Serra Ventures

Serra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Champaign, Illinois, founded in 1998. The firm focuses on investing in technology companies primarily located in emerging Midwest technology centers, as well as selected areas on the West Coast. Serra Ventures targets investments in various sectors, including information technology, deep technology, instrumentation, software as a service, devices, and agricultural technologies. By concentrating on these areas, Serra Ventures aims to support the growth of innovative companies that contribute to the technological landscape in the Midwest and beyond.

Dennis Beard

Managing Partner

Drew Beard

Associate

Stephen Beck

Managing Partner

Tim Hoerr

Founder, CEO and Managing Partner

Rob Schultz

Managing Partner

Past deals in Missouri

TrackBill

Seed Round in 2020
TrackBill provides government affairs professionals with efficient mobile access to state and federal legislative information. It serves a diverse clientele, including professional service firms, corporations, and interest groups, enabling them to monitor bills relevant to their interests and track legislative activities. Users benefit from real-time alerts on key actions such as introductions, amendments, hearings, and votes. Additionally, TrackBill simplifies legislative reporting by allowing users to generate professional documents in Word, PDF, and Excel formats, as well as customizable, auto-updating website feeds. This functionality ensures that stakeholders remain informed about important legislative developments.

Ryvit

Seed Round in 2019
Ryvit develops an integration software that delivers seamless flow of data between premise and software used in the construction industry. The software integrates software application to enterprise resource product, customer relationship management, e-commerce, social apps, and specialty industry-specific system without exhausting development resources, empowering companies to experience the ease of intelligent integrations, driving profit through automation and optimization of the applications in use. Ryvit is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.

TrackBill

Seed Round in 2019
TrackBill provides government affairs professionals with efficient mobile access to state and federal legislative information. It serves a diverse clientele, including professional service firms, corporations, and interest groups, enabling them to monitor bills relevant to their interests and track legislative activities. Users benefit from real-time alerts on key actions such as introductions, amendments, hearings, and votes. Additionally, TrackBill simplifies legislative reporting by allowing users to generate professional documents in Word, PDF, and Excel formats, as well as customizable, auto-updating website feeds. This functionality ensures that stakeholders remain informed about important legislative developments.

TrackBill

Seed Round in 2017
TrackBill provides government affairs professionals with efficient mobile access to state and federal legislative information. It serves a diverse clientele, including professional service firms, corporations, and interest groups, enabling them to monitor bills relevant to their interests and track legislative activities. Users benefit from real-time alerts on key actions such as introductions, amendments, hearings, and votes. Additionally, TrackBill simplifies legislative reporting by allowing users to generate professional documents in Word, PDF, and Excel formats, as well as customizable, auto-updating website feeds. This functionality ensures that stakeholders remain informed about important legislative developments.

Kypha

Venture Round in 2017
Kypha Inc. is an early-stage life sciences company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of in-vitro diagnostic biomarker tests targeting inflammation and autoimmune disorders. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Kypha's flagship product, the COMP ACT System, is designed to enhance the monitoring and treatment of various health conditions, including lupus, stroke, traumatic brain injury, preeclampsia, infection, kidney disease, and transplant rejection. The system offers a rapid and accurate assessment of inflammation levels in the body, facilitating timely clinical interventions by healthcare professionals. Established in 2009, Kypha has successfully raised over $3 million in private capital and leveraged federal grants to advance its diagnostic offerings towards FDA clearance and commercial launch. The company operates with a small core team, supported by a network of scientific advisors and clinical collaborators.

TrackBill

Seed Round in 2017
TrackBill provides government affairs professionals with efficient mobile access to state and federal legislative information. It serves a diverse clientele, including professional service firms, corporations, and interest groups, enabling them to monitor bills relevant to their interests and track legislative activities. Users benefit from real-time alerts on key actions such as introductions, amendments, hearings, and votes. Additionally, TrackBill simplifies legislative reporting by allowing users to generate professional documents in Word, PDF, and Excel formats, as well as customizable, auto-updating website feeds. This functionality ensures that stakeholders remain informed about important legislative developments.

