Refinery Ventures

Refinery Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 2017. It focuses on investing in information technology, digital health, and human capital technology sectors, with an emphasis on helping post-seed companies bridge the gap to Series A. The firm supports its portfolio through mentorship and strategic guidance, aiming to accelerate growth for technology-enabled startups in healthcare technology systems and software, SaaS, and enterprise software.

Jose Barreau

Venture Partner

Kristina Daiker

Venture Partner

Kristi Daiker

Venture Partner

Justin Deja

Venture Partner

Abby Fittes

Director of Operations

Dale Fuller

Venture Partner

Jim Korcykoski

Venture Partner

R. Glen Mayfield

Advisor

Mike Palackdharry

Venture Partner

Stephen Rodriguez

Venture Partner

Tim Schigel

Managing Partner

Peter Schmidt

Senior Associate

Todd Schwarzinger

Venture Partner

Andy Winans

Venture Partner

22 past transactions

Bitewell

Seed Round in 2024
Bitewell is a pioneering startup dedicated to enhancing global health through personalized nutrition. It has developed the FoodHealth Score, an innovative metric that assesses food's impact on health, aiming to reach over 20 million Americans by Q1 of next year. This score will be visible in major grocery stores, restaurant chains, and healthcare providers, making informed dietary choices more accessible.

Redi.Health

Series B in 2024
Redi.Health is a healthcare technology company based in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 2021. It specializes in developing health management platforms aimed at empowering patients with chronic diseases. The company's platform enables users to track their medication schedules and access a comprehensive overview of their health information, which can be easily shared with healthcare providers. Additionally, Redi.Health provides patients with relevant news, tips, and clinical insights tailored to their specific health needs. By partnering with pharmaceutical manufacturers, Redi.Health offers patient support programs at no cost to users, facilitating better health management and helping patients navigate barriers to their healthcare.

Bitewell

Seed Round in 2023
Bitewell is a pioneering startup dedicated to enhancing global health through personalized nutrition. It has developed the FoodHealth Score, an innovative metric that assesses food's impact on health, aiming to reach over 20 million Americans by Q1 of next year. This score will be visible in major grocery stores, restaurant chains, and healthcare providers, making informed dietary choices more accessible.

StoryFit

Series A in 2022
StoryFit is an AI-driven technology company serving the book publishing, film, and television industries. Its platform delivers predictive audience insights and analytics to help publishers and studios make development, marketing, and merchandising decisions. By analyzing metadata and comparing content to comparable works, StoryFit supports audience targeting, reader personas, writing evaluation, and stakeholder decision-making. The solution provides content recommendations and scenario simulations that estimate how audiences will respond to books, scripts, or finished productions, enabling strategic choices from development through marketing.

Redi.Health

Venture Round in 2022
Redi.Health is a healthcare technology company based in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 2021. It specializes in developing health management platforms aimed at empowering patients with chronic diseases. The company's platform enables users to track their medication schedules and access a comprehensive overview of their health information, which can be easily shared with healthcare providers. Additionally, Redi.Health provides patients with relevant news, tips, and clinical insights tailored to their specific health needs. By partnering with pharmaceutical manufacturers, Redi.Health offers patient support programs at no cost to users, facilitating better health management and helping patients navigate barriers to their healthcare.

Livegistics

Seed Round in 2022
Livegistics is a technology company serving the construction and heavy hauling industries. It offers cloud-based logistical tracking solutions that enhance operational efficiency by providing real-time data and analytics to contractors, owners, municipalities, and managers. Its digital platform optimizes supply chain visibility, reducing costs and coordination issues, while improving invoicing, audits, and compliance.

