Omar Mencin

New Growth Initiatives, Strategic Partnerships, New Business Ventures

📍 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 24 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2019
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
24
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Board Observer
Jul 2019
Sidecar is helping fuel the next generation of e-retail with technology that supercharges e-commerce marketing. We work with retailers across nearly all verticals, including Top 15 merchants in the U.S. and worldwide. Our Vision: Deliver intelligent technology that allows retailers to connect with people looking for their products, drives better performance, and makes their jobs easier. Our Mission: We believe that artificial intelligence is the future of retail marketing. As retail evolves, the lines between devices, channels, and consumer experiences continue to blur -- bringing retail marketers face to face with increasingly complex decisions that rely on increasing amounts of data. Sidecar delivers the technology retail marketers need to harness that data to execute performance marketing campaigns that perform better, don't require daily, tactical decision making, and can evolve along with you. Stay connected with the latest research and commentary by and for retail marketing leaders at: discover.getsidecar.com Follow us on social: -Twitter: https://twitter.com/getsidecar -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getsidecar/
Board Observer
Jun 2019
Clutch is a customer marketing platform for B2C brands. Today, marketers struggle because they have customer data stored in many different places. This makes it difficult to know how and when to reach their customers and with what message. Clutch offers a way to centralize this information, make sense of it, and act on it with personalized messages that lead to more purchases and increased brand loyalty. The Clutch platform offers a variety of solutions including data management, marketing automation, loyalty, stored value, and CRM as well as mobile, email, and direct mail campaign capabilities. Learn more at clutch.com
Board Observer
2019
We’re a team of diverse problem-solvers driven to make an impact. We build user-friendly AI software designed to help leading life sciences commercial teams get more done. Our flagship proprietary AI, LARA, learns the nuances of brands, enabling marketers to screen promotional content for compliance and editorial issues – improving profitability, speeding up the approval process, and reducing cycle time.
Board Observer
Sep 2018
WebMax (www.webmaxco.com) believes that home buyers need a simpler, faster way to get a mortgage. To make its belief become a reality, WebMax provides lenders with digital mortgage solutions that bring efficiency to inefficient processes and streamline loan origination timelines. With products spanning the entire digital mortgage process, from the first borrower click to the last lender approval, WebMax makes sense of the digital-first, regulatory-ridden mortgage industry for borrowers and lenders alike.
Board Observer
Sep 2018
WebMax (www.webmaxco.com) believes that home buyers need a simpler, faster way to get a mortgage. To make its belief become a reality, WebMax provides lenders with digital mortgage solutions that bring efficiency to inefficient processes and streamline loan origination timelines. With products spanning the entire digital mortgage process, from the first borrower click to the last lender approval, WebMax makes sense of the digital-first, regulatory-ridden mortgage industry for borrowers and lenders alike.
Board Observer
Jun 2018
Yellowdig believes in changing the way students engage with their education. We offer a modern platform that is designed to foster meaningful interactions between students and their teachers—in-person, blended, and online courses alike. Join Yellowdig and over 100 other institutions who have doubled their student engagement through social learning and gamification. Learn how Yellowdig has improved the learning experience by downloading the Fall 2021 Student and Teacher User Satisfaction Report: https://explore.yellowdig.co/student-and-instructor-satisfaction-report We're an EdTech SaaS startup based in Center City, Philadelphia. Interested in changing the future of education? Come join us! Job openings here: https://angel.co/yellowdig/jobs
Board Observer
Sep 2017
TimelinePI provides the most comprehensive process intelligence platform designed to empower users to understand, optimize and monitor any business process. TimelinePI’s patent-pending Timeline Analysis approach is designed to allow healthcare providers, banks, insurance companies, government agencies, etc. take control of their data and Raise their Process IQ™. WHAT WE DO Like any other specialty area, understanding business process data requires tools optimized for the task. Existing business intelligence and analytics tools provide no meaningful help when it comes to understanding and analyzing business process data. By providing tools which were designed solely for this type of analysis we believe we can offer insights and ease-of-use not possible before. OUR TECHNOLOGY The TimelinePI technology is capable of ingesting data from any number of systems. Once the data is loaded the system automatically correlates each new data element with all others to detect and display all the timelines related to each business process occurrence and a wide variety of analytics associated with them individually or as a collection. Finally, a collection of analysis tools provides you with the ability to query your data in a way never previously possible.
