Invest Nebraska

Invest Nebraska promotes capital formation and provides operating assistance to, high impact entrepreneurs and investors in Nebraska. Invest Nebraska is led by a team experienced at growing early stage and lower middle market companies. We are committed to growing Nebraska’s economy by assisting entrepreneurs and investing capital in those companies that have growth potential. Collaboration with strategic partners, state government, communities, and post-secondary education institutions is important.

Matt Foley

Program Director

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Ben Hormel Harris

Director

Dan Hoffman

CEO

Ben Williamson

Principal and General Counsel

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Scribe

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Juno is a greeting card service that marries a curated selection of boutique and letterpress stationery. It encourages deeper and more thoughtful relationships through simple gestures of love, support, celebration, and sympathy. It was designed by nationally-recognized and emerging artists, with a reminder system and home delivery. It was founded by brothers Jesse and Ross Harding in 2019 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Workshop

Seed Round in 2021
Workshop makes meetings better through shared agendas, collaborative notes, and action item tracking all in one centralized location.

WellCapped

Pre Seed Round in 2021
WellCapped’s concierge service allows members to rent high quality, lace-front wigs for a monthly fee. WellCapped makes data-driven decisions to select inventory, and to provide a Netflix-esque suggestion list of styles to its users.

BasicBlock, Inc.

Debt Financing in 2021
BasicBlock, Inc. develops a software application that facilitates transactions for the trucking industry. It offers BasicBlock that helps truck drivers receive payment for services and costs by streamlining the collection of paperwork for invoices. The company’s BasicBlock mobile application to scan documents; enter the order number or trip number to associate documents with specific loads; label documents; and view documents and edit labels from the home office. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Kronfeld Motors

Seed Round in 2017
Kronfeld Motors, LLC manufactures motor sport vehicle. It offers Raht Racer, a hybrid personal transportation vehicle. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Golden Valley, Minnesota.

KPI Ninja LLC

Seed Round in 2019
KPI Ninja, a leader in healthcare analytics and performance improvement, is a healthcare technology and consulting company that accelerates the achievement of strategic goals through a better means of managing Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). KPI Ninja is one of the fastest growing healthcare analytics company in the Midwest region. Founded in 2014, KPI Ninja's mission is to improve the health of the communities. We do that by partnering with Health Information Exchange (HIE) companies, Health Systems, Critical Access Hospitals, Clinics, and Direct Primary Care (DPC) organizations. We also partner with other healthcare technology companies to build custom analytics applications to solve their data needs. KPI Ninja is defined by our unique culture - our goal is not to just create dashboards and insights through data, but to partner with our customers to actually improve the outcomes that matter to them. We encourage our teams to be bold and solve complex problems that our customers care most about. We work in small teams and move swiftly to develop new solutions, constantly iterating.

Synbiotic Health

Seed Round in 2021
Synbiotic Health aims to be the leader in the innovation and development of the highest quality synergistic synbiotics that will provide consistent health benefits as demonstrated through clinical evidence. Headquartered at the Nebraska Innovation Campus, Synbiotic Health is a natural nutritional ingredients company. The founders, which include researchers at the University of Nebraska, formed Synbiotic Health in 2019, with the goal of developing scientifically- and clinically-tested synergistic combinations of probiotics with prebiotics.

V2Verify

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Protecting the worlds data through Voice BioMetrics

Quantified Ag

Seed Round in 2014
Quantified Ag is a technology company that offers cloud-based sensors and a data platform for the cattle industry. The company's technology helps dramatically reduce costs by lowering re-treatment rate and death loss and getting animals back to peak performance faster. It provides state of the art sensors and software subscription to livestock producers throughout the concentrated feeding industries. Quantified Ag was founded in June 2014 and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Eio Diagnostics

Pre Seed Round in 2023
EIO Diagnostics Inc. develops and provides FirstLook Mastitis detection system for dairy farmers to stop mastitis infections in animals. Its detection system uses a multispectral sensor installed at the entrance of the milk parlor to capture an image of the udder as the animal enters and to identify early indicators of infection. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Duncan, Canada.

