Early-stage fund investing in the greatest opportunity in venture capital. Focused on underinvested identities, geographies, and end-users

Responsive Arthroscopy is a medtech company that offers medical devices for the sports medicine field.

Building the personal digital assistant for parents, starting with managing kids' camps, sports and activities

Mad Markets is a retailer currently based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It has been founded in 2023.

Cold is a sustainability management platform that streamlines compliance for organizations of all sizes. Leading brands trust Cold to automate reporting so that they can focus on the work that matters.

Kigo ushers in a new era of open loyalty for brands by fusing blockchain and loyalty innovators. A staff with considerable blockchain expertise, two cutting-edge digital asset platforms, and digital goods from well-known multinational brands like Amazon, Starbucks, and Disney are all combined in Kigo in addition to the decades of loyalty experience of Augeo.

Mozarc Medical leverages both companies’ leadership and expertise to develop transformative kidney health technologies. The company focuses on the development of innovative technologies that reshape kidney health with patient-centered solutions.

Klaris designs and manufactures an at-home icemaker that produces ice cubes. The company was founded by Charles Haider and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

Inbound Health provides the full stack of capabilities that are required to scale at-home care models including home-based care pathways, virtual care teams, engagement and workflow technology, analytics, supply chain partnerships, operational oversight and payment models. The company's flexible partnership structure enables customers to leverage their existing assets and capabilities while relying on Inbound Health to fill the gaps required to scale these programs across their service area. To date, more than 4,200 patients across 185 primary diagnoses have been cared for through the Inbound Health platform, which has been operational in Allina Health’s service area since May 2020. The program has allowed Allina Health to manage a wider swath of the continuum of care for its patients, thereby ensuring that care is delivered in a safe, coordinated and patient-centric manner. The company combines biometric monitoring, digital surveillance, in-home nursing and therapy, virtual visits with hospitalists and geriatricians, and a comprehensive supply chain to deliver a safe and high-quality care program.

Demos gives entrepreneurs and investors unprecedented access to the future. We help businesses of all sizes in food, agriculture, health care, and creative collaboration accelerate their ambition to make change for the better.

Kyros develops a sobriety management platform that provides access to resources, provider care, and peer support. Its goal is to remove barriers along the recovery pathway for clients, providers, and organizations alike to facilitate a simplified approach to drug rehabilitation with one platform Kyros was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Minneapolis, USA.

Avivomed engages in developing neuromodulation therapy intended to treat unmet clinical needs. It focuses on commercializing neuromodulation technology platforms designed to treat patients suffering from chronic diseases.

Triobook provides books on business culture, business technology, chemistry, computer science, constitutional law, criminal law, dictionaries, earth sciences, economics, education, engineering, transportation, family law, and graphic design

RedRex is a metaverse that develops virtuals building for schools, communities, businesses, and online events. The company's digital buildings, floors, rooms, and walls for easy transition between remote and in-person collaboration. It utilizes premium tools to monetize the property through renting, sponsorships, ticket sales, and other means. They believe that everyone should have access to a digital space where they can build a community, work flexibly, and connect meaningfully from anywhere in the world. RedRex was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

JustiFi develops a payments technology platform that processes payments in a better way by qualifying, routing, and optimizing each transaction to lower rates. JustiFi levels the playing field so businesses can keep more of their hard-earned money.

Built Data is the communications platform that creates real communities of the people coming together on a construction project.

Melodi Health provides innovative technologies that improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs for women undergoing breast surgery.

Sora Neuroscience is a healthcare company that incorporates neuroscience into clinical practice.

Forest Carbon Works is a developer of forest carbon offset projects that helps landowners monetize the carbon stored by their forests. The company was founded in 2020 by Kyle Holland and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

NitriCap Medical develops a single-use antimicrobial catheter insert device to fight catheter-related bloodstream infections. NitriCap's device disperses the biofilm that grows in catheters, inhibits activation of platelets that clog catheters, and kills the underlying bacteria that cause bloodstream infections.

