FirstMile Ventures

FirstMile Ventures invests in seed stage technology companies. They aim to invest early in a company's life and help them set the pace for future success. They are located in Colorado but consider investment opportunities across the U.S.

Bill Miller

Founder and Managing Partner

Aaron Stachel

Partner

51 past transactions

Quaddra Software Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Quaddra Software develops file analytics technology for managing file and object data in corporate and petabyte-scale environments. We have implemented an extensible architecture built around a core of high-performance, open-source database technologies. This architecture provides three primary file analytics functions: - Scanning – both metadata and file contents - Searching – identifies files and groups of files with similar characteristics - Acting – notify, tag, copy, move and delete files

interviewIA

Seed Round in 2021
interviewIA is committed to systematically building an Inclusive Future of Work in a world where organizations can be objective and inclusive in hiring to create thriving, diverse, engaged cultures of high-performing employees. interviewIA is redefining the actual practice of interviewing by creating the first solution to bring human calibration, structure, and data-driven interview outcomes into one, fully integrated, easy-to-use cloud application. interviewIA uses deep learning Intelligence Amplification (IA) technology and human-centered design to redefine the method of interviewing.

Pomp Beauty

Seed Round in 2021
Pomp connects you with licensed estheticians virtually so you can shop personally recommended skincare. The company's estheticians recommend skincare via chat based on the consumer's skin type and concerns. It also provides personal service and curated skincare products, hand-selected by expert estheticians. Pomp Beauty was founded in 2019 and is based Denver, Colorado.

CaliberMind

Seed Round in 2016
CaliberMind is a B2B Customer Data Platform that powers Revenue Marketers at mParticle, Fidelis Cybersecurity, Datavail and other mid-market enterprises, with the data, business intelligence, and automation they need to grow revenue faster, together with sales. The platform lets marketing and ops teams answer simple business questions and automate manual workflows with 1-click: Which marketing programs generate the most revenue? How is my marketing campaign performing? How fast are we driving revenue through the pipeline? How's our close rate trending over time? Unlike CRM reporting and expensive, general BI tools that take months to implement, run on bad/ partial data and require data analytics skills, CaliberMind can be implemented in one hour by marketing and ops managers. The platform has 10x faster time-to-insights at 10% of the cost of traditional IT/ BI solutions.

Quaddra Software Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Quaddra Software develops file analytics technology for managing file and object data in corporate and petabyte-scale environments. We have implemented an extensible architecture built around a core of high-performance, open-source database technologies. This architecture provides three primary file analytics functions: - Scanning – both metadata and file contents - Searching – identifies files and groups of files with similar characteristics - Acting – notify, tag, copy, move and delete files

BubbleIQ

Seed Round in 2018
Halp is Slack-first ticketing for modern IT teams. It is the first conversational platform designed specifically for internal ticketing. It enables users to assign, prioritize, and answer requests from Slack with ease. Halp maximizes employee happiness and productivity.

Retail Aware Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
Retail Aware helps retail manufacturers and their supply chains optimize merchandising and increase sales. Retail Aware measures audience, dwell, and engagement in relation to a product or area in a physical environment.

Altia

Seed Round in 2011
Altia is provides state-of-the-art GUI development and code generation tools for embedded displays. Altia’s software allows designers to involve customers in the design process, collaborate with other departments and locations,accelerate debugging time on their model and quickly generate tight ANSI C graphics code that can be deployed directly to different targets. In addition, Altia offers engineering services that include HMI development, porting to new targets and full life cycle multi-modular solutions. Companies in the automotive, medical, consumer electronics and white goods industries are realizing productivity gains and winning business with Altia.

Pax8

Venture Round in 2014
Pax8 is a cloud commerce marketplace focused on the delivery of cloud-based solutions to a global network of channel partners and their customers. It helps grow its partners' cloud practices by delivering aggregated cloud services from vendors such as Symantec, SilverSky, Infrascale, and InterCall through a single platform. This platform, called the Pax8 Command Console, unifies and streamlines quoting, ordering, provisioning, support, and billing for multiple cloud services. Pax8 enables new client growth for partners with its proven, collaborative customer acquisition programs, marketing on-demand, and sales on demand. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

Giide

Seed Round in 2020
Giide is an audio authoring and publishing platform for businesses to create hyperlinked audio content. Our platform includes a mobile application, audio content authoring system and embeddable player for publishing Giides on web. We support creators and businesses with new tools and technologies for audio listening including audio plus an on-screen synchronous content feed. Giide provides detailed metrics to businesses that want to understand audio interaction beyond passive podcast listening and video consumption.