opendorse

Seed Round in 2017
Opendorse offers a SaaS publishing platform that allows anyone to send content to athletes to share on their social channels. The company provides an athlete marketing platform, trusted by the biggest brands in sports. Its platform connects athletes, partners, and fans on social media. It was founded by Adi Kunalic, Blake Lawrence, and Timothy Braun in 2012 and headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Financial Transmission Network, Inc. designs, develops, and manages receivable management and payment processing solutions for organizations. It offers ETran, a cloud computing based software-as-a-service receivables platform that incorporates check scanning/remote deposit capture, single and recurring credit card payment processing, single and recurring automated clearing house and cash processing, remittance processing, and web payments solutions. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Esculon, Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Esculon, Inc. develops cardiothoracic post-operative medical equipment for post-operative surgical care and patient monitoring. The company's product includes Thoraguard which is an intelligent surgical drainage system. It is a small-bore chest tube with integrated sensors and smart algorithms that is inserted into patients who have undergone cardiothoracic surgery to ensure proper post-surgical drainage. It minimizes potential injury to surrounding organs that may occur with larger tubes. Further, it monitors wound site drainage, ensures proper evacuation, and provides data for clinical decision support for the attending clinician. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Squad Genius, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Squad Genius, Inc. develops team management application. The product can be used by team coaches to communicate through messages, share schedules, and to request, track, and collect payments. Squad Genius, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Sacramento, California.

GamePlan Technologies

Series B in 2013
GamePlan Technologies and it flagship platform GP SIFT, has been providing video editing systems to higher education institutions since 2002. As a rapidly growing provider of innovative digital video analysis and archiving software, the company invests over $1 million annually in research and development. GP SIFT is a modular Software Asset Management Solution that captures, categorizes, distributes, modifies, archives and creates a search engine of the digital assets it can connect to or import. In the sports spectrum, where GamePlan initially began its platform development, the company provides state of the art digital video and data analysis solutions, service and support programs for high schools to professional sports organizations.

CropMetrics

Debt Financing in 2018
CropMetrics is a precision agriculture company focused on advanced agronomic solutions while specializing in precision irrigation management. Our mission is to develop and supply precision management technology solutions that increase water, nutrient and energy use efficiency while fostering natural resource conservation.

Gazella Wifi-Marketing

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2015, Gazella Wifi operates as a wifi-marketing space. Gazella turns guest wifi into an automated marketing tool.

MultiMechanics

Seed Round in 2017
MultiMechanics provides virtual testing software that empowers engineers to solve the world's most complex material engineering challenges. Our flagship product, MultiMech, enables innovation in complex materials and is used by leading companies in several industries, including aerospace, automotive, and consumer products, to save millions of dollars in product development costs.

Best Option Trading, LLC

Seed Round in 2014
Best Option Trading is an online options trading tool that offers artificial intelligence for financial options trading. It improves outcomes while handling the complexity for traders and investors. Best Option Trading is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Retail Aware Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
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.

BasicBlock, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
BasicBlock, Inc. develops a software application that facilitates transactions for the trucking industry. It offers BasicBlock that helps truck drivers receive payment for services and costs by streamlining the collection of paperwork for invoices. The company’s BasicBlock mobile application to scan documents; enter the order number or trip number to associate documents with specific loads; label documents; and view documents and edit labels from the home office. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Pawlytics

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pawlytics provides a software application to animal welfare organizations. The company offers an analytical and data management software for animal welfare organizations that enables internal and external communication, predict adoption probability, organize transport, manage incoming, current, and past pets, and build custom volunteer forms. It also offers a volunteer portal where volunteers can register and get notifications of any pet event nearby. Pawlytics is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

T'Work

Seed Round in 2017
T'Work is a peer-to-peer tool rental marketplace. Users may lend and borrow tools over a network providing safe credit card processing and effective legal agreements while saving money and actually getting to finish the job.

LiveBy

Venture Round in 2019
LiveBy is a neighborhood discovery company that engages homebuyers through neighborhood matching and hyper-local content. They provide real estate professionals tools to educate clients, while helping consumers to make quicker, informed decisions on location. Their technology gives real estate professionals a new way to connect with homebuyers through local content. LiveBy also pairs hyperlocal data with targeted marketing to boost website engagement and nurture leads on a local level. It allows professional websites to have a dynamic search experience and sell homes faster. LiveBy was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Drone Amplified, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Drone Amplified, Inc. develops a system for fire ignition management with drones. It offers IGNIS, a system that embeds to drones and carries a payload of chemical spheres; and starts a chemical reaction that will generate flames after being dropped. The company serves land owners, public wild lands, and federal and state agencies. Drone Amplified, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

HerHeadquarters

Pre Seed Round in 2019
HerHeadquarters is a match-making brand partnership platform connecting women entrepreneurs to brand partnership opportunities with women-owned businesses. These powerful, mutually beneficial partnerships create more visibility and revenue for both businesses/entrepreneurs. Users on HerHeadquarters provide their unique partnership preferences, discover their collaboration matches, then secure partnerships for various projects, events, and campaigns that create value for their business.

Bumper

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bumper makes investing more engaging and accessible for Gen Z teenagers. Bumper has taken a traditional custodial investment account, typically built for and run by the parents, and put the focus on younger teenagers. Kids are able to find companies and ETFs they want to own, learn about the security through news articles and analysis, and request the trade. Bumper also gives the account sponsor, typically parents or guardians, safety guardrails and controls to encourage healthy investing habits.

