINGTON, N.J. and QUÉBEC, April 16, 2025 — Zynext Ventures USA LLC (Zynext Ventures), the venture capital arm of Zydus Lifesciences (Zydus), today announced its investment in Feldan Therapeutics (Feldan), a Canada-based early clinical-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering the development of treatments based on intracellular delivery of therapeutics.

Feldan’s proprietary Shuttle peptide technology enables the efficient and targeted delivery of biomolecules into cells, unlocking new therapeutic possibilities. The company’s lead candidate, FLD-103, is administered directly into basal cell carcinoma (BCC) lesions, where the Shuttle peptide facilitates the delivery of a Hedgehog inhibitor to its target within BCC cells. This innovative approach aims to provide BCC patients with a non-surgical treatment option that improves outcomes and significantly enhances their quality of life. Additionally, Feldan is advancing a pulmonary program that leverages the Shuttle’s unique ability to transport biomolecules into hard-to-deliver lung cells to address the unmet and growing medical needs of patients with respiratory diseases.

Speaking on the development, Dr. Sharvil Patel, MD of Zydus Lifesciences, said, “At Zydus, we are committed towards advancing the development of novel therapeutics to addressing critical gaps in healthcare through innovation. We are pleased to support Feldan in exploring a potentially safe and targeted option for patients with dermatological and pulmonary disease and help them lead a better quality of life.”

Jay Kothari, Director of Zynext Ventures, highlighted, “Feldan’s platform has the potential to transform intracellular delivery and pioneer next-generation therapeutics, aligning with the disruptive innovations we aim to add to our portfolio.”

“This partnership with Zynext Ventures marks an exciting step forward in our commitment to improve patients’ quality of life and address critical drug delivery challenges,” said François-Thomas Michaud, CEO of Feldan Therapeutics. “With Zynext Ventures’ strategic expertise and shared dedication to innovation, we are well-positioned to accelerate the development of next-generation therapies.”

About Zynext Ventures

Zynext Ventures is the investment arm of Zydus Lifesciences. The venture capital firm focuses on identifying and investing in promising early-stage and growth-stage companies in the healthcare sector. Zynext Ventures provides financial support, strategic guidance, and industry expertise to its portfolio companies, helping them achieve their full potential and make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients.

For more details visit: www.zynextventures.com

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Twitter:  @ZynextVentures

About Zydus

Zydus Lifesciences Ltd. with an overarching purpose of empowering people with freedom to live healthier and more fulfilled lives, is an innovative, global lifesciences company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range of healthcare therapies. The group employs 27,000 people worldwide, including 1,400 scientists engaged in R & D, and is driven by its mission to unlock new possibilities in lifesciences through quality healthcare solutions that impact lives. The group aspires to transform lives through path-breaking discoveries. Over the last decade, Zydus has introduced several innovative, first-in-class products in the market for treating unmet healthcare needs with vaccines, therapeutics, biologicals and biosimilars. For more details visit: www.zyduslife.com.

About Feldan

Feldan is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company specializing in the development of treatments based on the intracellular delivery of therapeutics.  Its proprietary peptide-based technology, the Feldan Shuttle, enables the safe and efficient delivery of antisense oligonucleotides into cells, unlocking the potential for a new generation of therapies. Feldan’s lead product for BCC (FLD-103) is in a Phase 1/2a clinical trial, and the company’s pipeline expansion is focused on skin and lung diseases.

For more details visit: www.feldan.com
LinkedIn: Feldan Therapeutics

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Series A funding will expand how they support institutional resilience and financial clarity for students.

NEW YORK, April 16, 2025 — At a time when colleges and universities are navigating historic financial pressure and growing regulatory uncertainty, Meadow helps institutions modernize how they communicate costs, collect tuition, and support students through every stage of their financial journey. With their college and university partner list growing rapidly in the last year, their platform now includes three integrated solutions that improve institutional financial health and simplify the student financial experience from application through graduation.

“Higher education is at an inflection point,” said Alfredo I. Brillembourg, CEO and co-founder of Meadow. “Colleges must clearly communicate costs, offer flexible payment options, and reliably collect tuition — or risk losing trust, enrollment, and revenue. Meadow is here to help them do that with clarity and compassion.”

Today, 59% of students consider dropping out due to financial stress. Meadow believes it can reverse this trend by partnering with institutions to improve price transparency and modernize the entire student financial experience. By giving students a clear understanding of what they’ll pay and providing tools to manage tuition over time, Meadow helps them to stop stressing about finances and instead plan for the future. Its platform includes:

• Meadow Price: An advanced Net Price Calculator that delivers personalized estimates of the true cost of college after aid. The tool has delivered nearly 1 million estimates to students, revealing an average cost that’s 40%+ less than the sticker price.
• Meadow Pay: A mobile-first, integrated billing and payments solution that combines personalized communications, clear digital bills, and flexible payment plans — increasing on-time payments, improving the financial experience for families, and increasing cash flow for institutions.
• Meadow Pre: A student accounts receivable solution that helps schools recover past-due balances through scalable, personalized outreach and no-barrier payments, reducing reliance on collections and supporting re-enrollment.

