Royal Street Ventures

Royal Street Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2012, with headquarters in Park City, Utah, and an additional office in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on sectors such as health and wellness, transportation and logistics, action sports, tech security, data, education, specialty manufacturing, fintech, specialty chemicals, and pet care. Royal Street Ventures primarily targets companies located in under-capitalized markets, including the Mountain West, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest, and prefers to invest between $0.0001 million and $1 million in funding rounds ranging from $0.75 million to $5 million. The firm actively participates in its investments by holding director seats on the boards of the companies it supports, ensuring that they have access to ongoing guidance and strategic direction.

Laura Brady

Managing Partner

Jeff Stowell

Managing Partner

Past deals in Missouri

BacklotCars

Series B in 2019
BacklotCars is an online marketplace that simplifies wholesale automotive transactions for auto dealers, finance companies, and rental car businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, the platform eliminates the need for physical auctions by offering a seamless, end-to-end solution that includes vehicle inspections, transportation, and inventory finance services. It operates a 24/7 bid-ask marketplace, allowing users to engage in transactions in real time. By addressing common challenges associated with online vehicle sales, such as the need for certified inspections, BacklotCars enhances the selling and buying experience. The service is utilized by dealers across 46 states, promoting transparency and efficiency in the wholesale automotive market.

BacklotCars

Series A in 2018
BacklotCars is an online marketplace that simplifies wholesale automotive transactions for auto dealers, finance companies, and rental car businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, the platform eliminates the need for physical auctions by offering a seamless, end-to-end solution that includes vehicle inspections, transportation, and inventory finance services. It operates a 24/7 bid-ask marketplace, allowing users to engage in transactions in real time. By addressing common challenges associated with online vehicle sales, such as the need for certified inspections, BacklotCars enhances the selling and buying experience. The service is utilized by dealers across 46 states, promoting transparency and efficiency in the wholesale automotive market.

Main Street Data

Seed Round in 2018
Main Street Data Corp is a data-driven company focused on transforming the agricultural industry through advanced machine learning tools. Founded in 2016 and based in Kansas City, Missouri, the company develops applications that consolidate current and historical agronomic data, enabling farmers to benchmark yield performance and enhance their return on investment. Its primary product, Validator, provides insights into yield, yield gaps, and potential ROI in both bushels and dollars. Main Street Data applies sophisticated analytical techniques to large volumes of field data, serving diverse agricultural markets, including grain, cotton, and specialty crops. The company aims to deliver precise, rapid, and value-adding insights and tools to support risk management and decision-making in the agriculture sector.

PayIt

Convertible Note in 2018
PayIt, LLC is a Kansas City-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in developing cloud-based solutions to modernize government payments. Its platform simplifies interactions with state, local, and federal governments by offering a digital wallet and a user-friendly website. PayIt employs various technologies, including microservices, RESTful web services, and cloud-native development, to create a seamless experience for residents accessing essential government services. The company's innovative platform enables governments to accept digital payments securely across multiple devices, enhancing service delivery to constituents. Through its patent-pending mobile transaction platform, PayIt aims to foster collaboration among partners in the industry to improve government services.

Vector Legal Method

Seed Round in 2017
Vector Legal Method, Inc. is a Kansas-based company that provides a cloud-based litigation management platform tailored for corporate legal departments and law firms. This Software-as-a-Service solution, developed by legal professionals, facilitates centralized control over litigation cases, enhancing collaboration among stakeholders. The platform offers features such as document storage and retrieval, management of case deadlines and tasks, and at-a-glance case status overviews, allowing in-house attorneys to gain visibility into outside counsel activities. By streamlining the litigation process, Vector Legal Method enables legal teams to save time, reduce billable costs, and focus on strategic projects, thereby improving overall efficiency in managing litigation.

BacklotCars

Seed Round in 2017
BacklotCars is an online marketplace that simplifies wholesale automotive transactions for auto dealers, finance companies, and rental car businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, the platform eliminates the need for physical auctions by offering a seamless, end-to-end solution that includes vehicle inspections, transportation, and inventory finance services. It operates a 24/7 bid-ask marketplace, allowing users to engage in transactions in real time. By addressing common challenges associated with online vehicle sales, such as the need for certified inspections, BacklotCars enhances the selling and buying experience. The service is utilized by dealers across 46 states, promoting transparency and efficiency in the wholesale automotive market.

Pepper

Series B in 2017
Pepper offers an IoT operating system and service delivery platform that empowers enterprises to deploy sophisticated IoT solutions. The introduction of billions of new connected devices (and other "things") requires a new user-experience paradigm—one that enables both consumers and enterprises the ability to effectively manage, control, and engage with their increasingly connected worlds. Pepper solves the problems associated with this increased complexity through the combination of its user operating system and service delivery platform.

PayIt

Series A in 2016
PayIt, LLC is a Kansas City-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in developing cloud-based solutions to modernize government payments. Its platform simplifies interactions with state, local, and federal governments by offering a digital wallet and a user-friendly website. PayIt employs various technologies, including microservices, RESTful web services, and cloud-native development, to create a seamless experience for residents accessing essential government services. The company's innovative platform enables governments to accept digital payments securely across multiple devices, enhancing service delivery to constituents. Through its patent-pending mobile transaction platform, PayIt aims to foster collaboration among partners in the industry to improve government services.
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