Inclusology

Seed Round in 2021
Inclusology is a SaaS platform dedicated to making the workplace a more inclusive place for all employees. Our platform provides our clients the opportunity to customize (DEI) diversity, equity, and inclusion assessments, automate performance benchmarks, and solutions to help companies solve for unfair workplace practices.

Encounter Telehealth

Seed Round in 2017
Encounter Telepsychiatry is now Encounter Telehealth. Please visit us on our new company page.Encounter Telehealth addresses a growing demand for psychiatric services in rural areas by enabling remote communication between a patient and a licensed psychiatric provider. Patients benefit from consistent treatment, medication management and improved care outcomes.

Comp’d

Seed Round in 2015
Gain access to unlimited shows in lincoln and omaha - from a growing list of participating venues and promoters - for only $25/month.

CompanyCam, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
CompanyCam is a documentation and communication app that provides a complete photo solution for contractors to monitor projects. It was created by contractors for contractors that enable teams to take unlimited photos all of which are location and time stamped, sent to the cloud, and stored securely. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.

MusicSpoke

Seed Round in 2014
MusicSpoke develops online music publishing platform for composers, conductors, and performers to connect and share as well as sell new music for chorus and ensemble. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

OpsCompass

Series A in 2020
OpsCompass serves as a cloud operations guide to modern enterprises that seek to preserve the advantages of the cloud without sacrificing compliance, security, or their ability to manage costs. Its software provides the right information at the right time, and actionable insight into what to do next. It’s simple to deploy, intuitive to use, and as flexible as the cloud itself. Across compliance, security, and cost management, it provides the ability to fold cloud operations into existing processes with existing personnel. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Progressive Nuero

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Progressive Neuro, Inc is a Silicon Prairie Center incubated medical device company dedicated to the development of Progressive Stroke Solutions. Progressive Neuro, Inc is focused on developing a unique portfolio of ischemic stroke devices that provide physicians with treatment options beyond aspiration and traditional thrombectomy.

Health Snaps

Seed Round in 2017
Health Snaps bridges fun, engaging technology with consumer's expectations of physical therapy.

Drone Amplified, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Drone Amplified, Inc. develops a system for fire ignition management with drones. It offers IGNIS, a system that embeds to drones and carries a payload of chemical spheres; and starts a chemical reaction that will generate flames after being dropped. The company serves land owners, public wild lands, and federal and state agencies. Drone Amplified, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Progressive Nuero

Seed Round in 2020
Progressive Neuro, Inc is a Silicon Prairie Center incubated medical device company dedicated to the development of Progressive Stroke Solutions. Progressive Neuro, Inc is focused on developing a unique portfolio of ischemic stroke devices that provide physicians with treatment options beyond aspiration and traditional thrombectomy.

AION Prosthetics

Pre Seed Round in 2021
AION Prosthetics develops a prosthetic system designed to provide an adjustable, durable, and affordable future for amputees. The company's unique approach to robotics and socket design creates an adjustable system that starts at the residual limb. AION Prosthetics was founded in 2021 and based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Certified Cell

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Certified Cell allows you to buy or sell a quality pre-owned phone at a great price without meeting a stranger in a parking lot with a stack of cash. Online shoppers use a quick and easy online platform to find the device of their choice while device sellers use a streamlined cash-less marketplace to sell their quality pre-owned phone using a trusted local retail location.

OpsCompass

Seed Round in 2019
OpsCompass serves as a cloud operations guide to modern enterprises that seek to preserve the advantages of the cloud without sacrificing compliance, security, or their ability to manage costs. Its software provides the right information at the right time, and actionable insight into what to do next. It’s simple to deploy, intuitive to use, and as flexible as the cloud itself. Across compliance, security, and cost management, it provides the ability to fold cloud operations into existing processes with existing personnel. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

opendorse

Series A in 2021
Opendorse offers a SaaS publishing platform that allows anyone to send content to athletes to share on their social channels. The company provides an athlete marketing platform, trusted by the biggest brands in sports. Its platform connects athletes, partners, and fans on social media. It was founded by Adi Kunalic, Blake Lawrence, and Timothy Braun in 2012 and headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Alumni Labs

Seed Round in 2013
We provide unbiased information and timely reminders of deadlines for scholarships and applications.

Travefy

Series A in 2017
Travefy is the easiest online and mobile group travel planner. Through Travefy, groups can collaborate on trip details, build rich itineraries, and collect shared expenses so no one is stuck with the bill. Travefy is available directly to consumers and branded Pro versions are available for travel brands, suppliers, and agents among others. It has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, and U.S. News and World Report among other publications and has won numerous innovation awards.