Hedera Hashgraph

Venture Round in 2018
The Hedera hashgraph platform will offer a distributed public ledger that enables anyone to easily develop globally decentralized applications. Developers can build secure, fair, blazing-fast decentralized applications on top of the Hedera hashgraph platform.

section.io Incorporated

Seed Round in 2017
section.io Pty Limited provides content delivery network for developers. It offers ModSecurity, a Web application firewall to protect Websites from malicious attacks and unknown software vulnerabilities; Varnish Cache, a HTTP accelerator designed to reduce load on Web servers and improve page load performance; and Magento & Varnish Cache, an ecommerce platform that provides flexibility and control for developers and users of ecommerce Websites. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in North Sydney, Australia. section.io Pty Limited operates as a subsidiary of Squixa Pty Ltd.

SlamData, Inc.

Series A in 2017
SlamData software is a solution for data integration and preparation of any data stored in S3, Azure, and Google. It gives more analytics-ready, regardless of complexity. SlamData has connectors to MongoDB, MarkLogic, Couchbase, and Hadoop and employs the industry's first “in-database” analytics solution to keep data processing and analytics close to the data. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

X-IO

Venture Round in 2016
X-IO is a storage industry related company delivering unmatched price or performance, reliability, and scale for enterprise, cloud applications, and infrastructure. Its “Intelligent Storage Element” systems are based on two decades of invention and investment by veteran storage industry experts. The features of X-IO’s plug-and-perform “Intelligent Storage Element” storage arrays are accelerate transactional, reporting and business intelligence applications by a factor of 3x or more; drives extreme performance and scale for virtual desktop and virtualized server infrastructures; and with five- to seven-year duty cycles, a super-efficient energy and space profile. X-IO solutions have been recognized as SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro’s 2011 Editors’ Best Gold Medal winners, the 2012 Best of TechEd “Hardware and Storage Product” and “Attendees’ Pick” Awards, and inclusion in CRN’s 2012 Data Center 100 List.

Charmed Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Keys is building the architecture of anticipatory communication. Texting is the biggest communication channel in the world and everyone has trouble communicating. AI is disrupting communication as we know it. Keys is a new way to think about writing—leveraging GPT3, Keys suggests what to write based on the user’s intent, helping people communicate more effectively, quickly, and accurately.

Resurface Labs Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Resurface Labs Inc. develops and offers a commercial database for logging real usage of online services and APIs. Its products provide flexible data pipelines for logging, searching, and analyzing API calls made by the customers of clients; and allow clients to capture and search user sessions, GraphQL payloads, JSON and HTML content, cookies, and other customer-specific details. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Demoflow

Seed Round in 2021
Demoflow Inc. designs and develops sales presentation and demo collaborative platform that helps to streamline preparation, presentation, follow-up, and documentation for sale teams. The platform provides services, such as live URL slides integration, asset management, automated follow-up, and presentation analytics. Demoflow Inc. serves leadership, sale engineers, and account executives. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Topbox

Seed Round in 2017
Topbox's Customer Experience Analytics solution analyzes customer interactions across every communication channel, enabling our clients to quickly identify and resolve customer and prospect friction points. Customers are providing a mountain of feedback about your products and services through voice, chats, texts, social media, NPS surveys, post-sale surveys, product reviews, app feedback, web feedback, and more. Are you listening?

Kindara

Seed Round in 2015
Kindara, Inc. develops a fertility awareness application for iPhone and Android. It develops Kindara Fertility Trackr, a fertility tracking application that helps women to get pregnant faster, avoid pregnancy naturally, or better understand their cycles. The company also offers Wink, an oral fertility thermometer that records BBT and syncs automatically with the Kindara application. It sells its products through distributors. Kindara, Inc. was formerly known as Conscious Cycles LLC. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Boulder, Colorado. As per the transaction announced on October 2, 2018, Kindara, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Prima-Temp, Inc.

infinite io, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
infinite io, Inc. provides NSC-110, a network-based storage controller. It develops software that sends inactive data to cloud storage systems while keeping frequently used data onsite, as well as enables users to access data in the cloud. The company’s solution automatically and transparently migrates inactive data to the cloud and converts file storage applications into cloud enabled. infinite io, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

IronCore Labs, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
IronCore Labs, Inc. designs and develops encryption software. The software offers integration, control, privacy, and compliance. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

infinite io, Inc.

