Flywheel Ventures

Flywheel Ventures, established in 1999, is a venture capital firm headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with additional offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and San Francisco, California. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage investments, focusing on information technology services and physical sciences sectors, including software, semiconductors, and clean technology. Flywheel Ventures primarily invests in companies based in the Midwest, Southwestern, and Rockies regions of the United States, with a particular focus on New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona, while also considering co-investments in California. The firm typically invests between $0.05 million and $1 million initially, with a 3:1 or greater target reserve for follow-on funding. Flywheel Ventures seeks to address key global challenges in information technology and urban systems, often taking a board seat and investing in syndicates to provide follow-on capital.

Clyde Neu Ph.D

Venture Partner

33 past transactions

Laxis

Seed Round in 2022
Laxis is an AI meeting assistant specifically designed for revenue teams, aimed at enhancing productivity and facilitating growth. The company's platform automates customer research prior to meetings, provides real-time transcription and insights during discussions, and generates essential follow-up items such as customer requirements and emails post-meeting. Additionally, Laxis allows users to engage in real-time chats to retrieve answers based on previous conversations, streamlining the workflow and improving overall efficiency for sales professionals.

Submittable

Series C in 2022
Submittable, Inc. is a cloud-based platform based in Missoula, Montana, with an additional office in New York. Founded in 2010, the company specializes in submission management, offering tools that allow organizations to curate and manage various forms of digital content, including applications, proposals, and multimedia submissions. Its primary product, Submittable, streamlines the processes of accepting, reviewing, and managing submissions for publishers, grant-makers, and creative organizations. The platform features customizable workflows, team collaboration tools, and robust analytics to facilitate efficient decision-making and enhance the management of grants, awards, and other intake processes. Additionally, Submittable supports integration with various systems, enabling users to optimize their workflows and gain valuable insights into their submissions and impact. The company also offers Talentd for job application management and Submishmash 2.0, a marketplace for creative content opportunities.

Genome Medical

Series C in 2021
Genome Medical, Inc. is a genomic medicine delivery company based in South San Francisco, California, established in 2016. It operates a technology platform known as Genome Care Delivery, which connects individuals and healthcare providers with genetic specialists to facilitate virtual genetic consultations. The company focuses on various areas of clinical care, including cancer, cardiovascular health, reproductive health, pediatrics, and pharmacogenomics. By providing expert genetic assessments and personalized clinical action plans, Genome Medical helps patients understand their genetic risks and make informed treatment decisions. Additionally, the company supports healthcare providers in navigating the growing field of genetics, enhancing disease diagnosis, and improving patient care while aiming to reduce overall healthcare costs.

Genome Medical

Series B in 2020
Genome Medical, Inc. is a genomic medicine delivery company based in South San Francisco, California, established in 2016. It operates a technology platform known as Genome Care Delivery, which connects individuals and healthcare providers with genetic specialists to facilitate virtual genetic consultations. The company focuses on various areas of clinical care, including cancer, cardiovascular health, reproductive health, pediatrics, and pharmacogenomics. By providing expert genetic assessments and personalized clinical action plans, Genome Medical helps patients understand their genetic risks and make informed treatment decisions. Additionally, the company supports healthcare providers in navigating the growing field of genetics, enhancing disease diagnosis, and improving patient care while aiming to reduce overall healthcare costs.

Submittable

Series B in 2019
Submittable, Inc. is a cloud-based platform based in Missoula, Montana, with an additional office in New York. Founded in 2010, the company specializes in submission management, offering tools that allow organizations to curate and manage various forms of digital content, including applications, proposals, and multimedia submissions. Its primary product, Submittable, streamlines the processes of accepting, reviewing, and managing submissions for publishers, grant-makers, and creative organizations. The platform features customizable workflows, team collaboration tools, and robust analytics to facilitate efficient decision-making and enhance the management of grants, awards, and other intake processes. Additionally, Submittable supports integration with various systems, enabling users to optimize their workflows and gain valuable insights into their submissions and impact. The company also offers Talentd for job application management and Submishmash 2.0, a marketplace for creative content opportunities.

