Cowles Company

Cowles Company is a fourth-generation family-owned business based in Spokane, Washington, founded in 1890. The company manages a diverse portfolio of established enterprises and focuses on investing in high-potential growth sectors, including manufacturing, forestry, real estate, digital media, and green technology. Cowles Company is committed to fostering long-term advantages for its shareholders, customers, employees, and the communities it serves.

Blake Gibson

Venture Associate

15 past transactions

Quintar

Series A in 2024
Quintar is a technology company focused on augmented reality, aimed at enhancing the live game experience for fans. The company's platform integrates long-range registration and dynamic AR content with live stereoscopic streaming, allowing content owners, creators, and rights holders to design engaging live action augmented reality experiences. This innovation enables fans to enjoy personalized and interactive viewing experiences on mobile devices, televisions, and augmented reality wearables. By leveraging this technology, Quintar seeks to transform how audiences engage with live events.

Treasury4

Series A in 2023
Treasury4 specializes in data analytics services tailored for the finance and treasury industry. The company has developed a cloud-based platform that enhances treasury and finance processes for corporations globally. This platform features a suite of interconnected tools that support legal entity management, global cash management, secure payments, forecast management, and foreign exchange management. By providing these capabilities, Treasury4 enables finance and treasury professionals to conduct effective real-time analyses, thereby facilitating informed and accurate decision-making.

Vega Cloud

Venture Round in 2022
Vega Cloud is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application focused on managing public cloud infrastructure. It offers an enterprise management platform that simplifies the complexities of cloud deployment, allowing businesses to efficiently scale their operations. The platform provides optimization recommendations, helping organizations streamline their cloud management processes. By utilizing Vega Cloud, companies can save both time and money in their cloud deployments, making it easier to oversee their infrastructure effectively.

Quintar

Seed Round in 2021
Quintar is a technology company focused on augmented reality, aimed at enhancing the live game experience for fans. The company's platform integrates long-range registration and dynamic AR content with live stereoscopic streaming, allowing content owners, creators, and rights holders to design engaging live action augmented reality experiences. This innovation enables fans to enjoy personalized and interactive viewing experiences on mobile devices, televisions, and augmented reality wearables. By leveraging this technology, Quintar seeks to transform how audiences engage with live events.

Gestalt Diagnostics

Seed Round in 2021
Gestalt Diagnostics, LLC is a healthcare technology company based in Spokane, Washington, founded in 2015. The company specializes in providing PACS hosting and innovative solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinics, and laboratories across the United States. Its flagship product, PathFlow, is a software platform designed to transform anatomic pathology workflows, enabling laboratories to transition from traditional methods involving glass slides and microscopes to an automated, electronic digital system. This approach enhances efficiency and accuracy in pathology, streamlining operations for pathologists and pathology laboratories.

Spiceology

Series A in 2020
Spiceology is a food and beverages company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Washington, United States. The company specializes in producing flavored spices, offering a wide range of products that include custom blends, herbs, chiles, salts, and fruit and vegetable powders. Spiceology focuses on using natural and organic ingredients to create freshly ground gourmet rubs and other innovative culinary components. Its offerings cater to various sectors, including private label and food service, enabling customers to explore creativity in the kitchen with high-quality, diverse ingredients.

APANA

Series B in 2019
APANA Inc. specializes in water management through its cloud-based analytics platform designed to address water waste in commercial and industrial sectors. The company offers various solutions, including APANA CLEARVAST for larger operations, APANA ONE for smaller sites, and APANA CT specifically for cooling towers. Its platform enables users to scan their environments, analyze data, and identify waste events, providing real-time alerts to frontline staff for prompt resolution. By helping businesses understand their water usage and compliance risks, APANA's technology supports operational sustainability and cost savings. Founded in 2010 and based in Bellingham, Washington, the company was previously known as Kirkland Analytics, Inc. before rebranding in 2015.

SBLive

Seed Round in 2019
SBLive is a company that specializes in providing an end-to-end software solution for scorekeeping, media publishing, and distribution focused on high school sports. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Spokane, Washington, SBLive offers a platform that connects fans, athletes, and communities by delivering real-time sports news and engagement. Its services include live scores, game updates, video highlights, and player rankings, enabling teams, leagues, and tournaments to publish content that keeps fans informed and engaged. This platform supports local media efforts and fosters a vibrant ecosystem around high school athletics, enhancing the overall experience for everyone involved in the sports community.

