– 401GO from San Francisco raised $9.2m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Impression Ventures with participation from Signal Peak Ventures, and Stout Street Capital.
– The company intends to use the funds to scale operations, further enhance its platform, allow for new integrations with other small business services providers, and accelerate its financial advisors partner program.

– Curate is a Chicago, IL-based sales and operations platform for creative small businesses.
– The company raised $1.25m in seed funding.
– The round was led by OCA Ventures, with participation by Square co-founder Jim McKelvey, Cultivation Capital, and Stout Street Capital.
– The new investment will be used to double the company’s employee count from 16 to 32 with a focus on investing in infrastructure and product development.

– Botco.ai closed a $2.2m seed funding round.
– The round was led by Stout Street Capital and included participation from Sterling Road, PHX Ventures and Arizona Tech Investors.
– Botco.ai is an AI-powered marketing automation solution that facilitates meaningful and intelligent conversations between providers and consumers at scale.
– Botco.ai will use the capital for product development, including integrations with electronic health record systems and marketing automation platforms.
– Botco.ai is the first company funded out of Stout Street Capital‘s UNMET Conferences, a mission-driven company determined to attract venture capital investment to underserved regions of the US, and the UNMET Founders conference last year.