Colorado Impact Fund

The Colorado Impact Fund is a private equity fund dedicated to supporting local companies that generate consistent investment returns in addition to positive community outcomes. Their investors include some of Colorado’s most respected executives, families, foundations and corporations, each of whom is committed to making a difference in the State of Colorado and beyond. Managed by an affiliate of Vestar Capital Partners, the Colorado Impact Fund provides growth capital to entrepreneurs who have developed compelling business models that drive meaningful financial returns and community impact. Their team is committed to helping portfolio companies reach their potential. Their investment strategy leverages their collective experiences, resources, and networks to help Colorado entrepreneurs create exceptional and lasting companies. Energy and passion are core to who they are and they seek to partner with entrepreneurs and company builders equally dedicated to accelerating their businesses.

Nicolás Cordero

Associate

James Kelley JD

Founder and Managing Partner

Grace Oliva

Vice President

20 past transactions

Honest Jobs

Seed Round in 2022
Honest Jobs helps people with criminal records find employment. Honest Jobs is the nation's largest fair-chance employment platform. Founded in 2018, the company operates in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

TalentBloom Healthcare

Seed Round in 2021
Modern products and data enrichment tools that bring visibility and clarity to your talent ecosystem. To navigate today’s challenging talent acquisition environment every company needs the right tools to blossom. We are committed to helping healthcare organizations bloom by providing easy-to-use, effective solutions to centralize your data, helping you visualize your entire talent pipeline and hire more amazing team members.

Tortuga AgTech

Series A in 2021
Tortuga AgTech empowers growers by using robots that perform a variety of labor-intensive tasks on the farm, with an emphasis on the harvest. Tortuga AgTech's mission is to build a healthier society, and a thriving ecosystem, through smarter farming. To do this, they want to enable growers to sell better produce - unique, tasty, nutritious food. They're doing this by building Digital Horticulture systems, made up of powerful technology like robotics, automation, and precision data analytics and machine learning. These systems will enable advanced growing methods to compete with scale agriculture, which means growers will be able to grow better produce that's also better for the planet. The automation of picking, packing, and trimming will reduce significantly the manual labor hours needed to grow to produce. It will also increase yields through denser layouts and optimized grow conditions. And, they'll help create full-time local technical jobs as well. And they do all of that while providing fresher, healthier, and more sustainable products to the humans living near their grower customers' operations.

CirrusMD

Series C in 2021
CirrusMD is a text-first enterprise solution that connects people and doctors with no-barriers access to human experts who can always help. It develops a solution to deliver guidance beyond primary care. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Friday Health Plans

Venture Round in 2020
Friday Health Plans is a healthcare management company purposely built for today’s health insurance environment. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado and was founded in 2015, the company focuses on overall simplicity to offer low prices so more people can afford health insurance. Operational efficiency, top-notch customer service, and smart technology are core to Friday’s consumer-centric approach. The leadership team consists of experienced executives in the managed care, technology, and consumer marketing industries.

CirrusMD

Series B in 2019
CirrusMD is a text-first enterprise solution that connects people and doctors with no-barriers access to human experts who can always help. It develops a solution to deliver guidance beyond primary care. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Galvanize

Series C in 2018
Galvanize is a school for entrepreneurs, engineers, and data scientists. It is a learning community for technology with nine physical and two remote campuses, where innovative startups, aspiring students, and large enterprises benefit from this dynamic, unique business ecosystem. Galvanize is backed by investors including, but not limited to, Catalyst Investors, ABS Capital Partners, University Ventures, New Markets Venture Partners, and Colorado Impact Fund. The company was co-founded by Tony Mugavero, Chris Onan, Jim Deters, and Lawrence Mandes in 2012, and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

KMLabs

Series B in 2018
KMLabs manufactures laser systems for research and industry. It is committed to the continued advancement of ultrashort-pulse and short-wavelength laser technologies. It delivers delivering optimized tabletop ultrafast laser sources spanning the VUV - EUV - soft X-ray range of the spectrum, ie. 1 to 200 nm, at femtosecond/attosecond timescales.

Maria Empanada

Series A in 2017
Maria Empanada is a denver based restaurant that specializes in the fields of pastries, bakery, business intelligence, and catering containing wheat, milk, eggs, nuts, and tuna fish. It also offers tarts and Spanish tortillas, and Spanish empanadas.