Help Your Employees Work from Home! Workface provides fast and easy text chat, audio and video conferencing, and screensharing so your business can stay productive.

FOXO Technologies Inc. operates as a software company company. The Company develops underwriting protocol and consumer engagement platform based on epigenetic technology and insights. FOXO Technologies serves the insurers, health researchers, and life science companies worldwide.

Pluralytics is the first language intelligence solution powered by people's values. We provide deep intelligence: from your email campaigns to your social content to your web presence. Our platform “reads” content, tells you who it appeals to - and why - and then recommends changes to appeal to more people. Our leading-edge approach is rooted in behavioral science and machine learning and identifies whether a company speaks effectively to its values-driven customers. In a deeply fragmented polarized marketplace, more than 50% of all consumers are values-based consumers. Almost every word we choose conveys values. Choose wisely. Using analyses of over 20 million words and counting, we successfully tested our prototype with a Fortune 500 innovator and invented time-sensitive values words analysis insights on unfolding events like the COVID-19 pandemic. Leading-edge experts in the field have praised our methods. The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) —a highly competitive, seed stage program for massively scalable science-based start-ups, recently selected Pluralytics to join their AI stream. With accelerators at Oxford University, Paris, Toronto and Atlanta, CDL works with startups that employ innovations in technology and business models that promise a chance of delivering massive improvements to economic productivity and human welfare.

Early stage med device co. developing a subcutaneous continuous blood pressure monitor for patients with uncontrolled hypertension.

Bright Planet Pet is a food technology company creating ultra-sustainable plant-based meat for dogs.

Duos forms trusted relationships with older adults using technology and community to support fulfilling lives at home. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York.

Reema Health is a tech startup based in Minneapolis that is transforming how health care and social care work together.

Tavolo is an application that allows users to reserve a table, order menu items, and pay/split meals at restaurants.

Medical device focused on treating brain circuits that underlie drug craving caused by environmental triggers for drug use addiction healthcare. People in recovery are constantly reminded of drug use by environmental cues (people, places, things linked to prior drug use), remaining a persistent risk for relapse, overdoses, and diminished life quality. The NeuromarkR platform (headset+software) measures brain signatures of drug craving not currently addressed in gold standard addiction healthcare. NeuromarkR enables targeted interventions to address triggers for craving by tailored psychotherapy that uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness-Based Treatment (MBT) strategies.

RahRah! is a business services company that offers a business affiliate network and fundraising services for local youth.

Odele is designed, formulated and manufactured in Minneapolis, MN, Odele applying decades of experience in beauty,

BData develops a web-based registry data collection, storage, governance, and reporting called Burn Care Quality Platform (BCQP).

Parallax is a resourcing, forecasting and analytics platform that helps digital agencies and software consultancies.

iPondr is a NEW essential in digital news and information media. iPondr offers an opportunity to experience Life Outside Your Bubble in empathetic human-centered storytelling, while inviting rich feedback that forms the basis of a new type of data; Social Intelligence. We are Building a Kinder America™ from home to workplace, by leveraging the power of Media and Technology.

Rise Modular is a Minneapolis, MN based startup volumetric modular manufacturer and design build firm focused on the multi-family and hospitality markets in the Midwest. Founded in 2018, the company is backed by Lake Harriet Capital, a Minneapolis based family office investment firm, and its real estate development and investment arm, Lake Harriet Development. Rise Modular's mission is to revolutionize the traditional stick-built construction process by providing faster, innovative, more affordable, higher quality, safer, and more environmentally friendly commercial construction methods. The company is led by entrepreneurs, developers, and modular industry veterans.

Solve is a first-of-its-kind interactive content company that blurs the lines between narrative and gaming. Investors include Elisabeth Murdoch, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, and Advancit Capital. Solve is based in Venice Beach, California with offices in London.

