REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Gary J. Kocher
Represented Center ID Corp. in its sale to American Express Corporation (NYSE: AXP). Center ID
Corp. is a Bellevue, Washington-based software company modernizing expense management. Center’s
software is designed to remove friction from the expense management process, giving businesses
real-time visibility into all employee spending, automating manual accounting tasks,
streamlining expense submissions and reporting, and equipping finance teams with the tools and
insights needed to better optimize decision making.
Represented RateMyAgent, Inc., the US subsidiary of an Australia-listed public company, in its
acquisition of Curated Social, Inc.
Represented Social Change Technologies, Inc. in a SAFE financing round.
Represented MindMirror, Inc. in a convertible note financing.
Represented Neurosom, Inc. in a crowdfunding financing on the Red Crow platform.
Represented Sage Growth Fund in a revenue-based investment in Everybody Water, Inc.
Represented Sage Growth Fund in a revenue-based investment in Pluribus News, a digital media
outlet.
Represented Volt Athletics in its acquisition of ZAMA Health, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based
athlete mental health platform.
Represented Lonestar Data Holdings, Inc. in a SAFE financing.
Represented Regenified Ltd., a company founded by regenerative farming pioneers working with
farmers, ranchers, food manufacturers, and retailers to promote and verify regenerative farming
practices, in its Series A Preferred Stock financing round.
Represented KredosAI, Inc. in connection with its series seed preferred stock financing.
KredosAI is a Seattle, Washington-based software startup that uses machine learning AI models to
help enterprise companies collect receivables from customers in a more timely manner.
Represented Lighter Capital, Inc., a leading revenue-based lender, in the formation of a new
side-car investment fund to invest in Australia-based Sitemate Services Pty Ltd. d/b/a
DashPivot, a provider of a cloud platform that enables industrial companies to easily digitize
and streamline their systems, processes, and paperwork.
Advised Far Capital Partners, a manager of investment funds supporting rural, urban, and
infrastructure projects, in the formation of an investment fund targeting individuals seeking
investment opportunities under the EB-5 program.
Assisted Packaging Matters, LLC, a food packaging producer, and its subsidiary, PolymerPak, LLC,
in the acquisition of a packaging manufacturing facility located in Exeter, California, from
Peninsula Packaging, LLC.
Advised KredosAI, Inc., a B2B SaaS software company that uses AI to help companies shorten their
receivables collection time, in its SAFE financing round.
Represented Sage Growth Capital, LLC in its revenue-based investments in Everybody Water, Happy
Day Gourmet, Illumagear, Massed Compute, and Textual.com.
Represented Fresnel Software Corporation, based in Alberta, Canada, in its acquisition by Bow
River, a private alternative asset management company based in Denver, Colorado.
Represented Center ID Corp. in its Series C Preferred Stock financing led by Top Tier Capital
Partners and Durable Capital.
Represented California-based Feldera, Inc., a software development company, in their Series Seed
Preferred Stock financing led by a California-based venture fund.
Represented first time fund manager in formation of a new venture capital fund, Cosmic Ventures
Partners, LLC, a private equity company that invests in promising early-stage companies.
Represented California-headquartered Misapplied Sciences, Inc., a VC-backed startup bringing
Parallel Reality™ to the world, an unprecedented video display technology, in its Series A-1
Preferred Stock financing round.
Represented Boise, Idaho-based Sage Growth Capital in the formation of its second investment
fund that makes investments on the revenue-based financing model.
Represented Bellevue Life Sciences Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: BLACU) in its initial public
offering underwritten by Chardan Capital Markets.
Represented Palos Verdes Peninsula, California-based Fan Interactive Marketing, LLC, a provider
of sophisticated CRM, email, and digital marketing services to professional sports franchises
and others, in its sale to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Patron Technology, a leading live
event technology provider specializing in enhancing fan experiences for high profile clients
around the world.
Represented Gather for Good, LLC in the acquisition of Dancing Fish Winery, a Whidbey Island,
Washington- based winery and hospitality business.
Represented Crosslink AI, Inc. in connection with its first priced-equity financing round for
sale of Series Seed Preferred Stock, including conversion of existing SAFEs.
Represented Center ID Corp. in a Series B Preferred Stock follow-on financing round.
