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Invest Nebraska

Invest Nebraska is a venture capital firm based in Lincoln, Nebraska, dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs and investors in the region. The firm specializes in seed, early-stage, and growth capital investments across various industries, including Internet-of-Things, medical devices, fintech, cloud services, and agricultural technology, among others. Invest Nebraska typically invests around $250,000 in companies with revenues up to $1 million, favoring those based in Nebraska or willing to relocate there. The firm may utilize various investment structures, such as equity, debt, and convertible debt, and often seeks to take positions on the Board of Directors. Through collaboration with strategic partners, state government, communities, and educational institutions, Invest Nebraska aims to stimulate economic growth by nurturing promising companies and fostering a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem in Nebraska.

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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.

Haven Athletic

Debt Financing in 2022
Organized gym bags for high performance athletes

BasicBlock

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.

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.

Tiiga

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Tiiga offers a powdered beverage mix that promotes a healthy microbiome and improved overall health. Tiiga's plant-based products are made from the Baobab fruit. Consumers add Tiiga’s natural hydration enhancer to water for a performance sports beverage.

Sentinel Fertigation

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Sentinel Fertigation develops the fertigation management platform N-Time FMS that uses aerial imagery. The company was founded in 2022 by Jackson Stansell and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Financial Transmission Network

Venture Round in 2017
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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

CompanyCam

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.

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.

Sentinel Fertigation

Seed Round in 2022
Sentinel Fertigation develops the fertigation management platform N-Time FMS that uses aerial imagery. The company was founded in 2022 by Jackson Stansell and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Health Snaps

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

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.

Share My Change

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Share My Change is a web-based application that provides location-based commerce tools to support retailers.

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.

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.

Layer App

Seed Round in 2021
Layer is a flexible digital collaboration platform that organizes and manages building data creating efficient workflows & communication.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nobl

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.

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.

Material and Machines Corporation

Series A in 2018
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.

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.

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.

Blue Prairie

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

Phynd Technologies

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.

BugEater Foods

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.

CompanyCam

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.

Papertale

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

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.

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

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.

CHANT

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Designer of fashion products intended to make clean and sustainable personal protective equipment with style. The company's products include clear handbags that are PVC-free, enabling customers to make their favorite sporting events, concerts, music festivals, and live shows more enjoyable, fashionable, and more sustainable for mother nature.

Superb Shifts

Seed Round in 2024
Superb Shifts is an online platform that connects healthcare workers to the shifts they want, with transparent pay.

Maptician

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of an office space platform designed to provide utilization and availability of space. The company offers features that provide insight into the company's office environments helping in managing space efficiently, enabling companies to manage their office space across multiple floors or locations, and replacing manual and time-consuming approaches that can quickly become out of date.

Corral

Venture Round in 2024
Corral Technologies provides a virtual fencing system for ranchers to track, move, and create cross fences for their cattle. Corral is a system of cattle wearables proven to be safe and effective. The company's collar and tag system will help ranchers become more profitable while saving time, materials, and money.

Nestimate

Seed Round in 2022
Nestimate is an analytics platform that provides retirement income services. The platform of the company provides consultative fiduciary support, income adoption, and consultative support and assistance with income needs, allowing users to select and monitor guaranteed income in a retirement plan, as well as tools for participants to become acquainted with and utilize the power of projected income.

Centese

Series A in 2023
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.

RealmFive

Debt Financing in 2023
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.

Benefitbay

Seed Round in 2022
Benefitbay is an insurance company that helps small and mid-size businesses save on employee benefits. It also allows the small and mid-size businesses the ability to offer large company employee benefit plan design and pricing. The company's pulls utilize cutting-edge technology and processes to access and pay for insurance plans throughout all 50 states for medical and ancillary benefit offerings and allow free choice, cost savings, and reduced administration for brokers, employers, and employees. Benefitbay was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

Capstone Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of robotic mail handling software designed to address several highly repetitive, manual functions in large-scale mailing operations. The company's robotic mail handling software developed using latest technology, automation and process engineering, enabling businesses to help in print-to-mail clients streamline workflow, increase speed and accuracy and achieve and maintain USPS compliance.

Tiiga

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tiiga offers a powdered beverage mix that promotes a healthy microbiome and improved overall health. Tiiga's plant-based products are made from the Baobab fruit. Consumers add Tiiga’s natural hydration enhancer to water for a performance sports beverage.

Certified Cell

Seed Round in 2022
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.

HerHeadquarters

Pre Seed Round in 2022
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.