Pear simplifies retail marketing by connecting CPG advertisements directly with retailers.Pear brings your digital marketing to life by adding a call to action. Consumers can purchase a product or claim an offer right from the ad, and Pear takes care of creating the connection to a local retailer wh... Read more

VirtualZ Computing is an early-stage startup that is revolutionizing data access.

ShiraTronics develops neuromodulation technology to combat debilitating chronic migraine. The company is driven by a mission to transform the lives of those living with chronic migraine.

ProcessBolt empowers the enterprise supplier risk management process by replacing spreadsheets and emails with AI powered interactive questionnaires, process tracking, notifications, alerting, data driven dashboards and risk metrics. Enterprise: Full visibility to supplier risk and assessment status. Suppliers: Painless, intuitive and easily repeatable client risk assessments. Risk Management Professional: One simple platform saving time and dollars. Purpose built workflow to ease risk assessment process. Pre-configured and easily customizable assessment templates (BITS SIG, GDPR readiness, PCI SAQ, and more). Quickly attach evidence and artifacts to assessments. Meaningful notifications and alerts.

Bread and Butter Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in Minnesota, the Bread and Butter State, investing globally while leveraging our state and region’s unparalleled access to strong corporate connections, commercial opportunities, and industry expertise for the benefit of Bread a... Read more

The Grower Portal integrates seamlessly with your existing software solutions to keep your business digitally connected with your customers.

Growing an online business quickly can be frustrating. So we designed a world-class personalization engine to accelerate revenue growth for Shopify store owners. Create personalized on-site experiences for your customers, so you can convert more traffic and grow your business faster.

Sezzle is a publicly traded financial technology company headquartered in Minneapolis, U.S operating in the United States and Canada. The company provides an alternative payment platform offering interest-free installment plans at selected online stores. As of December 2020, the Sezzle platform had over 2 million active users and nearly 25,000 participating merchants.

Flyte™ is a simple, effective in-home treatment for stress urinary incontinence. Designed to strengthen pelvic floor muscles to reduce bladder leaks or restore continence when used as little as 5 minutes per day for 6 weeks.

Kaleidoscope designs, administers, and hosts branded scholarship and grant programs on a cloud-based marketplace.

Medical 21 is a developmental stage medical technology company specializing in heart bypass surgery. It has developed a graft that allows the heart bypass procedure to be done without harvesting vessels from the body. Its MAVERICS graft is a small-diameter flexible tube encased in a nitinol scaffold that eliminates the need to harvest blood vessels from the patient’s legs, arms, and chest.

Fulcrum is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ERP, MRP, and MES platform allowing small and mid-sized manufacturers to improve efficiency through workflow optimization and automated data collection. Fulcrum delivers value through a fully digital, paperless workflow leveraging machine learning, automation, predictive analytics, and advanced heuristics to drive throughput and profitability. Software doesn't have to be complicated. The software you use in your personal life (Facebook, Uber, Amazon, etc.) is intuitive and you don't need training to understand how it works. Why should your business software be any different? We're helping manufacturers transition to cutting edge, future-proof software that lowers the stress of everyday operations, gets more out of good employees that are difficult to hire, automates tedious tasks, and operates more efficiently than competitors.

Branch Messenger, Inc. develops employee self-service platform. The Company delivers a software that offers enterprises unprecedented access to their frontline worker. Branch Messenger also renders utilization of time, compliance, and time tracking services. Branch Messenger serves clients in the State of Michigan.

HLRBO is an online hunting network that connects landowners and hunters. List your property on HLRBO. No fees. No commissions. Hunters contact you directly with questions or to lease.

We offer hyper transparency in supply chains. Track assets, entities, transactions, and ESG metrics all in one platform. Follow raw materials and finished goods from source to shelf to salvage. No other solution gives you this level of visibility.

Inspectorio Inc. provides software solutions. The Company offers inspection software for retailers, vendors, and manufacturers to guide inspectors throughout the inspection process. Inspectorio serves customers in the State of Minnesota.