Board Observer
Sep 2017
Cognitive Operational Systems, Inc. (COSY) is a spinout of UPenns GRASP Laboratory. The company focuses on leveraging University research for enabling industry solutions in computer vision, perception, and artificial intelligence. COSY’s “ beacon-free"​ backend technology provides localization and turn-by-turn navigation in environments with no GPS - like indoors. This back-end technology can be used to enable augmented reality interfaces, audio-based navigation aids for the blind, and even mobile robots.
Board Observer
Jun 2017
CampusESP makes it easy to keep the most important influencers of your students informed: their families. From impacting enrollment, to student success, to annual giving, keeping parents effectively engaged has proven to be critical for colleges and universities looking to better support their institutional goals. CampusESP's comprehensive parent engagement platform allows institutions to connect meaningfully with families via portals, emails, and text, ensuring parents have the information to be advocates and advisors for their students.
Board Observer
Dec 2016
Kynectiv is the leading provider of simulation-based technology to global audiences. Our DecisionSim™ platform enables organizations to transform their education and training programs, offering increased engagement, stronger retention and comprehensive data collection that leads to actionable insights. Kynectiv has an experienced team of instructional designers, technologists and data scientists to help ensure the maximum benefits from our simulation platform. Simulation is an experiential, active learning model that has been proven to be highly effective at improving retention and the application of knowledge to enhance or change behaviors. Leveraging story-driven, adaptive design, solutions built on our platform transport participants into real world scenarios to assess and improve their knowledge, skills and confidence. Unique to our platform, participants made decisions and experience the consequences of their decisions and receive personalized feedback to accelerate their learning and performance. Our clients use our platform in live, online and blended training with clinicians, patients and staff. The Kynectiv simulation platform has been adopted by leaders in healthcare, including pharmaceutical companies, medical societies, medical education providers, patient education innovators, and academic institutions. To learn more, visit www.Kynectiv.com.
mid stageE-Learning
Board Observer
Sep 2016
RideKleen, a subsidiary of Cox Automotive, is the leader in delivering sustainable mobile vehicle cleaning and end-to-end fleet services/logistics. Cleaning, inspections, fueling/charging, mobile maintenance, relocation/rebalancing, fleet logistics. We are a complete mobile car care company. Using operational experience and mobile technology, we simplify fleet services at our client’s desired destination. Join the movement for a sustainable car wash and help revolutionize the industry. RideKleen uses a steam powered cleaning process and dry-wash application system which requires less than 1 gallon of water per service. The companys headquarters is headquartered in the Philadelphia area but has a national footprint across the country. www.ridekleen.com
Board Observer
Sep 2016
Audigent is the leading data activation, curation and identity platform. Audigent’s pioneering data platform unlocks the power of privacy-safe, first party data to maximize addressability and monetization of media at scale without using cookies. As one of the industry’s first data curation platforms powered by its unique identity suite (Hadron ID™), Audigent is transforming the programmatic landscape with its innovative SmartPMP™ and ContextualPMP™ products, which use artificial intelligence and machine learning to package and optimize consumer-safe data with premium inventory supply at scale. Providing value and performance for the world’s largest brands and global media agencies across 100,000+ campaigns each month, Audigents verified, opt-in data drives monetization for premium publisher and data partners that include: Condé Nast, TransUnion, Warner Music Group, Penske, a360 Media, Fandom and many others.