Genome Medical

Series A in 2017
Genome Medical, Inc. is a genomic medicine delivery company based in South San Francisco, California, established in 2016. It operates a technology platform known as Genome Care Delivery, which connects individuals and healthcare providers with genetic specialists to facilitate virtual genetic consultations. The company focuses on various areas of clinical care, including cancer, cardiovascular health, reproductive health, pediatrics, and pharmacogenomics. By providing expert genetic assessments and personalized clinical action plans, Genome Medical helps patients understand their genetic risks and make informed treatment decisions. Additionally, the company supports healthcare providers in navigating the growing field of genetics, enhancing disease diagnosis, and improving patient care while aiming to reduce overall healthcare costs.

SlamData

Series A in 2017
SlamData, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing a virtual data warehouse and data integration solution, enabling users to efficiently explore and curate data stored in cloud platforms such as S3, Azure, and Google Cloud. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, SlamData offers a software solution that enhances data integration and preparation, making complex data analytics-ready. The platform supports various business intelligence tools, including Tableau, Looker, and PowerBI, and features connectors to multiple databases, including MongoDB, MarkLogic, Couchbase, and Hadoop. Notably, SlamData employs an innovative “in-database” analytics approach, allowing data processing and analytics to occur in close proximity to the data itself.

Submittable

Series A in 2015
Submittable, Inc. is a cloud-based platform based in Missoula, Montana, with an additional office in New York. Founded in 2010, the company specializes in submission management, offering tools that allow organizations to curate and manage various forms of digital content, including applications, proposals, and multimedia submissions. Its primary product, Submittable, streamlines the processes of accepting, reviewing, and managing submissions for publishers, grant-makers, and creative organizations. The platform features customizable workflows, team collaboration tools, and robust analytics to facilitate efficient decision-making and enhance the management of grants, awards, and other intake processes. Additionally, Submittable supports integration with various systems, enabling users to optimize their workflows and gain valuable insights into their submissions and impact. The company also offers Talentd for job application management and Submishmash 2.0, a marketplace for creative content opportunities.

SlamData

Seed Round in 2015
SlamData, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing a virtual data warehouse and data integration solution, enabling users to efficiently explore and curate data stored in cloud platforms such as S3, Azure, and Google Cloud. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, SlamData offers a software solution that enhances data integration and preparation, making complex data analytics-ready. The platform supports various business intelligence tools, including Tableau, Looker, and PowerBI, and features connectors to multiple databases, including MongoDB, MarkLogic, Couchbase, and Hadoop. Notably, SlamData employs an innovative “in-database” analytics approach, allowing data processing and analytics to occur in close proximity to the data itself.

Documoto

Series B in 2015
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.

SlamData

Convertible Note in 2014
SlamData, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing a virtual data warehouse and data integration solution, enabling users to efficiently explore and curate data stored in cloud platforms such as S3, Azure, and Google Cloud. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, SlamData offers a software solution that enhances data integration and preparation, making complex data analytics-ready. The platform supports various business intelligence tools, including Tableau, Looker, and PowerBI, and features connectors to multiple databases, including MongoDB, MarkLogic, Couchbase, and Hadoop. Notably, SlamData employs an innovative “in-database” analytics approach, allowing data processing and analytics to occur in close proximity to the data itself.

ByteLight

Series A in 2013
ByteLight is a company specializing in location-based marketing solutions tailored for large retail environments. Utilizing LED-based indoor positioning technology, ByteLight enables retailers to accurately determine consumer locations within their stores. This technology leverages existing lighting infrastructure to provide precise information and deliver hyper-targeted content directly to shoppers' smartphones, based on their exact location in the store. By eliminating the need for additional hardware such as batteries or beacons, ByteLight offers a seamless consumer engagement platform that enhances the shopping experience through personalized interactions.

Documoto

Series A in 2013
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.