Fanstreamm

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Fanstreamm provides online group ticketing services for sports and entertainment venues. The company is based in the United States.

Breeze

Series A in 2021
Breeze is an InsurTech company that provides an online platform for unemployment and disability insurances. The company offers coverage for sickness and accidents. It features quotes for partial disability, home modification, vocational rehab, presumptive disability, and more. It was established in 2019 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Retail Aware Inc.

Seed 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.

OpsCompass

Seed Round in 2021
OpsCompass serves as a cloud operations guide to modern enterprises that seek to preserve the advantages of the cloud without sacrificing compliance, security, or their ability to manage costs. Its software provides the right information at the right time, and actionable insight into what to do next. It’s simple to deploy, intuitive to use, and as flexible as the cloud itself. Across compliance, security, and cost management, it provides the ability to fold cloud operations into existing processes with existing personnel. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Retail Aware Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
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.

fyiio

Pre Seed Round in 2017
fyiio inc. develops an online training platform for businesses. The company’s platform offers services, such as creating videos, writing guides, and publishing the videos. fyiio inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

CoreLeap

Debt Financing in 2021
CoreLeap streamlines ecommerce returns.

Homecare Advocacy Network

Seed Round in 2022
Homecare Advocacy Network offers a white label franchise for senior living providers to introduce home care to their business.The company enables local franchise owners to leverage the HCAN brand. Home Care Advocacy Network brings extensive knowledge and expertise of senior living and home care industries to its franchise offering.

RealmFive

Series A in 2017
RealmFive is changing the way customers interact with agricultural technology in areas including agronomy, inventory, irrigation, livestock, and machinery. Using highly improved long-range radio technology and easy-to-deploy devices RealmFive’s Connectivity Platform enables remote monitoring, control, and data-driven decision-making. The RealmFive Connection Platform is modular and flexible, allowing for simple third-party integration into the platform and a robust API to other digital farming platforms. With an expanding portfolio of applications including soil moisture, weather, irrigation monitoring, and state monitoring, RealmFive is bringing sensor-to-cloud solutions to agriculture.

Pincurl Girls

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Pincurl Girls specializes in inspiring girls to believe in and love themselves. The company offers a range of products on its website, for home, school, and even for the office for those ‘older’ girls. There are Pincurl Girl sweatshirts, T-shirts, and other accessories each depicting a Pincurl Girl character with an uplifting note. The company's products are designed to encourage all girls to reach for their dreams, to stay positive, and to learn to think good thoughts about themselves.

White Dog Labs, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2018
White Dog Labs, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that develops fermentation technologies for biochemical and renewable fuel processes. It offers MixoFerm, a technology platform that provides fermentation of carbohydrates with gas; FlexFeedstock, a solution that enables to vary the ratios and compositions of biobased and gas feedstock inputs to adapt to feedstock market changes, geographic supply, and regulatory compliance; Zero-CO2 Fermentation, a fermentation technology for the production of CO2; and liquid-liquid extraction technologies for the fermentative production of petrochemical drop-ins and fuels. Its technologies are used in the production of fuels and chemicals. White Dog Labs, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New Castle, Delaware.

LeverageRx

Seed Round in 2018
LeverageRx, LLC owns and operates a digital lending and insurance marketplace for doctors, dentists, and other medical professionals. It offers a platform that compares rates on financial services including student loan refinancing, personal loans, long term disability insurance, life insurance, and exclusive mortgage programs for doctors. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Seamster.io

Seed Round in 2015
Seamster.io is an adaptive content-marketing platform that helps companies create, manage, and execute content strategies across multiple channels. Businesses can use Seamster.io to deliver personalized content based on the time, device, platform, and location of their audience. They can maximize reach with an API to deliver content on websites, apps, kiosks, digital signage, and more. Seamster.io was launched in 2014 and is operated from Nebraska, United States.

Fourstarzz Media LLC

Seed Round in 2018
With the fall of traditional outbound marketing, influencer marketing is becoming one of the most effective ways to attract customers and clients. The fourstarzz team is passionate about developing tools and services that empower brands and agencies to increase the efficiency of creating influencer-driven marketing campaigns. Fourstarzz helps companies find social media personalities – known as influencers – faster by leveraging extensive analysis to not only find campaign-relevant influencers but also provide the necessary information to connect marketers with the appropriate influencer platforms.

