SafeSend Returns®, SafeSend’s award-winning, flagship offering, enables complete automation of the “last mile” of the tax preparation process, displacing archaic, labor-intensive, paper-based methods with digital collation and assembly, secure client delivery, and integrated e-sign of completed tax return packages. Tax and accounting firms benefit from automated, centralized, and standardized workflows, and their clients benefit from an intuitive, secure, and engaging online experience.

They have announced Brian Stone as the new Head of Customer Success. Brian will oversee the expansion of the Customer Success division with a focus on strategic, operational, and tactical workflow optimizations to accelerate revenue growth and customer engagement with SafeSend’s industry leading solutions. Most recently he spent 9 years with FairWarning, an Imprivata Company, as Senior Vice President of Customer Success.

Recently SafeSend has experienced incredible growth saling to serve more than 50% of the top 300 U.S. accounting firms. Founded in 2008 by Steve Dusablon and Andrew Hatfield and currently led by Chief Executive Officer Scott Fleszar, SafeSend is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

FUNDING: Lead Edge Capital

Parsley Health is the leading national provider of holistic personalized medicine services across telemedicine, diagnostics and in-person care. Parsley’s unique approach blends cutting-edge testing, nutrition, wellness and prevention with conventional medicine. It is the first and only vertically integrated digital health solution for reversing chronic disease and optimizing health.

Parsley recently hired Heather Hagg as Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations where she will lead the 250+ member clinical operations team with a strategic focus on quality metrics and outcomes data. Heather brings decades of experience designing, deploying and managing administrative and clinical operations systems for government, academic and privately held health companies.

FUNDING: Groundswell Ventures, Summer VC, White Star Capital, FirstMark Capital

Realync is a leader in video leasing and resident engagement platforms enabling live video tours, live virtual open houses and DIY pre-recorded videos of properties. Realync’s platform simplifies and enhances the real estate touring process by providing a more efficient, convenient, and cost-effective way of showing and touring properties. Realync partners with many of the nation's largest property owners and managers, actively being used in over 500,000 units today. Realync is a 2021 NAA Best Places to Work company.

They have announced Moses Dwaram as Vice President of Technology. Dwaram will be responsible for all aspects of product and engineering activities. His focus is the efficient operation of the product and development teams, leading and scaling Realync’s technology strategy, and bringing innovative solutions to market that will solve Realync clients' needs. Dwaram has over 20 years of experience with software engineering, technology development, and bringing creative product solutions to market while scaling high-performing teams. Prior to joining Realync, Dwaram was the VP of Engineering at Litera, heading up the technology operations of its Transactional Business Unit.

FUNDING: Second Centry Ventures, Susquehanna Growth Equity, Capital Midwest Fund, Charmides Capital

Fundrise is America’s largest direct-to-investor real estate investment platform. Since 2012, their mission has been to build a better financial system by empowering individuals. Investments that were once primarily reserved for billion-dollar endowments and sovereign wealth funds are now available to investors of all sizes, at the touch of a button. Fundrise has transacted over $5.7 billion worth of real estate and currently manages approximately $1.5 billion in equity, on behalf of our more than 150,000 investors.

Fundrise has announced Alan Keister as Senior Vice President of Engineering. He will lead and scale the engineering team, overseeing all aspects of fulfillment for Fundrises’s technology platform including issuance, origination, transactions, payments and compliance. Alan brings decades of experience leading and scaling engineering teams including AOL, Invincea, Sophos and most recently, Capital One.

B-Stock is the world's largest B2B recommerce marketplace for excess [or surplus] merchandise. Businesses of all sizes leverage the B-Stock platform to sell and buy customer returns, overstock, and other excess merchandise. Their customers are many of the world’s largest brands and retailers (including nine of the top 10 U.S. retailers). Having completed over 210,000 transactions in 2020, B-Stock gives buyers a simple and direct way to buy valuable products and offers sellers a trusted replacement for traditional liquidation while boosting operational efficiency, recovery rates, and cycle time.

They have recently announced the hiring of Ken Shum as Vice President of Engineering. Ken brings 25 years of Software Engineering experience to B-Stock; working with companies like Stitcher, GE Digital, Opentable.com, CafePress, and Lucent Technologies. At B-Stock, Ken will be focused on creating efficient processes to develop new software in line with company growth objectives and paving the way for new technological solutions for B-Stock’s future.

FUNDING: Spectrum Equity, New Millennium Partners, Susquehanna Growth Equity

TVision is the leader in TV performance metrics - an advertising technology firm that delivers real-time performance metrics for marketing effectiveness and efficiency. They measure who watches TV and how much attention they pay at the person-level to linear and streaming video. Marketers at some of the world’s largest brands, and premiere Media Sellers and Data Partners leverage TVision’s metrics to make more effective media decisions.

They have recently hired Kyle McCluskey as the first Head of Data Engineering where he will be responsible for technical leadership and the management of TVisions proprietary technology platform and product roadmap.

FUNDING: Susquehanna International Group, Accomplice, Golden Ventures, Jump Capital

Gooten operates a smart supply chain for brands looking to optimize their eCommerce business with on-demand manufacturing. It combines proprietary technology and operational expertise with a global network of 30+ best-in-class manufacturing partners. Their infrastructure allows Gooten to fulfill orders more efficiently, sustainably, and at a competitive rate. Gooten's manufacturing-on-demand model makes it possible for eCommerce brands to sell high-quality products without holding any inventory. Founded in 2015 and already profitable, Gooten is based in New York City.

Gooten has recently announced the hiring of Nelson Flores as Chief Product Officer. Nelson will lead global product strategy for the brand working with Gooten’s merchant and manufacturing partners, ensuring high level prioritization and execution of a complex multi-team product roadmap. Prior to joining Gooten, Nelson led product strategy at Kibo Commerce, a Vista Equity Company, and Shopatron, the world’s leading provider of cloud-based eCommerce order management solutions.

FUNDING: Lead Edge Capital, ff Venture Capital, KEC Ventures

Tropic is a tech-enabled procurement service for startups. Tropic experts in SaaS manage your contracts for you and work directly with your vendors on your behalf. By working with the same vendors repeatedly, they can drive better prices faster. Tropic automates SaaS procurement for tech-forward companies, saving them money and time.

They have recently announced the hiring of Nathan Verni as VP of Engineering where he will lead and scale the engineering organization, defining and establishing development standards, workflows, processes and technical partnership integrations. Prior to joining Tropic Nathan spent 11 years at Chargify where he designed and built the engineering organization from the ground up.

FUNDING: Canaan Partners, Shine Capital, Company Ventures, Founder Collective