Keystone Tower Systems

Venture Round in 2017
Kestone's spiral-welding process is a breakthrough in tower manufacturing, allowing for the support of larger next-generation turbines. The company can significantly reduce the cost of onshore and offshore towers while also allowing turbines to reach higher into stronger winds for more energy absorption.

CirrusMD

Series A in 2017
CirrusMD is a text-first enterprise solution that connects people and doctors with no-barriers access to human experts who can always help. It develops a solution to deliver guidance beyond primary care. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Schoolrunner

Venture Round in 2017
Schoolrunner is a student data system that allows educators to track academics, attendance, behavior, and standards. It integrates with a school’s existing student information systems (SIS) and provides tools to aid analysis of the collected data through graphs, pivot tables, and dashboards. Educators can also set up logins for students so they can track their own progress. Schoolrunner was launched in 2012.

SecureSet

Series A in 2017
SecureSet Academy provides aspiring talent with a powerfully direct pathway into the cybersecurity industry in a minimum amount of time and improves the supply-side of this national challenge. SecureSet's Academy programming includes technical information security education, hands-on instruction in our state-of-the-art lab, guided product training, and essential certifications.

Galvanize

Series B in 2016
Galvanize is a school for entrepreneurs, engineers, and data scientists. It is a learning community for technology with nine physical and two remote campuses, where innovative startups, aspiring students, and large enterprises benefit from this dynamic, unique business ecosystem. Galvanize is backed by investors including, but not limited to, Catalyst Investors, ABS Capital Partners, University Ventures, New Markets Venture Partners, and Colorado Impact Fund. The company was co-founded by Tony Mugavero, Chris Onan, Jim Deters, and Lawrence Mandes in 2012, and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

KMLabs

Series A in 2016
KMLabs manufactures laser systems for research and industry. It is committed to the continued advancement of ultrashort-pulse and short-wavelength laser technologies. It delivers delivering optimized tabletop ultrafast laser sources spanning the VUV - EUV - soft X-ray range of the spectrum, ie. 1 to 200 nm, at femtosecond/attosecond timescales.

TeamSnap

Series B in 2015
TeamSnap develops a sports management platform designed to simplify communication and coordination between sports members. The platform assists sports coaches, administrators, players, and parents to keep a track of rosters, schedules, games, availability, statistics, and make payments, enabling users to play seamlessly and focus on their game.

Schoolrunner

Venture Round in 2015
Schoolrunner is a student data system that allows educators to track academics, attendance, behavior, and standards. It integrates with a school’s existing student information systems (SIS) and provides tools to aid analysis of the collected data through graphs, pivot tables, and dashboards. Educators can also set up logins for students so they can track their own progress. Schoolrunner was launched in 2012.

Bhakti

Series A in 2015
Bhakti Chai blends fresh and sustainably sourced (Fair Trade, NonGMO, Organic) with triple bottom line and B Corp business practices. Iced Bhakti Chai bottles are available in six varieties: Original, Decaf, Coffee Blend, Semi-Sweet, Almond Blend, and Toasted Coconut Almond Blend. Concentrate products are available in quarts, half gallons, and gallons in Whole Foods, Costco, and cafe's across the country.

Nutrinsic

Debt Financing in 2010
Nutrinsic provides commercial nutrition solutions through the upcycling of unused nutrients. They help food and beverage processors deliver water to the environment and eliminate the need to dispose of waste by recovering nutrients. This process creates an economically and environmentally sustainable source of premium protein for animal nutrition.

LogRhythm

Series A in 2007
LogRhythm is a world leader in NextGen SIEM, empowering thousands of enterprises on six continents to successfully reduce cyber and operational risk by rapidly detecting, responding to, and neutralizing damaging cyberthreats. The LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform combines advanced security analytics; user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA); network detection and response (NDR); and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) in a single end-to-end solution. LogRhythm’s technology serves as the foundation for the world’s most modern enterprise security operations centers (SOCs), helping customers measurably secure their cloud, physical, and virtual infrastructures for both IT and OT environments. Built for security professionals by security professionals, the LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform has won a countless customer and industry accolades.
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