Digabit

Venture Round in 2013
Digabit, Inc., headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, designs and develops cloud-based applications tailored for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The company's flagship product, Documoto, is a web-based library solution that delivers aftermarket technical documents on the cloud. This platform provides technical documentation and parts catalogs, enabling employees, dealers, distributors, and customers to find the right parts and repair assemblies efficiently. Documoto supports aftermarket parts sales, ERP integration, and 3D parts catalogs for OEMs and asset-intensive industries. It also publishes PDF parts manuals, illustrated parts catalogs, and Excel parts lists with correlating image files, facilitating the sharing of technical information and direct buying and selling of various parts. Additionally, Digabit offers ERP integration services and provides its products through resellers. The company was formerly known as Aftama, Inc., changing its name to Digabit in February 2010.

Submittable

Venture Round in 2012
Submittable, Inc. is a cloud-based platform based in Missoula, Montana, with an additional office in New York. Founded in 2010, the company specializes in submission management, offering tools that allow organizations to curate and manage various forms of digital content, including applications, proposals, and multimedia submissions. Its primary product, Submittable, streamlines the processes of accepting, reviewing, and managing submissions for publishers, grant-makers, and creative organizations. The platform features customizable workflows, team collaboration tools, and robust analytics to facilitate efficient decision-making and enhance the management of grants, awards, and other intake processes. Additionally, Submittable supports integration with various systems, enabling users to optimize their workflows and gain valuable insights into their submissions and impact. The company also offers Talentd for job application management and Submishmash 2.0, a marketplace for creative content opportunities.

TrackVia

Series B in 2012
TrackVia, Inc. is a Denver-based company founded in 2006 that specializes in developing a cloud-based workflow management platform designed to streamline operational processes and enhance field workflows. Its low-code platform enables businesses to create custom web and mobile applications, empowering non-developers to build applications rapidly without the need for coding skills. TrackVia's solutions cater to various industries, including energy, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, service, and finance, allowing organizations to digitize operations and improve on-time performance while reducing costs. The platform provides tools for automating tasks, managing work orders, and visualizing workflow data in real-time, helping businesses identify inefficiencies and optimize their processes. Notable clients include Stearns Lending, Honeywell, and Brinks, which utilize TrackVia to enhance collaboration among executives, managers, and employees.

Cinnafilm

Venture Round in 2012
Cinnafilm, Inc. is a provider of advanced video optimization solutions tailored for the television, film, and multimedia delivery sectors. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the company specializes in file-based image processing technology that leverages the power of modern graphics cards. Cinnafilm's product offerings include Dark Energy Professional, a platform for image texture management; Dark Energy Tachyon, which enables scalable real-time image processing; and Xenon, a system for high dynamic range (HDR) conversions. The company's innovative software addresses complex challenges such as restoration and bitrate optimization for classic and contemporary films, noise removal, and texture-matching across various content types. Cinnafilm's solutions facilitate automatic transcoding workflows, delivering optimized files suited for modern distribution needs. The company serves a diverse clientele in the digital film and video media industry across multiple regions, including North America, Europe, and Asia. Cinnafilm maintains strategic partnerships with industry leaders to enhance its technological capabilities and market reach.

Tribogenics

Seed Round in 2011
Tribogenics is a technology development company based in Los Angeles, California, focused on creating low-cost, portable X-ray solutions for various industries, including mining, industrial, military, and medical imaging. Utilizing triboluminescence technology originally developed at UCLA, the company has designed miniature X-ray devices that leverage a process akin to static electricity to generate X-rays. This innovative approach allows for convenient and accessible X-ray functions, enabling customers to conduct materials analysis and imaging in diverse settings without the constraints of traditional, larger X-ray systems.

AfterCollege

Venture Round in 2011
AfterCollege, Inc. is an online career network focused on connecting college students and recent graduates with entry-level job and internship opportunities across the United States. Founded in 1999 and based in San Francisco, the company utilizes a patented process to match job seekers with potential employers based on factors such as the jobseeker's school, major, graduation date, and personal preferences. AfterCollege reaches a wide audience by engaging with faculty, student groups, and administrative contacts at various colleges and universities. In addition to job placement, the company also offers scholarships to support students in various academic disciplines, reinforcing its commitment to facilitating career development for young professionals.