OpsCompass

Seed Round in 2019
OpsCompass serves as a cloud operations guide to modern enterprises that seek to preserve the advantages of the cloud without sacrificing compliance, security, or their ability to manage costs. Its software provides the right information at the right time, and actionable insight into what to do next. It’s simple to deploy, intuitive to use, and as flexible as the cloud itself. Across compliance, security, and cost management, it provides the ability to fold cloud operations into existing processes with existing personnel. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

LiveBy

Debt Financing in 2018
LiveBy is a neighborhood discovery company that engages homebuyers through neighborhood matching and hyper-local content. They provide real estate professionals tools to educate clients, while helping consumers to make quicker, informed decisions on location. Their technology gives real estate professionals a new way to connect with homebuyers through local content. LiveBy also pairs hyperlocal data with targeted marketing to boost website engagement and nurture leads on a local level. It allows professional websites to have a dynamic search experience and sell homes faster. LiveBy was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Encounter Telehealth

Debt Financing in 2019
Encounter Telepsychiatry is now Encounter Telehealth. Please visit us on our new company page.Encounter Telehealth addresses a growing demand for psychiatric services in rural areas by enabling remote communication between a patient and a licensed psychiatric provider. Patients benefit from consistent treatment, medication management and improved care outcomes.

Job Share Connect

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Job Sharing is a solution to the global talent crisis businesses are facing. It benefits employees, businesses, and society. Job sharing accesses untapped talent pools and provides the multi-generational workforce with the flexibility needed to integrate work and life. The match is crucial. Our proprietary matching process ensures success.

Cinnamon Social

Seed Round in 2013
Software for automated and intelligent social media content curation.

ScoutSheet

Seed Round in 2018
ScoutSheet is a sales prospecting and smart list-building tool that uses relationship mapping and real-time data gathering.

Pinata

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pinata develops tools designed to easily create and manage content on the interplanetary file system. The company's tools simplify immutable data and combine blockchains with immutable off-chain data storage, enabling developers to increase the speed and stability required for production applications.

Pawlytics

Seed Round in 2020
Pawlytics provides a software application to animal welfare organizations. The company offers an analytical and data management software for animal welfare organizations that enables internal and external communication, predict adoption probability, organize transport, manage incoming, current, and past pets, and build custom volunteer forms. It also offers a volunteer portal where volunteers can register and get notifications of any pet event nearby. Pawlytics is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

CropMetrics

Convertible Note in 2019
CropMetrics is a precision agriculture company focused on advanced agronomic solutions while specializing in precision irrigation management. Our mission is to develop and supply precision management technology solutions that increase water, nutrient and energy use efficiency while fostering natural resource conservation.

BasicBlock, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2019
BasicBlock, Inc. develops a software application that facilitates transactions for the trucking industry. It offers BasicBlock that helps truck drivers receive payment for services and costs by streamlining the collection of paperwork for invoices. The company’s BasicBlock mobile application to scan documents; enter the order number or trip number to associate documents with specific loads; label documents; and view documents and edit labels from the home office. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Nobl, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Nobl improves patient satisfaction by making the process of hourly rounding in hospitals more efficient, meaningful, and effective. The company focused on helping healthcare providers capture real-time feedback from patients and staff through the Nobl Rounding Platform. It provides healthcare organizations with the tools necessary to stand out among their peers and retain optimal reimbursement from Medicare. Nobl applications combine evidence-based hourly and leader rounding practices with real-time technologies to improve clinical outcomes, enhance the patient experience, and revolutionize the way quality assurance is communicated in healthcare.

Vesta

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Vesta is an Event Management Platform that connects communities through events. It provides certain services through the Site and the Application, including services that allow a user to register an account; create, post, share, and promote events; send, shares receive, and respond to event invitations; create and circulate interest surveys; provide feedback regarding events; and view statistics and analytics regarding events (collectively, the “Services”).

LiveBy

Convertible Note in 2016
LiveBy is a neighborhood discovery company that engages homebuyers through neighborhood matching and hyper-local content. They provide real estate professionals tools to educate clients, while helping consumers to make quicker, informed decisions on location. Their technology gives real estate professionals a new way to connect with homebuyers through local content. LiveBy also pairs hyperlocal data with targeted marketing to boost website engagement and nurture leads on a local level. It allows professional websites to have a dynamic search experience and sell homes faster. LiveBy was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Groove Watersports

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Groove Watersports manufactures impact vest with integrated speakers. It also has music controls, 8 hours battery life, and holds 2,000+ songs. It was launched in 2015 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

RealmFive

Seed Round in 2015
RealmFive is changing the way customers interact with agricultural technology in areas including agronomy, inventory, irrigation, livestock, and machinery. Using highly improved long-range radio technology and easy-to-deploy devices RealmFive’s Connectivity Platform enables remote monitoring, control, and data-driven decision-making. The RealmFive Connection Platform is modular and flexible, allowing for simple third-party integration into the platform and a robust API to other digital farming platforms. With an expanding portfolio of applications including soil moisture, weather, irrigation monitoring, and state monitoring, RealmFive is bringing sensor-to-cloud solutions to agriculture.
MatMaCorp (Materials and Machines Corporation) is a developer of comprehensive solutions for science, medicine and agriculture. By combining engineering, life science and information technology, we are developing portable, easy to use and affordable devices and systems for applications ranging from food safety to genetic analysis. Though harder to achieve, we believe in developing simple solutions for complex problems.