Titaniam

Seed Round in 2022
Titaniam provides enterprises and SaaS vendors with a full suite of data security/privacy controls in a single, enterprise-grade solution. This includes highly advanced options such as encryption-in-use that enables encrypted search and analytics without decryption, and also traditional controls such as tokenization, masking, various types of encryption, and anonymization. Titaniam also offers BYOK/HYOK (bring/hold your own key) for data owners to control the security of their data. If attacked, Titaniam minimizes regulatory overhead by providing evidence that sensitive data retained encryption. Titaniam’s interoperable modules can be combined to support hundreds of architectures across multiple clouds, on-prem, and hybrid environments. Titaniam provides the equivalent of 3+ categories of solutions making it the most effective, and economical solution in the market. Titaniam is featured by Gartner, IDC, and TAG Cyber and has won coveted industry awards e.g. SINET16 and at RSAC2022.

Tealbook

Series B in 2021
Tealbook develops a cloud-based platform that connects buyers and suppliers in procurement. Founded in 2014, it centralizes supplier information, facilitates collaboration, and integrates with various ERP systems. Recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor.

RedCircle

Series A in 2021
RedCircle is a podcasting platform designed to assist creators in managing, distributing, and monetizing their audio content. Based in San Francisco, the company focuses on empowering podcasters by providing tools that facilitate seamless content management and monetization without any associated costs or limitations on downloads. Its platform enables podcasters to easily collect advertising revenue and offers insights into audience demographics, which helps both creators and advertisers evaluate the effectiveness of their campaigns. By simplifying the podcasting process, RedCircle aims to support creators in growing their audience and maximizing their revenue potential.

Edgybees

Series A in 2021
Edgybees Ltd. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in developing an innovative platform that delivers real-time augmented reality experiences for high-speed applications, including drones, vehicles, and wearable devices. The platform utilizes sensors and streaming data to enable application developers to create immersive overlays that maintain synchronization with high-speed motion. Edgybees offers a range of industrial solutions tailored for sectors such as search and rescue, homeland security, real estate, construction, agriculture, and automotive. Additionally, the company provides gaming applications, including Droneprix AR and Sky Skreemers. With its unique, patent-pending capabilities and a developer SDK, Edgybees facilitates the creation of both commercial and consumer applications, enhancing the effectiveness of operations for military and emergency responders.

Tealbook

Series A in 2021
Tealbook develops a cloud-based platform that connects buyers and suppliers in procurement. Founded in 2014, it centralizes supplier information, facilitates collaboration, and integrates with various ERP systems. Recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor.

Astronomer

Series A in 2020
Astronomer, Inc. is a company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that specializes in developing a managed platform for data orchestration, primarily utilizing Apache Airflow. Established in 2014, Astronomer offers a comprehensive suite of products and services through its platform, known as Astro. This platform is designed to streamline the process of building, running, and monitoring data pipelines-as-code, catering to the needs of data engineers, scientists, and analysts. By providing tools for deploying, managing, and scaling data workflows, Astronomer enhances the availability of trusted data for organizations, making it easier for data teams to conduct business analytics effectively. As a commercial developer of Airflow, Astronomer plays a significant role in the data orchestration landscape, serving hundreds of thousands of teams globally.

Tealbook

Seed Round in 2020
Tealbook develops a cloud-based platform that connects buyers and suppliers in procurement. Founded in 2014, it centralizes supplier information, facilitates collaboration, and integrates with various ERP systems. Recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor.

Winston Privacy

Venture Round in 2020
Winston Privacy, Inc. is a technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2017. It specializes in providing consumers with comprehensive online privacy and data protection solutions designed to safeguard against hacking, corporate spying, and unwarranted government surveillance. Winston's flagship product is a hardware device that utilizes proprietary anti-tracking technology, offering a simple plug-and-play installation that protects all connected devices, including computers, tablets, phones, and smart devices. The device operates in conjunction with a home router, ensuring users can enjoy a safer browsing experience while blocking ads and enhancing internet speed, making online privacy accessible for everyone.