PhData Inc operates as a big data services firm. The Firm provides architecture, development, and managed services for big data applications. PhData serves consumer packaged goods, banking, legal research and media, medical device, software, and retail sectors in the United States.

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Validated makes getting around more affordable than ever before by letting merchants pay your way in exchange for your business. Validated gives brick & mortar businesses a zero-risk means to stimulate increased spending and boost customer lifetime value. Validations are conditional –– customers must meet the spending threshold you set. Validating transportation costs makes visiting your business painless and lets customers know you appreciate them. Validated works with property managers, parking operators and transportation providers to offer their validation service to tenants and customers. Validated is a direct replacement for traditional validation programs, but with zero cost to implement and no overhead to run.

Lately is the only all-in-one Marketing Dashboard that pulls together content scheduling, publishing, task management, analytics, a marketing calendar and more – across all your channels. Get hours of work done in less than 60 seconds, say goodbye to spreadsheets, forever and increase your productivity, confidence and sanity.

Permanent magnets are essential components in various technologies, including electric vehicles, wind turbines, and many electronic devices. Niron Magnetics focuses on creating high-performance, rare-earth-free magnets. This is significant because traditional rare-earth magnets, which often use materials like neodymium and dysprosium, can face supply chain challenges due to the limited availability of these elements. By developing alternatives to traditional rare-earth magnets, Niron Magnetics aims to address issues related to material scarcity, cost, and environmental concerns. Their innovations could contribute to the sustainability and reliability of technologies that rely on permanent magnets. Niron was founded in 2014 as a spinout of University of Minnesota and is based on technology that has received the support of ARPA-E, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences.

Sentera is provides decision support and insights to growers, advisors, and enterprise customers. Our products use machine learning, modeling, and data sciences tools to gather data, organize it, and quickly turn it into insights that improve outcomes for growers, advisors, and retailers. We deliver the best insights from high-resolution drone imagery, satellites, field equipment, and other sensors, and combine it with advanced modeling and analytics tools at scale.

Health benefits company offering level-funded group health plans and ICHRA, giving employers flexibility in benefits models via brokers and employers nationwide.

What if you could combine the characteristics of an effective teacher, the engagement of an immersive video game and produce measurable math improvement in a single educational software? 7 Generation Games combines educational research, advanced game design and innovative technology into video games that produce results. Students who played 7 Generation Games 300% improvement over the control group on in-game math skills in just 10 weeks. With a bilingual product line, games cover math, history and language arts and acquisition for Grades 3 and up. Developed with educators, products simultaneously teach concepts, test comprehension and track progress. Student data is tracked and charted, allowing educators to see actionable analytics in near real-time. With products designed for computers and tablets, games are optimized to meet technological needs from urban centers to rural and network-limited communities. In 2017, 7 Generation Games expanded into creating fully bilingual (English/Spanish) games. 7 Generation Games was chosen for the Chilean-government sponsored \'Start-Up Chile\'​ tech accelerator (2018), recognized as one of the \'Top 50 Apps for Kids\'​ by Educents (2017), selected as one of Homeschool.com's \'Top 100 Educational Websites\'​ (2017), named one of Tech.Co's Top 50 Startups of the Year (2016), selected for Tech Inclusion's Startup Showcase (2016) and accepted into BoomStartup's EdTech Accelerator cohort (2015).

Tierra Encantada provides a distinguished early education experience that focuses on the growth of the whole child. As the leader in Spanish immersion early education®, our high-quality bilingual education program fosters early cognitive development and teaches a respect for diversity. Our focus on the whole child extends beyond the mind, and nurtures children’s expanding palates with our organic, fresh-cooked meals. We are proud to provide an active, warm, and wholesome educational environment that families consider to be a second home for their child.

Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.

Player’s Health is an insurance agency that protects athletes and sports organizations with a unique risk management platform.