Phytelligence

Series B in 2017
Phytelligence, Inc. is an agricultural biotechnology company that specializes in growing and providing high-quality plants and innovative solutions for growers, nurseries, and horticultural experts. Founded in 2012 and based in Pullman, Washington, the company offers a range of tissue-cultured plantlets, including varieties of pear, apple, cherry, grape, and strawberry, all free from diseases, viruses, and pests. Phytelligence also provides custom genetic analysis services to evaluate the genetic similarities and differences among closely related plant samples. Its advanced propagation and quality control processes ensure that clients receive genetically confirmed plants that are healthy and ready for planting, ultimately enhancing productivity and quality in crop production.

HyperSciences

Seed Round in 2017
HyperSciences, Inc. develops advanced drilling solutions for various applications, including energy, tunneling, transportation, and aerospace. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Spokane, Washington, with an additional office in Austin, Texas, the company offers innovative technologies such as HyperDrill, which enhances the rate of penetration in oil, gas, and geothermal drilling by up to ten times compared to conventional methods. HyperSciences also provides a geothermal solution that utilizes HyperDrill to access deep geothermal energy deposits and the HyperBreaker, a rock-breaking solution designed for construction, mining, and tunneling. By employing low-cost chemical energy to propel projectiles to hypersonic speeds, the company's technology enables faster and deeper penetration into hard rock, effectively addressing challenges in drilling and tunneling operations.

APANA

Series A in 2017
APANA Inc. specializes in water management through its cloud-based analytics platform designed to address water waste in commercial and industrial sectors. The company offers various solutions, including APANA CLEARVAST for larger operations, APANA ONE for smaller sites, and APANA CT specifically for cooling towers. Its platform enables users to scan their environments, analyze data, and identify waste events, providing real-time alerts to frontline staff for prompt resolution. By helping businesses understand their water usage and compliance risks, APANA's technology supports operational sustainability and cost savings. Founded in 2010 and based in Bellingham, Washington, the company was previously known as Kirkland Analytics, Inc. before rebranding in 2015.

SBLive

Seed Round in 2016
SBLive is a company that specializes in providing an end-to-end software solution for scorekeeping, media publishing, and distribution focused on high school sports. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Spokane, Washington, SBLive offers a platform that connects fans, athletes, and communities by delivering real-time sports news and engagement. Its services include live scores, game updates, video highlights, and player rankings, enabling teams, leagues, and tournaments to publish content that keeps fans informed and engaged. This platform supports local media efforts and fosters a vibrant ecosystem around high school athletics, enhancing the overall experience for everyone involved in the sports community.

CLEARAS Water Recovery

Series B in 2016
CLEARAS Water Recovery, Inc. specializes in biological-based water treatment technologies aimed at nutrient recovery from industrial water discharge and wastewater. Its primary offering, the Advanced Biological Nutrient Recovery System (ABNR), utilizes microbiology—specifically microalgae and other biological organisms—to effectively recover excess nitrogen, phosphorus, and other contaminants. This innovative system operates in a controlled, continuous flow environment, optimizing performance by managing retention time, nutrient load, and biological mass. The process is entirely renewable and results in a plant-based biomaterial co-product, which can be repurposed for various applications, including plastics, foams, animal feeds, and soil enhancements. CLEARAS serves both municipal and industrial point source dischargers and is headquartered in Missoula, Montana. The company, originally founded in 2008 as AlgEvolve Inc., rebranded to CLEARAS Water Recovery, Inc. in July 2013.

SBLive

Seed Round in 2014
SBLive is a company that specializes in providing an end-to-end software solution for scorekeeping, media publishing, and distribution focused on high school sports. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Spokane, Washington, SBLive offers a platform that connects fans, athletes, and communities by delivering real-time sports news and engagement. Its services include live scores, game updates, video highlights, and player rankings, enabling teams, leagues, and tournaments to publish content that keeps fans informed and engaged. This platform supports local media efforts and fosters a vibrant ecosystem around high school athletics, enhancing the overall experience for everyone involved in the sports community.

CloudEngage

Series A in 2013
CloudEngage, Inc. is a Portland, Oregon-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in developing geo-aware software tools designed to enhance interactions between businesses and their customers. The company offers a suite of engagement solutions, including video engagement tools, a personalized experience engine, live chat functionality, and AnswerDash, as well as the industry's first free customer data platform. CloudEngage's products are designed for quick installation and are compatible with existing websites, allowing global brands to leverage these intuitive tools effectively and affordably.
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