VIDANYX

Series A in 2019
VidaNyx. Inc. designs and develops cloud-based digital video evidence management software solutions for child advocacy centers. The company's VidaNyx manages and protects digital video evidence, as well as offers comprehensive reporting and dashboards and a chain of custody tracking. VidaNyx. Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

KPI Ninja LLC

Seed Round in 2019
KPI Ninja, a leader in healthcare analytics and performance improvement, is a healthcare technology and consulting company that accelerates the achievement of strategic goals through a better means of managing Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). KPI Ninja is one of the fastest growing healthcare analytics company in the Midwest region. Founded in 2014, KPI Ninja's mission is to improve the health of the communities. We do that by partnering with Health Information Exchange (HIE) companies, Health Systems, Critical Access Hospitals, Clinics, and Direct Primary Care (DPC) organizations. We also partner with other healthcare technology companies to build custom analytics applications to solve their data needs. KPI Ninja is defined by our unique culture - our goal is not to just create dashboards and insights through data, but to partner with our customers to actually improve the outcomes that matter to them. We encourage our teams to be bold and solve complex problems that our customers care most about. We work in small teams and move swiftly to develop new solutions, constantly iterating.

Travefy

Seed Round in 2015
Travefy is the easiest online and mobile group travel planner. Through Travefy, groups can collaborate on trip details, build rich itineraries, and collect shared expenses so no one is stuck with the bill. Travefy is available directly to consumers and branded Pro versions are available for travel brands, suppliers, and agents among others. It has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, and U.S. News and World Report among other publications and has won numerous innovation awards.

Retail Aware Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
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.

Mowdo

Seed Round in 2014
Mowdo matches local mowers and lawn care professionals with neighbors who request lawn care through our app or website. 1/3 homeowners uses a contractor to mow their lawn, nearly $74B was spent on lawn care last year in the US alone.

CoreLeap

Seed Round in 2018
CoreLeap streamlines ecommerce returns.

Small Data Tech

Seed Round in 2018
Small Data provides inexpensive and efficient small data transmissions for the Internet of Things (IoT) in rural and urban settings.

Pawlytics

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Pawlytics provides a software application to animal welfare organizations. The company offers an analytical and data management software for animal welfare organizations that enables internal and external communication, predict adoption probability, organize transport, manage incoming, current, and past pets, and build custom volunteer forms. It also offers a volunteer portal where volunteers can register and get notifications of any pet event nearby. Pawlytics is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

FanBox

Series A in 2019
FanBox's mission is "Uplifting Humanity by Enabling Opportunity." By paying users for by doing what they love, FanBox is helping it's users find opportunities to earn that were otherwise unavailable to them. Also, a portion of all earnings is donated to charities. FanBox (www.fanbox.com) is a combination of the best attributes of Facebook, Etsy, eBay, Blogger, PayPal and many others. However, unlike Facebook, you actually earn from your content.

DigiWidgets

Seed Round in 2014
DigiWidgets enables businesses, big or small, to capitalize on the creation of digital graphic assets from any device at any time. Our tools can be embedded into any website. we take care of the cloud storage of the creations and give you the granular control to decide what features and tools your customers get to use.

Grabicon

Seed Round in 2015
Grabicon makes it fast and easy to get high-quality favicons from any web site, in the size you want, instantly - even if that site doesn't provide an icon of its own. It can take several seconds to a retrieve a domain's favicon from scratch. They do the hard work in advance, so you get a high quality PNG image in milliseconds.

Certified Cell

Seed Round in 2020
Certified Cell allows you to buy or sell a quality pre-owned phone at a great price without meeting a stranger in a parking lot with a stack of cash. Online shoppers use a quick and easy online platform to find the device of their choice while device sellers use a streamlined cash-less marketplace to sell their quality pre-owned phone using a trusted local retail location.

Blue Prairie Brands LLC

Series A in 2016
Blue Prairie Brands is introducing innovative ingredients and related food products rich in prebiotics, which in conjunction with probiotics, help maintain a healthy digestive system. It's flagship product is rich in the prebiotic inulin, yet Blue Prairie Brands delivers it in a whole-food, gluten-free, non-GMO form. The Company's proprietary approach to production also provides farmers a profitable rotation crop that utilizes their existing equipment and experience.

