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.

Trevor R. Loy

Founder and Managing Partner and General Partner

Clyde Neu Ph.D

Venture Partner

Past deals in Colorado

SlamData

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

SlamData

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

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. is a software company that specializes in designing and developing cloud-based applications for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The company's flagship product, Documoto, is a web-based library solution that provides access to aftermarket technical documents. It enables employees, dealers, distributors, and customers to efficiently find the right parts, repair assemblies, and access electronic parts catalogs. Documoto also facilitates aftermarket parts sales, supports ERP integration, and offers 3D parts catalogs, catering to asset-intensive industries. Additionally, the platform publishes PDF parts manuals, illustrated parts catalogs, and Excel parts lists, allowing users to share technical information and conduct transactions involving various parts. Digabit, Inc. was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, with additional offices in the United Kingdom and Japan. The company was previously known as Aftama, Inc. before changing its name in February 2010.
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