OPER

Venture Round in 2017
OPER (ORDER. PAY. EARN. REDEEM.) is a central rewards app for restaurant diners. Our mobile food ordering, payment and rewards platform offers users 5% back on every food purchase while remaining free for both consumers and restaurants to participate.Anyone can download OPER's app for iPhone or Android, easily set up an account, add money to it, and place orders for delivery or pick-up. They can then pay using OPER's mobile app when dining in or carrying out and will be rewarded with 5% back on all restaurant purchases. The 5% reward can later be redeemed at any participating restaurant.

Adarza BioSystems

Series C in 2017
Adarza BioSystems is an early-stage medical diagnostics company developing a rapid and label-free biological assay platform for measuring clinical and point-of-care (POC) samples. In addition to performing sophisticated clinical tests within minutes, this technology potentially allowing hundreds of tests to be run simultaneously on a single chip. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

Kypha

Venture Round in 2017
Kypha Inc. is an early-stage life sciences company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of in-vitro diagnostic biomarker tests targeting inflammation and autoimmune disorders. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Kypha's flagship product, the COMP ACT System, is designed to enhance the monitoring and treatment of various health conditions, including lupus, stroke, traumatic brain injury, preeclampsia, infection, kidney disease, and transplant rejection. The system offers a rapid and accurate assessment of inflammation levels in the body, facilitating timely clinical interventions by healthcare professionals. Established in 2009, Kypha has successfully raised over $3 million in private capital and leveraged federal grants to advance its diagnostic offerings towards FDA clearance and commercial launch. The company operates with a small core team, supported by a network of scientific advisors and clinical collaborators.

OPER

Seed Round in 2016
OPER (ORDER. PAY. EARN. REDEEM.) is a central rewards app for restaurant diners. Our mobile food ordering, payment and rewards platform offers users 5% back on every food purchase while remaining free for both consumers and restaurants to participate.Anyone can download OPER's app for iPhone or Android, easily set up an account, add money to it, and place orders for delivery or pick-up. They can then pay using OPER's mobile app when dining in or carrying out and will be rewarded with 5% back on all restaurant purchases. The 5% reward can later be redeemed at any participating restaurant.

TrackBill

Seed Round in 2016
TrackBill provides government affairs professionals with efficient mobile access to state and federal legislative information. It serves a diverse clientele, including professional service firms, corporations, and interest groups, enabling them to monitor bills relevant to their interests and track legislative activities. Users benefit from real-time alerts on key actions such as introductions, amendments, hearings, and votes. Additionally, TrackBill simplifies legislative reporting by allowing users to generate professional documents in Word, PDF, and Excel formats, as well as customizable, auto-updating website feeds. This functionality ensures that stakeholders remain informed about important legislative developments.

Kypha

Venture Round in 2016
Kypha Inc. is an early-stage life sciences company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of in-vitro diagnostic biomarker tests targeting inflammation and autoimmune disorders. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Kypha's flagship product, the COMP ACT System, is designed to enhance the monitoring and treatment of various health conditions, including lupus, stroke, traumatic brain injury, preeclampsia, infection, kidney disease, and transplant rejection. The system offers a rapid and accurate assessment of inflammation levels in the body, facilitating timely clinical interventions by healthcare professionals. Established in 2009, Kypha has successfully raised over $3 million in private capital and leveraged federal grants to advance its diagnostic offerings towards FDA clearance and commercial launch. The company operates with a small core team, supported by a network of scientific advisors and clinical collaborators.

