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The startup, founded last year, describes itself as a 'process intelligence platform for software development' designed to help users 'improve the transparency, predictability and efficiency of developing new software products.'

The software company has a history of funding growth, acquisitions and dividend payments to its private equity owners through debt, which apparently is creating some financial duress for the company during a time of surging interest rates.

Kvamme, the co-founder of Columbus' Drive Capital, and Leach, CEO of JumpStart Inc., have been working on raising The Ohio Fund, which aspires to catalyze economic growth in the state through investments in startups, real estate and infrastructure projects.

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was felt across the country, including the local market.

Vytalize attributes much of its growth to the Cleveland market, where it does a lot of business. The company is headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, but has had a significant presence in Ohio since its 2021 acquisition of MedPilot.

/PRNewswire/ -- Unify Jobs, an equitable hiring technology company, has raised a $4.5M seed round led by North Coast Ventures with participation from Jumpstart...

The round was led by North Coast Ventures, with participation from JumpStart Inc. and other Cleveland-based investors. Unify Jobs, which decribes itself as an 'equitable hiring technology company,' is a spinoff of Unify Labs, a nonprofit founded in 2017 by Stephen McHale, Charlie Lougheed and Jim Hickey.

/PRNewswire/ -- Unify Jobs, an equitable hiring technology company, has raised a $4.5M seed round led by North Coast Ventures with participation from Jumpstart...

The Cleveland firm, which is developing a next-generation platform for investing and trading, said the round included participation from local investors JumpStart Ventures and North Coast Ventures. The round was led by Aperture Venture Capital of Philadelphia.

The firm, an accountable care organization that last year acquired Cleveland software/patient communication company MedPilot and maintains a 20-employee office here, said Monday, April 11, that the financing round was led by Enhanced Health Care Partners and was joined by existing investors including NorthCoast Ventures.