Lingotek

Venture Round in 2009
Lingotek, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based Translation Network that enables organizations to manage their global content efficiently. Founded in 2006 and based in Lehi, Utah, the company specializes in offering solutions that support Fortune 500 companies, small professional firms, and various industries, including education, finance, government, technology, telecommunications, and travel. Lingotek's technology facilitates on-demand translation through integrations with platforms such as Atlassian Confluence and Magento, allowing users to translate project collaborations, knowledge base articles, and product content into multiple languages. The company's innovative approach to translation management leverages computer-assisted translation tools to streamline the process, helping businesses capture, grow, and reuse their linguistic assets effectively.

FiltrBox

Series A in 2009
FiltrBox is a social media monitoring platform that serves marketers, PR professionals, brand managers, and customer service teams. Founded in April 2007 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers a suite of services designed to enhance clients' online engagement and market intelligence. Its primary offerings include FiltrBox G2, which provides critical insights to executives and sales professionals by discovering relevant articles across various online sources and delivering tailored daily results. Additionally, FiltrBox Basic allows clients to track specific online content that matters to them. By monitoring multiple social media platforms, FiltrBox enables its clients to listen, engage, measure, and lead conversations in the digital space.

MIOX

Series C in 2008
MIOX Corporation, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, specializes in the design and manufacture of on-site generators for water disinfection. The company's product offerings include mixed oxidant solutions, mobile chemical-free disinfection systems, and self-cleaning on-site generators. MIOX technologies are utilized across various sectors, including drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment for municipalities and industrial processes, industrial cooling towers, and oil and gas water treatment, including recycling. Additionally, MIOX products serve applications in the food and beverage industry, commercial swimming pools, and legionella prevention in facilities such as hotels, casinos, universities, and hospitals. MIOX operates as a subsidiary of Industrie De Nora S.p.A.

Lingotek

Series B in 2008
Lingotek, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based Translation Network that enables organizations to manage their global content efficiently. Founded in 2006 and based in Lehi, Utah, the company specializes in offering solutions that support Fortune 500 companies, small professional firms, and various industries, including education, finance, government, technology, telecommunications, and travel. Lingotek's technology facilitates on-demand translation through integrations with platforms such as Atlassian Confluence and Magento, allowing users to translate project collaborations, knowledge base articles, and product content into multiple languages. The company's innovative approach to translation management leverages computer-assisted translation tools to streamline the process, helping businesses capture, grow, and reuse their linguistic assets effectively.

TrackVia

Series A in 2008
TrackVia, Inc. is a Denver-based company founded in 2006 that specializes in developing a cloud-based workflow management platform designed to streamline operational processes and enhance field workflows. Its low-code platform enables businesses to create custom web and mobile applications, empowering non-developers to build applications rapidly without the need for coding skills. TrackVia's solutions cater to various industries, including energy, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, service, and finance, allowing organizations to digitize operations and improve on-time performance while reducing costs. The platform provides tools for automating tasks, managing work orders, and visualizing workflow data in real-time, helping businesses identify inefficiencies and optimize their processes. Notable clients include Stearns Lending, Honeywell, and Brinks, which utilize TrackVia to enhance collaboration among executives, managers, and employees.

FiltrBox

Seed Round in 2008
FiltrBox is a social media monitoring platform that serves marketers, PR professionals, brand managers, and customer service teams. Founded in April 2007 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers a suite of services designed to enhance clients' online engagement and market intelligence. Its primary offerings include FiltrBox G2, which provides critical insights to executives and sales professionals by discovering relevant articles across various online sources and delivering tailored daily results. Additionally, FiltrBox Basic allows clients to track specific online content that matters to them. By monitoring multiple social media platforms, FiltrBox enables its clients to listen, engage, measure, and lead conversations in the digital space.

Comet Solutions

Series A in 2007
Comet Solutions, Inc., established in 2001, specializes in developing software applications that streamline engineering simulations. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, with additional offices globally, the company offers SimApps designed to automate modeling and simulation tasks, enabling users to evaluate design changes, collaborate across teams, and deploy practices to non-experts. Their products include Gearbox SimApps for performance optimization and a SimApp Authoring Workspace platform for CAE/simulation process automation. Comet Solutions serves industries such as space systems, consumer products, electronics, and automotive, providing services like training and consulting in addition to their software offerings. As of September 2018, the company operates as a subsidiary of Aras Corporation.

