Alston Gardner

Ascent360 partners with B2C marketers to simplify today’s increasingly complex data world and enable authentic relationships with prospects and customers. Our Customer Data Platform (CDP) creates a single source of truth from your siloed data sources. Then we provide marketing guidance to develop successful revenue-generating campaigns that increase engagement and maximize lifetime value. With us, you realize both immediate return and sustained value year over year. We get your company where it belongs – at the top!

Free your business to grow with SaaSOptics, a subscription management platform that provides subscription billing, revenue recognition and robust subscription analytics and metrics. SaaSOptics gives early-stage and growing SaaS and subscription businesses the ability to eliminate your dependency on spreadsheets and streamline your financial operations and reporting. SaaSOptics'​ robust analytics engine delivers all the SaaS analytics you need to run your subscription business: MRR, ARR, Cohort, CLV, projections, renewal rates and churn. As the system-of-record for your subscriptions and revenue, SaaSOptics integrates with the key systems in your environment to improve how you manage your financial operations through every stage of growth. SaaSOptics serves over 900 customers with total ARR over $8B.

Ascent360 partners with B2C marketers to simplify today’s increasingly complex data world and enable authentic relationships with prospects and customers. Our Customer Data Platform (CDP) creates a single source of truth from your siloed data sources. Then we provide marketing guidance to develop successful revenue-generating campaigns that increase engagement and maximize lifetime value. With us, you realize both immediate return and sustained value year over year. We get your company where it belongs – at the top!

Hatteras Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that builds transformational companies in the areas of biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, healthcare IT, and related opportunities in human medicine. We typically invest in companies built on cutting-edge science from leading academic institutions. The firm has invested in companies across the United States in most of the major hotspots for health innovation. Given our headquarters location in RTP, NC, Hatteras plays a leadership role in building companies in North Carolina and the Southeastern United States, where technology is plentiful but resident venture capital is limited. Core to the mission of Hatteras Venture Partners is a belief that entrepreneurial innovation will create valuable new products that will transform the practice of medicine and create value for our investors. As entrepreneurs, operators, and investors, we are dedicated to the success of our companies and to the men and women who create them. Founded in 2000 and based in Durham, NC, the firm consists of an experienced team with a broad and complementary skill set that is particularly relevant to building successful new biomedical companies. The Hatteras team brings operational experience, a successful track record, and a proven ability to enhance the value of the companies in which it invests. With five funds, the firm has approximately $450 million under management. Hatteras is an Innovation to Impact sponsor of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development, a member of NCBIO, and an active volunteer in support of North Carolina and Southeast regional biotech activities.

Free your business to grow with SaaSOptics, a subscription management platform that provides subscription billing, revenue recognition and robust subscription analytics and metrics. SaaSOptics gives early-stage and growing SaaS and subscription businesses the ability to eliminate your dependency on spreadsheets and streamline your financial operations and reporting. SaaSOptics'​ robust analytics engine delivers all the SaaS analytics you need to run your subscription business: MRR, ARR, Cohort, CLV, projections, renewal rates and churn. As the system-of-record for your subscriptions and revenue, SaaSOptics integrates with the key systems in your environment to improve how you manage your financial operations through every stage of growth. SaaSOptics serves over 900 customers with total ARR over $8B.

Fulcrum Equity Partners manages over $600 million and makes equity investments in rapidly growing businesses that are led by strong entrepreneurs and management teams. We target companies within the healthcare, B2B SaaS, and technology-enabled services industries. We provide financing to meet a wide range of needs including internal growth initiatives, acquisitions, shareholder liquidity, buy-outs, recapitalizations, and divestitures. INVESTMENT PARAMETERS & STRUCTURE - Investment size: $5 - $25 million with potential for follow-on investments as needed - Providing capital to meet a wide range of needs - Will make non-control and control investments - Will lead or participate with other firms; collaborative with angel investors - Strong relationships with senior and sub-debt lenders - Relatively uncomplicated capital structure For more information, please visit https://www.fulcrumep.com/