Adarza BioSystems

Series B in 2016
Adarza BioSystems is an early-stage medical diagnostics company developing a rapid and label-free biological assay platform for measuring clinical and point-of-care (POC) samples. In addition to performing sophisticated clinical tests within minutes, this technology potentially allowing hundreds of tests to be run simultaneously on a single chip. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

Kypha

Debt Financing in 2015
Kypha Inc. is an early-stage life sciences company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of in-vitro diagnostic biomarker tests targeting inflammation and autoimmune disorders. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Kypha's flagship product, the COMP ACT System, is designed to enhance the monitoring and treatment of various health conditions, including lupus, stroke, traumatic brain injury, preeclampsia, infection, kidney disease, and transplant rejection. The system offers a rapid and accurate assessment of inflammation levels in the body, facilitating timely clinical interventions by healthcare professionals. Established in 2009, Kypha has successfully raised over $3 million in private capital and leveraged federal grants to advance its diagnostic offerings towards FDA clearance and commercial launch. The company operates with a small core team, supported by a network of scientific advisors and clinical collaborators.

Kypha

Convertible Note in 2015
Kypha Inc. is an early-stage life sciences company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of in-vitro diagnostic biomarker tests targeting inflammation and autoimmune disorders. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Kypha's flagship product, the COMP ACT System, is designed to enhance the monitoring and treatment of various health conditions, including lupus, stroke, traumatic brain injury, preeclampsia, infection, kidney disease, and transplant rejection. The system offers a rapid and accurate assessment of inflammation levels in the body, facilitating timely clinical interventions by healthcare professionals. Established in 2009, Kypha has successfully raised over $3 million in private capital and leveraged federal grants to advance its diagnostic offerings towards FDA clearance and commercial launch. The company operates with a small core team, supported by a network of scientific advisors and clinical collaborators.

Tunespeak

Series A in 2015
Tunespeak, LLC operates a musician-to-fan loyalty platform designed to engage users through various media interactions. Founded in 2011 and based in St. Louis, Missouri, the platform allows users to earn points by listening to music, watching videos, and sharing content with friends and followers. Additionally, it enables users' friends to accumulate points for a contestant based on their interactions with songs, pictures, and videos throughout contests or raffles. By fostering a deeper connection between musicians and their fans, Tunespeak enhances fan engagement and loyalty in the music industry.

Kypha

Venture Round in 2014
Kypha Inc. is an early-stage life sciences company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of in-vitro diagnostic biomarker tests targeting inflammation and autoimmune disorders. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Kypha's flagship product, the COMP ACT System, is designed to enhance the monitoring and treatment of various health conditions, including lupus, stroke, traumatic brain injury, preeclampsia, infection, kidney disease, and transplant rejection. The system offers a rapid and accurate assessment of inflammation levels in the body, facilitating timely clinical interventions by healthcare professionals. Established in 2009, Kypha has successfully raised over $3 million in private capital and leveraged federal grants to advance its diagnostic offerings towards FDA clearance and commercial launch. The company operates with a small core team, supported by a network of scientific advisors and clinical collaborators.

Kypha

Venture Round in 2014
Kypha Inc. is an early-stage life sciences company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of in-vitro diagnostic biomarker tests targeting inflammation and autoimmune disorders. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Kypha's flagship product, the COMP ACT System, is designed to enhance the monitoring and treatment of various health conditions, including lupus, stroke, traumatic brain injury, preeclampsia, infection, kidney disease, and transplant rejection. The system offers a rapid and accurate assessment of inflammation levels in the body, facilitating timely clinical interventions by healthcare professionals. Established in 2009, Kypha has successfully raised over $3 million in private capital and leveraged federal grants to advance its diagnostic offerings towards FDA clearance and commercial launch. The company operates with a small core team, supported by a network of scientific advisors and clinical collaborators.

Adarza BioSystems

Series A in 2014
Adarza BioSystems is an early-stage medical diagnostics company developing a rapid and label-free biological assay platform for measuring clinical and point-of-care (POC) samples. In addition to performing sophisticated clinical tests within minutes, this technology potentially allowing hundreds of tests to be run simultaneously on a single chip. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.
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