Flywheel Ventures

Flywheel Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, specializing in seed and early-stage investments in technology and physical sciences. Founded in 1999, the firm primarily targets companies in the Midwest and Southwestern regions of the United States, with a particular focus on New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona, while also considering opportunities in California. Flywheel Ventures invests in sectors such as software, software-as-a-service, semiconductors, digital services, and clean technology. The firm typically makes initial investments ranging from $0.05 million to $1 million and aims for a follow-on funding reserve ratio of 3:1 or greater. Flywheel Ventures seeks to address global challenges through its investments and prefers to take a lead role, often securing board seats in its portfolio companies. The firm also collaborates with other investment firms to provide additional capital for future financing needs.

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, Inc.

Venture Round in 2013
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.

TrackVia

Series B in 2012
TrackVia, Inc. is a Denver-based company that offers a cloud-based workflow management platform designed to streamline and mobilize operational processes and field workflows. Established in 2006, TrackVia enables businesses to create custom web and mobile applications that enhance collaboration among executives, managers, and employees, all within a unified environment accessible on various devices. The platform empowers non-developers to build applications quickly without coding, using templates, converting spreadsheets, or capturing forms with photographs. By automating and managing tasks and work orders through configurable triggers, TrackVia helps organizations visualize workflow data in real-time, identify problems, and eliminate bottlenecks. The company serves diverse industries, including energy, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, services, and finance, with notable clients such as Stearns Lending, Honeywell, and Brinks.

TrackVia

Series A in 2008
TrackVia, Inc. is a Denver-based company that offers a cloud-based workflow management platform designed to streamline and mobilize operational processes and field workflows. Established in 2006, TrackVia enables businesses to create custom web and mobile applications that enhance collaboration among executives, managers, and employees, all within a unified environment accessible on various devices. The platform empowers non-developers to build applications quickly without coding, using templates, converting spreadsheets, or capturing forms with photographs. By automating and managing tasks and work orders through configurable triggers, TrackVia helps organizations visualize workflow data in real-time, identify problems, and eliminate bottlenecks. The company serves diverse industries, including energy, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, services, and finance, with notable clients such as Stearns Lending, Honeywell, and Brinks.

TrackVia

Seed Round in 2007
TrackVia, Inc. is a Denver-based company that offers a cloud-based workflow management platform designed to streamline and mobilize operational processes and field workflows. Established in 2006, TrackVia enables businesses to create custom web and mobile applications that enhance collaboration among executives, managers, and employees, all within a unified environment accessible on various devices. The platform empowers non-developers to build applications quickly without coding, using templates, converting spreadsheets, or capturing forms with photographs. By automating and managing tasks and work orders through configurable triggers, TrackVia helps organizations visualize workflow data in real-time, identify problems, and eliminate bottlenecks. The company serves diverse industries, including energy, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, services, and finance, with notable clients such as Stearns Lending, Honeywell, and Brinks.
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