Represented Seattle, Washington-based Deako, a manufacturer of smart lighting products, in a
convertible note financing round.
Represented Deako, Inc. in connection with a new secured credit facility offered under Rule
144A. Deako is a leading provider of smart light switches and other connected in-home solutions.
Deako works with the largest homebuilders in the United States as the supplier of smart light
switches.
Represented Outlines Venture Management, LLC as general partner in the formation of its second
venture fund, Sybilla Masters Fund II, LP. Seattle, Washington-based Outlines Venture Management
serves as general partner of the Sybilla Masters Fund investing in women-led startups in fintech
and health tech.
Represented SunFly Brands, Inc. in a new Series Seed Preferred Stock financing round, which
included conversion of outstanding SAFE investments.
Represented Inflection.com in its acquisition by Checkr, Inc. California-based Inflection.com is
a provider of online identity verification and background check services that operates under the
brand Good Hire. California and Denver, Colorado-based Checkr, Inc. provides solutions for
faster background checks using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The deal was
structured as a cash merger with approximately 1/2 of the proceeds being evidenced by a secured
note delivered by the buyer.
Represented Barn2Door, Inc., a provider of software and services that help farmers grow and
manage their businesses, in connection with a venture debt financing transaction with Signature
Bank.
Represented onXmaps, a Montana-based mobile apps company which provide maps for hunters and
other outdoor recreation, in their Series B Preferred Stock financing. The Company also used a
portion of the proceeds of the financing to fund a Tender Offer that was made to existing
stockholders and employees.
Represented MicrobiomX, a Seattle, Washington-based biotech company, in connection with its
Series Seed financing round led by venture capital firm SeaChange Ventures. The transaction
included a conversion of outstanding convertible notes.
Represented Portland, Oregon-based CytoImage, Inc in connection with its SAFE financing.
CytoImage is a biotech company that provides imaging diagnostic technology to detect cancer
diseases.
Represented Florida-based Lonestar Data Holdings, Inc. in closing of its Series Seed Financing
with Scout Ventures, a venture capital firm headquartered in New York.
Represented Center ID Corp., an enterprise software company based in Bellevue, Washington, in
connection with its Series B Preferred Stock Financing with new Lead Investor Durable Capital.
Represented Bellingham Angel Investors and Seattle, Washington-based venture capital firm as
lead investor in Series A-3 Preferred Stock financing for Membrion. Membrion is a manufacturer
of ultra-low cost, high performance ion exchange membranes.
Represented Chicago-based rMark Bio, a company that delivers intelligence solutions to the life
science industry, in their acquisition by Within3, a portfolio company of Insight Ventures that
is based in Lakewood, Ohio.
Represented WR Hambrecht + Co. in initial public offering of Truett-Hurst winery (Sonoma, CA),
an emerging growth company under the JOBS Act.
Represented Cancer Targeted Technology in exclusive license of lead compound to Advanced
Accelerator Applications International.
Represented Canadian companies in connection with cross-border financing and merger and
acquisition transactions, including Intrawest Corporation, ID Biomedical, Cardiome Pharma,
OctigaBay Systems Corp., Abatis Systems Corp., HotHaus Technologies, Challenger Energy Corp.,
Canadian Superior Energy and Timberwest Forest Holdings.
Represented issuers and underwriters in over 20 initial public offerings and follow-on
offerings, including companies such as Electrical Geodesics, Zumiez, Intrawest Corporation
(Whistler ski resort), Greenfield Online, Angiotech, Oakley, ID Biomedical, OnHealth and Labor
Ready, and underwriters including, WR Hambrecht, Piper Jaffray, Deutsche Bank, RBC and Robertson
Stephens.
Initial Public Offering and follow-on public offering for Electrical Geodesics, Inc. and listing
on AIM market of London Stock Exchange.
Represented public companies in connection with PIPE offerings, including Jones Soda, Chemokine
Therapeutics and General Moly.
Represented Integra Ventures, Alliance of Angels, Subdued Excitement and Element8 in connection
with fund formations.
Represented in Series A preferred stock financing rounds.
Represented Record360 in its sale to Alpine SG.
Represented Clarisonic in its sale to L’Oreal.
Represented Electrical Geodesics, Inc. in its sale to Phillips.
Represented Elixiter in its sale to Perficient.
