Benson Capital Partners

Benson Capital Partners is a venture capital firm established in 2019 and based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The firm focuses on fostering new business formation and workforce expansion in the Gulf South region. It primarily invests in promising companies across key sectors such as tourism, logistics, health care, and energy. Through the management of its capital fund, Benson Capital Partners aims to provide resources and support that drive wealth creation in these industries. The firm is committed to addressing significant market opportunities while contributing to economic growth in its community.

Mike Katz

Senior Managing Director

3 past transactions

Prokeep

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a messaging platform designed for improving customer experience through better insights and engagement opportunities The company's platform allows distributors of all sizes to text-enable their location's phone number, allowing contractors to text orders, pictures, and questions to the same number they call, enabling distributors to streamline their customer communications for better workflow, tangible results, and happier customers.

Conserv

Series A in 2022
Conserv, a software and sensors business, is changing the art conservation market with a conservation-focused platform that brings together all of the jobs conservation professionals do into a single place. Conserv's initial focus is on environmental monitoring, a non-optional conservation job, where they've developed the only wireless, conservation-focused monitoring system in the space.

AxoSim

Private Equity Round in 2020
AxoSim, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in New Orleans, Louisiana, that specializes in developing innovative platforms for drug discovery in neuroscience. The company offers Nerve-on-a-Chip, a platform designed to predict clinical neurotoxicity and model human neurodegenerative diseases, thereby streamlining the drug development process for biopharmaceutical companies. AxoSim's technologies include NerveSim, which provides an in vitro model featuring Schwann cell myelination and essential metrics for human translation, and BrainSim, which focuses on human-relevant oligodendrocyte myelination. Additionally, AxoSim grows living human cells in a three-dimensional environment that mimics nerve tissue, enhancing the relevance of its models for testing neurotoxicity and related diseases. Founded in 2014, AxoSim aims to advance neuroscience and improve the efficiency of developing effective therapies.
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