Series B in 2018
infinite io, Inc. provides NSC-110, a network-based storage controller. It develops software that sends inactive data to cloud storage systems while keeping frequently used data onsite, as well as enables users to access data in the cloud. The company’s solution automatically and transparently migrates inactive data to the cloud and converts file storage applications into cloud enabled. infinite io, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

IronCore Labs, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
IronCore Labs, Inc. designs and develops encryption software. The software offers integration, control, privacy, and compliance. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Swirlds, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Swirlds enables developers to build applications that rapidly achieve consensus, resulting in fair, fast, proven and efficient transactions, without any single point of failure. Swirlds is a software platform used to build and run shared worlds - fully distributed applications that harness the power of the cloud without servers.

Cloud Elements

Venture Round in 2015
Cloud Elements is a developer of an API integration platform used to integrate and manage digital products and applications. It features end-to-end functions such as data transformations, API provisioning, usage monitoring, events, and notifications for tracking and troubleshooting that enables developers to integrate multiple apps into different CRM and marketing automation platforms in an easy manner. Cloud Elements was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

ConcealFab Corporation

Venture Round in 2014
ConcealFab Corporation designs, engineers, and produces radio frequency transparent shelters and enclosures. It offers pre-fabricated polyvinyl chloride (PVC) concealment solutions for federal contractors and commercial wireless carriers. The company is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Stateless

Seed Round in 2017
Stateless is reinventing connectivity. With software-defined interconnect (SD-IX) from Stateless colocation providers can dynamically deliver routing, security and automation services to network interconnection points through software. In doing so, providers can control and connect every endpoint, including portfolio data centers, tenant sites and hyperscale clouds. Stateless is based in Boulder, CO and is a spinoff of research conducted by co-founders Murad Kablan and Eric Keller.

SlamData, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
SlamData software is a solution for data integration and preparation of any data stored in S3, Azure, and Google. It gives more analytics-ready, regardless of complexity. SlamData has connectors to MongoDB, MarkLogic, Couchbase, and Hadoop and employs the industry's first “in-database” analytics solution to keep data processing and analytics close to the data. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.
Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Grant Dental Technology Corporation designs, develops, and produces the Proximerge dental implant and associated surgical and restorative instruments. GDTC is commited to innovative, quality products and superior customer service to surgeons, general dentists, hygienists, and laboratories. GDTC also enjoys close collaborations with world renowned dental schools and is closely aligned with top clinicians, scientists, engineers, and industry leaders. It is their intent to become the implant company of choice for dental professionals everywhere.

burstIQ

Seed Round in 2015
BurstIQ is the leading provider of blockchain-enabled data solutions for the healthcare industry. The company's private, permissioned data network allows organizations to connect with each other, securely share data, and unlock a deeper understanding of the diverse factors that influence health. The platform combines blockchain, Big Data, machine intelligence, and granular data ownership and consent to build multi-dimensional profiles of people, places, and things and empower the interactions between them. The result is a global, secure data network that allows health systems, payers, digital health companies, pharma & life science companies and governments to collaborate, share, discover, and build the impossible.

Demoflow

Seed Round in 2020
Demoflow Inc. designs and develops sales presentation and demo collaborative platform that helps to streamline preparation, presentation, follow-up, and documentation for sale teams. The platform provides services, such as live URL slides integration, asset management, automated follow-up, and presentation analytics. Demoflow Inc. serves leadership, sale engineers, and account executives. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Kazan Networks

Convertible Note in 2017
Kazan Networks Corporation develops solutions in the areas of iSCSI controllers, FC-to-SATA bridges, SAS controllers, and high-performance networking solutions. It offers KN-EVAL_1.0, a customer evaluation kit that enables customers and partners to test the emerging NVMe over Fabrics standard; and enables easy plug-and-play connectivity between host and an SSD over an Ethernet link. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Auburn, California. As of September 10, 2019, Kazan Networks Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation.

Left Hand Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
Left Hand Robotics has developed the first commercial-class, self-driving snow clearing robot capable of removing snow from sidewalks and walkways. The SnowBot Pro is controlled and monitored remotely from an online management dashboard and uses GPS to follow a pre-programmed path. Its rotating brush clears a sidewalk from edge-to-edge in a single pass to meet even the highest standards.

Shotzr, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
At Shotzr, our mission is to deliver the right images for every marketing moment. In a world with nearly 10 Billion screens, customer experience and attention are driven through imagery. Shotzr helps you identify your customer, and then identify with them through contextual imagery that matches your audience targeting. Whether you’re doing Facebook and Instagram campaigns, social media marketing, SEM landing pages, or truly dynamic creative, Shotzr provides you with all the imagery you need for digital marketing.

