Tom Roberts

General Partner, Harbert Growth Partners

📍 Washington DC-Baltimore Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 22 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Jul 2026
Ordway is a high-growth SaaS company based in Washington DC. We offer a suite of financial software applications that provide subscription billing, accounts receivable, revenue recognition and business KPI reporting. Ordway works with many of the worlds most innovative companies to help them implement innovative pricing strategies and contract structures.
Board Member
Mar 2025
At Notable Systems, we serve the healthcare industry by converting unstructured paperwork into secure, actionable data using cutting-edge AI technology. We are more than OCR. Using a blend of best-in-class AI and machine learning, our product learns from your documents and workflows, helping you automate data entry with security and accuracy. We ensure these improvements in your revenue cycle: - Import Millions of Documents With Ease - Capture Critical Data - Achieve Greater Acceptance Rates - Reclaim Lost Revenue - Enhance The Patient and Provider Experience For the DME leaders looking for a better way, Notable Systems is built for you.
Board Member
Jul 2022
ThreatX is managed API and application protection that lets you secure them with confidence, not complexity. It blocks botnets and advanced attacks in real time, letting enterprises keep attackers at bay without lifting a finger. Trusted by companies in every industry across the globe, ThreatX profiles attackers and blocks advanced risks to protect APIs and applications 24/7. Learn more at https://www.threatx.com.
Board Member
Aug 2020
Crunchy Data is the industry leader in enterprise PostgreSQL support and open source solutions. Crunchy Data was founded in 2012 with the mission of bringing the power and efficiency of open source PostgreSQL to security-conscious organizations and eliminate expensive proprietary software costs. Since then, Crunchy Data has leveraged its expertise in managing large-scale, mission-critical systems to provide a suite of products and services, including: * Building secure & mission-critical PostgreSQL deployments * Architecting on-demand, secure database provisioning solutions on any cloud infrastructure * Eliminating support inefficiencies to provide customers with guaranteed access to highly-trained engineers * Helping enterprises to adopt large-scale, open source solutions safely and at scale Crunchy Data is committed to hiring and investing in the best talent available to provide unsurpassed PostgreSQL expertise to your enterprise.
Board Member
Nov 2019
Spacious. Innovative. Hospitality. #ThisIsWhyHotel WhyHotel operates “turn-key, pop-up hotels” out of the vacancy of newly built luxury apartments during the lease-up phase. Blurring the line between hospitality and home, WhyHotel’s model provides the value and space of a home-share and the consistency and service of a luxury hotel. The company’s new business arm, Hospitality Living, will deliver a first of its kind ground-up flexible use developments starting in 2022.
mid stageHospitality
Board Member
Nov 2019
Whether you’re with us for a day or a year, staying in a pop-up hotel or an apartment, Placemakr is blurring the lines between hospitality and home. With convenient tech, hotel amenities, and plenty more, it’s a whole new way to stay. We partner with developers, property operators, and investors to curate a collection of apartment-like spaces in hand-picked neighborhoods. These buildings range from brand-new apartments as they’re leasing up to established apartments looking to maximize their value.
Board Member
Feb 2019
At Stella Connect, we believe a more engaged front-line team drives higher performance. Our SaaS platform leverages humanized customer feedback and real-time QA and coaching modules to do just that. Our clients like Mercedes Benz, Williams Sonoma, Warby Parker, AXA, and Walmart use that data to: - Gain visibility into performance - Improve coaching and QA - Create a higher performing support team and better customer experience - Reward agents and encourage ownership - Drive consistency across teams
Board Member
Mar 2018
For enterprise voice solutions that don’t want to be held back by inefficient ASR, Voci offers the most accurate, scalable, and intelligent transcription engine in the world. Unlike other, generalist solutions, Voci’s ASR engine is built specifically for transcription in enterprise contact centers. This specialism guarantees the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) of any provider, while still delivering industry-leading speed and accuracy with real-time, feature-rich transcripts. Our GPU-accelerated, deep machine learning speech technologies feature open APIs that integrate easily with multiple audio sources.
Board Observer
May 2017
Quartile, the worlds largest retail media optimization platform, is a trusted partner for multichannel e-commerce success. Through patented AI technology and unmatched expertise, we fuel growth for 5,300+ brands and sellers worldwide and manage an annual ad spend exceeding $2 billion. The award-winning platform covers major marketplaces and ad channels for optimal reach. The result is unprecedented granularity, smarter budgeting, and bespoke solutions for retailers.
