Flywheel Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in information technology services and physical sciences including material sciences sectors with a focus on software, software-as-a-service, internet, semiconductors, networking, mobile computing, digital services, data services, communications, clean technology, and advanced materials. It also prefers to invest in optics, energy technology, and water technology. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Midwest region, Southwestern or Rockies region of United States with a focus on New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona. It also seeks to co-invest in technology companies based in California. The firm initially invest of between $0.05 Million and $1 million, with typical target reserves for follow-on funding equal to a 3:1 ratio or greater. It seeks to invest in companies with solutions that address key global challenges in information technology and urban systems. The firm prefers to be a lead investor and seeks to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. It also invests in syndicates with other firms to provide follow-on capital for future financings. Flywheel Ventures was founded in 1999 and is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico with an additional offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Silicon Valley, California.

Flywheel Ventures

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Comet Solutions raised $7000000 on 2006-02-08 in Series A

Comet Solutions provides software applications that enable manufacturers to develop product development process. Its mission is to deliver innovative technology that changes the landscape of how simulation can be used in the product development process.

The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Comet Solutions, Inc.

TrackVia raised an undisclosed amount on 2008-07-01 in Series A

TrackVia, Inc. develops cloud-based online workflow management platform for streamlining and mobilizing critical operational processes and field workflows. The platform allows businesses to create custom web and mobile applications that unite executives, managers, and workers with their data, processes, and collaboration in one environment accessible on various devices. The company serves energy, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, service, and financial markets. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

TrackVia, Inc.

Genome Medical raised $14000000 on 2020-07-01 in Series B

Genome Medical, Inc. operates a platform that provides genetic consultation and medical consulting services to individuals. The company through its Genome Care Delivery technology platform provides genetic solutions in the areas of clinical care, such as cancer, cardio, proactive, reproductive, pediatric, and pharmacy. Genome Medical, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in South San Francisco, California.

Genome Medical

Lingotek raised an undisclosed amount on 2008-07-16 in Series B

Lingotek's Translation Network is the only cloud-based solution to connect all your global content in one  place, giving you the power to manage your brand worldwide. Our industry-leading technology pairs with the best enterprise applications to continuously push dynamic multilingual content in real time to all of your global markets. Lingotek is based in Lehi, Utah -- also known as Silicon Slopes -- and is funded by Signal Peak Ventures and In-Q-Tel.

The world’s only translation network. Lingotek is the only cloud-based solution to connect all of your global content in one place.        

Lingotek’s Translation Network connects and delivers your content to global audiences though the best technology and a bigger network. Go beyond translation.

Lingotek

Digabit, Inc. raised $2385297 on 2013-06-04 in Venture Round

Digabit, Inc. designs and develops cloud-based applications for original equipment manufacturers (OEM). It offers Documoto, a Web-based library solution that delivers aftermarket technical documents on the cloud; provides technical documentation and parts catalogs that enables employees, dealers, distributors, and customers the tools they need to find the right part, repair assemblies, and publish and access electronic parts catalogs. The company’s Documoto also supports aftermarket parts sales, ERP integration, and 3D parts catalogs for OEMs and asset-intensive industries; publishes PDF parts manuals, illustrated parts catalogs, and Excel parts lists with correlating image files; enables users to share technical information, as well as buy and sell various parts directly; and provides security to technology assets. It also provides ERP integration services. The company provides its products through resellers. Digabit, Inc. was formerly known as Aftama, Inc. and changed its name to Digabit, Inc. in February 2010. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Englewood, Colorado with additional offices in the United Kingdom and Japan.

Digabit, Inc.

TruTouch Technologies raised $2400000 on 2005-11-01 in Seed Round

TruTouch Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets networked and noninvasive alcohol testing systems for worksite safety applications. It offers TruTouch, a networked biometric alcohol sensor that uses light through the skin to measure and quantify blood alcohol content while simultaneously verifying user identity with biometrics. The company offers products for energy, transportation, warehousing, and community sectors. TruTouch Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Sudbury, Massachusetts with a research and development center in Riverside, California.

TruTouch Technologies

Submittable raised $47000000 on 2022-06-06 in Series C

Submittable helps thousands of organizations worldwide collect and review any type of content in one easy-to-use platform. It was launched by three creatives, a writer, a filmmaker, and a musician, who wanted to simplify the process of submitting their work. Today, Submittable is a cloud-based submission management platform that makes it easy to accept, review, and make decisions on any kind of digital content online.

Submittable has collected more than 10 million submissions from thousands of customers worldwide and is backed by True Ventures, Next Frontier Capital, The Knight Foundation, StartFund, 77Ventures, Y Combinator, and a few other amazing investors. The platform mission is to make a crappy process better for as many people as possible.

Submittable was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Missoula, Montana, USA, and with an office in New York.

Submittable, Inc.

SlamData raised $6700000 on 2017-02-22 in Series A

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.

SlamData, Inc.

Filtrbox raised $500000 on 2008-02-28 in Seed Round

Filtrbox provides a social media monitoring platform for marketers, PR professionals, brand managers, and customer service teams.


The company’s services include Filtrbox G2 that delivers critical market intelligence to executives, sales professionals, investors, and marketers as well as discovers new articles in a range of online sources and delivers a daily list of qualified results based on its clients’ business logic.


The company also provides Filtrbox Basic that enables to track the things which clients care about online. The company’s services enable its clients to listen, engage, measure, and lead social media conversations. It monitors [Twitter](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter), [FriendFeed](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/friendfeed), [Backtype](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/backtype), and other social networks.