4Blox

Venture Round in 2007
Increase the performance of iSCSI-based SAN’s through software 4Blox™ 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 4Blox™ is a family of software components used to expand CPU processing capacity in iSCSI Storage Area Networks. The 4Mezzo™ product line of software accelerators from 4Blox™ 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.

TrackVia

Seed Round in 2007
TrackVia, Inc. is a Denver-based company founded in 2006 that specializes in developing a cloud-based workflow management platform designed to streamline operational processes and enhance field workflows. Its low-code platform enables businesses to create custom web and mobile applications, empowering non-developers to build applications rapidly without the need for coding skills. TrackVia's solutions cater to various industries, including energy, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, service, and finance, allowing organizations to digitize operations and improve on-time performance while reducing costs. The platform provides tools for automating tasks, managing work orders, and visualizing workflow data in real-time, helping businesses identify inefficiencies and optimize their processes. Notable clients include Stearns Lending, Honeywell, and Brinks, which utilize TrackVia to enhance collaboration among executives, managers, and employees.

Lingotek

Series A in 2007
Lingotek, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based Translation Network that enables organizations to manage their global content efficiently. Founded in 2006 and based in Lehi, Utah, the company specializes in offering solutions that support Fortune 500 companies, small professional firms, and various industries, including education, finance, government, technology, telecommunications, and travel. Lingotek's technology facilitates on-demand translation through integrations with platforms such as Atlassian Confluence and Magento, allowing users to translate project collaborations, knowledge base articles, and product content into multiple languages. The company's innovative approach to translation management leverages computer-assisted translation tools to streamline the process, helping businesses capture, grow, and reuse their linguistic assets effectively.

TruTouch Technologies

Venture Round in 2007
TruTouch Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing and manufacturing noninvasive alcohol testing systems aimed at enhancing workplace safety. The company’s flagship product, the TruTouch system, employs light technology to measure blood alcohol content through the skin while simultaneously verifying user identity through biometric data. Founded in 2005, TruTouch Technologies serves various sectors, including energy, transportation, warehousing, and community applications, with a focus on daily employee alcohol screening and ensuring safety in medical, law enforcement, and industrial environments. The company is headquartered in Sudbury, Massachusetts, with a research and development center located in Riverside, California.

Lingotek

Series A in 2006
Lingotek, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based Translation Network that enables organizations to manage their global content efficiently. Founded in 2006 and based in Lehi, Utah, the company specializes in offering solutions that support Fortune 500 companies, small professional firms, and various industries, including education, finance, government, technology, telecommunications, and travel. Lingotek's technology facilitates on-demand translation through integrations with platforms such as Atlassian Confluence and Magento, allowing users to translate project collaborations, knowledge base articles, and product content into multiple languages. The company's innovative approach to translation management leverages computer-assisted translation tools to streamline the process, helping businesses capture, grow, and reuse their linguistic assets effectively.

Comet Solutions

Series A in 2006
Comet Solutions, Inc., established in 2001, specializes in developing software applications that streamline engineering simulations. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, with additional offices globally, the company offers SimApps designed to automate modeling and simulation tasks, enabling users to evaluate design changes, collaborate across teams, and deploy practices to non-experts. Their products include Gearbox SimApps for performance optimization and a SimApp Authoring Workspace platform for CAE/simulation process automation. Comet Solutions serves industries such as space systems, consumer products, electronics, and automotive, providing services like training and consulting in addition to their software offerings. As of September 2018, the company operates as a subsidiary of Aras Corporation.

TruTouch Technologies

Venture Round in 2005
TruTouch Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing and manufacturing noninvasive alcohol testing systems aimed at enhancing workplace safety. The company’s flagship product, the TruTouch system, employs light technology to measure blood alcohol content through the skin while simultaneously verifying user identity through biometric data. Founded in 2005, TruTouch Technologies serves various sectors, including energy, transportation, warehousing, and community applications, with a focus on daily employee alcohol screening and ensuring safety in medical, law enforcement, and industrial environments. The company is headquartered in Sudbury, Massachusetts, with a research and development center located in Riverside, California.
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