Board Member
May 2017
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 Member
Mar 2017
Two Six Labs invents, prototypes and engineers breakthrough technologies for government and industry, with broad commitments in multiple areas of technological innovation. Our projects range from situational awareness interfaces for cyber operators to distributed sensor networks, from machine learning models that learn to reverse engineer malware to embedded devices that enable and protect our nation’s warfighters.
Board Member
Jan 2017
Cloud Elements is an API integration platform. Our Elements - which are app connectors - connect you to the ecosystem of applications that your customers and partners rely on everyday. Our Finance Hub, for example, provides a uniform API that connects you with all of the leading accounting systems used by your customers and partners. Underneath our catalog of more than 150 Elements, you’ll find an entire platform that you can embed into your product to go beyond just connecting, and instead truly integrate and synchronize data between applications. Cloud Elements is headquartered in Denver, CO, but serves customers worldwide. More information can be found at www.cloud-elements.com.
Board Member
Jun 2015
MAKING YOUR LIFE BETTER! . . . it's more than a tag line for us. Iconixx enables organizations to increase sales productivity and improve overall profitability by automating, analyzing and optimizing commission and incentive processes with flexibility and ease. It's imperative to deliver a sales performance management experience to empower sales leadership with data to plan - design - and execute against corporate sales goals. Iconixx Sales Performance Management automates incentive compensation, delivers accuracy and transparency, builds trust, and drives sales performance - while presenting a bright, visible picture of the future for your company and every person that is part of driving sales. We deliver all of that with a team consistently ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction. Iconixx is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and is online at www.iconixx.com. Contact us: info@iconixx.com www.iconixx.com
Board Member
Jul 2014
Ledbury is the Richmond-based luxury menswear brand founded on the core values of great fit and superb quality. We specialize in dress shirts, casual shirts and related accessories that bring together the best of our Jermyn Street training and Southern American upbringing. Founded in 2009 by Paul Trible and Paul Watson, Ledbury is privately funded, growth-focused menswear business that has been featured on MSNBC's Morning Joe and in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and GQ Magazine. Please visit us at www.ledbury.com. You may contact customer service via email at customer-service@ledbury.com or by phone at 1.888.233.1942. More information about careers at Ledbury can be found at www.ledbury.com/careers.
Board member/observer/investor
Jul 2008
Clarabridge helps hundreds of the worlds leading brands understand and improve their customer experience. Using advanced text analytics, Clarabridge transforms survey, social, voice and all other forms of customer feedback into intelligence used to empower confident, decisive action across the business. The result: happier customers.
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2026
Board Member
Jul 2026
Ordway is a high-growth SaaS company based in Washington DC. We offer a suite of financial software applications that provide subscription billing, accounts receivable, revenue recognition and business KPI reporting. Ordway works with many of the worlds most innovative companies to help them implement innovative pricing strategies and contract structures.
2025
Board Member
Mar 2025
At Notable Systems, we serve the healthcare industry by converting unstructured paperwork into secure, actionable data using cutting-edge AI technology. We are more than OCR. Using a blend of best-in-class AI and machine learning, our product learns from your documents and workflows, helping you automate data entry with security and accuracy. We ensure these improvements in your revenue cycle: - Import Millions of Documents With Ease - Capture Critical Data - Achieve Greater Acceptance Rates - Reclaim Lost Revenue - Enhance The Patient and Provider Experience For the DME leaders looking for a better way, Notable Systems is built for you.
2022
Board Member
Jul 2022
ThreatX is managed API and application protection that lets you secure them with confidence, not complexity. It blocks botnets and advanced attacks in real time, letting enterprises keep attackers at bay without lifting a finger. Trusted by companies in every industry across the globe, ThreatX profiles attackers and blocks advanced risks to protect APIs and applications 24/7. Learn more at https://www.threatx.com.
2021
Connectbase
Board Member
Mar 2021
2020
Board Member
Aug 2020
Crunchy Data is the industry leader in enterprise PostgreSQL support and open source solutions. Crunchy Data was founded in 2012 with the mission of bringing the power and efficiency of open source PostgreSQL to security-conscious organizations and eliminate expensive proprietary software costs. Since then, Crunchy Data has leveraged its expertise in managing large-scale, mission-critical systems to provide a suite of products and services, including: * Building secure & mission-critical PostgreSQL deployments * Architecting on-demand, secure database provisioning solutions on any cloud infrastructure * Eliminating support inefficiencies to provide customers with guaranteed access to highly-trained engineers * Helping enterprises to adopt large-scale, open source solutions safely and at scale Crunchy Data is committed to hiring and investing in the best talent available to provide unsurpassed PostgreSQL expertise to your enterprise.
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