BuyNow WorldWide

Seed Round in 2014
Headquartered in Omaha, NE with a globally structured management - at the heart of this diverse firm lies simplicity and creativity, with fundamental values creating a business philosophy second to none. The firm's BuyNow mobile-commerce application, for iPhone and Droid, enables Retailers to sell their products/services, represented as keywords, in real-time using SMS text messaging

MultiMechanics

Seed Round in 2018
MultiMechanics provides virtual testing software that empowers engineers to solve the world's most complex material engineering challenges. Our flagship product, MultiMech, enables innovation in complex materials and is used by leading companies in several industries, including aerospace, automotive, and consumer products, to save millions of dollars in product development costs.

Commissioner

Seed Round in 2014
Commissioner is a platform to track and communicate player skill development. Using Commissioner’s mobile platform, coaches evaluate players on the field during or after training sessions and matches, to provide real-time feedback to players and keep parents informed about their athlete’s development. We are producing better athletes in more engaged communities.

Phynd Technologies Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Since 2013, Phynd has been on a mission to simplify provider data management for healthcare systems. Phynd 360 is an innovative provider data management platform that serves as the central hub for your providers. Phynd optimizes provider data – people, places and services – for use in EHR, Marketing and Claims systems via platform tools which offer provider enrollment, management, outreach and search across the enterprise. Today, over 350 hospitals and 20,000+ locations across the U.S utilize the Phynd 360 Provider Platform to maintain a single, centralized hub of all provider data. For more information, visit www.Phynd.com.

Myelin Solution

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Myelin is a care collaboration platform that allows health care teams to turn population health data into action.

opendorse

Series A in 2020
Opendorse offers a SaaS publishing platform that allows anyone to send content to athletes to share on their social channels. The company provides an athlete marketing platform, trusted by the biggest brands in sports. Its platform connects athletes, partners, and fans on social media. It was founded by Adi Kunalic, Blake Lawrence, and Timothy Braun in 2012 and headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.

BugEater Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Bugeater Foods Inc. produces food products from edible insects. The company's products include Jump, a cricket-based protein shake; and cricket-based pasta products. It sells its product online through its website. Bugeater Foods Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.

LiveBy

Seed Round in 2017
LiveBy is a neighborhood discovery company that engages homebuyers through neighborhood matching and hyper-local content. They provide real estate professionals tools to educate clients, while helping consumers to make quicker, informed decisions on location. Their technology gives real estate professionals a new way to connect with homebuyers through local content. LiveBy also pairs hyperlocal data with targeted marketing to boost website engagement and nurture leads on a local level. It allows professional websites to have a dynamic search experience and sell homes faster. LiveBy was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Adolade

Seed Round in 2014
Mobile advertising is broken. We fixed it. Adolade's hosted moments-based reward platform helps developers and brands meaningfully engage with customers through rewards. Adolade accomplishes this by focusing on “moments” in applications – like setting a new personal best, completing a task, or leveling up in a game. With just a few lines of code, developers can capture and easily sell these moments to brands through Adolade's moments marketplace. Brands finally have a way to effectively advertise on mobile, developers finally have a way to retain, engage, and monetize users without annoying or interrupting them, and users finally have a way to be acknowledged in moments of achievement from brands they love.

CompanyCam, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
CompanyCam is a documentation and communication app that provides a complete photo solution for contractors to monitor projects. It was created by contractors for contractors that enable teams to take unlimited photos all of which are location and time stamped, sent to the cloud, and stored securely. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.

LiveBy

Seed Round in 2015
LiveBy is a neighborhood discovery company that engages homebuyers through neighborhood matching and hyper-local content. They provide real estate professionals tools to educate clients, while helping consumers to make quicker, informed decisions on location. Their technology gives real estate professionals a new way to connect with homebuyers through local content. LiveBy also pairs hyperlocal data with targeted marketing to boost website engagement and nurture leads on a local level. It allows professional websites to have a dynamic search experience and sell homes faster. LiveBy was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

TAGG, LLC

Seed Round in 2018
TAGG, LLC develops and delivers a mobile application that allows users to TAGG their purchases at participating businesses. It allows users to share their TAGG on social media; and local schools, teams, and nonprofits ask their supporters to download and use the TAGG application to help them raise money. It serves customers in the Omaha metro area and Lincoln. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Papertale

Seed Round in 2013
Papertale develops a document authentication software for tracking, authenticating, and telling the story of documents.

Fourstarzz Media LLC

Seed Round in 2019
With the fall of traditional outbound marketing, influencer marketing is becoming one of the most effective ways to attract customers and clients. The fourstarzz team is passionate about developing tools and services that empower brands and agencies to increase the efficiency of creating influencer-driven marketing campaigns. Fourstarzz helps companies find social media personalities – known as influencers – faster by leveraging extensive analysis to not only find campaign-relevant influencers but also provide the necessary information to connect marketers with the appropriate influencer platforms.

