Sagamore Ventures

Sagamore Ventures is an early-stage investment firm located in Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 2014. As a family office, it focuses on investing in various sectors, including real estate, hospitality, and food and beverages. The firm aims to support innovative businesses and foster growth within the Baltimore region. Through its strategic investments, Sagamore Ventures seeks to contribute to the local economy while identifying opportunities that align with its vision for long-term success.

Demian Costa

Managing Partner

7 past transactions

UrbanStems

Series B in 2019
UrbanStems Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based company that specializes in on-demand flower delivery services. Founded in 2014, it offers fresh flowers and seasonal stems tailored for various occasions, including handcrafted bouquets for businesses and personal gifts. The company emphasizes a thoughtful gifting experience by providing personalized notes and care instructions with each delivery. UrbanStems also features a subscription service for regular flower deliveries, ensuring convenience for its customers. Its services are available through an online portal and a mobile application, catering to customers in cities such as New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. The company is committed to delivering quality floral arrangements promptly, often within minutes of order placement, and includes free shipping with every delivery.

READY Robotics

Seed Round in 2016
READY Robotics Corp., founded in 2016 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, specializes in developing ForgeOS, an innovative industrial operating system designed for robotics and automation. This platform utilizes patented technology to enable manufacturers to deploy and manage robots and automation systems through a standardized suite of low-code applications. ForgeOS is particularly suited for high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environments, which have traditionally posed challenges for automation. The system allows operators to control and program a wide range of robotic devices and industrial automation equipment from major brands through a single interface, minimizing the need for extensive training. By connecting to hundreds of robot models and thousands of industrial devices, READY Robotics enhances productivity and streamlines operations in complex manufacturing settings.

UrbanStems

Series A in 2016
UrbanStems Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based company that specializes in on-demand flower delivery services. Founded in 2014, it offers fresh flowers and seasonal stems tailored for various occasions, including handcrafted bouquets for businesses and personal gifts. The company emphasizes a thoughtful gifting experience by providing personalized notes and care instructions with each delivery. UrbanStems also features a subscription service for regular flower deliveries, ensuring convenience for its customers. Its services are available through an online portal and a mobile application, catering to customers in cities such as New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. The company is committed to delivering quality floral arrangements promptly, often within minutes of order placement, and includes free shipping with every delivery.

Workbench Platform

Seed Round in 2016
Workbench's content platform packages your content into custom, engaging learning and get-active experiences that drive continuously fresh content and value to education and consumer learners, makers, and doers. At Workbench, we love to tinker, explore, make, create and discover using robots and circuitry and gardens and drones and all sorts of materials we can work into projects. This kind of project-based learning and exploration is what we’re is all about, so we created a community where like-minded people can come together to engage and inspire each other with their own ideas. Workbench has partnered with some of the most forward-thinking maker-product companies in the world to be on the leading edge of innovation. We will continue to add product partners and introduce dynamic new tools for learning to our community. Here on the Workbench platform, maker-educators, students, hobbyists—anyone, really—can discover engaging projects created by Workbench and the Workbench user community. Members of the community can create and post their own projects and share their unique creations and successes in the Gallery. We know that educators are just as excited about project-based learning as we are, so the Workbench platform gives educators the tools to connect with other educators, create classes, assign hands-on lessons and monitor student progress in real time. Workbench is excited to partner with top product companies to create unique communities focused on using specific products in project-based learning. Find our partner platforms by clicking here.

Tessemae's

Series A in 2015
Tessemae's, LLC, founded in 2009 and based in Essex, Maryland, specializes in producing salad dressings and sauces that emphasize clean-label, organic ingredients. The company is dedicated to promoting healthy eating through its mission to simplify food and enhance life. Tessemae's offers a range of flavorful products crafted with high-quality ingredients, all made in the United States. These items are available for purchase both online and in various retail locations across the country, including major chains like Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods Market. By focusing on health-conscious options, Tessemae's aims to improve access to nutritious foods and encourage better eating habits among consumers.

ScoreStream

Seed Round in 2015
ScoreStream, Inc. is a company that develops mobile applications focused on enhancing communication around sporting events, particularly high school sports. Founded in 2012 and based in San Diego, California, the platform allows fans to share crowd-sourced scores, photos, videos, and engage in conversations about games. Its applications are available on both iOS and Android, as well as through a website, facilitating the sharing of local sports content with family, friends, and media outlets. ScoreStream aims to provide accurate and timely reporting for high school sports, tapping into community engagement to enrich the fan experience.

UrbanStems

Seed Round in 2015
UrbanStems Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based company that specializes in on-demand flower delivery services. Founded in 2014, it offers fresh flowers and seasonal stems tailored for various occasions, including handcrafted bouquets for businesses and personal gifts. The company emphasizes a thoughtful gifting experience by providing personalized notes and care instructions with each delivery. UrbanStems also features a subscription service for regular flower deliveries, ensuring convenience for its customers. Its services are available through an online portal and a mobile application, catering to customers in cities such as New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. The company is committed to delivering quality floral arrangements promptly, often within minutes of order placement, and includes free shipping with every delivery.
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