Teltoo

Seed Round in 2017
Teltoo uses P2P technologies to improve online video delivery. Teltoo works alongside its clients preferred CDN, turning video distribution into a reliable experience. It integrates into broadcasters' workflow and works on the browser's background without expecting its clients to install any plug-ins. Teltoo also offers an analytics dashboard that shows bandwidth savings and activity and is compatible with most video players. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado.

Wanamaker Corporation

Seed Round in 2012
Wanamaker Corporation develops an event management application that allows junior golfers' family and friends to view live scoring and leaderboards during events and tournaments. Its application enables to create, manage, and promote next outing, charity event, or tournament using Web interface, as well as to manage rosters, volunteers, sponsors, teams, pairings, rounds, leader boards, and more. It also allows users to customize events with branding from charities or fundraising organizations; sell live leader board sponsorships to supporters; and display their banners on mobile applications. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Afini

Seed Round in 2017
Afini tailors each aspect of their members’ journeys to meet—and surpass—their needs and preferences. They elevate their experiences by anticipating and fulfilling even their unspoken desires. They design every detail of their members’ journeys to match their preferences, meet all their needs, and mix in some magic by fulfilling unspoken wishes.

BubbleIQ

Seed Round in 2019
Halp is Slack-first ticketing for modern IT teams. It is the first conversational platform designed specifically for internal ticketing. It enables users to assign, prioritize, and answer requests from Slack with ease. Halp maximizes employee happiness and productivity.

Open Road Snacks, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Open Road Snacks, Inc. produces and sells gluten-free/gourmet popcorn snacks in various flavors. It offers its products via travel and convenience stores, snack retailers, natural food grocers, and supermarket locations in the United States, as well as online. Open Road Snacks, Inc. was formerly known as Rocky Mountain Popcorn Company and changed its name to Open Road Snacks, Inc. in 2013. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Centennial, Colorado with stores in the United States. As of February 16, 2017, Open Road Snacks, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fresca Brands Innovation Group.

Authomate Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Authomate Inc. provides online security and authentication software solutions for consumers, professionals, and enterprises. It offers consumer products, such as StrongPass, a user login/password management service that simplifies the management of user IDs and passwords while protecting against phishing, key loggers, and man-in-the-middle attacks; and StrongBox that provides security for online documents through a document manager. The company also provides enterprise solutions that include StrongPass Enterprise, which protects company’s sensitive data; StrongBox for Enterprises that delivers security to company’s online documents; and StrongTrans for Enterprises that delivers authentication security to protect critical transactions. Authomate Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Morganville, New Jersey.

Valid8 Financial

Seed Round in 2017
Valid8 Automating verified financial intelligence for accounting professionals and decision makers. Oxford University ranks Accounting in the top 4% of professions most likely impacted by automation, A.I., and data science. The $100 Billion (Annual US) Accounting Services industry use processes and procedures grounded by independently sourced, 3rd party verified evidence. The evidence collection process is mostly manual and based on sampling and is the primary reason the industry has lagged adopting data science and modern analytics. VALID8 provides a solution.

fuseSPORT

Seed Round in 2014
fuseSPORT, Inc. provides cloud based software solutions for sports events and federations. The company offers various online tools that help companies in organizing large-scale sporting events. It offers solutions that cover various areas of sport event management, such as registration, accreditation, marketing, accounts, competition management, and results publishing. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Schultz's Gourmet

Seed Round in 2010
Their 30 year old family recipes were first introduced to the public during cookouts for the football and wrestling teams at the local high school in Monument, CO. It was during these cookouts that they realized how popular their sauces were and how much everyone loved them. After participating in these cookouts for 9 years, the decision was made to hang up the apron and put the tongs down, but that decision wouldn’t last for long.

Revaluate

Seed Round in 2016
Revaluate Inc. develops and operates an online platform for analyzing real estate properties before purchase. It offers ratings and reviews for homes, condos, and apartments; and allows users to learn about hidden issues, potential problems, safety violations, litigation records, tax problems, noise complaints, and pest reports about various apartments, co-ops, or condos in Manhattan or San Francisco. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

SlamData, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2014
SlamData software is a solution for data integration and preparation of any data stored in S3, Azure, and Google. It gives more analytics-ready, regardless of complexity. SlamData has connectors to MongoDB, MarkLogic, Couchbase, and Hadoop and employs the industry's first “in-database” analytics solution to keep data processing and analytics close to the data. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Dapix

Seed Round in 2018
Dapix empowers the blockchain ecosystem with revolutionary inter-wallet usability. Dapix is revolutionizing inter-wallet operability with the FIO Protocol. It works with any wallet/exchange and provides a single cross-chain memorable wallet name. Dapix was founded by a team of seasoned tech veterans and backed by top venture capital firms and angel investors.
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