Spectator Sports, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Spectator Sports, Inc. offers a tool for booster clubs to streamline the membership process and accept online donations. It was founded in March 2014 and is based in Oklahoma, United States.

Drive Spotter

Convertible Note in 2017
Drive Spotter is a technology company building a video analytics platform for high-risk heavy industries. It helps drivers and fleets make life better on the road. The company focused on improving the bottom line for commercial fleets and their insurers. Their patent-pending technology provides significant cost-saving insights to fleet managers and has a clear path towards becoming a key licensed technology in the autonomous vehicle arena and a key data source for insurers, map providers, urban planners, and more. Drive Spotter was founded in 2015 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

CoreLeap

Seed Round in 2020
CoreLeap streamlines ecommerce returns.

LeverageRx

Convertible Note in 2020
LeverageRx, LLC owns and operates a digital lending and insurance marketplace for doctors, dentists, and other medical professionals. It offers a platform that compares rates on financial services including student loan refinancing, personal loans, long term disability insurance, life insurance, and exclusive mortgage programs for doctors. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

ScoutSheet

Seed Round in 2017
ScoutSheet is a sales prospecting and smart list-building tool that uses relationship mapping and real-time data gathering.

Hip Pocket

Seed Round in 2013
Hip Pocket engages its users mobile and website visitors by using social influence and personalized consultation to generate mortgage and retirement leads. It helps banks and credit unions provide an engaging user experience that connects the emotional and logical purchase decisions. Hip Pocket is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2013 by Mark Zmarzly.

opendorse

Series A in 2017
Opendorse offers a SaaS publishing platform that allows anyone to send content to athletes to share on their social channels. The company provides an athlete marketing platform, trusted by the biggest brands in sports. Its platform connects athletes, partners, and fans on social media. It was founded by Adi Kunalic, Blake Lawrence, and Timothy Braun in 2012 and headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Jord Producers

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Jord Producers operates in the commercial insect production space

Blue Prairie Brands LLC

Seed Round in 2015
Blue Prairie Brands is introducing innovative ingredients and related food products rich in prebiotics, which in conjunction with probiotics, help maintain a healthy digestive system. It's flagship product is rich in the prebiotic inulin, yet Blue Prairie Brands delivers it in a whole-food, gluten-free, non-GMO form. The Company's proprietary approach to production also provides farmers a profitable rotation crop that utilizes their existing equipment and experience.

Esculon, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Esculon, Inc. develops cardiothoracic post-operative medical equipment for post-operative surgical care and patient monitoring. The company's product includes Thoraguard which is an intelligent surgical drainage system. It is a small-bore chest tube with integrated sensors and smart algorithms that is inserted into patients who have undergone cardiothoracic surgery to ensure proper post-surgical drainage. It minimizes potential injury to surrounding organs that may occur with larger tubes. Further, it monitors wound site drainage, ensures proper evacuation, and provides data for clinical decision support for the attending clinician. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Yumaroo

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Yumaroo operates an online platform that provides personalized restaurant meal suggestions. Its platform helps people and restaurants to discover various food categories by recommending meals to their audiences based on the taste preferences, dietary restrictions, and reviews they submit. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

RealmFive

Debt Financing in 2019
RealmFive is changing the way customers interact with agricultural technology in areas including agronomy, inventory, irrigation, livestock, and machinery. Using highly improved long-range radio technology and easy-to-deploy devices RealmFive’s Connectivity Platform enables remote monitoring, control, and data-driven decision-making. The RealmFive Connection Platform is modular and flexible, allowing for simple third-party integration into the platform and a robust API to other digital farming platforms. With an expanding portfolio of applications including soil moisture, weather, irrigation monitoring, and state monitoring, RealmFive is bringing sensor-to-cloud solutions to agriculture.

D3 Banking Technology

Venture Round in 2013
D3 Banking offers a function-rich, API-driven digital banking platform for financial institutions that want to lower costs, decrease complexity, and speed innovation. The company's solutions have led the industry to reimagine money movement, financial management, and data analytics. Over the past 2 years, more than 2.5 million users have begun to use their platform that offers unparalleled scalability and configurability. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Kiai

Seed Round in 2017
Kiai is an artificial intelligence for SEO, leveraging natural language processing to help marketers write better web content. Its web scraper can crawl and analyze your web content in a matter of hours, then deliver actionable insights to help you refine and improve the relevancy of your content. It also helps publishers find out what their audience is reading and what they’re skipping, what’s bringing in new readers and what’s bringing back the old ones. With Kiai, it is expected to generate more and right web traffic.