Meadow now partners with over 170 colleges and universities of all sizes across the U.S., including Gonzaga University, UC San Diego, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Penn State.

“Meadow helps us improve the student experience and maintain institutional financial health,” said Ryan Thoroman, Bursar at Salt Lake Community College. “We view them not just as a technology provider, but as a strategic partner.”

As tuition and fees remain the primary revenue source for most institutions, Student Financial Services offices are being asked to manage increasingly complex funding models — often with caseloads of over 1,000 students per staff member. Meanwhile, students face a fragmented system that often leads to confusion, stress, and stop-outs.

“The student financial experience is one of the most overlooked and broken systems in higher ed,” said Matt Brown, Partner at Matrix Partners. “With over $500 billion spent annually on tuition and education-related expenses, it’s astonishing how confusing the process remains and yet it drives institutional financial health. Meadow’s rapid growth shows just how urgent the need is for better solutions.”

Meadow is building a new standard for student financial services — one that improves enrollment, retention, and payment outcomes while helping institutions operate more sustainably.

“This funding helps us address higher education’s most pressing financial challenges more effectively and pursue our core mission of strengthening economic mobility through higher education,” said Amy Jenkins, COO and co-founder. “Through our partnerships, we are helping more students see a college degree as an attainable achievement and keeping them enrolled. We are laying the foundation to become the trusted financial platform students rely on throughout college and beyond.”

The $14 million Series A will fuel the expansion of their student financial services platform for colleges and universities. Led by Matrix Partners, with participation from existing backers including Susa Ventures, Giant Ventures, Treble Capital, and GoGlobal Ventures, this round brings Meadow’s total funding to over $20M.     

About Meadow

Meadow powers modern student financial services for universities that clarify and simplify the financial experience for students to improve economic mobility in the US through higher education.

At a time when consumer-friendly, digital-first experiences are more critical than ever in higher education, Meadow is solving many of the fundamental problems that lead to poor student financial experiences and administrative waste — radically transforming the higher education financial experience for everyone. Meadow’s mission is to empower students financially and improve economic mobility through higher education. Through Meadow, universities and their students manage the end-to-end financial experience together, from application to graduation.

The company was founded in 2021 by recent graduates from Columbia University as well as second-time founders who have worked at AmEx, Klarna, Outschool and Amazon.

www.meadowfi.com

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Bringing revolutionary comprehensive emergency response platform to schools across the U.S. 

VAN ALSTYNE, Texas, April 16, 2025 — O’Leary Ventures, Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary’s investment firm, announced that it has invested in Go To Green, a revolutionary directional evacuation system that uses sensors and overhead lighting to quickly get people away from an active shooter, environmental event or weather threat.

“Security for public spaces is critical and there is a huge unmet need,” said Kevin O’Leary, Chairman of O’Leary Ventures. “We are looking forward to helping the company expand sales nationwide.”

Go To Green’s founder, Ernie Williams, is a decorated Marine veteran who has taken his real-world combat experience and applied it to elite product design and engineering to create, according to Williams, “a predictable pathway to safety in unpredictable disastrous situations to save as many lives as possible.”

“Understanding the diverse nature of threats,” said Williams, “from active shooters to natural disasters, we envisioned a color-coded system that will provide instant clarity in the face of danger.”

The system also leads first responders directly to the threat via cameras, a “Respond to Red” lighting system and special communication software.

“Our vision is for this system to be placed in every school, military installation, federal building, even outdoor sporting and entertainment events,” added Williams. “We want to be anywhere and everywhere there’s a potential threat.” 

Schools in Amarillo, Tex., are currently being outfitted with the technology. Fifty-seven schools are set up for installation, with six schools currently in progress.

“We are in the process of developing the pathways to safety in Amarillo,” said Williams. “Collectively, we’ve installed over 1,050 sensors so far in the Amarillo school district.”

Financing is also being provided by private equity firm, Acorn Capital Management, which will also add strategic support to Go To Green.

For more information about Go To Green, view the media kit here.

About O’Leary Ventures

O’Leary Ventures is a generalist venture capital investment platform with a diverse track record of investing across many sectors and is always looking for the next big opportunity. As an investor for over three decades and as a host of two hit TV series, “Shark Tank” and “Dragon’s Den,” O’Leary has invested in many early-stage companies across virtually every sector. The firm’s investment into Go To Green was made via the Wonder Fund North Dakota, a $45M North Dakota Department of Commerce investment program directed by O’Leary Ventures.

About Go To Green

Headquartered in Van Alstyne, Texas, Go To Green is a revolutionary directional evacuation system that uses sensors and overhead lighting to quickly get people away from an active shooter, environmental event or weather threat. To learn more about Go To Green, visit https://go2green.com.

About Acorn Capital Management 

Acorn Capital Management is a middle-market private equity firm focused exclusively on Aerospace, Defense, Space, and Intelligence. Acorn invests solely in operating companies that strive to enhance global mobility and protect national interests. Acorn has a formidable reputation in the industry and is recognized for its deep understanding of the Aerospace and Defense markets, with proprietary access to the best companies within these sectors. With operational expertise and its ability to lead and manage investments through variable economic and industry cycles, Acorn works in tandem with management to build its portfolio companies into significant market leaders.

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