Astronomer

Seed Round in 2019
Astronomer, Inc. is a company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that specializes in developing a managed platform for data orchestration, primarily utilizing Apache Airflow. Established in 2014, Astronomer offers a comprehensive suite of products and services through its platform, known as Astro. This platform is designed to streamline the process of building, running, and monitoring data pipelines-as-code, catering to the needs of data engineers, scientists, and analysts. By providing tools for deploying, managing, and scaling data workflows, Astronomer enhances the availability of trusted data for organizations, making it easier for data teams to conduct business analytics effectively. As a commercial developer of Airflow, Astronomer plays a significant role in the data orchestration landscape, serving hundreds of thousands of teams globally.

Folio Photonics

Seed Round in 2019
Folio Photonics Inc. specializes in the development and manufacturing of advanced optical data storage solutions aimed at enterprise archiving. Founded in 2012 and based in Solon, Ohio, the company produces optical data storage discs with a capacity of two terabytes, utilizing a patented data film disc technology. This innovative method is designed to be highly scalable and cost-effective, providing a modern alternative for archival data storage. By integrating polymer co-extrusion and magnetic storage technologies, Folio Photonics enables organizations to reduce energy costs and improve data management by transferring inactive data from traditional hard disk drives to optical discs, thereby enhancing both capacity and archival longevity.

ENGAGE Talent

Series A in 2018
ENGAGE Talent is an innovative AI-powered recruiting platform designed to enhance the talent acquisition process for companies. It uniquely integrates talent mapping, competitive intelligence, passive candidate sourcing, and outbound recruiting into a single engagement engine. The platform aggregates data from over 30,000 sources to create comprehensive talent profiles on 100 million professionals and 13 million companies. By employing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning, ENGAGE predicts candidates' likelihood to respond to job opportunities and recommends personalized messaging tailored to their career trajectories, skills, and relevant company events. This approach enables recruiters to proactively connect with new talent pools and engage qualified candidates at optimal times, rather than relying on traditional methods. As a result, users of ENGAGE have reported significant improvements in recruitment efficiency, including reduced time to fill challenging roles and increased candidate response rates.

Torch

Seed Round in 2017
Torch is a leadership development platform that integrates coaching, software, and feedback to enhance the performance of high achievers. Founded by executive coaches and psychologists, Torch aims to empower leaders in creating high-growth, high-performance cultures by fostering the necessary awareness and skills for effective management and leadership. The platform combines human intelligence with digital technology to facilitate talent development and provide measurable outcomes in personalized leadership growth. By delivering a holistic approach to employee development, Torch enables managers to effectively train their teams and cultivate essential leadership skills at scale.

Halo Health

Series A in 2017
Halo Health Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing clinical communication and care coordination solutions for healthcare organizations in the United States. The company offers a comprehensive clinical communication platform that includes various tools such as secure messaging for healthcare professionals, an enterprise-wide scheduling system, and patient engagement features. Its offerings, which include Halo Messaging, Halo Pronto, Patient Halo, Halo Handoff, Halo Link, and Halo Patient Coordinator, aim to enhance real-time communication among physicians, nurses, and staff, thereby streamlining patient care. The platform integrates seamlessly with hospital systems, allowing users to access electronic health records, manage on-call schedules, and coordinate care effectively. Halo Health's solutions are designed to improve response times, reduce readmission rates, and facilitate efficient transitions of care. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Halo Health was previously known as Doc Halo, LLC until it rebranded in May 2018.

Fooji

Series A in 2017
Fooji bridges the digital-to-real-life gap for brands by creating unique fan experiences. It leverages social media networks and on-demand delivery services to generate brand loyalty through delightful, personalized interactions.

Bitewell

Bitewell is a pioneering startup dedicated to enhancing global health through personalized nutrition. It has developed the FoodHealth Score, an innovative metric that assesses food's impact on health, aiming to reach over 20 million Americans by Q1 of next year. This score will be visible in major grocery stores, restaurant chains, and healthcare providers, making informed dietary choices more accessible.
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