Filtrbox was founded in April 2007 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Filtrbox

Submittable raised $750000 on 2012-11-10 in Venture Round

Genome Medical raised $60000000 on 2021-08-30 in Series C

Lingotek raised $2600000 on 2006-03-01 in Series A

Documoto raised $3000000 on 2013-07-30 in Series A

Documoto is a Denver-based software company that simplifies the selling, managing, and supporting of machine and equipment parts. Documoto’s vision is to provide innovative software solutions for equipment manufacturers, their network, and their equipment owners to keep the world’s machines working.

Their solutions help these businesses rise to the unique challenges found in the complex equipment aftermarket – improve the accuracy, lower the costs, and decrease the lead time for essential technical documentation; fend off gray-market and will fitter competition for increased market share; maximize equipment uptime; provide a top-notch experience for their internal team, channel, and customers; and streamline MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul) operations. Through our solutions, suppliers, manufacturers, channels, and equipment owners get closer to each other, optimizing costs and increasing revenues through a unified “content supply chain”.

Documoto's flagship product, is an enterprise cloud-based solution for authoring parts catalogs and related content, securely distributing that content over the web to any device in a variety of translations, and ordering the right parts and products the first time, every time.

Founded in 2010, Documoto is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, with sales offices in Europe and resellers across the globe.

Documoto

Lingotek raised $1600000 on 2007-03-02 in Series A

Comet Solutions raised $2000000 on 2007-10-03 in Series A

ByteLight raised $3000000 on 2013-10-25 in Series A

ByteLight is the location-based marketing solution for big retail.  ByteLight’s location-based marketing solution uses existing lighting infrastructure to pinpoint consumer location with unmatched accuracy. The company’s consumer engagement platform allows retailers to deliver hyper-targeted content to any shopper with a smartphone, based on precisely what aisle—or part of the aisle—they’re currently shopping.

ByteLight’s game changing location-based marketing solution uses retailers’ own lighting infrastructure to deliver custom content to consumers based on their exact location in-store—without the need for batteries or beacons. 

For more information, visit: http://www.bytelight.com

ByteLight

AfterCollege raised an undisclosed amount on 2011-11-01 in Venture Round

AfterCollege is the largest career network for college students and recent graduates, connecting college students, alumni and employers throughtalent networks at colleges and professional organizations across the country.

AfterCollege's mission is to help college students and entry-level job seekers find their first job or internship.

AfterCollege

Submittable raised $1300000 on 2015-12-11 in Series A

Cinnafilm raised an undisclosed amount on 2012-07-26 in Venture Round

Cinnafilm is a global leader in innovative video optimization solutions for television, film, and multi-media delivery. Harnessing the unmatched compute power of modern graphics cards, Cinnafilm’s patented, 100% file-based software solutions are true game changers in the field of high-quality image processing. Cinnafilm software is in use today at many of the world’s premier, forward-thinking studios and networks, solving a wide variety of very complex problems including, but not limited to: restoration and bitrate optimization of television and classic films for modern delivery requirements, noise removal and texture-matching for digital camera and film content of all grades; and automatic transcode workflows providing real time, fully optimized files for the “media now and everywhere” distribution model. Cinnafilm is a scientific-engineering company dedicated to ongoing research in the most complex areas of video optimization and workflow automation, and is based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico USA.

Cinnafilm

SlamData raised $345000 on 2014-09-11 in Convertible Note

Submittable raised $10000000 on 2019-07-18 in Series B

TruTouch Technologies raised $2500000 on 2007-02-14 in Venture Round

TrackVia raised an undisclosed amount on 2007-06-27 in Seed Round

SlamData raised $3633838 on 2015-07-30 in Seed Round

TruTouch Technologies raised $2400000 on 2005-11-01 in Venture Round

Lingotek raised an undisclosed amount on 2009-07-28 in Venture Round

4Blox raised an undisclosed amount on 2007-09-10 in Venture Round

Increase the performance of iSCSI-based SANâ€™s through software
 
4Bloxâ„¢ Inc., is the first software company dedicated to improving iSCSI SAN performance. The most important hardware resource for efficiently handling increased load in iSCSI processing is CPU capacity. The core product from 4Bloxâ„¢ is a family of software components used to expand CPU processing capacity in iSCSI Storage Area Networks.

The 4Mezzoâ„¢ product line of software accelerators from 4Bloxâ„¢  dramatically reduces host CPU processing overhead associated with iSCSI in standalone and virtual machines enabling higher connection loads, better iSCSI processing efficiency for Guest Operating Systems, and the ability to take advantage of higher network line speeds like multiple 1GbE connections and 10GbE.

4Blox

MIOX raised $19000000 on 2008-08-27 in Series C

MIOX develops on-site chemical generators and sustainable treatment technologies for water disinfection. MIOX is used for potable water, wastewater and reuse, commercial swimming pools, cooling towers, food processing, the beverage industry, and other commercial and industrial applications.

 The company was founded in 1994 and headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

MIOX Corp

Filtrbox raised $1400000 on 2009-02-17 in Series A

Documoto raised $9000000 on 2015-05-07 in Series B

TrackVia raised $7100000 on 2012-09-24 in Series B

Tribogenics raised $2500000 on 2011-12-05 in Seed Round

Founded in 2011, Tribogenics is developing low-cost, miniature x-ray solutions for applications in mining, industrial, military, medical imaging, and many other industries. Tribogenics employs technology developed at UCLA by leading scientists and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Tribogenics

Genome Medical raised $12000000 on 2017-05-29 in Series A