Board Observer
Jun 2016
Houwzer is a modern, socially responsible real estate agency for savvy homeowners. We’ve rebuilt the real estate brokerage model around the customer with technology and a team of full service, salaried agents. Home sellers save an average of $15,000 with our listing agents, while home buyers trust our teams focus on buyer goals, not commissions. We take pride in giving back to our communities and maintaining an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars from over 1600 client reviews. #1 Fastest Growing Salaried-Agent Brokerage #5 Fastest Growing Real Estate Brokerage Overall #25 Fastest Growing in the US in Real Estate Category #17 Fastest Growing in PA across all categories #11 Fastest Growing in PHL region across all categories Certified B Corporation: bcorporation.net Top 100 Fastest-growing Veteran Owned and Operated Businesses 2021 Best Places to Work Philadelphia 2020 Best Places to Work Philadelphia 2019 Best Places to Work Philadelphia
early stageReal Estate
Board Observer
Mar 2016
SocialLadders Ambassador Relationship Management Technology is used by brands to identify, monitor, reward and centralize communication with their most powerful selling tool -- Ambassadors. The administrative platform enables marketing teams to - Reduce recruiting costs / efforts - Streamline communication from HQ to ambassadors - Segment teams based off of ambassador / manager roles & responsibilities - Minimize manual task tracking -- online & offline - Strategic referral tracking: e-commerce & apps - Increase ambassador engagement & accountability - Build a relationship with ambassadors
Board Observer
Mar 2016
WealthHub is a leading provider of enterprise solutions for fiduciary management. Its TrustHub application automates the daily activities of a trust offers or family office and, in the process, delivers visibility across the organization and control to management. TrustHub integrates CRM and workflows that are tailored to trust and family office management with trust or portfolio accounting systems, document management, data aggregation, client portal and reporting, bill payment, and more. Built by trust officers for trust officers, TrustHub provides a secure browser-based interface that significantly improves trust operating efficiency and allows scalable growth in trust and family office operations.
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2021
Managing Director, Investment Group, Information Technology
Jul 2021
We’re (not just) investors. We’re (more than) advisors. We’re (beyond) connectors. Ben Franklin Technology Partners combines the best practices of early stage investing with a higher purpose – to lead the region’s technology community to new heights, creating jobs and transforming lives. For over 30 years, Ben has been the leading seed stage capital provider for the region’s technology sectors, investing over $175 million in more than 1,750 regional technology companies, many of which have gone on to become industry leaders. Ben Franklin has also launched university/industry partnerships that accelerate scientific discoveries to commercialization, and has seeded regional initiatives that strengthen our entrepreneurial community.
2019
Board Observer
Jul 2019
Sidecar is helping fuel the next generation of e-retail with technology that supercharges e-commerce marketing. We work with retailers across nearly all verticals, including Top 15 merchants in the U.S. and worldwide. Our Vision: Deliver intelligent technology that allows retailers to connect with people looking for their products, drives better performance, and makes their jobs easier. Our Mission: We believe that artificial intelligence is the future of retail marketing. As retail evolves, the lines between devices, channels, and consumer experiences continue to blur -- bringing retail marketers face to face with increasingly complex decisions that rely on increasing amounts of data. Sidecar delivers the technology retail marketers need to harness that data to execute performance marketing campaigns that perform better, don't require daily, tactical decision making, and can evolve along with you. Stay connected with the latest research and commentary by and for retail marketing leaders at: discover.getsidecar.com Follow us on social: -Twitter: https://twitter.com/getsidecar -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getsidecar/
Board Observer
Jun 2019
Clutch is a customer marketing platform for B2C brands. Today, marketers struggle because they have customer data stored in many different places. This makes it difficult to know how and when to reach their customers and with what message. Clutch offers a way to centralize this information, make sense of it, and act on it with personalized messages that lead to more purchases and increased brand loyalty. The Clutch platform offers a variety of solutions including data management, marketing automation, loyalty, stored value, and CRM as well as mobile, email, and direct mail campaign capabilities. Learn more at clutch.com
Board Observer
2019
We’re a team of diverse problem-solvers driven to make an impact. We build user-friendly AI software designed to help leading life sciences commercial teams get more done. Our flagship proprietary AI, LARA, learns the nuances of brands, enabling marketers to screen promotional content for compliance and editorial issues – improving profitability, speeding up the approval process, and reducing cycle time.
2018
Board Observer
Sep 2018
WebMax (www.webmaxco.com) believes that home buyers need a simpler, faster way to get a mortgage. To make its belief become a reality, WebMax provides lenders with digital mortgage solutions that bring efficiency to inefficient processes and streamline loan origination timelines. With products spanning the entire digital mortgage process, from the first borrower click to the last lender approval, WebMax makes sense of the digital-first, regulatory-ridden mortgage industry for borrowers and lenders alike.
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