Origin Eight hire the best talent independent of location, allowing them to deliver the best expertise, scale quickly, and work just as well with you remotely as they do with their local clients. Origin Eight produces growth-driven Drupal and WordPress websites that engage, inform and convert. They are good, personable people who care about their clients, the quality of their solutions, and each other. They are a fun, young-hearted team who places client services at the top of everything they do.

Biogenic Reagents, LLC was founded in 2011. The company's line of business includes the manufacturing of industrial gases.

Drip.com, Inc. operates an online music club. The Company offers platform through which users can subscribe to artists and labels, download and stream new releases and classics, and participate to unlock additional perks. Drip.com serves customers in the United States.

Shaed (stylized SHAED, pronounced "shade") is an American indie pop trio based in Washington, D.C. The group consists of lead vocalist Chelsea Lee and multi-instrumentalists Max and Spencer Ernst. They released their breakthrough single "Trampoline" in June 2018.

Games Done Quick is a charity video game marathon.

Fielo is an Incentive and Loyalty software platform that helps channel marketers drive partner engagement, loyalty and sales performance. Fielo is growing rapidly. They invest in their people and are looking for motivated and talented individuals to join their team. If you’re interested in their mission to help companies reach their goals with cutting edge incentive and loyalty program technology.

When I Work, Inc. provides software. The Company offers employee scheduling software for scheduling and communicating. When I Work serves customers in the United States.

Nuvaira is a privately held company headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. The company's proprietary Nuvaira Lung Denervation System addresses airway hyper-responsiveness, a pathophysiologic underpinning of both COPD and asthma, in a procedure called Targeted Lung Denervation (TLD).

We are a web design and Drupal development agency whose mission is to Make Things That Matter.

Modern Tribe is a rapidly growing digital agency with a modern twist. They believe in making quality products for other people and ourselves, balanced by living quality lives. They develop custom solutions for some of the world’s top companies, higher education institutions, government agencies, and startups. They pride ourselves in their ability to bridge people and technology, bringing the passion and dedication of an entrepreneur to every project. Our team is 100% distributed & spread around North America (with a touch in Latin America & Europe). They believe in a class of artisans and craftsman in control of their work who solve people problems rather than just build more crap.

Perfecto enables exceptional digital experiences. They help you transform your business and strengthen every digital interaction with a quality–first approach to creating web and native apps, through a cloud–based test environment called the Continuous Quality Lab™. The CQ Lab is comprised of real devices and real end–user conditions, giving you the truest test environment available.

Jamf has been focused on helping organizations succeed with Apple. Jamf is committed to enabling IT to empower end users and bring the legendary Apple experience to businesses, education and government organizations via its Jamf Pro and Jamf Now solutions, and the 58,000+ member Jamf Nation community. Today, more than 15,000 global customers rely on Jamf to manage over nine million Apple devices.

The Neighborhood Recycling Corporation, doing business as Eureka Recycling, provides nonprofit recycling, education, and advocacy services. The Company offers a range of waste reduction solutions, including curbside and apartment recycling, education programs, community initiatives, and zero waste events. Eureka Recycling serves communities throughout Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Code42 provides data loss protection, visibility, and recovery solutions.

The most innovative companies rely on Perforce to build complex digital products faster and with higher quality.

Arts Midwest is one of six not-for-profit regional arts organizations created to “encourage development of the arts and to support arts programs on a regional basis.” Arts Midwest's mission is to "build unprecedented opportunity across the Midwest by advancing creativity.” Its vision is that Midwestern creativity powers thriving, entrepreneurial, and welcoming communities. Arts Midwest is primarily funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and is charged with supporting artists and arts organizations, and providing assistance to its nine member states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

International Decision Systems (IDS) is a software development company that creates software for financial institutions and equipment-leasing companies.

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (marketing name Thrivent) , is an American Fortune 500 not-for-profit financial services organization headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Appleton, Wisconsin, and founded by Lutherans. As a member-owned fraternal benefit society, it operates under a chapter system, serving nearly 2.3 million members.

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Bright HealthCare develops a health insurance service platform designed to deliver a quality healthcare experience.